by Mark Parker
BRIAN JAMES FREEMAN is the author of The Painted Darkness, Black Fire, Blue November Storms, More Than Midnight, Weak and Wounded, Dreamlike States, Lost and Lonely, The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book (with Kevin Quigley and Hans-Åke Lilja), and The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book (with Bev Vincent). He is the managing editor of Cemetery Dance Publications and the publisher of Lonely Road Books. Learn more on his website at www.BrianJamesFreeman.com
LISA MORTON is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, award-winning prose writer, and Halloween expert whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening”. Her most recent releases include Ghosts: A Haunted History and the short story collection Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Morton. She lives in the San Fernando Valley, and can be found online at www.lisamorton.com
ROBERT MORRISH is the former editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and co-editor of The Scream Factory magazine, and has edited or co-edited several anthologies, including October Dreams (winner of the International Horror Guild award) and Thrillers II. His long-running column on the horror small press, “Spotlight on Publishing,” has been appearing in Cemetery Dance since issue #8 in 1991. He was formerly the lead horror reviewer for Publishers Weekly, and has also had reviews and articles appear in mainstream publications such as The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Daily News, and The West Coast Review of Books, and genre publications such as Weird Tales, Rue Morgue, Cinefantastique, and Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine.
AL SARRANTONIO is the author of forty-five books. He is a winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Audie Award, and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, as well as the Locus Award and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. His novels, spanning the horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery and western genres, include Moonbane, Skeletons, House Haunted, the Five Worlds trilogy, the Masters of Mars trilogy, West Texas, and the Orangefield Halloween trilogy. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Heavy Metal, Twilight Zone, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Analog, and Amazing, as well as in anthologies such as The Year's Best Horror Stories, Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters, Great Ghost Stories, Best New Horror and The Best of Shadows. His stories have been collected in Toybox, Hornets and Others, and Halloween and Other Seasons. He can be reached at his website: www.Alsarrantonio.com
NORMAN PARTRIDGE is a writer whose fiction crosses many genres—including horror, suspense, and the fantastic—“sometimes all in one story,” says his friend writer Joe Lansdale. His Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the 100 Best Books of 2006. Author of six short story collections, Partridge’s novels include the Jack Baddalach mysteries Saguaro Riptide and The Ten-Ounce Siesta, plus The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted for film. Partridge’s compact, thrill-a-minute style has been praised by Stephen King and Peter Straub, and his collections and stories have received both the Bram Stoker and IHG awards.
RONALD MALFI is an award-winning author of many novels and novellas in the horror, mystery, and thriller categories from various publishers, including Little Girls, this summer’s 2015 release from Kensington. In 2009, his crime drama, Shamrock Alley, won a Silver IPPY Award. In 2011, his ghost story/mystery novel, Floating Staircase, was a finalist for the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for best novel, received a Gold IPPY Award for best horror novel, and the Vincent Preis International Horror Award. His novel Cradle Lake garnered him the Benjamin Franklin Independent Book Award (silver) in 2014, while December Park, his epic coming-of-age thriller, won the Beverly Hills International Book Award for suspense in 2015. Most recognized for his haunting, literary style and memorable characters, Malfi’s dark fiction has gained acceptance among readers of all genres. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1977, and eventually relocated to the Chesapeake Bay area, where he currently resides with his wife Debra and their two daughters, Madison and Hayden. Visit with Ronald Malfi on Facebook, Twitter (@Ronald Malfi), or at http://www.ronfmalfi.com.
AARON DRIES is an avid traveler, former pizza boy, retail clerk, kitchen hand, aged care worker, video director, and copywriter. He was born and raised in New South Wales, Australia. When asked why he writes horror, his standard reply is that when it comes to scaring people, writing pays slightly better than jumping out from behind doors. He is the author of the award-winning House of Sighs, and his subsequent novels, The Fallen Boys and A Place for Sinners are just as, if not more twisted than his debut. Feel free to drop him a line at www.aarondries.com. He won’t bite—much.
ADAM CESARE is a New Yorker who lives in Philadelphia. He studied English and film at Boston University. His books include Video Night, The Summer Job, Mercy House, and Tribesmen. His nonfiction has appeared in Paracinema, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Cemetery Dance Online, and other venues.
MARK PARKER is the founder, publisher, and managing editor of Scarlet Galleon Publications. His editorial credits include Dead Harvest: A Collection of Dark Tales; Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts; and the much anticipated Fearful Fathoms: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror (coming summer 2016). He is the author of Biology of Blood, Way of the Witch, Banshee’s Cry, and Lucky You—all of which he plans to turn into full-length novels in the near future—as well as his most recent publication The Troll Diner, and The Scarlet Galleon (Wrapped in Red, Sekhmet Press), Killing Christmas (Return to Deathlehem: An Anthology of Holiday Horrors for Charity, Grinning Skull Press), and Born Bad (KIDS – Vol. I, coming soon from Dark Chapter Press). Of his Way of the Witch, JD Horn, bestselling author of the Witching Savannah series, writes—“Parker has a strong voice and is able to convey a sustained sense of time and place. Similar in feel to Richard Laymon's Traveling Vampire Show.” You can learn more about the author/publisher by visiting www.scarletgalleonpublications.com or by visiting www.massmktwriter.wix.com/mark-parker-author
OTHER SCARLET GALLEON TITLES
Dead Harvest: A Collection of Dark Tales
Fearful Fathoms: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror
(Coming Summer 2016)
Table of Contents
Foreword
Mister Parker
The Maze
Monster Night
Johnny Halloween
All Souls’ Day
Starting Early
Freight Train Tommy
There Are Corners in the World Where Lost Things Gather
Under the Tutelage of Mr. Trueheart
The Darkest Night of the Year
About the Authors