Dog Horn Publishing


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Dog Horn Publishing is a publisher dedicated to writing with bite. We are interested in writing that crosses genres, takes risks, challenges and electrifies.

Our efforts are split equally between publishing new and innovative writing in a variety of formats, and developing new and established talent across the world. We seek out the very best, most intoxicating, sharpest voices and give them the support and outlets they need to flourish.

Together, we hope to reinvigorate the landscape of contemporary literature and champion writing and reading for all.

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Bite Me, Robot Boy: The Dog Horn Prize for Literature Anthology    by Adam Lowe
Price: $5.99 USD. 72170 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Bite Me, Robot Boy is a seminal new anthology of poetry and fiction that showcases what Dog Horn Publishing does best: writing that takes risks, crosses boundaries and challenges expectations.
Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch    by Tom Bradley
Price: $5.99 USD. 41890 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Celebrated author Tom Bradley's latest short story collection, Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch, will take you to Hiroshima, Hindustan, an AIDS hospice, a leper colony and the Adriatic Sea on a joyride of equal parts hilarity and depravity.
Broken Symmetries    by Steve Redwood
Price: $5.99 USD. 82810 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Twenty-seven unique stories that stretch the meaning of 'eclectic', bound together in one forbidden tome for the first time
Women Writing the Weird    by Deb Hoag
Price: $5.99 USD. 65490 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Stories by Nancy A. Collins, Eugie Foster, Janice Lee, Rachel Kendall, Candy Caradoc, Mysty Unger, Roberta Lawson, Sara Genge, Gina Ranalli, Deb Hoag, C. M. Vernon, Aliette de Bodard, Caroline M. Yoachim, Flavia Testa, Aimee C. Amodio, Ann Hagman Cardinal, Rachel Turner, Wendy Jane Muzlanova, Katie Coyle, Helen Burke, Janis Butler Holm, J.S. Breukelaar, Carol Novack, Tantra Bensko and others.
The Bride Stripped Bare    by Rachel Kendall
Price: $5.99 USD. 40000 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Finally bound into one collection, twenty three stories of creation and mutation, introduced by Peter Tennant. From twisted fairy tales and grubby nights to circus freaks and insect bites, these tales of depravity reveal the bride in her most scabrous form.
Terror Scribes    by Adam Lowe
Price: $5.99 USD. 87820 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Terror Scribes is a satisfyingly diverse anthology, furnished with nebulous, original tales guaranteed to set your teeth on edge and give you bouts of gooseflesh.
Polluto 9 3/4 - Witchfinders vs The Evil Red    by Victoria Hooper
Price: $5.99 USD. 79800 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Join us as our all-American hero battles against the Reds within their midst. Zombies, magic, witch-hunts, spies, communists, boarding schools, supervillains and bad comic book tie-ins all lie in wait for our intrepid adventurer. Can he save the day before it’s too late?
New Cross-Fucked Musings on a Manic Reality    by Tom Bradley
Price: $5.99 USD. 71700 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Non-fiction from the enigmatic polygeneration.
Mechagnosis    by Douglas Thompson
Price: $5.99 USD. 43110 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Scott Malthrop is a murderer. His entire house is filled with an enormous device, “The Machine”, which transports him to different locations in space and time by feeding off his memories and sentimental trophies taken by Malthrop from his own past and that of his victims. When the quantum fabric begins to fray, a local police inspector and two angels begin to close in on the murderer's activities.
Queer and Loathing on the Yellow Brick Road    by Deb Hoag
Price: $5.99 USD. 73910 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Dorothy isn’t the happiest of girls. Kansas is pretty damn boring, her aunt and uncle are hicks, and it seems she doesn’t much belong. But when her shed gets picked up by a cyclone and dropped in Oz, things begin to get interesting.
Crashin' the Real    by Deb Hoag
Price: $5.99 USD. 47030 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

Armed with a Glock and a bottle of Jack, accompanied by her adventurous Grandma Rose, Eve starts on a cross-country trip to find her hero, Steven Tyler, and ask him to explain the meaning of life. Along the way, she escapes murderous circus performers, becomes a Girl Scout cookie and meets a Wild Man in a sharkskin suit.
A History of Sarcasm    by Frank Burton
Price: $5.99 USD. 46240 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on May 4, 2013. .

The seventeen stories in this collection blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed versions of reality. Among them: a man who insists on living his life in alphabetical order, a girl who believes she is receiving secret messages through the TV, a paranoiac who is pursued by an army of giant lobsters, and an academic werecat.
In the Mirror, a Monster    by Marten Weber
Price: $8.99 USD. 116940 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on January 15, 2013. .

Tim and Tim have been running a gay B&B in Edinburgh for three decades. Their relationship is characterised by kind love and deep trust. A handful of long-term lodgers give their old house a lively character. Into this B&B come two young men from Slovakia. But there is something strange about them. Soon the inhabitants must come to confront their own most difficult truths.
Rarity from the Hollow    by Robert Eggleton
Price: $5.99 USD. 101560 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on January 23, 2012. .

"Lacy Dawn’s father relives the Gulf War, her mother has lost her teeth, and her best friend is killed by her own father. But Lacy Dawn has one advantage—she’s been befrended by a semi-organic semi-robot (DotCom, alias Buddy) who works with her to ‘cure’ her parents. Buddy wants something in exchange, though. It’s up to Lacy Dawn to save the universe." --Books for a Buck
Cabala    by Adam Lowe
Price: $2.50 USD. 48980 words. Published by Dog Horn Publishing  on December 12, 2011. .

From gothic fairytale to humorous pop-culture satire, five of the North's top writers showcase the diversity of British talent that exists outside the country's capital and put their strange, funny, mythical landscapes firmly on the literary map.


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