On the heels of
KJK Publishing's The Horror Collection: Fear Edition
(see my blog entry of
24 July 2026), holy cowz, we have The Horror Collection: Special Edition, a new anthology of horror novelettes. Mine is titled "The Crimson Wood" and is a sequel to H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (one of two that I've written, the first being "Before the Red Star Falls," available in my collection,
Legends of the Night).
Here is what one reviewer says about "The Crimson Wood": "This story
alone is worth five stars: "This is a sequel to the novel
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. In the novel, the
Martians were defeated by the bacteria on our planet. However, in Rainey's story, some of them
survived. These tentacled aliens are taken right out
of the novel... and then Miskatonic University and Ben Cain. (This is a
reference to Dan Cain from the film Reanimator; In the short story by Lovecraft, the narrator is unknown.)"
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
• "Cat Daddy Fever" - Ronald Kelly
• "The Face of an Unlikely God" - Gord Rollo
• "Your Only Fan" - Ryan Colley
• "Blacktop" - William Meikle
• "Ms. Lost" - Josh Davis
• "The Burgers of Calais" - Graham Masterton
• "Night-Mare" - Brian Moreland
• "Nesting Instincts" - Brian Hodge
• "The Crimson Wood" - Stephen Mark Rainey
• "Baggie" - Elizabeth Massie
• "The Char-Lee" - John Everson
• "The Story Of April And Her Colours" - Mark Morris
• "The Arms of the Sun"- Jeffrey Thomas
• "The Face of an Unlikely God" - Gord Rollo
• "Your Only Fan" - Ryan Colley
• "Blacktop" - William Meikle
• "Ms. Lost" - Josh Davis
• "The Burgers of Calais" - Graham Masterton
• "Night-Mare" - Brian Moreland
• "Nesting Instincts" - Brian Hodge
• "The Crimson Wood" - Stephen Mark Rainey
• "Baggie" - Elizabeth Massie
• "The Char-Lee" - John Everson
• "The Story Of April And Her Colours" - Mark Morris
• "The Arms of the Sun"- Jeffrey Thomas
Edited by Ann Keeran with cover art by Michael Bray
