Joshua Skye
Biography
Joshua Skye is the author of the fantasy adventure, "Xerxes Canyon." He works primarily within the horror, fantasy, and erotica genres, often combining elements from each. His short stories appear in anthologies from STARbooks Press, As Publications, and Knightwatch Press. His work has also appeared in periodicals such as Blood and Lullabies.
He lives in rural Pennsylvania with his partner of fifteen years, Ray, and their seven-year-old son, Syrian. They share a historic Folk Victorian home with their pets Gypsy, Gizmo, and Bella, as well as a few spiders and ghosts.
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Books
The Theft of Dorian Gray
by Joshua Skye
Price: $4.99 USD. 33370 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on May 6, 2013. Fiction.
In an alternative Victorian London, Frederick steals Oscar Wilde’s Writer's Tackle containing his latest masterpiece. With rentboy Basil, Wilde must retrieve his tackle and his manuscript. But when Basil sees Frederick, he recognises the man. Only his name isn't Frederick. It's Dorian Gray.
Jordan's Folly
by Joshua Skye
Price: $1.99 USD. 3370 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on April 15, 2013. Fiction.
Jordan isn't having a good evening. For starters, there's a terrible storm raging outside. Then, the prank he played on his mother backfired. Now she's dead. All alone, Jordan knows something terrible is after him. This chilling tale pokes at one of our most primal fears. Not for the faint of heart!
Walls of White
by Joshua Skye
Price: $3.99 USD. 16760 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on March 31, 2013. Fiction.
When Chris moves to an old part of town, strange things begin to happen. There is a presence in his new place that plays tricks and stalks him wherever he goes. And it is jealous. When Chris takes a lover, the situation escalates. Can he discover what -- or who -- is haunting him?
Shirley
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 6800 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on March 18, 2013. Fiction.
Dark family secrets and supernatural terrors collide in this nightmarish tale of treachery, abuse, and abduction. Plagued by haunting voices and lurid memories, one young man must confront the terrible truth behind a lifetime of cruelty.
Matilda & Dusti
by Joshua Skye
Price: $4.99 USD. 30340 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on March 4, 2013. Fiction.
Matilda and her service dog Dusti share a special bond, but her psychic abilities don’t stop there. She is a spiritual advisor. Among her clients is a conspiracy theorist who claims to have stumbled upon a terrifying secret. Now she and Dusti find themselves targets of a deadly cover-up.
The Dallamano
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 5720 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on February 18, 2013. Fiction.
The Dallamano is managed by Jeanne Curtis, a lonely middle-aged woman content in the dreary life she’s made with her cats and late-night television. But her dull life changes when former beauty queen Dorothy Creek movies in. Passions stir in Jeanne and the ghosts of The Dallamano awaken.
The Argento
by Joshua Skye
Price: $5.99 USD. 54180 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on February 5, 2013. Fiction.
Beautiful transgendered Camilla’s lifelong obsession with the Italian architect Giuseppe Soavi brings her to his masterpiece The Argento, a twenty-story residential building in Manhattan. But evil festers in the shadowy halls and rooms, and will stop at nothing to take back what it calls its own.
The Sinkhole
by Joshua Skye
Price: $1.99 USD. 3710 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on January 22, 2013. Fiction.
Beatty Field used to be a strawberry farm, but it collapsed into a massive sinkhole. My wife drowned in that sinkhole, and I was left with alone with our daughter, Sylvia. As Sylvia withdrew from me, we seemed to have nothing to say to each another until the night we crashed in the sinkhole.
Once Upon a Christmas Evil
by Joshua Skye
Price: $4.99 USD. 31670 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on December 22, 2012. Fiction.
As a child, Mackenzie had a terrifying encounter on Christmas Eve. Ten years later, he’s made a home with his boyfriend in a quiet neighborhood. He has special plans for the holiday. He’s going to propose to the love of his life. But the nightmare from his past has found him.
Rainbow Crush
by Joshua Skye
Price: $1.99 USD. 4860 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on November 26, 2012. Fiction.
I was utterly fascinated by the Rainbow Family, a generation of nomadic hippies who camped out in the national forest. Like most people, I watched them from afar. I never imagined I would be welcomed into their fold and swept into the surreal intensity of first love.
The Piper and the Paladin
by Joshua Skye
Price: $1.99 USD. 4700 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on October 31, 2012. Fiction.
In the dead of a winter’s night, two profoundly different men get together and retreat to a labyrinthine abode. But their intensely sexual encounter is only the beginning. The Piper and the Paladinis a unique take on the superhero tale, dark, sinister, and extremely erotic.
Paroisse de l'Araignee
by Joshua Skye
Price: $3.99 USD. 15600 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on October 1, 2012. Fiction.
Etienne grew up in the putrid ruins of an antebellum manor, the son of eternally bickering drunkards. One day be meets an outgoing. crimson-haired stranger. and his tedious little world changes. An unexpected love blooms between them. but unimaginable forces threaten to tear them apart.
The Fabric Within
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 7540 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on September 25, 2012. Fiction.
Outsiders Jordan and Michael seek a path into the dark mysteries of magic and demonic incantation. It’s a fascination they regret when, one night, they call something terrible out of the ether, something that desires them, hungers for them!
Sacrament
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 6410 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on September 10, 2012. Fiction.
A former soldier chases away the nightmares of war with bottles of booze and a make-believe love affair with a prostitute he calls Rose, but who doesn’t know about his amorous obsession. And neither knows just how entwined their destinies might be.
Matriz de Madre
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 7640 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on August 27, 2012. Fiction.
Matriz de Madre is a cold, unforgiving world, a Catholic orphanage teetering on the precipice of an Appalachian mountain top. It is a world of secrets, perversions, and unspeakable abuse. For one young man, it might just become his unholy prison.
A Shade of Death
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 5300 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on August 13, 2012. Fiction.
Little Timmy likes the night. He likes to roam its shadowy world. But one dreary evening he comes face-to-face with the most frightening and fascinating creature of all, an imposing being with a dread purpose. Death has come for a visit and nothing will ever be the same.
The Devil's in the Details
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 5530 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on August 7, 2012. Fiction.
Michael is the custodian of a decaying building in downtown Pittsburgh. It's a lonely, tedious occupation but one that suits him perfectly. But as he discovers the devious nature of the building’s new tenant, his calm, organized world comes crumbling down.
Sin
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 8230 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on July 24, 2012. Fiction.
Dorothy lived a reclusive life in a small, conservative town. Withdrawn and closeted, she suppressed her paranormal abilities as well as the forbidden love for her best friend, Ida. But her unearthly gifts resurface and her long dead brother returns when something sinister has Dorothy in its sights.
The Kiss
by Joshua Skye
Price: $1.99 USD. 2610 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on June 27, 2012. Fiction.
Billy, shy and introverted, is caught by his mother kissing one of the most popular boys in school. She overreacts and throws her son out of her house. After neighbors intervene and the cops arrive, tragedy strikes.
Old Red
by Joshua Skye
Price: $2.99 USD. 5720 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on June 12, 2012. Fiction.
A lonely convenience clerk impulsively agrees to go out with a handsome young party boy to a rave at the famous Old Red courthouse. It becomes a night of trepidation, excitement, adventure, and sex. It’s a night he will never, ever forget!
The Singing Wind
by Joshua Skye
Price: $6.99 USD. 70930 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on May 30, 2012. Fiction.
Through a tapestry of Native American folklore, alien agendas, and gruesome conspiracies, the mystic and the terrifying will converge in the Appalachian Mountains. Spiritual totems battle with Star Beings, taking lovers Liam and Jeremy on a voyage where dream and reality converge.
Spider Boy
by Joshua Skye
Price: $1.99 USD. 4240 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on April 30, 2012. Fiction.
To reprieve his small town suffering David engages in secretive sex acts with strangers. More than just a break from the tedium or a mere vocation, there’s something he needs in it. One night while in the company of a particularly unusual stranger David’s world will take an unexpected turn.
Solomon's Ride
by Joshua Skye
Price: $1.99 USD. 4790 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on April 20, 2012. Fiction.
He’s a 1969 Ford Mustang, The Imitable Boss 429, and his name is Solomon. Benjamin can’t resist the temptation of owning the sleek, seductive vehicle and, once behind the wheel, the vibrating sex machine seduces him completely.
Midtown Spa
by Joshua Skye
Price: $1.99 USD. 3490 words.
Published by JMS Books LLC on March 20, 2012. Fiction.
It was his first trip to a sex club. Apprehensive yet aroused, he explored its inner depths and sordid offerings. From the sights, smells and sounds of sex to the sweet, summoning unease he was utterly fascinated by the place. But just as he surrendered himself to the pleasures that could be found he also realized that sometimes men aren’t quite what they seem.
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