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Black Tongue and Other Anomalies
2021
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4.13
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164
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A rugged frontiersman scours a vast barren tundra in search of missing loggers, only to find an ancient evil lurking within its frozen maw… In the near future, the last vestiges of humanity are forced down into the abyssal depths of the ocean to hide from an unspeakable cosmic horror, with one grieving mother deciding to fight back… At the fringes of our cosmos, a team of intergalactic salvage pirates find a derelict ship, hiding within its steel walls a most terrible scientific discovery… These horrors and more await you within the pages of Richard Beauchamp’s debut collection, “Black Tongue and Other Anomalies”, featuring twelve short horrors exploring themes of desolation, isolation, and the darkest reaches of the human condition…

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Author

Richard Beauchamp
Author · 2 books

Hailing from the lush, verdant hills of the Ozarks, horror author Richard Beauchamp has been spinning horrific yarns since 2017. Since his first publication in Gehenna and Hinnom's "2017 Year's Best Body Horror Anthology" Richard has gone on to be published in over 50 magazines and anthologies, including the "Negative Space: Survival Horror" anthologies from Dark Peninsula Press, and the SNAFU series from Cohesion Press. His debut collection "Black Tongue & Other Anomalies" was a nominee for the 2022 Splatterpunk Awards for Best Fiction Collection, and his story "Sons Of Luna" was a 2018 Pushcart Prize finalist.

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