Bøger af Mark Allan Gunnells

Kennedy's Horror Collection series continues with book fifteen. Once again, he has collected stories from authors from all over the world, and this time they have been selected specifically from the LGBTQIA+ community. As always, only the best made the cut, and have been gathered here for your reading pleasure. Sit back, relax, and get ready for some of the best scary stories you will read this year.

Haunted Places and other Stories is a collection of short, queer, horror fiction. Gunnells explores the range of ways people-and places-can be haunted, and uses this theme to challenge assumptions of queerness. He broaches some very real topics that, in themselves, haunting contemporary Americans, and continues to act as a clear, loud, and proud, queer voice in horror fiction.

The stories you have in this book show a wide range. Some are very short, almost vignettes, some longer. Some are supernatural and some are based in our reality. Some have surprises while others lead us through an expected series of events. No matter what the differences among them, though, they all have one thing in common: the wonderfully fresh narrative voice that Gunnells gives us... I envy people who have not yet read Mark Allan Gunnells, for they have a real treat ahead of them, and this book is the perfect place to start. -From the introduction by John R. Little

"I had just turned fourteen years old the night my best friends and I decided to kill Mr. Martinsen. He was my friend. My mentor. I would even go so far as to say I loved him, as I looked up to Mr. Martinsen the same way I had looked up to my maternal grandfather, who died from a heart attack when I was ten. He was the best teacher I ever had. I will never forget him, or the knowledge he imparted to me, as long as I live. But on that summer evening just several weeks before I began my freshman year of high school, he gave my friends and me no choice. Things had gone too far. We had put it off for too long. We knew Mr. Martinsen had to die."--

You're invited to a Halloween party. The wind is howling outside, flames roaring in the fireplace, and several people have gathered to tell you spooky and mournful tales for All Hallows Eve. There's a little something for everyone... ...a teenager babysitting a bizarre and frightening child... ...a couple staying at an isolated house in the mountains stalked by something inhuman... ...a church's alternative to Halloween that provides something even more terrifying... ...a boy who wishes that every day was Halloween and lives to regret it... ...a seasonal prank that goes horribly awry... ...a child alone in a graveyard hoping to make a connection between the living and the dead... So come inside, sit back, and don't even think about trying to leave. The doors are all bolted and the windows locked, and you are trapped inside Mark Allan Gunnells' Halloween House of Horrors!

It may be dangerous to go out in the rain... But it may be even more dangerous to stay inside. Just after noon on a sunny spring day at Friedkin University, a layer of strange clouds smudges across the sky, and a mysterious rain begins to fall. This isn't just a surprise spell of rain-this substance is slimy and gelatinous...and it's not letting up any time soon. The rain spreads across the country, the hemisphere, and the globe, with growing ripples of panic and paranoia gathering behind it. Is it a natural, undocumented phenomenon? A chemical weapon? Some kind of bacterial contagion? As fear turns theories into conspiracies and no clear answers are given, factions start to form between those who have been exposed to the rain and those who stayed dry. Who is safe? Who is marked? Who is dangerous, and who is not? The rain keeps falling, and at Friedkin University, the sanctuary of the campus bookstore swiftly becomes a dangerous battlefield. Is it man versus nature? Or man versus man? When it Rains is a perfect read for fans of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Nick Cutter, or books like One Rainy Night by Richard Laymon, Bird Box by Josh Malerman, and Rain by Joe Hill, and even movies like Night of the Living Dead and The Thing. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Come peruse the dusty shelves of BOOK HAVEN. Scan the titles, study the strange trinkets that are lined up on display. Maybe pull aside the cobwebs and run your fingers alone the spines of the books, caress the artifacts. You will find many forgotten treasures and un-mined gems among the debris."Mark Allan Gunnells is one of our best short story writers, and this book continues that tradition. I loved reading this collection!"-John R. Little, author of Miranda, The Memory Tree, and The Murder of Jesus ChristFrom the author of Flowers in a Dumpster comes a new collection of stories to terrify you, to move you, to make you think. In the title novella, readers are introduced to a future where all literature has been lost, but a group of government agents are on the hunt for the mythological Book Haven, a vast secret library. Along the way, they encounter mysteries and betrayals and are not sure who they can trust.With Book Haven and Other Curiosities, Gunnells provides an eclectic mix of tales to entertain and engage the imagination. Some of what you find will be horrifying, some of it beautiful, but all of it is yours for the taking. We're so glad you found your way here and welcome you in side BOOK HAVEN.