OT: No Matter Where You Are, There You Is

So I'm in Barnes & Noble the other day and they have their little selection of supernatural/horror books for Hallowe'en and I picked up an anthology called "100 Wicked Little Witch Stories."  It looked good. I have a real job now and therefore can afford to buy things not on the remainder table (Woohoo!).

Guess who's got a story in here?

"Somewhere My Love" by Stephen Mark Rainey 

And it's a very good one at that (no surprise there). Just thought I'd share 

How nice!!  Good work, Mark!!!

Luciaphil...can you tell a little more about the book?

Thanks NOW,

Patti

It's the best story in there.

He also has one in their 100 Vicious Little Vampire Storiesp that is very CREEPY, but the book is harder to find.  I got mine used-- sorry, Mark, I never intended to cheat you out of royalties, but they didn't leave me any choice.  I'll send you a check.

It's the best story in there.

He also has one in their 100 Vicious Little Vampire Storiesp that is very CREEPY, but the book is harder to find.  I got mine used-- sorry, Mark, I never intended to cheat you out of royalties, but they didn't leave me any choice.  I'll send you a check.

They had that book there too. Damn. Wish I'd checked it out.

Patti, not sure what you want to know. It's an anthology of short stories dealing with witches. Some creepy, some funny, etc.

Publication info as follows:

100 Wicked Little Witch Stories. Edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1995. ISBN: 1566197627

Barnes and Nobles.com has no copies available of the hardcover at this time.....but "100 Wicked Little Witch Stories" is available this month in paperback and they have it for 11.65 plus tax and shipping.

"100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories" came out in paperback in 1996 and neither the paperback nor the hardcover is available at this time, except for used copies, which Barnes and Nobles.com appears to have.

That may be the case for the online B&N, but it might be worth a shot to check out your local store, which is what I did 

I only wish.  My local Barnes and Noble is a vast wasteland.....I have NEVER gone in there in search of a particular title and managed to find it.....NEVER! 

Thanks for the notes. I have stories in several of the B&N anthologies: 100 CREEPY CREATURE STORIES, 100 VICIOUS VAMPIRE STORIES, 100 WICKED WITCH STORIES, and HORRORS! 365 SCARY STORIES. The packaging on these books is very nice, both hardcover and softcover, and they're quite inexpensive -- when you can find them. For a time, they were all over the place in every Barnes & Noble I ever went to, but over the years, they've become more scarce.

Coincidentally, I was asked at the office to read one of my scary stories on Halloween. I'm given 15 minutes to do so, so I offered them the choice of a lighthearted farce about a serial killer in Hell trying to get out for bad behavior ("The Jack-o-Lantern Memoires" in OCTOBERLAND) or a romantic comedy about vampires and buckets of blood pouring from people's heads ("Angels of the Mist" in 100 VICIOUS VAMPIRE STORIES).

Human Resources called back and said I'd better not read the serial killer in Hell story.

A wise choice.

--Mark

Human Resources called back and said I'd better not read the serial killer in Hell story.

Spoilsports. 

Luciaphil.....this might amuse you: my daughter has to read a scary story this week to her Oral Communications class.

Out of the (literally) hundreds of spooky short stories in this house, she chose E.F. Benson's "The Room in the Tower" 

Sorry, Mark....she hasn't read "October Dreams" yet!