mark mclaughlin
FOUR-LETTER WORD BEGINNING WITH `F'
We're extremely proud to include Bram Stoker Award winner Mark McLaughlin's column Four-Letter Word Beginning with `F' as one of the features EXCLUSIVE to HORROR GARAGE!
Mark McLaughlin's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies, including Galaxy, Writer's Digest, Black Gate, Cemetery Dance, Midnight Premiere, Dark Arts, In Laymon's Terms, and two volumes each of The Best of the Rest, The Best of HorrorFind, and The Year's Best Horror Stories (DAW Books).
Collections of his fiction include Motivational Shrieker, Slime After Slime, and Pickman's Motel from Delirium Books; At The Foothills of Frenzy (with co-authors Shane Ryan Staley and Brian Knight) from Solitude Publications; and Twisted Tales For Sick Puppies from Skullvines Press. GravesideTales.com is the home of his blog, Time Machine of Terror! Also, he is the co-author, with Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson, of The Gossamer Eye, which won a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.
With collaborator Michael McCarty, he has written Monster Behind the Wheel (Delirium Books/Corrosion Press), Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster (Skullvines Press), All Things Dark and Hideous (Rainfall Books, England), and Professor LaGungo's Delirious Download of Digital Deviltry and Doom (Darkside Digital).
To find out more about McLaughlin's work, visit www.myspace.com/monsterbook, www.myspace.com/phantasmapedia, www.skullvines.com, and www.Horror-Mall.com (enter McLaughlin into the Mall's search engine).
SEEGEEEYE-PHOBIA:
FEAR OF EXTREMELY BAD SPECIAL EFFECTS **NEW**
GAZONGAPHOBIA:
OR, FEAR OF JUVENILE NICKNAMES FOR BREASTS
MEPHISTOPHOBIA!
OR, THE DEVIL GOES HOLLYWOOD
EROTOKOSMIKOMEDUSOPHOBIA!
OR, THE PERILS OF DATING
A LOVECRAFTIAN MONSTER
PAGING DR. PRETORIUS:
OR, A FEVERISH FEAR OF PHYSICIANS
THE APES OF WRATH:
OR, WAS KING KONG INSPIRED BY CTHULHU?
ONOTERATOPHOBIA:
A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE OF
"FOUR LETTER WORD BEGINNING WITH 'F'"
ARE YOU GOOD AT BEING BAD,
OR BAD AT BEING GOOD?
HOW TO SKIN FRIENDS AND CHARBROIL PEOPLE
OR: WHO'S ON THE MENU TONIGHT?
MAMMA MIA! ARGENTO'S WITCHES,
LIKE SHAFT, ARE BAD MOTHERS
A 21-BUZZ SALUTE TO
CANADIAN FLY-GUYS
TEST YOUR HORROR-MOVIE TRIVIA I.Q.
A SALUTE TO
GROOVY EUROPEAN WEREWOLVES
MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING...
UNTIL YOU'RE OUT OF IT
FORGET THOSE TEENAGE MUTANTS
I'VE GOT YOUR TURTLE POWER RIGHT HERE
THE CURSE OF LOT'S WIFE
OR, JUST A PEEK CAN'T HURT
YOU DON'T OWN ME...
YOU HAVEN'T EVEN MADE A DOWN PAYMENT!
GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!
I'M ALLERGIC TO MACHETES
(THEY MAKE ME FALL APART AND DIE)
I'M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP, MR. AVATI
TIME MARCHES ON...AND IT'S SURE TRAMPLED
THE HELL OUT OF YOUR FACE
THE MORAL DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
BEASTLY BEHAVIOR: OR, SORRY FOR RIPPING YOU A NEW ONE,
BUT I'VE BEEN HAVING A HELL OF A WEEK
DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH BRINE EYES
