Books by Erik Secker

Bourbon Penn 21 features six new stories of the imagination and odd by Crystal Lynn Hilbert, Maria Dones, Josh Pearce, Erin K. Wagner, Barton Aikman, and Jason Baltazar. These pages are filled with a mix of horror, fantasy, and the unclassifiable, featuring writers both established and new. Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in anthologies including The Year''s Best Weird Fiction and The Year''s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, won the 2018 Aurealis award for Best Fantasy Short Story, and been recommended by Locus magazine.

Bourbon Penn 20 features seven new stories of the imagination and odd by Vincent H. O''Neil, EC Barrett, Elisa Abatsis, Mark Pantoja, Chelsea Hanna Cohen, and Chip Houser. These pages are filled with a mix of fantasy, science fiction and the unclassifiable, featuring writers both established and new. Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in anthologies including The Year''s Best Weird Fiction and The Year''s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, won the 2018 Aurealis award for Best Fantasy Short Story, and been recommended by Locus magazine.

Bourbon Penn 19 features seven new stories of the imagination and odd by Andrew L. Roberts, Jason Baltazar, T. B. Jeremiah, Dona McCormack, Setsu Uzume, Brendan James Murray, and B. Pladek. These pages are filled with a mix of science fiction and the unclassifiable, featuring writers both established and new. Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in anthologies including The Year''s Best Weird Fiction and The Year''s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, won the 2018 Aurealis award for Best Fantasy Short Story, and been recommended by Locus magazine.

Bourbon Penn is home to the surreal, the odd, and the Weird. Issue 17 offers seven stories of fear and love: The day her ex-husband gets out of prison, Luisa watches little green songbirds crawl from the grave of her horse, Octotillo; Deep within the Machine, two Workers flee the Bone Men together, trying to find an escape to the surface; A couple of maintenance cyborgs take drugs on the moon and settle in with shotguns to wait for the killer bugs; While searching for a mysterious group of poets, a student finds himself being haunted by their words and pulled into their immaterial world; The fractal polydactyl has fingers that branch out all the way into the subatomic, and he reaches out to touch someone, anyone; When grieving mothers cannot overcome the pain of losing a child, they turn to the therapy machine and the rituals it prescribes; Ravenous mermaids have migrated from the deep sea and into the local ponds and waterways where the local children play. Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in several best-of anthologies. New fiction in this issue by Kali Wallace, George Edwards Murray, Dan Stintzi, Charles Wilkinson, Josh Pearce, Hamdy Elgammal, and Dawn Sperber.

Bourbon Penn has published award-winning authors and stories and presents here another issue of creeping terror, everyday horrors, and beautiful nightmares. For fans of slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal, Bourbon Penn offers an escape into seven liminal worlds: people living in the walls; a turtle in therapy; lumberjacks versus dryads; an impossible list of things to save from a fire; portal-hopping bounty hunters; quantum language; the ability to erase any mistake.These pages are filled with a mix of fantasy, science fiction, and the unclassifiable, featuring writers both established and new. Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in anthologies including The Year's Best Weird Fiction and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, won the 2018 Aurealis award for Best Fantasy Short Story, and been recommended by Locus magazine.

Bourbon Penn publishes stories of imagination and the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in anthologies such as The Year's Best Weird Fiction and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. Issue 16 features new fiction by Daisy Johnson, Camilla Grudova, M C Williams, Matthew Thomas Meade, Julia Rocchi, Reggie Mills, Matt Snell, and cover art by Nadeem Chughtai.

Bourbon Penn #15 offers five new exciting realities to explore in an issue of bold speculative fiction from Brian Evenson, Chris Kammerud, Josh Pearce, A.L. Rowser, and J. Ashley Smith.Sometimes Things Are True - a young superhero named Lucy rides a space elevator to the cracked moon in search of her father, who's a ninja zombie werewolf space pirate. Discover why, in this world, belief can be a superpower.Sensorium - after a dragon climbs out of the wishing well in her garden, Amelia discovers a quantum fairyland where things appear as they really are, and the dangers are given their true form.Strange Mechanisms - The Guy with the Hole in His Throat has two roommates. Sometimes they take human form. Sometimes they don't. Then one day he has a third, The Other Guy With the Hole in His Throat, who looks exactly like him.The Further Shore - there's a shack on a beach and you don't want to be outside at night. Hungry things live in night. There are ships out beyond the reef, but hungry things live in the water, too.Song For the Unravelling of the World - when his daughter disappears, Drago can't go to the police. Is she in the walls? In the garbage disposal? In the television static? Enter his world and help him find her before it's too late.For fans of Weird, slipstream, and the fantastic, Bourbon Penn continues to offer unsettling and soul-searing stories from today's talented voices. Turn over a rock and watch what scuttles in the light. Warm a fossilized egg in your hands and see what hatches. Tune the static of cosmic radiation and find what signal hides in its noise. Open the pages of Bourbon Penn and discover.

Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in multiple "Best of the Year" anthologies. In our current outing, attend the wolf and saint carnival of joy, be awoken by an oracle picking cow, contemplate a world without watercress, beware exploding rainbows, and oh, so much more. Featuring brand new fiction by Alan DeNiro, Gwendolyn Edward, Ken Hoover, Valerie E. Polichar, Charles Wilkinson, H. Andrew Lynch and cover art by David Imlay.

Bourbon Penn's devotion to visionary storytelling continues with issue #14: nonhuman species pursuing questionable agendas provoke two minimum-wage workers into doubting their own humanity ... a small town fraught with economic despair, where mothers mysteriously die, drives boyhood pals into an emotional quest for meaning through building their own fortress ... a college janitor seeks redemption through confrontation with parallel selves ... corporate co-workers take hyper-efficiency into a new brutalism where failure is not an option ... a wandering girl and her intended rescuer might've simply run away, or do they wait in cold river mud to reunite with the anguished living?For connoisseurs of the liminal whose appetites exceed the offerings of traditional speculative fiction, follow these explorers of existence into landscapes emotional and mysterious ... return with artifacts stranger than love, but hauntingly intimate.