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Last year I began a collaboration with Hybrid Sequence Media, a small publisher owned by Donald Armfield, to create and edited an anthology focused on hybrids. The anthology features stories and poetry centered around this concept from the most literal sense to philosophical terrors to environmental horrors that tug at the heartstrings of our time.

The book will be edited by Donald Armfield and myself with cover art by Luke Spooner and an introduction by the king of monsters himself, James Aquilone, editor of the Classic Monsters Unleashed anthology.

Check out the full Table of Contents:

Short Stories and Poetry by:

As Dark the Night – Nicole Givens Kurtz Nicole Smith

Clawing Through Mud as More Leaves Silt Down, as Plastic Bags, as Cast-Off Bottles – Romie Stott

Fracking-lution (p)- Linda D Addison

Home is Where the Howl Is – John Claude Smith

Hopital Automatique – D. Harlan Wilson

How Does Your Garden Grow (p)- Gene Flynn

It Calls to You – Jamal Hodge

Kolkata’s Little Girl (p)- Alessandro Manzetti

Madre Tempesta – John Palisano

MAERO (p)- Lee Murray

Making Friends – Angela Yuriko Smith

Mother Eve- Marge Simon

My Father’s Ashes- Philip Fracassi

Raven-Wolf – Cindy O’Quinn

Ruination of the Gods – Chris McAuley and Claudia Christian

Savages Anonymous – Alicia Hilton

Scoocoom – Michael Knost

Slo-Mo – Michael Bailey

Strange Progeny (p)- Bruce Boston

Vis-a-vis – Jeffrey Thomas

May be an illustration of text that says 'HYbrID MISFITS, MONSTERS, AND OTHER PHENOMENA. EDITED BY DONALD ARMFIELD AND MAXWELL IAN GOLD'

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Statement on Maus and Other Banned Books

The Horror Writers Association condemns banning books in no uncertain terms. We believe authors need to be able to tell their stories without fear of reprisal.

The banning of “Maus” in a Tennessee school district, which was done on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is nothing less than censorship and anti-Semitism.

“Maus” is not the first text to be excluded from school libraries. Recently, LGBTQ+ texts have been banned in a Washington state school district, and many other books by authors of color have been censored in districts across America. These are chilling examples of censorship, racism, anti-Semitism, and white washing. We all need to be more vocal each and every time this happens.

These actions set a dangerous precedent in a free society. They cannot and should not be tolerated. The HWA condemns all attempts at censorship, particularly these obvious attempts of the establishment to silence marginalized voices. We urge you to speak out in your local communities against such autocratic tactics that not only threaten our creative community but also make our world less safe.

Signed,

The HWA’s Officers and Board of Trustees

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I can’t believe January has already almost come and gone. There’s so much to do, but I wanted to take a few minutes and update everyone with some of my upcoming writing appearances.

The Winter Edition of Spectral Realms No. 16 has been released from Hippocampus Press which includes contributions from Christina Sng, Wade German, Ann K. Schwader, Frank Coffman, and a host of familiar faces. The cover was designed by Dan Sauer which features the artwork A Witches’ Sabbath by Cornelis Saftleven, c. 1650.

I will have three prose poems in this issue, ‘The Great Parade,’ ‘The Beast with a Billion Stomachs,’ and ‘The City of Dreams.’

I’m particularly fond of the last piece due to the fact I tend to write a lot of my poetry as if I were dreaming in cities, landscapes and other metallic-scapes.

Next up is the Spring 2022 issue of the award winning publication The Horror Zine edited be Jeani Rector. This issue will feature three of my poems, ‘The Näigöth Waits,’ ‘Where No One Goes,’ and ‘Chthonic Dreams.’

Artwork by Janusz Gierat, formatted by Bruce Memblatt