A FEAST OF FRIGHTS tops Snakebite Horror’s Halloween reading list
Nathan Robinson has posted his top picks for Halloween reading at Snakebite Horror, and coming in at number one is A FEAST OF FRIGHTS, which features my short story, “Clawed Sod”:
Available now at Amazon.com.
Jeani Rector presents us with A FEAST OF FRIGHTS FROM THE HORROR ZINE, which nearly clocking in at 500 pages and bringing you terrific shorts from Jeff Strand, Joe R. Lansdale, Simon Clark and Graham Masterton, amongst others.
However, it was “The Soldier” by Shaun Meeks that grabbed me. Conjuring up an Ambrose Bierce twist-a-thon about a defeated soldier on his way after suffering a brilliantly described wound; Meeks is visceral, unforgiving and takes no prisoners. This is one of the goriest tales by far and really stood out for me as one of the better told tales.
Read the rest of Robinson’s list here and if you haven’t already done so, grab a copy of A FEAST OF FRIGHTS and pick out a couple of your own favorites to enjoy this Halloween season:
- “Scratchings” by Matt Leyshon
- “Ghost Pit” by Simon Clark
- “The Soldier” by Shaun Meeks
- “What the Dark Does” by Graham Masterton
- “Proper Payments” by Philip Roberts
- “Incident on and off a Mountain Road” by Joe R. Lansdale
- “Cigarettes and Cicadas” by David M. Buhajla
- “Germ Warfare” by Eric J. Guignard
- “Mouthpiece” by Mike Goddard
- “Filmland” by Stewart Horn
- “Clawed Sod” by Christian A. Larsen
- “Skelf” by John Forth
- “Homecoming” by Scott Nicholson
- “Eve of All Hallows” by Brian G. Murray
- “The Lost Sheep” by Jason Reynolds
- “Skeletons in the Closet” by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
- “Bleeder” by Paul Edwards
- “The Night Visitor” by Joe McKinney
- “Always Say Treat” by Christopher Nadeau
- “The Audit” by Susie Moloney
- “Midnight Passage” by M. C. Shelby
- “The Favorites” by Chris Castle
- “Impressive Instants” by David A. Hernandez
- “Husks and Formless Ruins” by Tom Piccirilli
- “Masks” by Taylor Grant
- “Corn” by K. A. Opperman
- “Scream Queen” by Ed Gorman
- “Reaching Out” by Christian Riley
- “Me and My Shadow” by Sandra Crook
- “Little Girl Lost” by Trevor Denyer
- “The Story of my First Kiss” by Jeff Strand
- “The Dead Wall” by Michael Wolf
- “Spicy Thai Noodle” by Alva J. Roberts
- “The Tide Clock” by James Strauss
- “The Golem” by Jeani Rector
- “A Ghost in the House” by Jeani Rector
- “The Bond” by Dean H. Wild
A FEAST OF FRIGHTS (The Horror Zine Books) is a product of THE HORROR ZINE, a monthly e-zine that publishes new issues the first of every month.
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