Norman Prentiss

Books

Four Legs in the Morning

Free Four Legs

Four Legs in the Morning available from Cemetery Dance

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A collection of three-linked stories, featuring twenty illustrations by Steven C. Gilberts.

Dr. Sibley, long-standing Chair of the English and Classical Literature Department at Graysonville University, has outlasted many of his detractors. In this collection of three linked stories, mysterious consequences await those who defy or disappoint him:

  • a new colleague, whose avant-guard theories offend Sibley's traditional critical sensibilities, uncovers a new answer to an ancient riddle ("Four Legs in the Morning")
  • a student plagiarist learns to regret his dishonesty ("Flannel Board")
  • a young administrator attempts to curtail some of Sibley's power, until he discovers the fate of his predecessor ("The Mask of Tragedies")

Read the first story for free by visiting this page at the publisher's site (or for 99 cents, download it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, or Sony).


Invisible Fences

Winner of 2010 Bram Stoker Award!
Now Available as an eBook for $2.99!

Invisible Fences
by Norman Prentiss

Cemetery Dance Publications
May 2010

Do you see the point of the story, Nathan? We all cut parts of ourselves away, but we never lose them. Things stay with us—souvenirs with memories attached. We can't always choose what to keep, what to throw away.

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Invisible Fences is now sold out of its limited print run.

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Now available as an eBook for $2.99!

Crane HouseThe Crane House: A Halloween Story
by Brian Keene, Kealan Patrick Burke, Al Sarrantonio, Rick Hautala, Bev Vincent, Brian Freeman, James A. Moore, James Newman, Ronald Kelly, Norman Prentiss, and Ray Garton.

Round Robin Novella

Cemetery Dance Publications
Forthcoming; limited edition sold out on pre-publication


Anthology & Magazine Appearances

Black Static 20Black Static magazine
Issue 20
December 2010

Contains "The Covered Doll"

 

Shivers 6Shivers VI, edited by Richard Chizmar
Cemetery Dance Publications, December 2010

Contains "The Old Ways"

Shivers VI weighs in at 410 pages and contains more than 110,000 words from today's most popular authors of horror and suspense including Stephen King, Peter Straub, Al Sarrantonio, Jay Bonansinga, Lisa Tuttle, David B. Silva, Melanie Tem, Brian Hodge, Brian Keene, Alan Peter Ryan, Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn, Bev Vincent, Brian James Freeman, Norman Prentiss, and many others.

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Year's Best Dark Fantasy and HorrorYear’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror
edited by Paula Guran
Prime Books, October 2010

Reprints the Bram Stoker Award-winning story, "In the Porches of My Ears"

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CommutabilityCommutability: Stories about the Journey from Here to There
edited by David Jack Bell and Molly McCaffrey
MSR Publishing, August 2010 

Contains "Distance"

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Don't Read ThisDon’t Read This!  Chilling, Thrilling, Fantastic Tales for the Young and Young at Heart
edited by Steven Lee Climer
SugarBuzzBooks, August 2009

Contains the non-fiction essay, "Fun with Dick and Jane and Poe’s 'The Tell-Tale Heart'"


 

The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 2 Best Horror of the Year 2
edited by Ellen Datlow
Night Shade Books, March 2010

Reprints the Bram Stoker Award-winning story, "In the Porches of My Ears"

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4 Stories 4 Stories

Cemetery Dance
May 2009

Promotional Chapbook, Out of Print

Contains the following stories:

"Red Sea" by Tim Curran
"Chasing Moonlight" by Greg F. Gifune
"Full of It" by Brian Keene
"Homeschooled" by Norman Prentiss

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Postscripts 18Postscripts #18: This is the Summer of Love, edited by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers

PS Publishing, 2009

Contains “In the Porches of My Ears”

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“I particularly liked Norman Prentiss's ‘In the Porches of My Ears, ’ a sweet sad story about a couple at the movies and their reaction to another couple: a blind man and his wife, who narrates the entire movie to him.”
Locus

CD Sampler 3Cemetery Dance Sampler #3

Cemetery Dance
2009

Contains excerpt from Invisible Fences

Horror Drive-In

“Control”
2009
Horror Drive-In Fiction Section

Click here to read this free short story online.

Shivers 5Shivers V, edited by Richard Chizmar

Cemetery Dance Publications
2009

Contains "The Albright Sextuplets"

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“David Lynch-style horror”
Booklist

“Shivers V starts off with a bang as Norman Prentiss describes a too-perfect family in ‘The Albright Sextuplets’; you’ll never be able to see TLC’s Jon and Kate Plus 8 in the same way again.”
—Horror Drive-In

“a refreshing take on the ‘creepy infant’ tale.”
The Green Man Review

Shivers 4Shivers IV, edited by Richard Chizmar

Cemetery Dance Publications
2006

Contains "In the Best Stories. . ."
Received an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007

Damned Nation Damned Nation, edited by Robert N. Lee and David T. Wilbanks

Hellbound Books
2006

Contains "The Everywhere Man"
Received an Honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007

Tales from the GorezoneTales from the Gorezone, edited by Kealan Patrick Burke

Apartment 42 Publications
2004
Cover art by Deena Warner

Contains "Glue Traps"
(A revised version of this story is posted in the "Free Stuff" section of this website)



Gorezone cakeGorezone Cake

(Photo: Liz Albert)

The cover of my first horror appearance, on my going-away cake at the end of my time with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY).



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