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2014
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There are bones of the dead everywhere, and they’re sharp. Under your feet as you walk across your yard, in the cement of buildings, under the foundation of your home, in the coffee you drink, in the food you eat. Science estimates 100 billion human beings have lived and died. There are bones everywhere. There are skeletons everywhere, from universities to unnamed places we really don’t want to know about. We love skeletons as we are walking skeletons. There’s an old phrase about skeletons in the closet. What if the skeleton in your closet is real? When we look at strangers, friends and family we fail to see the skull behind the face. And the eyes of skulls are dark and deep. These works of art, poetry and short stories cut deep. To the bone.
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Authors

Roger Cowin
Author · 1 books

I have been writing for over 30 years. My poetry has been appearing small magazines, journals and anthologies since the late 80's, Recently I have turned my attention to writing short fiction, mostly horror spiced with healthy doses of humor and satire. My short stories can be found in Bones III, Floppy Shoes Apocalypse, Hell 2: Citizens and Indiana Horror Review 2014. http://www.amazon.com/Passing-Through... http://www.amazon.com/Succulent-Flesh...

Barry Rosenberg
Barry Rosenberg
Author · 1 books

I was born in London. After completing a PhD in visual information processing, I moved to Canberra, Australia. Currently, I live on the Sunshine Coast, Qld, with my wife, Judith. I'm also involved with woodwork and tai chi (with a slight martial flavour).

John W. Dennehy
John W. Dennehy
Author · 7 books

John W. Dennehy is an American novelist and short story writer. His thrillers include Limited Damages , Jurassic War , Pacific Rising , and others. His stories have appeared in Crimson Streets, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Dual Cost Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Near to the Knuckle, and many more. A U.S. Marine veteran, he graduated from UNC Wilmington and Suffolk Law. John was a Litigation Partner in a Boston law firm for many years. He is a member of International Thriller Writers, and Mystery Writers of America. He lives in New Hampshire. Website: https://johnwdennehy.com/

Alessandro Manzetti
Alessandro Manzetti
Author · 15 books

Alessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy) is a Three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, scriptwriter and essayst of horror fiction and dark poetry whose work has been published extensively (more than 40 books) in Italian and English, including novels, short and long fiction, poetry, essays, graphic novels and collections. ​ English publications include his novels Shanti - The Sadist Heaven (2019) and Naraka - The Ultimate Human Breeding (2018), the novella The Keeper of Chernobyl (2019), the collections The Radioactive Bride (2020), The Garden of Delight (2017), The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly (2016, with Paolo Di Orazio), and The Massacre of the Mermaids (2015), the poetry collections Dancing with Maria's Ghost (2021), Whitechapel Rhapsody (2020), The Place of Broken Things (2019, with Linda D. Addison), War (2018, with Marge Simon), No Mercy (2017), Sacrificial Nights (2016, with Bruce Boston) Eden Underground (2015), Venus Intervention (2014, with Corrine de Winter), and the graphic novels Calcutta Horror (2019), Her Life Matters (2020) and The Inhabitant of the Lake (2021), and the Guide '150 Exquisite Horror Books' (2021) ​ He edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 - Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester) and Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti) ​ His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Polish and Russian magazines, such as Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time, The Horror Zine, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing's Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as Splatterpunk Forever, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13, Classic Monsters Unleashed, Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Midnight Under the Big Top, Bones III, Rhysling Anthology (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 3 and 4, The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, World of Light and Darkness, One of Us, Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Tales of the Lost Vol. 3, Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience From the Pandemic, Sorrow and many others He edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 - Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester) and Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti) Awards and Nominations: • Bram Stoker Awards 2021 winner • Bram Stoker Awards 2019 winner • Bram Stoker Awards 2015 winner • SFPA Elgin Awards 2019 winner • Bram Stoker Awards 2019 three-time nominee • Bram Stoker Awards 2018 nominee • Bram Stoker Awards 2017 two-time nominee • Bram Stoker Awards 2016 two-time nominee • Bram Stoker Awards 2014 nominee • Splatterpunk Awards 2019 nominee • Splatterpunk Awards 2018 nominee • Rhysling Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 nominee • Elgin Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 nominee • This is Horror Awards 2017 nominee • HWA Specialty Press Awards 2017 winner (as CEO of Independent Legions Press) Furthermore, he received honorable mentions (for stories and poems) in Ellen Datlow's 'The Best Horror of the Year' Vol. 7-8-9-10-12-13 ​ ​He is the CEO & Founder of Independent Legions Publishing, editor of 'Molotov Magazine' (in Italian), HWA Active member and a former HWA Board of Trustees member. In 2021 he served the Science Fiction Poetry Association as the Rhysling Award Chair. He lives in Trieste, Italy website: www.battiago.com

Kerry E.B. Black
Kerry E.B. Black
Author · 2 books
Kerry E.B. Black writes from a charming doll's house situated along a foggy river outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA.
Phil Sloman
Phil Sloman
Author · 5 books
Phil Sloman is a writer of dark psychological fiction. First published in 2014, he has been writing ever since. In 2017 Phil was a finalist for British Fantasy Award Best Newcomer for his novella Becoming David, and was part of Imposter Syndrome from Dark Minds Press which was nominated for British Fantasy Award Best Anthology in 2018, and edited the 2020 British Fantasy Award nominated The Woods anthology. Phil regularly appears on several reviewers' Best of Year lists. His latest collection No Happily Ever After is out now.
David S. Pointer
David S. Pointer
Author · 4 books
David S. Pointer grew up in Kansas City and Clinton, Missouri. He has recent work in Bukowski: An Anthology of Poetry & Prose About Charles Bukowski [Silver Birch Press], as well as in volumes V and VI of The Southern Poetry Anthology series. His latest chapbook, Bookmobile, was published in 2015 by Crisis Chronicles Press. He currently resides in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his two daughters.
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