KJK Publications
has just released the latest anthology in their "Classic Monsters" series,
Cryptids, and it includes my story, "The Devil of Transylvania County," a
wicked tale of inhuman goings-on in the North Carolina mountains. At the
moment, it's available only as an ebook, but the paperback is on the way very soon.
From the publisher:
They have always been there. Just beyond the the treeline. Beneath
dark water. In the places humans don’t map.
In this chilling eighth installment of the Classic Monsters series, editor/publisher Kevin J. Kennedy turns his attention to the unknown beasts that haunt global folklore as well as current news reports, delivering a collection of relentlessly powerful horror stories.
A hiking expedition becomes a desperate flight from intelligent, pack-hunting predators that move like something almost human. A rancher locked in a brutal war with a blood-drinking creature learns that monsters do not always choose the guilty. In the aftermath of war, a broken soldier is drawn toward ancient beings that may offer salvation — or something far older and more terrible than peace.
In a quiet lake, betrayal awakens a sleeping horror that does not forgive. In isolated corners of the world, grief, guilt, and fear serve as bait for entities that feed on what makes us human.
From shapeshifting killers that predate civilisation, to underground civilisations that blur the line between human and beast, to entities that mimic sound, speech, and emotion with unsettling precision.
Cryptids are not myths. They are warnings. And once you see them, they never stop looking back.
