Publisher's Synopsis
SURREAL TALES OF BOTH HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION -- Thirty Four Wondrous Stories by Four Unique Talents in the Horror / Science Fiction Field -- Each Writer is well known for his Deranged Dreams and Night Gaunts brought to Life * MF Korn - Louisiana Author of twelve Novels and 240 short stories published -- * DF Lewis - Winner of the British Fantasy Award and 1500 stories published, editor/publisher of famed magazine Nemonymous -- * Mike Philbin - Crazed aesthetic Author of over a hundred stories and several novels published -- * David Mathew - Seminal reviewer for Interzone, Author of several novels and 400 stories published ---CONTENTS: A man stumbles upon a monolith in his back yard ** A woman is impregnated by an image in a silent screen film ** A blind old man and his cyborg-bot pick up old satellites as junk dealers ** The first manned probe lands on the Face on Mars ** Two alcoholic androids are hired for dangerous deep space exploration ** Is the secret ingredient in specialty meats from the graveyard? ** Are a young girl's childhood friends from beyond the grave? ** What backordered spatial delivery shipment is making a geologist and his girlfriend quarrel in far space? ** Why has a Wal-mart store turned into Dante's Inferno? ** Will a young boy find his deceased mom in a carnival side show? ** Why are Ivan the Terrible and Stalin in a Codependency Clinic? ** What will a young rocket mechanic get on his 18th birthday offworld? ** What will two killers on the lam find in a Mars Resort?--------------------------------------------- -------------------MF Korn is a Louisiana author who has twelve novels and has had over 240 story appearances in magazines worldwide. Three of his books, CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL AND OTHER STORIES, and ALIENS, MINIBIKES AND OTHER STAPLES OF SUBURBIA, and also SKIMMING THE GUMBO NUCLEAR were mentioned in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection. CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL AND OTHER STORIES was mentioned in The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones. RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST was also mentioned in The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror edited the following year.--------------------------------------------- -------------------D F Lewis has had 1500 short fictions published in genre magazines and also in literary journals (eg: Stand, Iron, Orbis, Panurge etc.) and professional book anthologies. The latter include three volumes of 'Best New Horror' edited by Stephen Jones and five consecutive volumes of 'Year's Best Horror Stories' edited by Karl Edward Wagner. Other titles include 'Shadows Over Innsmouth' (Fedogan & Bremer), 'Horror Of The Next Millenium' (Darkside Press), 'Signals: London Magazine' (Constable), 'Cthulhu's Heirs' (Chaosium), 'Touch Wood' (Little, Brown), 'The Ex Files' (Quartet), 'The Ultimate Zombie' (Dell).DFL received the British Fantasy Society Karl Edward Wagner Award in 1998.--------------------------------------------- --------------------David Mathew is the author of 400 published pieces, and was the Assistant Fiction Editor and reviewer of Interzone magazine He has written several novels in the mystery/horror field.--------------------------------------------- --------------------------Mike Philbin wrote SZMONHFU, UNITED STATES, ANIMAL INSTINCTS, SPIDERED WEB, CHIM+HER, CHIM+HIM, the annual CHIMERAWORLD anthology. He will continue to edit future CHIMERAWORLD editions. His new novel Y�roppa is due soon..--------------------------------------------- -------------------
