Year's End: 14 Tales of Holiday Horror (19 page)

RICHARD GODWIN is the author of crime novels
Mr. Glamour
and
Apostle Rising
and is a widely published crime and horror writer.
Mr. Glamour
is his second novel and was published in paperback in April 2012. It is available online at Amazon and at all good retailers.
Mr.Glamour
is Hannibal Lecter in Gucci. The novel is about a glamorous world obsessed with designer labels with a predator in its midst, and has received great reviews.
Apostle Rising
, in which a serial killer crucifies politicians, is available for the first time in ebook on all readers with some juicy extras, an excerpt from
Mr. Glamour
and four deliciously dark Noir stories, like the finest handmade chocolate. You can find out more about the author at his website www.richardgodwin.net.

NICKY PEACOCK is an English author living in the UK. She writes YA and adult horror as well as paranormal romance. If you enjoyed this story and would like to learn more about her work, please see http://nickypeacockauthor.wordpress.com/or follow her many supernatural ramblings on Twitter:https://twitter.com/nickyp_author.

JOHN STEWART WYNNE is the author of the horror tale
The Needles Highway
, recently published by Untreed Reads. His other works include the novel
Crime Wave
and the upcoming novel
The Red Shoes
. His acclaimed collection of dark and disturbing stories
The Other World
is soon to make its digital debut as individual stories published by Untreed Reads. His writing has won praise from numerous publications and from such award-winning authors as Kate Christensen, Hubert Selby, Jr., Rebecca Brown and Paul Monette. John Stewart Wynne is also a Grammy-nominated producer of spoken word recordings and the author of
The Listener’s Guide to Audio Books
.

STEVE SHROTT is an award-winning writer whose fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. In addition, he has created comedy material for well-known performers, and written a book on how to write humour. Some of his jokes are in the Smithsonian Institute.

LEAH GIVENS’s writing and photographs have appeared in a variety of online and print journals, but this is her first horror story. She is a member of the St. Louis group Writers Under the Arch, and recently completed a fictionalized memoir. Her educational background is primarily in medicine; she received her M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and has been involved in medical research.

GEORGE SEATON and his partner, David, live in Denver with their Alaskan Malamute, Sarah, and their quarter horse, Shy. He is the author of three novels, several novellas and numerous short stories.

KATHRYN OHNAKA is a teacher, tutor and writer. After living in Japan, she moved to northern Colorado, where she lives with her husband and daughters. She spends her spare time writing, cooking, crafting and playing video games. To contact her, please send an email to [email protected].

JEREMY TYLER was born and raised in the Tampa Bay Area, immersed in its multicultural way of life. He grew up hearing stories of mafia wars, Cuban refugees, and cigar factory workers, rather than fairy tales. He has carried those stories with him all his life. He currently resides in upstate New York with his wife and stepson.

BETSY MILLER writes fiction that spans several genres including speculative, suspense, and literary. She is the author of two books,
The Parents’ Guide to Hip
Dysplasia
and
The Parents’ Guide to Clubfoot,
and is currently working on her first novel,
Dance, Interrupted
. Miller lives in Silicon Valley where she writes for high-tech companies.

BYRON BARTON received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Vermont in 2007, and is currently living in Aruba. His science fiction novel,
X349
, can be read in serial format at Jukepop Serials. Recent short stories have appeared in
Remembrances of Wars Past: A War Veterans Anthology
and
Penduline Press
.

STEVE BARTHOLOMEW, being a refugee from the Big City, resides in a small town in northern California. He likes best to make up fantastic stories. However, he has come to realize he can invent nothing more fantastic than the tales that really happen.

ALI MALONEY is a slam poet, physical-theatre playwright and vocalist with CHURCH OF WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN. He also makes some multimedia art-terrorism under the name Harlequinade and has several albums of plunderphonica, noise and post-rap available (for free download—fact fans) on Black Lantern Music. He has lived in Edinburgh, Scotland since he was 3 years old but is originally from outside New York and is vaguely unsure about whether or not he is technically allowed to be here. “Missing Pieces” was written while his partner was in labour with their first child, Eliott Titus.

FOXGLOVE LEE writes LGBTQ fiction for freaks, geeks, dorks, dweebs, and the cool kids too! This former aspiring Broadway Baby tries not to be too theatrical, but her characters often take over. Follow Foxglove on Twitter @foxglovelee and stay tuned to her blog foxglovelee.blogspot.com.