Aaron Polson


Biography

Aaron Polson currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife, two sons, and a tattooed rabbit. During the day, Aaron works as a mild-mannered high school English teacher. His stories have been reprinted in The Best of Every Day Fiction 2009 and 2010, listed as a recommended read by Tangent Online, received honorable mention in the storySouth Million Writers Award and Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year. Aaron prefers ketchup with his beans.

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Books

The Undead: 13 Stories    by Aaron Polson
Price: $2.99 USD. 32710 words. Published on December 5, 2011. Fiction.

They crawl from their graves, they moan, they stumble, they hunger for living flesh... Here are thirteen gut-munching takes on zombies and undead ghouls from horror writer Aaron Polson. Several collected stories previously appeared in anthologies and magazines, including "The Way of Things in Fly-Over Country" in The Best New Zombie Tales, vol. 3, edited by James Roy Daley.
Write Hard: Prompts, Prods, and Pep-Talks for Writers    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 8810 words. Published on December 5, 2011. Nonfiction.

Nobody said writing fiction was going to be easy. Take chances, make the courageous, daring choice. Write hard. No one wants to read another version of what's come before. No one wants the same thing, warmed over, and served cold. This is a time to be bold and foolish with your writing; you just might like the outcome.
Small Magic: Collected Short Stories    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 35360 words. Published on October 5, 2011. Fiction.

0.25 star(4.14 from 7 reviews)
"Polson is a master of the flash fiction form..." - A Story a Day Keeps the Boredom Away Small Magic collects 73 stories, quick jabs of less than one-thousand words each which draw blood. Love, horror, fantasy, crime, magical realism, science fiction... Small Magic has a little bit of everything.
EG Tale    by Aaron Polson
Price: Free! 50300 words. Published on September 29, 2011. Essay.

A dumb story about guys.
Spider and I: The Story of a Boy and His Vampire    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 15680 words. Published on September 9, 2011. Fiction.

Jack wants nothing more than a normal life after his parents' untimely deaths. He bounces from foster home to foster home, haunted at each stop by a monster he thinks of only as "the shadow man". As Jack grows older, he learns "the shadow man" isn't the only monster in his life...
A Feast of Flesh: Tales of Zombies, Monsters, and Demons    by Aaron Polson
Price: Free! 24350 words. Published on August 19, 2011. Fiction.

0.25 star(4.33 from 3 reviews)
Tales of undead fiends, bloodthirsty monsters, and hideous nightmare-ghouls waiting to rend and tear human flesh...
Thirteen Shadows: Ghost Stories    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 30100 words. Published on June 4, 2011. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
A collection of thirteen ghost stories from Horror Writers Association member Aaron Polson. Some spirits are vengeful, others mere memories which destroy the lives of the living. Includes "The Ox-Cart Man", winner of the 2008 Whispering Spirits Flash Fiction contest, "The Sub-Basement", "Empty Vessels", and more. The stories range in length from flash fiction to 5,000 words.
Violent Bits: A Horror Sampler    by Aaron Polson
Price: Free! 2910 words. Published on April 13, 2011. Fiction.

A sampler of three dark stories with visceral bite taken from Violent Ends: Horror Stories.
Violent Ends: Horror Stories    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 27110 words. Published on April 4, 2011. Fiction.

A collection of eleven dark stories with visceral bite. Some are brutal. Others shocking. About the author: Aaron's stories have been reprinted in The Best of Every Day Fiction 2009 and 2010, listed as a recommended read by Tangent Online, received honorable mention in the storySouth Million Writers Award and Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year.
We are the Monsters    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 36280 words. Published on March 21, 2011. Fiction.

While cruising a dark country road late one Saturday night, five high school friends accidentally kill an old drunk. Hiding the body is easy. Lying about what happened is even easier. But lies have a way of breeding Monsters in Springdale, Kansas, and the Monsters have come to play.
Rock Gods and Scary Monsters    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 39000 words. Published on December 16, 2010. Fiction.

Before his uncle comes home from Iraq, high school senior Elliot Harris is poised to conquer the world as the next big Rock God. But Uncle Eli, Elliot’s guitar hero, returns from the war with deep physical and mental scars, shattering Elliot’s narrow vision of the future.
Loathsome, Dark and Deep    by Aaron Polson
Price: $2.99 USD. 67350 words. Published by Belfire Press  on December 14, 2010. Fiction.

After months of silence from the H&P Lumber and Pulp logging camp, strange raving madmen have wandered out of the woods. Henry Barlow hasn’t carried a gun since his wife’s brutal murder, a memory he drowns nightly with bourbon and whiskey. When reports of the strange goings on at the Lewis River camp reach H&P, they send Barlow and a small band of armed mercenaries upriver to investigate.
The Bottom Feeders and Other Stories Bonus Edition    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 43350 words. Published on April 2, 2010. Fiction.

A collection of 14 dark stories from Horror Writers Association member Aaron Polson. Witness hotels with shifting rooms...carnivorous beetles devouring a sleepy mountain town...vindictive spirits with beautiful eyes...an undead Marine on his return from Iraq...a pond full of restless dead in the title story, and more. Includes 4 tales not found in the free edition--two previously unpublished.
The Bottom Feeders and Other Stories    by Aaron Polson
Price: $0.99 USD. 30330 words. Published on April 2, 2010. Fiction.

0.75 star(4.80 from 5 reviews)
A collection of ten dark stories from Horror Writers Association member Aaron Polson. Witness hotels with shifting rooms...carnivorous beetles bent on devouring a sleepy mountain town...vindictive spirits with beautiful eyes...an undead Marine on his return from Iraq...a pond full of restless dead in the title story, and more.

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