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The Magazine of Haunting Fiction
Parade of Phantoms is Now Closed
Episode 5
1. Secret’s Told in a Carolina Motel Room 2. The Reading Lessons (17:28)
Joshua Reynolds (”Secrets Told in a Carolina Motel Room”) has been previously published in such magazines as Not One of Us, and Wicked Karnival, and such anthologies as Read By Dawn II. He drinks less than is good for him, lives on caffeine and pancakes and has a very understanding girlfriend. His life is better than it should be.
Carole Lanham (”The Reading Lessons”) has had work published in Son and Foe, The Willows, Eclectica, Thunder Sandwich, Ragged Edge Publishing, Midwest Living, Trunk Stories, and Vulgata. You can also find her work in the following anthologies; History is Dead, Panic, The Harrow’s Midnight Lullabies, Amazing Heroes Three, Beneath the Stones, and others. She is a member of the Midwest Horror Writers and the Horror Writer’s Association. In 2005, she had two stories appear on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award and two of her stories received Honorable Mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror by Kelly Link and Ellen Datlow. She has a novella soon to appear in Bound in Skin.
Episode 4
1. Veronica’s Sweetest Gift 2. L’Etranger (10:35)
S.G. Childress (”Veronica’s Sweetest Gift”) is a native of Houston, Texas. He has been published in e-zines as well as locally. He has lived and worked in Europe and the Middle East and currently resides in the gulf coast region of Texas with his wife, his daughter, an orange cat, and a white dog.
JJ Beazley (”L’Etranger”) lives in a small house near a small village buried deep in the English countryside. He has been fascinated by the meaning of life and all things metaphysical since early childhood. He has done a wide variety of jobs, but is presently unemployed and living the life of a medieval peasant. He has been writing fiction since 2002, having previously written magazine articles on photography and country walks.
He is the sort of person to whom strange things often happen and many of his stories are based on real experiences. To date he has written thirty eight short stories and a novella. Twenty one of them have been accepted for publication. He likes to write but doesn’t expect ever to make a living out of it. He also likes animals, kind people, and most things weird.
Episode 3
1. Culverin 2. The Spider (10:27)
Southern darkness with a poetic edge, William Blake Vogel III (”Culverin”) writes a unique brand of Classic Horror that bleeds with an old school grit. Influenced by the likes of Poe and Lovecraft, Vogel’s style of Dark/Horror reflects a deep love for the genre. He currently is working on his zombie opus, “The New Normal.” He is the most published poet in Champagne Shivers Magazine’s history, and his work is often seen in Night To Dawn Magazine. He has sold pieces to to Grafika Magazine, Surreal Magazine, Champagne Shivers Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Night To Dawn Magazine, Between Kisses Magazine, Black Satellite, Scavengers, Fantasque, Horror Carousel, T-Zero, Twilight Times, Wanderings, Down In The Cellar, and others. He has also appeared in various anthologies including “Open Graves” (2004), “Potter’s Field” (2005) and “Potter’s Field 2″ (2007). William also writes a column, “Theories In Chaos,” for THE ETERNAL NIGHT website.
Visit his webpage here.
Tom Hamilton (”The Spider”) is an Irish Traveler. His work has appeared in over one hundred publications around the world including Bathtub Gin, The Rockford Review and the Old Crow Review among many others. He has had two poetry chapbooks published: ‘The Rain Draw Bridge’ from Alpha Beat Press and ‘The Last Days of my Teeth’ from Budget Press. Along with his wife Mary Theresa and their two small daughters, Tiffany and Hope Ann, he lives in Rockford IL. U.S.A.
Episode 2
1. Bad Hair Nights 2. The Daring of Solomon Mabel (18:57)
Kate Smith (”Bad Hair Nights”) lives in Melbourne Australia, between the beach and a gourmet icecream shop. Her favourite flavour is cinnamon. Visitors are welcome at www.redbubble.com/people/empress and more than welcome at www.mysticmoonpress.com where her novella and Wolf Hollow e-series are available.
James Parks (”The Daring of Solomon Mabel”) lives in California. He has fiction and poetry published nationally and internationally in such anthologies as I Am This Meat, The Northridge Review, Centres of Expression. He has had a play performed at The Raven Playhouse, and his writing has been made into audio editions on three occasions. He has also begun delving into graphic novels.
Episode 1
1. The Withering 2. The Man in the Mirror (12:45) 3. Béba Daio’s Prayers(22:42) 4. The Winning (35:47)
Very special thanks to Jeffrey Kafer For reading “The Withering” for us. It is very appreciated. Jeffrey’s work can be heard at JeffreyKafer.com
Bruce Golden’s (”The Withering”) fiction has appeared in Oceans of the Mind, Aberrant Dreams, Postscripts, and Nemonymous. Asimov’s Science Fiction says of his new novel, “If Mickey Spillane had collaborated with both Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick, he might have produced Bruce Golden’s Better Than Chocolate.”
Lisa Lilly (”The Man in the Mirror”) is a writer and attorney who lives in Chicago. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in literary magazines such as Strong Coffee, ChickFlicks, Dispatch One, Fallout, and Hair Trigger. Her legal writing has appeared in The CBA Record and BusinessMedia. In addition to pursuing her own writing, Lisa is on the board of Blue Sky Inn, a non-profit which helps provide creative outlets for homeless youth. She recently completed a novel.
L. Christopher DelGuercio (”Béba Daio’s Prayers”) writes and resides in the upstate New York community of Cicero with his remarkable wife Melissa and a burgeoning family. His brand of “fantastic fiction” has appeared this year in such publications as: Allegory, Blood, Blade & Thruster, Chaos Theory: Tales Askew, Kaleidotrope, OG’s Speculative Fiction, Quantum Muse, the horror anthology Tabloid Purposes IV and now the premier of Parade of Phantoms. More of his work is slated to appear in 2008 in the pages of Space Westerns and the anthology Forbidden Speculation. He was also accorded special recognition for placing in the quarter-finals of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest for the last quarter of 2006 as well as the first quarter of 2007.
James S. Dorr’s (”The Winning”) new book, Darker Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret, is due out from Dark Regions Press as a companion to his current collection, Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance (Dark Regions, 2001), while other work has appeared in such venues as Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, New Mystery, Aboriginal, Fantastic, Future Orbits, Shadows Of Saturn, Gothic.Net, Chi-Zine, Dark Wisdom, Enigmatic Tales (UK), Faeries (France), and numerous anthologies. Dorr is an active member of SFWA and HWA, an Anthony (mystery) and Darrell (fiction set in the US Mid-South) finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and has had work listed in The Year’s Best Fantasy And Horror eleven of the past sixteen years.