Living Dangerously: House of Fear Anthology

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Weston Ochse is a former intelligence officer and special operations soldier who has engaged enemy combatants, terrorists, narco smugglers, and human traffickers. His personal war stories include performing humanitarian operations over Bangladesh, being deployed to Afghanistan, and a near miss being cannibalized in Papua New Guinea. His fiction and non-fiction has been praised by USA Today, The Atlantic, The New York Post, The Financial Times of London, and Publishers Weekly. The American Library Association labeled him one of the Major Horror Authors of the 21st Century. His work has also won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won multiple New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than 26 books in multiple genres, his military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 has been optioned to be a movie starring Dwayne Johnson. His military sci fi series, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. Weston likes to be called a chaotic good paladin and challenges anyone to disagree. After all, no one can really stand a goody two-shoes lawful good character. They can be so annoying. It's so much more fun to be chaotic, even when you're striving to save the world. You can argue with him about this and other things online at Living Dangerously or on Facebook at Badasswriter. All content of this blog is copywrited by Weston Ochse.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

House of Fear Anthology - Solaris

Solaris has announced their new big anthology next year, HOUSE OF FEAR, hot on the heels of this year's release, End of the Line. HOUSE is just what it sounds like, an anthology of haunted house ghost stories. These are actually my favorite kind of stories, so I was pretty thrilled when editor-in-chief Jon Oliver asked me to be a part of it. Now with contracts signed, all we have to do is write the stories. I'm sharing page space with some very cool folks. Always great to be in books with Joe Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, and Sarah Pinborough. Pretty keen to be in one with Chris Fowler too. I love his writing. As I do Eric Brown's and Chaz Brenchley's. If it could be even better, this gives me the opportunity to read fiction from the other contributors, whom I am sure will leave me with similar impressions.

Here's the official announcement from Solaris.

"In October 2011, I will again be bringing you an anthology of horror fiction, House of Fear, this one centered around the theme of the haunted house. We've almost locked down the list of authors for this, but just to give you a list of who we have so far: Joe R. Lansdale, Paul Meloy, Adam L.G. Nevill, Lisa Tuttle, Tim Lebbon, Sarah Pinborough, Eric Brown, Jonathan Green, Nicholas Royle, Christopher Priest, Nina Allan, Chaz Brenchley, Stephen Volk, Christopher Fowler, Garry Kilworth, Weston Ochse, Rebecca Levene."