Those stories have been compiled in two Kindle collections currently available from Amazon: The Abominations of Nephren-Ka & Three More Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, and The Horror in the Water Tower & Five More Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Hamogeorgakis.” Lately, I’ve been writing a lot of serious Mythos stories, many in collaboration with a new writer named Michael Sheehan, Jr. It did have a few serious Lovecraftian stories in it, like “Der Fleischbrunnen,” “The Embrace of Kugappa,” and “A Beauty Treatment for Mrs. For a long time, I wrote a lot of comedic Mythos-oriented stories, most of which were collected in the trade paperback, Best Little Witch-House in Arkham. Many of my most recent stories are Lovecraftian horror tales. Mark McLaughlin: I write horror and dark fantasy stories, articles, poems and novels.

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Terrie Leigh Relf: What types and forms of writing do you do? Mark is the coauthor, with Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson, of THE GOSSAMER EYE, which won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry. With regular collaborator Michael McCarty, he has written MONSTER BEHIND THE WHEEL (their latest horror novel), PARTNERS IN SLIME (their latest collaborative story collection, packed with monsters), ALL THINGS DARK & HIDEOUS, PROFESSOR LaGUNGO'S CLASSROOM OF DOOM, and more.

Mark's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in more than 1,000 magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies, including GALAXY, FANGORIA, LIVING DEAD 2, THE BEST OF ALL FLESH, WRITER'S DIGEST, CEMETERY DANCE, MIDNIGHT PREMIERE, DARK ARTS, and two volumes each of THE BEST OF HORRORFIND and THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES (DAW Books).Ĭollections of Mark's fiction include BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, MOTIVATIONAL SHRIEKER, SLIME AFTER SLIME, PICKMAN'S MOTEL, RAISING DEMONS FOR FUN AND PROFIT, and AT THE FOOTHILLS OF FRENZY (with coauthors Shane Ryan Staley and Brian Knight). The view is pretty amazing, but the shock of impact may do you in. 'Reading Mark McLaughlin is a little like stepping out of the door of an airplane in mid flight. 'McLaughlin's tales are laugh-out-loud assaults on consensus reality.' If your palette is jaded, come to the feast that is Mark McLaughlin.'

And they're all rolled into one in the shape of Mark McLaughlin who writes stories that are wonderfully witty, surrealistic and ineffably strange. 'In the most devious manner, McLaughlin's stories achieve a high degree of demonism by perpetuating a sinister 'humor' at the gallows of the human comedy.'

What critics and colleagues have said about Mark McLaughlin's work over the years:

Beach Blanket Zombie by Mark McLaughlin