Fears fade as years pass. They are never as salient or real as they were when you were a child. Unless they are. Though these terrors stem from children, the stories are not for them. From the dark to boogeymen to real life horrors, there is no innocence here. Featuring stories from Adrian Ludens, Alex Schvartsman, Adan Ramie, James Michael Shoberg, Jill Corddry, Robin Kirk, Kurt Newton, Stanley Webb, Shannon Iwanski, Kristin J Cooper, Eric Blair, Amanda Davis, Michael Schutz-Ryan, Lonnie Bricker, Stephanie Madan, Jack Burgos, John Biggs, Kerry B. Black, M.J. Pack, Shenoa Carroll-Bradd, Ian Shoebridge, Mary Pletsch, Lisa Finch, and Douglas Ford covering everything from the monsters under the bed, to the skeletons in the closet, and all of the little fears and insecurities that drive people to become monsters.

Beyond the Nightlight

Literature & Fiction

Ford, Douglas

Davis, Amanda

Messmer, Adrean

Shoberg, James

Corddry, Jill

Kirk, Robin

Newton, Kurt

Webb, Stanley

Iwanski, Shannon

Cooper, Kristin J.

Genre Fiction

Murder of Storytellers, A

It starts on Facebook—an update that Nell doesn’t remember making. It’s bad enough that she’s dying and none of her friends know. Now, she’s pretty sure she’s going crazy. She sees the Sewercide Man everywhere she goes. The bright, safe little town of Bandon is descending into darkness, dragging the inhabitants along for the ride. Death follows madness for those bound to the Sewercide Man’s will. But the Sewercide Man is more than just a ghost or a monster. He is death without justice. He is destruction without remorse. He doesn’t have a plan. He just wants to bring everyone home. "A blend of gritty realism and dark supernatural, Psychopomp and Circumstance is Heathers meets It Follows, with a sprinkling of The Twilight Zone, all told with black humor, nihilist teen angst, and a buried need to be loved and accepted."

Psychopomp and Circumstance (Books of Nethermore)

Now you’re playing with… TERROR 
 Demons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die and live and die again and again, in bloody and brutal fashion. The denizens of a tortured cyberworld begin to wake up… and get very, very angry. 
Power up across fifteen shocking and sinister levels of video game-inspired horror, from unique tributes to legendary game franchises to alarming visions of technology gone to hell. These rising stars of independent horror channel our fears of the new interactive electronic frontier—and reveal the terrors that await us in the great digital abyss beyond. 
So grab the controller and press START. But no cheat code can save you from… TERROR IN 16-BITS
Featuring: Matthew M. Bartlett, Jack Burgos, Amber Fallon, Julie K. Godard, Orrin Grey, J.R. Hamantaschen, Amberle L. Husbands, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Adrean Messmer, Brian O'Connell, Jonathan Raab, Alex Smith, William Tea, Sean M. Thompson, Richard Wolley

Terror in 16-Bits

Raab, Jonathan

Bartlett, Matthew M.

Thompson, Sean M.

Tea, William

Godard, Julie K.

Wolley, Richard

O’Connell, Brian

Hamantaschen, J.R.

Muzzleland Press

Deciduous Tales is a literary journal which features an eclectic mix of new and classic works from a range of different authors. Our goal is to offer a variety of dark fiction and poetry, from horror and suspense to neo-noir and trangressive. We feature the works of seasoned and award-winning authors such as Richard Thomas and Douglas Milliken and emerging voices such as Matthew Brockmeyer and Adrean Messmer, as well as legendary authors like H.P. Lovecraft and Charles Baudalaire.

Deciduous: Tales of Darkness and Horror

BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES

ASMAN, BRIAN

Rimbaud,Arthur

Roye, Joanna

Lovecraft., H.P

Brockmeyer, Matthew

Milliken, Douglas

Blaine, Tara

Chaplinsky, Josh

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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