The Year's Best Schlock! Horror 2013

Welcome to The Year's Best Schlock! Horror 2013, a compilation of horror stories published in Schlock! Webzine (www.schlock.co.uk) over the past year.Here you can read the work of some of the hottest new talents in horror writing today; author and independent filmmaker Birke Duncan with Lesson Plan, a cerebral new slant on that most popular trope of current horror, the zombie outbreak; Suffocato Clamoribus, a descent into the darker depths of black metal music and the New York occult scene by Benjamin Welton, freelance writer, critic, author, and poet; Psycho-Girl by RM DuChene, editor of the renowned Death Throes webzine; Mr Baron Samedi, a prose poem of voodoo and hoodoo by Chuck Borgia; Thaddeus J Applebee's scathing review of a paper by Smithsonian ethnomusicologist and Blackwater Jukebox frontman Geordie McElroy, Blood cults of the Barossa; In Through The Outdoor by Mark Slade, editor of Dark Dreams podcast and Nightmare Illustrated magazine; The Three AM Crowd by Kevin L Jones, a regular contributor to Schlock! and Horrified Press' many anthologies; Red Bastards by Gary Murphy, a tale of mutants and aliens set in the author's native Cumbria; An Autumn in Messina, 1347 by Swedish art critic and poet Mathias Jansson. And finally, an episode from James Rhodes' horror sitcom of small town diabolism, The Hettford Witch Hunt.And on the cover we have artwork by horror artist Stephen Cooney.Enjoy!Gavin Chappell (Editor).