A Roach For Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is right around the corner. Why do something mundane on Valentine's Day like honor your sweetie with gifts of flowers, boxed chocolates, a fancy dinner, champagne, sex toys, and a little roll between the sheets to top off the night? Do something different!

Name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after your true love!

You've seen these things in zoos. They're big. They hiss. They make the Zanti misfits look like fruit flies.

Roaches have real character. They are resilient. Tenacious. Creative. Prolific! Resourceful and loyal. Those are great qualities in any mate. You can now tell your honey bunny he or she is as sexy as a roach!

So now instead of greeting each individual roach with a "WTF IS THAT?" you can call it Tootsie Wootsie or Sugar Bear. All you need to do is give a $10 donation to the Bronx Zoo and you get to name a really cool Madagascar hissing cockroach after your soulmate. You'll even get a certificate of honor. How cool is that? According to the Bronx Zoo web site, "Your $10 donation helps WCS conserve species big and small, beautiful and damned. With your support, we'll continue to do our work saving wildlife in the forests of Madagascar and throughout the world's most majestic wild places."

Forget the chocolates and roses. Name one of these bugs after your true love, help support the Bronx Zoo, and buy some dark and horrific books to end the night on a high note. Try my horror novels and short stories. You may find links to pages about each one at the top of this web site. Choose "The Oily" (Stupefying Stories), "Shattering The Meat Tunnel" (Mirages), "We're All Mad Here" (Zippered Flesh 2), "Back Beyond The Hedge Row" (Kizuna), or "Alicia", which is a dark fantasy romance story. Perfect for Valentine's Day! Enjoy a good read, and Happy Valentine's Day!

Note: "We're All Mad Here" is so new it's not on this web site yet. It appears in the horror anthology "Zippered Flesh 2: More Tales Of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!" You may buy the book at Amazon.

Zippered Flesh 2 - paperback

Zippered Flesh 2 - ebook

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

Backlist Bash Horror Post

I've been interviewed for the Backlist Bash! Stop by and read my interview as well as excerpts from "The Oily" and "Shattering The Meat Tunnel".

Backlist Bash: E. A. Black Interview

  

New Cover For "Mirages: Tales From Authors Of The Macabre"

This is the new cover and new title of the upcoming release "Mirages", which was formerly entitled "A Splintered Mirage". The book comes out later this month. My short story "Shattering The Meat Tunnel" appears in this book.

A Splintered Mirage - Table Of Contents And Cover

Here's the TOC for "A Splintered Mirage", edited by Trent Zelazny. Book comes out in August. My story "Shattering The Meat Tunnel" appears in it. I'm in great company! And here's the cover. :)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

The Conclusion – Tom Piccirilli

American Chinnamasta – Jeffrey Thomas

Dumb Luck – Barb Lien-Cooper & Park Cooper

Poor Old Soul – Lee Allen Howard

No Name, No Voice – Tina Swain

Reprieve Eve No. 33 – Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Switchbitch – Gerald Hausman

Bastard – Billie Sue Mosiman

Angela & the Angel – Scott Bradley & Peter Giglio

Offline – Kealan Patrick Burke

Fairy Tale – Lori R. Lopez

The Sum of Spectacle – Jason S. Ridler

The Descent Upstairs – Leigh M. Lane

The Pit – Joe R. Lansdale

Jagged Night – Curt Jarrell

Shattering The Meat Tunnel – E. A. Black

Beast (a fable for children) – Edward Morris

Update On "Shattering The Meat Tunnel"

I have some good news. The publisher who was originally slated to publish my erotic horror story "Shattering The Meat Tunnel" was under fire by Paypal's censorship nonsense and the entire "Extreme" line has been cancelled. So I asked for my rights back and got them.

I immediately sent the story to Trent Zelazny and now it will appear where I wanted it to appear in the first place: in the "A Splintered Mirage" anthology.

I'm so psyched about this. I wrote the story for Trent to begin with but he temporarily shelved the project. Now my story is home where it belongs. Doing the happy dance!

Coming Soon: Shattering The Meat Tunnel

Do you like extreme horror like splatterpunk? If you do, you'll love my new extreme horror story entitled "Shattering The Meat Tunnel", which is to be published in the EXTREME Anthology by Poison Pixie Publishers in the U. K. This story is what happens to a crazed woman when she stops taking her medication. Suffice to say it isn't pretty but it's quite fascinating. This is a highly erotic and ultraviolent story.

Keep an eye here for more information about this anthology once it comes out. I published the story with my pen name E. A. Black.