Announcing Shock Totem #8…
Shock Totem Publications is excited to announce the upcoming eighth issue of Shock Totem magazine. We do not have cover art finalized at this time, but it will once again be created by the amazing...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Shock Totem Holiday Series…
Shock Totem Publications is proud to announce a new holiday series of books. Back in 2011 we released something a little different: Shock Totem: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted 2011. It...
View ArticleDominoes—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is proud to announce that Dominoes, by John Boden, is now available! Dominoes is a Little Horror Book, the perfect bedtime read for strange parents and bizarro children, a book...
View ArticleShock Totem #8—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is proud to announce that our eighth issue is available for purchase! Currently only in digital format, but the print edition should be up soon. Shock Totem returns with its...
View ArticleShock Totem #8.5—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is proud to announce that our second holiday issue is available for purchase! Currently only in digital format, but the print edition should be up soon. Cover art by Mikio...
View ArticleShock Totem #6—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is very happy to announce that our sixth issue is available for purchase! Don’t listen to this guy. Tell everyone! Shock Totem returns with its sixth issue, featuring stories...
View ArticleSunday Reads: On Saying No, Joe Hill’s Beard, and Creepy Films
Here are a handful of links from around the Internet that we found interesting this past week. If you’ve got an hour, check out Booktalk Nation’s entertaining video chat between authors Joe Hill and...
View ArticleShock Totem #7—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is very happy to announce that our seventh issue is available for purchase! “I see the bad moon rising. I see trouble on the way.” Shock Totem steamrolls ahead with its seventh...
View ArticleAnnouncing Dominoes…
Shock Totem Publications is proud to announce Dominoes, by John Boden. Dominoes is a Little Horror Book, the perfect bedtime read for strange parents and bizarro children, a book not only meant to be...
View ArticleCongratulations, Damien Angelica Walters!
The TOC for the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume 1, edited by Michael Kelly and Laird Barron, has been released. We’re very proud to announce that Damien Angelica Walters’ “Shall I Whisper to You of...
View ArticleCover Reveal for Adam Cesare’s ZERO LIVES REMAINING!
We are currently in the midst of putting together Adam Cesare’s brilliant novella, Zero Lives Remaining. As previously mentioned, Zero Lives Remaining will be released in e-book, paperback, and limited...
View ArticleGuest Blog: Lee Thompson Discusses Ways to Measure Your Success (Plus a...
A Texas Senator and his wife go missing… On the same day, their son is slaughtered by an enigmatic killer on the lawn of ex-Governor Edward Wood’s residence. Sammy, Wood’s drug dealing son, suspects...
View ArticleAnnouncing Shock Totem #9…
Shock Totem Publications is very proud to announce the impending release of our ninth issue. Click for larger image. Once again the cover art was created by the brilliant Mikio Murakami, who has done...
View ArticleAnnouncing Shock Totem #9.5…
Halloween is here! And what better way to celebrate Halloween than with a new holiday issue. Cover art by Mikio Murakami. In this special edition of Shock Totem you will find seven stories, one poem,...
View ArticleShock Totem #10—Available Now!
It’s been a long time coming, but we are happy to announce that the tenth issue of Shock Totem magazine is available for purchase! Cover art by Mikio Murakami. Here is the official Table of Contents: *...
View ArticleStokers, Flashes and Black Ink
Later this month, at this year’s Bram Stoker Awards™ banquet, to be held at the World Horror Convention in Utah, Mercedes and I do battle. To the death! Okay, maybe not to the death. And maybe it’s not...
View ArticleAnnouncing Shock Totem #5…
Shock Totem is proud to announce that we will finally be unleashing another great issue of darkly weird fiction! Our fifth issue was originally scheduled to come out in January, but for reasons which...
View ArticlePsychos and the Appalachian Undead
Some staff news, ya’ll! Cue banjo! This coming October, if not sooner, Apex Publications is set to release Appalachian Undead, a new anthology dedicated to the walking dead. I contributed a quirky tale...
View ArticleShock Totem Invades Killercon
This coming weekend, at the fourth annual Killercon convention in Las Vegas, joining the likes of F. Paul Wilson, Wrath James White, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, Adam Cesare, and more, the Shock Totem...
View ArticleShock Totem #5—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is very happy to announce that our long-awaited fifth issue is available for purchase! This issue of Shock Totem is yet another eclectic mix of horror fiction and nonfiction,...
View ArticleAnnouncing Shock Totem #6…
Right on the heels of our fashionably-late fifth issue, we are proud to announce that our sixth issue is primed and almost ready to go. I am doing the layout this time, so I’m making sure everything is...
View ArticleShock Totem Returns!
Last week, on Halloween, to the surprise of many, we announced the return of Shock Totem magazine after a relatively long hiatus. When I put the magazine on hold a few years ago, I was certain we’d...
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