Dark Little Dreams

by Brett Reistroffer (Editor)

Overview

Something truly unnerving happens when you begin to strip the fantasy from horror.

Collected from the first two years of Bad Dream Entertainment's existence as an online home for eclectic horror and modern fantasy fiction, Dark Little Dreams: An Anthology of Dark Fiction brings readers fifteen imaginative and haunting stories that stray far across the fringes of literature. From lost spirits to buried secrets and workplace oddities, this original anthology presents a surreal compilation of tales from some of the best current authors in horror, contemporary fantasy, and science fiction. Featuring both new and seasoned writers alike, and all with their own uniquely uncomfortable stories to tell, Dark Little Dreams is an authentic and well-rounded collection of short fiction from the darker side of the page.

Edited by Brett Reistroffer, Bad Dream Entertainment proudly invites readers to explore fifteen stories of dark contemporary fiction, featuring the talents of:

Eric J. Guignard, Santiago Eximeno, Christopher Nadeau, MP Johnson, Brian Culp, Mark Patrick Lynch, Louis Rakovich, Travis Burnham, Tim Jeffreys, Robert G. Ferrell, Anna Yeatts, Gerri Leen, Jay Seate, Birney Reed, and Brett Reistroffer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996038171
Publisher:	Bad Dream Entertainment
Publication date:	03/22/2016
Series:	Dark Little Dreams , #1
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Intellectual Property - Santiago Eximeno
The Love of a Good Entity - Christopher Nadeau
Buried in Work - MP Johnson
BuzzWord - Brian Culp
Dr. Aljimati, Professor of the Forlorn Sky - Mark Patrick Lynch
The Fox God and the Fox - Louis Rakovich
Midnight and Jefe Bowman - Eric J. Guignard
The Bone Washer - Travis Burnham
The Wilds - Tim Jeffreys
Mousetrap - Robert G. Ferrell
Witchy Man, Woman Skin - Anna Yeatts
Where Sheep Have Fangs When You Count Them - Gerri Leen
Nevermore - Jay Seate
Love the One You're With - Birney Reed
My Little Babies - Brett Reistroffer

Editorial Reviews

01/11/2016
Bad Dream editor Reistroffer assembles an impressive variety of 15 breezy dark fantasy tales that chill and unnerve as they explore survival, revenge, insanity, loneliness, and pleasure. Some stories retread overdone themes, such as a man trapped in a virtual reality game in Robert G. Ferrell’s “Mousetrap.” But the inventive tales dominate. In Louis Rakovich’s parable “The Fox God and the Fox,” a fox, civet, and warthog teach a lesson about religious manipulation. In Brian Culp’s humorous standout, “BuzzWord,” a new hire gets indigestion from office interviews and corporate jargon. The unconventional stories are most entertaining. Travis Burnham’s “The Bone Washer” is a murder mystery set in a chamber where beetles eat the flesh off skeletons, and a young apprentice has a special communion with the insects. In the unsettling “Witchy Man, Woman Skin” by Anna Yeatts, one of only two female writers included in the anthology, a child in the bayou gets revenge on her abusive warlock father with the help of her dead mother’s skin. Boys being boys turn destructive in Eric J. Guignard’s “Midnight and Jefe Bowman,” in which masochistic little Jefe and his hellhound wreak havoc from the Civil War to Katrina. These stories precisely strike the notes of dark fantasy, with plenty of fun and thoughtfulness, and little gore. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly