Death is only the beginning...
There was only so long that the crypt could hide the secrets. Only so long the living could wait to pry open the coffin’s lid and discover the truth. For millennia, humans have pondered the endless abyss, made their own determinations, sobbed at the tombstones of lovers and prayed for a restful thereafter.
Now, for the first time, “The Other Side” is revealed in all its decrepit glory.
In this dark fiction and horror anthology, eleven horror authors explore the infinite possibilities that lay beyond the living. Featuring ghosts, graves, celestial voyages, forgetful realms, and forests of the dead, “The Other Side” will have you questioning all that you think you know about what lies beyond the curtain.
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Contributing Authors
C.W. Blackwell, “The Cold Dark Forever”
C.W. Blackwell was born and raised in Northern California, where he still lives with his wife and two sons. He has been a gas station attendant, a stock broker, and a crime analyst. His passion is to blend poetic narratives and pulp dialogue to create evocative genre fiction. He writes mostly crime fiction and horror. His recent work has appeared in Pulp Modern, Shotgun Honey, Switchblade Magazine, and Rock and a Hard Place Magazine.
Harvey Click, "Secret Places”
Harvey Click, author of Realms of Night, Night Conjurings, A Traveler from an Antique Land, Demon Frenzy, Demon Mania, Magic Times, The Bad Box and The House of Worms, earned an M.A. in English from Ohio State University, writing a novel for his master’s thesis. He has written six other novels, four of them in the horror genre, and two collections of horror stories. He has taught English and creative writing for Ohio University, Ohio State University, the James Thurber House, and OSU’s Creative Arts Program.
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Tom Garback, “Dirt”
Tom Garback (he/him) is currently pursuing an MA in Writing and Publishing at Emerson College, where he is President of Wilde Press, a non-profit that publishes four titles a year. His fiction, poems, and essays have been featured in Cabinet of Heed, Blind Corner, Oddball, Polaris, Sonder, and a dozen other publications.
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Julie Hiner, “Corpse Forest”
Julie Hiner spent endless hours during her childhood lost in books. The only thing that took precedence was her Walkman. Julie is still a hardcore 80s rocker at heart.
Julie secured a solid education and career in computer science. She switched paths to finish her non-fictional book, an inspirational story of facing fears, cycling, and massive mountains.
Fuelled by a long-time fascination with the dark mind of the serial killer and inspiration from a talk by a local homicide detective, she flung herself into writing her first novel. She now runs KillersAndDemons.com – Tales of Dark Crime and Horror.
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Thomas Kodnar, “Click for Ascension”
Thomas Kodnar, born in 1992, prefers horror in both his reading and his writing. Studied philosophy at the university of Vienna. Has published short stories in a variety of anthologies and magazines, e.g. in &Radieschen, Zwielicht, HORLA – The Home of Intelligent Horror, phantastisch!, and ParABnormal Magazine. Writes stage plays in cooperation with the glashaus collective. Likes coffee, Stephen King, vegan cake, Donna Haraway, Digimon (the TV-series) and Pokémon (the video games). More on his German website and his Instagram
Daniel R. Robichaud, “Wheels within Wheels”
Daniel R. Robichaud lives and writes in Houston, Texas. His work has appeared in numerous markets, including parABnormal magazine, Eldritch Dream Realms anthology, Hookman and Friends anthology, and more. A portion of his short fiction has been collected in three volumes: Hauntings & Happenstances, They Shot Zombies, Didn’t They? and Gathered Flowers, Stones and Bones: Fabulist Fictions. He writes weekly reviews of fiction and film for the Considering Stories website.
Paul Stansfield, “Sheol”
New Jersey born and raised, Paul Stansfield spent decades as a field archaeologist for his day job. Surprisingly, even though he professionally disturbed hundreds of graves, he has yet to suffer a haunting or zombie attack.
By night he likes to write horror stories. He’s had over 20 stories published by magazines, including such publications as Bibliophilos, Morbid Curiosity, Cthulhu Sex Magazine, The Literary Hatchet, and Horror Bites. Currently he has stories available in 11 anthologies, including “The Prison Compendium” (EMP Publishing), “Cranial Leakage Vol. 2” (Grinning Skull Press), “Hidden Menagerie Vol. 1” (Dragon’s Roost Press) “Welcome to the Splatter Club” (Blood Bound Books), and “Shadowy Natures” (Dark Ink). He’s an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association.
His hobbies include watching professional football and baseball, drinking craft beer, tandem unicycle-spotting, and translating ancient Esperanto books into Silbo Gomero (sometimes all at the same time).
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J. Thorn, “The Fork in the Road”
J. Thorn has published two million words and has sold more than 185,000 books worldwide. He is an official member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers.
J. co-hosts the Writers, Ink podcast with J.D. Barker and has interviewed some of today’s most successful authors including Hugh Howey, Josh Malerman, Joanna Penn, Chuck Palahniuk, Blake Crouch, James Rollins, Steven Pressfield, David Baldacci, and James Patterson.
Thorn earned a B.A. in American History from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.A. from Duquesne University. He is a full-time writer, part-time professor at John Carroll University, co-owner of Molten Universe Media, podcaster, FM radio DJ, musician, and a certified Story Grid nerd.
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M.B. Vujačić, “The Bus”
Mijat Budimir Vujačić is an economist by trade, storyteller at heart. He is a published author of three horror novels written in Serbian: Krvavi Akvarel, NekRomansa, and Vampir. His stories appeared in SQ, Serial, Devolution Z, All Worlds Wayfarer, DBND, Turn to Ash, Crimson Streets, Encounters, Acidic Fiction, Double Barrel Horror, Creepy Campfire Quarterly, Under the Bed, 9Tales, and Infernal Ink magazines, as well as in professional anthologies Infinite Darkness, Toxic Tales, Silent Scream, The Nightmare Collective, Down With The Fallen, and The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Vol1. He believes a strong work ethic is the root of all success, and that it is best to err on the side of action. A fan of all things horror, he is also an avid gamer, occasional blogger, hookah enthusiast, and a staunch dog person. He lives in Belgrade, Serbia.
Daniel Willcocks, “Piece by Piece”
Daniel Willcocks is an international bestselling author and podcaster of dark fiction. He is the CEO of Devil’s Rock Publishing, one fifth of digital story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, co-producer of iTunes-busting fiction podcast, ‘The Other Stories,’ as well as the lead host of the ‘Great Writers Share’ podcast and co-host of the ‘Next Level Authors’ podcast.
Residing in the UK, Dan’s work explores the catastrophic and the strange. His stories span the genres of horror, post-apocalyptia, and sci-fi, and his work has seen him collaborating with some of the biggest names in the independent publishing community.
Heinrich von Wolfcastle, “Marvin’s Tavern”
Heinrich von Wolfcastle writes by candlelight from the seclusion of his castle in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. His debut anthology of short stories titled Screams Before Dawn was called “an engaging page turner” by Scream Magazine. He is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association and a member of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. Though he lives the life of a recluse, some say he emerges from the shadows for Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween night.