A flipbook anthology with four stories from male writers on one side and four stories from female writers on the other side. The explored theme was beauty. Nothing carries the weight of horror more so than beauty...and we see its discovery through these eight superb tales. Some of today's finest writers have come together to create this special project. The characters are strong. The stories are powerful. And the horror is as beautiful as you would expect from these extraordinary authors.
Authors
FRAN FRIEL is a two-time Bram Stoker Award Finalist, and Winner of the Black Quill Award. She wrangles her small beast overlords and writes Science Fiction, Horror, and Dark Fantasy in her Tiny Cow Pasture Paradise in West Cork, Ireland. Look for the Fran Friel's Dark Tales in Amazon Shorts. You’ll find new stories plus revised and expanded pieces plucked from her Award Winning Collection, MAMA'S BOY AND OTHER DARK TALES. Fran Friel's Dark Tales (individual shorts and novellas): The Sea Orphan Beach of Dreams Under the Dryer w/ Bonus Flash - Orange and Golden Bessie’s Green Thumb Coming Soon: The Whispers of Chickens Mashed Fine Print Widow Wings with Hot Sauce SF/Fantasy Series: The Realm Tree Chronicles And don't miss the fantastic anthology, BARBERS AND BEAUTIES, with fiction from Multi-Award Winning Authors, Gary Braunbeck, Tim Lebbon, Kealan Patrick Burke, Lisa Morton, Fran Friel and Others. Stop by for a chat with Fran at Facebook and Twitter. And have a look at her blogging antics at Fran Friel's Yada Feast. Fran's cyber-door is always open. For more info visit: www.franfriel.com or franfriel.com/vip.
Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to be a horror writer. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-loving mother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that he would end up telling stories for a living. Since those formative years, he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy. Kealan has worked as a waiter, a drama teacher, a mapmaker, a security guard, an assembly-line worker at Apple Computers, a salesman (for a day), a bartender, landscape gardener, vocalist in a grunge band, curriculum content editor, fiction editor at Gothic.net, and, most recently, a fraud investigator. When not writing, Kealan designs book covers through his company Elderlemon Design. A movie based on his short story "Peekers" is currently in development as a major motion picture. Represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House Agency.
LEE THOMAS is the Bram Stoker Award and the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of STAINED , ASH STREET , THE DUST OF WONDERLAND , and THE GERMAN . Recent and forthcoming titles include LIKE LIGHT FOR FLIES , and BUTCHER’S ROAD . Forthcoming titles include DOWN ON YOUR KNEES (Oct 2016), and DISTORTION (May 2017). ADDITIONAL TITLES: TORN IN THE CLOSET, UNDER THE BED FOCUS THE BLACK SUN SET CRISIS PARISH DAMNED
Gary A. Braunbeck is a prolific author who writes mysteries, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mainstream literature. He is the author of 19 books; his fiction has been translated into Japanese, French, Italian, Russian and German. Nearly 200 of his short stories have appeared in various publications. His fiction has received several awards, including the Bram Stoker Award in 2003 for "Duty" and in 2005 for "We Now Pause for Station Identification"; his book Destinations Unknown won a Stoker in 2006. His novella "Kiss of the Mudman" received the International Horror Guild Award in 2005."
I love writing, reading, triathlon, real ale, chocolate, good movies, occasional bad movies, and cake. I was born in London in 1969, lived in Devon until I was eight, and the next twenty years were spent in Newport. My wife Tracey and I then did a Good Thing and moved back to the country, and we now live in the little village of Goytre in Monmouthshire with our kids Ellie and Daniel. And our dog, Blu, who is the size of a donkey. I love the countryside ... I do a lot of running and cycling, and live in the best part of the world for that. I've had loads of books published in the UK, USA, and around the world, including novels, novellas, and collections. I write horror, fantasy, and now thrillers, and I've been writing as a living for over 8 years. I've won quite a few awards for my original fiction, and I've also written tie-in projects for Star Wars, Alien, Hellboy, The Cabin in the Woods, and 30 Days of Night. A movie's just been made of my short story Pay the Ghost, starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Wayne Callies. There are other projects in development, too. I'd love to hear from you!
Roberta Lannes (born December 1948) is an American writer of literary, mystery and horror fiction as well as articles, essays, reviews and poetry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta...
Rhodi Hawk has been fascinated by storytelling since her earliest memory, when her grandmother read to her from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Rhodi has been reading or writing ever since, and began her career as a transcription linguist in US Army intelligence. She later made a living as a technical writer during the Internet boom, working on her first novel in the early mornings and at night. Rhodi Hawk won the International Thriller Writers Scholarship for her first work of fiction, A Twisted Ladder.
