#Mercedes M. Yardley

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isn't this just the loveliest little book? ❤🥀

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Read of Darling by Mercedes M. Yardley (2022) (291pgs)

[brokehorrorfan]

The Darkest Night will be published in paperback and e-book on September 24 via Crooked Lane Books. The 320-page anthology of winter horror stories is edited by Lindy Ryan and includes an introduction by George C. Romero.

It features 22 stories by Josh Malerman, Eric LaRocca, Clay McLeod Chapman, Rachel Harrison, Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, Jamie Flanagan, Kristi DeMeester, Nat Cassidy, Darcy Coates, Tim Waggoner, Hailey Piper, Thommy Hutson, Gwendolyn Kiste, Sara Tantlinger, Christopher Brooks, M. Rickert, Cynthia Pelayo, Lee Murray, Mercedes Yardley, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Jeff Strand, and Kelsea Yu.

From some of the biggest names in horror comes an Advent calendar of short holiday horror stories perfect for the darkest nights of the year. Edited by award-winning author and anthologist Lindy Ryan and with contributions from masters of horror like Josh Malerman, Eric LaRocca, and Clay McLeod Chapman, this horrific anthology will chill you to the bone.

Pre-order The Darkest Night.

[fearsmagazine]

The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the Final Ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards®, an award they’ve been presenting  in various categories since 1987 (see http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/)

Works appearing on this Ballot are Bram Stoker Award® Nominees for Superior Achievement in their Category, e.g., Novel.  Congratulations to all those appearing on the Final Ballot.

THE 2022 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT

Superior Achievement in a Novel • Iglesias, Gabino – The Devil Takes You Home (Mullholland Press) • Katsu, Alma – The Fervor (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) • Kiste, Gwendolyn – Reluctant Immortals (Saga Press) • Malerman, Josh – Daphne (Del Rey) • Ward, Catriona – Sundial (Tor Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel • Adams, Erin – Jackal (Bantam Books) • Cañas, Isabel – The Hacienda (Berkley) • Jones, KC – Black Tide (Tor Nightfire) • Nogle, Christi – Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media) • Wilkes, Ally – All the White Spaces (Emily Bestler Books/Atria/Titan Books)

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel • Dawson, Delilah S. – Camp Scare (Delacorte Press) • Kraus, Daniel – They Stole Our Hearts (Henry Holt and Co.) • Malinenko, Ally – This Appearing House (Katherine Tegen Books) • Senf, Lora – The Clackity (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) • Stringfellow, Lisa – A Comb of Wishes (Quill Tree Books)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel • Aquilone, James (editor) – Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary (Moonstone Books) • Gailey, Sarah (author) and Bak, Pius (artist) – Eat the Rich (Boom! Studios) • Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist/author) – Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt (Independent Legions Publishing) • Tynion IV, James (author) and Dell’Edera, Werther (artist) – Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 (Boom! Studios) • Young, Skottie (author) and Corona, Jorge (artist) – The Me You Love in the Dark (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel • Fraistat, Ann – What We Harvest (Delacorte Press) • Jackson, Tiffany D. – The Weight of Blood (Katherine Tegen Books) • Marshall, Kate Alice – These Fleeting Shadows (Viking) • Ottone, Robert P. – The Triangle (Raven Tale Publishing) • Schwab, V.E. – Gallant (Greenwillow Books) • Tirado, Vincent – Burn Down, Rise Up (Sourcebooks Fire)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction • Allred, Rebecca J. and White, Gordon B. – And in Her Smile, the World (Trepidatio Publishing) • Carmen, Christa – “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press) • Hightower, Laurel – Below (Ghoulish Books) • Katsu, Alma – The Wehrwolf (Amazon Original Stories) • Knight, EV – Three Days in the Pink Tower (Creature Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction • Dries, Aaron – “Nona Doesn't Dance” (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts) (IFWG Australia, IFWG International) • Gwilym, Douglas – “Poppy’s Poppy” (Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Vol. V, No. 6) • McCarthy, J.A.W.  – “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body” (A Woman Built by Man) (Cemetery Gates Media) • Taborska, Anna – “A Song for Barnaby Jones” (Zagava) • Taborska, Anna – “The Star” (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane) (Black Shuck Books) • Yardley, Mercedes M. – “Fracture” (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror) (Weird Little Worlds)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection • Ashe, Paula D. – We Are Here to Hurt Each Other (Nictitating Books) • Joseph, RJ – Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted (The Seventh Terrace) • Khaw, Cassandra – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications) • Thomas, Richard – Spontaneous Human Combustion (Keylight Books) • Veres, Attila – The Black Maybe (Valancourt Books)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay • Cooper, Scott – The Pale Blue Eye (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group) • Derrickson, Scott and Cargill, C. Robert – The Black Phone (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures) • Duffer Brothers, The – Stranger Things: Episode 04.01 "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club" (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures) • Garland, Alex - Men (DNA Films) • Goth, Mia and West, Ti – Pearl (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection • Bailey, Michael and Simon, Marge – Sifting the Ashes (Crystal Lake Publishing) • Lynch, Donna – Girls from the County (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Pelayo, Cynthia – Crime Scene (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Saulson, Sumiko – The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines) • Sng, Christina – The Gravity of Existence (Interstellar Flight Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology • Datlow, Ellen – Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire) • Hartmann, Sadie and Saywers, Ashley – Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology (Dark Matter Ink) • Nogle, Christi and Becker, Willow – Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) • Ryan, Lindy – Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (Black Spot Books) • Tantlinger, Sara – Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror (Strangehouse Books)

Superior Achievement in Non–Fiction • Cisco, Michael – Weird Fiction: A Genre Study (Palgrave Macmillan) • Hieber, Leanna Renee and Janes, Andrea – A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts (Citadel Press) • Kröger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. – Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult (Quirk Books) • Waggoner, Tim – Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (Guide Dog Books) • Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Writing Poetry in the Dark (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Non–Fiction • Murray, Lee – “I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press) • Pelayo, Cynthia – “This is Not a Poem” (Writing Poetry in the Dark) (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J. – “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company) • Wood, L. Marie – “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students) (Conjure World) • Wood, L. Marie, “The H Word: The Horror of Hair” (Nightmare Magazine, No. 118) (Adamant Press)

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Please take a look at my May cover and some close-up shots for the @HouseofGamut cover! It's an illustration based on the short story "To Hurt a Haunted House" by Stephanie M. Wytovich, and it has a fantastic horror theme. I absolutely love reading these stories and creating covers for Gamut. I want to express my gratitude to Richard Thomas, Richard Wood, Mercedes Yardley, and the entire Gamut team. I can’t thank everyone enough! :)

#horror #haunted mansion #gamut #horrorillustration

[monique-snyman]

Announcement Time! (Black Mariah Cover Reveal + Trailer)

Announcement Time! (Black Mariah Cover Reveal + Trailer)

I hope you’re ready for some great news, because it’s announcement time! 🙂 I’ve been sitting on this piece of gossip for months and it’s been incredibly difficult to keep myself from blabbing. So, without further ado, let’s get on with it … Announcement Time All over the world, from small rural towns to big cities, from Alaska to South Africa, something is happening. Though events differ from…

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MISCREATIONS: E-BOOK PRE-ORDER!

Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors is now available for pre-order on both Kindle and Nook!

The official release date of Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors is February 18th, 2019, but the eBook edition of  is now available for pre-order on both Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook!

What happens when we make monsters? What happens when we confront the monsters inside ourselves? These are the grotesque things that should never have been. These are the beasts that stalk…

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@prodigaldaughteralice asked: Queer Victorians? (Yes I’m fishing for special interest stuff to read lol)

Modern-written stuff that’s tentatively steampunky or gothic, mostly f/f with one genderfuckery story.  The only actual queer Victorian stories I could think of were Carmilla (no doubt you’ve already read it) and The Sad Story of a Vampire (which has an underage relationship so I didn’t want that to be the only m/m story I listed!)  Followers, if you know of actual Victorian queer stories, let me know!

The Melusine by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Just Beyond Her Dreaming by Mercedes M. Yardley

Madame Damnable’s Sewing Circle by Elizabeth Bear

Stained with Crimson by Tanith Lee

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Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey, Written Backwards, 2020. Cover and interior illustrations by HagCult, info: blog.nettirw.com.

What happens when we make monsters? What happens when we make monsters of ourselves? Grotesque beings lurch from our darkest dreams. Vicious beasts stalk our twisted pasts. Lost souls haunt our deepest regrets. They are the blood on our hands. They are the obsessions in our heads. They are the vengeance in our hearts. They are Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. Edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey. Featuring a foreword by Alma Katsu, and illustrations throughout by HagCult.

Foreword by Alma Katsu “A Heart Arrhythmia Creeping Into a Dark Room” by Michael Wehunt “Matryoshka” by Joanna Parypinski “Butcher’s Blend” by Brian Hodge “Operations Other Than War” by Nadia Bulkin “One Day of Inside/Out” (poem) by Linda D. Addison “One Last Transformation” by Josh Malerman “Brains” by Ramsey Campbell “You Are My Neighbor” by Max Booth III “The Vodyanoy” (poem) by Christina Sng “Imperfect Clay” by Lisa Morton “Spectral Evidence” by Victor LaValle “Ode to Joad the Toad” by Laird Barron “Only Bruises Are Permanent” by Scott Edelman “My Knowing Glance” by Lucy A. Snyder “Paper Doll Hyperplane” by R.B. Payne “Not Eradicated In You” by Bracken MacLeod “Resurrection Points” by Usman T. Malik “The Old Gods of Light” (poem) by Christina Sng “Sounds Caught in Cobwebs” by M.E. Bronstein “Umbra Sum” by Kristi DeMeester “A Benediction of Corpses” (poem) by Stephanie M. Wytovich “The Making of Asylum Ophelia” by Mercedes M. Yardley “Frankenstein’s Daughter” by Theodora Goss Contributors

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Review: Ugly Little Things by Todd Keisling

Review: Ugly Little Things by Todd Keisling

Soon to be released from Crystal Lake Publishing, Ugly Little Things by Todd Keisling (The Final Reconciliation) is anything but ugly. In retrospect, this is a remarkable little collection of stories ranging from dark and twisted to simply disturbing. Some are short quick reads and a couple are on the longer side and more complex. But rest assured, each installment is well crafted and…

[lucyasnyder]

Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors

Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors

My story “My Knowing Glance” will be in the forthcoming Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors anthology from Written Backwards. Co-edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey, this anthology also features new work by Josh Malerman, Theodora Goss, Ramsey Campbell, Laird Barron, Victor LaValle, Christina Sng, Lisa Morton, Max Booth III, Brian Hodge, Mercedes M. Yardley, M.E. Bronstein,…

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Classic Monsters Unleashed will be published on July 12 via Black Spot Books and Crystal Lake Publishing. The 450-page horror anthology consists of 29 new stories that reimagine horror’s classic monsters.

Contributors include Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, F. Paul Wilson, Richard Christian Matheson, Dacre Stoker, Seanan McGuire, Lisa Morton, Owl Goingback, Maurice Broaddus, Linda D. Addison, Alessandro Manzetti, Tim Waggoner, John Palisano, Mercedes M. Yardley, Lucy A. Snyder, Gary A. Braunbeck, Rena Mason, Monique Snyman, and more.

Edited by Weird Tales Magazine editor James Aquilone, the book will be available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book. It features an introduction by film historian Kim Newman and artwork by Mister Sam Shearon and Colton Worley.

Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau, the Headless Horseman, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Wicked Witch of the West—they're all here, in this collection of horror short stories that reimagine, subvert, and pay homage to our favorite monsters and creatures.

Pre-order Classic Monsters Unleashed.

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Even if I wrote a novel about Crystal Lake Publishing and their mega-talented squad of authors, I wouldn't be doing them justice. https://godless.com/collections/godless-publishers/products/crystal-lake-publishing Based in South Africa, Joe Mynhardt's indie horror powerhouse pumps out some of the highest quality novels, anthologies, poetry collections, and non-fiction on the planet. And some of it is so dark and twisted that it would make Jason Voorhees wince. Last week, the team over at Crystal Lake dropped the much anticipated Eidolon Avenue: The Second Feast by Jonathan Winn. https://godless.com/collections/slamming-godless-now/products/eidolon-avenue-the-second-feast-by-jonathan-winn Pick that up! My friend (the great) Jasper Bark also has several titles available through Crystal Lake. I strongly recommend his beloved story Stuck on You. Such a great title. Such a great guy! https://godless.com/products/stuck-on-you-by-jasper-bark House of Sighs by Aaron Dries. Just a genre-shaking book. I can't recommend this book enough. https://godless.com/products/house-of-sighs-by-aaron-dries And, last but not least... If you haven't read Mercedes M. Yardly's BRAM STOKER AWARD-WINNING Little Dead Red, you need to emerge from the forrest and pick it up. An absolute bangin' read. https://godless.com/products/little-dead-red-by-mercedes-m-yardley Please show Crystal Lake and all their authors a ton of love... even if the calendar says it's April Fools Day and not Friday the 13th. #godless #godlesshorror #godlesshorrors #horror #indiehorror #supportindie #crystallake https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIOZhmrSKL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Black Mariah: Las Vegas, Nevada (S1E5) by Mercedes M. Yardley

Black Mariah: Las Vegas, Nevada (S1E5) by Mercedes M. Yardley

What happens in Las Vegas apparently doesn’t always stay in Las Vegas. In this episode of the Black Mariah series, written by Bram Stoker Award winning author, Mercedes M. Yardley, we’re heading to the city that never sleeps where we’re forced to question what is real and what is not. Tackling a variety of real-world issues, readers can expect to face a variety of emotions throughout this…

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Epeolatry Book Review: Arterial Bloom, ed. Mercedes M. Yardley Our reviews may contain affiliate links. If you purchase something through the links in this article we may receive a small commission or referral fee.