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Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 3 by [Daniel Arthur Smith, Will Swardstrom, Ernie Howard, Jason Anspach]

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This edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of four Horrific and Fantastic stand alone short stories - each from a different featured author.

Will Swardstrom's Natural Born Alien will give you some insight into the election process.
Ernie Howard's Float is a tale of what happens when a man thinks only of himself.
Jason Ansbach takes us to the edge of Ledge Town and Daniel Arthur Smith tells of an inmates stay in one of New York's oldest jails in The Tombs.

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Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's Black Mirror in the short story format. And it's a bargain. Each monthly issue has three-to-five sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales from today's top speculative fiction writers.
These are Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DX7NJ04
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Holt Smith Ltd (April 6, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 6, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 803 KB
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Daniel Arthur Smith is a USA Today bestselling author. His titles include Spectral Shift, Hugh Howey Lives, The Cathari Treasure, The Somali Deception, and a few other novels and short stories. He also curates the phenomenal short fiction series Tales from the Canyons of the Damned and Frontiers of Speculative Fiction.
He was raised in Michigan and graduated from Western Michigan University where he studied philosophy, with focus on cognitive science, meta-physics, and comparative religion. He began his career as a bartender, barista, poetry house proprietor, teacher, and then became a technologist and futurist for the Fortune 100 across the Americas and Europe.
Daniel has traveled to over 300 cities in 22 countries, residing in Los Angeles, Kalamazoo, Prague, Crete, and now writes between Manhattan and Connecticut where he lives with his wife and young sons.
For more information, visit danielarthursmith.com
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Ernie Howard was born on January 29,1977 during a Minnesota blizzard. His two story telling parents almost didn't make it to the hospital in their beat up blue Cadillac.
Ernie is the author of The Pool, A World Without, Walter, and Float, On Holiday with an S.O.B. Two short tales that recently appeared in Tales from the Canyons of the Damned.
All of these books are available on Kindle.
Ernie lives with his wife and 3 boys in Henderson, NV, where he dreams up new stories and tries to live every day to the fullest.
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Will Swardstrom is a speculative fiction author. He has two full length novels, Dead Sleep and Dead Sight, and is at work on the finale in the trilogy.
He also has three stories in The Future Chronicles anthology series (Uncle Allen in The Alien Chronicles, Z Ball in The Z Chronicles, and The Control in The Immortality Chronicles). Each of those anthologies has charted in the Top 5 on the SF Anthology list and The Alien Chronicles reached as high as #6 on the Overall Top 100 List. The Control from The Immortality Chronicles has been nominated for Best American Science Fiction.
He also has a few stories set in Hugh Howey's WOOL Universe among his various other short stories and novellas. He lives in Southern Illinois with his wife and two kids.
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JASON ANSPACH (1979- ) is the co-creator of Galaxy's Edge. He is an American author raised in a military family (Go Army!) known for pulse-pounding military science fiction and adventurous space operas that deftly blend action, suspense, and comedy.
Together with his wife, their seven (not a typo) children, and a border collie named Charlotte, Jason resides in Puyallup, Washington. He remains undefeated at arm wrestling against his entire family.
Galaxy's Edge: www.InTheLegion.com
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Shay VanZwoll

The best volume so far!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 7, 2016

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The third volume of TALES FROM THE CANYON OF THE DAMNED is full of fun and interesting stories, all laced with darkness, some more obvious than others.

Starting with "Natural Born Alien" by Will Swardstrom, we meet Bob, the most likely President-elect of the United States of America. Bob, however, doesn't fit the normal political mold since is a legal alien... he was born 40 years ago in the US after his mother's spaceship crashed, meaning that he fulfills the requirements outlined in the Constitution to be the next president. While many parts of this story are clearly a parody of a certain politician ("We will build a wall around the planet to keep them out. And get this— we’ll make the Zitorians pay for it.") and is written with the obvious goal of making the reader laugh, the darkness is intertwined with comedy as it brings home the truth of how the American people can be swayed by the unusual and unique, even if it could lead them toward death and despair.

Ernie Howard's "Float" is the second story in this collection, and I found this one fascinating... partly because I've wanted to try a sensory deprivation tank myself! I hope that I don't have the same experience that Ernie's character Josh has, though I lack the disdain and arrogance that ultimately leads him to his fate. I love how the author ends the story, giving the reader the chance to decide what actually happened... is it real life, or just a dream? Or both?

"Ledge Town" by Jason Anspach is a fun story, post-apocalyptic (or at least post tremor) with a Western vibe. There are hints of more to come, leaving me wanting to learn more about the old masters, the devil who speaks to Harris, and what else could possibly go wrong. After surviving an event that leaves the old world swallowed up, struggling through day by day, perhaps it's a mercy if you don't learn what's behind the door... after all, it seems that the end is coming for everyone, just perhaps sooner for some than others.

The collection ends with "The Tombs" by Daniel Arthur Smith, another short story in his continuing collection about the Blue Prince and the city within the mist. The stories are scattered throughout all of the TALES FROM THE CANYONS OF THE DAMNED books as well as THE TOWER, but can be read separately, each giving another piece in the puzzle. I love the opportunity to see different characters, from different walks of life, and how they are surviving... or how they don't. What I like best is that the author is sharing the story as someone experiencing it might, letting us learn from the stories, putting together the tales to figure out the whole or what is going on, just like the characters are trying to discover it themselves.

This third volume is the best so far, and I can't wait to see where Daniel Arthur Smith goes next, and what other brilliant authors he works with!

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Good stuff.

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Interesting and entertaining, although not my favorite issue of these collections. I think that's because the four stories bore no relation to each other at all, where as other issues have had a prevailing atmosphere shared by each group of stories. That's my opinion, anyway, for what it's worth. I liked the stories individually, particularly Ledge Town. I love western science fiction stories, and this one is very intriguing.

So, there's variety in the stories, and each is well-done and enjoyable reading. For any fan of short stories, this series is good stuff.

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These Canyons Are Worth Exploring

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2018

Back in the old days, before the Internet and even before television, pulp horror magazines like "Weird Tales" gave many readers their first glimpse at soon-to-become masters of horror, science fiction, and fantasy like H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, and Robert Bloch. Today, traditional magazines of that sort are pretty much a dying breed, but a new generation of digital magazines featuring up-and-coming new writers seems well placed to replace the pulps with horror and sci fi fans. Among these digital magazines is "Tales from the Canyons of the Damned," a monthly series that's now up to over 20 issues, available separately on Amazon or in various omnibus editions. This is the third monthly issue from the series, and it shows that the editor Daniel Arthur Smith has finally achieved a digital work that’s a true successor to the pulp magazines of yore.

In the first two volumes of “Tales from the Canyons of the Damned,” Smith relied almost exclusively on his own contributions, understandable owing to the difficulty of getting established authors to provide material for a fledgling product. In this third issue, however, the four stories (the first two issues only had three apiece) include three by other authors and only one penned by Smith himself. That story, “The Tombs,” is a continuation of the Lovecraftian saga Smith began in the earlier issues in which New York City finds itself under attack by … something. Exactly what that something might be isn’t clear in “Tombs” but anyone knowing that the Tombs is the slang expression for the New York City municipal prison, where detainees are held pending trial, can pretty much guess what’s going to happen. Smith is a good, descriptive writer and does a good job establishing the mood, but the ending here is very abrupt, and “Tombs” reads more like a part of a story than a complete story.

Fortunately, the other three stories in this issue are complete. “Natural Born Alien,” by Will Swardstrom was written in 2016 and seems to have been very prescient in regard to our current politics. The title alien is Bob Walters (whose first name is short for something unpronounceable), born after his mother’s ship crashed in Area 51 and now eligible for and running for President and doing surprisingly well on a most unusual platform. Tongue is definitely in cheek here as Swardstrom’s tale is far more very effective political satire than science fiction.

Ernie Howard’s “Float” is a more traditional horror tale, something that might easily have been an episode of “Tales from the Crypt.” It’s the story of an obnoxious Wall Street up-and-comer named Josh who has a low opinion of pretty much everyone around him who isn’t as well off as he is. The one thing he does cherish is his state-of-the-art sensory deprivation tank located in the basement of his apartment building, where he spends his leisure hours in peaceful solitude. As you might guess, Josh’s snarky disdain for his fellow man comes back to haunt him in a most unusual but fitting way. Once things start to go bad for Josh, the story is quite entertaining, but the ending is a bit of a letdown.

Finally, “Ledge Town” by Jason Anspach can best be described as a post-Apocalyptic supernatural Western. The story takes place 500 years after some great cataclysm devastated most of the United States, leaving much of the West a desert inhabited in part by outlaw gangs. The leader of one such gang is a man named Harris, who knows a good bit about what really occurred a few centuries earlier, thanks to some conversations with a stranger who might be the Devil. Anspach attempts to meld three genres into one 20-page story and doesn’t quite succeed. The Western elements work fine and the author’s writing is quite evocative, but the rest of the story never quite comes together, and it reads as if it were condensed from a longer work.

Overall, this issue of “Tales from the Canyons of the Damned” contains one excellent story (“Alien”), one very good story (“Float”), and two better-than-average but somewhat flawed stories (“Tombs,” “Ledge”). But the overall magazine is better than the sum of its parts, since you’ve got four different writers with different styles and themes, and the variety of the offerings that Daniel Arthur Smith as editor has assembled captures the feel of a true anthology magazine for the first time. Even more that the first two issues, these canyons are worth exploring for fans of horror and science fiction.

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