“When I write bizarro fiction, my goal begins and ends with a concept I’ve come to know as ‘the High Illogical’ ...” This isn’t your everyday weirdness. When it comes to the High Illogical, think David Lynch conducting Beethoven in space. Think sculpting mathematics into a prettier color. How might the Louisiana Purchase taste, Batman? First appearing in various bizarre-friendly publications, these stories pursue the High Illogical in a whirlwind chase. Call them absurd. Ca...

Author A.A. Garrison continues to showcase his “darkly radiant” brand of horror, by venturing back into the macabre terrain traveled in the original Shining Horrific. Volume II expands upon its predecessor with several stories of a hybrid bent – sci-fi, a dark Western, classic zombie romps, and the bizarre-grotesque – as well as delivering more of the original collection’s pure-horror fare.Some choice selections from Volume II:The no-holds-barred hysteria abo...

Cross Ghost in the Shell with Alice in Wonderland, and you’ll come to appreciate Hildy’s situation. What is the mysterious stone column? Where did it come from? And why did she have to find it? These are the questions which confront Ms. Hildy Turner, small-town dog groomer and the stone-column doohickey's unfortunate inheritor. There are no answers, but she knows this: pressing the column's end opens a doorway to another world, which she and her best frie...

In this collection of 14 speculative short stories, author A.A. Garrison takes us to Ford, North Carolina, a sleepy little mountain town named after a Civil War deserter. Though out of the way, the town seems to attract an immoderate share of the fantastic and the macabre. Amongst Ford’s citizens are: Blake (“The Fifty”), who purchases revenge with a fifty-dollar bill Candy Patrice (“Cloyed”), a young woman who adopts a most unorthodox diet-plan

Sometimes the best fiction defies all labels. That’s why these stories are called, simply, “tales of the imagination.” In this collection of 15 diverse selections from author A.A. Garrison, the reader is introduced to a broad expanse of literary territory, ranging from sci-fi to crime to post-apocalyptic ruminations, including some outright weirdness and a no-apologies zombie romp. Included in this slideshow of imagination: One man’s disgusting, but lucrativ...

Behold, the third installment in 'The Shining Horrific' series of short story collections! Author A.A. Garrison once more transports us to the shadows with his "darkly radiant" brand of the macabre. Adhering to the standard set by the original two books, Garrison takes a passionate, cerebral spin on life's grisly side -- horror that asks questions, and often gets answers. If Stephen King collaborated with Stephen Hawking, the results would fit the 'Shining Horrific' rubric.

Our world is filled with triangles. Structural triangles. Love triangles. That curiously understated musical instrument. Also, there are triangles of destruction, those which lock their points in a dangerous unity. Such is the triangle formed by the men of Boyd Street, nestled in the idyllic Appalachian mountains. Daniel Black is sick, out of work, and desperate. Malcolm Deal faces old age and its burdens, and an all-consuming need. Marky Joiner courts a deadly obsession wi...

In this collection: 19 short stories of a literary bent.Variety defines these stories. From dark to light, humorous to dead serious, experimental to traditional, flash-length to novelette, these 19 selections from author A.A. Garrison fulfill a mixed spectrum of tastes and styles. No two are alike, and surprises abound.Included in Accidental Literature:A drug addict’s quirky pursuits (“Tomorrow”)A beautiful young murderer asks, “Is anyone in...

Author A.A. Garrison has a knack for horror, as this collection of stories attests. Not fitting comfortably in the realm of “psychological” or “intelligent” horror, his brand of the macabre falls into a subtler niche, one that might be considered “darkly radiant.” Call it “the shining horrific,” if you must have a label. Included amongst these 23 tales: Danger and ruin from a “free” gift (“The Briefcase”) A fearful father’s poisonous need (“Need”)...

“Laughter is a form of redemption.”This is the credo of author A.A. Garrison, applied liberally to these stories in A Conspiracy of HA! Under it, anything goes.Earwax-loving aliens. Eyeball-chewing pets. Instructions on killing your zombified clone. Hypnotized boxers. How to get a free lunch using only creamer and a fork. Stephen King doing battle with a werewolf editor. Bridge-jumping, everyone’s doing it!See it all and more in this diverse collection of 2...

Pemberton? Yeah, I been there. Take a right at the light, and you’ll see the sign. There’s not much to it, I’m afraid. Still, they got a right nice hospital, darned if I know why. It rains there, I hear.Me? I don’t go down there, if I can help it.You hear things about Pemberton, if you reckon. My cousin, Annie, she popped a flat coming down that valley last year, and, well ... I shouldn’t say no more about that, with her still in the psych ward.You know they never d...