Author: Nathan Shumate

“I… am… no… more.” She shuddered once, a tremor that echoed throughout Her immense length. She paused fractionally in Her neverending task of laying eggs. The pause was barely longer than a breath, but the assembled tens instantly stopped their hurrying and carrying, then resumed as one, as if each had received the same unvoiced…
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Horace Peters was having the singular kind of day that made him wish he’d never taken the position for Security Chief on A05675962-56. It was the kind of day wherein he began doubting the path he had taken in life that had led him to this moment. You’d think that on an advanced space station,…
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To Our Most Beloved and Learned Archivist:  Find herewith two separate records that I have interlaced together into one account, ordered by inferred chronology. In italics, I have placed a stylized record pulled from the dendrite memory pattern reconstruction of a perished human found floating in deep space. I am aware of your interest in…
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Available for sale today! SPACE ELDRITCH II: The Haunted Stars brings together returning names and new contributors — like Larry Correia, Michaelbrent Collings and Eric James Stone — to give you eleven tales combining space opera with Lovecraftian horror!  Available today as an ebook at Amazon and Smashwords, coming soon in print!

Father Phai walked the halls of Saint Stephan University, ignoring the tech serfs who scuttled about like brain-damaged insects. The high stone ceilings of the building vaulted over his head as his feet shuffled along smooth marble floors. He paused in the middle of the hall and turned to Father Aristeides. “You’re saying that God…
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When I was a child I dreamed of the stars. When I was a man the stars stole my dreams. A man who cannot dream becomes nothing but an empty shell, but the thing about empty shells, there’s nothing left inside to corrupt. Space ate my dreams, tore them right out my head and left…
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Gerrold Mason turned over, and for a moment he thought he had seen red hair. Red hair with subtle threads of black and brown running through it, like a dark rainbow that portended not the sun breaking through the clouds, but the clouds’ triumph over all that was bright. It was an omen. He should…
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Be wary of silence, because it only means that machinations are going on behind the curtain.  Here are the rest of the contributors to SPACE ELDRITCH II, which should be invading your dreams by the end of the month. D.J. Butler, another veteran of the first SPACE ELDRITCH volume, is a lawyer by training, but…
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Sorry to announce that there will be no Arcane III — at least, not for the foreseeable future.  Both of the first two anthologies are solid, enjoyable work that I’m fiercely proud of (without foundation, as I didn’t actually write any of those incredible stories), but sales have been sluggish; at the current rate, even…
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