The Moorhead House

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Story Podcast: The Moorhead House

Moorhead House cover webIn the neighborhood where I grew up, there was a house all the kids feared.  When my adult brain looks back, I see a perfectly ordinary brick ranch fronted by a lovely green yard on a perfectly ordinary Midwestern street.

Still, my kid self shivers because we knew there was something wrong behind the long low windows and tasteful curtains. Never mind the fact that, as far as I know, nothing terrible ever happened there. Or wanted to happen there.

Not so with the Moorhead house.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows us the beautiful, old Victorian mansion in a perfectly ordinary Oregon town. If you’re ready to walk through the front door, give a listen to this week’s story podcast. “The Moorhead House” is from her short story collection, Five Mystery Stories.

 

 

 

 

This podcast is no longer available. To listen to the current podcast, please click here.

“The Moorhead House” is included in the collection, Five Mystery Storiesavailable in ebook and trade paperback, and can also be found as a stand alone story in ebooks format at your favorite retailer.

 

 

Pulphouse is Back!

The latest issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazineedited by Dean Wesley Smith, hit the shelves last week, and we’re thrilled with its new paperback format! Pulphouse is now an easy-to-carry 6×9 trade paperback!

Our ebook readers won’t notice anything different, of course. Your version has been easy-to-carry from the get-go.

But you’ll all be able to benefit from our new monthly publication schedule. So, win-win for everyone! 

And we have a fantastic new crop of stories to offer in this issue. Take a look at this story lineup:

“I Was a Teenage Boy-Crazy Blob” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

“The Hair Thief” by Annie Reed

“When the Wiener Dogs Come Out to Play” by David H. Hendrickson

“The Henchman Is Hurled Off the Catwalk” by Adam-Troy Castro

“The Rhythm of Dueling Oak” by O’Neil De Noux

“Shocking Tales” by Don Webb

“The Lessons Only a Jelly Bean Can Teach” by Scott Edelman

“Lending the Truth” by Rob Vagle

“With Love in Their Hearts” by Robert Jeschonek

“Unknown Baby Girl” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“Minions at Work: Squeeze Play” by J. Steven York

Click here to buy this issue of Pulphouse. And while you’re at the Pulphouse store, be sure to check out all that awesome Pulphouse merchandise! Thumper says they make great holiday gifts (and who can argue with Thumper?).

Speaking of holiday gifts, the 2023 WMG Holiday Spectacular Kickstarter is going strong! We’ve not only funded but also been named a Kickstarter “Project We Love” and hit our first stretch goal!!

With that amazing Calendar of Stories, which this year features a story a day for 40 days from American Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, as well as beautiful holiday merchandise, Kickstarer-exclusive writing workshops that will be on every writer’s wish list, and so much more, it’s a great way to check off your holiday shopping list.

Click here to check out the Kickstarter. It runs through Nov. 2.

When it comes to great reading, we’ve always got what’s on your list.

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.

Halloween is in the House!

It’s October, which means it’s time to get my pumpkin on!

I love this time of year. It’s the best time to have a birthday, in my opinion, because I can celebrate all things fall, like pumpkin patches and apple cider and light-up ghosts and…well, you get the picture.

To start, I took my daughter to a pumpkin patch this weekend so that we could pick out our annual pumpkins. We get several every year, some of which become jack-o-lanterns and some of which stick around until Thanksgiving (at which point they are referred to as simply gourds so as to justify their continued presence).

Oh, and did I mention my house is already decorated for Halloween?

I love Halloween, almost as much as I love Christmas. But Kristine Kathryn Rusch has me beat, because Halloween is her favorite holiday of all. She’s even curated a StoryBundle to celebrate it.

Here’s what you can expect from the 2023 Halloween StoryBundle:

New York Times bestsellers, international bestsellers, winners and nominees of the ITW Thriller Award, the Stoker award, the World Fantasy Award, and the GoodReads Choice for Horror. Omnibuses. Novels and spooky collections. Four exclusives. This StoryBundle has all of that and more. And…the most important part…great reading.

For $20, you’ll get all the books and a chance to donate to Maui Strong to help the victims in Lahaina.

To find out more about the ten books (including three offerings from WMG—Halloween Harvest, FantasyLife and Other Stories, and Three Sheets to the Wind— plus four StoryBundle exclusives!), click here.

And be sure to read her blog about the bundle here. 

So, whether you’re looking for Halloween reading or some good old dark fantasy and horror, you can take your pick.

Me, I’m going to go pick out some more pumpkins. You can never have enough pumpkins!

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.

Calling All Pulphousers!

I’ve got a busy week ahead. First off, I’m in Las Vegas (in the record heat) managing logistics for the Fantasy/Thriller Craft Workshop that Kristine Kathryn Rusch is teaching. I love being on site for these workshops and seeing our writers in person. They’re so much fun! (I mean, hard work, too, but fun!) If you’re a writer, you should consider coming one of these days. You can learn more about them here.

Nola is here with me this time because she’s taking a theater summer camp at the Smith Center this week. So, that’s very cool, too! Las Vegas has a lot of resources that we, obviously, don’t have in little Lincoln City, Oregon, so the fact that this camp coincided with our workshop seemed like it was meant to be.

And while we’re here in Vegas, we are launching our next Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive on Kickstarter.

So much going on!

We have some very cool new stuff in this Kickstarter, including, for the first time, Pulphouse merchandise!

Reward options will include a mug and a pillow featuring the Pulphouse mascot Thumper as well as a calendar featuring some of our favorite cartoons from the pages of Pulphouse.

Here are pics by way of a preview:

Every reward comes with a six-month (six-issue) subscription to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, as well (existing subscribers can have six issues added to their remaining subscription), so you can see what all the buzz is about. We’re also debuting our new 6×9 trade paperback format!

The Kickstarter launches at noon on Tuesday, but you can sign up here to be notified as soon as it does.

From Thumper to cartoons to tons of cutting-edge short stories, there’s so much to love with Pulphouse!

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.

Publisher’s Note: Wishing you a Very Merry Pulphouse!


At long last, Christmas is almost here! My daughter is so excited. She’s on break for the next two weeks and I’m taking some time off, so we’ll be spending time together finishing up the shopping, making Christmas cookies, going out to lunch, and all sorts of other things we don’t have time for when she’s in school and I’m working.

So, if you’re like us, and you’re still celebrating everything holiday, our latest new release is just in time for some last-minute holiday reading.

For Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #21, editor Dean Wesley Smith gathered some of the best Pulphouse writers and their strangest holiday season stories.

Of course, Pulphouse stories are not “normal” in the usual sense of the word. But they are fun. And unexpected. And entertaining. After all, attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse.

Just take a look at this table of contents, and you’ll see what I mean:

“Santa’s Shrinkage” by David H. Hendrickson
“A Crafty Christmas” by Annie Reed
“The Ghost of Christmas Beta” by J. Steven York
“Emergency Elf” by Stefon Mears
“A Grave Kind of Love” by Robert J. McCarter
“The Asshole of Christmas Present” by Ezekiel James Boston
“Christmas at Lake Mead” by Lisa Silverthorne
“The Ghost of Christmas Present” by David Stier
“Christmas Weather” by O’Neil De Noux
“Max, Marilyn, Murder, and Me” by Ray Vukcevich
“Scurvy and Forgiveness” by Rob Vagle
“The Friendly Beasts” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
“Christmas at Glosser’s” by Robert Jeschonek
“A Corner of the Mind” by Ron Collins
“Other People’s Stupidity” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Click here to buy this issue of Pulphouse.

Happy reading, and from all of us here at WMG, we wish you a very merry and happy week full of fun and festivities, no matter what you happen to celebrate!

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #21

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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #20

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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #19

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Publisher’s Note: A Plethora of Pulphouse Stories


I spent the weekend grateful for the fact that I live in Oregon and enjoying the natural splendor of the Oregon Coast. It was unseasonably warm (for the coast) at 80 degrees and sunny. There was a light breeze blowing instead of the usual cold wind from the 50-degree ocean water. It was truly lovely.

We’ve had a long, long winter here (like, it seems like it just ended a few days ago…), so this taste of summer was glorious.

I spent a good bit of time at my favorite overlook (on a cliff about 100 feet above the beach) enjoying the weather and the view and the sound of the ocean. And I was reminded of how much I used to enjoy reading a book on the beach when I used to live on the East coast.

The ocean and beaches are different there. You can read physical books because the winds are calm. And you can go in the water because it’s warm.

But as I sat in the rocking chair that one of the locals has placed at my favorite overlook, I realized I can read on the beach here, too. I just need to use my e-reader instead.

And no matter what type of fun summer activity you have planned, be it a visit to the beach or the pool or a mountain river or even the desert, we’ve got plenty of reading material for you to enjoy.

This week, we have a Pulphouse double feature: one magazine and one book.

Up first is our Christmas in July special (okay, Christmas in June), the newest Pulphouse book Jingle My Bells.

Here’s the synopsis:

Love the holiday seasons?

Of course you do. Full bellies and the joyful promise of a new year make for good stories and fun reading.

Add some twists and weirdness, Pulphouse-style, from some of the greatest fiction writers working today, and you have Jingle My Bells, the best weird holiday stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.

Enjoy reading this collection any time of the year, but especially during the holidays!

Includes:
“Dreaming of a Carboniferous Christmas” by Robert Jeschonek
“Spells for the Holidays” by Ray Vukcevich
“A Menagerie of Messed Up Shorts” by Mark Leslie
“An Ideal Husband” by Jerry and Kathy Oltion
“Fatal Plot Device” by Kelly Washington
“Severed Ties” by R. W. Wallace
“A Blood-Soaked Christmas Wish” by David Stier
“Virtching Merry” by Kent Patterson
“Naughty Children” by Mary McKenna
“Nutball Season” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Click here to order.

And on Thursday, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #18 publishes. Here’s the synopsis of that one:

A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up twenty-one fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.

No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse.

Includes:
“The Problematic Navigation of the Vessel Clayton Booker” by J. Steven York
“The Forgiving Execution” by Rob Vagle
“How Fred the Opossum Mobilized the Microbes and Saved the Universe” by Mary Jo Rabe
“Cards on the Table” by Adam-Troy Castro
“Big Green Man” by Don Webb
“The Wall” by Lisa Silverthorne
“He Who Howls” by O’Neil De Noux
“The Train in the Ladies’ Room” by Kent Patterson
“The Secret of Catnip” by Stefon Mears
“Ashes to Ashes” by Jerry Oltion
“The Short Life and Horny Times of a Teenage Mantis” by David H. Hendrickson
“The Pillow of Disappointment and What Was Found Beneath It” by Scott Edelman
“Love the Way She Saw It” by C.H. Hung
“Erwin or Ralph” by Ray Vukcevich
“Gossamer Ghosts” by Robert J. McCarter
“Far From Home” by R.W. Wallace
“The Devil Went Down to the Sunset Strip” by Dayle A. Dermatis
“Like a Hole in the Head” by Jason A. Adams
“Shadows on the Moon” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“The Last Julian” by Annie Reed
“Voyage of the Dog-Propelled Starship” by Robert Jeschonek

Click here to order or here to learn more about subscribing to be sure you never miss an issue.

You just can’t go wrong with Pulphouse. It’s guaranteed to distract you from whatever you need distracting from these days.

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #18

Pulphouse Fiction MagazineAnthology Available in:ebook, $6.99Trade paperback, $12.99 Get the book! Get the ebook from the WMG store! Pulphouse Fiction Magazine:Issue #18 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award...

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #17

Pulphouse Fiction MagazineAnthology Available in:ebook, $6.99Trade paperback, $12.99 Get the book! Get the ebook from the WMG Store! Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #17 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award...