Stranger Aeons

Hello and welcome to my web-page, here you will find information about myself, my writing, and links to my publishers, friends and fellow authors. Below you can read the most recent news regarding my fiction appearances.

I began my writing career in late 2006, my major inspirations being the writers H.P. Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers, my major output being horror with a smattering of Cthulhu and King in Yellow Mythos included in the mix of dark satire and science fiction tales.

As well as writing fiction and poetry, I work as an editor for the publisher New Voices in Horror.

I can be contacted by email here.

This month features my first appearance in an audiobook. My story: 'Back to the Ruins' beautifully read by the editor of Ethereal Tales, Teresa Ford.

I appear alongside nearly four hours of audio material, brilliant tales, brilliantly narrated, in the Ethereal Tales Audiobook!

Out Now: Ethereal Tales Issue 5, featuring my short story "The Cottage,"

Beware! It is quite... visceral.

This is my fourth consecutive appearance in an issue of Ethereal Tales, with four stories and two poems!

Available from: www.etherealtales.co.uk

Sonar4 Magazine Fall 2009 (Double Issue) is available now to buy from Amazon! This magazine features my story: "He Thinks Dark Thoughts," a tale of paranoia and psychological horror.

http://www.amazon.com/Sonar4-Mag-Fall-Double-Issue/dp/1449516564/#noop

From the back cover: 'From some of the best science fiction and horror authors, we bring you this special double issue!'

Sweet!

Available this week from Rainfall Books, Lovecraft's Disciples 14, featuring my story about some very fishy goings on at a seaside resort, "What The Tide Brings." This is my tenth appearance in a Ranfall book, almost a baker's dozen (of tentacles!).

Out Now: Ethereal Tales Issue 4, featuring my poem 'To R____' and my short story about an incursion from the land of faery, 'Back to the Ruins.'
This is my third consecutive appearance in an issue of Ethereal Tales, with three stories and two poems!

Leon Atkinson illustrates for me this issue too with a beautiful painting.

Available from: www.etherealtales.co.uk

Out now from Sonar4 Publishing: Sonar 4 Mag Summer 2009, featuring my story, "Hobb's Legacy," a dark and humorous tale about a man, his girl, a talking grisly bear, an animated ketchup satchet, and their plight to escape an invasion by zombies.

Featuring:

Stories by:

glynn barrass
john miller
Michael Griffiths
Scott Davis
graham fielding
Cassidy petrus
pavelle wesser
Kevin white

Featured author Interview of :

Jim Cherry

Now available on Amazon.com and featuring a fancy new cover! New Voices in Horror Magazine Issue 4, (formerly NVF 4) featuring my story Blasphemous Ocean.

Receiving rejection letters is all part and parcel of being a writer. They still suck though! Acceptance letters like the following make it all balance out:

RE: Fw: Story Submission: Asimov Unbound

From:  submissions@title-goes-here.com 

Sent: 05 July 2009 23:25:59

To:  batglynn@hotmail.com

Hello again Glynn –

 Thank you for submitting your story, “Asimov Unbound” to Title Goes Here: and for waiting all this time for a response.  I’m pleased to inform you that the response is that we would love to include this story in our magazine!

We began our final selection period by choosing our strongest pieces first and earmarking each to be featured as the lead story in an issue.  In this way, we make sure that our best stories are spread throughout the publication year, rather than cramming all of our favorites in the first issue or two and then moving on to weaker pieces as the year goes on.  Your story was an easy decision as one of these key pieces.

We have decided that “Asimov Unbound” would be excellent as the lead story in our first anniversary issue, which will be published on October 13, 2010

Issue 6 of the magazine M-Brane SF has been released. It features my story 'Nu-Topia,' alongside many other excellent stories. It is available in print or to download: http://mbranesf2.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

It's been out for a little while now, but for some reason I forgot to post the link! My winning entry to the competition: Alien Sex Secrets: What Your Alien Lover Wants You To Do In Bed, is in print in The Drabbler Special Edition 1, from SamsDotPublishing.

The story is a macabre and erotic tale I have called: Nina Demone.

Out now from Atlantean Press: Bard Issue 77. This issue features my prose poem tribute to W.B. Yeats: Slouching Towards Carcosa. 

Bard is a flyer-style broadsheet of poetry that is released approximately monthly. If you would like a copy, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope (envelope and IRC or US$2 overseas) to the Atlantean Publishing address.

The cover art has been released for my next fiction appearance. Issue 6 of the magazine M-Brane SF will feature my story 'Nu-Topia,' alongside many other excellent stories:

RICK NOVY: The Trouble With Truffles
DEREK J. GOODMAN: Rental Property
JASON HELLER: The Crackerjack Kids
KENT McDANIEL: Up on the Roof
A.R. YNGVE: Quadrillenium
MICHAEL D. GRIFFITHS: In Charge of my Demise
GLYNN BARRASS: Nu-Topia
EDWARD RODOSEK: A Thorough Drill
BRINNA DEAVELLAR: The Second Stage
STEPHANIE SCARBOROUGH: Misty
LEE GIMENEZ: Daniel 7
AMIR AHMED: Silence
JEFFREY WOOTEN: The White Place

My friend Teresa Ford, the publisher and editor of the magazine Ethereal Tales, has produced video adverts for Issues One and Two, available to watch on utube:

Issue 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik-1bScAdbw

Issue 2: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A9F2CF683D67BD8A

Each video has narrated renditions of sneak previews from the magazines. Issue two includes a reading of the beginning of my story, 'Monsters,' read beautifully by my friend and colleague Michelle O'Connell.

Enjoy!

'Chilling tales meant to be read in the heart of a thunderstorm, after the power has gone out, by the light of a candle.'

Out now! Candlelight Volume II, an anthology of horror tales edited by Jonathan J Schlosser. This anthology features my story, 'To Hell.'

Click on the cover image to purchase.

Tales of the Talisman Volume 4, Issue 4, is now on sale and features my story, 'Secret Lives of the Undead.' It is available from selected stockists in the USA and through the publishers website for 7 dollars (plus shipping). This is an expectionally well produced magazine and I'm very proud of this, my third appearance within its pages!

My first edited novel: 'Mosquitoes in Heaven,' is now available to buy now from New Voices in Horror Publishing. Written by J.A.Aarntzen this is an excellent novel of horror and adventure and well worth a read.

Follow the link here to purchase:

Bound For Evil, an anthology that I am very pleased to be a part of, has been nominated for an award! It is the Shirley Jackson Award, in the Anthology category. Winners of this juried award will be announced at ReaderCon 20 on July 12. So congratulations to the editor and publisher Tom Engish!

My short story 'The Revenge of the Deformer' will be available to read in issue 3 of Ethereal Tales, available to order at month's end both online and from selected stockists. Also, issue 3 will also feature my poetical tribute to H. P. Lovecraft: 'Stranger Aeons.' The poem will be illustrated by my friend Leon Atkinson. The poem, a sneak preview of the story, and the issue's other prose and art can be found here.

Doctor Herbert West's Patented Pet Rejuvination Formula, a macabre little advert that I put together in tribute to old style comic book ad's, appears on the back cover of Thrilling Tales 4, published by Rainfall Books. Out now!!

I've won a competition, (for writing of course!). I received this through the mail yesterday:

Under the auspices of Sam's Dot Publishing, The Boortean Embassy would like to thank you for submitting to the 14th Issue of The Drabbler: Alien Sex Secrets: What Your Alien Lover Wants You to Do In Bed.

Your story, "Nina Demone", has been accepted for publication.

Thank you for your support of the Drabble Contest!

Available for pre-order: New Voices in Fiction Issue 5, featuring an interview with author Glynn Barrass. Now I know I recognise that name from somewhere... The issue also includes stunning illustrations by Ward Grey and Stephen Blundell, creepy cartoon showcase, and the best in new horror, sci-fi/horror and dark fantasy.

As well as being a freelance writer I now have a writing job! As of yesterday I am now an assistant editor working for New Voices in Horror Publishing. Here's some info as to what my new employer is all about:

"NVH PUBLISHING IS A SERVICE FOR THOSE FIRST-TIME NOVELISTS WHO HAVE TIRED OF SEARCHING FOR AN AFFORDABLE PUBLISHER. AT NVH PUBLISHING, THERE IS ONLY A $30.00 SETUP/PRINTER FEE, NO LONG WAITNG PERIODS FOR RESPONSE TIME, NO LONG TERM CONTRACTS, AND, BEST OF ALL, WE DO NOT TURN AWAY ANY MARKETABLE MANUSCRIPT!

Another appearance in another great issue of New Voices in Fiction! My story Blasphemous Ocean, appears in issue 4, the March-April edition of NVF Magazine, which will be available to purchase this week and on Amazon.com too.

Released today in paperback, Horror Mania! A collection horror and dark fiction.

The editor, David Byron has secretly spent almost eight months compiling this collection, with the stories having come from all over the globe; England, South Africa, Australia, Germany, Scotland, Japan, and, of course, the good old USA.

With special guests:

Glynn Barrass, Matt Spencer, Paul Leland, Angelique Armstrong, K.K., CF Baldwin, Mark Edward Hall, Daren Metzler, Simon Edwin King, Ron Ebner, Mason Gallaway, Dev Jarrett, Robin Dover, & Iron Dave.

50 percent of the proceeds from this book go to a very worthy charity Patchwork: A Domestic Abuse Awareness Project.

Out today in paperback and featuring my Sci-Fi/Fantasy story Afterlife. New Voices in Fiction Magazine Issue 3.1 is available to order from Turner Maxwell Books.

Out now: Tales of the Talisman Volume 4 Issue 3, featuring my poem 'A Devil in the Folds.' This is my second appearance in Talisman, with another to come this year.

My short tale 'Monsters,' will be available to read in issue 2 of Ethereal Tales, available next week to order both online and from selected stockists. A sneak preview of Monsters and the issue's other prose and art can be found here.

Cover image by Daevid Ford

Issue Two of Crossed Genres: The Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy With a Twist, is available to read online and features my Cthulhu Mythos/Cyberpunk tale 'Cali.' It also features fiction by Marilou Goodwin, Marie Robertson and Jo Thomas, nonfiction by Loni Ice and more!

The cover "Birds," is beautifully illustrated by Rustam Shaihlislam.

It is also available as a Limited Print Edition.

Cover Copyright 2009 Rustam Shaihlislam.