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Epeolatry Book Review: Spinal Remains by Chad Lutzke

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Title: Spinal Remains
Author: Chad Lutzke
Publisher: Cemetery Gates Media
Genre: Horror
Release Date: 9th August, 2022

Synopsis: In his third short story collection, Lutzke offers yet another bender-tossed concoction of fiction colored dark. Fourteen tales covering a multitude of subgenres, including: psychological, crime, extreme, human horrors, bizarre, coming of age, and humor.

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Indie Bookshelf Releases 08/05/2022

Got a book to launch, an event to promote, a kickstarter or seeking extra work/support as a result of being hit economically by Covid or life in general?

Get in touch and we’ll promote you here. The post is prepared each Thursday for publication on Friday. Contact us via Horror Tree’s contact address or connect via Twitter or Facebook.

Click on the book covers for more information. Remember to scroll down to the bottom of the page – there’s all sorts lurking in the deep.

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Events

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Contest: Nemesis

 

Deadline: August 31st, 2022 (reported on Facebook)
Prizes: 1st place: $100 via Paypal Author Print Copy, Author Interview published on all WTP socials and website. , 2nd Place $50 via Paypal, Author Print copy, 3rd Place $20 via Paypal Author Print copy
Theme: A story about a nemesis

There is no fee to enter. All entries whether they place or not will be considered for publication.

​What is Nemesis?

  1. The inescapable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall.

  2. A long-standing rival; an archenemy.

  3. A person’s undoing.

Theme Trope: Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Allies, Enemies as Lovers/Friends

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Events / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry

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Taking Submissions: Otoroshi Journal 2022 Winter Issue (Early Listing)

Submission Window: October 1st – 31st, 2022
Payment: $1 per accepted piece
Theme: horrorku, horror themed tanka, haibun, see below for details

The Submission may include any or all of the following:
· Up to seven (7) horrorku or horror tanka [we will rarely publish 5/7/5(7/7)]
· Up to three (3) haibun [title + prose + haiku/tanka — no more than 100 words]
· Up to five (5) pieces of cover art

All submissions must be original, unpublished work that is not under consideration by a print or web-based journal. Posts in closed, critique-oriented groups and social media sites are acceptable for submission, but public posts on forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not. By submitting a piece to us, you are guaranteeing that it is your original work and not under consideration or published anywhere else in the world.

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Articles / Interviews

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Read J.W. Donley’s Interview With Gwendolyn N. Nix!

Gwendolyn N. Nix lives in Missoula, MT. She saw her first beached humpback on a windy day in New York, met a ghost angel in Paris train station, and had Odin answer prayers on a mountain in Scotland. Her experience includes being the entertainment editor for Aconyte books, the senior editor for Outland Entertainment, being a casting producer, and social media manager. She has studied sharks in Belize and induced evolutionary pressure on green algae.

 

Her works include shorts in the, Pileaus Symphony No. 1, Where the Veil is Thin, Apex: World of Dinosaurs, and The Sisterhood of the Blade anthologies. She has four novels including Sharks of the Wasteland, The Falling Dawn and Seams of Shadow from her Celestial Scripts series, and the upcoming I Have Asked to be Where No Storms Come. You can find a review of the new novel here at HorrorTree.com.

This is a transcription of our original video interview of Gwendolyn N. Nix that you can find here.

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Articles / Reviews

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Epeolatry Book Review: Aliens vs. Predators – Ultimate Prey ed: Jonathan Maberry and Bryan Thomas Schmidt

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Title: Aliens vs. Predators – Ultimate Prey
Editors: Jonathan Maberry and Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Publisher: Titan Books
Genre: Space Horror
Release Date: 1st March, 2022

Synopsis: Fifteen new and original stories for a first-of-its-kind anthology, set in the expanded Aliens vs. Predators Universe. 

Here the ultimate hunters, the Predators, pitted against their ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs from Alien, with humans caught in the middle! Taking place on Earth and in distant space, these tales have been crafted by a who’s who of today’s most talented authors of the fantastic:

David Barnett – Roshni “Rush” Bhatia – Curtist C. Chen – Delilah S. Dawson – Mira Grant – Susanne L. Lambdin – Jess Landry – Yvonne Navarro – E.C. Myers – Scott Sigler – Maurice Broaddus – Chris Ryall – Bryan Thomas Schmidt – Steven L. Sears – Jonathan Maberry and Louis Ozawa.

Inspired by the events of the original Aliens vs. Predators movies, graphic novels, and novels, these are the ultimate life-and-death struggles. Including a new story written by Jonathan Maberry and Louis Ozawa (“Hanzo” from the movie Predators) as Hanzo’s brother faces the eternal threats of both the Yautja and the Xenomorphs.

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Articles / Guest Post

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Quick Tips on Writing a Novelette

Quick Tips on Writing a Novelette

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Deborah Sheldon

 

The novelette is often labelled, erroneously, as a “long short story” or a “short novella”. In fact, the novelette is a category in its own right. By strict definition, it’s a stand-alone work of fiction that’s between 7,500 and 17,500 words in length. Famous examples in the horror genre are Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 

The novelette offers the satisfaction of writing a complex long-form piece requiring a similar kind of devotion to plot and character as the novella or novel, but in a more manageable size. I’ve written and had published a few novelettes. My latest is The Again-Walkers (Demain Publishing), a supernatural-Viking-noir-horror tale of about 13,500 words.

Fancy trying your hand at a novelette? Or, if you’re writing a piece that’s already hit the 5,000-word mark, do you want to dig a little deeper into the narrative and develop your short story into a novelette? Here are my tips.

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Events

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Taking Submissions: Freeze Frame Fiction 2022 Call #2

Deadline: December 31st, 2022
Payment: $10
Theme: A complete story in any genre

What are we looking for?

Good flash fiction is like a freeze frame—a snapshot of a real story about real characters. The word count is low, so many of the details are left to the reader to fill in, but they’re there. Flash fiction is neither a vignette nor a character sketch. Something must happen, and there must be an ending, whether explicit or implied.

So first and foremost, we want a story. A complete, interesting story. 1000 words or less, any genre, no content restrictions. We want your science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, drama, literary works, satire, bizarre fiction, or anything else you can come up with or mix together. The more original, the better. The weirder, the better.

The best way to find out what we’re looking for is to read what we’ve already published! Check out our current volume, free to read at https://freezeframefiction.com/.

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