Thanks for all the submissions, authors around the world! We received about 200 entries, and we'll do our best to pump through these in a more quick fashion as we put together Strange Stories. Expect to hear back by Late August on the status.

Thank you to all the Satanists out there for submitting. We'll read through and let you know. We got a good group of about 30 entries, so we're excited! 

Forty-Two Books attended the combined convention for Westercon72/NASFiC/1632 Minicon/Spikecon at the Davis Convention Center in Layton Utah July 4-7, 2019.

We had a table, selling copies of Peaks of Madness: A Collection of Utah Horror and Enheduanna: A Pagan Literary Journal from another press the editor owns. The $1 typewritten poetry was a big hit, selling like hotcakes! Editor Daniel composed them on the spot. Perhaps we should have charged $2.

Daniel met some new friends, author Joseph Kaukola of Threshold and The Sword, and artist Emmanuel Valtierra who recently published the alternate history Codex Valtierra about if the Maya People had won against the Spanish invasion.

Some of the attending authors were Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files, David Weber, author of the Honor Harrington Series, Star Trek prop master Dragon Dronet, and the Trimbles as Masters of Ceremony who are known to have saved Star Trek.

If you have an earlier version of Peaks of Madness before July 1, we dropped off the last half of the sentence in Lovecraft's Typewriter which is as follows "'deal with...special cases,' he said with a wink."

We'd like to thank all of you who submitted and participated in this first original Forty-Two Books anthology. It was a lot of work, but worth it to read and select the final stories. If you have not received an acceptance or rejection email about your submission (some bounced back), please get in touch with us: [email protected] as all emails have been sent concerning submission statuses. 

Forty-Two Books is pleased to announce that the following individuals have made the selection for inclusion to Strange Stories Vol 1.

​TYPE         TITLE       AUTHOR        COUNTRY        GENRE
Book Chapter|Monochrome Noir-Chapter 2|Utah|Myst/Detective
Film Script|Culdesac|Viviana Ramirez|Illinois|Thriller|
Film Script|Beasts of Burden|Viviana Ramirez|Illinois|Hor/Thriller
Flash|An Angel's Love|Cate Dexter|Maryland|Urban Fant/Rom.
Flash|Neighboring States|Cathy Bryant|England|Comedy Horror
Flash|Home|Cody Langille|Utah|Horror
Flash|Death of a Controversial Word Wizard|Jim Lee|Pennsylvania|Sci Fi/Fant.
Flash|The Ghost, The Magician, and the Jellybeans|Joyce Frohn|Wisconsin|Horror
Flash|Teeth|Jules Zucker|California|Horror
Flash|Death Takes a Holiday|Linda Kay Hardie|Nevada|Fantasy
Flash|Bad Day at Bull Funk's|Maria Kelly|Florida|Science Fiction
Flash|The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Blood|Roxy Thomas|Canada|Horror
Flash|The Wolf Man's Wife|Ted Snyder|Wisconsin|Horror
Micro|Dial|Emily Dye|California|Experimental
Micro|Autopsy Report|Iona Murphy|England|Hor/Exp.
Micro|Penny Fiction|Michael Anthony Lee|Canada|Penny fiction
Micro|The Flesh Game|Rhiannon Taylor|Illinois|Horror
Novelette|The Valley Tigers|Anthony Worman|Montana|Sci Fi/Adv.
Novelette|The Good Doctor Mankel| Martin Zeigler|Washington|Horror
Novelette|The Love Hunters|Shaun Avery|England|Horror
Novella|Painted|Via D'Agostino|Ohio|Experimental
Play|Frank and the Baby|Johannes Black|UK|Horror
Short Story|Last Slice at Luca's|Ben Gamblin|Washington|Hor/West/Meta.
Short Story|Humanarians|Brenda Wright|Utah|Sci Fi/Sat.
Short Story|G.H.O.S.T.S|Cheryl Zaidan|Michigan|Hor/Hum.
Short Story|The Thickening|Rebecca Rowland|Massachusetts|Sat/Hor/Sci Fi
Short Story|A Jade Superfox Adventure|Claude Lalumière|Canada|Sci Fi/Rom/Super Hero
Short Story|Swallow Your Third Eye|Evelyn Deshane|Canada|Hor/Det.
Short Story|His Master's Voice|Geoff Hart|Canada|Sci Fi/Fant.
Short Story|The Jack Tar Strangler Murders|Jaap Boekestein|Netherlands|Horror
Short Story|Trials|Jack Lothian|England/Thailand|Sci Fi/Hor.
Short Story|The Hole in Eye's House|Jared Linder|Oregon|Science Fiction
Short Story|Metal Grrrls|Jocelyn Marshall|New York|Exp/Sat.
Short Story|Twilight in Heroland|Joe Baumann|Missouri|Magical Realism
Short Story|Hunting Time|Joel Martin|Australia|Fantasy
Short Story|Recluse|Justin Zipprich|Nevada|Mystery
Short Story|The Dry Flood|Kev Harrison|Portugal|Detective
Short Story|Beloved Evanescence|Kiki Gonglewski|New Mexico|Fant/Exp.
Short Story|The Disagreeable Dinner|Mark DaPonte|New York|Fantasy
Short Story|Sinistral|Meggie Nelson|Virginia|Fantasy
Short Story|The Right Thing|Michael McClure|Virginia|Romance
Short Story|Puke|Paul Lashway|New York|Sat/Magical Realism
Short Story|Tens of Thousands isn't Proper English|Ransom|Canada|Exp/Meta/Hor
Short Story|The Prayer Collective|S. E. Greco|Connecticut|Science Fiction
Short Story|Backwards: The Abandoned Time-travel App|Stuart Hardy|England|Science Fiction
Short Story|Luther's Foreskin|Thomas Vaughn|Arkansas|Horror
Short Story|Brass Belt Luna|Will Riley|Canada|Thril/Exp/Wrestling
Short Story|A Drink of Water|Wol-vriey|Nigeria|West/Weird

If you're a fiction writing Satanist in some way, submit!

Having completed the readings of 400 submissions, the final round of judging will open this week. The weeds have been plucked and there is a solid group of 80 or so stories that will be chopped down to the final count of about 45-50. Either way, you'll know from an email if you submitted to the publication! May the Odds be in your favor!

​Satan Speaks! If you're a Satanist who happens to write, you'll love this new call for works. Faustus Blackbook, a local Utah satanists, is interested in the study and collection of satanic voices in the 21st century. He is putting together a collection to represent the voices in the often excluded and hidden community. Currently open for essay, article, creative nonfiction, and poetry, submit by July 15. Collection is unpaid, but what a cool opportunity! ​Head on over to the page to read more about the call

You know who else loves horror? Ken Sander's Rare Book in downtown Salt Lake City! The book shop is excited to be carrying copies of the anthology, and it's a first that the publications of the Utah Horror Writers has made it into a local book shop!
If you don't want to shop online, head on down to famous book store--headquarters of the Monkey Wrench gang--and get your copy today for $20. Even Mr. Sanders himself couldn't resist picking up one for his own nighttime pleasure!