Sudden Fictions

Host: R. B. Wood A bookworm since childhood, Belinda is passionate about stories and has turned her hand to writing them, with several stories published in a variety of publications. Belinda lives in Australia with her family, two moody, yet oh so loveable, cats and two super cute miniature dachshunds who love annoying said cats and each other. Belinda adores all things spooky, music and travel.

Host: R. B. Wood Michael Ehart has been at various times all the expected things: laborer, seminary student, musician, shoe salesman, political consultant, teacher, diaper truck driver, stand-up comedian, and the least important guy with an office at a movie studio. He made his first sale to a magazine at age 15, which means he has been writing for over 50 years, with the aforementioned occasional...

Host: R. B. Wood Karl Dandenell  is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low-speed limits. His preferred drinks are strong tea and single-malt whiskey, not champagne. Karl's fiction and poetry have appeared in p...

Host: R. B. Wood Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. His preferred drinks are strong tea and single-malt whiskey. Karl's fiction and poetry have appeared in publications and...

Host: R. B. Wood Wayne Fenlon is the Scottish author of the horror/thriller novel THE BLACK CABIN, and drabble collection (100 word stories) SCATTERED LITTLE PIECES. His stories have appeared online at  horrortree.com , and alongside Bram Stoker Award nominees in the well-received horror anthology SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED edited by Jennifer Bernardini. If he's not reading, writing, and talking books...

Host: R. B. Wood Nora B. Peevy is a cat trapped in a human's body. Please send help or tuna. She toils away for JournalStone and Trepidatio Publishing as a submission reader, is a co-founder and editor for Alien Sun Press, a reviewer for Hellnotes, co-editor and art/writing contributor for Weird Fiction Quarterly, and has been published by Eighth Tower Press, The Wicked Library Podcast, Sudden Fic...

Host: R. B. Wood Tim Waggoner has published over fifty novels and seven collections of short stories. He's a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, a one-time winner of the Scribe Award, and he's been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Splatterpunk Award. He's the author of the acclaimed horror-writing guide  Writing in the Dark,  and he's a full-time tenured professor who teache...

Host: R. B. Wood Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. His preferred drinks are strong tea and single malt whiskey. Karl's fiction and poetry have appeared in publications and...

Host: R. B. Wood Tom Deady's first novel, HAVEN, won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. He has since published several novels, novellas, a short story collection, and the first book in his middle grade horror series. He has a master's degree in English and Creative Writing and is a member of both the Horror Writers Association and the New England Horror Writers A...

Host: R. B. Wood *Story TRIGGER WARNING: Abuse.* Mary E. Hart is the author of the haunted house novel, "Some Horrific Evening" and the 1980s themed horror tale, "Not Your Barbie Dino," in the collection "Totally Tubular Terrors." When she's not writing about robot technology in her full-time job, or creating stuffed animal political debates with her son, she is writing down tales like this one an...

Host: R. B. Wood Kenneth W. Cain  is an author of horror and dark fiction, and a Splatterpunk Award nominated freelance editor. He is also the publisher and editor-in-chief at Crystal Lake: Torrid Waters. Cain is an Active member of the HWA and a Full member of the SFWA. To date, he has had over one hundred short stories and thirteen novels/novellas, as well as a handful each of nonfiction pieces,...

Host: R. B. Wood Wicker Stone is an avid reader, writer, and also an artist. Recently, he just completed his newest novel titled 'Stench of Leaves'. He's worked as a freelance writer for the Morning Sentinel newspaper, covered the movie 'Thinner' for the magazine Cinefantastique, and some of his short stories can be found in NEHW's Wicked Weird and HWoM's Northern Frights Halloween and Love Issues...

Host: R. B. Wood Former technologist and world traveler, storyteller  R. B. Wood  is an MFA graduate from Emerson College and a writer of speculative dark thrillers. Mr. Wood, via Crystal Lake Publishing, recently released his novel,  Bayou Whispers , and is working on his next book,  The  Glue Factory.  His shorter, weird stories have appeared in multiple anthologies and online magazines. R. B. W...

Host: R. B. Wood Sarah Walker is a writer, artist and anthropologist living in the Pacific Northwest and has been published by Audient Void, Lovecraft Ezine Press, Antimony and Old Lace, Oxygenman Books, Silent Motorist Media, Planet X Books, Eighth Tower Publishing, Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror, Shoggoth.net, Lovecraft Lunatic Asylum, Audient Void, and more.  She recently illustrated, wrote, an...

Host: R. B. Wood Nora B. Peevy is a cat trapped in a human's body. Please send help or tuna. She toils away for JournalStone and Trepidatio Publishing as a submissions reader, is a co-founder for Alien Sun Press, a reviewer for Hellnotes, co-editor for Weird Fiction Quarterly, and has been published by Eighth Tower Press, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Alien Sun Press, The Wicked Library Podcast, and ot...

Host: R. B. Wood Sheri White's stories have been published in many anthologies, including  Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself (an ezine) ,  I Cast You Out , published by CultureCult Press, Flashes of Fantasy,  published by Wicked Shadow Press,  Tales from the Crust  (edited by Max Booth III and David James Keaton),  Halldark Holidays  (edited by Gabino Iglesias), and HWA's  Don't Turn Out the Lights  (ed...

Host: R. B. Wood J. Edwin Buja has spent his life surrounded by books. He discovered early on that researching and writing hold the key to happiness. Who else would think scanning through decades of microfilm to index an old newspaper would be a dream job?  For almost forty years, he has been married to the most wonderful woman on the planet. Although he lives in a small village somewhere in Canad...

Host: R. B. Wood Rob Smales is the author of the collection Echoes of Darkness (three stories from which received honorable mentions on Ellen Datlow's best horror lists for various years) and the horror novellas Friends in High Places  and  LaundryLegs . His most recent short work can be found in the anthologies Wicked Sick ("Author's Note") and It Calls From Below ("Pops"). He hails from Salem, M...

Host: R. B. Wood Suzanne Madron was born in New York City and has lived up and down the east coast. Currently, she resides in a house built over a Civil War battlefield in the wilds of Pennsylvania where she has been known to host some interesting Halloween parties.  She has authored several novels and stories under various names including Suzi M, James Glass, and Xircon.

Host: R. B. Wood Wicker Stone is a horror writer living in central Maine, where he spends much of his free time in Acadia Park, gathering locations for his current work in progress.  Wicker's work can be found in NEHW's WICKED WEIRD, Northern Frights Halloween, & Love Issues.  Follow on Facebook at AuthorWickerStone

Host: R. B. Wood Sumiko Saulson is a Bram Stoker Nominated poet for their 2022 collection  The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry   ( Dooky Zines ), and an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror whose latest novel  Happiness and Other Diseases  is available on  Mocha Memoirs Press . Winner of the HWA Scholarship from Hell (2016) BCC Voice "Reframing the Other" cont...

Host: R. B. Wood Mike Allen edits and publishes Mythic Delirium Books in Roanoke, Virginia, with his wife Anita and not-so-troublesome cat Pandora. His short stories have been gathered in three collections: Unseaming ; The Spider Tapestries ; and Aftermath of an Industrial Accident ; with a fourth, Slow Burn , now in the works. His first dark fantasy novel, The Black Fire Concerto , appeared in 20...

Host: R. B. Wood Enjoy this very "Twilight Zone-esque" story by the wonderful Belinda Brady, or you might end up in the Cornfield (With apologies to Bill Mumy). A bookworm since childhood, Belinda is passionate about stories and has turned her hand to writing them, with several stories published in a variety of publications. Belinda lives in Australia with her family, two moody, yet oh so loveable...

Host: R. B. Wood Michael Burke is a lifelong fan of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, propelled into these realms at a tender age when he discovered his father's cache of pulp novels. A passion for comic books soon followed. In 2000, Michael co-founded the award-winning comic and collectible store, Comicazi, in Somerville, MA. When not sorting the comic stacks at work, Michael can be found at...

Host: R. B. Wood This is an exciting episode for me, as a former professor of mine, 17-year academic veteran, and Emerson Writer-in-Residence Jonathan Papernick kicks off the "Gift" prompt for the month of May with his story "Auto-Icon." Jonathan Papernick, born and raised in Toronto, Canada, is the author of two short story collections, The Ascent of Eli Israel and There Is No Other and three nov...