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    Shadows of the Emerald City
    Shadows of the Emerald City
    Shadows of the Emerald City
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    Shadows of the Emerald City

    By JW Schnarr

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    "No other story has touched as many hearts and endeared itself into the American fabric as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Often toted as America's First Fairy Tale, this heartwarming classic has been made and remade again and again across every medium known to man. The themes are timeless, the characters themselves beloved.

    But like all fairy tales, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has one foot planted in the fantastic, and the other foot planted in blood. Explore the darker side of Oz...the parts too terrifying or obscene to be told as bedtime stories.

    Here are 19 tales by some of today's hottest Indie writers peeling back the emerald layers of the land of Oz and revealing the pink, bloody flesh beneath. Some of the people and places you may recognize from your childhood, but you won't believe what happens to them.

    Shadows DO fall in the Emerald City, and where they are their darkest is where you will find the true terror of Oz.

    Featuring Stories by:

    Mark Onspaugh, H.F. Gibbard, Rajan Khanna, Camille Alexa, Gef Fox, Martin Rose, Michael D. Turner, Frank Dutkiewicz, Lori T Strongin, Barry Napier, Travis L. Barrett, Mari Ness, David Steffen, David F Mason, E.M. MacCallum, JW Schnarr, Kevin G. Summers, Jack Bates, Jason Rubis"

    This is, first and foremost, an anthology of horror stories. And readers looking for something different in a horror collection, a collection that achieves this not only through the unique background of Oz but through a variety of tales and story modes, will find a sinister pleasure in these excursions over the rainbow.

    --M-BRANE SF

    Shadows of the Emerald City, JW Schnarr’s 19-story anthology about the dark side of Oz, offers a sense of Oz’s continuing expansiveness as well as a satisfying number of characters that yearn to be part of the enchanted land.

    --Senses Five Press

    JW Schnarr hit it out of the park with this collect of macabre, dirty, perverse, corrupted stories. I have never paused while reading to say, “That is so f’d up!” so many times before while reading an anthology. And I meant in the nicest way possible. Though, nice is not a word to be used with this anthology—ever. 5/5

    --Jennifer Brozek, Apex Book Company

    The bloodstained yellow brick road begins and ends somewhere close to the concrete of Calgary, Alberta! Definitely a solid collection that reminds you that there is a lot more than ooze and awe's in the Scary old land of Oz.

    --Steve Vernon, Author of Maritime Monsters

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJW Schnarr
    Release dateJul 6, 2011
    ISBN9780973483758
    Shadows of the Emerald City
    Author

    JW Schnarr

    JW Schnarr is the evil mastermind behind Northern Frights Publishing. He currently resides in Champion, Alberta Canada with his daughter and a grumpy turtle. When not writing, editing or publishing, he can be found scheming. And watching sports. A member of the HWA, he is the Editor of Shadows of the Emerald City, War of the Worlds: Frontlines, and Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Look for his collection Things Falling Apart out now! His first novel, Alice and Dorothy, is a fairytale filled with sex, drugs, and mass murder, and will be available June 15th 2011. Find JW on Facebook: http://facebook.com/jwschnarr Or visit his home on the web: www.jwschnarr.blogspot.com Or on Twitter: @jwschnarr

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