OK, OK, Read Me for Free, Then!

Since I haven’t made the millions I had anticipated when I started this writing thing, I might as well just give away my work for free. There are other of my stories floating around out there in the cybervoid, but at the Dark Regions Press web site they have a number of sample stories from the books of mine they’ve published.

From my collection DOOMSDAYS there’s the creepy Halloween story Post #153 — of which I’m very fond because the characters Bob and Wally Thompson are based on my late father, Bob, and my late uncle, Wally, in all their cantakerous glory:

http://www.darkregions.com/samples/doomsdays_sample.pdf

Then, from my collection VOICES FROM HADES, there’s the story Sweet Oblivion. Like all the stories in this beautifully illustrated (by Travis Anthony Soumis) collection, the story is set in the Hades of my novel LETTERS FROM HADES and the upcoming THE FALL OF HADES:

http://www.darkregions.com/samples/voices_from_hades_sample.pdf

The Dance of Ugghiutu, from my collection VOICES FROM PUNKTOWN — set of course in my nasty future city of Punktown — involves the Kalian race and their evil god, Ugghiutu, that feature prominently in my novel MONSTROCITY:

http://www.darkregions.com/samples/voices_from_punktown_sample.pdf

Hell, while I’m at it I might as well give away my brother Scott’s stories for free, too (I’m an older brother and I can do that, by law). Scott has a new collection forthcoming from Dark Regions soon, called QUILL AND CANDLE, but from a collection Ellen Datlow has called “charming” in “Best Horror of the Year #1″ — THE GARDEN OF GHOSTS — comes the story Pressed Flowers:

http://www.darkregions.com/samples/garden_of_ghosts_sample.pdf

Scott Thomas also has the wonderful collection OVER THE DARKENING FIELDS from Dark Regions, and from that collection you can sample his eerie tale (all his tales are eerie — and charming!) Halloween Tea:

http://www.darkregions.com/samples/over_the_darkening_fields_sample.pdf

There. Maybe if you like any of that, next time you’ll even pay for it, ya dang moocher!