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About Sarah Van Goethem
Sarah Van Goethem is a Canadian Author who resides in Southwestern Ontario. She spent lazy childhood summers on the farm, reading on the old tire swing beneath the maple tree, believing in fairytales. Now she weaves that memorable enchantment into her own short stories & novels.
She’s also convinced she was born in the wrong decade, maybe even the wrong century. She’s a nature lover, a wanderer of the fields & forests, and gatherer of vintage. Inspired by the natural world and the past, she blends history with the magic of nature in her writing.
You can find her at auctions, thrift stores, the back of her farm, maybe an abandoned house. Always in a rocking chair.
Most recently, Sarah's novels have been longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award and in PitchWars. Sarah is represented by Dorian Maffei of Kimberley Cameron & Associates Literary Agency.
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Featuring work by Pete Aldin, Andrew Bourelle, Stephanie A. Cain, Beth Cato, M.L.D. Curelas, Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, Amanda C. Davis, Roddy Fosburg, Joseph Halden, Lynn Hardaker, L.S. Johnson, Michael M. Jones, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Samantha Kymmell-Harvey, C.S. MacCath, Jonathan C. Parrish, Alexandra Seidel, Samantha L. Strong, Michael B. Tager, Rachel M. Thompson, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Sarah Van Goethem, Xan van Rooyen, Lilah Wild, Suzanne J. Willis and BD Wilson.
These twenty-six ghost stories, each with a unique perspective and style, explore hauntings and specters in ways both new and familiar.
Retellings of Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, Pinocchio, The Twelve Dancing Princesses and more are all showcased alongside some original fairy tale-like stories. Featuring stories by Melissa Bobe, Adam Brekenridge, Beth Cato, MLD Curelas, Joseph Halden, Reese Hogan, Diana Hurlburt, Christina Johnson, Alethea Kontis, Lex T. Lindsay, Wendy Nikel, Brian Trent, Laura VanArendonk Baugh and Sarah Van Goethem.
Air is essential for life. Air is so important that breathing is instinctual. Yet Air is unstable and capricious, blowing gently as a summer breeze in one moment and blasting with the fury of a tornado in the next. No wonder that tricksters, fairies, and spirits belong to Air just as much as winged creatures. Elusive and ethereal, Air’s denizens are difficult to find and harder to capture.
Brave the ever-changing world of Air with these twenty-one stories and poems, featuring: Rose Strickman; Davian Aw; Mark Bruce; Alexandra Seidel; Damascus Mincemeyer; Cherry Potts; Ellen Huang; Giselle Leeb; Bronwynn Erskine; Kevin Cockle; Elizabeth R. McClellan; Chadwick Ginther; Christa Hogan; Rowena McGowan; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Alyson Faye; Mara Malins; Sara C. Walker; Elise Forier Edie; Oliver Smith; and Sarah Van Goethem.
Settle your mask into place. It’s time for the Halloween Party to begin.
You have been invited to open this book to experience stories so macabre, so horrifying, that we must recommend you read them before dark. Make the unwise choice to read one of these unsettling tales just before switching off the light, and we cannot promise that you will live to see the next morning sun.
Thank you for coming to our party. It was nice to know you while you were among the living.
CONTENTS
- Introduction by DAVID YURKOVICH
- Fallen Hero by LISA FOX
- The Stumpville Affair by JAMES GOODRIDGE
- The Grim, Wicked Wood by JAMES MICHAEL SHOBERG
- Lizzy Dies From a Plane Crash at the End of This Poem by JAMES MICHAEL SHOBERG
- Run Red by JAMES MICHAEL SHOBERG
- Graveyard by SHUTTA CRUM
- Pearberry by BERNIE BROWN
- The Matriarch Sin by DOYLE WELDON KNIGHT
- Violet’s Blossoms by JOSEPHINE QUEEN
- Razors and Apples for My Love by DIANNE PEARCE
- Our Father by RACHEL M. BROWN
- The Seamstress by RUSSELL REECE
- The Man in the Hotel by BERNIE BROWN
- All Hallows’ Eve: Full Dark by CATHARINE CLARK-SAYLES
- Monster Love by CATHARINE CLARK-SAYLES
- Creature Feature by CATHARINE CLARK-SAYLES
- Erato’s Assistant by PAUL MILENSKI
- Munchers by DAN ALLEN
- . . . and All the Trimmings by J. C. RAYE
- The Doggone Ghost by BERNIE BROWN
- Waves by ROBIN HILL-PAGE GLANDEN
- The Sea Cemetery by ANDREA GOYAN
- Pumpkin Seed Spit by R. DAVID FULCHER
- The Creepy Dance of Red Curly Hair by AMIRAH AL WASSIF
- New Meat by ROBERT LEWIS HERON
- Alice’s Hat by TERRI CLIFTON
- A House Haunted by DAVID W. DUTTON
- Mary Wu by DIANNE PEARCE
- The Ghost of Chillingham Manor by PATSY PRATT-HERZOG
- The Dark Augur by ELIZABETH VEGVARY
- Happy Fucking Birthday by JOHN DAVIS
- Halloween Dance by JOHN DAVIS
- Teacher’s Pets by LINDA RUMNEY
- Thrown Out of the Church by My Father – a Baptist Deacon, 1964 by ALICE MORRIS
- She Waits for a Season of Hope by ALICE MORRIS
- Spirit of the Evening, Pray for Us All by ALICE MORRIS
- Why the Writer Cannot Rest by PAUL MILENSKI
- Mr. Gibb’s Banner Year by HEIDI J. LOBECKER
- Ache by MARK ALAN POLO
- O’ Death, You Sonnet! by DANTE SILICATO
- Tick Tock by BAYNE NORTHERN
- The Wood Witch by SARAH VAN GOETHEM
- Mirror, Mirror by ELLIE COOPER
- The Two Witches by CARRIE SZ KEANE
- Red by JUDITH SPEIZER CRANDELL
- The Holes by CAROLYN GEDULD
- BRB by DAVID YURKOVICH
- Absolute Monsters: Author Bios
Twelve international authors have come together to bring you a fresh collection of Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy inspired tales. Our stories range from light and comedic to dark and full of drama, so fans of the genre both old and new are bound to find something they love within these pages.
Featuring:
Secrets and Airships - An airship pirate's daughter schemes to escape the reach of her father and discover a long lost treasure. By A. F. Stewart
Regicide and Prejudice - An unexpected inventor has the chance to prove his mettle when he is asked to protect Prince George from assassins. By Paul Michael
Gho-Power - A steam carriage designer harnesses an unusual new energy source with surprising consequences. By Michael Chandos
Nihon Daitan'na - The Americans will stop at nothing to force Japan to open its borders, but they can't predict what the Emperor has in store for them. By T.J. O'Hare
Monster of the Deep - A steamship signals for help, but when it arrives, the crew has disappeared without a trace. By Thomas Roggenbuck
Where the Light Enters - An apprentice's loyalty is tested when an inventor's young wife looks to him for an escape from her loveless marriage. By Crysta K. Coburn
Treason in the Sky - A wartime mechanic discovers a wide-reaching conspiracy with ties to her and her forgotten past. By Jacy Sellers
Catchin' Gargoyles - A gargoyle hunter thinks he knows everything about them until his latest mission proves him wrong. By Tim Kidwell
The Last Sleep - A post-mortem photographer wishes to save her brother from his illness, but she learns everything comes with a price. By Sarah Van Goethem
The Mobius Trip - a shapeshifter's psyche is shattered by the asylum's experiments and he's doomed to repeat the same delusion-filled hour. By Phoebe Darqueling
The Last Automaton of Doctor Jubal Varva - An aging inventor builds one last machine to end the decades-long war and atone for past mistakes. By K.A. Lindstrom
Peregrine Rising: A Skies of Fire and Lightning Story - A sky pirate is pressed into service to recover a stolen item from an old nemesis. By Drew Carmody
Two young women defy the devil with the power of friendship. The pilot of a talking plane discovers a woman who transforms into a swan every night and is pulled into a much more personal conflict than the war he’s already fighting. A pair of twins with special powers find themselves in Eva Braun’s custody and wrapped up in a nefarious plan. A team of female special agents must destroy a secret weapon–the spindle–before it can be deployed. Retellings of The Little Mermaid, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Monkey King, Swan Lake, Pinocchio and more are all showcased alongside some original fairy tale-like stories.
Featuring stories by Zannier Alejandra, Alicia K. Anderson, Jack Bates, Patrick Bollivar, Sara Cleto, Amanda C. Davis, Jennifer R. Donohue, Juliet Harper, Blake Jessop, A.A. Medina, Lizz Donnelly, Nellie Neves, Wendy Nikel, Brian Trent, Alena Van Arendonk, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Sarah Van Goethem, and Robert E. Vardeman.
Earth is steady. Solid. Reliable. It is the source of life and the thing which sustains it. But it’s not always serene and peaceful. It takes a lot to stir the earth but when it does, things get dramatic. Quakes swallow cities. Oceans rise. Mountains crumble. Earth is not weak, and it knows no pity.
Learn the strength of Earth and its creations in these eighteen stories, including: rusting dragons; mysterious summer jobs; magical inheritances; and dryads engaged in a bitter war.
Featuring: Jane Yolen; Chadwick Ginther; Kevin Cockle; Damascus Mincemeyer; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Catherine Macleod; Mara Malins; Steve Toase; Suzanne J. Willis; Blake Jessop; Buzz Dixon; David L. Craddock; Rose Strickman; Gregory L. Norris; Tamsin Showbrook; Sarah Van Goethem; Tim Ford; and V.F. LeSann.