After seventeen years of waiting for this, I can finally say: I have a book coming out!
My debut will be a collection, You Have to Let them Bleed, out in spring 2025! You can preorder NOW to get the paperback with a signed bookplate through my publisher, Bad Hand Books!
You Have to Let them Bleed brings together nineteen horror stories with eight original poems, featuring one never-before-seen short story. It explores themes of art, violence, loss of identity, motherhood and children, grief, control vs. chaos, monstrosity, and insidious fear.
It is an absolute labor of love built from well over a decade of passionate creative pursuit, literary study, and dogged determination. Pre-orders are incredibly important for the success of a book, so clicking this link and ordering yours now is the number one way you can support me!
If you are a reader of mine already, you will likely find a favorite or two in this collection, but you will surely find some unread stories as well, along with one never-before-published short certain to stick right in your brain meat. Don’t be scared! (Yet!) Do it!
Here’s the book description:
The collector hunts the darkness for terrible beauty: macabre and marvelous stories worth displaying in their shadow boxes. Tour these horrors with them, but beware: if you’re not careful, you might find yourself lost in a labyrinth of fear.
A pickup artist is after your skin. A junk drawer opens into the abyss. The twin sons of an ill-fated magician plot against their abusive mother. A man wastes his life dreading an unseen entity. A senior water aerobics class takes a turn for the bizarre…
YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED brings together the best horror fiction by two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and nationally award-winning poet Annie Neugebauer. Together with eight new poems, this nineteen-story collection will draw you into the lovely darkness, lure you deeper into the heartbreaking and gruesome, and leave behind its own collection of horrors to fill the shadows of your mind.
I will continue to share news and developments about my book (like a cover!) as we get closer to publication, but for now, thank you so much for ordering your copy and sharing my news with all of your book- and horror-loving friends!
Big, big thanks to editor Doug Murano for picking up this project, and to all of my readers, friends, and supporters over these years for sticking it out with me. We’re doing the thing. Let’s go.
Share this:
