For a decade and a half, before the birth of my daughter last summer, I ran and curated a micro-press called Burning Effigy. In 2007, we turned our eye to horror. In the ensuing years, I had the opportunity to publish many superb works of dark fiction, by some of the most exciting up-and-coming names in the genre. Truth be told, I could easily place any of Burning Effigy's horror titles in this list, because I loved and believed in each of them enough to invest my time, money and effort in their release, but there's one book in particular that continues to haunt my brain, even all these years after I edited and typeset it (in 2011): Nate Southard's THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE.
I mentioned it briefly in my Bunker Books round-up in Rue Morgue #127, where I wrote: "THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE continues to be one of my all-time favourite apocalypse tales. After a trio of office workers are trapped in a collapsed parking garage following an earthquake, they soon discover that the chaos stretches far beyond their city, and those sounds they keep hearing in the rubble? Well, they aren't rescuers..."
To say any more would give away the novella's brilliant narrative twist, but I can tell you I've often said THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE is the most cinematic of Burning Effigy's releases and I could totally see it as a tense, knuckle-biting short film - three people, tight space, no escape, rapidly dwindling light sources, danger lurking in every shadow.
Nate Southard's novella can still be ordered from the Burning Effigy Press website , but there are less than fifteen copies remaining in stock, so don't delay.
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Books to Die For
Non-FictionA book for book lovers, this is collection of reading recommendations and author interviews, as they appeared on Rue-Morgue.com, as well as my various #fabfictionfridays shout-outs on Wattpad. Here you'll find mainstream releases, Wattpad serials, s...
