Corpulent Insanity Press

Cover art by Inzekkt

Table of Contents:

I. The Kennel by Evan J. Peterson
II. The Indigenous Flora and Fauna of a Small Tropical Island by Sam W. Anderson
III. Teardrop by David Dunwoody
IV. The Legless Ones by Jodi Lee
V. To Feed the Little Children by Sharon M. White
VI. Care and Feeding of the Old Flat Mile by Aaron A. Polson
VII. Aria by Allison M. Dickson
VIII. Ill Conceived by Felicity Dowker

Release Date: Late 2008/Early 2009

“The Black Garden , edited by Christopher Allan Death, is a darkly sinister collection of short stories that will surely help cultivate your black thumb! Filled with eight eerie and terrifying tales, The Black Garden will find a way to crawl under your skin with its creeping tendrils of terror!”
-Fatally-Yours.com

“The Black Garden is a roller coaster of horror. One moment you’re walking on a tropical island, the next spiders are crawling out your eyeballs. A lot of fun, but definitely not for the squeamish.”
-K.T. Pinto, author of The Books of Insanity

“Rumors of horror’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The genre is alive and kicking within the dark pages of The Black Garden — an anthology of creepy, hair-raising stories by new, up-and-coming authors. Read it. Get excited about horror again.”
-Fred Wiehe, author of Strange Days and a member of the Horror Writers Association

“Evil grows — literally and metaphorically — throughout this Black Garden, an anthology by up-and-comers whose stories tend to call to mind EC Comics in all the best ways. Short, nasty and pointed, like exotic thorns, some of these tales may well stick with you … and take root.”
-W.D. Gagliani, author of Wolf’s Trap and Wolf’s Gambit

“The Black Garden is hybrid horror anthology; fertile in both powerful bizarro head-melters and cool conventional chillers. This collection of eight stories will plant small seeds of unease that niggle as they grow into creeping tendrils of horror. Visit Peterson’s Moreau-esque freak show. Let Anderson give you another great reason to avoid weeding. Take a peek at Dunwoody’s unsettling Swift-like world. You want something mythical and trippy? Lee’s got you covered. And White has a creature feature that packs a punch for you. Polson gets a little classic King on the go and Dickson adds that Koontz flavour. And to round it off? What better than Dowker’s gruesome, unflinching body-shocker?

Pay heed. You’re going to want a weed-whacker in your hands before traipsing into this garden. Thorns, needled flytrap teeth, creepy crawlies. That’s the kids’ stuff. Turn over a couple of stones. See what happens.“
-Gerard Brennan, author of Posession, Obsession and a Diesel Compression Engine