The Half That You See by Rebecca Rowland (best summer reads .TXT) 📕

horror and fantasy, and she is currently writing her first YA novel. She is very optimistic about her future writing career, is aware that she has a long way to go, but is none-the-less happy to have her story "The Red Portrait" featured in this anthology.

Laura Saint Martin is an emerging writer, currently working on a mystery series set on a horse ranch in Southern California. She also writes poetry about mental illness, blue collar struggles, animals, nature, and life on the autism spectrum. She works for Patton State Hospital and Rover.com. Due to her turbulent childhood, numerous and contradictory psychiatric diagnoses, and sensory processing challenges, she has determined that she is on the autism spectrum.  She lives with her family and numerous spoiled pets in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. She has only recently started submitting short works to online journals and print anthologies and has several poems and short stories awaiting publication.

T.M. Starnes is reading or watching horror, thrillers, or sci-fi movies when not practicing or teaching Kung Fu. T. M.’s favorite authors include Clive Barker, Patricia Briggs, Dean Koontz, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. T. M. prefers writing in those genres or in the post-apocalyptic and, occasionally, the romance genre. T. M.’s post-apocalyptic series The Unchanged and the science fiction survival series Aurora Skies and other novels are currently available on the author’s Amazon page. Upcoming news and other short story anthologies the author has participated in may be found on T. M. Starnes’ Facebook page.

Mark Towse is an Englishman living in Australia. He would sell his soul to the devil or anyone buying if it meant he could write full-time. Alas, he left very late to begin this journey, penning his first story since primary school at the ripe old age of 45. Since then, he's been published in the likes of Flash Fiction Magazine, Cosmic Horror, Suspense Magazine, ParABnormal, Raconteur, and his work has also appeared three times on the No Sleep podcast and many other excellent productions. You can catch his terrifying story, “The Devil’s Ink,” in the forthcoming anthology from Silver Shamrock publishing, Midnight in the Pentagram. His first collection, Face the Music, has just been released by All Things That Matter Press and is available everywhere. Follow him on Twitter @MarkTowsey12, Instagram @TowseyWrites, and on his website, MarkTowseDarkFiction.wordpress.com.

Lamont A. Turner is a New Orleans-area author and father of four. His work has appeared in numerous print and online venues including Horror for Hire: First Shift, Death and Butterflies, several volumes in the Scary Snippets series, Jitter, Dark Dossier, Theme of Absence, and The Realm Beyond.

Nicole Wolverton is a Philadelphia, PA-based writer of mostly speculative fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in Aji magazine, Jersey Devil Press, The Molotov Cocktail, and elsewhere, and she is the author of the psychological thriller The Trajectory of Dreams (Bitingduck Press, 2013). She is an assistant coach to a dragon boat team of cancer survivors and their caregivers, a gin aficionado, and an avid traveler who dreams of one day visiting every country in the world. For more information about Nicole, visit her website at NicoleWolverton.com or find her on Twitter @nicolewolverton.

About the Editor

Rebecca Rowland is a proud member of the HWA, author of the short story collection The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, co-author of the novel Pieces, and curator of the horror anthologies Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, and Madness; Shadowy Natures, and the upcoming Unburied. A former high school English teacher and obituary writer, she pays the bills as a librarian and ghostwriter but vacations as an editor and author of transgressive and dark fiction. Despite her love of the ocean and unwavering distaste for cold temperatures, she resides in a landlocked and often icy corner of New England. For links to the publications where her work has appeared most recently (or just to surreptitiously stalk her), visit RowlandBooks.com.

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Devil’s Night, Day of the Dead, and Halloween have been celebrated around the world in one form or another, beginning with the Ancient Celts over two-thousand years ago. For some revelers, it’s a time for guising, or dressing up in elaborate costume; for others, it’s a time for practical jokes and mischief, and for some, it’s a reverent occasion to acknowledge the thin line between earth and the spirit world.

Featuring twenty-one different voices hailing from five different countries and eleven states, Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, and Madness is certain to strike a chord with every horror aficionado.

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"The boundary line between instinct and reason

is of a very shadowy nature"

-Edgar Allan Poe (1840)

With its twenty-one stories of serial killers and sociopaths, fixations and fetishes, breakdowns and bad decisions crafted by authors as diverse as their writing styles, Shadowy Natures leads fans of psychological horror down dark and treacherous roads to destinations they will be too unsettled to leave.