ChiZine Publications has just released its second book: Horror Story and Other Horror Stories by Robert Boyczuk. The collection is available as a $17.95, 316-page trade paperback or a free pdf download (under a Creative Commons license). ChiZine Publications is also offering a free mp3 file of Boyczuk’s story “Falling”, which is read by Ottawa-based writer Matthew Moore.
Toronto-based Boyczuk is a college professor and a 1993 Clarion West graduate. He’s received three Toronto Arts Council Grants over the years. His work has appeared in On Spec, TransVersions, Prairie Fire, Northern Frights, Dark Planet, Descant, ChiZine, and Tesseracts.
This book, his first collection, contains 19 stories, five of which are appearing in print for the first time:
“Query”
“Gaytown”
“Home”
“Assassination and the New World Order”
“When Fat Men Love Thin Women” (new)
“Jazz Threnody”
“Doing Time”
“Falling”
“Object of Desire”
“The Death Artist” (new)
“Shika”
“Tabula Rasa”
“The Back Shed”
“The Uncertainty Principle” (new)
“Monster” (new)
“The Love Clinic” (new)
“Pirates”
“Cure for Cancer”
“Horror Story”