RUTH ANNA EVANS
HORROR WRITER
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BOOKS AND STORIES
Girls come of age in so many ways. In this book, they come of age by battling monsters, watching their friends die, losing their mothers, and killing for the first time. Their periods are the least of their concerns.
In this anthology of girls' coming-of-age stories by women of many kinds, we get to meet sixteen heroines, girls facing the challenges of adulthood and rising to meet them. Dark Blooms doesn't miss a beat in telling a wide variety of important stories that might have otherwise been buried and ignored.
These fresh and fantastic voices will reach inside of you and make you feel something you haven't felt since your own coming-of-age horror.
When a true-crime podcaster uncovers the cold case of a child murder, she thinks she’s found her next big story. But the gruesome tale triggers a bipolar episode, and Maggie just can’t stay away from the house where the heinous crime took place. A few bad decisions later, Maggie finds herself trapped at the scene of the crime, hallucinating the murdered child’s ghost. It may not just be her mania keeping her there, though. It may be something truly evil.
OOZE: Little Bursts of Body Horror
This tiny anthology is full of gross, grimy, creepy, crawly, bubbling, bursting fun, but what will surprise you is how much heart and story can be squeezed into such small packages.
With twenty-one authors putting forth their best short works of body horror, be prepared to be smacked in the face with a combination of what you look for when you pick up a book like this—the transformation, dissolution, and decay—but also by a delightful number of heartfelt and surprising twists on the genre.
With weird and wonderful cover art for each story, a foreword by Bridgett Nelson, and stories by Judith Sonnet and Rowland Bercy Jr., OOZE brings body horror to you in twenty-one disgustingly bite-size chunks.
This book is revolting, touching, and terrifying. Don’t forget to wash your hands after reading this little burst of fantastic new horror fiction.
NO ONE CAN HELP YOU: Tales of Lost Children and Other Nightmares
The world is a scary place…
A five-year old boy tries to tell his parents there’s something not right about the cleaning lady, but it may be too late. The ghost of a child killed in a mass shooting begs his mother to take revenge. A police officer sees visions of people dying and is helpless to stop it--then he sees his own daughter die. Doctors tell a woman she’s perfectly healthy. She’s not.
Think of the worst thing that can happen, then add in the supernatural, the strange, and some heartbreaking twists. You’ll have No One Can Help You: Tales of Lost Children and Other Nightmares.
With brand new novelette Trigger Warning, new short story Anxiety, and never-before-published flash fiction, this collection is your worst real-life fears come true. Then magic makes it so much worse.
Jordan Sharp has been writing for the local newspaper for two years. But when a sinister ghost-child emerges from a suspicious house fire and brings to life her darkest memories, she finds herself in the middle of the story. After a life of isolating herself from others, Jordan needs to reach out for help. And there’s a handsome, sympathetic firefighter just waiting for her to ask. But as people around her start falling victim to the deadly haunting, is it worth putting him at risk? And can Jordan resolve her troubled past before it's too late?
Accidental Death
Jeremiah Steele goes to a simple game night with friends, a night out after three months of staying in with his wife and newborn son. When he has to make a split-second choice, he makes the wrong one, with tragic results. When the consequences seem unbearable, he is faced with a surprising new decision, one that could erase his wrong. But nothing comes without a price.
A dark and emotional tale from Ruth Anna Evans, author of No One Can Help You: Tales of Lost Children and Other Nightmares, this 6,000-word short story hits hard from beginning to end. You'll wish you hadn't read it--and then you'll want to read it again.
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