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Blood Moon by Melanie Tem6/27/2023 I began selling horror fiction after moving to Colorado, where there was a flourishing horror community in Denver. In my twenties and thirties, I freelanced for newspapers and magazines and published erotica under various pseudonyms. I also had the dubious advantage of growing up in a household I can only describe as deranged Southern Gothic, so I learned very young to be fluent in the language of “crazy” and how to use those experiences creatively. I knew immediately I wanted to write stories full of blood and gore and monsters, both human and supernatural. At about eight or nine, I read my first horror stories in an issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. I started writing short stories very young. Did you start out writing or working in the horror field, and if so why? If not, what were you writing initially and what compelled you to move to horror? She lives in the high desert outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, and enjoys ballroom and Latin dancing, Pilates, hiking, swimming, and being a 24/7 concierge, chef, and dispenser-of-treats to her two rescue kitties. Her work has been translated into Italian, German, Czech, Russian, Spanish, and other languages. Her most recent work includes stories in Body Shocks (Tachyon) Horror Library, Volume 7 (Dark Moon Books), and the Western/horror novella Desolation (Poltergeist Press). Lucy Taylor is the Stoker Award–winning author of seven novels and five short story collections.
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