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STUPEFYING STORIES: It Came From The Slushpile
Released August 2010

Yes, it’s our one and only print edition, done as a prototype to see just how closely we could emulate the look and feel of a vintage digest-sized pulp in what was initially envisioned as a quarterly magazine. We spent a small fortune on this one, and aside from my never being really happy with the way the cover turned out, it worked...but also convinced me our money was far better spent on paying writers and artists more, rather than on keeping paper mills and print shops in business.

Nonetheless, we still have about 75 copies left from the original print run, and you can buy it on Amazon at this link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982897405/. Be sure to get your copy from K&B Booksellers, as K&B is the only dealer with fresh-from-the-box new copies selling at the cover price. (Some optimists out there think this one is a valuable collector’s item worth $45 or more!)

Contents:

  • TECH SUPPORT, by John Oglesby
  • LIFELINE, by Kersley Fitzgerald
  • IT CAME FROM THE SLUSHPILE, by Bruce Bethke
  • CATACHRONISM, by Jakeb Lliesl Ladrey
  • ICEHAWK'S ILL OMEN, by Martin Davidson
  • ARMSTRONG, by James Rye
  • WE DON'T PLUMMET OUT OF THE SKY ANYMORE, by M. David Blake
  • ASSAULT AND BUTTERY, by Anton,Gully
  • TEACHING WOMEN TO FLY, by Guy Stewart
  • FIRST RULE, by Allan Davis Jr.
  • THEN THE END COMETH, by David Yener Goodman
  • HEART OF DORKNESS, by Henry Vogel

 

JIMI PLAYS DEAD
Released December 2011

Heh. I’d forgotten all about this one, until I found it again while working on the RLP catalog. This was a little “hit single” package I put together as a design study, that I later put out on Amazon to test some or another feature of Amazon’s system. I’d honestly forgotten it was still out there until I rediscovered it just now.

With an incredible cover by Phil Foglio, this booklet consists of two stories that have deeply personal meaning for me—“Jimi Plays Dead” and “Buck Turner and The Spud From Space”—along with some reminiscences about the writing of these stories. This isn’t a booklet that will change your life or even keep you entertained for much more than fifteen or twenty minutes—but hey, for $0.99, isn’t it worth a shot?

Available for the Amazon Kindle only, at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.1
Released October 2011

In 2011 we relaunched STUPEFYING STORIES as a direct-to-ebook-only anthology series. We decided on direct-to-ebook-only because we felt the market for e-readers was beginning to approach critical mass, and we decided to call it an anthology rather than a magazine in order to give the book a longer shelf-life and ourselves more flexibility with scheduling.

We issued the first call for submissions in July and by September were ready to begin rolling out books. STUPEFYING STORIES 1.1 is our thinnest volume ever, because we were still learning and developing our format. It’s notable for being the last time we published poetry, but also marks the first appearance of Anatoly Belilovsky in our virtual pages, and contains the outstanding hard SF story, “Return to Earth” by Ryan M. Jones, which has since been picked up for several other podcasts and anthologies.

Contents:

  • ODE, by Amy Helfritz
  • THE WINDOW, by David Yener Goodman
  • THE DEPORTED, by Vox Day
  • PICKY, by Anatoly Belilovsky
  • THE CURSED WAIL, by Caileigh Marshall
  • S&M VAMPIRE GRRLZ: THE MOVIE, by Chris Bailey Pearce
  • QUILL, by Allan Davis Jr.
  • REVIVAL, by Daniel Eness
  • DAVE’S FRIGHT, by Kersley Fitzgerald
  • OTHER SISTER, by Rich Matrunick
  • RETURN TO EARTH, by Ryan M. Jones

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.2
Released November 2011

No sooner was 1.1 released than STUPEFYING STORIES began growing very rapidly. This book contains more and longer stories than 1.1 and marks the first appearance in our pages of Aaron Bradford Starr, Clare Deming, Sarah Frost, and fan favorite Rebecca Roland, as well as another story from Anatoly Belilovsky and one of the most disturbing horror stories we’ve ever published, “The Oily,” by E. A. Black.

Which has led to considerable confusion ever since. Is STUPEFYING STORIES a science fiction magazine that sometimes publishes horror or a horror magazine that sometimes publishes science fiction? Somehow people fixated on “The Oily” and didn’t notice that this book also contains two of the funniest stories we’ve ever published, “First Impressions” and “Watch This!”

Contents:

  • FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by Aaron Bradford Starr
  • THE BAMBOO GARDEN, by Clare L. Deming
  • HOME SECURITY, by Gary McKenzie
  • BORROWED FEATHERS, by Sarah Frost
  • IF THIS BE MAGIC, by Anatoly Belilovsky
  • THE OILY, by E. A. Black
  • IN FALL, AFTER THE HARVEST, by S. Travis Brown
  • THE KING OF ASH AND BONES, by Rebecca Roland
  • WATCH THIS!, by Henry Vogel

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.3
Released December 2011

This book marks the first appearance in our pages of Gary Cuba, Tyler Tork, David Landrum, Bill Ferris, and the author of our cover story, Trent Zelazny. By this point our vision of a publication that transcended genre boundaries was in full swing, with stories such as “The Cowrie” and “Snow Blind” that left SF/F fans scratching their heads and asking, “Where are the rockets, robots, and ray-guns?”

This book also contains the last Christmas-themed stories we’ll ever run. That’s a promise. I like “Secret Santa,” “Seven Minutes to Bangor,” and “The Consolidated Brotherhood of Truly Bearded Santas,” but these stories opened the floodgates to a flow of truly awful “Christmas horror” submissions.

Unfortunately, this book also marks the beginning of the breakdown of our behind-the-scenes editorial processes. In three months we’d gone from a steady but manageable stream of new submissions to what we came to call The Great Submissions Blizzard of 2011. By the time it was all over on New Year’s Day we’d received more than 500 new submissions, and our slow-but-thoughtful collective decision-making system was buckling under the strain.

Contents:

  • OOGIE TUCKER’S MISSION, by Gary Cuba
  • HIGHLY UNLIKELY, by Ron Lunde
  • THE COWRIE, by Tyler Tork
  • SNOW BLIND, by Trent Zelazny
  • SENNACHERIB, by David Landrum
  • THE STRANGE MACHINERY OF DESIRE, by Justin A. Williams
  • SECRET SANTA, by Kersley Fitzgerald
  • SEVEN MINUTES TO BANGOR, by Aaron Bradford Starr
  • THE CONSOLIDATED BROTHERHOOD OF TRULY BEARDED SANTAS, by Bill Ferris

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.4
Released January 2012

This book marks the first appearance in our pages of L. Joseph Shosty, Jamie Lackey, Ada Milenkovic Brown, and fan favorite Rose Blackthorn, and contains what was probably our strongest SF/F lineup thus far. I can’t call out any particular stories for special attention because they’re all terrific, but on a purely personal level, “Palmerino’s Dream” still makes me smile every time I re-read it.

Behind the scenes, though, our submissions and editorial processes had finished breaking down under the weight of The Great Submissions Blizzard of 2011, aided and abetted by the flow of new submissions that were continuing to come in at steady a rate of 300-plus monthly.

Contents:

  • MORALITY FOR ALCHEMISTS AND THIEVES, by L. Joseph Shosty
  • SEEKING KAILASH, by DJ Cockburn
  • MUSIC FROM THE AIR, by Jamie Lackey
  • SPIRIT BAGS, by T. D. Edge
  • DON’T EAT THE PIANO PLAYER, by M. David Blake
  • ABADDON, FOUL ANGEL OF THE ABYSS, by Ada Milenkovic Brown
  • UNTETHER’D, by Rose Blackthorn
  • THE SEEDING, by Jay Caselberg
  • PALMERINO’S DREAM, by Joanna Galbraith

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.5
Released March 2012

We didn’t plan to skip February, but the challenge of dealing with the enormous flow of new submissions, while still sticking to my (in hindsight, painfully naïve) ideal of making sure that every submission got at least two reads before receiving a personal rejection, kept us bogged down. Thus what began as a simple Valentine’s Day issue became a Love and Presidents issue, then a Sex and Presidents issue, and then a Sex and Dead Presidents issue (the less said about which, the better), until finally, we produced this book.

I still can’t talk about this book without raving about “Red Dust and Dancing Horses” by Beth Cato or cackling over Aaron Bradford Starr’s brilliantly daft steampunk vision, “Cog Noscenti.” I’m also pleased to note that this book marks the first appearance in our pages of Alex Shvartsman, Richard Zwicker, and Chuck Bordell, and that both “Perchance to Wake” by Paul Dixon and “Greater Love” by Kersley Fitzgerald deserve your attention.

But seriously: if you read anything we’ve published, read “Red Dust and Dancing Horses.”

Contents:

  • RED DUST AND DANCING HORSES, by Beth Cato
  • EMISSARIES FROM VENUS, by Jason Wittman
  • LINCOLN’S REVENANT, by Chuck Bordell
  • INDUCTION DAY, by J. R. Johnson
  • PERCHANCE TO WAKE, by Paul Dixon
  • COG NOSCENTI, by Aaron Bradford Starr
  • GREATER LOVE, by Kersley Fitzgerald
  • STELLAR DUST AND MIRRORS, by Richard Zwicker
  • THE LAST TESTAMENT OF HENRY HALLECK, by Vox Day
  • A BRIEF RESPITE FROM ETERNITY, by Alex Shvartsman

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

FIRST HIATUS
April—July 2012

After STUPEFYING STORIES 1.5 struggled out the door, we decided to take a three-month hiatus to clean up the wreckage and fix our processes. We created a completely new submissions tracking system to replace our hopelessly overloaded old one. With the brilliant assistance of Erin Entrada Kelly we created the FSPRC (Fearless Slush Pile Reader Corps), a cadre of selfless volunteers who threw themselves headlong into the slush pile and endeavored to beat it into submission. We developed processes for managing the FSPRC and divvying up the workload, which took a considerable amount of trial and error, but mostly error. We gave in to the demands of necessity and began using form letters for some rejections, accepted that our vision of building a publication that transcended genre boundaries was a pipe-dream, and began planning spin-off special issues. During this time we also released three full-length novels through the Rampant Loon Press side of the business, but that’s germane to STUPEFYING STORIES only in that that project wound up consuming far more time and resources than expected.

By July we were tanned, rested, ready, and in-control again, so we rolled into August 2012 with great expectations.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.6
Released August 2012

I’m really proud of this one. Our “Weirder Homes and Gardens” issue was the first book that really felt like it held together from beginning to end, and formed a whole greater than the sum of its parts. This was the first book to emerge from our newly redesigned processes, and it marks the first appearance of in our pages of M. Bennardo, Peter Wood, Judith Field, Erin Entrada Kelly, and Michael Heneghan, as well as our first full-length novelette, “Family Magic,” by Michele Winkler.

Contents:

  • NO ONIONS, by M. Bennardo
  • THE GROWING, by Sylvia Hiven
  • FAMILY MAGIC, by Michele Winkler
  • MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, by Peter Wood
  • HELEN WENT BEEP, by Erin Entrada Kelly
  • THE PROTOTYPE, by Judith Field
  • COLORFUL CAPS, by JC Hemphill
  • LIFESOURCE, by Barbara V. Evers
  • THE CENTAUR BRIDE, by Eric J. Juneau
  • ROOTING FOR YOU, by Michael Heneghan
  • SECURITY, by Chris Bailey Pearce
  • THE GARDEN, by R. L. Bowden

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.7
Released September 2012

Another terrific book that just hangs together well from beginning to end, this one introduces our readers to Thoraiya Dyer, Michael Matheson (you’ll be hearing more from him), Auston Habershaw (ditto), and Alison Pentecost (her too). From the awesome cover art by Aaron Bradford Starr that had me wishing I had the budget to print posters; to Richard Zwicker’s devilishly clever opening story, to Phil Temple’s exit piece that will leave you singing, there is not a false note in this one. If you haven’t yet read this one do so, if only to be ready for Matheson’s next story.

Contents:

  • RIDDLE ME, by Richard Zwicker
  • CORSAIRS OF THE CONCRETE SEA, by Thoraiya Dyer
  • THE THUNDERING DRAGON OF HEAVEN, by Michael Matheson
  • GOD MIC, by B. Sanford
  • THE THIRTY-NINTH PRESIDENT AND THE FOURTEENTH TENTACLE, by Theodore Carter
  • THIEF OF HEARTS, by Auston Habershaw
  • IN THE CASTLE OF THE ASSASSINS, by Melissa Embry
  • THE LORD OF FLOCKS, by Alison Pentecost
  • THE LITTLE THIEF, by Phil Temples

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.8
Released October 2012

This is the book that gave us our first “embarrassment of riches” moment. We’d been planning all year long to do a Halloween book chock-full of nothing but vampires, werewolves, mummies, zombies, invading aliens, missing links, ghosties, ghoulies, more vampires, giant city-stomping reptiles, Frankensteinian creations rising to destroy their creators, and “What the hell is that?” stories, and had been accepting submissions accordingly. But when we got to the point of actually starting to put the issue together—

Uh-oh. We have at least twice as many stories as we need.

What to do? Put out a double-length book at double the price? (We weren’t confident enough that it would sell at that price.) Put out a normal length book and try to squeeze the rest of the stories into our regular flow? Launch yet another spinoff series, like Putrefying Stories?

Wait. There’s a better idea.

...to be continued...

Contents:

  • FATHER PACE, by Samuel Marzioli
  • A WOLF LIKE LEROY, by Gef Fox
  • KING OF THE GIANT MONSTERS, by Michael D. Turner
  • DARCY AND THE GILL-MAN, by David C. Pinnt
  • DARK ILLUSIONS, by Evan Dicken
  • LEGACY OF AN UNWANTED TITAN, by Ryan Creel
  • THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RAINBOW, by Bill Bibo Jr.
  • ON MAIN STREET AFTER CLOSING TIME, by S. R. Algernon
  • NIGHT SHIFT OF THE LIVING DEAD, by Tyler Tork
  • OUR NEW BENEVOLENT OVERLORDS, by Andrew Kozma

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.9
Released Mid-October 2012

...and thus was born the Mid-October issue, or as we now call it, The First Annual Horror Special. (See, we had to get to TWO before we could start referring to this one as the first. It would have been silly to call it ONE: The First Annual Horror Special. That would be like a band calling its first album “The Best of [band_name]’s Greatest Hits.”

(Which has been done, by the way.)

If STUPEFYING STORIES 1.8 was full of “safe” monster stories, for 1.9 we pulled out all the stops and turned the creepiness factor up to 11. Carrying another awesome Aaron Bradford Starr cover that deserves to be a poster, this one starts with the beautiful and elegiac “Between Life and Oblivion,” ends with “Going Out With a Bang”—a story that, as one reviewer put it, “puts the black in black humor”—followed by Thomas Pluck’s clever little exit sting, “The Old-Fashioned Way,” but in-between it’s full of spooks and specters, ghosts and ghoulies, and things that go bump! in the night. (Or sometimes not: check Robert W. Hobson’s story.) In particular, if “The Florence” or “The Jade Box” don’t give you the shivers, you’d better check your pulse, because you might be dead.

Contents:

  • BETWEEN LIFE AND OBLIVION, by Samuel R. George
  • THE FLORENCE, by Chuck Bordell
  • DOOR IN THE DARKNESS, by David Steffen
  • STREAMING, by Sharon Irwin
  • THE FLINT INDENTURE, by Tim W. Burke
  • NOT EVERYTHING GOES BUMP, by Robert W. Hobson
  • ASHES TO DIAMONDS, by Jamie Lackey
  • BLOOD AND SALTWATER, by Cassandra Rose Clarke
  • A HOMEOWNER’S DILEMMA, by Mark Hill
  • THE GHOST TRAIN, by Fox McGeever
  • THE JADE BOX, by Stephen G. McDonald
  • GOING OUT WITH A BANG, by Gary Cuba
  • THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY, by Thomas Pluck

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.10 (2.1)
Released November 2012

For this one I turned the Editor-in-Chief’s chair over to M. David Blake, who has been with us since the old Friday Challenge days and has served as Technical Director and Associate Editor of STUPEFYING STORIES from the very start. I gave him a budget and free rein to select the stories, as well as permission to experiment with the design, and I’m pleased to see that he picked some stories I would have picked—some I would not have picked—actually pinched a few from my production queue—and in the end, produced a book that is bigger, in some ways better, and definitely recognizable as a STUPEFYING STORIES book and yet distinctively different.

Good stuff. I liked it so much, I gave Mr. Blake the budget and permission to go ahead with STRAEON. This book should not be taken as a precise blueprint for STRAEON, but if you want some sense of how my editorial judgment and his editorial judgment differ—and we do differ; our tastes are at best similar, not congruent—then buy and read this book.

P.S. And if you’re wondering about the odd volume numbering: it’s an Amazon thing. We wanted to call this one 2.1 but ended up having to call it 1.10 for Amazon’s sake.

Contents:

  • QUEEN OF SHEBA, by Samuel M. Johnston
  • WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, by Damien Walters Grintalis
  • SNATCHING BABY DELILAH, by Travis Daniel Bow
  • NONSENSE 101, by Gary Cuba
  • LUCKY, by Bill Ferris
  • THE ANTS GO MARCHING, by Sarah Pinsker
  • LOVER'S KNOT, by Ada Milenkovic Brown
  • GIRL WITHOUT A NAME, by Courtney Valdes
  • TOILET GNOMES AT WAR, by Beth Cato
  • MOONDUST, by Elizabeth Berger
  • CITIZEN ASTRONAUTS, by Holliann R. Kim
  • HEARTBREATH, by E. Catherine Tobler
  • REVOLVER, by Clarence Young
  • OFFICE DEMONS, by Christie Yant
  • NUMBER STATION, by Alex Shvartsman

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.11
Released December 2012

By the end of 2012, STUPEFYING STORIES had finished evolving from our initial vision of a publication that didn’t recognize genre labels to being a straight-up SF/F publication, and this book is the apotheosis of that development. It had also evolved from being an “anthology series” to being something that clearly walked, talked, quacked, and otherwise behaved like a monthly magazine, so we gave up trying to resist that label as well, and decided to let it become the monthly SF/F magazine it clearly wanted to be.

I am proud of every single story in this book, but especially so of “Moonbubble,” by Eric Cline.

Then again, if we were ever to adopt a story as a manifesto, it would be “We Talk Like Gods,” by Jon David.

Contents:

  • WE TALK LIKE GODS, by Jon David
  • TINY, TINY HUNGERS, by Mark Wolf
  • MOONBUBBLE, by Eric Cline
  • THE RELIC, by Lou Antonelli
  • MR. NON-EXISTENT, by Paul Malone
  • BLUE STRIPPED, by Gerry Huntman
  • HoPE, by A. A. Leil
  • AVOCADO RUTABAGA AUBERGINE, by M. Bennardo
  • IN THE SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE OF COAL, by Shaun Duke
  • MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE, by Torah Cottrill
  • THE GODS OF SAND AND STONE, by Joel V. Kela

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook.

Odd. The Apple iTunes Store link isn’t working. We’ll have to look into that and fix it.

 

SECOND HIATUS
January—June 2013

No sooner had we made the decision to let STUPEFYING STORIES become the monthly SF/F magazine it clearly wanted to be than disaster struck. We’d weathered quite a few storms on the way from the initial vision of 2010 to our status at the end of 2012, but what turned out to be my mother’s final illness ended up consuming a tremendous amount of 2013. We’d made contingency plans—M. David Blake was not the only person who’d accepted my invitation to take a turn in the editor’s chair—but none of our transition or contingency plans was fully in-place and operational when circumstances forced me to step away from STUPEFYING STORIES for a few weeks.

Which stretched out into six months.

In June we relaunched with our new vision, which was an even bigger and better magazine, to be accompanied by a companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE. Unfortunately, just as we relaunched, my health imploded. And since our transition and contingency plans were still only theoretical and not actually in-place and running...

 

STUPEFYING STORIES 2.1
Released July 2013

STUPEFYING STORIES Mk.II in its fully developed form. More stories; bigger stories; another awesome cover by Aaron Bradford Starr that deserves to be a poster, to go with an equally awesome old-school alien world sci-fi pulp adventure, “For the Love of a Grenitschee,” by Mark Wolf, that deserves to be the first story in a series. (Oh wait, it is!)

Two complete novelettes, more content than we’ve ever published before (or maybe it’s a close tie with the November 2012 book; I’ve never actually compared the word-count of the two), and all the way around, a big, beautiful, promising new start. Buy it. Read it. Enjoy it. I can’t tell you how pleased I am that some reviewers have compared it to Charlie Ryan’s old Aboriginal SF, because Mr. Ryan is one of my heroes.

Contents:

  • ALL THE BEAUTIFUL LIGHTS OF HEAVEN, by Russ Colson
  • SHOWING FAERIES FOR FUN AND PROFIT, by Julie Frost
  • INDIGENE, by Lawrence Buentello
  • FOR THE LOVE OF A GRENITSCHEE, by Mark Wolf
  • COTTAGE INDUSTRY, by Evan Dicken
  • THE ROBOT AGENDA, by Samantha Boyette
  • THE WRONG DOG, by Kyle Aisteach
  • THE MUSIC TEACHER,by Mark Niemann-Ross
  • THE LAST UNIT, by Judith Field

Available for the Amazon Kindle at these links: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.

Also available for the Barnes & Noble Nook and in the Apple iTunes Store.

 

THIRD HIATUS
Q3 2013

Unfortunately, just as we relaunched, I developed a life-changing medical condition, and just about the time we finally got that diagnosed correctly and got an effective treatment plan into place, my mother went into her final decline. As executor of her estate, a tremendous amount of my time since then has been consumed by the business of settling her affairs. Nonetheless, we did manage to produce...

 

TWO: The 2nd Annual Horror Special
Released November 2013

STUPEFYING STORIES is thrilled (and more than just a little relieved) to announce the release of TWO: The 2nd Annual Horror Special. This is one of the biggest and best collections of horror stories we've ever assembled, containing sixteen fresh and exciting new tales—fourteen short stories and two complete novelettes—a baker’s dozen and then some of ghosties and ghoulies, vampires and zombies, monsters and mayhem, and things that go bump in the night! Edited by Philip K. Dick Award-winner Bruce Bethke, TWO features:

  • “Second to Last Stop” by Evan Dicken
  • “Cabrón” by Jóse Iriarte
  • “Blood and Water” by Rose Blackthorn
  • “Gris-Gris for a Mal Pris” by Rebecca Roland
  • “Zombie Angst, or How to Pair Human Brains With a Good Chianti” by Stone Showers
  • “Wall” by Yukimi Ogawa
  • “A is for Android” by Holly A. Cave
  • “The Things That Perish Along The Way” by Keith Rosson
  • “Choice” by Shona Snowden
  • “Offworld” by Anton Sim
  • “An Incident in Cain's Mark” by L. Joseph Shosty
  • “Professor Pandemonium's Train of Terror” by Simon Kewin
  • “It Came From Hell And Smashed The Angels” by Gregor Xane
  • “The Waiting Line (Many Elbows)” by Leah Thomas
  • “The Revenge of Oscar Wilde” by Sean Eads
  • “Eulogy to be Given by Whoever's Still Sober” by Nicole Cushing

Now available for the Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader App at these links.

US http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Germany https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
France https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Spain https://www.amazon.es/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Italy https://www.amazon.it/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Japan https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
India https://www.amazon.in/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Canada https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Brazil https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Mexico https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B00GFCQOLQ

(Don't have a Kindle? Then get the free Kindle Reader App for your smartphone, tablet, PC or Mac, or use the free Kindle Cloud Reader to read it instantly in your browser!)

Now available for the Barnes & Noble Nook at this link:

Unnecessarily Complex URL

More links coming soon!