Coming from
Dark Regions Press
in 2021: Tales From Arkham Sanitarium, edited by Brian M. Sammons. This one features my story,
“Clicks,” as well as new short fiction by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., W. H. Pugmire, Tim Waggoner,
Jeffrey Thomas, Christine Morgan, Cody Goodfellow,
Glynn Owen Barrass, Orrin Grey, and more.
Tales From Arkham Sanitarium features a stunning wraparound
cover art by award-winning artist Vincent Chong. The anthology will be
published as ebook, trade hardcover, and
signed limited edition hardcover. The table of contents and more
information will be revealed in the near future.
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Here is a short excerpt from “Clicks” for your perusal:
The young Asian woman stopped on the dance floor and peered at him, unjostled and unfazed as the dancers swirled and swayed around her. Her dark, glistening eyes fixed on his, and he wanted to leap off the stage, grab her, shake the truth out of her, for she had to know the truth, whatever madness lay at its heart.
But this was not Tami, not Tami, not Tami.
“The man without a face is coming for you,” she said, her voice clear and undistorted, despite the distance between them. From behind her back, she drew a bright red rose and lifted it like a torch above her head.
Just behind her, the spindly black silhouette grew larger, a malevolent predator creeping up on her. Moments later, it was towering over her, as if the air itself were a backdrop upon which the shadow of something almost but not quite human were being cast.
Then she was gone, as if she had never existed.
Had her feet been touching the floor?
He didn’t think so.
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