C.W. Blackwell

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About C.W. Blackwell

C.W. Blackwell is an American author from the Central Coast of California. His recent work has appeared with Down and Out Books, Shotgun Honey, Tough Magazine, and Reckon Review. He is a 2021 Derringer award winner and 2022 Derringer finalist. His folk horror novella Song of the Red Squire was published in 2022 from Nosetouch Press. His crime fiction novella Hard Mountain Clay was published in January 2023 from Shotgun Honey Books.

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It Calls From The Forest: An Anthology of Terrifying Tales from the Woods Volume 1 15 Apr, 2020

by Michelle River, Tim Mendees, Elizabeth Nettleton, Evan M. Elgen, Michael D. Nadeau, Clint Foster, Holley Cornetto, Brian Duncan, D.R. Smith, Emma K. Leadley, G. Allen Wilbanks, C.W. Blackwell, Dale Drake, Matthew A. St. Cyr, Thomas K.S. Wake, N.M. Brown, Jason Holden, Mark Towse, T.S. Hurt, Michael Subjack, Greg Hunter, M.A. Smith, Craig Crawford, E.E.W. Christman , Alanna Robertson-Webb, N.M Brown

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Whatever you do, do not listen.

Ignore that pull, the need to escape from drudgeries of life and find peace and solitude within nature. It is not the cool breeze and the scent of pine that whispers your name.

No, these things within the forest will rip out your heart and devour your soul. You will tremble as they revel in your madness, taking everything from you and leaving you with nothing. Delve inside this anthology of what truly lurks within the shadows of the trees.

Created by award-winning horror and fiction authors around the world. We dare you to take this journey with us and find out what horrors await you.

The Forest Is Calling. Will you answer?

"A Wail of a Tail" By Emma K. Leadley - A starving hunter and his dog leave for a routine hunting trip, but what he brings back is anything but routine.

"The Thing In The Woods" By D.R. Smith - A group of young boys discover something strange and otherworldly in the forest. Compelled by forces unseen to take it home with them, disaster quickly unfolds. Will anyone survive?

"The Hike" By E.E.W. Christmas - A weekend getaway turns disastrous for Steph, when she wakes to find Becca missing and their car destroyed.

"Forest Man" By Holley Cornetto - A group of old friends reminisce about the summer that changed their lives forever and they soon realize some things should be left in the past.

"Hollow Woods" By Brian Duncan - Making friends is hard, but Emma soon realizes that her new friends aren't who she thinks they are, and the Florida Everglades can be a dangerous place.

"Seita" By Thomas Wake - A hunting trip goes terribly wrong when nature takes back what was stolen.
"Fairies in the Forest" By Jason Holden - A father son getaway turns deadly when the ramblings of their late grandfather prove true.

"Neumack Woods" By N.M. Brown - Two friends go on an adventure into the fabled woods surrounding their home. But what they find will change them forever.

Twenty-four terrifying stories ripped out of your nightmares and delivered for you within this collection by award winning authors from around the globe.

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Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 9: Winter 2023 20 Feb, 2023

by Rock and a Hard Place Press, Jennifer Bernardini, C.W. Blackwell, David Hagerty, William Kitcher, Nick Kolakowski, Mike McHone, Michael Penncavage, Emilee Prado, Richard Risemberg

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Everybody knows how to spot an undercover cop. Right?
Doing life, six months at a time . . .
You think the gun makers will always win?
When you can’t trust your own grandmother, that’s noir.

Rock and a Hard Place is back with issue 9, featuring a dirty dozen tales of woe and misfortune from some of crime and dark fiction’s finest, including: Jennifer Bernardini, C.W. Blackwell, David Hagerty, William Kitcher, Nick Kolakowski, Mike McHone, Michael Penncavage, Emilee Prado, Richard Risemberg, Elena E. Smith, Archer Sullivan, and Mike Zimmerman

Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that comes face-to-face with our gritty truths and hard luck realities, and doesn’t blink.

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Hard Mountain Clay 27 Jan, 2023

by C.W. Blackwell

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Siblings Ben and Maisy find they have no one to turn to after witnessing a gruesome hit-and-run that shatters their innocence. Not their mother, a poor waitress with a spiraling drug addiction—and certainly not her new boyfriend, a brutal, meth-smoking tow-truck driver named Lou Holt. When Lou's cover-up slowly turns their backyard into a makeshift cemetery, they devise plans to escape their chaotic home in the Santa Cruz Mountains, only to see their lives sink to even darker depths.

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"Resonant and harrowing, Hard Mountain Clay is a haunting and visceral story of survival, betrayal, and the power of hope. Like a Californian William Gay, Blackwell writes with compassion and honesty about the worst, and the best, of human nature taking us deep into the dark to see glimmers of beauty. Raw, wrenching, and brave, Hard Mountain Clay will change you."
—Meagan Lucas, author - Songbirds and Stray Dogs

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Mickey Finn Vol. 3: 21st Century Noir 12 Dec, 2022

by Michael Bracken

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Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Volume 3, the third entry of the hard-hitting anthology series, is another crime-fiction cocktail that will again knock readers into a literary stupor.

Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction, driving their work into places short crime fiction doesn’t often go, into a world where the mean streets seem gentrified by comparison and happy endings are the exception rather than the rule. And they do all this in contemporary settings, bringing noir into the 21st century.

Like any good cocktail, Mickey Finn is a heady mix of ingredients that packs a punch, and when you’ve finished reading every story, you’ll know that you’ve been “slipped a Mickey.”

The nineteen contributors, including some of today’s most respected short-story writers and new writers making their mark on the genre, include: Ann Aptaker, Trey R. Barker, C.W. Blackwell, John Bosworth, John M. Floyd, Nils Gilbertson, James A. Hearn, Janice Law, Steve Liskow, Sean McCluskey, Adam Meyer, Alan Orloff, Jon Penfold, C. Matthew Smith, Joseph S. Walker, Michael Wegener, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Sam Wiebe, and Stacy Woodson.

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Song of the Red Squire 6 Sep, 2022

by C.W. Blackwell

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North Carolina, 1949. When agricultural inspector Charlie Danwitter is sent on a special assignment to bucolic Ashe County, he expects an easy job cataloging heirloom apple varieties. However, when the local farmers grow suspicious of his motives, Charlie finds himself in far more trouble than he bargained for. In an attempt to salvage his assignment, he follows a mysterious woman deep into the beating heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains to a long-forgotten village where harvest rituals are rooted in bizarre Old World customs—and discovers that some traditions are better left in the past.

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A Handful of Chicles and a Custom Nine (Guns + Tacos Book 21) 1 Sep, 2022

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Richie Angeles had it all: a cakewalk job wrenching on classic cars for a Chicago loan shark by day, and a side-hustle running high-stakes repo jobs by night. But when a fling with the boss's wife, Gina, goes awry, Richie finds himself the target of every low-life goon and hustler in the city.

With his options dwindling and a bounty on his head, Richie and Gina must find allies in the seedy Chicago underworld in order to survive. But good allies are hard to find—and the ones that seem loyal may only be looking for an easy double-cross. With the infamous Mr. Rosko at his heels, and a trail of blood from Chinatown to the Indiana border, Richie must make a choice to keep running or confront the boss himself.

Will he be able to run the gauntlet and kill Rosko and his inner circle, or will the many hands of the Chicago criminal world get their hands on Richie first?

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Dancing in the Shadows: A Tribute to Anne Rice 22 May, 2022

by Elaine Pascale, Rebecca Rowland

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A tribute to author Anne Rice, 19 authors show their love to the Queen of Horror with a collection of Gothic tales inspired by her legacy. A charity anthology with all proceeds to benefit the Animal Rescue of New Orleans in honor of Anne Rice, whose fondness for animals was well known. Edited by Elaine Pascale and Rebecca Rowland with a foreword by Lisa Kröger.

Authors include: C.W. Blackwell, Morgan Sylvia, Greg Herren, Holly Rae Garcia, Douglas Ford, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, Gordon B. White, Tim Mendees, Stephanie Ellis, Scotty Milder, Holley Cornetto, Lamont A. Turner, KC Grifant, Lee Andrew Forman, Anthony S. Buoni, Trish Wilson, Angela Yuriko Smith, Christine Lajewski and E. F. Schraeder.

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Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties 11 Apr, 2022

by Michael Bracken

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The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, when long-established social norms were challenged and everything changed: from music to fashion to social mores. And the Leave It to Beaver households in Middle America didn’t know what to make of it all.

In the midst of this, private eyes tried to understand and bridge the generational divide while providing their clients with legal and extra-legal detecting services.

From old-school private eyes with their flat-tops, off-the-rack suits, and well-worn brogues to the new breed of private eyes with their shoulder-length hair, bell-bottoms, and hemp sandals, the shamuses in Groovy Gumshoes take readers on a rollicking romp through the Sixties.

With stories by Jack Bates, C.W. Blackwell, Michael Bracken, N.M. Cedeño, Hugh Lessig, Steve Liskow, Adam Meyer, Tom Milani, Neil S. Plakcy, Stephen D. Rogers, Mark Thielman, Grant Tracey, Mark Troy, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Robb White.

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Trouble No More: Crime Fiction Inspired by Southern Rock and the Blues 11 Oct, 2021

by Mark Westmoreland

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Turn on any classic rock station, and you’ll hear Southern Rock tunes that will make you stomp your foot and sing along to. The hard-rocking pioneers of the genre left behind a legacy of hard living that endures today.

The stories in Trouble No More celebrate those pioneers. Find ramblers, gamblers, swindlers, and double-dealers within these pages, all striving to survive more than the Southern humidity.

The authors bring the rough living of the Southern Rock genre to the page, and communicate the ache of the blues. There are twenty-one stories of heartbreak, murder, robbery, and barnyard brawls.

Edited by Mark Westmoreland with stories by Bill Baber, C.W. Blackwell, Jerry Bloomfield, S.A. Cosby, Nikki Dolson, Michel Lee Garrett, James D.F. Hannah, Curtis Ippolito, Jessica Laine, Brodie Lowe, Bobby Mathews, Brian Panowich, Rob Pierce, Joey R. Poole, Raquel V. Reyes, Michael Farris Smith, J.B. Stevens, Chris Swann, Art Taylor, N.B. Turner and Joseph S. Walker.

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TAINTED HEARTS & DIRTY HELLHOUNDS: Bristol Noir Anthology 1 (Bristol Noir: Anthologies) 12 Sep, 2021

by Bristol Noir, Various Authors, John Bowie

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BRISTOL NOIR - ANTHOLOGY 1

A collection of stories from some of the best new and established crime and dark fiction writers from around the world.
All with a dose of noir and dirty realism.

Featuring:

Alpheus Williams, Andrew Davie, Anthony Neil Smith, B.F. Jones, Ben Newell, Blake Johnson, Bobby Mathews, C.W. Blackwell, Curtis Ippolito, David Tromblay, Don Stoll, F.J. Romano, Gabriel Hart, Graham Wynd, Ian Ayris, Jason Butkowski, J.B. Stevens, and John Bowie.

[noir]
no-ir

noun
a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity.
a film or novel in the noir genre.

[dirty realism]
dir-ty re-al-ism

noun
a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
It’s meticulously researched; the style is an unforgiving dirty realism. — Times, Sunday Times (2013)

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Gabba Gabba Hey: An anthology of fiction inspired by the music of The Ramones 3 Jul, 2021

by Chris McVeigh, Brenda Perlin

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"Well, I think we're the greatest rock-n-roll band in the world..." - Joey Ramone

Ramones changed rock-n-roll forever and 45+ years later their legacy is as strong as ever.

Gabba Gabba Hey is an anthology of fiction inspired by the music of the Ramones.

We asked writers from all over the world to choose a Ramone's song and write a story inspired by that song . The resulting 24 stories contained in this anthology are as varied as the songs themselves ranging through the Crime, Horror and Music genres from writers from all across the world - some of whom knew or met or even played with The Ramones. For example the anthology kicks off with a first-hand account written by David Noonan (DT Graves - drummer & founder member of punk stalwarts The Cryptkeeper Five) where he recounts the night he backed up Joey Ramone on the drums - from there the anthology blasts off into a world of Ramones tales & stories that just keep building and building with an intensity that mirrors the songs themselves.

Add to that an Introduction written by Fahrenheit Press founder and life long Ramones fanatic Chris McVeigh + a preface by author & LA Punk Queen Brenda Perlin and it's fair to say that this book really is something special and a definite must have for any Ramones fan.

Oh, and we might also have just accidentally created the greatest Ramones compilation album ever - seriously, look at this track-listing...

Do You Remember Rock 'n’ Roll Radio by David Noonan
It's Not My Place by Philip Charter
I Wanna Be Well by Christopher Bond
Somebody Put Something in My Drink by CW Blackwell
I Wanna Live by Clark Boyd
Pinhead by Kelly Robinson
Suzy Is A Headbanger by Derek Farrell
Cretin Hopp by Mike Burr
Rockaway Beach by Lex Vranick
The KKK Took My Baby Away by Kevin David Anderson
The Crusher by Shaun Avery
7/11 by Amanda Crum
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend by Vinnie Hansen
S.L.U.G. by Thomas Pluck
Danny Says by Hannah O’Doom
My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg) by Bret Nelson
Baby I Love You by Tina Jackson
Chainsaw by Gregory Nicoll
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow by James Ryan
Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) by Joshua L. James
Sheena Is a Punk Rocker by Wendy Davis
I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement by Christina Delia
Main Man by Joseph S. Walker
Too Tough To Die by Jon Park

Put on some Ramones records, read these stories, and lose yourself in the universe of one of the most influential rock-n-roll bands that ever walked onto a stage.

"Gabba Gabba Hey, One of us, One of us, We accept you, One of us..."

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Moonlight & Misadventure: 20 Stories of Mystery & Suspense (A Superior Shores Anthology Book 3) 18 Jun, 2021

by Judy Penz Sheluk, K.L. Abrahamson, C.W. Blackwell, Bethany Maines, Joseph S. Walker, Jeanne DuBois, John M. Floyd, Kate Fellowes, KM Rockwood, Robert Weibezahl

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Whether it’s vintage Hollywood, the Florida everglades, the Atlantic City boardwalk, or a farmhouse in Western Canada, the twenty authors represented in this collection of mystery and suspense interpret the overarching theme of “moonlight and misadventure” in their own inimitable style where only one thing is assured: Waxing, waning, gibbous, or full, the moon is always there, illuminating things better left in the dark.
Featuring stories by K.L. Abrahamson, Sharon Hart Addy, C.W. Blackwell, Clark Boyd, M.H. Callway, Michael A. Clark, Susan Daly, Buzz Dixon, Jeanne DuBois, Elizabeth Elwood, Tracy Falenwolfe, Kate Fellowes, John M. Floyd, Billy Houston, Bethany Maines, Judy Penz Sheluk, KM Rockwood, Joseph S. Walker, Robert Weibezahl, and Susan Jane Wright.

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