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Massie Elizabeth
AFRAID - Tidbits of the Macabre
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Two-time Bram Stoker-winning, veteran horror author Elizabeth Massie offers up a collection of some of her more obscure horror shorts, a sampling spanning nearly the entire length of her 27-year career thus far. AFRAID opens the collection with a new poem, "Afraid," which plays with the question, "Why do we read horror?" The 13 stories that follow include darkly light-hearted tales such as "Donald Meets Arnold," "Sweet Kitty," and "Sink or Swim," the graphically terrifying "Pit Boy" and "Los Penitentes," the darkly sinister "Brazen Bull," "Flip Flap," "Triptych of Terror," "Bargain Basement," "Now I'm With the Invalids," "Next Door Collector," and "Thundersylum," and the other-worldly and introspective "Beggars at Dawn." Scary Monsters has said, "Massie has the stuff that makes dark fiction both entertaining and literate." Author Bentley Little said, "Elizabeth Massie is personally one of my favorite authors. Her writing is true, heartfelt, and wildly original. She is one of the greats."
Two-time Bram Stoker-winning, veteran horror author Elizabeth Massie offers up a collection of some of her more obscure horror shorts, a sampling spanning nearly the entire length of her 27-year career thus far. AFRAID opens the collection with a new poem, "Afraid," which plays with the question, "Why do we read horror?" The 13 stories that follow include darkly light-hearted tales such as "Donald Meets Arnold," "Sweet Kitty," and "Sink or Swim," the graphically terrifying "Pit Boy" and "Los Penitentes," the darkly sinister "Brazen Bull," "Flip Flap," "Triptych of Terror," "Bargain Basement," "Now I'm With the Invalids," "Next Door Collector," and "Thundersylum," and the other-worldly and introspective "Beggars at Dawn." Scary Monsters has said, "Massie has the stuff that makes dark fiction both entertaining and literate." Author Bentley Little said, "Elizabeth Massie is personally one of my favorite authors. Her writing is true, heartfelt, and wildly original. She is one of the greats."
Aberrations: Horror Stories
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Jeremy C. Shipp has brought together ten monster tales from today's masters of horror and supernatural suspense. Stories by: Scott Nicholson Lisa Tuttle Nate Kenyon Lisa Morton Kealan Patrick Burke Simon Wood Jeremy C. Shipp Elizabeth Massie Joe McKinney Joseph Nassise Praise for Jeremy C. Shipp: “Jeremy C. Shipp’s boldness, daring, originality, and sheer smarts make him one of the most vital younger writers who have colonized horror literature in the past decade. Shipp’s modernist clarity, plus his willingness to risk damn near everything, put him up at the head of the pack with the very best.” –Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story "Shipp's clear, insistent voice pulls you down into the rabbit hole and doesn't let go." --Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door
Jeremy C. Shipp has brought together ten monster tales from today's masters of horror and supernatural suspense. Stories by: Scott Nicholson Lisa Tuttle Nate Kenyon Lisa Morton Kealan Patrick Burke Simon Wood Jeremy C. Shipp Elizabeth Massie Joe McKinney Joseph Nassise Praise for Jeremy C. Shipp: “Jeremy C. Shipp’s boldness, daring, originality, and sheer smarts make him one of the most vital younger writers who have colonized horror literature in the past decade. Shipp’s modernist clarity, plus his willingness to risk damn near everything, put him up at the head of the pack with the very best.” –Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story "Shipp's clear, insistent voice pulls you down into the rabbit hole and doesn't let go." --Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door
Homegrown
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Homegrown is a story of longing, despair, and hope at a children’s home in the mid-1980s. Three teenaged boys – Howard, Mark, and Cooter – have lived at the Protestant Children's Home for much of their lives. Worldly and wise sixteen-year-old Howard is the role model. Fifteen-year-old Mark is the angry rebel. And fourteen-year-old Cooter, the only true “orphan” of the bunch, is the peacemaker, doing his best to make everybody happy and to diffuse bad situations with outrageous humor. They know the rules and the routines. They tolerate the adults and bond with each other. looking forward to the time they are old enough to go off on their own to make their own rules, their own lives. The Home is not the nightmare workhouse of “Oliver Twist” but an institution that tries with imperfect understanding and limited resources to offer its charges a clean, ordered place to live. Yet when financial circumstances force the Home to accept more hardened “state kids” into its ranks, Howard, Mark, and Cooter find their world thrown upside down. Cooter does all he can to hold the threads of his life and those of his friends together, but they spiral out of control. Told primarily as a flashback from 1994, Homegrown opens as Cooter prepares to take on the most agonizing personal challenge of his life. Yet it is while facing his past failures and his fear of the present that he discovers one true and most important fact about his life, a fact filled with hope and redemption.
Sineater
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According to legend, the sineater is a dark and mysterious figure of the night, condemned to live alone in the woods, who devours food from the chests of the dead to allow them to ascend to heaven. To look upon the sineater is to see the face of all the evil he has eaten, and to become insane with the overwhelming presence of sin. But now the order has been broken, the tradition violated; the sineater has a family of his own, although even his wife and children must avert their gazes on the rare occasions he visits them. When Joel, the youngest child, tries to lead a normal life, strange occurrences affect the community. Before long, no one is safe from the dark forces set loose, and Joel must discover if the havoc emanates from the sineater, the community itself, or some other mysterious force....
This grim, claustral story is about the consequences of a primitive form of Christianity practiced in the mountains of Virginia, the author's home state. The sineater is a man shunned by all, a man whose face should never be seen. He performs the valuable service of absorbing all the sins of each person who dies, by eating ritual food laid out on their corpses. When the sineater's son, Joel, is allowed to attend school, a series of violent omens convinces the fanatic locals that God is punishing them and that Judgment Day is nigh. As Joel searches for the real perpetrator of the crimes, along with other adolescents who reluctantly listen to him, the plot (the weakest part of the book) begins to resemble a wandering sort of whodunit. The focus of the novel, though, is on the well-evoked mood of fear and despair. Elizabeth Massie works her horror effects with an intimate approach, closing in on her characters as if she's trapping them. And her descriptions do justice to the rustic setting, where people live in four-room cabins and honeysuckle winds around the knotty rails of the fences. Sineater won a Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 1993. Massie also won a Stoker for her novella "Stephen," published in the first Borderlands anthology. As Tom Monteleone writes in Borderlands 3, Massie wields "a subtle power that rips at your emotions with velvet claws." --Fiona Webster
Wire Mesh Mothers
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It all started with the best of intentions. Kate McDolen, an elementary school teacher, knew she had to protect one of her students, little 8-year-old Mistie, from parents who were making her life a living hell. So Kate packed her bags, quietly picked up Mistie after school one day, and set off with her toward what she thought would be a new life. How could she know she was driving headlong into a nightmare? The nightmare began when Tony jumped into the passenger seat of Kate's car, waving a gun. Tony was a dangerous girl, more dangerous than anyone could have dreamed. She didn't admire anything except violence and cruelty, and she had very different plans in mind for Kate and little Mistie. The cross-country trip that followed would turn into a one-way journey to fear, desperation... and madness.
Shadow Dreams
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Massie Elizabeth News
Three WHS seniors hold 4.0 GPAs - Wilmington News Journal, OH
Wilmington News Journal, OH, OH - May 30, 2009
Three WHS seniors hold 4.0 GPAsElizabeth Murphy — Dr. Scott A. Puckett Scholarship, $500 to a student who will be majoring in a medical field with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and exhibits positive characteristics. Taylor Massie — Kathleen Outcalt Memorial Scholarship, $300 to a student in
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Seniors set to take stage - Clay County Leader
Clay County Leader, TX - Feb 11, 1844
Seniors set to take stageKyle Massie will lead the pledge of allegiance. Diplomas will be presented by Aaron Daniels, school board president. Valedictorian is Kayla Copeland with a 100.2 grade point average. She is the daughter of Jimmy and Carol Copeland of Byers.
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Stunning: Trinity knocks off second-seeded Yough - Washington Observer Reporter
Washington Observer Reporter, PA - May 14, 2009
Stunning: Trinity knocks off second-seeded YoughTrinity (11-7) plays the winner of today's Elizabeth Forward-West Allegheny game in the semifinals next week. While Morran provided all the offense, Massie did her job to shut down the Cougars, who scored 10 or more runs twice this season and produced Home run ends season for Yough
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Final senior class at old GAHS receive diplomas at ceremony - Daily Sentinel
Daily Sentinel, OH - May 23, 2009
Final senior class at old GAHS receive diplomas at ceremony Adam Franklin Massie, Calyssa Lynn Mayes, Danielle Alexandra Mayo, Ashley L. McCabe, Ashley Nicole McCombs, Jacob Ryan McDonald, Samantha Nichole McGuire, Amy Renea Meeks; Jamie Renee Saunders, Sarah Elisabeth Saunders, William Clint Saunders,
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Roundup: Greenwich Academy takes back FAA title - Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time, CT - May 13, 2009
Roundup: Greenwich Academy takes back FAA titleAll five players broke 40 for the Wreckers (11-0), including Kirk Massie, who was the co-medalist with an even-par 36 along with Greenwich brothers David Pastore and Stephen Pastore. "Hats off to Staples," GHS coach Jeff Santilli said.
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