Knee Deep in Little Devils

In a restless suburb of Pittsburgh PA, there dwells an odd writing and critique group called Write or Die. 
Celebrating a mysterious annual rite, the authors disclose secret and sometimes tragic circumstances; evident only to those who have experienced the incidents . . . until now.
The stories in this collection will take you for perilous jaunts on All Hallows Eve, send you sprinting down a beach at midnight, drown your soul in inky waters, soak you in the blood of wizards and dump you down the rabbit hole of insanity.
Whether these are parables that predict or tales to instruct, prepare yourself to be, 

Knee Deep in Little Devils

This is the first WorD (Write or Die) Halloween-themed anthology. The short stories contained herein were all written for, and read, during the first three annual Halloween reading events.
These stories range from wonderfully frightening to frightfully preposterous. Sometimes shocking and unpredictable, this disquieting collection will keep you guessing at the sanity of the authors who write these tales.

Is available for pre-sale now through publisher website.
Will be available for pre-sale on KU within 72 hours of submitting this request.

Author Bios:
Michael Arnzen (A Check-up for Mr. Bangles) gorelets.com, teaches full-time in the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program at Seton Hill University, and has been publishing sick and funny horror for about twenty-five years. He holds four Bram Stoker Awards and is author of the novels, Grave Markings and Play Dead. You can catch up with "the best of Arnzen" in the recent re-release of his Bram Stoker Award-winning collection, Proverbs for Monsters from Dark Regions Press. Look for his series, "55 Ways I'd Prefer Not To Die," in The Year's Best Hardcore Horror in 2017.
Vincent Baverso (Assorted Haiku) holds a degree in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. A true Renaissance man, Vincent loves to create. He is a draftsman, poet, philosopher, carpenter, pipe maker, artist and mead maker. He does all this when he’s not working on his latest novel or spending time with his wife and three children.
Joe Coluccio (Coney Hijinx) is President of Parsec, Pittsburgh Premier Science Fiction and Fantasy Organization. He has been involved with science fiction in some manner since the third grade in elementary school. He was program director for WYEP-FM, a local community access radio station in the first years of its existence and worked as a traffic manager for a television production studio. He currently teaches courses for the Osher Long Life Learning Institute at the University of Pittsburgh on subjects including science fiction and noir literature.
Douglas Gwilym (Halloween Haiku) Douglas Gwilym is a writer and editor who has also been known to compose a weird-fiction rock opera or two. If you aren't lucky enough to have caught him performing his stories and music at venues around Pittsburgh, you can find him at douglasgwilym.bandcamp.com or follow him on twitter at @douglasgwilym
Kevin M. Hayes (A Story Book Halloween) hates writing biographies for books in which his stories appear. For some, he relies on humor to entertain his readers; in others, he keeps to the serious side of his personality, hinting at dark, forbidden things readers would be best kept unaware of. Some of his stories and, by extension, his biographies have appeared in “Six From Parsec” and the first two volumes of “Triangulation.” Kevin has also published limericks, but doesn’t expect you to believe that. Sometimes, he reads for the podcast, “Pseudopod.” You will have to decide whether this is a humorous, or a serious biography.
Larry Ivkovich’s (From The Deep) speculative fiction has been published in over twenty online and print magazines. He has been a finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest and was the 2010 recipient of the CZP/Rannu Fund award for fiction. Published novels include urban fantasy The Sixth Precept and Warriors of the Light (IFWG Publishing).
Brandon Ketchum (To Bridge the Night) is a speculative fiction writer working out of Pittsburgh, PA. He has attended the Cascade Writers Workshop, the In Your Write Mind Workshop, and the Nebulas. His stories have appeared in the anthology MASHED: The Culinary Delights of Twisted Erotic Horror, in Perihelion: the online science fiction magazine, and in the Mad Scientist Journal and other publications.
Frank Oreto (A Walk in the Park) is a writer and editor of weird fiction whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Pseudopod, Fantasy Scroll Magazine and Triangulation. When not writing he can be found cooking elaborate meals for his wife and three perpetually hungry children. You can check up on what he's working on (both stories and food) by following him on Twitter @FrankOreto
Katie Pugh (Dead Dog Gone) wants to live in a world where everybody is a little mad. Katie's work has been featured online and in print, including in the Pittsburgh City Paper, Gadchick.com, Every Day Fiction, Airplane Reading and Moon Magazine. She also frequently muses on her blog, bohemianonrye.com. She has penned two books: a Young Adult urban fantasy novel, Cape and Dagger, and a poetry chapbook, Pickled Miracles, both available on Amazon and through major and local booksellers. When she’s not putting words together in a fancy way, you can find her spending time with her husband, making art, taking pictures and adventuring. There's nothing she won't try at least once.
Tom Sweterlitsch (The Sandbox Singularity) is the author of the novels ‘The Gone World’ and ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow.’ He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
Jon Carroll Thomas (In His Own Blood) is a part-time writer, full-time husband/father, and former Pittsburgher living in Raleigh, NC. He likes scary stories and lives by the mantra, "It's always Halloween somewhere." He has published stories with Zoetic Press and Great Old Ones Publishing and, under the pen name Jonas Moth, with Martian Migraine Press and Dunham's Manor Press.
Diane Turnshek (Etymology) Diane Turnshek teaches astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. She writes science fiction stories with an eye to the stars. She has been on the Board of Directors for both SFWA and Parsec. She taught college writing classes at CMU and St. Vincent and, for nine years, worked as a faculty mentor for grad students at Seton Hill's MFA Writing Popular Fiction program. In Pittsburgh, she is the founder of WorD, a writing and critique group, Alpha, a teen writing workshop, the CMU-Parsec YA Lecture Series and Triangulation, a yearly anthology of speculative fiction.
Karen Yun-Lutz (The Author & Sustenance of the Heart) Is a mother to five children, an author, photographer, graphic designer, videographer and video editor. She obtained her black belt in Tang Soo Do Karate at the age of fifty-two and studies the Korean sword martial art, Hai Dong Gumdo. For her day job she works part time as a marketing agent and customer service rep for a print company. She spends her free time co-organizing the Write or Die (WorD) writing and critique group and working as the director of public relations for Confluence, the Pittsburgh, PA SF/F/H literary, music and art conference.This is her first go as an editor for an anthology. She had her first story, The Minds I, published in the 2006 Parsec Ink Triangulation anthology. She also has written and published stories and a novel under her pen name.

Cover Artists
Rhonda Libbey (Cover artist - Yellow King in Carcosa) is an Imaginative Realism artist and illustrator. She live in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with her wonderfully supportive boyfriend and three silly ferrets. She began her artistic journey when she was 6 years old; beginning with drawing, and has never stopped. An artist is the only thing she ever wanted to be. She has been a professional illustrator and graphic designer since 1996 and has had the good fortune to work on some cool projects and has shown her artwork in some great galleries. Her most recent works are created traditionally in oil paint and gold leaf, with oil paint layered in glazes on top of the metal to achieve a luminous effect. She is drawn to the contrasts of delicate and bold that both oil paint and gold leaf possess.
Nancy Farmer: (Back cover artist - Demons dancing) is a professional artist living and working in the South West of England, a place rich in folklore, both real and invented after a lot of cider. What interests her most is the human form, and the way the gesture and body language of figures can be given a narrative simply through their movement and posture. Since getting into open water swimming she now more commonly paints swimmers rather than fairies and devils, but the subjects are remarkably similar: there is much human form on display, much humour and narrative, and much silliness. You can find her recent work at: www.waterdrawnart.com and her older work at: www.nancyfarmer.gallery