James Chambers Online--Fiction


James Chambers is the author of more than 30 published short stories and novellas (listed below), as well as more than a dozen comic book scripts (pimarily for Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, The Midnight Hour, and "The Revenant" in Shadow House), and numerous articles about the comic book industry, which appeared in COMBO Magazine. CLICK HERE for a list of his comic book publications. "Against the Stars Themselves" The Black Book, January, 2003. "An Account of Two Deaths" Crypt-Critters (Volume 2). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007. "A Wandering Blackness" Lin Carter's Dr. Anton Zarnak, Occult Detective. Robert Price, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002 (Received Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Sixteenth Edition). "Corporeal Gains" R. Allen Leider's Hellfire Lounge, Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2009. "Crying Tears of Blood, Sweet Like Honey" Bare Bone # 9. Kevin L. Donihe, ed. Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2006. The Dead Bear Witness Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002 / Reprinted, The Dead Walk. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004. "The Dead in Their Masses" The Dead Walk Again. Vince Sneed, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007. "Derelict" Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009 (Deluxe Edition hardcover only). "The Devil, You Know" Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon. Lori Gentile, ed. Moonstone Books, 2009. "The Feeding Things" Cthulhu Sex # 23. Cthulhu Sex, February 2006. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "Five Points" Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "Gray Gulls Gyre" Dark Furies. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "Keeper of Beasts" Lin Carter's Dr. Anton Zarnak, Occult Detective. Robert Price, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. "The Kind Old Fellow" Sick: An Anthology of Illness. John Edward Lawson, ed. Baltimore, MD: Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2003. "Killer Eye" Breach the Hull. Mike McPhail, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2007. "The Last Stand of Black Danny O'Barry" Weird Trails. Michael Szymanski, ed. Lockport, NY: Triad Entertainment, 2002. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "Law of the Kuzzi" No Longer Dreams. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Baltimore, MD: Lite Circle Books, 2005. / Reprinted on SpaceWesterns.com, September 2007. "A Manifest Destiny, or the Testament of a Continental Regular" War Fear. Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. Paperback edition, 2008. The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. (w/ illustrator Jason Whitley). "Mosqueto" Crypt-Critters (Volume 1). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2006. Mooncat Jack Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "Picture Man" Bare Bone # 7. Kevin L. Donihe, ed. Raw Dog Screaming Press, May 2005. "Refugees" Allen K's Inhuman. Allen Koszowski, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004. (w/ Vince Sneed). / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "Resurrection House" The Dead Walk. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "The Roaches in the Walls" Hardboiled Cthulhu. James Ambeuhl, ed. Lake Orion: MI, Elder SIgns Press, 2006. "Sally Smiles" Bad-Ass Faeries. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2007. "Swamp Hoppers" Crypt-Critters (Volume 2). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009 (Deluxe Edition hardcover only). "The Tale of the Spanish Prisoner" WarFear. Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. Paperback edition, 2008. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "Trick" Mooncat Jack, Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002. / Reprinted, No Longer Dreams. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Baltimore, MD: Lite Circle Books, 2005. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009 "Unhallowed Ground, Unholy Flesh" Lost Worlds of Space and Time (Volume 1), Steven Lines, Ed., Calne, Wiltshire, UK: Rainfall Books, 2005. "Upon A Slender Stem" Hear Them Roar. CJ Henderson and Patrick Thomas, eds. Spyre, 2006 (Reissued: Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2008); originally published in The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. "Vicious Swimmers" Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. "War Movies " So It Begins. Mike McPhail, ed. Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2009. "The Way of the Bone" Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2008.
All contents © and ™ James Chambers or their respective publishers unless otherwise specified.

James Chambers is the author of more than 30 published short stories and novellas (listed below), as well as more than a dozen comic book scripts (pimarily for Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, The Midnight Hour, and "The Revenant" in Shadow House), and numerous articles about the comic book industry, which appeared in COMBO Magazine.

CLICK HERE for a list of his comic book publications.

"Against the Stars Themselves"
The Black Book, January, 2003.

"An Account of Two Deaths"
Crypt-Critters (Volume 2). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007.

"A Wandering Blackness"
Lin Carter's Dr. Anton Zarnak, Occult Detective. Robert Price, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002 (Received Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Sixteenth Edition).

"Corporeal Gains"
R. Allen Leider's Hellfire Lounge, Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2009.

"Crying Tears of Blood, Sweet Like Honey"
Bare Bone # 9. Kevin L. Donihe, ed. Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2006.

The Dead Bear Witness
Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002 / Reprinted, The Dead Walk. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004.

"The Dead in Their Masses"
The Dead Walk Again. Vince Sneed, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007.

"Derelict"
Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009 (Deluxe Edition hardcover only).

"The Devil, You Know"
Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon. Lori Gentile, ed. Moonstone Books, 2009.

"The Feeding Things"
Cthulhu Sex # 23. Cthulhu Sex, February 2006. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"Five Points"
Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"Gray Gulls Gyre"
Dark Furies. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"Keeper of Beasts"
Lin Carter's Dr. Anton Zarnak, Occult Detective. Robert Price, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002.

"The Kind Old Fellow"
Sick: An Anthology of Illness. John Edward Lawson, ed. Baltimore, MD: Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2003.

"Killer Eye"
Breach the Hull. Mike McPhail, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2007.

"The Last Stand of Black Danny O'Barry"
Weird Trails. Michael Szymanski, ed. Lockport, NY: Triad Entertainment, 2002. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"Law of the Kuzzi"
No Longer Dreams. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Baltimore, MD: Lite Circle Books, 2005. / Reprinted on SpaceWesterns.com, September 2007.

"A Manifest Destiny, or the Testament of a Continental Regular"
War Fear. Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. Paperback edition, 2008.

The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales
Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. (w/ illustrator Jason Whitley).

"Mosqueto"
Crypt-Critters (Volume 1). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2006.

Mooncat Jack
Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"Picture Man"
Bare Bone # 7. Kevin L. Donihe, ed. Raw Dog Screaming Press, May 2005.

"Refugees"
Allen K's Inhuman. Allen Koszowski, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004. (w/ Vince Sneed). / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"Resurrection House"
The Dead Walk. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"The Roaches in the Walls"
Hardboiled Cthulhu. James Ambeuhl, ed. Lake Orion: MI, Elder SIgns Press, 2006.

"Sally Smiles"
Bad-Ass Faeries. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2007.

"Swamp Hoppers"
Crypt-Critters (Volume 2). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009 (Deluxe Edition hardcover only).

"The Tale of the Spanish Prisoner"
WarFear. Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. Paperback edition, 2008. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"Trick"
Mooncat Jack, Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002. / Reprinted, No Longer Dreams. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Baltimore, MD: Lite Circle Books, 2005. / Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009

"Unhallowed Ground, Unholy Flesh"
Lost Worlds of Space and Time (Volume 1), Steven Lines, Ed., Calne, Wiltshire, UK: Rainfall Books, 2005.

"Upon A Slender Stem"
Hear Them Roar. CJ Henderson and Patrick Thomas, eds. Spyre, 2006 (Reissued: Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2008); originally published in The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales.

"Vicious Swimmers"
Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009.

"War Movies "
So It Begins. Mike McPhail, ed. Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2009.

"The Way of the Bone"
Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2008.