CHIRAL MAD contents to include “scariest guy in America”
Written Backwards Editor Michael Bailey has released the complete table of contents for the upcoming psychological horror anthology, CHIRAL MAD, and even casual fans of the genre will see some very familiar names:
- White Pills – Ian Shoebridge
- Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers – Gord Rollo
- The Perfection of Symmetry – Andrew Hook
- Some Pictures in an Album – Gary McMahon
- Five Adjectives – Monica J. O’Rourke
- Enchanted Combustion – Amanda Ottino
- There are Embers – Chris Hertz
- Brighter Her Aura Grows – David Hearn
- Underwater – Barry Jay Kaplan
- Inevitable – Meghan Arcuri
- Experiments in an Isolation Tank – Eric J. Guignard
- Need – Gary Braunbeck
- Not the Child – Julie Stipes
- The White Quetzal – Gene O’Neill
- Send Your End – Patrick Lacey
- Mirror Moments – Christian A. Larsen
- Alderway – Patrick O’Neill
- Sigil – P. Gardner Goldsmith
- The Persistence of Vision – Jon Michael Kelley
- The Bad Season – A.A. Garrison
- Storm of Lightning – Aaron J. French
- Cubicle Farm – R.B. Payne
- A Flawed Fantasy – Jeff Strand
- The Apologies – Erik T. Johnson
- The Shoe Tree – Pat. R. Steiner
- Gaia Ungaia – John Palisano
- Amid the Walking Wounded – Jack Ketchum
- Underwater Ferris Wheel – Michael Bailey
Jack Ketchum alone is worth the price of admission. For the uninitiated, Ketchum is the guy Stephen King called “the scariest guy in America.” Read Ketchum’s “Amid the Walking Wounded” along with the work of Gord Rollo, Gene O’Neill, and John Palisano and others and scare yourself silly for a great cause. Proceeds go toward Down’s syndrome charities.
This anthology will be officially released at Anthology 2012 in New Hampshire, with initial promotion starting at KillerCon in Las Vegas this September.
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