Meet & Greet: For horror fans in the Columbus area, I’ll be among fellow authors at Sweets of Grace bakery and bookstore on Saturday, Oct. 10. We’ll be signing books, talking horror, and munching on spooky treats.
Book Talk review
A Place Where Things Collect is a collection of masterful horror stories by Akron author Marvin Brown.
Seven of the stories previously appeared in anthologies. One of the three new ones, “One Less Thing to Cry About,” is a weird, short tale of a woman alone in a house she doesn’t recognize. “Ascension” is a dreamy, sorrowful story of a man who only wants to convince his wife that she is loved. “Night Tongue” tells of a teacher whose extracurricular activities lead to terror. Some stories are sexually explicit; some unspeakably violent. Some are both.
A Place Where Things Collect (156 pages, softcover) costs $18.99 from online retailers. Brown also is the author of the impressive 2002 debut novella Covet and the 2012 suspense novel Jigsaw Man.
—Akron Beacon Journal
Marvin Brown’s new collection of short stories, A Place Where Things Collect, is now available!
In this haunting collection from horror author Marvin Brown, the boundaries between life, death, and everything in between begin to fray.
From the ashes of a ruined world, a lone survivor discovers that the end of civilization is the beginning of something far more terrifying. Love takes a sinister turn in a romance where devotion twists into obsession. A desperate bargain to cheat death spirals into consequences far worse than the grave. One man’s quest to watch the scariest movie ever made becomes a descent into madness. And in a quiet, forgotten field, the dead refuse to stay buried—waiting for someone to finally notice them.
Each story peels back another layer of fear, blending psychological dread with the uncanny and the surreal. With a voice both chilling and unforgettable, Marvin Brown—author of Jigsaw Man—invites you into worlds where the ordinary becomes nightmarish and every shadow hides a secret.
Enter if you dare. You may not leave unchanged.
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My short story “The Wet Knot” appears in the anthology Strangely Marvelous Creatures, edited by Robert Pope. Click here to purchase.
My Southern Gothic short story “The Wet Knot” will appear in the upcoming literary anthology Dark Lane, Vol. 8, from Dark Lane Books. More information coming soon.
New cover, same terror!
Comet Press has released a new cover for its Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Vol. 2 anthology, which includes my short story “The Field.” The collection is edited by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax. Click here to purchase.
Excited that my story “Grandfather’s Room” was selected for the upcoming post-apocalyptic horror anthology, Down with the Fallen, from Franklin/Kerr Press.
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