I have stories out in a few new anthologies this month! If you’re looking for creepy and fantastical reads, check them out:
TALES OF THE SLEY HOUSE 2024
Description: An anthology of horror stories and poems.
Includes my story “Blessed,” about an alien invasion tale with a twist.
At the Edge of Darkness (Shotgun Honey)
Description: Shotgun Honey Presents volume 6 brings together a spooky group of authors for this special Halloween crime/horror anthology. Including contributions by Libby Cudmore, Andy Davidson, KC Grifant, Elizabeth Guilt, Mackenzie Hurlbert, Caden Kalfin, James Kinslingbury, Nick Kolakowski, Ethan K. Lee, Andrew Majors, Luciano Marano, Joey R. Poole, William Steffen, Casey Stegman, Gabriela Stiteler, Thomas Trang, Wendy N. Wagner, Benjamin B. White, Gordon B. White, Grant Wamack, and Paul Tremblay. Guest editor is best selling author Keith Rosson (Fever House, The Devil By Name). All profits from this edition will go to a local Portland, OR charity to benefit foster children.
Includes my story “Terror on the Boulevard,” about a Hollywood supernatural serial killer.
SHADOWPLAYS (PS Publishing)
Description: From an old regional theatre on the English coast to a Hollywood sound stage, an odd audition in London, by way of a sad and lonely hotel that attracts a series of strange residents. And much else too. Here are reflections on the nature of truth, how fiction and childish verse can impact reality, and the dangers inherent in retreating from that reality. Photographs and hauntings. Loss and longing. Just how lucky is it being lucky. Strange revenges and even stranger curses.
These nineteen tales of skewed everyday existence, divorced from the outwardly mundane world, demonstrate that all is not quite how it at first appears. These small, uneasy dramas play out in the shadows, in the twilight, hiding from the rational world These stories embrace the Shadows.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn
Totu Stephen Volk
If MGM is Killed, Who Gets the Lion? Ray Bradbury
Damaged but Adorable Rosanne Rabinowitz
As Far as Sacred Goes Nancy Kilpatrick
Stigma Paul Kane
The Charmed Robert Bagnall
Never to be Told Colleen Anderson & Tom Johnstone
Ever So Quietly, Ever So Softly Gary McMahon
I Is for Infestation Steve Rasnic Tem
The Fire Ghost Gail-Nina Anderson
Begbrook Tim Jeffreys
Echoes, Dying Marion Pitman
Commitment to Truth Bret McCormick
The Pit KC Grifant
The Long Drop Upwards Garry Kilworth
December’s Children John Linwood Grant
The Rosehill Truth Doctor Wendy Purcell
He Dances Alone Joanne Anderton
South Riding Reggie Oliver
ZEHLREG AUGUSTUS GRINDSTONE’S SPECTACULAR WESTERN ODDITY EMPORIUM
Description: An anthology of Weird West short stories, flash fiction, & poems blending Wild West tropes with themes from across the Fantasy spectrum.
Includes my story “Legend of the Spiderwalker,” where monster hunters Melinda and Lance must fight a deadly lake monster.
And a reminder, if you’re looking for more scary tales this October, I have free stories available here to read and listen to, in addition to my debut collection of horror stories in the vein of The Twilight Zone and Creepshow!
KC Grifant 