Hellbent
By Thomas M. Malafarina & Catherine Jordan &Publisher Description
The authors publishing under the Hellbender Books imprint have gathered together to produce a volume of short stories. Enjoy these spine-tingling tales of horror and suspense by established and emerging writers in the genre. Included in this volume:
- Foreword – Thomas M. Malafarina
- Introduction – Catherine Jordan
- Parallelism – Thomas M. Malafarina
- Panty Lines – Catherine Jordan
- A Modern Fable – John B. Kachuba
- Delerium Tremens – Kyle Alexander Romines
- Chirurgeon – Chris Pisano & Brian Koscienski
- Suspect Number Twelve – Michael L. Hawley
- Escalation – J. B. Toner
- Chihuahuas – Will Falconer
- The Mimics – Travis Leibert
- Laney – Thomas M. Malafarina
- Mean Streak – Catherine Jordan
- Heaven Scent – John B. Kachuba
- The Torment of the Crows – Kyle Alexander Romines
- Icelus – Chris Pisano & Brian Koscienski
- The Day in the Life of a Navy Helicopter Pilot, 1989 – Michael L. Hawley
- The Kindly Dark – J. B. Toner
- The Hangin' Tree – Thomas M. Malafarina
- Burning For You – Will Falconer
- ... and a handful of horror classics
- Biographies
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About Thomas M. Malafarina
Thomas M. Malafarina (www.ThomasMMalafarina.com) is an author of horror fiction from Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was born in Ashland, Schuylkill County where he lived until moving to Berks County in 1979. Many of Thomas’s stories take place in his native Schuylkill County as well as Berks County settings. Thomas’s books are published by Hellbender Books, an imprint of Sunbury Press of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. To date, he has published eight horror novels What Waits Beneath, Burner, From The Dark, Circle Of Blood, Dead Kill Book 1: The Ridge of Death, Dead Kill Book 2: The Ridge Of Change, Dead Kill Book 3: The Ridge Of War and Death Bringer Jones, Zombie Slayer Volume 1. He has published seven collections of horror short stories; Thirteen Deadly Endings, Ghost Shadows, Horror Classics, Undead Living, Malaformed Realities Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, and most recently Vol. 5. Volumes 6 and 7 are to be released in the near future. He has also published a book of often-strange single-panel cartoons called Yes I Smelled It Too; Cartoons For The Slightly Off Center and will soon publish Yes I Smelled It 2: More Cartoons For The Slightly Off Center. All of his books are published through Hellbender Books, an imprint of Sunbury Press.(www.Sunburypress.com). In addition, many of Thomas’ stories have appeared in more than 170 anthologies and e-magazines. Some have been produced and presented for internet podcasts and radio plays as well. Thomas has shared anthology pages with some of the biggest names in horror fiction such as Jack Ketchum, Joe Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, and Lucky McKee to name a few. Thomas is best known for the ironic twists and surprises in his stories as well as his descriptive, often gory passages. Thomas is also an artist, musician, singer, and songwriter.
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States, and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. His story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” has been described as “one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature.”
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H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was born in New England, a landscape that he turned into a stage of fiction. His stories inherited the tradition of gothic horror tales from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, but Lovecraft set his own standards. His first stories appeared in Weird Tales, a pulp magazine. “The Call of Cthulhu” (1926), a short story about a monstrous deity that inhabits the Earth, is the base of the myths related to the Cthulhu Mythos, a genre of horror fiction launched by Lovecraft. In its world, populated by beings of other dimensions, the laws of humanity are worthless. But man is incapable of understanding its insignificance in the face of the magnitude of the cosmos.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American author and poet who profoundly influenced the mystery, horror, and science fiction genres. A master of the short story, Poe wrote many classic tales, including “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” His other enduring works include the poem “The Raven” and his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
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