Morgan Sylvia is a writer, a metalhead, a coffee addict, a beer snob, an Aquarius, and a work in progress. A former obituarist, she lives in Maine and is now working as a full-time freelance writer. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Wicked Witches, Twice Upon An Apocalypse, and Northern Frights. In 2014, she released an apocalyptic horror poetry collection, Whispers From The Apocalypse. Her debut horror novel, Abode, was released from Bloodshot Books in 2017. You can find her on Facebook, Amazon, Pinterest, Wordpress or Twitter.
Barry Lee Dejasu lives with his wife in his native city of Providence, Rhode Island. He is a staff writer for the movie website Cinema Knife Fight, a member of New England Horror Writers, and a reviewer with New York Journal of Books. He is also a former contributing editor for Shock Totem Magazine and a staff writer for Modern Fix Magazine. He has had short fiction published in Shock Totem, Anthology, Year Three: Distant Dying Ember (2014, Four Horsemen, LLC), Wicked Witches (2016, NEHW Press), and the NecronomiCon Providence 2017 Memento Book.
doungjai gam’s short fiction has appeared in LampLight magazine, Distant Dying Ember, Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, and the Necon E-Books Best of Flash Fiction Anthology series. Born in Thailand, she’s spent most of her life in New England (outside of a brief stint in New Jersey, which doesn’t get talked about). She currently resides in southern Connecticut with author Ed Kurtz and her little black cat Oona and is at work on her first collection, glass slipper dreams, shattered.
Jeremy Flagg is the author of the Children of Nostradamus dystopian science fiction series and Suburban Zombie High young adult humor/horror series. Taking his love of pop culture and comic books, he focuses on fast paced, action packed novels with complex characters and contemporary themes.
James A. Moore is the author of over forty novels, including the critically acclaimed Fireworks, Under The Overtree, Blood Red, Blood Harvest, the Serenity Falls trilogy (featuring his recurring anti-hero, Jonathan Crowley) Cherry Hill, Alien: Sea of Sorrows and the Seven Forges series of novels. He has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and spent three years as an officer in the Horror Writers Association, first as Secretary and later as Vice President. Never one to stay in one genre for too long, James has recently written epic fantasy novels in the series SEVEN FORGES (Seven Forges, The Blasted Lands, City of Wonders and The Silent Army), and the third of his urban fantasy-crime novels in the Griffin & Price Series co-authored with Charles R. Rutledge, A Hell Within was released last October. He is working on a new series called The Tides Of War. The first book The Last Sacrifice, came out last year and the sequel, Fallen Gods, in January in 2018.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Scott T. Goudsward: By day Scott is a slave to the cubicle world, by night to the voices in his head. He writes primarily horror but has branched out to sci-fi and fantasy. Scott is one of the coordinators of the New England Horror Writers and a member of two local writing groups. His short fiction has most recently appeared in Return of the Old Ones, Atomic Age Cthulhu, Snowbound with Zombies and the forthcoming Arkham Detective Agency. His latest novel Fountain of the Dead is out from Post Mortem Press, as is the new, co-edited non-fiction book Horror Guide to Northern New England. Anthology projects include the new book Wicked Witches from the New England Horror Writers and Twice Upon An Apocalypse released 2017 from Crystal Lake Publishing. Scott is currently working on a YA novel and looking homes for new anthology possibilities.
David Price lives in Maine with his two children, fiancée and three cats. He is the author of the fantasy novel Lightbringers, editor of several anthologies, and has worked in the hardwood floor industry for more than thirty years. He is an active member of the New England Horror Writers, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and the Horror Writers of Maine.
Daniel G. Keohane is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of Solomon’s Grave, Margaret’s Ark and Plague of Darkness. Writing as G. Daniel Gunn he’s released the horror novel Destroyer of Worlds and novella Nightmare in Greasepaint (with L.L. Soares). His short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies over the years, including Cemetery Dance, Borderlands 6, Shroud Magazine, Apex Digest, Now I lay Me Down To Sleep, Madhouse, Coach’s Midnight Diner and more. You can visit Dan and keep up-to-date with prior and future work at www.dankeohane.com
The New England Horror Writers (NEHW) provides peer support and networking for authors of horror and dark fantasy in the New England Area. NEHW is primarily a writer’s organization, focusing on authors of horror and dark fiction in all mediums (novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, etc) in the New England area. We are also open to professional editors, artists & illustrators, agents and publishers of horror and dark fiction. NEHW activities include book signings, readings, panel discussions at conventions, and social gatherings. With members ranging from Maine to Connecticut, NEHW events take place in varying locations in an effort to provide support for our members throughout New England. Find us on facebook or at www.newenglandhorror.org.
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Other Anthologies of the
New England Horror Writers
Epitaphs
Edited by Tracy L. Carbone
Wicked Seasons
Edited by Stacey Longo
Wicked Tales
Edited by Scott T. Goudsward,
Daniel G. Keohane and David Price
Wicked Witches
Edited by Scott T. Goudsward,
David Price and Daniel G. Keohane
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COPYRIGHT
Wicked Haunted, Copyright © 2017 by the New England Horror Writers
The stories contained herein, including names, characters and places, are works of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
“The Thing With No Face” © 2017 by Peter N. Dudar
“Lost Boy” © 2017 by Bracken MacLeod
“Scrying Through Torn Screens” © 2017 by Patricia Gomes
“They, Too, Want To Be Remembered” © 2017 by KH Vaughan
“Everything Smells Like Smoke Again” © 2017 by Curtis M. Lawson
“The Boy on the Red Tricycle” © 2017 by Daniel Szczesny
“East Boston Relief Station” © 2017 by Paul R. McNamee
“Mouse” © 2017 by Larissa Glasser
“The Walking Man” © 2017 by Matt Bechtel
“My Work is Not Yet Complete” © 2017 by Nick Manzolillo
“Ghosts In Their Eyes” © 2017 by Trisha J. Wooldridge
“They Come With The Storm” © 2017 by Dan Foley
“Turn Up The Old Victrola” © 2017 by Tom Deady
“Ghost Maker” © 2017 by Emma J. Gibbon
“The Pick Apart” © 2017 by Paul McMahon
“The Stranding Off Schoodic Point” © 2017 by R.C. Mulhare
“Triumph of the Spirit” © 2017 by GD Dearborn
“The Road to Gallway” © 2017 by Rob Smales
“The Thin Place” © 2017 by Morgan Sylvia
“Tripping the Ghost” © 2017 by Barry Lee Dejasu
“we’re all haunted here” © 2017 by doungai gam
“Murmur” © 2017 by Jeremy Flagg
“Pulped” © 2017 by James A. Moore
All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, writing on a turtle shell or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher.
Cover Art © 2017 by Mikio Murakami, Interior Art © 2017 by Kali Moulton, Ogmios, and Judi Calhoun
Published in October 2017 by NEHW Press
ISBN (Print) 0-9981854-1-8 / 978-0-9981854-1-5
www.newenglandhorror.org
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