John Boden

• Jul-2016
• / General Fiction
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Fans of McCammon's A BOY'S LIFE and Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES will be certain to enjoy this coming-of-age novella from John Boden.
1983: A boy and his little brother wander through a loosely stitched summer. A summer full of sun...

• Sep-2018
• / Contemporary Romance
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The boys crept to the window and watched as Miss Maggie carried the long bundle into the barn, the weight of it stooping her aging back. Rafter lights spilled from the barn doors and Davey saw an arm fall from the canvas-wrapped parcel. He smiled. Sh...

• Jul-2019
• / Horror
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There had been a plan. It wasn't a good one, and it was rough around the edges, but it was a plan. Then things went off the rails and into places where no one was comfortable. Violent places. Unspeakable places. Places stained with blood and other th...

• Jul-2019
• / Horror
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Some things are older than time. Older than darkness.-Levi is a monstrous man—made of scars and scary as hell, he's glutted on ghosts and evolving to carry out the dark wishes of the ancient whispers in his head. He's building a door and what'...

• Jan-2020
• / Horror
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SPUNGUNION Pronounced: Spun-gun-yun

1. A dish made from rotting roadkill, usually a skunk or a possum. The more fragrant or maggoty, the better. 2. Something that's been on the road for a long and unfortunate time.

Deke is a broken-hea...

• Apr-2020
• / General Fiction
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Lush. Brutal. Beautiful. Visceral. Crystal Lake Publishing proudly presents the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Arterial Bloom, an artful juxtaposition of the magnificence and macabre that exist within mankind. Each tale in this collection is resplendent...

• Jul-2020
• / General Fiction
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FEATURING A FOREWORD BY JAMES NEWMAN AND THREE BONUS SHORT STORIES!1983: A boy and his little brother wander through a loosely stitched summer. A summer full of sun and surrealism, of lessons of loss and love. Of growing up and figuring it out.Ne...

• Sep-2023
• / Horror
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Marlin Stains is a lonely man who is filled with words. Words that he longs to share with the world but so far only shares with himself. He has over 300 notebooks brimming with them in his trailer room. A wood-paneled tomb of prose and syllable. Marl...

• May-2025
• / Horror
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Ken Allenwood is a man being devoured, from the inside out, one memory at a time. A once famed horror writer who now spends his days in an elder care facility waiting for the breath that will be his last and hoping he'll retain at least some memories...