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"Wow! With the amazing talent involved in this anthology, it's no wonder 100 Word Horrors is such a powerful gut-punch of horror!"
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The full T.O.C. for '100 Word Horrors.' Check it out.

If you enjoy flash fiction, you are going to love this book.

T.O.C.

Andrew Lennon - Lunchtime
Chris Kelso - Streethearts
Dave McCluskey - The Guest
Dave McCluskey - Air
Matthew Brockmeyer - Lightbulb
Matthew Brockmeyer - Hide and Seek
Veronica Smith - Post Halloween
Veronica Smith - The Dublin Pub
John Dover - Late Night Drive
Mark Lumby - Bessy
Glenn Rolfe - They Came For Me
Pippa Bailey - Heart Shaped Box
Pippa Bailey - Silence
Brandy Yassa - Alone
James Matthew Byers - Don't Look Back
James Matthew Byers - Edmond
P.J. Blakey-Novis - I was Loved
P.J. Blakey-Novis - The Other Me
Matt Hickman - Hobby
Michael Bray - I Am The End
Suzanne Fox - Delusional
C.S. Anderson - Knock Knock
C.M. Saunders - Coming Around
Elizabeth Cash - Weeping Keys
Chad Lutzke - Sugar & Spice
A.J. Brown - Strength In the Blood
Lee McGeorge - Experimental Animal 7
Lisa Morton - The Dead Thing
Gord Rollo - Someone's In My House
Derek Shupert - Till Death Do Us Part
Mark Fleming - Initiation
Mark Fleming - Firing Squad
Valerie Lioudis - Clean
Valerie Lioudis - The Box
Billy Chizmar - It
Richard Chizmar - The Man in The Black Sweater
Mark Lumby - Greed Has No Heart
Rhys Hughes - Cupid and Death
Rhys Hughes - Mr Fancy Pants
James H. Longmore - Bad Cop, Bad Cop
Rick Gualtieri - Selfie
Georgia Lennon - Cold Toes
Lisa Vasquez - Night Terrors
P. Mattern - Harsh Sentence
Mike Duke - The Festival of Gluttony
Suzanne Fox - A Caring Community
Suzanne Fox - Coming Home
Briana Robertson - Delivery
Mark Lumby - It Came
James Matthew Buyers -Bummed Light
Mike Duke - No More
Mike Duke - Never Leave Me, Nor Forsake Me
Christina Bergling - Jack Frost
Christina Bergling - Grand Slam
Christina Bergling Bergling - You Don't See Me
Richard Chizmar & Billy Chizmar - The Boy
Norbert Gora - It is Just Local Gossip
Craig Saunders - The Dead Train
Weston Kincade - Jolly Ol' Infiltrator
Howard Carlyle - Meal For One
David Owain Hughes - Virtual Reality
Theresa Jacobs - Nights in Whitechapel
Jeff Strand - Shock Collar
David Owain Hughes - Dancing
David Owain Hughes - Cut Down to Size
Robert W. Easton - What is Schizophrenia, Anyway?
Billy San Juan - A Demonic Pact
Nicholas Diak - Will-o’-the-wisp
Eric J. Guignard - Forever Men
Donelle Pardee Whiting - Trees
Antonio Simon, Jr - Shadows
Ellen A. Easton - It's Just A Dream, Right?
Becky Narron - Stone
Duncan P. Bradshaw - Winter’s Embrace
Adriaan Brae - Consumed by Desire
Mark Lukens - The Dolls
Lisa Vasquez - Vermillion
Jason M. Light - I Was a Teenage Eulogist
Alex Laybourne - Beasts From Below
Alex Laybourne - From the Mouths of Drunks and Babes
John Dover - Spellbound
Pippa Bailey - Beast in the Bedroom
Howard Carlyle - The Artist
Mark Cassell - A Song for Them
Mark Cassell - Over the Edge
Kevin J. Kennedy - Children of the Carnival
Rebecca Brae - The Feast
Megan Ince - Escape
Michael Paul Gonzalez - Destiny's Embrace
Stefan Lear - Best of Friends
Sara Tantlinger - Stone Dry
Sara Tantlinger - Breadth of Bone
Sara Tantlinger - Beauty Mask
Jessica Gomez - A Flash Beginning
William F. Nolan - Another Tonight?
Christopher Motz - What's for Dinner
Christopher Motz - Just a Game
Michael A. Arnzen - Checkmate Roommate
Michael A. Arnzen - Running From Him
Michael A. Arnzen - Baby Steps
Kevin J. Kennedy - The Beauty of the Sea
James McCulloch - Stage Fright
Peter Oliver Wonder - Shower Thoughts
Brandy Yassa - Priscilla's Pugnacious Pampered Pups
Lee Mountford - Betrayal
Ike Hamill - Beautiful Francesca
Ike Hamill - Disregarded Advice
Amy Cross - The End of The Pier
Amy Cross - Jonathan
Amy Cross - The Grave

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The Haunted Reading Room. WHO'S COMING DOWN YOUR CHIMNEY TONIGHT? : Review: Collected Halloween Horror Shorts: Trick '...: Collected Halloween Horror Shorts: Trick 'r Treat by Kevin J. Kennedy My rating: 5 of 5 stars Releas...

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Collected Halloween Horror Shorts.

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If you love horror, Halloween is probably your favourite time of the year. Well… It’s ours, too.

A mixture of authors from Collected Christmas Horror Shorts and Collected Easter Horror Shorts have come back together, and invited a few friends, to make this Halloween an extra special one.

Lock your door, dim your lights, add some pumpkin spice to whatever you are drinking and light your jack-o’-lanterns. This will be a Halloween you will never forget.

Table of Contents

John R. Little - The Halloween Phantoms
Lisa Morton - Pumpkin Rex
Richard Chizmar - Mister Parker
Christopher Motz - The Halloween Playground
Kevin J. Kennedy - Halloweenland
Mark Cassell - A Story of Amber
Peter Oliver Wonder - Dressed For Success
Christina Bergling - Black Widow
Stuart Keane - Hollowed Be Thy
Andrew Lennon - Girlfriend
Briana Robertson - Trick Turned Treat
James Matthew Byers - Jenny Greenteeth
J.C. Michael - The First Shot
Mark Lukens - The Coffin Man
Suzanne Fox - The Devils Fruit
Steven Stacy - Don't Fear the Reaper.

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S.T. Sanchez, interviews me, on the Sunwalker Trilogy blogspot.

Sunwalker Trilogy: Welcome Kevin J Kennedy co-author of You Only get ...: Kevin J Kennedy is the co-author of You Only Get One Shot, and the man behind the best-selling Collected Christmas Horror Shorts & ...

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General Ramblings and Updates.

I mainly use my blog on my website now but I still pop on here from time to time. If you want to follow me or have a look around my website you will find it here:


kevinjkennedy@hotmail.co.uk


As time passes by I seem to be working on more projects but feel I am getting less done. That been said there have been a few new releases and a few more in the pipeline.


My Kindle short 'The Gatekeeper' is free on Amazon on the 29th and 30th of July.


My new, co-written novella, 'You Only Get One Shot is also available for 99p/$1.28 and free on Kindle unlimited.


A new antho that contains my story 'The Games' was released yesterday. Tales From the Braided Pony. It's a western themed horror antho that looks pretty amazing. Just waiting on my copy coming through in the mail. My story is a little homage to Richard Laymon as he is the main reason I love horror literature.


You can find all my books and the ones I'm featured in on my Amazon page.


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I recently watched two horror movies that were pretty good, Knock Knock and Circle. Nothing else I've watched recently is worth recommending.


I've haven't had a whole lot of reading time recently but I just finished Hell Divers 2, which was outstanding. I can not wait for the 3rd book in this series to come out. If you haven't read the first book, go and have a look at it. It was the best book I read in 2016.

You Only Get One Shot is free on the 15th, 16th & 17th of January.

What would you do if someone demanded you write the best story of your life, to be judged online? That your life depended on it.

Four well-known authors receive an email telling them they are responsible for a suicide. Their antagonist makes it clear she is out for revenge and they have no option but to comply. Their task is to post the best story they can imagine online and await judgement. Filled with guilt, anxiety, and even a few murderous tendencies, each writer weaves their tale and hopes for the best. It’ll be the competition of their lives. Who’s story will win? Will anyone survive?

If you enjoy tense, fast-paced horror, then you will love Kevin J. Kennedy and J.C. Michael’s You Only Get One Shot! Your shot is now. Read You Only Get One Shot today.

"Kennedy & Michael's _You Only Get One Shot_ is quite a clever noir narrative, blending several gritty tales together into one unforgettable "escape by your wits" premise that will keep you turning the pages in terror till the twisty end is brilliantly unveiled. Gleefully disturbing and darkly terrifying to writers like me, this is such a clever and diffuse story, with the same puzzling torment of the SAW movies, but all the grit of a pulp crime novel. If you have this book in your hands or on the screen right now, you better buy it right away, because you only get one shot..."

Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Play Dead

"You Only Get One Shot gives all new meaning to a publishing deadline! Quite entertaining!"

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"This was a fun story. Scary as heck for an author to read. Would I dare to say I didn’t enjoy it? Probably not. Good thing I did!"

Willow Rose, author of the Emma Frost and Rebekka Franck series



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Collected Easter Horror Shorts. Free for the weekend

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The Gatekeeper. Kindle short. Free on 30th & 31st of October. Happy Halloween!

If you could have anything you wanted, once a year, in return for completing a simple task, would you do it? What if that task, was to let all of the demons out of hell, for a night of fun and carnage? Meet the GateKeeper. 

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Collected Easter Horror Shorts is currently on Kindle Countdown!

From the darkest recesses of some of the horror world’s most chilling minds, Kevin J. Kennedy brings back together some of the authors that brought you Collected Christmas Horror Shorts, alongside several new authors, from upcoming indie stars to Amazon top sellers. 

Whether you like Easter or not, you’ll certainly have a different view of it after you read the stories contained within these pages. 

Grab an Easter egg, dim the lights, get cosy and get ready for some chilling tales by some of the horror world’s finest.

C.S.Anderson – He Has Risen

Christopher Motz - Magic Awaits

Veronica Smith​ - It’s Not All About Bunnies and Chocolates

Peter Oliver Wonder​ - Easter Gunny

Mark Cassell​ - The Rebirth

Andrew Lennon​ - Trying To Write A Horror Story

Mark Lukens​ - Mia's Easter Basket

Lex Jones​ - SonnesHill

JC Michael​ - Lord of The Dance

Steven Stacy - Echoes of The Bunny-Man

Weston Kincade​ & David Chrisley - An Easter Prayer

Christina Bergling​ - Hatch

James Matthew Byers​ - Killer Jelly Beans from Outer Space (poem)

Jeff Menapace​ - Paying It Forward

Jeff Strand​ - Rotten Eggs

Lisa Vasquez​ - Bunny and Clyde

Mark Fleming​ - Sulphur

Suzanne Fox - Last Supper

Briana Robertson​ - Baby Blues

Latashia Figueroa - Easter Eggs

Amy Cross - Lamb to Slaughter

Kevin J. Kennedy - A Town Called Easter

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The blog has now moved.

The blog has now moved to my new website. The site is still having content added however it is operational and I will only be using that blog going forward.


New blog.

General Ramblings and Updates 4

I haven't posted here for a while so I thought it was time to update you all on what's been going on.


I was recently a guest on the Panic Room radio show, chatting with James Longmore and Xtina Marie. Author Mike Duke was on before me then I come on around the 50 minute mark. As always people talk to the Scottish about the weather but it gets fun after that. ;)


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On the reading from it's been a pretty good year so far. I started off with Punch from J.R. Park. I had never read the author but I had fancied the book for a while. I'm a big fan of boardway/seaside tales and this was a great one to start the year with. If you haven't read it yet take a look. I left a review on Goodreads.


I read Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis next which absolutely blew me away. I find Anne Rice to be hit and miss but this book was a tremendous entry to the series. If you haven't read the Vampire Chronicles I doubt that it's for you though.


Mark Mathews On The Lips of Children was next. Another good read but I didn't enjoy it as much as my first two reads of the year. Again you can find out my reasons why on Goodreads.


I've just finished Heart Shaved Box by Jeff O'Brien. Absolutely loved it. I do enjoy a Bizarro tale but normally stick to Carlton Mellick. For funny books I go to Jeff Strand and for crazy I generally go to Edward Lee. This short story reminded me of all three authors. It was a great tribute to the 80s and just plain mental. Will be reading more by Jeff.


I'm currently reading Discoredia by J.C. Michael and the Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough. Both are excellent so far.


I think I finished last year on only 48 books read, way less than ever before and I want to fix that. This year I plan to both read and write more. With that being said I suppose an update is appropriate on what I am working on. I currently have a novella subbed to a publisher with J.C. Michael called 'You Only Get One Shot'. We are waiting to hear back on whether they like it or not at this stage. I'm working on s novelette with author Weston Kincade which we plan to sub to the Chiral Mad 4 anthology and I'm working on my next solo novella which has a working title of 'The Prison'. I may be putting another anthology together in the next few months but it's very early stages on that so far.


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I think that is all for now. I've watched a few horrors recently but nothing was outstanding. As Above, So Below was okay, nothing special, The Girl With All the Gifts was pretty enjoyable but most others seem to have disliked it by the sounds of things on Facebook and The Green Room was pretty good. I'm not sure I would label the Green Room as horror but it's on Netflix as a horror and others seem to be saying it's a slasher flick. Either way I quite enjoyed it.


Until next time...........


Kev

My Top Ten Reads In 2016

Although all of the books on the list weren't released in 2016 I read them all in the last twelve months. This is a countdown of the ten I enjoyed the most. I read around 50 books in 2016 which is a really slow reading year for me but I was a lot more selective in what I read. Here is my top ten.



10: I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter by Carlton Mellick III

9: Rack N Cue by David Owain Hughes

8: Depraved 3 by Bryan Smith

7: Tar by Iain Rob Wright

6: The Charlotte Chronicles by Stuart Keane

5: Vortex by Ray Garton

4: Clownfellas by Carlton Mellick

3: Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh

2 They Rise by Hunter Shea



1: Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

I loved every book on this list and hope you found something that you might be interested in. A few that just missed out were Skin Medicine by Tim Curran (left out as I had read it previously), Man-Eating Fucks by David Owain Hughes and B&B by Amy Cross.

Kev