New Moon on the Water
by Mort Castle
In a smoky, after hours jazz joint where almost nobody ever dies, or the ranch house next door owned by a monster, or a high rise elevator in which raging terror awaits the next passenger, these brilliant stories discover a world you thought you knew - and a darker one you will never forget. With 13 stories never before collected, NEW MOON ON THE WATER is Mort Castle's first new collection in a decade, presenting the best short fiction of the writer deemed a "horror doyen," "the Charles Dickens of horror," and "the master of contemporary horror."
Contents:
- Defining Horror – An Introduction
- If You Take My Hand, My Son
- Henderson’s Place / The Girl with the Summer Eyes
- A Circle of Magic
- The W.W. II Pistol
- Pop is Real Smart
- Healers
- Buckeye Jim in Egypt
- As Others See Us
- Father and Son
- Bird’s Dead
- The Running Horse, The High, White Sound
- Upstairs, Downstairs and All About Vampires
- A Someday Movie
- 14 Short Horror Stories
- Party Time
- Love, Hate and the Beautiful Junkyard Sea
- I Am Your Need
- Moon on the Water
- The Call
- Hansel, Gretel and the Witch: Notes to the Artist
- Bonds
- 14 Short Horror Stories
- Other Advantages
- FYI
- In The Gypsy Camp
- I’ll Call You
- The Doctor, the Kid and the Ghosts in the Lake
- Dani’s Story
- Altenmoor, Where the Dogs Dance
- I Don’t Know, Is What I Say
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Mort Castle
Mort Castle (born 1946) is an American horror author and writing teacher, with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child (Leisure Books, 1994) and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional lit mags to more off the wall or risqué markets. He has been nominated four times for the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction.