No, he's not the clown. That clown will never be named. To name him would be to steal his power...
But I have put out my first-ever short fiction collection. It's an original e-book called NINE FRIGHTS, and it focuses on my horror fiction.
The book includes published stories like "Santos del Infierno," which appeared in Hellbound Hearts, the licensed and approved anthology of stories set in the world of Clive Barker's Hellbound Hearts novella (which spawned the Hellraiser movies), and "Janey in Amber," from the anthology The Stories in Between, celebrating the 30th anniversary of great indie bookstore Between Books in Delaware, and "The Strip," the bonus prose story from my graphic novel Zombie Cop. But there are also previously unpublished gems. And each story has an introduction describing the circumstances of its birth, like the time I almost watched Ray Bradbury get beaned by a bike, and the time I watched hundred of vultures wheeling in the desert sky and wondered what could possibly attract so many (hint--uggh!).
The stories are often scary, but not always--some are more strange or wondrous. The book's subtitle is " Stories of Terror and the Supernatural," which seemed to sum them up the best. And yes, there's a very kind quote from TT Zuma's review of 30 Days of Night: Light of Day on the cover.
The e-book is available on and as well, and it'll be on B&N soon. In the meantime, the ePub file at Smashwords will work on a Nook. It's 50,000+ words of good, creepy fun.
If you like short, dark fiction, I hope you'll take a look.
