Author/Filmmaker/Editor extraordinaire John Skipp has been releasing a series of magnificent over-sized anthologies through Black Dog & Levanthal for a few years now. His second-to-last opus, Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed, won the Bram Stoker Award last year. The newest mega-volume to hit bookstores is Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane. And I am ridiculously pleased to have a story in it, “Marla’s Eyes.” Think of it like Downton Abbey on bath salts. Evelyn Waugh meets Jack Ketchum. You get the idea, or do you? I guess you’ll just have to check it out to make sure.
The table of contents (which is AMAZING) is below. Dig!
CLASSICAL SCENES OF FAREWELL Jim Shepard
HOP-FROG Edgar Allan Poe
MARMALADE WINE Joan Aiken
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME Richard Connell
THE SMALL ASSASSIN Ray Bradbury
LUCY COMES TO STAY Robert Bloch
MARLA’S EYES Ed Kurtz
THE LIAR Laura Lee Bahr
THE PAPERHANGER – William Gay
RED DRAGON (excerpt) Thomas Harris
THE EXIT AT TOLEDO BLADE BOULEVARD Jack Ketchum
INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD Joe R. Lansdale
MURDER FOR BEGINNERS Mercedes M. Yardley
JESSE Steve Rasnic Tem
IN FOR A PENNY Lawrence Block
NOW HOLD STILL David J. Schow
FEMININE ENDINGS Neil Gaiman
GOING SOLO Leah Mann
DEATH-IN-LIFE LOVE SONG Kevin L. Donihe
RALPH AND JERRY Leslianne Wilder
AND WHAT DID YOU SEE IN THE WORLD? Norman Partridge
LIFE WITH FATHER Bentley Little
THE SHALLOW END OF THE POOL Adam-Troy Castro
MOMMY PICKS ME UP AT DAY CARE John Gorumba
WHEN THE ZOOS CLOSE DOWN, THEY¹LL COME FOR US Violet LeVoit
ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE Christopher Coake
INTRUDER John Boden
STRAYCATION Scott Bradley and Peter Giglio
LIFE COACH Cody Goodfellow
RIGHTEOUS Weston Ochse
THE MEANING OF LIFE Amelia Beamer
DAMAGED GOODS Elizabeth Massie
WILLOW TESTS WELL Nick Mamatas
SERENITY NOW Simon McCaffery
THE MANNERLY MAN Mehitobel Wilson
SENSIBLE VIOLENCE Brian Hodge
BUCKY GOES TO CHURCH Robert Devereaux
AT EVENTIDE Kathe Koja
