From Bram Stoker Awards® Nominee Nate Southard, eighteen of his best horror stories selected by the author, published from 2005 to 2015. It contains: “His Start,” “Why I Do It,” Working the Bag,” “In the Clearing Beneath the Firs,” and “Yellow Triangles” previously published in Broken Skin (2009); “Insomnia Is My Only Friend” previously published in Horror Literature Quarterly no. 1 (2007); “Silent Corners” previously published in Trunk Stories no. 3 (2007); “Señorita” previously published on HorrorWorld.org (2009); “Work Pit Four” previously published in Of Keene Interest no. 1 (2009); “Going Home, Ugly Stick in Hand” previously published in Black Static issue 20 (2010); “Armageddon, Now Available in High Definition” previously published in Darkness on the Edge (2010); “The Blisters on My Heart” previously published in Supernatural Noir (2011); “Mouth” previously published in Horror for Good (2012); “Bottle. Paper. Samurai.” previously published in LampLight (2015); “It Burns” previously published in Something Went Wrong (2012); “It’s Even Better the Second Time” previously published in Horror d’Oeuvres (2008); “A Team-Building Exercise” previously published Aoife’s Kiss (2005); “Three, Two, One” previously published in A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre (2011). Cover Art by Daniele Serra.
Author
Nate Southard is moody, shy, lanky, bald, and has bad skin. When he isn’t writing, he’s probably cooking Thai food or fried chicken. Seriously, he has something like fifty fried chicken recipes. It’s ridiculous. He recently discovered coffee-flavored ice cream, and it’s ruling his entire world. Did you know if you mix it with chocolate ice cream, you can kinda make mocha ice cream? Nate does! Nate lives in Austin, Texas. He sucks at skateboarding. Nate Southard's books include Will the Sun Ever Come Out Again?, Scavengers, This Little Light of Mine, Red Sky, Just Like Hell, Broken Skin, and He Stepped Through. His short fiction has appeared in such venues as Nightmare Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Black Static, Thuglit, and LampLight. His short story "Going Home, Ugly Stick in Hand" received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's The Year's Best Horror, and he earned a Bram Stoker Award nomination for his story "In the Middle of Poplar Street."
