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Written by Sylvia Shults
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Saturday, 05 May 2007 |
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Congratulations! You've turned over just the right rock on the Internet, and you've ended up here. Welcome! This is my site. I put it up mainly to show people the sort of weird stuff that goes on inside my head -- at least the stuff that gets written down. You'll find stories; mostly horror fiction, but I've been known to work in other genres as well. So if you like variety, oh boy have you come to the right place. I have other interests besides writing, too, so every once in a while, you might find blathering about my other activities somewhere on the site. It won't be a blog, because I won't be updating it that often. But hopefully it will always be interesting. That's where I'll put any exciting news, too. If a publisher accepts my newest novel, that's where I'll crow about it. So come on in, cop a squat, put your feet up, and wander around for a while. (Sure, you can do all that at the same time. This is the Internet, after all.) Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.
-- James Lileks "Sylvia Shults is the princess of darkness, a mistress of malevolent miracles. . . and her lean, mean prose will keep your nightlight on well past your bedtime. Highly recommended." -- Jay Bonansinga, national bestselling author of TWISTED, FROZEN, and THE SINKING OF THE EASTLAND |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 17 August 2009 )
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Borrowed Flesh--coming in Sept 2009! |
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Written by Sylvia Shults
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Saturday, 15 August 2009 |
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A woman weighed down with the secrets of her past meets the young girl who will teach her to love again. But something inhuman is watching them both...  Being laid off sucks. But now Claire has the time to do her friend Darlene a favor. Darlene's kid, Melody, has been coming home with some pretty wild stories about the Catholic grade school she attends. And when Melody goes missing, Claire knows she has to be the one to find her. The demon Araknagoth knows all of Claire's secrets. It knows her weaknesses. And it knows about her desperate search for Melody. BORROWED FLESH ... a story of demonic doppelgangers, the dusty shadows and forgotten sins of a repressive Church, and a kidnapped little girl. Open the book, turn the pages, and shiver your way through BORROWED FLESH. "Scary, sexy, yet redemptive. The notion hovers around the edges of it all, a dawning thought whispering under every line: it’s real. It’s all real. I’ll tell you something, Sylvia Shults gets inside your heart and puts you in a thorny place in the middle of a night where death might be just a stage, but suffering could be forever." -- Lawrence Santoro, Bram Stoker Nominee and author of JUST NORTH OF NOWHERE "A year ago, I read THE DREAMWATCHER in a hot and dank basement, feeling dread and excitement at the same time, because that's what I do when I find a new writer to admire. I've just finished BORROWED FLESH, this time reading it on a bench in broad daylight, downtown Chicago, tourists all around me, certainly not an empty basement where the crack of an ice cube in my glass would make me jump. And yet I had that same feeling as I read Sylvia Shults' words, flowing as if from that hot and empty cellar, apprehension sandwiched between hope and humanity. The chill down my spine was not coming from Lake Michigan. I'm looking forward to reading a new summer freezout every year by this fantastic author. Do not pass this book up."
-- Wayne Allen Sallee--author of FIENDS BY TORCHLIGHT
and I CAN'T COME CLEAN (Annihilation Press) |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 17 August 2009 )
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Written by Sylvia Shults
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Sunday, 15 July 2007 |
Award-winning Finalist in the Fiction & Literature: Horror category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.* * * SPECIAL NOTE * * * For every copy of this book sold, the publisher will donate $1 to inner-city baseball programs in the Oakland, CA area. So show your support. After all, they get to play baseball all year 'round. IT ALL STARTED WHEN THEY MOVED. . . Ryan Alldred knew that moving several states away from where he'd grown up would be hard. He had no idea. He didn't know about the ghosts. He didn't know about the bloody dreams that would terrorize his twin sister Stephanie. And he didn't know about the butcher knife. . . BUT HE'S GOING TO FIND OUT. 
"If you're looking for a book that'll keep you up 'til the wee hours, getting up only to make sure the door is locked, this is the book for you. Shults writes with a deft touch, like a velvet glove with razors in the fingertips. This is spine-shivering, page-turning, can't-put-it-down-'til-it's-done stuff." -- Gary Braver, author of FLASHBACK and GRAY MATTER. "Sylvia Shults' brisk evocative prose carries the reader along for an unsettling tour of madness, possession and haunting evil. Shults writes with equal gusto whether describing the salacious details of an erotic tryst or the depravity of a ghostly violation. Deftly weaving between the hum-drum banality of the teenage mind and the cruel intellect of a dead malevolence, THE DREAMWATCHER is a wickedly seductive concoction." -- Christopher Rondina, author of VAMPIRES OF NEW ENGLAND. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 17 August 2009 )
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