At sea level, where it’s safe, things like this can’t happen. But when you’re sky high in Denver, Colorado, anything goes...including your sanity.
Beware of Terror at 5280’, a horror fiction anthology featuring dark tales set in and around Denver and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, penned exclusively by local authors.
Edited by: Josh Schlossberg, Gary Robbe, Melinda Bezdek, Bobby Crew, Desi D, Lisa Mavroudis, Thomas C. Mavroudis,
and Jeamus Wilkes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface – Denver Horror Collective
Foreword – John Palisano
The Depths – Matthew Lyons
Laffing Sal – Lindsay King-Miller
This Was Always Going to Happen – Stephen Graham Jones
Electric Stalker – Rebecca S.W. Bates
Gaze with Undimmed Eyes and the World Drops Dead – Carina Bissett
Grave Mistake – Joshua Viola & Carter Wilson
There is Something Up There – Joy Yehle
Scrape – Gary Robbe
The Copper Door Karma Jar – Cindra Spencer
Block 12 – Thomas C. Mavroudis
A Place for Cady – Melinda Bezdek
Taste – Henry Snider
Chronic Cold – Josh Schlossberg
The Dead Spot – Angela Sylvaine
The Ghosts of Cheesman Park – Grace Horton
Old Golden Road – Jay Seate
If I Shall Wake – Desi D
The Blue Lady – Sean Murphy
Mountain Lovers – Bobby Crew
Left Behind – P.L. McMillan
Deep Veins – Travis Heermann
That Time Maggie Ghosted Me – Jeamus Wilkes
Last Words: Cannibal Kings and Queens – Larry Berry
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen and a half novels, six story collections, a couple of standalone novellas, and a couple of one-shot comic books. He’s been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, a Bram Stoker Award, four This is Horror Awards, and he’s been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. Next up are The Only Good Indians (Saga) and Night of the Mannequins (Tor.com). Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Carter Wilson is the USA Today and #1 Denver Post bestselling author of six critically acclaimed, standalone psychological thrillers, as well as numerous short stories. He is an ITW Thriller Award finalist, a three-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, and his novels have received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. His latest novel, The Dead Girl in 2A, was released in July 2019 from Poisoned Pen Press. Carter lives in Erie, Colorado in a Victorian house that is spooky but isn’t haunted...yet.
Josh Schlossberg is the creator of Josh’s Worst Nightmare (dedicated to biological horror fiction) and a founding member of Denver Horror Collective. His fiction has been published in Bards and Sages Quarterly, Campfire Tales, Demons, Devils and Denizens of Hell, Disturbed Digest, and The Rock N’ Roll Horror Zine. You can find links to his work at JoshsWorstNightmare.com
Gary Robbe is an educator and writer currently living in Denver, Colorado. He can be found on Facebook and Twitter under his own name