Old Masters, New Voices: Looking into the dark past, Enter at Your Own Risk resurrects the Gothic masters and for the first time, they meet their modern counterparts. Poe, de Maupassant, Bierce, Lovecraft, Stoker and more walk the haunted literary halls with B.E. Scully, Carole Gill, Joshua Skye, Mari Adkins, Edward Medina, John A. Karr, E.P. Berglund,...

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The first time that death stepped forward and introduced itself on a first-name basis, it delivered a follow-through that knocked me to my knees and left me struggling for every breath. It had come quick, with a phone...

This is a rant! Be forewarned...

I'm an avid reader and I adore the classics. As an English major, I've everything from Spencer to Byron. Kafka, Blake, Shelley, and Burrows sit on my shelf. I've recently dipped my toe into the world of indie publishing. I've always supported the DIY musicians... this is no different. WRONG! I'm on my third indie and it's SHIT! Grammar errors, cliche plots, characters as flat as cardboard, themes as shallow as a mud puddle if at all...
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