#nate southard

[dlsreviews]

NEW REVIEW: Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road (2013)

Today’s in-depth dissection is of the co-authored extreme horror novel ‘Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road’ (2013) – an outrageously over-the-top story of deviancy, depravity and splattericious gore. This example of (ahem) literacy excellence was penned by none other than Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, J.F. Gonzalez, Bryan Smith, Wrath James White, Nate Southard, Ryan Harding, and Shane McKenzie.

Enjoy!

[butterflies-behind-her-skull]

A woman like her can use a look like that better than guys in the backyard can use a shiv. You never see it coming; you're just bleeding all of a sudden.

The Blisters On My Heart -- Nate Southard

[missrose1989]

{📚 Neuzugang 📚} Heute habe ich noch einen Neuzugang für euch, das Buch was eigentlich die Bestellung bei Festa verantwortlichist, weil es sind die letzten Exemplare und es ist kein Nachdruck geplant, es war aber auch auf der Wunschliste und zwar "Red Sky" von Nate Southard, das Buch ist, wie schon geschrieben, im Festa Verlag erschienen. 📚❤📚🔖 Den Klappentext habe ich euch wieder in das 2. Bild gepackt. ❤ #buch #book #neuzugang #coverlove #coverhighlight #natesouthard #festa #festaverlag #thriller #booknerd #bookstagram #germanbookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramdeutschland #bloggen #blogger #blogger_de #bloggerlife #Buchblog #buchblogger #missrosesbuecherwelt (hier: Dresden, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfpnFRB_aF/?igshid=denifdn1zbis

[weirdletter]

Welcome to Miskatonic University: Fantastically Weird Tales of Campus Life, edited by ​Scott Gable and C. Dombrowski, Broken Eye Books, 2019. Cover art by Michael Bukowski, internal illustrations by Michael Bukowski, Yves Tourigny, and Jeremy Zerfoss, info: brokeneyebooks.com.

Modern tales of good ol' Miskatonic University! Each story shows a slice of college life at this storied and magical institution, steeped in the occult and part of the strange town of Arkham. Come visit this fascinating New England university—where science and magic, tradition and experimentation go hand in hand—and the quiet, secretive town on which it relies. This is your first year? Welcome! Oh, you’re going to love it here at Miskatonic. Just... be careful. I mean, I’m sure everything will be fine, but you know, things happen. This can be a strange place. You hear stories: people changing and buildings rearranging, ghostly sounds and overly attentive textbooks, odd notions and foul deeds... even monsters! Hah. Just stories, right? Sure. Faculty struggling for funding in the occult sciences. Students trying to navigate whole new worlds of possibility. Administration striving for growth and progress and not just damage control. And Arkham residents adjusting to the constant influx of new faces. Just study hard. Party safe. Maybe find love. And don’t die.

Contents: Introduction by Scott Gable Some Muses Are Not Gentle by Brandon O’Brien Glory Night by Bennett North The Long Hour by Kristi DeMeester The Needle's Eye of Nothingness by Elliot Cooper Through Cryptic Caverns, the Shoggoths Come at Night by Liz Schriftsteller Official Inquiry into the Waite-Gilman-Carter Antarctic Expedition by KG McAbee Wyrd Science by Brenda Kezar Something Beautiful by Nate Southard The Steeplechase by Scott R. Jones From the Inbox of Madness by Gina Marie Guadagnino Beyond the Surface by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Like Candles in a Passing Breeze by Marcus Chan A Lost Student's Handbook for Surviving the Abyss by Gwendolyn Kiste My Miskatonic: A Who's Who of Arkham by Matthew M. Bartlett (art by Yves Tourigny)

[jeffburk]

31 Days of My Favorite Horror Books - Day 26 - MUERTE CON CARNE by Shane McKenzie

31 Days of My Favorite Horror Books – Day 26 – MUERTE CON CARNE by Shane McKenzie

For the month of October, I will be writing brief essays about my 31 favorite horror books.

I first met Shane McKenzie in Austin Texas at a World Horror Convention party. Wrath James White and Nate Southard were very firm that he and I needed to meet each other. Looking back I totally understand why. Shane and I hit it off right away and have been friends ever since.

Over the years, Shane and I…

[actionbookz-blog]

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Super science, madness, transhumanism. This is the dawn of posthumanity, and some things can’t be unlearned. This is our stranger tomorrow. These are transhumanist, near-future science fiction horror stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos. They exist in our world of the coming decades, an era of big science and—what is that? We’ll be right back… Labs gleam and servers hum as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mystery, the universe stares back. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on minds of their own. Some fight back against the unknown, some give in, some are destroyed, and still others are becoming… more. The human and the inhuman are becoming more challenging to distinguish. Mankind is changing, whether it wants to or not, with brand new ways of thinking. What havoc is wreaked by those humans trying to harness and control their discoveries? As big science progresses and the very fundamentals of this universe are understood, what stories are being hushed up? Authors: Daria Patrie, Molly Tanzer, Joshua L. Hood, Joshua Alan Doetsch, Kaaron Warren , AC Wise, Clinton J. Boomer, Damien Angelica Walters, Lizz-Ayn Shaarawi, Samantha Henderson, SJ Leary, Richard Lee Byers, Thomas M. Reid, Jeff C. Carter, Joette Rozanski, Shannon Fay, Pete Rawlik, Adam Heine, Bruce R. Cordell, Nate Southard, Simon Bestwick, Robert Brockway, Darrell Schweitzer, Mike Allen, Matt Maxwell, Lynda E. Rucker, LA Knight, Cody Goodfellow, Desirina Boskovich

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[kansascityhappenings]

Child killed as Tropical Storm Gordon makes landfall near the Alabama-Mississippi border

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall late Tuesday night west of the Alabama-Mississippi border, the National Hurricane Center said.

A child was killed Tuesday in Pensacola, Florida as Gordon whipped the Alabama and western Florida Panhandle coasts with tropical storm-force winds and heavy downpours, a spokeswoman with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said.

The child, whose age and identity were not released, died when a tree fell on top of a mobile home. No one else inside the home was injured, spokeswoman Amber Southard said.

The storm’s strong winds have knocked out power in the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama leaving at least 20,000 people in the dark, several utility companies said.

“More power outages could be expected overnight from downed trees due to strong winds and saturated ground,” CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.

As of late Tuesday night, Gordon was about 30 miles east of Biloxi, Mississippi, with sustained winds of 70 mph. The storm will move northwest Wednesday bringing rain and potential flooding to Hattiesburg and Jackson, Mississippi.

While Gordon is expected to weaken rapidly as it continues moving inland, authorities across the Gulf Coast and Florida Panhandle are warning residents about widespread flooding.

Gordon could drop heavy rain — generally 4 to 8 inches, but as many as 12 — from Florida’s western panhandle to southern Arkansas through Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Seawater could spill onshore as high as 3 to 5 feet, spelling significant trouble for roads and towns along the coast.

“If you are less than 3 to 5 feet above sea level (in the warning area), you need to get away from that water, especially up those rivers, because that’s where that water will be going,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.

TRACK GORDON HERE

Floodgates close near New Orleans

Across the region, governments and residents made preparations Tuesday for the storm’s arrival.

In Mobile, Alabama, people topped off their vehicles’ tanks with gas.

“I just don’t want to be caught somewhere where I have to leave and I can’t because I don’t have any gas,” Cynthia James told CNN affiliate WALA.

On Dauphin Island, Alabama, residents and visitors didn’t seem overly concerned. Many businesses and homeowners did not board up their windows. They were likening conditions to 2017’s Hurricane Nate, which was mostly a rainmaker by the time it got there.

In Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, workers cleared tables and chairs from the outdoor seating area of a bar. “This is a serious squall,” said Raleigh Murphy, owner of Dan B’s Restaurant and Bar. “It’s part of life on the Gulf Coast, just something we have to deal with.”

Murphy’s bar opened last year for the first time since Hurricane Katrina; members of his family have owned it since 1982. The businessman said he was not overly concerned by Gordon’s arrival.

He and his cousin, Lance, were relieved that the center of the storm was jogging more to the east. Lance Murphy, who referred to Gordon as a “party storm,” said “We just live through it and hope we can open again tomorrow.”

In coastal Mississippi’s Jackson County, people filled bags with sand at government distribution points, intending to line their homes with them to avert flooding.

Among them was Jose Rivera, who moved from Puerto Rico to Mississippi after Hurricane Maria devastated the island last year, CNN affiliate WLOX reported.

Rivera said he was worried about Gordon.

“He said he doesn’t want the same thing that happened in Puerto Rico over here,” Rivera’s grandson, translating from Spanish, told the station.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey declared emergencies. Edwards also activated 350 National Guard members.

In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell issued a voluntary evacuation notice for areas outside the levee system.

The city expected to feel the storm’s impact beginning late Tuesday and through Wednesday, she said. City Hall and government offices closed Tuesday for nonessential employees.

In anticipation of heavy rains, the Flood Protection Authority-East, or FPA, closed 38 floodgates, 13 valve gates and a concrete barge gate on the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier near New Orleans, according to a news release. Another seven floodgates and the Caernarvon Sector Gate were to be closed Tuesday.

The gates are in Orleans and St. Bernard parishes, primarily along the Industrial Canal and susceptible to high-tide conditions if not closed, the city said. Levee overtopping and breaches at these locations in 2005 led to devastating flooding from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, the city’s eastern swath and in St. Bernard Parish.

Boats ordered out of the water in Biloxi and Gulfport

In Mississippi, vessels in the harbors of Biloxi and Gulfport were ordered to evacuate by Tuesday due to the risk from storm surge there.

“We’re asking people to do the same things that we’re doing: prepare,” Biloxi Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gilich said in a statement. “There’s no reason to be alarmed. We’re being told to expect rain and wind, and we’re preparing accordingly. We expect our citizens to be doing the same.”

Airlines including Delta, Southwest and Frontier warned that delays and flight cancellations were possible at airports near the Gulf Coast because of the storm, and that they may waive fees for itinerary changes.

Warnings in effect

A hurricane warning continued early Wednesday morning for all of coastal Mississippi and Alabama, with a tropical storm warning reaching from the Alabama-Florida border to Florida’s Okaloosa-Walton county line.

A storm surge warning was in effect for the coast between Biloxi, Mississippi and Dauphin Island, Alabama, with predicted heights of up to 2 to 4 feet if the peak surge coincides with high tide. A storm surge watch spread east of Dauphin Island, and east to Navarre, Florida.

A couple of tornadoes are possible near the Alabama and Florida coasts, the NHC said.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports https://fox4kc.com/2018/09/05/child-killed-as-tropical-storm-gordon-makes-landfall-near-the-alabama-mississippi-border/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/child-killed-as-tropical-storm-gordon-makes-landfall-near-the-alabama-mississippi-border/

[michaelsellars]

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Will the Sun Ever Come Out Again? by Nate Southard.#horror pic.twitter.com/oKuNVpF1aT

— Paperback Horror (@HorrorPaperback) June 16, 2018

[roughjustice-crimefictionlover]

Today's chiller - Safe House, written by Nate Southard. (at Boylestone)

[apokrupha]

Apokrupha Newsletter April 2015

April news, just a few days late. oops

First, we will start with Final Words, First, where we discuss last month’s poll on the newsletter format. We will be putting a cleaner summary at the top from now on, along with keeping the full version, thus bringing both the shorter and longer newsletters to you.

The newest issue of LampLight is out in Paper and eBook editions! Featuring Nate Southard and Damein Angelica Walters! Subscribe today, and never miss a new issue (and help us get closer to our goal of pro-rates!)

We also have a new novella out by E. Catherine Tobler entitled The Glass Falcon! A steampunk adventure that is a follow up to her novel, Rings of Anbis, featuring Folley and Mallory! get it in ebook and print!

There are submissions out for Tor.com, Snafu: Hunters, Lost Signals, from PMMP, Poetry at Pedestal Magazine (end of May deadline!), Nightmare Magazine, and Through Clouded Eyes: A Zombie View Anthology from Siren’s Call Press.

The LampLight Classic for this month is The Ash Tree by M. R. James.

And, as always, we have some great micro-ficiton from Necon eBooks!

Contents

Final Words, First this month

News

LampLight Classics

Submissions

Necon Flash Fiction

Final words, Final

Final Words, First this month

So, at the end of last month’s newletter I asked about the format and what people thought. Thank you for the replies!

While most of you actually liked the longer version better, a few preferred the shorter, sweeter edition. SO, here is a compromise for you.

Each newsletter will begin with a summary of the whole thing. This is mostly like what we do now, but it will be tailored a bit better AND it will have no clickbait type links. Meaning all the news in the newsletter will be presented short, but sweet at the top for those who like that format.

And then below you’ll find it, as you always do, nicely laid out. We put a lot of effort into this newsletter, and hope it shows. This is a real, live email address, so if you have news, comments, questions, suggestions or whatnot, just hit reply and tell us.

News

LampLight Volume 3 Issue 3

Our featured artist is Nate Southard. He brings us his story Bottle. Paper. Samurai. We talk with him about his writing, food and air drumming. Kelli Owen brings us part 3 of her serial Novella, Wilted Lilies.

Fiction from:

Damien Angelica Walters

Gwendolyn Kiste

John Boden

Kristi DeMeester

A father and son carry more than secrets through the generations. A sister leaves heartache after her suicide, and something else. Cancer, and a grieving family. A little brother won’t look at his sister. All in this issue of LampLight!

Print - Kindle - Smashwords - Nook - Kobo

The Glass Falcon

By E. Catherine Tobler

A Folley and Mallory Adventure #2

A bungled museum theft.

An ancient Egyptian riddle.

The rumor of strange creatures moving beneath the streets of Paris.

Eleanor Folley knew she was in for a challenge when she accepted the task of cataloging Mistral’s archive of purloined artifacts, but she never expected to discover an Egyptian mystery buried in the heart of Paris.

When Anubis and Horus task her with a quest, she cannot refuse the ancient gods, even if it means venturing into the cathedrals of bones that clutter the catacombs of Paris.

Print - Kindle - Smashwords - Nook - Kobo

And, don’t miss Rings of Anubis, the adventure that starts it all for Elenor Folley and Virgil Mallory!

Print - Kindle

LampLight Classics

The Ash Tree

By M.R. James

Everyone who has traveled over Eastern England knows the smaller country-houses with which it is studded — the rather dank little buildings, usually in the Italian style, surrounded with parks of some eighty to a hundred acres. For me they have always had a very strong attraction: with the grey paling of split oak, the noble trees, the meres with their reed-beds, and the line of distant woods. Then, I like the pillared portico — perhaps stuck on to a red-brick Queen Anne house which has been faced with stucco to bring it into line with the “Grecian” taste of the end of the eighteenth century; the hall inside, going up to the roof, which hall ought always to be provided with a gallery and a small organ. I like the library, too, where you may find anything from a Psalter of the thirteenth century to a Shakespeare quarto. I like the pictures, of course; and perhaps most of all I like fancying what life in such a house was when it was first built, and in the piping times of landlords’ prosperity, and not least now, when, if money is not so plentiful, taste is more varied and life quite as interesting. I wish to have one of these houses, and enough money to keep it together and entertain my friends in it modestly.

Read Online

Submissions

Tor.com

Tor.com is accepting novella submissions until 1 June, 2015. They are particularly looking for Sci Fi, but will take all types of speculative fiction. Prefer 30,000 to 40,000 words, but will not look at anything shorter than 17,500.

Tor.com

Snafu: Hunters

For this anthology, we want hunters of the supernatural. Sam and Dean… Grimm… Van Helsing… with soldiers, hunting along the edges of reality, watching their backs while others watch them from the shadows. Take us along for the ride while your soldiers or hunters take the fight to their enemies. Both hunter or hunted may die, but above all, show us the hunt.

2,000 - 10,000 words, AUS 3¢ per word

Snafu: Hunters

Lost Signals

In the darkness, sound is your best friend and your worst nightmare. Radios are the conductors of noise. They are the radiation of electromagnetic signals. Their waves are invisible, yet they consume us. Forget about what’s hiding in the shadows, and start worrying about what’s hiding in the dead air. We aren’t necessary only after straightforward prose. It’s okay to get experimental on this project. Don’t just think outside the box on this one. Burn the box and eat the ashes.

1,000 - 20,000 words, 1¢ per word payment

Lost Signals, from PMMP

Pedestal Magazine

end of May deadline!

Poetry: Bruce Boston and Marge Simon will be editing speculative poetry for the June 2015 issue of Pedestal. Speculative includes science fiction, fantasy, supernatural, horror, science, surrealism, and experimental. Send up to five poems in one submission. Open for submissions May 1–31. To get a sense of what we are looking for, see Pedestal #70, 2012, and Pedestal #74, 2014, in the Pedestal Archives.

Payment: $40 per poem.

Poetry at Pedestal Magazine

Nightmare Magazine

Stories should belong to the horror genre, and between 1500 and 7500 words long. Stories of 5000 words or less are preferred. To see which rights we’re seeking, please view our contract templates.

Payment for original fiction is 6¢/word. Payment for reprinted fiction is 1¢/word.

Nightmare Magazine

Through Clouded Eyes

An Anthology from Siren’s Call Press.

We are looking for short stories of horror fiction told from the zombie’s point of view. We will consider different, intriguing, and creative spins on the multiple zombie mythos that currently exist. There are many fine zombie oriented anthologies already published, but we’re putting a spin on ours – at least 75% of the story must be told as the zombie from the zombie’s perspective.

We’re giving the undead a chance to tell their tale through your words!

Through Clouded Eyes: A Zombie View Anthology

Final words, Final

Apologies for the late news this month, between boring “real work” stuff and nerdy server things, there weren’t enough days. Most of that is worked out now, so onwards!

The June issue of LampLight is on the way, and it is already looking to be a great one!

Looking forward to AnthoCon in June and Scares that Care Weekend in July! I hope to see many of you there, so please come by, introduce yourselves!

-j

[weirdletter]

Ashes and Entropy, edited by Robert S. Wilson, Nightscape Press, 2018. Cover art by Pat R. Steiner, internal illustrations by Luke Spooner, info: nightscapepress.pub.

Stand on the precipice and prepare to dive down through the event horizon into the bleak and mind-shattering void of both the cosmos and of humanity. Nightscape Press is proud to present Ashes and Entropy edited by Robert S. Wilson, an anthology of cosmic horror and noir/neo-noir. Ashes and Entropy is beautifully illustrated by Luke Spooner and includes brand new stories by Laird Barron, Damien Angelica Walters, John Langan, Kristi DeMeester, Jon Padgett, Nadia Bulkin, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Jessica McHugh, Paul Michael Anderson, Max Booth III, Lynne Jamneck, Greg Sisco, Lisa Mannetti, Nate Southard, Erinn L. Kemper, Matthew M. Bartlett, Autumn Christian, and more.

Contents: The Gray Room by Tim Waggoner The Head On the Door by Erinn Kemper Flesh Without Blood by Nadia Bulkin Scraps by Max Booth III Yellow House by Jon Padgett What Finds Its Way Back by Damien Angelica Walters We All Speak Black by Lynne Jamneck Ain't Much Pride by Nate Southard The Choir of the Tunnels by Matthew Daniel Birkenhauer Amity In Bloom by Jessica McHugh Red Stars/White Snow/Black Metal by Fiona Maeve Geist Shadowmachine by Autumn Christian The One About Maggie by Greg Sisco Breakwater by John Langan For Our Skin, A Daughter by Kristi DeMeester Houdini: The Egyptian Paradigm by Lisa Mannetti Girls Without Their Faces On by Laird Barron Dr. 999 by Matthew M. Bartlett Leaves of Dust by Wendy Nikel The Kind Detective by Lucy A. Snyder The Levee Breaks by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy I Can Give You Life by Paul Michael Anderson

[jeffburk]

31 Days of My Favorite Horror Books - Day 30 - SIXTY-FIVE STIRRUP IRON ROAD by Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, J. F. Gonzalez, Bryan Smith, Wrath James White, Nate Southard, Ryan Harding, and Shane McKenzie

31 Days of My Favorite Horror Books – Day 30 – SIXTY-FIVE STIRRUP IRON ROAD by Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, J. F. Gonzalez, Bryan Smith, Wrath James White, Nate Southard, Ryan Harding, and Shane McKenzie

For the month of October, I will be writing brief essays about my 31 favorite horror books.

I know I said each author was only getting one book and this is a co-authored book featuring nine authors and several of them have already appeared but fuck it. This project came about as a charity effort to benefit Tom Piccirilli who was facing health issues at the time (he has since passed away). In the…

[michaelsellars]

Will the Sun Ever Come Out Again? by Nate Southard. #horror https://t.co/oKuNVpF1aT

Will the Sun Ever Come Out Again? by Nate Southard.#horror pic.twitter.com/oKuNVpF1aT

— Paperback Horror (@HorrorPaperback) June 16, 2018

from Twitter https://twitter.com/HorrorPaperback

[butterflies-behind-her-skull]

Sometimes the small victories are just so damn hollow.

The Blisters On My Heart -- Nate Southard