Featured Books
A Candle in the Dark and other tales Available Now
In this collection of eleven stories, C.L. Phillips explores the nature of relationships through the lens of spectacular fiction. A family of magic users faces their past. A witch tries to understand her executioners. A father and son share a traumatic bonding experience. A man makes his way home, crossing a strange, dark land while searching for the love he left behind.
“C.L. Phillips delves into the familiar depths of Lovecraft and Poe, but unlike other authors who seem to keep finding the same old rotting corpses, Phillips finds fresh bodies electrified by a keen pen and uncommon insight into what we fear…and love. This collection is one of my favorites and belongs on any horror lover’s bookshelf.”
—Benjamin T. Lambright Author of Retrofit & Original Copy
Reach For The Sky
The Western gets Weird!
Cowboys & Cowgirls draw down visitors from beyond. It’s the Old West with a new set of aliens and tales akin to the likes of Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen King, Beau Smith, and Robert E. Howard.
Figures in the Forest
After a long wait and much work, I’m happy to announce the release of Figures in the Forest and other tales, a collection of nine stories that I think you guys will enjoy.
In this anthology of nine stories, Phillips delivered chillingly weird fiction and ghost stories swirled with horror that show sophistication in the craft of writing. The stories are organized expertly, with “Figures in the Forest” and “Panacea” bookending the collection nicely. Each story showcases a different literary element: the first story uses setting, the fourth story uses characterization, the sixth story uses theme, the eighth story uses plot. The language in the third story is wonderfully lyrical, especially the description of Arkham, Miskatonic University, and the library, giving Lovecraft fans a lot to enjoy. Each is satisfying as a stand-alone, but when read together they are an especially entertaining escape.
–Judge, 28th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
When The Sirens Have Faded
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre famously asked viewers, “Who will survive, and what will be left of them?” The film itself focused much more on the first half of the question. With the anthology When the Sirens Have Faded, A Murder of Storytellers wants you to dig into the other: “What will be left of them?”
Reviews
The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a slim novel that delivers a profound emotional punch, capturing the bittersweet beauty of growing up with striking clarity and tenderness. It’s a story about memory, the mysteries we carry, and how childhood’s innocent adventures often brush up against the complicated truths of adulthood — a perfect pick for readers looking for emotional coming-of-age books.
Set against the early 1900s American West, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter unfolds through a compelling epistolary format, drawing readers into a fragmented, chilling narrative reminiscent of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Etsy Beaucarne, a junior professor desperate for tenure at the University of Wyoming, inherits a newly unearthed diary from her ancestor Arthur Beaucarne, a Lutheran minister. Through Arthur’s writings—and the haunting records of a Blackfeet man named Good Stab—readers are pulled into a world where history, horror, and identity collide.
Blog Posts
Review: The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a slim novel that delivers a profound emotional punch, capturing the bittersweet beauty of growing up with striking clarity and tenderness. It’s a story about memory, the mysteries we carry, and how childhood’s innocent adventures often brush up against the complicated truths of adulthood...
Review: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Set against the early 1900s American West, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter unfolds through a compelling epistolary format, drawing readers into a fragmented, chilling narrative reminiscent of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Etsy Beaucarne, a junior professor desperate for tenure at the University of Wyoming, inherits a newly unearthed diary from her ancestor...
A Review of Now You See It… by Richard Matheson: An Inventive and Polarizing Tale of Deception
Richard Matheson is no stranger to pushing the boundaries of storytelling, and Now You See It… is perhaps one of his most unconventional works. While the novel has drawn mixed reactions for its over-the-top antics and intricate plotting, there’s no denying that it’s a bold and audacious experiment in the...
