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“Nothing But What You Bring With You” published in Carpe Noctem

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Some more publishing news: my werewolf story “Nothing But What You Bring With You” is out now in the Carpe Noctem anthology.

Carpe Noctem was edited by Megan Fennell and Leslie Van Zwol (who were fantastic to work with) and published by Tyche Books in Calgary. There was an official launch at the When Words Collide festival on Aug. 18.

The theme for the anthology was stories deeply connected with the night. As the announcement for the book says: “Night transforms the world. Owls and bats claim the sky from songbirds, nocturnal predators prowl beneath cover of darkness, and cloying shadows grow thick enough to swallow a scream. As the saying goes: people aren’t truly afraid of the dark—they fear what could be in the darkness with them.”

A promo card for the Carpe Noctem anthology, with an excerpt from my short story, “Nothing But What You Bring With You.”

My story, “Nothing But What You Bring With You,” is a werewolf tale of friendship, betrayal, and revenge. It takes place in Manitoba near the Ontario border, in the Canadian Shield, during a winter snowstorm. Those are especially fun at night…

The full list of contributors to Carpe Noctem is: Teresa Aguinaldo; Tyler Battaglia; Stewart C Baker; Beth Cato; Barry Charman; Tommy Cheis; Jonathan Chibuik; Derek Des Anges; Richard DiPirro; David J. Fortier; David Jón Fuller; Chadwick Ginther; Joseph Halden; Richard Lau; Jennifer Lesh Fleck; Avra Margariti; Thomas C. Mavroudis; Cat McDonald; Paul McQuade; Ville Meriläinen; Tais Teng; and Laura VanArendonk Baugh.

Tyche Books held a countdown to the release date on social media, making up beautiful promo images for each piece in the collection, which is where the image for my story above comes from.

For more information on Carpe Noctem and ordering, visit the Tyche Books website.

Happy reading! And don’t stay up too late…

Pleased to have a story in Tesseracts 18

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Well, the word is official: Edge Books has released the table of contents for Tesseracts 18: Wrestling With Gods, and a story of mine is among them. It’s always an honour to be included in Tesseracts, but especially so for me since Tesseracts 17 saw my first professional sale, and I’d submitted to previous incarnations of the anthology without success over the years.

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A good year for women werewolves

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Anathema No 3It’s fair to say 2012 has been great for women werewolves. Lycanthropes have also had some ups and downs in literature and pop culture this year; and as for gatherings of werewolf fans, there was one disastrous convention and one that was quite good.

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Werewolf Wednesday: David Wellington’s Frostbite

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Cover of "Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale"

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then what better place for it than the Canadian North? In the bizarre landscape of the Arctic’s “drunken forest” and forsaken settlements such as Port Radium, David Wellington crafts an intriguing, original take on the werewolf mythos in Frostbite.

Wellington had already shown his taste for revamping classic monsters, in novels such as Vampire Zero and 13 Bullets.  In Frostbite, he makes the rules for his lycanthropes all the more strict and frightening, while at the same time presenting a very human story.

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Dennis Cooley tackles Dracula in Seeing Red

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Vampires may have been out of favour in the monster-movie biz until recently, replaced by crazed teenager-killers, but in the literary realm they haven’t overstayed their welcome by a long shot, however many novels Anne Rice puts out. (This review was so obviously written before Twilight vastly expanded the readership for all things vampiric. — DJF) Dennis Cooley goes back to the grandaddy of them all, Dracula, for inspiration in Seeing Red.

Cooley’s various takes on the vampire mythos in general and Dracula in particular range from the intensely personal to the cunningly absurd.

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Feature Friday: Freddy vs. Jason

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Freddy vs. Jason

I have to admit I’m not a fan of slasher flicks. A good scare is worth a lot, and I can appreciate anything from John Carpenter’s The Thing to Se7en.

But buckets of blood provoke a visceral reaction in my guts, and though that has faded over the years, it’s a big reason why I never saw more than a few in those hallmark eighties series, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street. I’ll take Dokken and DJ Jazzy Jeff and leave it at that for my Freddy Krueger nostalgia.

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