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Horror & Zombie Fiction


-- Flash, short stories and anthologies --
** Check out my latest mystery & other short fiction here.

New!

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Latest in the series: Includes my new eerie story, "Cat's-Eyes." 
BUY:  * Paperback - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/.../noncorporea.../1147539749
* Digital - https://books2read.com/u/3njGy8​

Behind the Shadows III, horror fiction, Inkd Publishing
Latest in the series: Includes my eerie story, "Big Al's Revenge."
** See Kickstarter for goodies -  launches Friday, June 13. 
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​Noncorporeal II -  Includes my ghostly story, "Secrets of the Last Mine." BUY:  * Get the paperback at Amazon - paperback/e-book: B&N.  * Get the e-book version from Apple, Kobo and other sites; see links here. * Now in Audiobook: LibroFM

behind the shadows II horror
 Includes my latest creepy, 'Twilight-Zoneish' story. It's all about the eyes in "Blink!" * BUY: * Get the ebook: various outlets
* Paperback, ebook - Barnes & Noble
* Paperback  - Amazon US

Previous Stories:

Something Creepy is coming to a Podcast.re
​  * 31 Days of Horror on ​Creepy Podcasts!  
   * LISTEN to my story, "Sweet Dreams,"  on the Creepy Podcast! (See 39 minute mark) * Hear on the Creepy      website. * Listen at other sites: Apple Podcasts --  Google Podcasts -- iHeartRadio

New horror mystery story O is for Outbreak
* In my story, "The Rumor That Refused to Die,"  Amanda Hayes tries to solve the mystery behind a 1950s accident - and discovers that some secrets and rumors are best left buried. 
   * Out now in O is for Outbreak, Book 15 in the A to Z of Horror anthology series from Red Cape Publishing.
   Thirteen stories of government conspiracies, historic plagues, otherworldly viruses, deadly insects, and more. BUY: * Amazon - B&N.com - Goodreads

ghosts horror fiction
  New! They say Paris is haunted... Anjie soon learns the horrible truth about the city's oldest secrets. The streets are      soaked in blood in "The Ghosts of Paris."
   BUY: Night Terrors Vol. 26  from Scare Street.  * Now in audiobook! 

the colored lens fiction
   * A new short story, "Sweet Dreams," plays on that childhood fear of what's under the bed... 
   * Now out in the Spring '22 issue of The Colored Lens. * Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

Zombie Fiction:

100 word horror drabbles
100 word zombie bites
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* My story, "A Mother's Love" is in the new anthology, 100 Word Horrors Book 3: An Anthology of Horror Drabbles. (Print & Kindle)
 * 100 Words Bigger Zombie Bites 2! Contains my two new stories, "The Comedians" and "Fido, fetch!" BUY: Kindle & Print 
*  100 Word Zombie Bites from Reanimated Writers Press  includes my  stories, "The Heist" and "The Awakening."  Buy: Kindle & print
* Run From the Dead - 12 new stories including,  my story, "Of Life, Death and the Krieg." BUY: Kindle & Print /US - Amazon UK - Amazon CA - Amazon AU

More Zombie Fiction:

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* Darlings of Decay includes zombie stories and excerpts from 32 female authors.  Includes my flash stories, "Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder" and "The Day the Music Died," plus the prologue excerpt from GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie.  BUY:  (Free) Smashwords - Kindle - Kobo - B&N. 
* #1 Bestseller Horror Anthology! Descent into Darkness anthology, 20 stories and novellas. 700+ pgs. In my story, "Thirteen Horses," sometimes the punishment fits the crime. Buy: Kindle and print
* BABY SHOES - 100 flash fiction stories by 100 authors. Includes my story, "Second Chances"   Buy:  Amazon.com 
* CHANGES - A short story prequel to my book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie
   What happened to Spence before he got home? 
   Spence’s “perfect” job is anything but. He escapes a living dead nightmare when his co-workers turn into flesh-eating monsters. As the plague spreads, Spence heads home hoping to see his family one last time... if he can make it.  Buy: Smashwords -  Amazon * Read an excerpt.

Magazines - Flash Fiction:

horror fiction, women in horror
sirens call horror fiction
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*NOTE: Sirens Call has discontinued publishing. Links no longer working. I'll try to find my copies for downloads.
Flash story, "The Place of Honor," is in the 6th annual Women in Horror issue of the Sirens Call Magazine. (Feb. '18). * Download free PDF here. 
* Flash story, "Jars" is in the #28, Aug. '16 issue of Sirens Call e-magazine.  Download the PDF free! 160 pgs. of fiction and art!
  * Flash story, "The Perfect Gifts" in Sirens Call, Women in Horror Issue #13 -  click for free download PDF. 

Weird Fiction - Horror "Lite":

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 * You never know what's on the menu in my story, "Today's Special" in the Zen of the Dead anthology. 
Buy: Drive-Thru Fiction  
* Flash fiction,  "The Storm" in FEAST OF THE DEAD, Hors D'Oeuvres from Source Point Press.  BUY: Amazon.com
* Flash fiction, "Grandma's Green Thumb," in the 100 Doors to Madness anthology. BUY: Amazon.com
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      • A Zombie Short Story - CA Verstraete
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    • Lizzie-Borden-Zombie-book-reviews
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