Review
"Miss this one and you may well miss one of the most influential volumes of the year, and one of horror's most beguiling, new voices." --
Lisa Dumond, SF Site, MEviewsGerard Houarner is an artist, one thats not afraid to venture into new territories and try different hues and shades in his prose painting. --
John Pelan, MIDNIGHT HOUSEMost of the stories herein deal with psychological themes, and Houarner, who spends his days counseling at a psychiatric center, knows how to handle such themes. --
Mehitobel Wilson, GOTHIC.NET
About the Author
Gerard Houarner is a Rehabilitation Counselor at a psychiatric center during the day. At night, he lives in a house with the poet/writer Linda Addison and her son Evil Cloud, shelves and shelves of books, movie tapes, music, Star Wars and Star Trek toys, female action figures, a Barbarian Barbie, assorted edged weapons, and other Things. He is Fiction Editor at Space and Time magazine, and edited the anthology Going Postal for the same publisher. He is a founding member of the NYC based writers group, CITH (Circles in the Hair). Credits include The Bard of Sorcery, a fantasy novel published by Del Rey Books 5/86; Painfreak, a collection of erotic horror stories published by Necro Publications, 5/96; Road to Hell, a horror/fantasy novel, also from Necro Publications, 6/99. Short stories have appeared in Wetbones, Aberrations, Tomorrow (print and on-line), Epitaph, Pirate Writings, Tales of the Unanticipated, Adventures of Sword and Sorcery, Borderlands 4, Horrornet, Not One of Us, Pulphouse Hardback 7, Palace Corbie, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Eros Ex Machina, Inside the Works, Tales From Zothique, Asylum, More Monsters From Memphis, The Best of Palace Corbie, The Asylum, Best of the Rest 2, Brutarian, Midnight Hour.