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Don't Break The Oath : Women Of Horror Anthology Volume 4 (Kandisha Press Women Of Horror Anthology Series) Kindle Edition
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With foreword by Meghan Arcuri (Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Vice President Horror Writers Association)
Edited by Jill Girardi and Janine Pipe
Featuring tales from:
Jessica Burgess
R.A. Busby
Holley Cornetto
Tracy Cross
Cassie Daley
Ariel Dodson
Melissa Ashley Hernandez
Alyson Faye
Sheela Kean
Kirby Kellogg
Cecilia Kennedy
K.P. Kulski
Caryn Larrinaga
Marie McWilliams
Charlotte Platt
Samantha Ortiz
Lydia Prime
Jennifer Soucy
Anna Taborska
Sonora Taylor
Roxie Voorhees
C.C. Winchester
Angela Yuriko Smith
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 10, 2022
- File size2177 KB
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- ASIN : B09XPGBGQD
- Publisher : Kandisha Press (April 10, 2022)
- Publication date : April 10, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 2177 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 317 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #976,379 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Shimanchu-American and award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years of experience as a professional writer in nonfiction. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), a two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year for 2020, find her at angelaysmith.com.
Caryn Larrinaga is an internationally best-selling mystery and horror author. She has won multiple awards for her work, including the League of Utah Writers Silver Quill and the Cat Writers Association Muse Medallion. In 2021, she was named Writer of the Year by the League of Utah Writers.
Watching scary movies through split fingers terrified Caryn as a child, and those nightmares inspire her to write now. Her 90-year-old house has a colorful history, and the creaking walls and narrow hallways send her running (never walking) up the stairs. Exploring her fears through writing makes Caryn feel a little less foolish for wanting a buddy to accompany her into the tool shed.
Caryn lives near Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and their clowder of cats. Visit www.carynlarrinaga.com for free short fiction and true tales of haunted places.
Anna Taborska was born in London, England. She is a filmmaker and writer of horror stories, screenplays and poetry. Anna has written and directed two short fiction films, two documentaries and award-winning TV drama 'The Rain Has Stopped'. She also worked on eighteen other films and was involved in the making of two major BBC television series: 'Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution' and 'World War Two behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West'. Her stories have appeared in a number of Year's Best anthologies, including 'The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four' and 'Best British Horror 2014'. Anna's short story 'Bagpuss' was an Eric Hoffer Award Honouree, and the screenplay adaptation of her story 'Little Pig' was a finalist in the Shriekfest Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2009. Anna's debut short story collection, 'For Those who Dream Monsters', released by Mortbury Press in 2013, won The Children of the Night Award. Anna is a two-time Bram Stoker Award nominee and a three-time British Fantasy Award nominee. You can view Anna's full resume here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1245940/, watch her films and book trailers here: http://www.youtube.com/annataborska and learn more about her short stories and screenplays here: http://annataborska.wix.com/horror.
Tracy Cross’s work has been featured in several podcasts, including ‘Nighty Night with Rabia Chaudry (advocate and author of the New York Times bestselling book “Adnan’s Story”). Her work can be found in several anthologies, including Don’t Break the Oath, Pandemics Unleashed and 99 Tiny Terrors. Her first book, Rootwork, a folk horror homage to her late grandmother, will be published by Mother Horror's New Imprint-Dark Hart Publishing. Tracy understands what it feels like to be the 21st Century invisible woman. She creates strong female characters to debunk the stereotype that women should be seen and not heard. Her protagonists are strong, Black women, that any reader can see and support. She describes her writing as “exciting stories with breadcrumbs” that lead the reader to an unexpected yet rewarding ending. Tracy has been the recipient of the Horror Writer’s Association Scholarship from Hell in 2022, a grant from the Ladies of Horror Fiction, the 2019 New Voices Fellowship from the Emerging Writers Festival and participated in a Residency with Under the Volcano in Mexico. She lives in Washington, DC, is an active member of the HWA, and is a huge Prince fan. She loves disco and shares her latest exploits and information on her blog: tracycwritesonline.com
Sonora Taylor is the author of several short stories and novels, including Seeing Things, Little Paranoias: Stories, and Without Condition. In 2020, she won the Ladies of Horror Fiction awards for Best Collection (Little Paranoias) and Best Novel (Without Condition). Her short stories have been published by Camden Park Press, Burial Day Press, Kandisha Press, Cemetery Gates Media, Sirens Call Publications, Tales to Terrify, and others.
Along with V. Castro, Sonora co-manages Fright Girl Summer (frightgirlsummer.com), an online book festival promoting marginalized authors and voices. In 2022, Sonora and Nico Bell will edit an anthology of fat-positive horror called Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology.
Sonora is currently working on her fourth novel. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and a rescue dog.
Visit Sonora online at sonorawrites.com.
K.P. Kulski is the author of the novel, Fairest Flesh. Her short fiction has appeared in Unnerving Magazine, anthologies Not All Monsters and Typhon Vol. 2. She is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Air Force. When she’s not writing, she teaches history at a small college in Northeast Ohio.
Marie McWilliams lives and works in Northern Ireland. Interested in human behaviour, she studied at Queens University, Belfast where she obtained a degree in Psychology. Her short stories have been featured in several anthologies, magazines and book boxes. When not writing, she discusses books and horror on her YouTube Channel, TikTok (@mariemcwilliams1) and Instagram page (@bookishmarie). Head to her website for all the details on her previous work and up coming projects - www.mariemcwilliams.com.
I live in the UK near the Bronte moors where I walk my rescue dog, Roxy. I write dark fiction, and ghost stories. I was obsessed with historic haunted houses growing up and old movies especially film noirs of the 1940's. I blend the two genres in my fiction. I teach creative writing, edit and mentor writers. Away from my writing I swim, craft, sing, eat chocolate and laugh a lot with friends.
Jill Girardi is the author of Hantu Macabre, the best-selling novel featuring punk rock paranormal detective Suzanna Sim and Tokek the toyol. The book was shortlisted for the 2019 Popular/The Star Readers’ Choice Awards. Suzanna and Tokek will also be taken to the big screen, as a full-length film based on the characters is set to start shooting, with former MMA Fighter Ann Osman starring as Suzanna.
Jill has several short horror stories published (many of which feature various small, wicked creatures) and will soon begin working on the next volume in the Hantu Macabre series. She currently lives in New York where she is the editor of the Kandisha Press Women of Horror Anthology books. Please find her on Facebook, Goodreads and Amazon, and on Instagram/Twitter @kandishapress
www.kandishapress.com
Lydia Prime is a New Jersey born creature of the night. Her short story, Sadie, (published in Kandisha Press’, Under Her Black Wings: 2020 Women in Horror Anthology) won the 23rd Critters Annual Readers Poll for Best Horror Short Story (2020). When Lydia isn’t releasing monstrosities from her mind, she happily helps others work with their brain children through her editing services. On Fridays, she even offers free faulty advice to those in need. Charitable, and chilling—what a gal!
Sheela Kean is a Michigan-based author of horror and paranormal suspense stories. Inspired by her late grandmother's book collecting, she is an avid reader of multiple genres and active in the bookish community. She enjoys spending time in Northern Michigan with her husband and children, quilting, and being a full-time geek.
You'll often find her furiously scribbling away in the many notebooks she keeps in her basement office, I wouldn't read them if I were you.
As a stay-at-home parent, she also values coffee and silence.
Website: SheelaKean.com
Twitter & Instagram: @SheelaKean
Trading in a police badge, Janine is now a full-time Splatterpunk Award nominated writer, whilst also being a mum, wife and Disney addict. Influenced by the works of King from a young age, she likes to shock readers with violence and scare them with monsters - both mythical and man-made.
Coming 2022 SAUSAGES - The Making of Dog Soldiers.
You'll likely find her devouring work by Glenn Rolfe, Hunter Shea and Tim Meyer or watching Neil Marshall movies.
Her biggest fans are her hubby and daughter.
Follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/janinepipe28
Jennifer Soucy is just a regular girl with an abiding love for the supernatural/paranormal--a proud nerd of anything involving horror & dark fantasy. Born in Connecticut and forever a New Englander at heart, she moved away at 19, unable to resist the call of adventure. She settled again in the Atlanta area with her family and delights in being called a "Damn Yankee." She also lived nearly two years in Las Vegas, her home away from home. Back in Georgia now, she started writing again to fulfill her childhood dreams. This writer, assistant editor, and 25-year veteran of the service industry hopes to continue publishing books that occasionally make people sleep with the light on.
Check out her website at www.jenniferlsoucy.com for updates, blogs, and more!
Holley Cornetto is a writer, librarian, professor, book reviewer, and transplanted southerner who now calls New Jersey home. Her debut novella, WE HAUNT THESE WOODS, is available from Bleeding Edge Books. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Daily Science Fiction, Flame Tree Press Newsletter, Dark Recesses Press, and anthologies from Cemetery Gates Media, Eerie River Publishing, Dark Ink, and several others. In 2020, she was awarded a grant from the Ladies of Horror Fiction. In addition to writing The Horror Tree’s weekly newsletter, she regularly reviews for Booklist, Ginger Nuts of Horror, and The Horror Tree. She teaches creative writing in the online MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. Find her on Twitter @HLCornetto.
Roxie Voorhees (she/he/they) is the type of ghoul people call a great slay. She is a tangled threesome of Gag me with a Spoon, Welcome to the Darkside, and Catch me Outside. When she isn’t reading, she is writing, and when she isn’t writing she is creating something with her hands while binge-watching Buffy.
Originally from Central California, he now resides with his service dog, a mastador named Bellatrix, in NE Indiana, where he refuses to use the word pop, is hella progressive, and dreams of a proper taco.
In 2022, Roxie created Book Slayer Press, a home for diverse/queer dark fiction projects. His first publication will be HENTAI ECTOPLASM, coming 2023. He is currently working on too many writing projects and really should calm down.
Roxie has come out as gender fluid! She prefers any pronouns and doesn't mind being included in women specific lists, but asks you please note their fluidity.
Instagram: @the.book.slayer
Twitter: @theb00kslayer
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/rvthebookslayer
Website: www.roxievoorhees.gay
Cassie Daley is a blogger, artist, and writer living in Northern California with her boyfriend and three dogs. Her first published short story, "Ready or Not", debuted as a part of Fright Girl Summer, and is available to read online. Her nonfiction has appeared in UNNERVING MAGAZINE, and she's a contributing author in two anthologies: WE ARE WOLVES, and THE INFERNAL CLOCK: INFERNO.
Aside from writing, she runs an online art shop and is a contributing team member to the Ladies of Horror Fiction website. She is the creator of THE BIG BOOK OF HORROR AUTHORS: A Coloring & Activity Book, and is also a host on The PikeCast, a book podcast dedicated to reading and discussing the works of Christopher Pike. You can find Cassie on Twitter as @ctrlaltcassie, or letsgetgalactic.com.
R. A. Busby is the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of the creepy hit "Not the Man I Married" (Black Petals Issue #93), "Holes" (Graveyard Smash), "Bits" (Short Sharp Shocks #45), the elegiac "Street View" (Collective Realms #2), and the pandemic-inspired "Cactusland" (34 Orchard #2) and others. When not writing stories to scare you, R.A. Busby goes running in the desert with her dog.
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The stories are as unique as the individuals who wrote them, but they are all quality readings. As with any collection, some of the stories connected to me more deeply than others, but at least 11 of the 23 stories contained within this volume are 5 star stories on their own. It is a wonderfully diverse and quality collection.
A word about female authors in horror. So many of us grew up reading King, Koontz, Barker, and Straub, and they are wonderful writers. But the female author brings a voice that is terror and tenderness, horror and humanity, love and loss, passion and pain. I believe that female writers bring a depth and understanding of the soul that allows these stories to seep just a little deeper than many of their counterparts. Trust me when I say that the stories in this volume will scare the hell out of you, and they might just choke you up too.
If you want to dip your toes in a pool of dark water, this is a great anthology to begin with. Like me, you may just decide to dive on in.
The first story in the collection, What the Sea Gives by K.P. Kulski, sets the stage beautifully with a heartbreaking story that is almost more like a dark fairytale than anything else. (Disclaimer: I may have actually teared up.)
There is some amazing creature feature/monstrosity horror between Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Caryn Larrinaga), Shoot Your Shot (Charlotte Platt), and Misneach (Roxie Voorhees).
The final story in the collection, Fluid by R.A. Busby was another standout for me, and a great way to close out the anthology. A body horror that speaks to the unique body image horror that women face, it was both poignant AND super creepy.
The horror lit scene is absolutely thriving right now, and it's thrilling to see how much of it is coming from feminine voices. This collection is going to be a valuable addition!
‘Twenty-three authors from around the world have joined together to tell their stories of pacts with the devil, blood sacrifice, demonic encounters, torment and obsession. Horrors of the body, mind, and soul. Don't break the chain of hands as we speak our Dark Oath.’
The following are my favorites, my immediate thought after reading each, and a snippet I hope will entice you:
‘What The Sea Gives’ – by K.P. Kulski – Love It!
‘I do my best to push the memories of my life before the island away. My world before here breathes in perpetual gray. The memory of color would be maddening if I allowed it space in my thoughts.’
‘Black-Eyed Susan’ – by Ariel Dodson – My Heart!
‘She drank it to forget, of course; as if it were possible to forget something like that. As though it were possible to wipe her away, as though she had never been.’
Susan.
‘The Silver Horn’ – by Alyson Faye – Creepy Good!
‘The planned buddy’s camping trip had not gone to plan. Not from the moment Jay’s car had broken down on the deserted stretch of unclassified road curving around the tops of the moor…’
‘Breaking Up Is Hard To Do’ – by Caryn Larrinaga – Hehehe, I’m not gonna lie, this one gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
‘“Go away, Nathan.” Jessie’s thin fingers curl around the edge of her front door as she blocks the narrow opening with her body…“I told you. We’re through.”’
‘I’m standing on her stupid “Wipe Your Paws” welcome mat and gripping her doorframe with both hands, partly to stop myself from swaying but mostly to give myself something to squeeze that isn’t her throat.’
‘Shoot Your Shot’ – by Charlotte Platt – Creepy Good!
‘“I’m not afraid to die,” he said, blinking sweat out of his eyes…Athletic, he’d shaped his body through hard work and venom. Smelled like he’d had years to marinate in his own hate and righteousness, letting it slowly boil up.’
‘The Groom Of Lorelei’ – by Holley Cornetto
‘As the years passed, Liam found himself dreaming more and more often of the maiden of the rock. Some nights she sat staring out to sea, as if she saw more than the turquoise waves pressing in around her. Other nights she sang, and the sea stilled to listen to her melancholy song.
‘The Coachman’s Cottage’ – by Anna Taborska – Creepy Good!
The vast guesthouse that had been hired on account of the matriarch’s upcoming birthday had enough bedrooms to house all of them bar one…[T]he prospect of not being woken by hordes of screaming brats at the crack of dawn rather appealed to him. But how welcome the screaming brats would have been now.’
‘Capable Of Loving’ – by Sonora Taylor – That Was Good!
‘The set had to look exactly like it did on television, or else the children would sense that something was amiss, and they wouldn’t trust their meeting. It was important that the children never lost their trust in Desmond. For many of them, Desmond was the only person they thought they could trust.’
‘Perfect Girlfriend’ – by Angela Yuriko Smith – That Was Good!
‘I have no knowledge of how I came to be standing on a corner next to a row of low budget Scroo-Boos in the rain. I only know that I am here with an activated directive and the wet weather is counter-productive. I don’t mind. I am impervious up to -50° Celsius and waterproof to a depth of 552 feet. But my target consumer isn’t.’
‘Misneach’ – by Roxie Voorhees – That. Was. Awesome!
‘If I could bring him back to life, I’d f**king kill him. I adjust the blanket, and the glowing pain of heartbreak grows in my chest. Once again, I’m hit with the stark realization that he is gone for good.’
‘The Kinda True Story Of Bloody Mary’ – by Tracy Cross – A Blast From The Past - Love It!
‘Taneisha sat in the taxicab, angry her mother had planned her Halloween night. She was finally invited to the double feature at the drive-in by one of the hottest jocks in school…Now, while her friends and the hot jock sat at the drive-in watching Friday the 13th and He Knows You’re Alone, she would be babysitting.’
‘Close To You’ – by Cassie Daley – That Ending, My Heart!
‘Taking a deep breath, she inhaled the scent of lavender and rosemary from the bushes planted just below the window, the combination of pine and floral scents an intoxicating blend that would always remind her of this place and these mornings. They’d been her wife’s idea shortly after buying the house, a small personal touch that Nora didn’t realize would end up impacting her so much later on. So much of being with Sam was like that; small things turned into bigger, better ones along the line.’
‘Agreement’ – by Sheela Kean – That Was Good, Love The Ending!
‘Joey couldn’t believe his luck. It had been ten years since his father died. That meant ten years of entering his name into the state elk hunt drawing and coming up empty-handed. Until now.
‘Lady Killer’ – by Melissa Ashley Hernandez – Love This!
‘About fifteen minutes later, John was highlighting a route on a paper map he found in the glove box, scarfing down an old granola bar he’d scrounged from his briefcase, and swearing he would only fly commercial for the rest of his life. With a new understanding of the road, and his belly somewhat sated, he turned the key to start the truck again, only to be met with a gut-wrenching grinding sound.’
‘Subscribe For More!’ – by Jessica Burgess – Hey now, I feel attacked! ;) It was my Mom spiel, too, back in the good ol’ days. Creepy Good - Love This One!
‘‘I was your typical teenager, always with a phone glued to my face, countless hours spent lost in a rabbit hole of God knows what. I’d roll my eyes anytime my dad made those ‘back in my day remarks.’ The ones about the good ol’ days. ‘We didn't have cell phones and computers, back in my day we communicated like everyone should—face to face, having real conversations…Meeting up with your friends on a Friday night and hanging out was never ‘virtual’. More eye rolls in three...two...one. Blah, blah, blah, the usual dad spiel.’’
‘The Trial of Jehenne de Brigue’ – by C.C. Winchester – That Was Good!
‘“Jehenne de Brigue, you stand before this court accused of witchcraft. How do you plead?" Tapestries decorated the stone walls of the large, cold room. A group of men sat up high against one wall, garbed in the colorful robes of religious leaders. A man in a plain black robe sat at the center of a small stone desk below them...He approached the woman who stood before them, her hands bound by rope. The man spoke to her. "What say you, madam?"’
‘Seeds’ – by Marie McWilliams – Dark And All Kinds Of Creepy, Love!
‘Plant a seed and something grows. That's what my grandfather always taught me.’
‘Fluid’ – by R.A. Busby – That Was Good!
‘One evening browsing YouTube to find new Photoshop techniques (“High-End Skin Retouching! Click the red button to subscribe!”) I fell into an Internet rabbit hole and ended up on this video.’
Thank you, Janine Pipe and Kandisha Press, for providing me with an eBook of DON’T BREAK THE OATH WOMEN OF HORROR ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 at the request of an honest review. #WIHM