They didn’t.
When I was at the Samhain booth at HorrorHound for the first time, I brought it up to the staff. I pointed out how most people stop reading a book when they reach the About the Author section. Since it wasn’t a paperback, they had no idea anything else of value was beyond that page and something needed to be added to the descriptions on the websites it could be downloaded from. They told me to send an email to the marketing department and CC them in on it. I did and the error was corrected. But the correction only lasted for about a month, then it was changed back to giving no reference of The Lurkers at all.
There were hundreds of reviews for the short story. Some good, but mostly terrible. The biggest complaint that I saw was that the story seemed as if it was setting up something that never happened. It was setting up something, or so I’d hoped. And that was the reader’s interest in The Lurkers.
The positive reviews talked about how much they enjoyed the Haunchies and wanted more stories with them.
Again, these readers probably had no idea there was more Haunchy activity because it was never insinuated that anything existed beyond The Night Everything Changed.
I brought it up again to the marketing department, sent links to the several reviews that was proof of my claims, but the efforts went ignored after that.
It was frustrating.
The Lurkers and The Lurking Season are the follow-ups to this story, if anyone wants to read more about the Haunchies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kristopher Rufty lives in North Carolina with his wife, three children, and pets. He’s written numerous books, including The Vampire of Plainfield, Jagger, The Lurkers, The Skin Show, Pillowface, and more. If he goes more than two days without writing, he becomes very irritable and hard to be around, which is why he’s often sent to his desk without supper.
For more about Kristopher Rufty, please visit his Website www.lastkristontheleft.blogspot.com
He can be found on Facebook and Twitter as well.
Other titles by Kristopher Rufty
Novels
Angel Board
The Lurkers
Pillowface
Oak Hollow
The Skin Show
Proud Parents
Prank Night
Jagger
The Lurking Season
The Vampire of Plainfield
Bigfoot Beach
Desolation
Seven Buried Hill
Something Violent
Novellas
A Dark Autumn
Last One Alive
Jackpot
(written with Shane McKenzie, David Bernstein, & Adam Cesare)
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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental.
Bone Chimes
Digital Edition
Copyright © 2017 by Kristopher Rufty
Cover Art Copyright © 2017
The Chomper, appeared in Splatterpunk Magazine #7, © 2015. Love Seat appeared with Last One Alive, © 2013. Bedside Manner, appeared in Extreme Horror from Festa-Verlag, © 2016. Gearhart’s Wife appeared with Last One Alive and in Sets Quartet, © 2016 from Thunderstorm Books. The Night Everything Changed © 2011, originally published through Samhain Publishing.
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INTRODUCTION
The Chomper
Love Seat
Something’s Out There?
The Wager
Black Garbage Bags
Bruce Smiley’s Ultimate Death Machine
Bedside Manner
Gearhart’s Wife
The Night Everything Changed
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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