Infected Voices Are Calling to You
My First Short Story Collection is Out!
After publishing over 150 short stories since 2008, Infected Voices is my first standalone short story collection. In this volume you will get the entire ten story run from my Godless Infected Voices series, as well as eleven additional stories. These tales run the gamut from gross-out extreme such as “From Unclean Spells” to quiet atmospheric yarns like, well, okay who am I kidding? There really aren’t any quiet stories. But there’s a bizarro tale called “Inflatable War”, which happens to be my only foreign translation (it appeared in a French annual anthology called Tenbres 2017), and the creepy “Tears of a Clown”, which is probably one of my favorite stories that I’ve written. Yeah, I suppose that one would qualify as being somewhat “quiet”. The popular “High Fashion” that was originally published in Splatterpunk’s Not Dead is also included, as well as “Roscoe the Clown”, which was quite popular when it was published probably ten years ago on some webzine dedicated to circus and carnival stories. For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of the webzine. It’s been long gone and, sadly, forgotten.
Everyone has a unique voice, a unique story. And sometimes those stories are twisted, bent, horrific . . . infected!
Smell the magic in the blood-smeared mirrors of a desolate bathroom wall.
Feel the pain of a thick hair that grows from your back and threatens your family!
Taste the rising gorge as a group of unknown assailants try to achieve a sick world record.
See the crusty landscape of a man covered in scabs!
Feel the rush of a simulated car wreck gone wrong.
Smell the pungent aroma of huffing death in a jar!
Taste the fruits of a cannibal feast.
Everyone has a voice. Some voices are sicker than others. Some stories should never be told.
The clowns aren’t always happy.
The players sometimes get played.
Fitting in hurts.
When the cab locks and you can’t get out.
When gambling brings you to a dark, dark place.
When inflatable animals are your best friends.
That’s when you’re infected.
These are the stories from Infected Voices.
Available in paperback and ebook from Amazon, available at Godless, or grab a signed copy directly from me HERE.
For those who grab a copy or already have grabbed a copy, you have my deepest thanks and utmost gratitude. Publishing is a rocky business. Collections aren’t big sellers. Maybe that’s why after fifteen years I’ve only now published this one volume even though I have enough stories for three or more volumes! I think a short story collection is a great place to start with an author to see what they’re capable of, to get a feel for their style. My hope is that people who have been on the fence about my work might give this book a shot to test the waters.
Next week I will have another regular newsletter in which I will write about my thoughts after reading Karl Edward Wagner’s In a Lonely Place and much more. perhaps I’ll have some sort of give away. It’s been a while since I’ve done that.
Until then . . .