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Interview - Barry Maher

Barry Maher may be the only horror novelist who’s ever appeared in the pages of Funeral Service Insider. In his misspent youth, his articles were featured in perhaps a hundred different publications, and, in order to eat, he held nearly that many different jobs. Sometimes he lived on the beach. Not in a house on the beach. On the beach. With the sand and the seagulls. After a sentence with a Fortune 100 company, he started speaking professionally. He told stories to audiences across the country and around the world: his client list was a Who’s Who of multi-national corporations and large associations. You may have seen Barry on The Today Show , NBC Nightly News , CNN, CBS, or CNBC, or read his Slightly Off-Kilter syndicated newspaper column. On the downside, he’s actually been incarcerated twice. Once for not making a left-hand turn out of a left-hand turn lane, and once for aiding and abetting a loiterer. He’s deeply repentant. A while back, Barry lost the ability to tell time, courte...

Interview - Andrew Nadolny

An upcoming author with their first works starting to be made public, writer Andrew Nadolny has started off on a strong note with his career as he includes some strong work this early on. Now, in honor of his involvement with the release of the upcoming novella collection '24 Frames Per Second' entry in the Dark Tide series from Crystal Lake Publishing, I talk with him about his early interest in writing, his piece "I Am the Rainbringer" in the compilation and upcoming projects.

Collection - Prepare the Coffin: Tales of the Macabre by Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Life runs amok in Blackthorn, Pennsylvania, and residents are rarely safe from the hands—or claws—of nefarious forces. From tragic accidents to revenge slayings to supernatural encounters, trouble is always afoot. Overall, this was a fantastic collection of stories with a lot to like. The inherent variety of the stories, with a wide-ranging variety in not just the topic and theme but also the general style presented in each one, helps it create a rather enjoyable energy, which is quite fun to see explored with the stories on display. Ranging from the inherently chilling to the more vengeful, as supernatural or human forces get together to dish out revenge on the unfortunate members who do something they shouldn’t and get attacked for it. These have a solid old-school vibe to their storytelling that meshes well with the modern format and themes of grief that haunt plenty of the stories in the collection. Given that they’re so brief and are so numerous in quantity that it’s a brisk, easy...

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