The Book of Tentacles
I'd been wondering about me and anthologies. A number of my stories have been selected for anthologies, but none of the books had actually been published. Was I jinxing them?
Well, the first one is here! (So maybe it's not a jinx.) It's the Book of Tentacles, from SamsDot Publishing. It has my story, Blood Amber, and around thirty others. They all sound like fun, and I look forward to reading them soon in about 3 weeks.
Here's the blurb:
"It's a perfect bound trade paperback, and if it has something to do with tentacles, it's in here: science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Yes, there are Cthulhu stories. Yes, there's interspecies romance [between writer and squid, for one]. Yes, there are suckers, graspers, vermicelli, carapaces, and strange adventures on land and in water. Come see what Scott Virtes and Edward Cox have assembled for your reading enjoyment. "
(Click on the picture to go to "The Genre Mall" where it's on sale.)
And here's what the website says:
Come here . . . but not so close that
THEY can reach you. Not so close that
THEY can whisper their secrets into your ear.
THEY know the frailty of our minds, and the
joy of perverting sanity. THEY long to share
their stories of how the human race falls, of
sacrificed princes, and of mad women roaming
the streets of lost cities. THEY have tales
to tell of murder, mystery, magic, and of
things you cannot see.
THEY want you to listen. THEY want you to know.
Now come here. But not too close ...
or the tentacles will find you.
- strange last words of the mysterious Edward J.
INTRO by Scott Virtes
"A Lady’s Quick Reference Note on the Tentacle" - Miss Camille Alexa
"Call of the Bailiff" - Matthew Bey
"Professor Hilliard’s Electric Lantern" - Robert J. Santa
"Lab Assistant" - Marge Simon
"A Quiet Neighborhood" - Laura J. Underwood
"In the Octopus’s Garden" - James S. Dorr
"Drosera" - Joshua Gage
"The Temple of Squoad" - Steve Goble
"A Ferrylouper at Stenness" - Christopher M. Cevasco
"Cascade" - Cathy Buburuz
"Hideki and the Giant Squid" - Mark Lee Pearson
"Mishmash: From the Case File of DragonEye, PI" - Karina Fabian
INTERLUDE: Weird Art by Scott Virtes
"Long and black in the middle of the night" - Sharon Bray.
"Low Life" - Clinton Lawrence
"P6 is Burning" - Scott Virtes
"Slightly Pudgy Writer Seeks Foreign Entanglement" - Tyree Campbell
"What Did She Know of Love" - Terrie Leigh Relf
"Taking Root" - Rob Brooks
"Sucker Punch" - Mark Onspaugh
"The Little Sea Maid" - Kendall Evans & Stephen M. Wilson
"One Big Drinker" - Billy Wong
"To See" - Jim Ehmann
"Mr Octopus Hands" - Brian Rosenburger
"Dead Wait" - Carl Hose
"Jar of Peaches" - Terry Hickman
"The Mantle of Power" - Matt Betts
"Blood Amber" - Keyan Bowes
"Ink and Shadows" - Kali Black
"Azure Doom" - William Blake Vogel III
"The Anemone Garden" - David C. Kopaska-Merkel
"The Signal" - Aurelio Rico Lopez III
OUTRO by Edward Cox
Well, the first one is here! (So maybe it's not a jinx.) It's the Book of Tentacles, from SamsDot Publishing. It has my story, Blood Amber, and around thirty others. They all sound like fun, and I look forward to reading them soon in about 3 weeks.
Here's the blurb:
"It's a perfect bound trade paperback, and if it has something to do with tentacles, it's in here: science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Yes, there are Cthulhu stories. Yes, there's interspecies romance [between writer and squid, for one]. Yes, there are suckers, graspers, vermicelli, carapaces, and strange adventures on land and in water. Come see what Scott Virtes and Edward Cox have assembled for your reading enjoyment. "
(Click on the picture to go to "The Genre Mall" where it's on sale.)
And here's what the website says:
Come here . . . but not so close that
THEY can reach you. Not so close that
THEY can whisper their secrets into your ear.
THEY know the frailty of our minds, and the
joy of perverting sanity. THEY long to share
their stories of how the human race falls, of
sacrificed princes, and of mad women roaming
the streets of lost cities. THEY have tales
to tell of murder, mystery, magic, and of
things you cannot see.
THEY want you to listen. THEY want you to know.
Now come here. But not too close ...
or the tentacles will find you.
- strange last words of the mysterious Edward J.
INTRO by Scott Virtes
"A Lady’s Quick Reference Note on the Tentacle" - Miss Camille Alexa
"Call of the Bailiff" - Matthew Bey
"Professor Hilliard’s Electric Lantern" - Robert J. Santa
"Lab Assistant" - Marge Simon
"A Quiet Neighborhood" - Laura J. Underwood
"In the Octopus’s Garden" - James S. Dorr
"Drosera" - Joshua Gage
"The Temple of Squoad" - Steve Goble
"A Ferrylouper at Stenness" - Christopher M. Cevasco
"Cascade" - Cathy Buburuz
"Hideki and the Giant Squid" - Mark Lee Pearson
"Mishmash: From the Case File of DragonEye, PI" - Karina Fabian
INTERLUDE: Weird Art by Scott Virtes
"Long and black in the middle of the night" - Sharon Bray.
"Low Life" - Clinton Lawrence
"P6 is Burning" - Scott Virtes
"Slightly Pudgy Writer Seeks Foreign Entanglement" - Tyree Campbell
"What Did She Know of Love" - Terrie Leigh Relf
"Taking Root" - Rob Brooks
"Sucker Punch" - Mark Onspaugh
"The Little Sea Maid" - Kendall Evans & Stephen M. Wilson
"One Big Drinker" - Billy Wong
"To See" - Jim Ehmann
"Mr Octopus Hands" - Brian Rosenburger
"Dead Wait" - Carl Hose
"Jar of Peaches" - Terry Hickman
"The Mantle of Power" - Matt Betts
"Blood Amber" - Keyan Bowes
"Ink and Shadows" - Kali Black
"Azure Doom" - William Blake Vogel III
"The Anemone Garden" - David C. Kopaska-Merkel
"The Signal" - Aurelio Rico Lopez III
OUTRO by Edward Cox