Caped Fear

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They are superhuman champions: hyper-charged, meta-guardians of humanity; protecting the innocent from the corrupt, saving us from the sadistic; shielding us from human or inhuman evil in all its forms. But, what if the gleaming smile from the chiseled jaw was actually the animalistic baring of teeth? What if THEY were the nightmare threat? They are not superheroes, but superhorrors! This dark potential is revealed as we present tales of shock and the macabre from a roster that includes some of the greatest creative minds from the realms of fantasy, science fiction, horror and comic-books. What sort of dark and chilling fates arise when those with powers far beyond mere mortals are the central figures not in tales of triumph, but of terror? Welcome to CAPED FEAR. Short horror fiction by some of the world’s best writers: Barry N. Malzberg & Jack Dann, Colleen Doran, Jim Krueger, Robert Bloch, Karen Haber, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Jim Starlin, & Howard Keltner, Jonathan Maberry, Neil Gaiman & Roz Kaveney, Heather Graham, Ramsey Campbell, Janeen Webb, William F. Nolan, Brian Lumley, and Joe R. Lansdale. Christopher Sequeira is a writer and editor who specialises in the mystery, horror, science fiction, fantasy and super-hero genres. He’s written scripts for flagship comic-book brands such as Justice League Adventures for DC Entertainment, and Iron Man and X-Men stories for Marvel Entertainment. His short fiction has been published in anthologies in Australia, the UK, Canada, the US and Europe, and he’s created original characters, and edited and published comics and short story collections in Australia. He notably worked as a co-editor on all three book-sized volumes of the TERROR AUSTRALIS horror anthology with Leigh Blackmore and Bryce Stevens. His current projects include Australia’s most popular superhero comic-book as he takes the wheel for THE PHANTOM on a few different storylines for Frew Publishing. Other forthcoming works by Sequeira include the The Exoneration of Doctor Fu Manchu graphic novel series in partnership with artist and long-time colleague W. Chew Chan, and Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook, a mass-market, hardcover collection of all-new Holmes stories, edited by Sequeira, to be published late 2017 by the Bonnier Group. Sequeira has formed the working group ‘Horror Australis’ with fellow editors and writers Bryce Stevens and Steve Proposch to edit and package entertaining and interesting speculative fiction collections internationally. Steve Proposch is the co-creator of mystical superhero The Borderlander. He has written non-fiction for publications such as Beat, Rebel Razor, and Time Out Melbourne. He lives in Australia. Christopher Sequeira is a writer and editor who has written scripts for brands such as Justice League Adventures for DC Entertainment and Iron Man and X-Men stories for Marvel Entertainment. He lives in Australia. Bryce Stevens is an editor and illustrator who has worked on horror magazines such as Bloodsongs, Severed Head, and Terror Australis. He lives in Australia. Peter Rawlik is a regular member of the Lovecraft Ezine Podcast and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of The Peaslee Papers, Reanimators, Reanimatrix, and The Weird Company. He lives in Florida. Once upon a time Bryce Stevens helped edit and illustrate horror magazines Bloodsongs, Terror Australis and Severed Head. He published The Fear Codex: Australian Encyclopaedia of Dark Fantasy & Horror CD. Several collections of his horror tales have been published including Stalking the Demon and Skin Tight. In 2013, with co-editors: Christopher Sequeira and Steve Proposch, Bryce helped set up Horror Australis. For several years until recently Bryce worked for an Australian wildlife agency as a reptile handler. Currently he has a new collection of horror/supernatural tales ready for publication. Introduction (Mark Waid) Prologue: A Post-Moon-Age Nightmare (Christopher Sequeira) The Towers of Eden (Barry N. Malzberg & Jack Dann) The Omnivore (Colleen Doran) Proof of Bullets (Jim Krueger) Stuporman (Robert Bloch) Just Another Day by the Potomac (Karen Haber) Call Me Titan (Robert Silverberg) Doctor Weird: ‘The Sword and the Spider’ (George R. R. Martin, Jim Starlin, & Howard Keltner) Holding Out for a Hero (Jonathan Maberry) The Lady and/or the Tiger (Neil Gaiman & Roz Kaveney) Super-Doc and The Ten-Day Cure for the Zombie Apocalypse (Heather Graham) Loveman’s Comeback (Ramsey Campbell) The Medici Stiletto (Janeen Webb) Double Space (William F. Nolan) Mylakhrion the Immortal (Brian Lumley) The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down (Joe R. Lansdale) Biographies A unique take on horror, and drawing in some of the best writers in the genre, globally. Also would be of interest to comics/graphic novel fans.

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