John F.D. Taff, Horror Author

I find ventriloquism alternately unfunny and creepy.  Even experts in the art of making dummies talk–Edgar Bergen, Walter Winchell, even Senor Wences–all have the creep factor turned up pretty high.  I mean, really, holding a small, creepy doll on your lap and making it seem to talk?

Anyway, saw this today.  Follow the link to see some terrific olde tyme ventriloquist pictures.

http://io9.com/5913114/vintage-ventriloquism-portraits-were-incredibly-unnerving

And good luck sleeping tonight…

So, I’m appearing at CONtamination, the horror and pop culture convention, June 15-17 here in St. Louis.  I’ll be selling copies of Little Deaths, signing autographs and all sorts of authorial-sounding stuff.

The folks at CONtamination were kind enough to post my promotional stuff on their site.  You can see it here:

http://www.con-tamination.com/page/425017652

See you in St. Louis!

Little Deaths, my premier horror collection is doing great!  It features 19 of my short horror stories, some new, some previously published.

The print edition should be out any day now, but if you can’t wait, it’s FREE today at Amazon.  I don’t how long it will be up for free, so grab it today:

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Deaths-ebook/dp/B007WFK3DU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337707599&sr=8-1

Little Deaths is currently #7  in Short Stories and #30 in Horror at Amazon.

We’re screwed!

So, it looks as if I’ll be appearing at CONtamination 2012 in St. Louis, June 15-17.  This will mark my first real convention appearance, and the premier of my new collection, Little Deaths.  I’ll be there all three days with an author table, selling copies of Little Deaths, signing autographs, kissing babies and generally having a good time.  Ok, well, not really kissing any babies.

I’ll have more information as we approach the dates for this convention, but should be fun.  For more information on CONtamination, go to www.con-tamination.com.

See ya there!

Box of Delights, a great little horror anthology put out by the fine folks at Aeon Press (publishers of Albedo One, Ireland’s SciFi/Fantasy magazine), is now out as an e-book at Amazon.  Not only does the book contain a story from me (the curiously aptly titled “Box of Rocks”), it also contains a great story from my friend Erik T. Johnson, the also curiously aptly titled “The Black Tree’s Box.”

BTW, Erik just had a story that was noted as an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best New Horror of the Year 2011.  The story, “Water Buried,” appeared in the British Fantasy Society Journal, Winter 2010.  Congrats, Erik!

Anyway, get Box of Delights, either as an e-book or a paperback, here:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00806TT9O

Nerdgasm.

That is all.

Avengers tonight at midnight.  Oh yeah!  This is probably, for me at least, the flat out geekiest of all the geek movies that could be made.  The only way it could be better is if Avengers 2 features The Scarlet Witch and The Vision.

Two more five star reviews for Little Deaths.  Yippee!

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Deaths-ebook/dp/B007WFK3DU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335924491&sr=8-1

E-book is at Amazon for just $3.99!