Tales from the Crust: An Anthology of Pizza Horror will be released on August 27 via Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. It's available for pre-order in paperback ($18.95) and e-Book ($6.99).
Edited by David James Keaton and Max Booth III, the 346-page book collects 26 pizza-themed short horror stories. It features an introduction by David James Keaton and Steve Gillies and an afterword by Nathan Rabin.
Contributing authors include Cody Goodfellow, Jessica McHugh, Craig Wallwork, Rob Hart, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Brian Evenson, Tony McMillen, T. Fox Dunham, Izzy Lee, Nick Kolakowski, Tim Lieder, Sheri White, Matthew M. Bartlett, Joshua Chaplinsky, Amanda Hard, Evan Dicken, Andrew Hilbert, Emma Alice Johnson, Nancy Brewka-Clark, Matthew King, Michael Allen Rose, Betty Rocksteady, Pearse Anderson, James Newman & Desmond Reddick, Wallace Williamson, and David James Keaton & Max Booth III.
George Cotronis designed the cover art. The table of contents is below.
Table of contents:
Introduction: Pizza My Skull by David James Keaton and Steve Gillies
The Vegan Wendigo by Cody Goodfellow
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by Jessica McHugh
Rosemary and Time by Craig Wallwork
Last Request by Rob Hart
Upper Crust by Michael Paul Gonzalez
A Bloody Hand to Shake by Brian Evenson
Elude the Snood by Tony McMillen
The Blessed Hungry by T. Fox Dunham
Demons of 1994 by Izzy Lee
Bad Night Below Ricky’s by Nick Kolakowski
Introduction to “Let’s Kill the Pizza Guy”: The Love Poems of Yael Friedman concerning Hadassah Herz by Tim Lieder
Mickey and the Pizza Girls by Sheri White
The Black Cheese by Matthew M. Bartlett
Cenobio Pizzeria by Joshua Chaplinsky
Body of Crust by Amanda Hard
The Parlor by Evan Dicken
Watch Them Eat by Andrew Hilbert
Pizza_Gal_666 by Emma Alice Johnson
By the Slice by Nancy Brewka-Clark
Phosphenes by Matthew King
Ultimate Pizza Club by Michael Allen Rose
Leftovers by Betty Rocksteady
Crucifixions in the Garden of Garlic Bread by Pearse Anderson
30 Minutes or Less . . . or Else! by James Newman and Desmond Reddick
And She Answered the Door . . . NAKED! by Wallace Williamson
Bonus Slice: Pizza Party Friday! by David James Keaton and Max Booth III
Afterword: The Violent and Ugly Death of the Noid by Nathan Rabin
Whether you’re in the mood for a Chicago-style deep dish of darkness, or prefer a New York wide slice of thin-crusted carnage, or if you just have a hankering for the cheap, cheesy charms of cardboard-crusted, delivered-to-your-door devilry; we have just the slice for you.
Bring your most monstrous of appetites, because we’re serving suspense and horrors both chillingly cosmic and morbidly mundane from acclaimed horror authors such as Brian Evenson, Jessica McHugh, and Cody Goodfellow, as well as up-and-coming literary threats like Craig Wallwork, Sheri White, and Tony McMillen.
THE LATEST LOVECRAFTIAN MORAL CRISIS/TEACHABLE MOMENT has peaked and rolled back under the weight of countless other cultural controversies, but it’s useful to reflect on it in anticipation of the next time we have the same fight, and perhaps to get some of those still staring daggers at each other across an arbitrary scrimmage line to recognize their real, common enemies.
By Cody Goodfellow
So the art and the artist can’t be separated without serious self-delusion. And it should be. He can’t be rehabilitated by even the most sincere arguments of minimize his racism, which are as wishful and silly as revisionist fantasies that place him as the heroic gumshoe absent from his stories. And he shouldn’t be. But with all due respect and sympathy to those who are done with HPL, I propose that, rather than relegate Lovecraft to the dustbin of dead white males, he should remain in the backwaters of classic literature but the forefront of outsider literature, of discordant voices whose false notes are as illuminating as their best.
That a self-taught and fiercely independent intellectual like Lovecraft could succumb so thoroughly to racist notions is an eloquent testimony to the virulent nature of racism as an intellectual pathology. It lends its cold, ugly comfort to the educated as well as the innocent by assuring the bigot they know everything they need to know about the Other, and need not feel strongly for them. The unwillingness of the modern Lovecraftian to confront the racism at the heart of his favorite stuff is an unwillingness to confront the racism and white privilege still baked into daily life almost a century after his death. It hurts to find out you’ve been wrong, and it can be devastating to find out that, hard as it’s been, you’ve always been protected.
I learned more about the insidious corrosion of racism from reading Lovecraft than from any number of history books on the subject, and in writing my own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos, I’ve been challenged to examine my own assumptions about everything that goes into my fiction, to consider as often as possible an audience as different as conceivable from myself, and to invite them inside. But I can’t pass this off as more than a rationalization for my own quite unreasonable obsessions, and I wouldn’t seek to wave away the misgivings of people who find his work insupportable. But it’s worth examining why we even if we might not love Lovecraft anymore, we still need Cthulhu.
HP Lovecraft Film Festival VIRTUAL starts this Friday 12/5!
I love cosmic horror—it asks so many questions and makes me think. I also love short films. So the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, going strong since 1995, is my jam! The streaming edition, which is always the highlight of my year, arrives this Friday, featuring over sixty short films, several full-length features, author readings, and panels (and a ticket purchase gives you through 12/12 to watch…
PERFECT STOCKING STUFFER! "Sea Legs" available in Lovecraftian Microfiction Vol. 8!
PERFECT STOCKING STUFFER! “Sea Legs” available in Lovecraftian Microfiction Vol. 8!
How CUTE is this tiny book on a Christmas tree?
I’m thrilled to announce that my piece, “Sea Legs,” is now available in Lovecraftian Microfiction Volume 8!
“Sea Legs” is one of thirteen winners in the 2022 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon Microfiction Contest, and the collection makes the perfect stocking stuffer (tiny trim size is so cute too!!). It’s also two books in one, with Tales…
“The following document, as well as a bundle of newspaper clippings, was found among the personal effects of Dr. Vincent Armstrong, a community psychiatrist in the Evaluation Unit at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Care Center, whose disappearance in Montreal is a matter of public record.”
Forbidden knowledge is a favorite leitmotif of H.P. Lovecraft’s, and many of his literary heirs pick up the…
Aging punks recapture the greatest show of their youth through barbaric rituals. The lone survivor of a hellish Interstate pile-up follows an otherworldly sound to its source. A father desperate to cure his daughter's condition uncovers a multinational corporation's unspeakable plan for solving world hunger. In these eleven stories, Cody Goodfellow explores the bizarre and the deeply human, using the kaleidoscopic language only he is capable of.
01Publishing's mythos-inspired anthology series is back!
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http://www.horrorsociety.com/2016/03/25/01publishings-mythos-inspired-anthology-series-back/
