Specters In Coal Dust

by Michael Knost (Editor)

Overview

The depth and darkness of the coalmine has been described as the blackest of black, the loneliest of lonely, and the coldest of cold. American miners have tunneled the earth s bowels for the black diamond since the early 1700s, and unexplained tales of ghosts and specters have made their way to the surface with nearly every load of anthracite. Specters in Coal Dust. An eerie collection of coal-camp stories from some of the horror genre's finest storytellers, Specters in Coal Dust will leave you cold, lonely, and gasping for air. Stories and contributors include: Gary A. Braunbeck, Christopher Golden, Tom Piccirilli, Steve Rasnic Tem, Elizabeth Massie, Lee Thomas, Ronald Kelly, Bev Vincent, William Meikle, Nate Southard, Joshua Reynolds, Barbara Jo Fleming, Michael Bracken, and Brian J. Hatcher

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013848511
Publisher:	Woodland Press, LLC
Publication date:	12/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	151
Sales rank:	279,908
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

GARY A. BRAUNBECK is the author of several short-story
collections, among them the Stoker Award-winning Destinations
Unknown. He is also the creator of the acclaimed Cedar
Hill Cycle of novels, novellas, and short stories. His work has
garnered 5 Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild
Award, a Black Quill Award, and 3 Shocklines’ “Shocker”
awards. He lives in Worthington, OH, with his wife, fantasist
Lucy Snyder (Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress), a guilty conscience,
and 5 cats that will not hesitate to draw blood if he fails to feed
them in a timely manner.

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the author of dozens of novels
for adults and teens, including Of Saints and Shadows, The Myth
Hunters, The Boys Are Back in Town, Strangewood, and many others.
Golden is also an editor, comic book writer, and screenwriter.
He was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still
lives with his family. His original novels have been published
in more than fourteen languages in countries around the
world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com.
TOM PICCIRILLI is the author of twenty novels including
Shadow Season, The Cold Spot, The Coldest Mile, and A Choir Of
Ill Children. He’s won the International Thriller Award and four
Bram Stoker Awards, as well as having been nominated for the
Edgar, the World Fantasy Award, the Macavity, and Le Grand
Prix de L’imagination.
STEVE RASNIC TEM’s latest book is In Concert from Centipede
Press, collecting all his short story collaborations with
wife Melanie Tem. He has upcoming stories in Asimov’s Science
Ficton, Cemetery Dance, Postscipts, and the anthologies Mountain
Magic and Visitants. You can visit the Tem home on the web at
www.m-s-tem.com.
ELIZABETH MASSIE is a Bram Stoker Award- and Scribe
Award-winning author of novels, novelizations, and short stories.
Her books include Sineater, The Tudors: Thy Will Be Done,
Homeplace, and many more. Her story, “The Caretaker,” is included
in Legends of the Mountain State 3. She lives in Virginia
with illustrator Cortney Skinner. Her website is www.elizabethmassie.
com.
LEE THOMAS is the Bram Stoker Award and Lambda Literary
Award-winning author of Stained, Parish Damned, and The Dust
of Wonderland. In addition to numerous magazines, his short
fiction has appeared