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Year's Best Body Horror 2017 Anthology
2017
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Abodyemigphobia is the fear of the visceral aspects of the human body. Mutilation, alteration, and disfigurement at the epicenter of horror for many ages. In body horror we not only find something to fear, but we learn to fear ourselves. How can one fear themselves? Why would something so natural disturb generations of readers? Gehenna & Hinnom is honored to present the Year's Best Body Horror 2017 Anthology, the most disturbing and blasphemous collection of horror to ever be read by human eyes. Enter the morose. Embrace the Unknown.

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Sergio Palumbo
Author · 4 books
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David Beers
David Beers
Author · 41 books

I used to deliver pizza. I was pretty good at it, too. I mean, it's not that hard, but if I'm not going to brag, who is, right? Anyways, so I'm delivering pizza while I'm in college, and my boss has been in the pizza industry like six years. He's supposed to graduate from college this year, and I ask him, what are you going to do after college? We're all supposed to go out and conquer the world right after college, so this guy has to have some kind of plan. He looked at me like I was delusional. "I'm a writer, man." Those four words changed my life more so than anything else ever spoken to me. I'd always written, since I was twelve participating in online-wrestling forums in which you acted out your character. I wrote because it came naturally. Never once, in the entirety of my nineteen years did I think that writing could be a career though, until a Pizza Sage said those four words to me. So what did I do? I went home and wrote a short story and immediately understood that I was the greatest writer to ever touch a keyboard. I brought it to the Pizza Sage and he told me what anyone could have told me—it was horrible. I might be dumb, probably am, but I'm also tenacious. I spent the next seven years writing almost every day. My first novel grew to the length of 40,000 words, then I threw it away. My second novel grew to 140,000 words. I didn't throw it away, but it was rejected about 50 times by agents. My next novel ended up at around 55,000 words, which I showed to a few friends and shelved. Then I wrote Dead Religion, which is the only reason I have an author page at Amazon. I have had four short stories published, paid and unpaid. 'Effects May Vary' won an award that was voted on by readers, which was pretty cool. I'm currently getting my Masters in Business at the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business. I'm doing this in order to not deliver pizzas but still keep the lights on. I have a girlfriend who will soon be my fiancé, and after ten years, I imagine she's ready for that title. I want to own a yacht.

James Harper
Author · 17 books

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David Turton
David Turton
Author · 3 books

David Turton is an author of dark fiction and horror. He has penned several short stories which have been published in magazines and anthologies. David was born in Yorkshire and graduated with a degree in Journalism. He now lives by the sea in the North East of England.

G.A. Miller
G.A. Miller
Author · 1 book

G.A. Miller is another voice in the chorus of horror authors, drawing his ideas from every day, commonplace events that take unforeseen turns down dark corridors, often with horrific consequences. Born between the original Japanese “Gojira”, and the Americanized “Godzilla, King of the Monsters!”, G.A.’s interest in horror developed early on, nourished by televised movies on “Shock Theater” (Hosted by Zacherley, the “Cool Ghoul”), Famous Monsters of Filmland magazines, old issues of the late, great EC Comics, the British Horror Invasion of great films from Hammer Studios…the list goes on. Making a living as a printer, he enjoys stepping away from the digital world, where ones and zeros are absolute, and entering the world of dark imagination, where a single “What If?” can turn normalcy to nightmare in a frenzied heartbeat, and rules of logic do not apply. He’s been published in the premiere issue of “Hinnom Magazine”, and in anthologies from Gehenna & Hinnom publishers and Patrick Reuman (making their debut in fall, 2017), and is currently working on new tales of horror, including a novella set in the quiet little village of Carson’s Mill, R.I. G.A. lives where Lovecraft lived, due south of where King lives. Perhaps there’s something in the water in New England? One wonders…

Sean McCoy
Sean McCoy
Author · 3 books
Sean is a board game designer living in Dallas, Texas with his girlfriend and their two dogs. Most recently, his work was featured in "The Year's Best Body Horror Anthology," (2017).
Jenya Joy Preece
Jenya Joy Preece
Author · 1 book
A dabbler in all things spooky, chilling, unhinged, terrifying, and macabre. Uses her writing to get under your skin and eat at your emotions like a starving creature. Has been telling stories since she was old enough to talk and found that over the years, she gained a passion for horror, mystery, thriller, and suspense. Despite the disapproval of most of her family she still writes what she loves even if it is disturbing or scary.
James Dorr
James Dorr
Author · 5 books
James Dorr is a short story writer and poet with more than five hundred individual appearances in magazines and anthologies. Dorr has worked a number of jobs, including technical writer, city editor on a regional magazine, full time non-fiction freelancer, and semi-professional musician. He resides in southern Indiana with his Goth cat Triana, named for Triana Orpheus in the Cartoon Channel's VENTURE BROS series.
Aric Sundquist
Aric Sundquist
Author · 5 books
Aric Sundquist is an author and editor of speculative fiction. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Fearful Fathoms Vol. 1, The Best of Dark Moon Digest, Night Terrors III, Evil Jester Digest Vol. 1, and Attic Toys. He is also the owner and editor of Dark Peninsula Press, an indie publishing company specializing in horror and thriller anthologies.
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