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SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror Kindle Edition
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Soldiers fight to survive.
They fight each other, and they fight the demons inside.
Sometimes, they fight real monsters.
SNAFU collects stories of ancient myths, time travellers, horrors in the old west…
and the soldiers who fight them.
Featuring some of the best writers working in the field today.
Jonathan Maberry, Greig Beck and James A Moore lead the way, with a contingent of emerging authors to back them up.
Fight or die.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 7, 2014
- File size1330 KB
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About the Author
WESTON OCHSE (pronounced oaks ) has won the Bram Stoker Award and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In addition to his previous SEAL Team 666 novels, his work has appeared in comic books and magazines such as "Cemetery Dance" and "Soldier of Fortune". He is a retired U.S. Army intelligence officer and current intelligence officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency. He lives in Arizona within shouting distance of the International Border.
Greig Beck grew up across the road from Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. His early days were spent surfing, sunbathing and reading science fiction on the sand. When he was forced to grow up, he went on to study computer science, and later received an MBA. Greig is the director of a software company but still finds time to write and surf. He lives in Vaucluse, Sydney, with his wife, son and an enormous black German shepherd. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"As a life-long lover of short stories, I've read a few great anthologies... and many, many more that are... well, let's just say LESS great. So when I read the first SNAFU book, I was excited when I got that special thrill after the first few stories that means: 'these folks GET IT.' It's a great feeling because you know that -- more than likely -- all the REST of the stories ahead of you are going to be exciting reads. By now I've read the entire series and I can wholeheartedly recommend 'em -- every one of them delivers the goods." —Tim Miller, Director of Deadpool --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Product details
- ASIN : B00LNXHLJG
- Publisher : Cohesion Press; 2nd edition (July 7, 2014)
- Publication date : July 7, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 1330 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 : 342 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #238,884 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #336 in Horror Anthologies (Books)
- #1,402 in War & Military Action Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #1,522 in Fantasy Adventure Fiction
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About the authors
JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 3-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, anthology editor, writing teacher, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Kagen the Damned, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, Mars One, and many others. Several of his works are in development for film and TV. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Don’t Turn out the Lights: A Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. His comics include Black Panther: DoomWar, The Punisher: Naked Kills and Bad Blood. His Rot & Ruin young adult novel was adapted into the #1 comic on Webtoon and is being developed for film by Alcon Entertainment. He the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com
USA Today Best-selling author Weston Ochse has been hailed by the American Library Association as “one of the major horror authors of the 21st Century (Seigel).” His work has won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won four New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than forty books in multiple genres, his Burning Sky Duology has been hailed as the best military horror of the generation. His military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 is being shopped to be a movie with Dwayne Johnson and his military sci fi trilogy, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. The books have also been characterized by scholars as the "perfect description of why it is not possible for soldiers to ever return to civilian life (Cooper)."
Weston's shorter work has appeared in DC Comics, IDW Comics, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales, and peered literary journals. His franchise work includes the X-Files, Predator, Aliens, Hellboy, AVP, Joe Ledger, Sherlock Holmes, Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, and was a core author that established the Netflix V-Wars Series.
Weston holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and teaches in the graduate program at Southern New Hampshire University. He is also a veteran with a combined 37 years of service, including multiple deployments, including two recent deployments to Afghanistan. He lives in Arizona with his wife, and fellow author, Yvonne Navarro and their many animals.
Feel free to reach out to him regarding any of his experiences, or if you just want to talk about your service.
CITE:
Cooper, Benjamin. “Conclusion.” Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2018.
Siegel, Becky, and Spratford. The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror (Ala Readers’ Advisory Series). American Library Association, 2012.
W.D. Gagliani is the author of the horror/thriller WOLF'S TRAP, a past Bram Stoker Award nominee, as well as the Nick Lupo series WOLF'S GAMBIT, WOLF'S BLUFF, WOLF'S EDGE, WOLF'S CUT, and WOLF'S BLIND, plus the novella WOLF'S DEAL. Gagliani is also the author of the supernatural thriller THE JUDAS HIT and the hard-noir thriller SAVAGE NIGHTS, the collection SHADOWPLAYS, the pulp fantasy novella THE GREAT BELZONI AND THE GAIT OF ANUBIS (two versions), and various holiday-themed short stories such as "The Christmas Wolf," etc. His novella "Stranger Roads" will be published by Cemetery Dance Publications novella paperback and ebook line in January 2024.
Gagliani has written numerous short stories published in many anthologies, such as FEARFUL FATHOMS, ROBERT BLOCH'S PSYCHOS, UNDEAD TALES, MORE MONSTERS FROM MEMPHIS, THE MIDNIGHTERS CLUB, etc.
Additionally, the creative team of W.D. Gagliani and David Benton published the novel KILLER LAKE (Deadite Press, 2019), which was nominated in 2020 for both the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel and the Indie Horror Book Award (Splatterpunk novel). The team of Gagliani and Benton has also published fiction in SNAFU: DEAD OR ALIVE, A FISTFUL OF DEMONS, THE X-FILES: TRUST NO ONE, SPLATTERPUNK: FIGHTING BACK (also translated into Italian), SPLATTERPUNK: PAST INDISCRETIONS, SNAFU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MILITARY HORROR, SNAFU: WOLVES AT THE DOOR, ZIPPERED FLESH 2, MASTERS OF UNREALITY, DARK PASSIONS: HOT BLOOD 13, and more, including webzines such THE HORROR ZINE and DEAD LINES.
Gagliani has also written numerous book reviews, articles, and interviews that have been published in places such as THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, CHIZINE, CEMETERY DANCE, HORRORWORLD, PAPERBACK PARADE, CINEMA RETRO, HELLNOTES, FLESH & BLOOD, BOOKPAGE, BOOKLOVERS, THE SCREAM FACTORY, HORROR MAGAZINE, SF CHRONICLE, BARE BONES (first and second version), and others. His work was also published in the Writers Digest book ON WRITING HORROR, THEY BITE!, ZOMBIE WRITING!, and in the Edgar Award-nominated THRILLERS: 100 MUST READS. THE WRITER magazine published his article on writing werewolf epics in October 2011.
His interests include old and new progressive rock, a pile of analog synthesizers and his Theremin, weapons, history (and alternate history, secret history, and steampunk), military history, movies, book reviewing, and plain old reading and writing. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Authors Guild. He lives and writes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Find him on Facebook and Twitter.
Copywriter by day, horror writer by night and surfer at the weekend, Kirsten Cross is based on the wilds of Exmoor and is surprisingly good natured for a horror writer. She is a serial contributor to the SNAFU military horror series, as well as the 2015 Steampunk tome 'Steamworld'. In between writing web content, getting battered by the Atlantic and practicing martial arts, she is currently exploring the wonders of Steampunk comedy, military vampire stories and a really disturbing little tale about a surfing vampire that spent time in the Catering Corps in the 19th century.
I made that last bit up.
Geoff is an award-winning Australian writer and Australian Shadows Award finalist-editor raised in Melbourne’s gritty Western Suburbs. He is a trained nurse, and holds a Cert. IV in Professional Writing and Editing, as well as a Dip. Arts (Professional Writing and Editing).
Geoff writes fiction across various genres, and is the author of many published short stories. He has had numerous articles published in newspapers, both regional and metropolitan.
He is the past president of the Australian Horror Writers Association (2011-2013), as well as the past director of the Australian Shadows Awards.
He owns Cohesion Press, an award-winning Australian publishing house focused on fast-paced military horror, and currently works with Tim Miller, director of Deadpool, as a senior story consultant.
He is also the owner of Asylum Ghost Tours.
Outside of his writing, David Benton has worn many hats, finding employment as a warehouse worker, landscaper, printing press operator, cheese maker, bricklayer, and janitor (long nights, impossible odds…). He is also a musician. Current projects include a collaborative novel with Bram Stoker Award-nominated author W.D. Gagliani and playing bass guitar with the heavy metal novelty act Beatallica.
“James A. Moore is the new prince of grimdark fantasy. His work is full of dark philosophy and savage violence, desperate warriors and capricious gods. This is fantasy for people who like to wander nighttime forests and scream at the moon. Exhilarating as hell."
—Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of SNOWBLIND and ARARAT
“Gripping, horrific, and unique, James Moore continues to be a winner, whatever genre he’s writing in. Well worth your time.”
– Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the InCryptid and Toby Daye series
James A. Moore’s, The Last Sacrifice, the 1st book in The Tides of War series, delivers on every level. A pulse quickening dark fantasy ripe with fascinating, multifaceted heroes and villains, and a vein of the horrific that barely hides, squirming just below the surface of it all. I can’t wait to see where this goes in Book 2.
Thomas E. Sniegoski – New York Times Best Selling author of The Fallen series, and the Remy Chandler books.
"You emerge from any Moore novel feeling like you've spent some time in that world––traumatised, beaten up, bloodied from battle––and The Last Sacrifice is no exception. Brilliantly imaginative, intricately drawn, this is a novel and an experience you won't forget in a hurry." - Tim Lebbon, author of The Silence and Relics
“THE LAST SACRIFICE is brilliant, devious, dark and compelling. This is epic fantasy at its very best. Highly recommended!” –Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of KILL SWITCH and MARS ONE
JAMES A. MOORE is the author of over forty novels, including the critically acclaimed Fireworks, Under The Overtree, Blood Red, Blood Harvest, the Serenity Falls trilogy (featuring his recurring anti-hero, Jonathan Crowley) Cherry Hill, Alien: Sea of Sorrows and the Seven Forges series of novels. He has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and spent three years as an officer in the Horror Writers Association, first as Secretary and later as Vice President.
Never one to stay in one genre for too long, James has recently written epic fantasy novels in the series SEVEN FORGES (Seven Forges, the Blasted Lands, City of Wonders and The Silent Army). He is working on a new series called The Tides Of War. The first book in the series The Last Sacrifice, came out this last January and the sequel, Fallen Gods, is due out in late December. Pending novels also include A Hell Within (a Griffin & Price Novel) co-written with Charles R. Rutledge and an apocalyptic Sci-Fi novel tentatively called Spores. Why be normal?
Being a confirmed Luddite, he is working up the nerve to plunge completely into the electronic publications age.
David W. Amendola is a lifelong pulp fiction fan and history nerd who has written short stories since his retirement from the U.S. Air Force to keep from going stir crazy. He writes science-fiction, fantasy, western, horror, occult, military horror, hardboiled mysteries, and mashups of all these genres. His short story “The Secret War” was adapted into an animated feature for the Emmy-award-winning Netflix anthology Love, Death + Robots.
His website can be found at http://dwamendola.wixsite.com/authoramendola
Neal Litherland is a Northwest Indiana author who works primarily in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He started his career as a freelancer and ghostwriter in 2008, and it took until 2012 for his fiction to see the light of day under his own name.
Brian W. Taylor is a former soldier turned genre fiction author with a soft spot for the horror genre, black Labs, and soul patches. He grew up in Rochester, New York watching movies like The Evil Dead with his grandmother before Cancer took her, which naturally led him to seek out horror in literature. It was then that he stumbled upon Dean Koontz, and never looked back. While horror is his first love, Sci-Fi/Fantasy is a close second. Authors like Margaret Weis, Tim Lebbon, and Will McIntosh line his shelves. Oh, and never ask him to touch an Ouija board, because he won’t. Ever.
He spent six years in the US Air Force as an aircraft fuel systems specialist. His time in the military hammered home a commitment to excellence as well as instilling a “can do” attitude. Brian still holds on to many of the core values he learned while serving.
When he was younger, Brian believes he saw the ghost of his great-aunt. He found out the next day she had passed the night before. He’s been a believer ever since. In his opinion, horror should be intelligent, play off reader’s fear of the unknown, and also be based around some kind of truth. He tries to bring those same characteristics to his stories and can’t imagine a life without monsters and the people who battle them.
He’s currently hard at work on his next book.
Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇) now writes stories and runs puzzle games near Portland, Oregon. His debut novel Waypoint Kangaroo (a 2017 Locus Awards and Endeavour Award Finalist) is the first in a series of funny science fiction spy thrillers. He has written for the Realm originals Ninth Step Station, Machina, and Echo Park 2060 (forthcoming).
Curtis' short fiction has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Oregon Reads Aloud, and elsewhere. His homebrew cat feeding robot was displayed in the "Worlds Beyond Here" exhibit at Seattle's Wing Luke Museum. He is a graduate of the Clarion West and Viable Paradise writers' workshops.
Want to know a secret? There are visual clues hidden in the Kangaroo book covers that lead to online puzzle trails! Finding the rabbit holes is left as an exercise for the reader.
Learn more about Curtis at: https://curtiscchen.com
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Its.murder, mayhem.and.bloodletting from masters.of the inked arts.
The most striking works for me, and well chosen frames, are the opening and the closing tales. The first, 'Blackwater,' leaves no question about the anthology is about with a special ops team infiltrating a drug lord's lair and finding more than they bargained for. The last 'Blank White Page'...is not just an awesome period piece about two, otherworldly traveling companions battling supernatural odds with quirky banter and deadly precision but well...out of all of the samples in the book, this one really lit a fire in me to hunt down the author (James A. Moore) for.... more!
Other stand out stories for me include "The Shrine" cause who doesn't enjoy the NazixLovecraft taco, Bug Hunt because giant spiders and The Fossil, which is about time travel and to be honest, yeah it was the scariest work in the book for me.
All over a delightful anthology and I look forward to next volume!
- Blackwater that conjured up creepy sea creatures (not the private military contractor)
- Maberry contributes a Joe Ledger story that is one of the best written and paced
- Special Operations Interview was creative and the setting on a Pacific island during WW2 compelling
- Making Waves also takes place during WW2 but in an interesting alternative reality where magic and sorcery are weapons
- A Tide Of Flesh has the Brits fighting zombies (of all kinds) in India
- Snipers save the day in Afghanistan against zombie-vampires in Death at 900 Meters
- Eric S. Brown pits reservists against rampaging Bigfoots in Hold the Line
- an Austrian tank crew barely escapes a long buried terror during the invasion of The Soviet Union in The Shrine
Military and horror make for a solid mashup. This collection inspired me to write one for fun...Mr. Maberry, may I send it your way? :)
I read at night, before bed, and not a few of these stories had me up past my bedtime, chewing my nails in suspense. Genuine page-turners (or page-swipers, if you read on a tablet or Kindle, as I do)! And to me, the absolute BEST was save for last: "A Blank White Page", by James A Moore. I went looking for more Kindle books by Mr Moore, based on this one novella. Complex characters, complex story, well done and quite scary -- I want MORE of Mr Jonathan Crowley and Mr Lucas Slate! MORE MORE MORE!!
My second favorite was "Thela Hun Gingeet" by David Benton and W D Gagliani. Set during the Vietnam War, a Special Ops team is trying to reach a mountaintop so they can be rescued. They find something very different by the time they get there...
Even if just those two stories are the only ones you read, they make the price of the book worthwhile.
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If you get this book, no matter what format, you'll be in for an exciting, scary, frightfully good time!
My top favorite stories of this collection include:
Little Johnny Jump-Up by Christine Morgan: A touching Civil War ghost story
Bug Hunt by Jonathan Maberry: A new Joe Ledger tale, and one of his weirdest.
Special Operations Interview PTO-14 by Wayland Smith: During WWII, and encounter with a Japanese Oni
Making Waves by Curtis Chen: Another WWII tale, but with a Mythos theme
A Tide of Flesh by Jeff Hewitt: A British fort in India faces a horrific army. Some very disturbing scenes.
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if your into military based supernatural stories this book is an ideal way to discover new authors.
cross selection from Seals to Civil war take your pick.
Would recommend.

