I am deeply honoured that one of my short stories was selected for ‘The Best of The Horror Zine – The Middle Years’ now on Kindle and Amazon. The Horror Zine is one of the oldest places for horror and dark fantasy, and this issue features the best of the best; I remain truly touched to be included among them. Be sure to check out all these amazing writers 
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As an added bonus for Kindle Unlimited subscribers, I’ve just released two twinned compilations of short stories — LIGHT and DARK each filled with a selection of favourites and newly published short stories.
Enjoy.
~Liz
BEAR is quite possibly the most realistic paranormal shapeshifter romance you will ever encounter, bushcraft is real, and bears act like, well, bears.
In the midst of a turbulent divorce, Kate sets off to check out her recent inheritance, a small cabin nestled in the mountainous wilderness of Colorado.
As Kate arrives in town, she meets Reid, a local outfitter and backwoodsman. After convincing him to be her guide to the remote cabin, the two are trapped by wicked snow squalls, rendering the mountain impassable. Trapped alone in the cabin, the two are drawn together by a force neither can deny.
Once together, they are driven apart by explosive tempers, long distances and a darker secret…
In a journey through love, longing, and a mighty shade of pissed off, their relationship follows the path of a faded love story, emerging from a handful of letters found in the cabin… and a dark shadow in the wilderness.
Lot 149 is a graphic horror story about Keira, a recently divorced woman who purchases a decaying old farmhouse with a truly spectacular history.
The farmhouse was bought cheap – power of sale, and at stroke of a pen, Lot 149 was hers –
“It’s just a light flickering, must be faulty wiring or something – isn’t it?”
Country living, a tidy divorce settlement and a job promotion that allowed remote work – this farmhouse would be a fresh start for both Keira and her son Tad, a break they so badly needed.
“Sure it needs work — but don’t we all?”
Leaving the big city behind, Kiera embraces country living and is intent on following the latest developments in organic farming; however, she soon realizes how much work is involved in restoring the farmhouse. To help with repairs, she calls in Frank, a handyman and pest control guy.
“It’s a house with a history, that’s all. Plays tricks with your mind. Most old houses are like that.”
And then they realize what being in full possession of Lot 149 really means…
LIGHT — when memory plays tricks on you, and the shadows flickering at the corner of your eye become so much more – or when things are never just as they seem – this is the place where true magic exists. Foxes, snow globes, knitting needles, and a foreign ambassador come together in this diverse collection of short stories.
LIGHT contains some of my favourite short stories, ‘lighter’ in tone than my usual horror, they all play with your understanding of what reality truly is.
And, dear friend, be careful what you wish for… because you might get more than you expected.
DARK — alien insects, blood spatter, serial killers, crows, and holiday shoppers – all with a darkness.
Let’s face it, bad things happen, and not everything can be explained. Welcome to the dark side.
(OFFICIAL NOTICE *Trigger Warning* for the DARK collection – there is some heavy stuff in that book)
LIGHT / DARK are companions to each other; and yet each book stands alone. This twinning of short story collections brings together the highlights of fantasy and adventures in darkness.
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The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
Rich people hide inside their mansion, isolated from the peasant rabble, and there they sit, surrounded by the luxury of generational wealth, waiting for the end of the world…
I re-read this one at the beginning of the pandemic when everyone was stockpiling groceries and TP… and had to laugh when I came to the part in the novel when the characters burn all the books in the library only to fill their shelves with groceries and TP.
Things change, the more they remain the same…
The Sundial is a dark look at human nature, told through the eyes of Shirley Jackson, and one familiar with her personal history as an affluent West Coast debutant-turned bohemian New Yorker transplanted to rural Vermont will understand Jackson’s casting of the villagers as always ‘other’ — a slightly savage force to be endured, while the highly diverse and at times, hilariously misfit, collection of wealthy characters huddled together inside the mansion maintain their rich comforts… even one crowning themselves as leader in the new world.
The darkly hilarious portrayals of wealth and privilege at the expense of the working class are what make Jackson’s work so powerful; this is beyond a preapocalyptic prepping story, this is a story of the self-declared chosen few and their entitlement, which remains truly terrifying.
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