2016 HHAC E. Storm

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E. Storm is a screenwriter and horror author. Instead of pursuing a Hollywood dream, E. lives in his own dreams.

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Synopsis:

"Gloomy Sunday" caused more than two hundred suicides in 1931. Now, the serial-killer song is back in a small college town. You hear it, you die. Can the odd threesome—Jen, West, and Miranda —lift the curse and stop its rampaging murder?

2016 HHAC Pete Chown

When I was young, my passion was for technology. That became my job, and I ended up running a technology company during the first dot-com boom. I also helped start a charity, got an interesting and—I think—important change made to the Fraud Act 2006, and so on.

It was an exciting time, but sometimes I wished the world was different: more exciting, more meaningful. I've always had the gift or the curse of being able to daydream, and having it feel almost real to me. I wondered if other people would be interested in reading the stories I experienced, because they were stories, even though I didn't always write them down.

Telling the stories in a compelling way wasn't easy. It took a long time acquiring the skills needed to write them, but here they are. I'm proud of them and many people have enjoyed them. I hope you do too. 

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Synopsis:

Abby’s last ever robbery seemed to go perfectly. She got a wallet full of cash, and she wasn’t followed by any have-a-go types who might let the police know where she was.

Someone, though, had seen the whole thing. He wasn’t likely to talk to the police, but he hadn’t fed for quite a while, and he was very hungry. He was also quite sweet for a monster, and ordinarily Abby would have enjoyed meeting him.

The murder squad want to know who is stealing people’s blood, then dumping the bodies around London. But there are other people hunting the monsters too, who know more about monsters than the monsters do themselves. A monster could start feeling unloved.

2016 HHAC Maison Crow

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Synopsis:

Vampires, sea monsters, aliens, banshees, slashers and more. Ten horror-themed micro stories, each a spooky, bite-size treat at exactly two hundred and fifty words. Read one just before bed if you dare!

2016 HHAC Sarah Bredeman

Sarah calls Kansas City home and enjoys reaping the benefits of that by eating a lot of BBQ and watching Royals baseball as often as possible. She is a recovering wannabe cool kid, soon-to-be-mom, and general lover of literature. She has written for multiple pop culture sites including Culturess.com and HiddenRemote.com

"White Picket Fence" is the first published work by Sarah. More short stories and a full-length novel will be released in the next year. 

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Synopsis:

Sylvie, Cara, and April are growing up in a blue collar family in a quiet neighborhood. An American family living the American Dream. But things aren't always as they seem. Horror can happen to anyone at anytime. All it takes is a spark to ignite the bomb that splatters blood across living room walls.

 

HHAC 2016 John Cummings

I was born in Bangor, Maine and much of my childhood was spent growing up in a trailer park in Hermon with my three other siblings. We were all Homeschooled, so I never experienced a “traditional” education – heck, I’ve never even stepped foot in a High School before! (ha) I’ve always sort of wanted to go walk around inside one just to see it all firsthand, but as I keep getting older while working on my Master’s Degree (Engineering Physics), the more I think it would be weird… But I digress.

On the topic of writing, I’ve always seen it to be the purest form of self-expression and or, in general, the ability to explore any idea possible. We can take a single idea, or maybe even a version of our personality, and use that as the proverbial spark to create an entirely new character or fictional world to work in. It all starts and ends with our imagination. For me, writing started during my teen years as a way to escape my less-than-ideal reality and explore the torrent of crazy emotions we feel inside at that age. As I got older my writing most certainly matured, but one aspect of it never changed, in that I always strive to express emotions of things I know personally. Kind of fits with the ol’ saying, “Write what you know.” 

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Synopsis:

In the End is a fantasy novel told over three parts, each focusing around a different character's perspective in a world quickly going astray. History is set to repeat itself as a long-since-defeated evil has once again set events into motion which will bring the Mortal Realm to the brink of annihilation. In a race against time, an elite veteran from wars past, Erianthia, is tasked with stopping a mysterious cult that actively serves their dark master's return by opening a portal to the dreaded Rusted World.
An amalgamation of elemental magic and darkness, the Rusted World was brought into creation thousands of years ago as a means to harness lost, ancient powers. However, with its unnatural birth, the Mortal Realm was thrust into instability and the link between these realms was sealed away by the Chaos Mages – an order of beings which travel between all the realms to ensure the eternal balance of all creation remains undisturbed.
 

With the threat of the Rusted World looming and a sinister darkness growing among the ruins of the once-great Kingdom of Sealestra, the Chaos Mages have returned to the Mortal Realm to investigate. Though, their arrival may just be a little too late as the end is coming, and His champion shall rise...

HHAC 2016 D.P. Sumner

D.P. Sumner proudly hails from Worcester, Massachusetts (the same state author Edgar Allan Poe was born in), and draws upon his odd interests in the morbid and macabre as inspiration for his fiction.

Sumner grew up in a small town outside of Worcester, and as a child was very restricted in regards to what he was allowed to do for fun and how often he could go out. Thus, his love for books and literature was born. He developed a passion for reading, and after a long time of making up stories in his head to entertain himself when not reading, he decided to try and put his thoughts down on paper. He has not stopped writing since. 

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You should be careful with your actions, for you never know the effects they could have...

HHAC 2016 Kevin Mooseles

Kevin Mooseles grew up in South Florida, where he wrote reams of cringeworthy gothic poetry that will never see the light of day. He began writing for the Escapist Magazine in 2014 with an article explaining how Fight Club is based on the Downward Spiral by NIN. The Resistance is Dead is his first work of fiction, combining zombie survival with mystery and a dash of gonzo for good measure. 

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Synopsis:

The Resistance is Dead is a unique take on the classic zombie tale. The story takes readers from the first bite straight into the apocalypse and is told from two, alternating perspectives. The first, that of President Adam Chambers, a president beloved by all who genuinely tries to always put the needs of the people first and his plight to manage what his cabinet promised him was a passing illness. The second, that of a group of hard core zombie preppers. They've played every video game. They've watched every movie. They've read every book, but how will they fare when they attempt to apply all they've learned to a real-life zombocalypse?

HHAC 2016 Angela L Lindseth

Angela L. Lindseth grew up in South Dakota on the family homestead. She has a geological engineering degree and a journeyman electrician license; however, thanks to her beautiful sister, Angela is writing full time.
She's completed her first book, Tower of Earth, a young adult fantasy adventure, the first in the Towers of Rejaque series. She writes a wide variety of flash fiction, including speculative, horror, and retrospective, some of which make her question her sanity. For a taste of her work visit Panopoly, Five 2 One, and her Facebook author page.
Angela has two handsome boys, a cat named Rex, and a beagle named River, who is the love of her life. 

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Synopsis:

Sanity’s Threshold is not for the faint of heart. It tiptoes along the extreme and delves into the paranormal, the horror, the dark, and the weird. It harnesses your imagination and leaves you questioning the slivers of your twisted mind.
This short fiction/short story collection is for the lovers of dark realism, suspense, and the scary. Kids Come First details a woman's nurture for the alien creatures growing in her belly. Supernova speculates the demise of our planet. Mind Rot speaks of the disasters of chemical experimentation. Enjoy nearly thirty additional enthralling and stimulating pieces.
Flash fiction, dribbles, drabbles, and sudden fiction have been gaining popularity and requires concise story telling and extreme brevity.

HHAC 2016: R. K. Weir

With a penchant for dreaming, crafting realities and building worlds from nothing are what 19-year-old, indie author, R.K. Weir enjoys doing most. If he's not thinking of new stories or imagining new characters, then he's most likely watching Netflix or reading.

—Full-time journalist student by day, aspiring indie author by night—

http://rkweir.com/

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Synopsis:

Stella Carlisle is a thousand miles from her destination, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to get there.

Whether that means manipulating fellow survivors, or killing them, nothing is going to stop her from getting what she wants.

While the infected lurk around every corner and bandits hide in every shadow, starvation and illness follow closely in their wake.

In a world of personal demons, void of connection, Stella truly is living in a world alone.

HHAC 2016 Patrick Kill

Patrick Kill specializes in writing the most absurd, iconoclastic humorous dark fiction around. At 6'1'', he is the tallest midget on earth. He is a competitive eater…of children. He prefers footie pajamas with someone else's feet in them. He fishes for dead bodies in drainage ditches during the day and traps for yeti at night. He is the most ridiculous man in the world. His favorite saying is: "I don't always eat humans, but when I do, it's dos Mexicanos. Stay evil, my friends." Until they invent the first anti-social network, you will be unable to connect with him in any manner except by leaving a nasty review where his work appears. Which he will, in turn, not even bother to read. 

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Synopsis:

Patrick Kill's short fiction has garnered a cult following over the years. He continually writes within a world where there are no morals, but in a reality close to our own, but not quite. Not yet.

His stories combine dark (sometimes pitch-black) humor with horror elements and a brand of bizarre fiction that is uniquely his own.

There is nothing mainstream about these tales. At the surface, they may offend, repulse or even shock you, but if you look deeper, you'll find a strange sense of meaning, a bizarre written art form made of grotesque thoughts, demented characters and just plain weird situations.

In his fiction, you will find a shattered mirror which ultimately reflects back on the gritty soul of humanity.

HHAC 2016 Mouse Diver-Dudfield

Sci Fi, horror, and mystery author living in the deep dark south of New Zealand. Originally a non-fiction author of early New Zealand history specializing in Southland and Otago, behind it all, Mouse had a driving passion to write compelling and spooky NZ fiction. 

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Synopsis:

1874 – In search of an Incan city, renowned British explorer Rupert Mendenhall unwittingly releases a long dormant zombie plague on the unsuspecting occupants of the Cotahuasi Valley, Peru.

HHAC 2016 David Tyne

David Tyne is a Scottish author of the thriller/horror genre, with a deep-seated passion for being spooked and making everyone close to him extremely uncomfortable. Have a look at some more of his ghastly works, if you dare! 

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Their place exists in the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is their second death.

Caught in a blaze of city-wide terrorist attacks, young Daniel can only think of escaping the chaos and paving his way home. The further he flees from the armed soldiers and ravenous hunters that roam the streets, the more truth he uncovers of what happened to his fallen country.

It doesn’t take long to realise that the world he once knew has abandoned all of its laws, its nature and its dignity. Left with only his wit and two companions — a shell-shocked student and a lost child — he takes on more responsibility than his broken psyche can handle.

Will Daniel be able to protect those around him long enough to find his own family? Or will the homicidal hordes swallow every last one into their fold?

HHAC 2016 E. C. Hill

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Emma and her new husband Karl take their honeymoon at Karl's private lakeside cottage. But who is the pale wraith-like figure that stands across the lake in the moonlight? What bloody secret is hidden in the attic? And what dark entity is rising through the cold waters of ghost lake to seek its bitter vengeance?

HHAC 2016: E. Dulaney Burns

E. Dulaney Burns currently has a day job as a Paralegal for a multi-national technology company, specializing in the prosecution of trademarks, patents and corporate law.

By night, she dabbles in the realm of horror fiction. The fiction she writes is edgy, dark and comes with a warning label.

She attributes her writing ability to real-life experiences and her work as a catalog copy writer for an international toy company prior to studying law and psychology.

She enjoys cooking and baking and writes a blog when she's not too busy.

She also enjoys spoon collecting which she has been doing since she was six years old.

She lives with her family in Orange County, California and enjoys spending time with her husband, children and grandchildren. She enjoys her two pet turtles, and her fur babies, Princess and Patches.

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They say the place is haunted. The old man was driven mad, but nobody would say why. For years the house and the property that it sat on was devoid of life and sentenced to eternal winter. Jon was warned not to stay. But he’d lost everything and has no choice now, he must go back. But what was he going back to?

HHAC 2016 Brent Winter

Brent Winter lived at about eighteen different addresses before his eighteenth birthday, and as an adult he moved about eighteen more times before finally settling down in North Carolina. He only flunked out of college once before earning a BA in philosophy and an MFA in creative writing. His stories, reviews, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, the Boulder (CO) Sunday Camera Magazine, Wine Report, and caesura. He also works as a writer and editor at NC State University. Blood Family is his first novel.

He is working on a second novel that, although not a sequel to Blood Family, is set in the same universe — one where downtown Atlanta hides a strange little neighborhood called D Street that you can’t find on your own; someone who’s already been there has to take you first.

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Divorced technical writer Alex Whitfield lives a life of studied normalcy, in sharp contrast to his deeply dysfunctional family: uncle in prison for arson, half-sister missing after a stint in rehab, father dead by suicide in a psych ward. But Alex's normal life is shattered one night when he finds his half-sister, April, lying in his bathtub with her wrists slashed--until she disappears a few seconds later.

Alex is terrified to think he might have inherited his father's madness, but when he confides in a friend, she suggests that Alex might not have been hallucinating; instead, perhaps he saw April's ghost. Alex doesn't believe in ghosts, and he doesn't want to believe April is dead, either. Still, he dreads hearing what a doctor might say about his sanity, so he delays the inevitable by letting his friend take him to see a "witch" who supposedly can help him.

Thus begins Alex's reluctant journey from the streets of Atlanta to the mountains of Appalachia and from this world to the next one as he's forced to grapple with hidden truths about himself, his family, and the very nature of reality. Along the way he'll find friends and enemies among both the living and the dead, and he'll learn why his father really committed suicide, why April went missing, and why she desperately needs his help.

HHAC 2016 Joss Dey

A devoted fan of fantasy literature since age eight, Joss dreamed of being able to create her own magic and did so for sixteen years as a graphic designer.

However, the desire to follow in the footsteps of her childhood hero, Susan Cooper, never left her and, in her greatest act of rebellion, she pursued and received an MFA in Creative Writing from American University.

Though she stopped “screwing around” and eventually “got a real job”, she never stopped writing, intuitively comprehending that she would never be happy if writing didn’t play a major role in her life. Luckily, she joined RWA in 2004, a move that happily confirmed that being a writer is an affliction from which there is no cure, at least there isn’t Joss’s case.

Today, from her basement office in the ghetto in New Haven, Connecticut, she writes emotionally-driven urban fantasies that explore questions about love, family and self amidst bizarre creatures, odd goings on and the end of the world

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Synopsis:

A world born of merged realities, turbulent and jagged and overrun with monsters...a woman infected with unruly magic, unknowingly using her soul to find love...

Without warning, the magical realms of dreams and nightmares collapsed upon us, shredding our safe existence. A violent civil war erupted between a ruthless queen seeking revenge and a dark prince collecting power, leaving a broken world of stunted magic, fantastical creatures, chaos, and a drug called Undertow.
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Dragon was sold by her mother to a shady clinic that altered her, leaving her mostly human and able to fix the flaws in people. Her “gift” infuses her with life-changing confidence as well as an unnatural euphoria…but also is literally killing her, slicing her soul bit by bit to nourish her fixes. Worse, the power fueling these transformations appears to be overtaking Dragon's body, turning her thoughts and actions towards savagery and murder.
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When she meets Fel, a banished fae warrior suffering from PTSD, she’s instantly drawn to him, the one man who doesn’t need her to fix him. Is it his addiction to Undertow, or is it something else? Whatever the answer, Dragon dives right into a steamy affair—love optional…or so she thinks.

But all is not what it seems with Dragon’s adoptive family. When she chooses Fel, the love and acceptance she’s found in this patchwork household is threatened, unleashing a devastating secret that could deliver Dragon into the hands of the two most powerful and deadly creatures in the world…

HHAC 2016 F.D. Gross

A prolific writer of fantasy, supernatural, and horror, Frank has been writing for years, ever since the age of twelve. Having written numerous short stories and novels, his meanderings in the literary world has finally led him to present his debut novel, Wolfgang, a tale of dark mystery and human struggle. It touches on the capabilities of humanity and how far love will push one's soul, even to the brink of self-destruction.
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Frank studied at Florida Atlantic University where he received his bachelors degree in English and is currently working on book two of the Wolfgang Chronicles - Inquisition.

Website: www.wolfgangchronicles.com

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Synopsis:

Sixteen years have passed since the death of Lord Egleaseon, the vampire lord who sought to be human again, defeated by the famous noble lord, Wolfgang. One day after cleansing the surrounding countryside of vampires, Wolfgang returns from his latest expedition only to be faced with the horrible reality that everything he held dear to his heart has been taken from him. His wife is dead, his home is burned, and his son is nowhere to be found. Only the smallest inclination leads him to believe his orphaned servant is somehow responsible.

He is desperate and provoked, and will do anything to get his son back, even if it means journeying the path of darkness. Thus begins the story of Wolfgang.