Author: Nathan Shumate

March 23, 1932 Mr. Halward Comstock c/o Bizarre Tales New York, NY Dear Mr. Comstock: I have written to the letters column of Bizarre Tales a number of times in praise of stories published in that magazine, yours and others, but this marks the first occasion in which I have directed my praise toward the…
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I sometimes misremembered what day it was, even forgot Sunday once in a while if I was busy with planting or harvest, but Maeve never let me forget Bookmobile Day, the fourth Tuesday of every month. She was always at my front door by nine o’clock or thereabouts, rain or shine, with her little plastic…
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A decapitated zombie is actually good company—just the head, not the body. The way I figure it, when whatever it is brings them back, it’s their meat and muscle that makes them mean. Maybe it hurts or something. Whatever it is, it’s stronger than their brains, and they end up shuffling around and moaning without…
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Coming March 16th:  The editor and publisher of the Arcane and Space Eldritch anthologies now presents you with seventeen of his own short stories. From post-apocalyptic communities to existential wastelands, from black comedy to dark absurdism, from visceral shock to Lovecraftian dread, the seventeen unsettling stories in this collection are guaranteed to ensnare your imagination.…
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One of the casualties of the server meltdown last year was the collected subscriber base for the Cold Fusion Mailing List. It’s now back up and running, so if you want to get notification in your email whenever Cold Fusion Media publishes a new book, go here!

Of the eight reviews of Shared Nightmares on Amazon, five of them give it five stars. I’m not really big on blood and gore, and this was not a slasher-type collection of stories. Yes, there’s some violence, but I didn’t find it overly graphic, and the fear factor in this collection is mostly psychological (in…
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Cold Fusion Media will have a dealers table at Salt Lake Comic Con today, tomorrow and Saturday. Come by, say hi, and browse our wares! SLCC is also a terrific occasion to see (and get autographs from) many authors involved in previous Cold Fusion Media books, including Larry Correia, D.J Butler, Paul Genesse, Michaelbrent Collings,…
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We are so hungry. A man gets up from his bed; it’s a small apartment in Manhattan—one kitchen, one bathroom, and one bedroom shared between two roommates. The walls are hung with posters of women and motorcycles, and the floor and table are littered with old food wrappers, cans of soda pop and beer, and…
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It’s morning. Before dawn. You like to get to the lake early, when its surface is a broad mirror. Glassy smooth. The air is chill, but you like that, too. It feels like anticipation. A whole new day is ahead. And you enjoy the way the lake fogs appear and eventually lift when the sun…
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She looks like one of Sedgwick’s neo-fey things, you know? Reptilian humanoid, digitigrade legs, smooth scales like a snake, and just as sexy as those elves that Wilson designed. Lithe, graceful, and dressed in a white half-tee and skin-tight black compression shorts. Oh, and she’s got a knife in one hand. Anyway, she’s brand new,…
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