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This is a short story, and it is short even for that. I say up front because I don’t want you to think you’ve been tricked out of your money (pardon the seasonal pun). At 99 cents, “Trick-or-Treat” is priced… READ MORE
Today Borders announced it would close its bookstores and liquidate its stock, thus joining a long list of printed booksellers who have shuttered their doors. In Fort Walton Beach a single chain bookstore remains, the Books-A-Million on Mary Esther Cut-Off…. READ MORE
Yours truly (right) signs copies of "Full Spectrum 4" with Ray Aldridge (left) at a signing event at the Waldenbooks at Santa Rosa Mall in Mary Esther, Fla., in 1993. I don't know who took this photo.
I have been writing since the eighth grade. I began selling professionally in the mid–’90s and as recently as last year made the finals of the British Fantasy Award. Around 2000 I began to wonder if there was any point… READ MORE
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From Amazon: Imagine a future without cyberspace or without the Web or virtual reality. What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn’t you know? Today’s top masters of speculative fiction… READ MORE
“The Road Stops at Nowhere,” by Denis Beckett, 80 pp, NDA Press, 1998. It was our annual summer ritual: a long vacation trip by automobile. Each of us had our roles in this undertaking: We kids were responsible for collecting… READ MORE
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The genesis of my story, “I Feel My Body Grow,” in “100 Wicked Little Witch Stories” was simple: I wanted to sell a story to “100 Wicked Little Witch Stories.” During the ‘90s writer and editor Stefan Dziemianowicz edited a… READ MORE
THE BIRTHMARK A short horror story By Del Stone Jr. — Introduction I can trace the lineage of “The Birthmark” easily enough. I wrote it sometime in the early ’90s. It was published in Pat Nielsen’s small press magazine “Crossroads,”… READ MORE
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INTRODUCTION This story went through several iterations before it became the tale you see here. I started it in the early 1980s – exact date unknown; my memory is hazy but I vaguely remember seeing U2’s “New Year’s Day” on… READ MORE
THE CLOSET A short horror story By Del Stone Jr. — Introduction This story violates one of the big rules of horror – never place a child in peril. Which is odd. I see movies do it all the time…. READ MORE
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TELEPHONE CALL A short horror story By Del Stone Jr. — Introduction “Telephone Call” is one of my earlier horror stories, written in 1982 or thereabouts. I was in love with the genre. Stephen King had brought new luster to… READ MORE