About Raw Blood and Nerve
A young Bible salesman discovers the murderous lengths to which past salesmen were willing to go, in our featured Nasty Novelette, “Faith and Blood” by Zary Fekete. A terminally-ill husband and father develops an extraordinary (and bloody) plan to get his homeless family back on their feet. An insomniac student’s sleeplessness leads her to discover a vicious, rodent manifestation of Jesus Christ. A man watches helplessly as the world around him literally dissolves. A boy encounters his neighbors’ killer horse, who has been slaughtering human beings for centuries. A girl tends to a sickly older woman unable to die until their village’s new priest arrives. A grotesquely deformed serial killer, whose crimes have spanned continents and ages, now prowls a lonely stretch of highway in Pennsylvania’s coal country. And, as a bonus to the reader: The classic horror story “Mother of Monsters” by Guy de Maupassant, supplemented by a biographical essay of Maupassant by the Editor of Oldstyle Tales Press, M. Grant Kellermeyer.
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When he’s not writing David Halpert is a publisher of trade magazines in Toronto. He also runs a monthly speculative fiction contest on Substack called The Submission Pit.
Invoked from a summoning spell on the New Moon, Jordan Zachary rose out of kudzu thickets whose suffocating darkness have no end, leading to the madness of those who gaze upon her. Writing seemed a natural segue. Her novella Death’s Ante was published by Black Bed Sheet Books in 2024, and her short stories have appeared in The Little Rose Magazine, Bewildering Stories, The Southern Review of Books, and Horrorsmith Magazine (forthcoming). She and her fanged familiars, Ozzie and Elvira, run an Etsy shop with her family.
Shantell Powell is a swamp hag and elder goth raised in an apocalyptic cult on the land and off the grid. She was a horror resident at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and her work has appeared in Augur Magazine, The Deadlands, Nightmare, and more. When she’s not writing, she wrangles chinchillas and gets filthy in the woods.
Cristina Mîrzoi’s work explores themes of grief, loss, and loneliness, often set in liminal places where death is everpresent. She is the author of the grimly folkloric The Headsman and the dark comedy Neighbourly Mischief.
Alexander Jose “Gator” Martinez is a high school social studies teacher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has had a novelette and several short stories published by NightScribe, and was featured in Outsider Publishing’s 2024 Christmas Chaos anthology. Gator loves to spend time outdoors with his wife and daughters.
Zary Fekete grew up in Hungary and lives in Tokyo. His novella Words on the Page was published with DarkWinter Lit Press, and his short story collection The Written Path with Creative Texts. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @ZaryFekete and on Bluesky (zaryfekete.bsky.social).
Michael Grant Kellermeyer is a “retired” English professor. He has taught writing and literature at a variety of colleges in Indiana, including Ball State University and the Indiana Institute of Technology. In 2013, he founded Oldstyle Tales Press, a family-owned publishing house based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, specializing in annotated and illustrated editions of literature from the Classic Era of Horror Fiction.