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SUBMISSIONS

Pill Hill Press is now open to submissions for a variety of different anthologies. From horror fiction to sci-fi to romantic thrillers, they have something for everyone. Visit their site for details. www.pillhillpress.com/open-submissions.html

New Bedlam has submission periods throughout the year for their quarterly publication. Reading periods are: October 1-30, February 1-28, April 1-30, and July 1-30. Please see the guidelines page on site for further details. www.newbedlam.com

Necrotic Tissue is open to submissions for their quarterly magazine. Reading periods are during the months of January, April, July, and October. Visit the website for details. www.necrotictissue.com

Library of the Living Dead Press is accepting submissions for several unique anthologies. From mummies to bacon, you won't find a more 'eclectic' assortment of themes anywhere! libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com

Murky Depths Magazine is currently open to submissions for their forthcoming print editions. For complete submission guidelines, visit www.MurkyDepths.com

The history of a curse is fraught with bloody battles, bitter hatred, and dark secrets.

Through five generations, ghosts of war haunt the Wise Women. When the Rebellion of Glenna ends, their curse sleeps bound in the Tunnels of the Dead, waiting for its chance to re-awaken the battle between the Wood People and Dalthwein Clans. Claire, a distraught young Wise Woman born in the sacred valley of the fae, unwittingly helps it escape imprisonment. While her twin sister, Anna, receives psychic glimpses of ancient secrets she must unravel. With her scribe teacher, Rosalind, she also struggles to uncover the reasons behind Claire's strange behavior, ever escalating since the death of their Guild Mother, Grianne. The Age of the Wise Women will cease, if the curse does not end with Anna and Claire. Perhaps inheriting the mistakes of their ancestors, and learning the truths of their identities, will bring great suffering for these witch twins?

Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in: a circus of noise, sex, teenage hormones, B-movie blood, and popcorn. On a cool, crisp summer night, with the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes, movie-goers for the All-Night Horror Show are trapped in the drive-in by a demonic-looking comet. Then the fun begins. If the movie-goers try to leave, their bodies dissolve into goo. Cowboys are reduced to tears. Lovers quarrel. Bikini-clad women let their stomachs� sag, having lost the ambition to hold them in. The world outside the six monstrous screens fades to black while the movie-goers spiral into base humanity, resorting to fighting, murdering, crucifying, and cannibalizing to survive. Part dark comedy part horror show, Lansdale's cult Drive-In books are as shocking and entertaining today as they were twenty years ago.

This volume contains all three Drive-In books in one volume, along with an introduction by Don Coscarelli and illustrations from the Coscarelli movie that was never made.

From the fields of the dead, the harvest was brought forth.

Tended by resurrection farmers with grubby fingers, cold hearts, and greedy minds, the fields were worked with shovel and spade and sweat. Beneath a pall of thin moonlight, the crops were plucked from the moist, black earth, torn from wormy boxes and mildewed shrouds like rotting corn from corrupting husks. The harvest of cadavers was piled in the beds of muddy wagons and taken to market, sold to the highest bidder to supply dissection room and anatomical house. The farmers worked their bone fields night after night, thinking they were alone in their grim harvest. But there was another who worked the graveyards and mortuaries, another reaper whose cultivation reached back to antiquity. Moon-faced and skeleton-fingered, he was the grand lord of the charnel harvest, master of graveyard harrow and yield.

Enter the world of the late-18th century and join Samuel Clow and Mickey Kierney as they earn their living in the resurrection trade... little realizing that they will soon meet The Corpse King.

...his first novel THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES was published last fall through Black Bed Sheet Books and available on Amazon

�was a regular contributor to �PAT: The Magazine the Guys�

Favorite Kevin Mellor story? �It�s close. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies is a real page-turner and brain-burner, but the �Heroes For the Depraved� articles on serial killers I wrote for Pat Magazine is right up there.�

Highly recommended horror book? �Maybe it�s cheating, but I�m gonna go with The Bachman Books-- four novels between covers, and not a dud in the bunch. When I first read them at 12 they were good just stories. As I get older every re-read proves just how horrifying they are. There�s nothing supernatural about them, no suspension-of-disbelief required. For me, each one boils down to three elements-- what people do to themselves, what they do to each other, and how the decision on whether or not to �play ball� is of no consequence. You�ll end up badly either way.�

What's next for Kevin? �At some point there will definitely be a second book about the bunch from The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Or some of them, anyway. Right now I�m working on an unrelated novel, a novella, and various short stories for people who read the book and were kind enough to ask for something else.�

Where can you find Kevin? �I�m on the Facebook. I don�t want to be an imaginary farmer, join your mafia or vampire clan, or sign up for your political/paranoid/pro-marijuana/social activist page. If you can get past that, I can.�

�The Black Act is a beautiful tale, beautifully written. Louise Bohmer places her pot squarely on the file and begins cooking immediately. The aromas in her kitchen are familiar�a hint of J.R.R. Tolkien, a trace of George R.R. Martin, and a whiff of Ursula K. LeGuin�ah, but when you taste this delicious stew, you�ll find a fresh recipe with plenty of meat and potatoes. There�s a new Chef in town, and I�ll be the first in line for seconds!� � Michael Knost, editor of Writer's Workshop of Horror