Author Jay Sturner

My latest chapbook, A SACRIFICE TO KILOOLOOGUNG , has just been published in a pillar of smoke from my trusty wood-burning stove. It is not available in stores, at readings, or online. It is a very limited edition of zero copies. Please join me in celebration of this new release as it dissipates into the winter sky forever! The next time you have a fire of your own, think of what might have been, and thank humble Kilooloogung* that its contents will never be known. The end of a career? A new beginning? Time will tell. * Kilooloogung is a small god of the hearth, and lord of arising smoke.

In other news, I can be seen speaking briefly in The Last Wolf , the long-awaited documentary about fantasy and horror writer Karl Edward Wagner . My appearance is near the end. The film is currently available to rent or buy at Vimeo . An official DVD release is forthcoming.

 Thank you to Bruce Swanson for the honor.

STORIES AND POEMS OF THE DARKLY FANTASTIC [All titles previously published in various magazines prior to 2015] CONTENTS Sketch by Sketch Faerystruck Down What We Know of Goddesses Strings The Girl with the Crooked Spine Misery of He Who is Outside the Realm of Man Time to Grow Up Where There's No Time at All Belch Charon Falls into the Styx The Hunchback's Captive The Politician's New Heart Post-Funeral Mission to Mars Intimate Universes Penumbra The Unfortunate Heartbreak of Faritook the Earwig Red Icicles Ghoul of the Enamel Deal Down at the Hospital The Tramp Clown's Secret Not for Mortal Eyes The Blackout Killer Making Amends Spiral of Flies The Dark Island Publication History Acknowledgments About the Author/About the Cover Artist

Anne Stickel, Editor of Black Petals Magazine, has published an insightful review of "The Hunchback's Captive and Others" in the Spring 2020 issue. Read it by clicking here .

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Poetry Editor Linda D. Addison  has written a short, lovely review of "The Hunchback's Captive and Others" for the current issue of Space & Time Magazine (Spring 2020).

"The Hunchback's Captive and Others" has been reviewed by Poetry Editor John C. Mannone at  Abyss & Apex Magazine . It can be read by clicking  here .

A nice review of "The Hunchback's Captive and Others" has been published in The Supplement  #93 of UK's Atlantean Publishing . It was written by editor DJ Tyrer.

"The Hunchback's Captive and Others" is featured in the local author section of this month's issue of West Suburban Living Magazine .