IT'S ALIVE!!!! IT'S ALIVE!!! ALIVE!!!! ALIVE!!!

SCARLETT RIVER PRESS has just published the horror anthology RIGOROUS MORTIS: A MORTICIAN'S TALES. At last!!! My story "Mr. Friedenhandler" is Chapter 18. A longtime coming and I thank Jo-Anne Russell and Allen Jacoby so very much for including me in this marvelous collection of horror and terror. It is available on Amazon.com, Smashworlds and Create Space in both paperback and e-formats.

"Diminishing Sight" and "A Night In The Country" Selected for ANTHOLOGY

"A Night In The Country" and "Diminishing Sight" have been selected for the Anthology, THE BEST OF SURREAL GROTESQUE, due out by the end of this month. Anthology will only cost you 99 cents. More info coming from Surreal Grotesque and here soon.

DUST to be on PODCAST

We just found out as we were listening to the Surreal Grotesque Podcast Episode 6 that DUST will be appearing on Episode 7 next week. More details to follow here and on SurrealGrotesque.com,

"Dust" is published on Surreal Grotesque

Surreal Grotesque has published DUST on the website. You will find it under NEW STORIES. DUST was submitted in a writing prompt contest where it was a runner up. Thank you Daniel and SURREAL GROTESQUE for publishing DUST.

We finally updated......

josephjpatchen.weebly.com is finally updated. Yeah, things have been slow what with my day job demands but we are staring to write and submit again. Fingers crossed.

"THE HORROR! THE HORROR!" Reviewed now on Lurid-lit.com

My review of “The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books The Government Didn’t Want You To Read!" by Jim Trombetta from Abrams ComicArts is on Lurid-lit.com now. See how the gun violence debate of that day, juvenile delinquency in the 1950s was fought and lost for society as a whole. The art is fantastic and the story is sad. Many, many lives and businesses were destroyed as the progressives of their time failed to make a dent in crime. Like prohibition before see how the emotional, knee jerk, band aid mentality will ultimately always and consistently lead to us utter failure.

REUNION is on The Carnage Conservatory now!!!

We are happy to announce that my short story REUNION, a fun little ditty about a man and the deconstruction of his family is on THE CARNAGE CONSERVATORY now. We give you a little rhyme, a little rhythm and a lot of mayhem.