Margins
2021
First Published
4.19
Average Rating
264
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From the editors of Lost Signals and Lost Films comes the final installment in Perpetual Motion Machine’s technological horror trilogy. Nineteen authors in the genre team up to deliver a collection of spooky delights. In Lost Contact, stalkers, hackers, grieving families, social misfits, abandoned children, and other unhinged characters explore bizarre, unexpected horrors along creepy weather stations, playgrounds, rundown shopping malls, interstates, deserts, bogs, mountaintops, farms, and—of course—the deep, dark woods. Featuring Michael Paul Gonzalez, E.F. Schraeder, Jessica Leonard, Joshua Chaplinsky, Hailey Piper, Rebecca Jones-Howe, Muhammed Awal Ahmed, Betty Rocksteady, Michael Wehunt, Sofia Ajram, Jonathan Raab, Nicola Kapron, Nathan Carson, Anthony Wayne Hepp, Dustin Katz, Adam Franti, Douglas Wynne, Rachel Cassidy, and Victorya Chase.
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Authors

Michael Paul Gonzalez
Michael Paul Gonzalez
Author · 6 books
Michael Paul Gonzalez is a writer living in Los Angeles, CA. He edits ThunderDomeMag.com - the online writer's collective. His debut novel, Angel Falls, was released in 2013. His next, Miss Massacre's Guide to Murder and Vengeance will come out in 2014. He has published short stories in Appalachian Undead (Apex Press), Gather Kindling, the Booked. Anthology, Colored Chalk, and various places around the web.
Michael Wehunt
Michael Wehunt
Author · 8 books

Michael Wehunt grew up in North Georgia, close enough to the Appalachians to feel them but not quite easily see them. There were woods, and woodsmoke, and warmth. He did not make it far when he left, falling sixty miles south to the lost city of Atlanta, where he lives today, with fewer woods but still many trees. He writes. He reads. Robert Aickman fidgets next to Flannery O’Connor on his favorite bookshelf. His short fiction has appeared in venues such as Cemetery Dance, The Dark, Shadows & Tall Trees, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and Year's Best Weird Fiction. His debut collection, Greener Pastures, was nominated for both the Shirley Jackson Award and the Crawford Award. It is available now from Apex Book Company.

Hailey Piper
Hailey Piper
Author · 28 books

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, No Gods for Drowning, The Worm and His Kings series, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Benny Rose, the Cannibal King, and The Possession of Natalie Glasgow. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, with articles and short fiction appearing in Tor Nightfire, CrimeReads, Library Journal, Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, Vastarien, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and various other publications. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their occult rituals are secret. Find her on Twitter via @HaileyPiperSays or at www.haileypiper.com.

Jonathan Raab
Author · 8 books
Jonathan Raab is the author of The Secret Goatman Spookshow and Other Psychological Warfare Operations, The Crypt of Blood: A Halloween TV Special, Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization, and more. He is also the editor of several anthologies from Muzzleland Press including Behold the Undead of Dracula: Lurid Tales of Cinematic Gothic Horror and Terror in 16-bits. You can find him on Twitter at @jonathanraab1.
Jessica Leonard
Jessica Leonard
Author · 3 books
Jessica Leonard is the writer of stories about people and the things they do. She lives in western Kentucky with her husband, son, and two dogs. Her work has appeared in Counterexample Poetics and Menacing Hedge, as well as in the Solarcide anthologies Nova Parade and Solarcidal Tendencies. Antioch is her first Novel
Douglas Wynne
Douglas Wynne
Author · 11 books
Douglas Wynne is the author the horror thrillers The Devil of Echo Lake, His Own Devices, and the SPECTRA Files trilogy. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and his writing workshops have been featured at genre conventions and schools throughout New England. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son and a houseful of animals.
E.F. Schraeder
E.F. Schraeder
Author · 6 books

Active member of the Horror Writer's Association Member of Science Fiction Poetry Association E.F. Schraeder writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. In addition to anthologies, recent creative work has appeared in a number of journals including Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The NonBinary Review, Strange Horizons, and others. Schraeder's short non-fiction has appeared in Vastarien: A Literary Journal (Vol. 4.1), Bloody Women, and other venues.

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