The Mumpsimus

My story "How Far to Englishman's Bay" is now available at Nightmare Magazine for reading, or you could listen to it read by Paul Boehmer on the podcast. There's also an interview with me by Erika Holt about the story, though if you don't like to know any plot elements before reading, you should save the interview for after you've finished the story, because I blithely give away a few surprises. I thought the above image, based partially on one from a 1909 Harper's Weekly story called "The Queer Folk of the Maine Coast"  (which would be a perfect subtitle for "How Far to Englishman's Bay") more or less fit the story, so I put it together during a moment when procrastinating from something more important, and so, well, here it is.

art by Lena Yuk The August 2013 issue of Nightmare Magazine  contains my story "How Far to Englishman's Bay", which is all about why people from New Hampshire should be careful when they travel to Maine. The story will be available online for free next week, but why wait when you can have it for $2.99 and also get stories by  Jennifer Giesbrecht, Robert McKammon, and Clive Barker, plus part 2 of a great interview with Joe Hill. There's also an "Author Spotlight" interview with each writer, including one conducted with me by Erika Holt, who asked some fun questions. I'm especially pleased to be in an issue with an interview with Joe Hill, because years and years and years ago, back when I was young and easy under the apple boughs, I interviewed Joe about his short story collection 20th Century Ghosts , at that time only available from PS Publishing in the UK. Back then, he was just a mysterious short story writer who seemed to have popped up o...