It’s official: Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling is now available for your reading pleasure!
Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling
You can buy a gorgeous paperback at Amazon or an e-book via Smashwords. The anthology is full of wonderful stories by great writers; the introduction is by Brian Keene. Please spread the word!
I posted this piece of flash fiction over on Font and Frock last Saturday. I thought it would be fun to share here. Enjoy!
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“As I was saying, Miss, a small bed fits in that nook, and the case over there holds at least fifty books.”
“I’m not sure I want to live here! The windows are grubby…”
“They’ve been cleaned twice!”
“There are so many pinholes in the walls.”
“You won’t notice them without your glasses on.”
“But I need my glasses to see.”
“Then don’t stand so close. Isn’t that better already?”
“This flat is awfully large.”
“It’s big enough for three!”
“I’m single.”
“You’ll have room to grow!”
“The price is nice.”
“It’s the best! There’s nothing cheaper, roomier, or more salubrious in this neighborhood.”
“The floor is covered with dust. Great mounds of dust!”
“Keep the windows closed.”
“I need sufficient light and air.”
“Buy a broom.”
“I’m just not sure if this is the place for me.”
“It won’t be on the market long, not with its literary connections.”
“Literary connections?”
“Don’t you know? This cheap, this roomy, this salubrious flat is where Tom Chambers wrote Good Night Bassington!”
“You don’t say?”
“Indeed, I do! As I recall, his typewriter sat on a desk right over…”
“Perhaps this is the place for me after all? Yes, I’m sure I’ll like it here!”
My short horror story Beyond the Boneyard Gate, which initially came to life a year ago in a lovely on-line magazine called The Paperbook Collective, is being published in an anthology due out in February.
I am happy and honored to be part of Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling.
Partial Table of Contents for Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling.
The book is full of stories from wonderful writers.
Brian Keene is penning the foreword.
The cover art will be spectacular.
Big thanks to Christine Morgan, the editor/publisher/ringleader.
I’ll keep you updated. In the meantime, feel free to head over to Fossil Lake to view the full Table of Contents or just poke around.
This gallery contains 11 photos.
This print, like all of Amanda Atkins’ work, is fantastic:
Flannery O’Connor 8×10 Print by Amanda Atkins. $18.00
The Premature Burial by Harry Clarke, 1919.
“THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.”-The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe
Ligeia by Harry Clarke, 1919.
“I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia.”-Ligeia, Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894-1895.
“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.”-The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado by Harry Clarke, 1919.
“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”-The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. Cover illustration by Gustav Doré, 1884.
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”-The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
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