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    Unearthed

    By Richard Chizmar, Ray Garton and Brian Keene

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    From Richard Chizmar

    Manuscripts found in a dark corner of his office, from a time long forgotten–the Eighties. Revived at the hand of two horror masters, these stories are a slice of the past brought into the present.

    The Sculptor
    With Ray Garton

    An artist finds a block of stone in his home, ready to be carved. A creative dry spell now broken, but at what cost?

    Roses and Raindrops
    With Brian Keene

    A delivery to the old house on the edge of town haunts a man with horror and possibility.

    Composed in the ‘80’s, nearly lost to time, these two stories are now

    UNEARTHED

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApokrupha LLC
    Release dateAug 21, 2016
    ISBN9781370097647
    Unearthed
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    Richard Chizmar

    Richard Chizmar is the coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Times bestselling novella Gwendy’s Button Box and Gwendy’s Final Task, and the solo novella Gwendy’s Magic Feather. Recent books include the New York Times bestsellers Becoming the Boogeyman and Chasing the Boogeyman, The Girl on the Porch, The Long Way Home, his fourth short story collection, and Widow’s Point, a chilling tale about a haunted lighthouse cowritten with his son Billy Chizmar, which was recently made into a feature film. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA’s Board of Trustees award. Chizmar’s work has been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, speaker, panelist, and guest of honor. Follow him on Twitter @RichardChizmar, or visit his website at RichardChizmar.com.

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      Unearthed - Richard Chizmar

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      Unearthed

      Richard Chizmar

      Ray Garton

      Brian Keene

      Published by Apokrupha

      All stories copyright, 2016

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      Table of Contents

      The Good Old Days

      The Sculptor - with Ray Garton

      Roses and Raindrops - with Brian Keene

      * * *

      The Good Old Days

      Richard Chizmar

      Back in the late 1980’s—yeah, I know, many of you weren’t even alive back then—the horror scene was a happening place. New York publishing was booming and there were horror-specific imprints from TOR and NAL and Zebra and Leisure. Each month brought a wide variety of new horror titles, and themed and un-themed mass-market anthologies overflowed bookstore shelves. You could even still find pro magazines like The Twilight Zone and Omni at your local newsstand.

      But, for me, the small press was where the most vital work was being published in the horror genre. You had a proliferation of quality specialty book publishers (Dark Harvest, Ziesing Books, Underwood-Miller, Donald Grant) and semi-pro mags that were every bit as entertaining—and difficult to sell to—as the big boys. I’m talking about The Horror Show, Midnight Graffiti, New Blood, Grue, Deathrealm, and several others. And then there were the really small—but no less enjoyable and devoted—publications like my own Cemetery Dance and Thin Ice and Portents and Doppelganger and Eldritch Tales and many many more.

      If you’re starting to get the picture that the late 80’s was a great time to be a horror fan and writer, you’re right on target.

      I was there. I lived—and loved—every minute of it.

      I sold my first short story in 1987. I was a twenty-year-old college student at the time. The story was a the-devil-comes-to-small town, Stephen King imitation, and, after only a handful of rejections, it sold to a California-based publication called Scifant.

      I remember that was a very good day.

      Over the next several years, I racked up dozens and dozens of rejections (from pretty much every pro and semi-pro magazine I mentioned above) and many more sales (to most of the smaller publications I mentioned above and a stack of others, including the ever-gracefully-titled Festering Brain Sores magazine).

      In addition to The Horror Show, the magazine I most wanted to land a story with back in those days was Chris Lacher’s New Blood. The magazine looked spectacular and Lacher paid professional rates and had published good stories by many of my favorite authors at the time; guys like Ray Garton (his first short fiction sale, I believe) and Bill Relling and Dave Silva. They were graphic tales that didn’t flinch from violence or sexuality or even downright deviance. It certainly wasn’t my usual fiction flavor, but I was young and energetic and determined to crack the New Blood vault—something I finally did, after something like ten rejections, in 1990 with a nasty little tale called Roses and Raindrops.

      I remember several things about that special sale:

      Chris Lacher offered some wonderful suggestions that made the story better (I still have the marked-up manuscript in my files);

      It was my biggest sale to date, and Kara and I celebrated with a steak and shrimp dinner;

      I was devastated a short time later when New Blood closed down before the story could appear within its pages.

      For reasons unknown to me then and now, I never submitted Roses and Raindrops to anyone else after it was returned to me. For over two decades, it sat in my files. Forgotten.

      Until a couple months ago, when I stumbled upon the old, yellowed manuscript—and several others—tucked away in a dusty file at my home office.

      Finding and rereading those old stories—written at a time when Cemetery Dance Publications and my marriage and the birth of my boys and so many other life-altering

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