Guest Post – The Ground is Full of Teeth by Catherine Schaff-Stump

When Travis and I talked about hosting each other because we are content mates in Alembical 4, I promised to talk about my horror novella The Ground is Full of Teeth. This is one of the most biographical pieces I have ever written.  I freely admit my novella is speculative fiction, so you might ask how something this supernatural and horrible can be about real life. The working title of this novella was The Werehumans. While the novel evolved from its original conception, the story remained largely the same. I grew up in Oscar Springs, the fictional name I gaveContinue readingGuest Post – The Ground is Full of Teeth by Catherine Schaff-Stump

Novellas and Screenplays and Festivals, Oh My!

I’m excited about the way my neo-pulp steampunk noir story is getting some buzz. The novella “Where the Devil Resides” came out in Alembical 4 right before the World SF Convention. Woot! It is available in print and hardcover right now, with e-book coming soon. In a post-Civil War steampunk Florida, a minister’s teenage daughter is abducted by a band of vicious swamp rats and taken into the Everglades. To save his daughter from a fate worse than death, he must enlist the aid of an escaped slave woman, a mysterious Santeria priestess known as the Black Rose. This is excitingContinue readingNovellas and Screenplays and Festivals, Oh My!