In this collection of 21 short stories, J.W. Schnarr writes very much in the tradition of classic greats such as edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant, but with a completely modern, fresh voice. With Schnarr it’s not so much about gore and splatter, as it is about sliding like a scalpel inside your head and lodging there. His characters are believable, ordinary people who are hurtled into horrific situations, sometimes of their own making whether through love or stupidity, sometimes not.

JW Schnarr resides in Taber, Alberta Canada with his daughter and a grumpy turtle. When not writing, editing or publishing, he can be found scheming. And watching sports. He attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology to study journalism at the start of the new millennium and spent years slogging away as a freelance writer before breaking into the small press markets in 2004.The first story he ever sold was to Chicken Soup for the Single Parents Soul and it paid him $300 dollars. The second story he sold was Magpie, and it paid $10 and a contributor copy. The story later sold to Nancy Jackson’s GOREMET CUISINE for another contributor copy, and it’s appearance in Things Falling Apart will mark its third time seeing print.JW Schnarr is also a big fan of photography and photo manipulation. JW is a big fan of body art and has several tattoos on his arms. His considers himself a work in progress.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 HG Wells’ The Time Machine. (NFP) His fiction has appeared here and there in the small press, including the acclaimed Best New Zombie Tales Volume 2 edited by James Roy Daley and published by Books of the Dead Press. His story Dredging up the Dead was dubbed “Freshest Tale” in the anthology by Rue Morgue Magazine.

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