exlibrislarsen

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:

1. White Pills – Ian Shoebridge
2. Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers – Gord Rollo
3. The Perfection of Symmetry – Andrew Hook
4. Some Pictures in an Album – Gary McMahon
5. Five Adjectives – Monica J. O’Rourke
6. Enchanted Combustion – Amanda Ottino
7. There are Embers – Chris Hertz
8. Brighter Her Aura Grows – David Hearn
9. Underwater – Barry Jay Kaplan
10. Inevitable – Meghan Arcuri
11. Experiments in an Isolation Tank – Eric J. Guignard
12. Need – Gary Braunbeck
13. Not the Child – Julie Stipes
14. The White Quetzal – Gene O’Neill
15. Send Your End – Patrick Lacey
16. Mirror Moments – Christian A. Larsen
17. Alderway – Patrick O’Neill
18. Sigil – P. Gardner Goldsmith
19. The Persistence of Vision – Jon Michael Kelley
20. The Bad Season – A.A. Garrison
21. Storm of Lightning – Aaron J. French
22. Cubicle Farm – R.B. Payne
23. A Flawed Fantasy – Jeff Strand
24. The Apologies – Erik T. Johnson
25. The Shoe Tree – Pat. R. Steiner
26. Gaia Ungaia – John Palisano
27. Amid the Walking Wounded – Jack Ketchum
28. 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.