We’ve nominated the following piece for the 2021 volume of The Best American Mystery Stories. This yearly anthology of mystery stories published in United States magazines and anthologies was started in 1997 … Read More ›
“In this epic story of love and friendship, war and savagery, courage and survival, award-winning historical fiction writer Sheldon Russell spirits the reader to a perilous post-Civil War period where … Read More ›
We’ve nominated these pieces for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s annual Best American anthology series: The Best American Short Stories: “Hippasus of Metapontum” by Robert Perron “Mr. O’Brien’s Last Soliloquy” by Robert Garner McBrearty … Read More ›
“In this supremely entertaining volume of short stories, prizewinning micro-fiction maestro, Robert Garner McBrearty, teacher of fiction at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop North in Louisville, Colorado, stirs and startles and … Read More ›
The latest volume in the Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology Series, The Vicarious Traveler, is published this month. This, the ninth collection, features work by: Philip Barbara, Elaine Barnard, Douglas Cole, Michael … Read More ›
“The latest hardboiled double header from Stark House features two gripping tales from Dolores Hitchens, with an introduction by Nicholas Litchfield. Hitchens’ work is incredibly varied but consistent when it … Read More ›
“Pleasingly, much of this rich and diverse collection of imaginative, humorous, and philosophical thoughts, and strange, spooky, and bewildering tales is sure to move and delight and undoubtedly leave behind … Read More ›
“In his introduction to the double-novel collection, writer Nicholas Litchfield, who is editor of the popular literary magazine Lowestoft Chronicle, describes Nielsen’s pair of unconventional whodunnits as ‘two exemplary mystery … Read More ›
“Fredric Brown, who died in 1972 at age 65, was an accomplished American mystery and science fiction author of more than 30 books and 300 short stories and vignettes. His … Read More ›
“In this unusual tale of death and monsters and environmental devastation, horror, science fiction, romance, and satire bleed together to form a vibrant literary delight that is as powerful and … Read More ›