Due to popular demand (ha) I’m re-releasing an updated version of my feminist horror short story, HANDGINA, at Godless Horrors on Jan 29 for only 50 cents!
HANDGINA Re-Release Exclusively at Godless!
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Praise for MALINAE
Check out the rave reviews for MALINAE, the award-winning cosmic horror novella from Josh Schlossberg (D&T Publishing, 2021)!
JWN #25: Evolutionary Horror (with Elana Gomel)
On episode #25 of Josh’s Worst Nightmare Oddcast, host Josh Schlossberg goes back (and forward) in time with Elana Gomel, author of THE CRYPTIDS, to trace the arc of evolutionary horror.
Stream or download on Podbean or a variety of podcast platforms.
JWN # 24: Mind as Monster (with Jeff Wood)
Tearing Down the Author-Reader Wall
I’m not just your seventeenth favorite horror author, I’m also a performing musician (or was, before the coronapocalypse).
MALINAE for the Holidays!
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/
They’d Rather Eat Their Own…
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?
THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR on The Burial Plot Podcast
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.
JEWISH HORROR 101: Virtual Celebration of THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR | Sunday, Nov. 28
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.
RESERVE YOUR FREE SPOT through Eventbrite.
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 readingMALINAE Wins “Novella of the Year” from Horror Authors Guild
Thank 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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