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Spotlight on Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror

by The Undead Rat on September 6, 2009

This weekend we’re spotlighting a pair of anthologies collecting a number of short horror stories edited by Cheryl Mullenax and published by Comet Press. Today we’ll look at Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror. Yesterday we looked at its companion volume Deadlines: An Anthology of Horror and Dark Fiction.

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The horror anthology Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror is edited by Cheryl Mullenax

Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror

Editor: Mullenax, Cheryl
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 212pp.
Pub. Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: Comet Press

Comet Press presents the ultimate collection of extreme horror from award winning masters and up-and-coming authors of macabre fiction. Authors include John Bruni, Garry Bushell, Ramsey Campbell, Randy Chandler, Tim Curran, Ralph Greco, Jr., C.J. Henderson, Z.F. Kilgore,Sean Logan, Graham Masterton, Angel Leigh McCoy, C. Dennis Moore, Stefan Pearson, Brian Rosenberger, and Jeffrey Thomas.

Witness the history of a sexually rapacious zombie . . . A starving soldier descends into insatiable ghoulism . . . A concentration camp SS guard gets a taste of his own medicine . . . Recycling takes on a whole new grisly meaning when a man obsessed with going green discovers a regenerative serum . . . A man buys his alcoholic mother a bottle of tequila — with the wrong kind of worm . . . An occult detective moves to a town in the Pine Barrens and discovers its sinister past — and his own . . . A tenant gets revenge on a self-centered landlord — with irritating results . . . A fisherman discovers his rival’s secret of always getting the biggest catch . . . and much more!

Table of Contents:

  • The Fisherman by Brian Rosenberger
  • Fungoid by Randy Chandler
  • Tenant’s Rights by Sean Logan
  • Again by Ramsey Campbell
  • Maggots by Tim Curran
  • Going Green by Stefan Pearson
  • Coquettrice by Angel Leigh McCoy
  • The Fear in the Waiting by C.J. Henderson
  • The Worm by John Bruni
  • Sepsis by Graham Masterton
  • What You Wish For by Garry Bushell
  • The Devil Lives in Jersey by Z.F. Kilgore
  • Rat King by Jeffrey Thomas
  • The Caterpillar by C. Dennis Moore
  • “Poor Brother Ed” or The Man Who Visited by Ralph Greco, Jr.
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Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror is a collection of horror short stories edited by Cheryl Mullenax

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