Whether you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah—or like me, a good old-fashioned blood sacrifice to bring back the sun—my cosmic horror novella, MALINAE by D&T Publishing (winner of “Novella of the Year” at Horror Author’s Guild 2021 Baba Yaga Awards), makes a great gift!
Available in hardcover, paperback, e-book, audiobook, and a bookstore near you: https://joshsworstnightmare.com/malinae/
Reader reviews are one of the most fundamental ways we authors have of getting our books out into the world. Tragically, we have a harder time getting readers to write those reviews than we do convincing them to eat their own…
But, Josh, I hear you thinking, we’re not all mountain hermits like yourself with nothing better to do. You think it’s easy for us to come up with some fancy review?
First of all, mean. And second, who the heck’s talking about anything fancy?
On episode #23 of Josh’s Worst Nightmare, host Josh Schlossberg gets it on with Clare Castleberry, author of AZALEA HOUSE, as they expose biological horror’s original sin: sexual intercourse.
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I cajole Joy Yehle and Brenda Tolian to have me back on The Burial Plot podcast to talk about–and read from–THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR.
On episode #22 of Josh’s Worst Nightmare, host Josh Schlossberg cops a squat with Jonathan Butcher, author of CHOCOLATEMAN, to get to the bottom of fecal matter in horror fiction.
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On the first night of Hanukkah, November 28 at 5 pm PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET Denver Horror Collective hosts “Jewish Horror 101,” an hour-long virtual Zoom event celebrating the publication of the award-winning small press’ third horror fiction anthology, THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR, available online and at bookstores across the U.S.
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Whether it’s pirate rabbis or demon-slaying Bible queens, concentration camp vampires or beloved, fearless bubbies, THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR offers you twenty-two dark tales about the culture, history, and folklore of the Jewish people, selected by award-winning editor and horror author Josh Schlossberg, with a foreword by Rabbi John Carrier and introduction by Molly Adams of the Jewish Horror Review.
“Jewish Horror 101” will feature five anthology authors revealing secrets about famous and lesser-known creatures from Jewish folklore and mythology appearing in their stories, including the golem (Simon Rosenberg), Lilith (Molly Adams), the dybbuk (John Baltisberger), mazzikim (Emily Ruth Verona), the alukah (Michael Picco), and the Watchers.
Continue readingThank you to Horror Authors Guild for awarding MALINAE “Novella of the Year” in the 2021-2022 Baba Yaga Awards!
It means a lot to be recognized by this outstanding organization of horror authors and readers, and I can’t tell you how glad I am that people enjoyed the book.
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