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Attic Clowns: The Complete Collection by Stoker Award-nominee Jeremy C. Shipp (
ISFDB), a collection of his horror shorts which have mainly appeared in small press anthologies and magazines, originally out from small press Redrum Horror in 2012. We've previously received volumes #1-4 in the eponymous collection series free, but this is the first time we're getting the omnibus edition.
Bram Stoker Award nominee Jeremy C. Shipp spins 13 tales of horror and dark humor in this highly conceptual collection. Angels and demons, husbands and wives, tormented ghosts and an army of men made of soap--all of them trapped in attics of the mind, attics of heaven or hell, the attics we make for ourselves or with which we ensnare others.
Meet a paranoid astronaut whose jealousy drives him to extremes beyond murder...a miniature circus spawned from the mind of a woman with too much control...the underling demon Globcow who desires redemption even more than the taste of human feet...
Men, women, children, and things beyond imagination all interconnect in ATTIC CLOWNS, where laughter is only the prelude to the bizarre and terrible.
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Buried by Marissa Farrar (
ISFDB), who's had at least one short story printed in a "Masters of Horror" anthology out from New Zealand-based genre specialty small publisher Triskaideka, 2nd in her apparently self-published Serenity series of urban dark fantasy starring the eponymous heroine vs vampires (apparently contains slow-building f/m romantic elements over the course of the series, but is not a dedicated romance, and the plots focus on thwarting the Monster of the Week, according to the customer reviews).
Four years after the horrific murder of her husband, Serenity is living a new life and finally putting the terrifying events behind her. Though now a stronger person, her heart craves the vampire who gave her the strength to change her life.
Desperate to forget Serenity, Sebastian hides away in the underground tunnels of Goreme, Turkey, and has thrown himself into an existence of darkness and blood.
But rumours are abound of something unnatural existing, something with the strength of a vampire but can walk in the light.
And a murderer is on the loose in Angeles Forest, someone who is killing with the ferocity of a beast. The killer is moving closer and closer to the city, searching for something...