When I first began writing short stories as a teenager, the writers who impressed me most were those who shuttled back and forth effortlessly between a multiplicity of genres. For that reason, perhaps it's appropriate that I have short stories appearing in two very different publications in the same week: "Old Man on a Bus" in THE MAILER REVIEW VOL. 14 edited by Phillip Sipiora and "Her Wounded Eyes" in YEAR'S BEST HARDCORE HORROR VOL. 6 edited by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax. I'm pleased to be sharing the same Table of Contents page in THE MAILER REVIEW with such luminaries as Legs McNeil, Robert Stone, and Barry Malzberg; I'm equally excited to be in YEAR'S BEST HARDCOVER HORROR with Octavia Cade, Alessandro Manzetti, and Christine Morgan. The latter anthology ("...glutted with graphic scenes of torture, dismemberment, evisceration, and pornographic sex"--PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY) includes eighteen stories that originally appeared in publications with such colorful titles as THE ESSENTIAL SICK STUFF, VISCERAL: COLLECTED FLESH, and THE RADIOACTIVE BRIDE.
To my surprise, THE MAILER REVIEW VOL. 14 also contains Michael Shuman's ten-page review of my second book, SPIES & SAUCERS (PS Publishing, 2014). This review, entitled "What Mad Universe" (this title is no doubt a nod to the great Frederic Brown, who--coincidentally--passed away about two weeks before I was born) is probably the most thoughtful and in-depth analysis of my work anyone has ever attempted.
Buy a copy of THE MAILER REVIEW VOL. 14 right HERE!
Buy a copy of YEAR'S BEST HARDCOVER HORROR VOL. 6 right HERE!
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