Sam Richard

A drunk widower wanders through an endless, abandoned mall while the war machine marches.90s queer metalheads repeatedly try to burn down a regenerating church.Denizens of a punk house are confronted with the reality of what happened to their missing roommate.An artist with acidic bodily fluids finds another like him.With The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God Award-Winning author Sam Richard returns with eleven new stories exploring the raw honesty of grief, isolation, brokenness, and desperation through weird horrors ranging from body to cosmic to existential and beyond.

Soft Ceremonies brings together 4 of the best writers in the world of transgressive horror to celebrate elevated trash horror.Including: Joe KochCharlene ElsbySam Richardand Jon Steffens

Embark on a journey through the mysterious aftermath of the apocalypse with "Forbidden Futures 12: Back to the Stone Age." This anthology unveils worlds where the remnants of civilizations blend with the enigmatic forces of magic and the untamed laws of survival. Journey amidst the shadows of fallen civilizations, through landscapes shrouded in mystery, and experience the thrill of Back to the Stone Age.Experience the first minutes of the end in Robert Ford's The Becoming on the eve of the apocalypse.Join a tribal odyssey in Gram Hzofizin's Journey to the Silent Peak, where celestial omens guide destiny.Navigate the desolate realms of Brian Asman's Twilight of the Vitaphage, a dramatic quest in an evil landscape.Explore the intricacies of time realities in Matthew Medney's' 39 Children, which pushes the limits of human endurance and temporal boundaries.Discover future troglodytes in Lem Stomer's Dawn of the Forgotten Earth, the last survivors of a DNA War.Enter the mystical, shadowy world of Joseph Fire's The Betrayal of Kruj.Witness the tumultuous aftermath of war generations later in Ismael Galvan's The Downfall of Green Stone.Brave the mystical Fatal Hills of Blue by Sam Richard is a tale of survival against enigmatic forces.Venture into Cody Goodfellow's Stone Skin, a brutal tale of survival.Get lost in Robert E. Howard's The Shadow Kingdom, a timeless exploration of ancient civilizations.Embark on an extraordinary journey back to a time when magic and mystery reigned supreme.

From Wonderland Award-Winning author Sam Richard comes twelve more uncomfortable tales of sorrow, ruination, and transformation.A young widow joins a spousal loss support group with bizarre methods of healing. An aging punk is stalked by something ancient and familiar in the labyrinthian halls of an art complex. A couple renting out a small movie theater are interrupted by a corrosive force of nature. Through these stories of weird horror and visceral sorrow, Richard shows us ways grief can be transcendent-but only if we know which rituals to practice.

Three novellettes by three different horror authors, each one implored to contain two very specific things: LAZERS and MALLS. The variety between these three stories was great, as each author took the concept and made it their own. And while the book might be labelled as 'horror' there are healthy doses of weirdness and humor running through the veins of each of these tales. A short read (seriously, it only took me like 2 hours to read the whole thing) but a helluva good time.- Danger Slater (author, I Will Rot Without You and Puppet Skin)Just when you thought it was safe to go to the mall...Three authors (Katy Michelle Quinn, Jo Quenell, Sam Richard) of the strange, the unsettling, and the bizarre each conjure their own vision of lazer-infused mall-horror. From queer mall-goths fighting for their lives against androids with explosive genitals, to the American propaganda machine using coerced shock-rocker punk musicians to fight Soviet Communism, to a mall security officer high on the power of robots who seeks to crush the women who've scorned him.We have it all, and more...Welcome to the LAZERMALL.

Featuring: Jo Quenell, Sam Richard, Brendan Vidito & Justin LutzTeenage Grave brings together four of the most brutally frank and intricately surreal fictions from the modern horror underground. Combining elements of splatterpunk, body horror, and transgressive fiction. Teenage Grave will lay you bare before severing your nerves. Smiling a little too much while doing it.

After learning about the existence of a powerful grimoire through a cartoon, 12-year-old Joe is determined to find it and change his lot in life. But in doing so, he'll also uncover a local priest's dark secret and how it may be connected to Joe's brother abruptly leaving town five years ago.Part homage to the small-creature horror films of the 80s (Ghoulies, Gremlins, The Gate) and part Splatterpunk take on a Goosebumps book, Sabbath of the Fox-Devils is a weird, diabolical coming-of-age horror story of self-liberation in an oppressive religious environment set during the Satanic Panic.Prepare your soul to revel in the darkness.