Location: United States
Member Since: Jan. 06, 2011
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C. Dennis Moore


Biography

Bio: With over 60 publications including short stories, poetry, anthologies edited and appearing in, solo collections and his upcoming novel The Third Floor, as well as his long-standing personal website, C. Dennis Moore (http://www.cdennismoore.com/page1.php) is dedicated to showcasing horror fiction as literature. His most recent publications include Vile Things, The Horror Zine, Fiction365.com and Dark Highlands, with upcoming work in Our Haunted World and a novella, “Epoch Winter”, from The Drollerie Press. Many of his previously published stories are being made available again as ebooks for the Kindle at Smashwords.com (http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/cdennismoore) and his over-1000 reviews of horror novels and movies can be found at Epinions.com (http://www99.epinions.com/user-cdm72).

Where to find C. Dennis Moore online

Website: http://www.cdennismoore.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=tab_pro

Books

The Caterpillar    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 8360 words. Published on March 3, 2012. Fiction.
A shiftless loser gets more than he bargained for when he comes to stay with his cousin while he gets back on his feet.
Raw Materials    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 2940 words. Published on November 5, 2011. Fiction.
A wrong turn off the highway leads a man into a nightmare of survival in a town where they use every part of the animal.
Terrible Thrills: the short story    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 3260 words. Published on October 22, 2011. Fiction.
A free Halloween-themed story.
Illusion is a Synonym for Dream    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 4040 words. Published on September 13, 2011. Fiction.
If your entire life and everything you knew was just a dream, how would you know? And would you want to wake up?
Plaything    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 3670 words. Published on August 27, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Phillip Gordon is having a long, tiring night at work. But it only gets worse, and weirder, when he looks up from the break room table to see himself walking into the room.
The Legend of Mr. Cairo    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 2730 words. Published on August 24, 2011. Fiction.
Morghan Stanley thinks today is going to be just another typical day on the job--until the hammerblow to the head that knocks him unconscious. And then he wakes up bound in the basement, and the beautiful woman beside him tells him she's going to exorcise the demon living inside him.
The Son of Man    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 2990 words. Published on August 21, 2011. Fiction.
(2.00 from 2 reviews)
Three friends discover a very strange shape in the clouds one day. By the time they realize it's not only not going away, but seems to be growing, it's too late. And the refrain that keeps repeating in their heads, about seeing the Son of Man coming in the clouds, a phrase that's meant to instill hope in the faithful, only seems to foretell their doom.
In the Veins    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 3650 words. Published on August 20, 2011. Fiction.
A popular Halloween attraction is celebrating its final night in operation. But not everyone is excited to be there. One customer in particualr was dragged there by his girlfriend, and as the two descend deeper into the darkness, the walls begin to close in and claustrophobia, combined with being utterly lost in the dark, takes its toll on his already-stressed out mind.
Dancing on a Razorblade    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $1.99 USD. 32760 words. Published on May 29, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A collection of 6 previously published horror stories.
Blood Bitch    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 6280 words. Published on April 8, 2011. Fiction.
"Earliest mention of the Blood Bitch says she was born from an egg like a reptile. There's no mention of a parent or some cosmic event to lead to her birth, there's just the egg. Her story says she fell bloody and screaming to the rocks and that she lay there whining and trying to move, weak from the effort of birth."
Pink Jellybug Mink    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 920 words. Published on February 20, 2011. Fiction.
Five poems connected by a common theme of nonsense.
Maggie Andrews Gets the Facts    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 4730 words. Published on January 29, 2011. Fiction.
Journalist Maggie Andrews is about to get the scoop of a lifetime, and possibly save her career in the process. If the man who tells her he has the Devil locked away in his house is telling the truth, that is. This story also appears in the collection DANCING ON A RAZORBLADE, available at smashwords.com
Revenge of the Roach King    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 7510 words. Published on January 27, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Jerry's had a serious bug problem lately. It might have something to do with a heist gone wrong and a dead partner who had a few thousand silent partners of his own, and they want his share. This story also appears in the collection DANCING ON A RAZORBLADE, available at smashwords.com
Terrible Thrills    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $1.99 USD. 48730 words. Published on January 25, 2011. Fiction.
This is my first collection of short fiction, originally published in 2005 by Silver Lake Publishing. This collection has been out of print for a few years, but I'm happy to bring it back finally as I think there are some really great stories in here.
Coming Down the Mountain    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 2470 words. Published on January 25, 2011. Fiction.
A group of explorers seeking the ancient Greek gods atop Mount Olympus find what they're looking for...and more. Also available, along with 24 other short stories, in my collection TERRIBLE THRILLS.
Renovation    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 4190 words. Published on January 19, 2011. Fiction.
The house was making strange noises. Not the usual creaks and groans of settling. This sounded an awful lot like breathing. And then it spoke Jack's name. This story also appears in the collection DANCING ON A RAZORBLADE, available at smashwords.com
Camdigan    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 15650 words. Published on January 18, 2011. Fiction.
A wrong turn off the highway finds David lost in Camdigan, the town where the dead come to live.
The Long Ridge Stories    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 7550 words. Published on January 16, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Three reprints, originally written in the early 1990s, and connected by the theme of eternal life, the LongRidge Stories are really one story, in three parts.
Cuneiforms    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 4920 words. Published on January 14, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Four carpoolers on the way to work are distracted by a bus full of kids, all of whom look drugged. Intrigued, they follow the bus to an abandoned school where an ancient beast is revealed hidden in the painted diagrams of the playground. This story is also available, along with 5 other stories, in my collection DANCING ON A RAZORBLADE.
Short Stuff: 5 Stories    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 4860 words. Published on January 13, 2011. Fiction.
5 of my shortest stories, the longest one (the previously unpublished "Mr. Self Destruct") only 1260 words. One of them, "Preparations", was my first publication and was made into a short film which aired on Chiller TV in 2007.
Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: Free! 2520 words. Published on January 12, 2011. Fiction.
0.75 star(4.67 from 3 reviews)
Grady has a lot of compulsions. He always answers the phone on the third ring. He locks, unlocks, and re-locks his door every time he leaves the house. And he kills. But only if he can count right number of movie posters and light poles on the way to his target.
Icons to Ashes    by C. Dennis Moore
Price: $1.99 USD. 22380 words. Published on January 10, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
A collection of 6 vampire stories (3 of them previously published, 3 of them never published) in the vein of the traditional vampires we love and miss. No sunlight sparkling or vegetable eating here. These vampires are the real deal.

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C. Dennis Moore's favorite authors on Smashwords


Smashwords book reviews by C. Dennis Moore

  • The Tingles on Jan. 18, 2011
    star star star
    Despite some grammatical issues and way too much repetition of the character's name in such a short story (when "he" would have sufficed and not been so distracting), I liked the idea, and the ending was very unexpected.
  • Island Ghosts: A Will Castleton Adventure on Jan. 21, 2011
    star star star star
    Castleton is a great character, allowing Bain to show another side of himself I hadn't seen in previous writings. The end of this one is very well-done.
  • The Bone Tree on Feb. 03, 2011
    star star star star star
    Hands down the best Christopher Fulbright story I've read yet. This is a new level of craft for him and I'm even more eager now to see what's next.