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THE BUTCHER OF NAZARETH, by David Scott Hay

Haunting visions drive a grieving butcher to hunt down an obese, pre-ministry Jesus to prevent an age of fire and ash.

But when the Butcher ‘adopts’ a dead newborn, his hunt for the son of Nazareth takes a personal and horrific turn.

How does one choose between personal redemption and world-wide salvation? From Bethlehem to Jerusalem to Nazareth, familiar events and figures are reimagined with a modern sensibility, building to a gut-wrenching conclusion. A heart of darkness story that explores: fathers and sons, grief, zealotry, and choice.

FEAST, engineered by David Scott Hay

Connoisseur Vol 1. FEAST boasts 25 recent short stories from the horror genre’s top and rising stars spanning the spectrum of subgenres. In short, these are stories that fired our pleasure centers.

Check out this contributor list, including four brand new 2024 Bram Stoker® nominees.

HILARIOUS, by Joey Truman

How can you be a standup comedian when you keep falling down? What if you can’t take a punchline? Is life really just the same pain from a different angle?

In the small town of Drei Ecken, Ohio, on the greasy carpets of the Motel Mumbo Jumbo, atop the beer soaked stage of the Comedy Smithereens, things are looking quite promising for a man with no promise.

MORE HELL, by Adam al-Sirgany

In Midwestern flyover country, the stories of More Hell weave a rich and sometimes comic tapestry of longing, addiction, sex, and loss. The wild cast of rural characters navigate a fast-changing world from their vantage point in a place unaccustomed to such change.

This collection swirls perpetually around the hope and animosity of Neil and Maria Kenning’s fracturing marriage, while introducing readers to the voices around them:

an autistic woman who imagines her relationship as a fragile glass house;
a little girl who plays with sentient nativity figurines while her mother’s infidelity unfolds for all to see;
a young man grieving the deaths of his great aunt and a blue-collar boy he had feelings for in high school.

More Hell presents characters struggling for self-actualization and personal identity in a space painfully confined by its geography.

CHILD OF LIGHT, by Jesi Bender

Thirteen-year-old Ambrétte Memenon has lived her entire life estranged from her family. After a series of financial failures, they reunite in rural upstate NY in the Spring of 1896. Together in the new house but basically strangers, Ambrétte endeavors to connect to her parents through their interests: Spiritualism for her Maman and electricity for her Papa.

In her pursuit, Ambrétte is drawn into a deep abyss of the unknown as she learns more about both death and the invisible pulse of the human spirit.

SELECT SCREEN, by Abigail Stewart

Streamers, TikTokkers, eSports stars, and their legions of parasocially obsessed fans star in Select Screen, the new literary composite novel from Abigail Stewart, where the unspoken secrets of today's internet culture are spilled and god is found in a live-streamed hot tub.

PLANKED BY THE ABYSS, by Meg Tuite

Reading Planked by the Abyss is not only like reading something completely different, but like reading for the first time. Each of Tuite’s sentences feel like a poem. Put together into a story, they feel like an experience. Put together all the stories and it’s like I have a new perspective I could never have foreseen, a new understanding of what fiction can do. — Michael Czyzniejewski, author of The Amnesiac in the Maze: Stories

WESTERN STARLANDS, by Toby Dunne

“I didn’t know what I was supposed to be doing with my young life. I was nineteen, deeply spiritually conflicted, and had recently flunked out of a state vocational school. I had only made it halfway through the second semester, returning to my hometown in failure after having rashly sworn an oath before Jesus that’d I’d never return.”

So begins Western Starlands, the existentialist road trip opus that will escort you to a time you’ve forgotten you’ve been missing. Hugh Sheehy says “Here are friends like the ones you had, or like the ones you wished for. Here are places you used to know and dream about. Here’s the journey you longed to make, here’s a chance you should have taken.”

SUSPECT, by Gina Tron

Suspect is more than just a personal recollection— it is an examination of how people perceive mass shootings and the contagion effect.

As a teenager in a rural Vermont high school in the period immediately following the Columbine shooting, Gina Tron was accused of being a would-be school shooter. As a creative goth kid whose imagination didn't fear the dark, Tron was no stranger to being singled out, ostracized, "othered." Seamlessly blending memoir with investigative journalism, Suspect is a story of survival and social justice in black eyeliner.

DIVINE IN ESSENCE, by Yarrow Paisley

The stories of Divine In Essence exemplify a sui generis slipstream style that deftly weaves a psychedelic literary fabric from elements of Fabulism, Occult Horror, Transgressive Fiction, and the Weird. Attune your mind and be transformed. Escape!

Yarrow Paisley dictates dreams onto paper. His work is like nothing else I've read--enchanting, touching, terrifying, absurd.
– E. Catherine Tobler, author of The Necessity of Stars

SHIT LIST, by Daniel A. Hoyt

In a sharp, funny, and deeply relevant social satire, Daniel A. Hoyt examines the worlds of NBA basketball, indie Rock and Roll, and presidential politics. On the first day of 2017, Harrison Rawles — a paid body double for NBA superstar TR Washington — suffers an unsettling occurrence: A small orange animal on the side of the road fills him (and his police escort) with sudden, overwhelming regret. As 2017 moves into the first 100 days of President Dadondrik Kukla’s term of office, the creature appears throughout Zebulon City, especially at rock concerts led by singer/guitarist Sabina Murphy. When TR begins to make the yoga position known as “chair pose” during the National Anthem, President Kukla declares political war. Meanwhile, Sabina struggles with her new-found fanbase, and Harrison tries to love his pseudo-teammates and spread the joy of “Star Trek.” Will President Kukla receive his Russian tank? Will the orange creature make everyone cry? As the president and his deputies begin a series of inhumane policies, the tears seem all too necessary. SHIT LIST is a satire with a large heart — and a killer guitar solo.

THE BERLIN WALL, by David Leo Rice

Europe, 2020. Some claim that the Berlin Wall, once a living entity, is coming back together, its scattered pieces seeking reunion on the far side of history. The European continent trembles on the edge of total war, either in reality or deep in its own feverish imagination. Part present-tense apocalyptic satire and part neo-medieval phantasmagoria, David Leo Rice’s new novel presents an alternate history of the present where the Internet has become a territory unto itself and unstable factions obsessed with nationalism, liberalism, and romanticism drive one another toward a clash that could turn the very notions of refuge and culture into the ravings of a lunatic.