Del Howison is a Bram Stoker award-winning editor and author. He has been nominated for a half-dozen awards including the Black Quill and the Shirley Jackson Award. His work has appeared in dozens of books. In 1994, along with his wife, Sue, he opened the world-famous horror store Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California, which has been inducted to the Rondo Hatton Hall of Fame. He has also served on the board of trustees for the Horror Writers Association.

Jeff Gelb is a former disc jockey and music columnist who created the Shock Rock series of music-based horror fiction anthologies, and co-created the Hot Blood erotic horror fiction anthology series with Michael Garrett. He also collaborated with Max Allan Collins to create the anthology series Flesh and Blood, tales of erotic noir from some of the finest writers in crime fiction. Gelb has edited over 20 horror and noir anthologies and is also the author of the 1988 horror novel Specters. He lives in Phoenix with his wife Terry Gladstone.

Dark Delicacies III: Haunted by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb

In this third installment of the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology series, editors Del Howison and Jeff Gelb examine what it means to be Haunted in all of its different permeations. From the constant haunting visits of a locale to being haunted by our own thoughts and memories to being haunted by the spirit of evil, Haunted explores the emotions of obsession, desire and pain. We are all haunted by something. The horror is in how we deal with it. Join twenty of the genres finest authors as they deal with their ghosts.

Includes stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Clive Barker, Michael Boatman, Heather Graham, Richard Christian Matheson, David Morrell, Chuck Palahniuk, Victor Salva, Simon R. Green, and many more!

 

REVIEWS

  • "Goes a long way in proving that short story collections can be just as well-crafted as their longer format companions, and shows that the short story is alive, kicking and able to scare the pants off you."

    – Green Man Review on Dark Delicacies III: Haunted
 

BOOK PREVIEW

Excerpt

INTRODUCTION

JEFF GELB

W

E ARE ALL haunted.

That's not to say we've all got ghosts chasing us around. That would be easy.

But we all are haunted by one thing or another. A deed we have done, or not done. An event in the past that changed us forever. A missed opportunity. A loved one's death. Our unhealthy desires and habits.

Or by our phobias. We all have them. Heights, spiders, snakes, food: you name it, we've got it.

And what we do about what haunts us makes us human. For better or for worse. Do we address these dark spots in our lives head-on? Or do we avoid them, or ignore them?

In any case, we're all haunted. Which is why this Dark Delicacies volume is appropriately titled Haunted.

Welcome to our third collection. And thanks for picking us up. This time around, our stellar group of contributors has cooked up a stewpot full of stories of people who are haunted. And yes, even by ghosts. But that's just for starters, as you will soon see.