THE FOURTH HAS ARRIVED Horror as some would say in the anthology form lasted well into the early centuries -- namely with an anthology called The Lock and Key Library. I am not intending to do a new version of this but with Tabloid Purposes IV I wanted to bring a large line up to the table who practice the good old fashioned horror scare. Ranging from small press veterans Ken Goldman, Brian W. Keen, Terry Vinson, Casey Gordon, and others. As the editor I've been doing the series since late 2004, and this being the fourth book. As Joseph Armstead writes in the introduction, the fourth means something. It means that the horror here goes a lot more serious, hell more scarier -- and a lot more blistering within 295 pages. Hardcore Horror, you got it with this one. Everything that runs the gauntlet from a Stephen King style scare to a scare more akin to Edgar Allan Poe. This is the flagship for Fossil Lake Press, and the reason why there is a Lake Fossil Press. Submitted for your approval, I bring you Tabloid Purposes IV: Something Macabre This Way Comes. From ghost stories to dystopic literary fiction, this anthology will run the gambit.
It is nothing safe for the mainstream but at the same time it brings the mainstream somewhere they don't want to come and that is underground...