A double shot of Hawthorne... with a sister-in-law slasher chaser
...Well, technically it's sorta the other way around, but anyhow, about that...
Yeah, the Frederick Hawthorne short story The Red Duke will be appearing in an issue of NVF Print sometime this summer*. The Hawthorne novella The Two Dragons of the East End will appear in the April issue of Aphelion. Also sometime in April, my short-short piece Chapstick will appear in NVF's '70's/'80's slasher horror. As anyone who's somewhat familiar with my writing knows, I'm not shy about the horrific bloodletting when that's where the story goes, and it usually involves knives ("Gee, do you think Matt Spencer has a blade fetish?" someone once quipped on some message board I lurked on), but I don't generally go the Freddy/Jason/etc. route. Nor do I have any particular fondness for it, with the exception of Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN and arguably some of Clive Barker's work. Chapstick happened very spontaneously and quickly with fine timing. The subject line mention (and the story, really) is an inside joke with shaggy_bowie. It's a... quirky reversal of the conventions of the sub-genre. Oddly gore-free for me, especially in an experiment such as this, but... again, hey, that's just how the yarn naturally wrote itself.
* - So yes, I can now legitimately say, "Coming this summer, to a [bookstore] near you... Matt Spencer's Frederick Hawthorne, the Green-Eyed Wolf, in..." Which I find kinda cool :-P
The Drifting Soul (novel)
The Somnambulist Typist (novelette)
Voice of Reason (short story)
Dead Men, Dead Dogs, Tasty Bacon (short story)
The Redhead (flash)
Here's the comprehensive list of what you can presently read online:
Sweet Strings and the 2:55AM Train
Formal Dinner and Demon Dreams
Jed's Reunion
The Face in the Flame
The Song of Skybrooks
Happy reading, y'all.
Yeah, the Frederick Hawthorne short story The Red Duke will be appearing in an issue of NVF Print sometime this summer*. The Hawthorne novella The Two Dragons of the East End will appear in the April issue of Aphelion. Also sometime in April, my short-short piece Chapstick will appear in NVF's '70's/'80's slasher horror. As anyone who's somewhat familiar with my writing knows, I'm not shy about the horrific bloodletting when that's where the story goes, and it usually involves knives ("Gee, do you think Matt Spencer has a blade fetish?" someone once quipped on some message board I lurked on), but I don't generally go the Freddy/Jason/etc. route. Nor do I have any particular fondness for it, with the exception of Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN and arguably some of Clive Barker's work. Chapstick happened very spontaneously and quickly with fine timing. The subject line mention (and the story, really) is an inside joke with shaggy_bowie. It's a... quirky reversal of the conventions of the sub-genre. Oddly gore-free for me, especially in an experiment such as this, but... again, hey, that's just how the yarn naturally wrote itself.
* - So yes, I can now legitimately say, "Coming this summer, to a [bookstore] near you... Matt Spencer's Frederick Hawthorne, the Green-Eyed Wolf, in..." Which I find kinda cool :-P
The Drifting Soul (novel)
The Somnambulist Typist (novelette)
Voice of Reason (short story)
Dead Men, Dead Dogs, Tasty Bacon (short story)
The Redhead (flash)
Here's the comprehensive list of what you can presently read online:
Sweet Strings and the 2:55AM Train
Formal Dinner and Demon Dreams
Jed's Reunion
The Face in the Flame
The Song of Skybrooks
Happy reading, y'all.