I wish I had this poetic grace for the sinister, decayed, and strangely ugly. Everything stark, defined, and immediate. This is a celluloid film, and perfectly cinematic; it is precise. Gorgeous weird fiction. Surrealism to eat.

I pick up horror anthologies just to read Amelia Mangan's stuff, and now she has a novel out. But someday all her short stories need to be collected, somehow. The sideshow mermaid from that carnival antho; the girl assailed by moth boys in Phobophobias.

BRIDEGROOM is the saturated film yet to be, of an unconventional First Contact story. You can read it for Free from Book Smugglers:

http://thebooksmugglers.com/2015/10/the-bridegroom-by-amelia-mangan.html

THESE BLASTED LANDS, By Amelia Mangan © 2014. From the After The Fall anthology, published by Boo Books.

You can read this short in its entirety, here:

https://boohoobooks.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/these-blasted-lands-by-amelia-mangan.pdf

I love this. It's like if the apocalypse came to Charm School. :D

Got this horror antho just to read "Pensacola Mermaid Tank", by Amelia Mangan.

Excellent. :D

Blue Highway, by Amelia Mangan, Yen Short Story Winner, 2013. I'm late in the game of finally reading Amelia's stuff. She knew of my Charm School, I didn't yet know of her horror and short story writing. I really enjoy her way with words and her voices, (now that I've read three of her works). Am looking for more of her stuff, especially for the occasion of October. ^v^

Read it, here:

http://www.yenmag.net/artery/blue-highway-short-story-winner-2013/