"Life is horror and fantasy, not necessarily in that order."
Author: Lionel Ray Green
Lionel Ray Green is a horror and fantasy writer, an award-winning newspaper journalist, and a U.S. Army gulf war veteran living in Alabama. He loves his mom and misses his dad, who died on July 15, 2015. He ironically loves Bigfoot and hobbits and believes Babe is the greatest movie ever made. Lionel writes a column for HorrorAddicts.net titled The Bigfoot Files.
His stories have appeared in the anthologies Trembling With Fear: Year 5; Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2; Trembling With Fear: Year 4; Illusions of the Past: Fantasia Divinity's Best of 2020 Anthology; Inferno; Unveiled Secrets; Trembling With Fear: More Tales From The Tree: Volume 2; Trembling With Fear: Year 3; The Best of Iron Faerie Publishing 2019; Divinity: An Iron Faerie Publishing Anthology; Halloween Horror: Volume 1; Trembling With Fear: Year 2; Trembling With Fear: More Tales from The Tree; America's Emerging Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers: The Deep South; The Hamthology; Sorry, We're Closed; Alabama's Emerging Writers; The Heart of a Devil; Fifty Flashes; How Beer Saved the World 2; Graveyard; Frightening; Tales from the Grave; In Creeps the Night; and 22 More Quick Shivers.
His short story "Scarecrow Road" won the WriterWriter 2018 International Halloween Themed Writing Competition: All Hallows' Prose and was featured on The Night's End Podcast for October 9, 2020. His short story "A Tale of Two Shards" was third runner-up in the WriterWriter 2018 International Fantasy Writing Competition: Phoenix Rising.
Lionel's work has appeared in the Horror Curated digital magazine; The Poet's Haven Digest anthology, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night; in Issue 1 of Cross+Decay magazine; and in the 2017 issue of From the Depths magazine. His fiction has also appeared online at Horror Tree's Trembling With Fear, at Who Writes Short Shorts?, at Visual Verse, and at 50-Word Stories where his "Bedraggled" was selected Story of the Week for June 16, 2019.
Lionel has released seven short stories on Amazon Kindle: "Scarecrow Road," "One Lucky Girl," "The Price of the Princess," "Tap," "Peace of Mind," "Dead of Winter," and "A Tale of Two Shards."
Visit his Amazon Author Page or contact him at lionelraygreen@gmail.com.His short stories have appeared in the anthologies Trembling With Fear: Year 4; Illusions of the Past: Fantasia Divinity’s Best of 2020 Anthology; Inferno; Unveiled Secrets; Trembling With Fear: More Tales From The Tree: Volume 2; Trembling With Fear: Year 3; The Best of Iron Faerie Publishing 2019; Divinity: An Iron Faerie Publishing Anthology; Halloween Horror: Volume 1; Trembling With Fear: Year 2; Trembling With Fear: More Tales from The Tree; America’s Emerging Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers: The Deep South; The Hamthology; Sorry, We’re Closed; Alabama’s Emerging Writers; The Heart of a Devil; Fifty Flashes; How Beer Saved the World 2; Graveyard; Frightening; Tales from the Grave; In Creeps the Night; and 22 More Quick Shivers.
His short story “Scarecrow Road” won the WriterWriter 2018 International Halloween Themed Writing Competition: All Hallows’ Prose and was featured on The Night’s End Podcast for October 9, 2020. His short story “A Tale of Two Shards” was third runner-up in the WriterWriter 2018 International Fantasy Writing Competition: Phoenix Rising.
Lionel’s work has appeared in The Poet’s Haven Digest anthology, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night; in Issue 1 of Cross+Decay magazine; and in the 2017 issue of From the Depths magazine. His fiction has also appeared online at Horror Tree’s Trembling With Fear, at Who Writes Short Shorts?, at Visual Verse, and at 50-Word Stories where his “Bedraggled” was selected Story of the Week for June 16, 2019.
Lionel has released seven short stories on Amazon Kindle: “Scarecrow Road,” “One Lucky Girl,” “The Price of the Princess,” “Tap,” “Peace of Mind,” “Dead of Winter,” and “A Tale of Two Shards.”
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review short stories from horror anthologies.) "The Painting My Husband Keeps" is the quietly menacing opener to the horror collection titled Under Your Bed by Blair Daniels. The well-paced short story is narrated by a recently married woman named Tara who's unnerved by a painting owned …
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review short stories from horror anthologies.) “A Traveler Between Eternities” by Atlanta-based author Amanda DeWees is a tragic but hopeful tale of a woman named Ruth Whitlock who’s in the midst of a pregnancy where the unborn child “had suddenly gone still.” Set in 1864, the story …
Kristopher Triana and Ryan Harding won Best Novel on a night the 2022 Splatterpunk Awards honored the horror subgenre's inaugural Hall of Legends at KillerCon in Austin, Texas, on August 13th. Hosted by Wrath James White and Shane McKenzie, the fifth annual Splatterpunk Awards celebrated the best of Extreme Horror fiction published in 2021 by …
(Editor’s note: I moved from an apartment into a house starting January 1st, 2020, and I had to toss all my CDs into a big garbage bag during the move. The idea for this feature is I write a review about each CD as I unpack that bag, one CD at a time, and rank …
This quarter includes stories about Bigfoot, Vikings, amateur sleuths, and Gothic ghosts!
The Devil Took Her by Michael Botur is a gritty and compelling collection of horror short stories with subjects like gangs and rats rather than werewolves and specters. Kindle.
Autumn Gothic by Brian Bowyer. Despite the title, my favorite Bowyer book yet is more extreme horror than Gothic horror, and NONE of his characters are safe. KU.
Whodunit? I was clueless until the end!
Double Date Disaster by Hope Callaghan. A cute, Golden Girls type of cast made this a fun cozy mystery. Whodunit? I was clueless until the end! Kudos to Callaghan for stumping me. KU.
Murder in a Dream by Thea Cambert. Happy people in happy places with nice conversations don’t make a cozy mystery very exciting, but readers’ mileage may vary. KU.
The nice-guy prince of horror wrote a YA space adventure?!
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review horror short stories.) "Slashbacks" by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Tim Waggoner is a vicious little wish-fulfillment tale of vengeance set inside a horror movie lover's dream video store. The short story appears in the 2022 anthology Attack from the '80s edited by Eugene Johnson and …
Rachel Harrison's witchy tale, Cackle, won Best Novel for the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards, according to an announcement by the LOHF on June 29. The LOHF also announced winners in the other seven categories. Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl won Best Debut. The Best Collection category resulted in a tie with Isabel …
V. Castro, Hailey Piper, and Isabel Yap each received multiple nominations for the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards, according to announcements by the LOHF team on its website. Castro's The Queen of the Cicadas is nominated for Best Novel and Goddess of Filth for Best Novella. Both works also received nominations for 2021 Bram …
Horror Hostess Emerian Rich created HorrorAddicts.net as a forum for other creators to explore all aspects of the horror lifestyle. Her latest project, Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2, brings together years of that exploration and packs everything into one book. And we're talking EVERYTHING. Here's the book's description: "Do you love the horror genre? …
Jeff Strand holding his first Bram Stoker Award on May 14 in Denver, Colorado. It's 2022 and horror author Jeff Strand now lives in Chattanooga. But he still watches Survivor, his cat Chaos is still spoiled, and he's still writing his unique blend of horror and comedy. What else? Oh, he won a Bram Stoker …