The latest publication notch in Stephen King’s belt, QUALIA NOUS, is now available in paperback from Written Backwards via Amazon.com, and features my short story, “Cataldo’s Copy”. Yep. I’ve been anthologized with Stephen King, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
My work in the same book as King’s is like seeing our kids play on the same playground, though I’m hopeful that Joe Hill and Owen King will take it easy on my eight- and ten-year-olds while they battle each other in tetherball. Or whatever the equivalent of that is…
The anthology, edited by the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated Michael Bailey, collects some of the best established and emerging talent in science-fiction and horror today:
- “The Jaunt” by Stephen King
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Tanveer Malik
- “The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill
- “Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman
- “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseille” by Emily Cataneo
- “The Angel Chaser” by Erik T. Johnson
- “Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge
- “Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn
- “Second Chance” by John R. Little
- “The Effigies of Tamber Square” by Jon Michael Kelley
- “Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle
- “The Price of Faces” by James Chambers
- “Simulacrum” by Jason V. Brock
- “Shutdown” & “Tomorrow’s Femme” (poetry) by Marge Simon
- “Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag
- “Cataldo’s Copy” by Christian A. Larsen
- “The Neighborhood Has a Barbecue” by Max Booth III
- “The Jenny Store” by Richard Thomas
- “Night Guard” by Erinn L. Kemper
- “A New Man” by William F. Nolan
- “Voyeur” by John Everson
- “Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner
- “In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Anderson
- “Dura Matter” by Lucy A. Snyder
- “Ruminations” by Rena Mason
- “Good and Faithful Servant” by Thomas F. Monteleone
- “Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald
- “Breathe You In Me” by Mason Ian Bundschuh
- “18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie
- “No Fixed Address” by Gary A. Braunbeck
Click here to order QUALIA NOUS, the latest anthology from Michael Bailey … and if you enjoy it as much as I think you will, you might also consider CHIRAL MAD, another sinister anthology from Written Backwards.