This book is one of my prides of LAKE FOSSIL PRESS -- seeing the authors coming in and kicking some ass, is proof why I love doing these anthologies. You will get a first look in the short story realm with a talented newcomer named Liam Davies, and then veterans of the small press Paul Haines and J.R. Cain. Later to the line up was Lida Broadhurst and Barbara Malenky. You want horror that is influenced by Stephen King this book delivers the scares and then some. This is what real horror is all about and it has something to say, you can figure that out when you pick up the pages of this one. I personally wrote the introduction for this bastard too. Mean as all hell, I make no apologies about looking for traditional horror and as a fan of the horror genre I love this book a lot.

I owe the line up a round of beer if they are old enough to drink. Ron Capshaw joined the ranks with this one along with half the line up from the first anthology. That rocks that they came back, and good to see Jane Timm Baxter showing the masses what she's really capable of before unleashing The Renegade. I knew what I wanted and the authors in this book knew it too, the book is for the fans by the fans. You have to be a fan of the horror genre as in the old school to really appreciate this book, the authors from the first showed they got some balls. And some of the stories in here proved just that.

Have fun guys and don't be afraid to start a literary mosh pit.I basically tell the authors before submitting to a TABLOID PURPOSES is to have a lot of fun with it. The line up from the first one had a lot of input of designing the second one, we weren't afraid to piss a few people here and there. To do a TABLOID PURPOSEs, you have to be an angry person to get it done.

I am relatively known as the angry young man in the industry these days, and with the spirit of Rod Serling showing in a lot of the authors I am proud of this book and the authors involved. What you get with the first TABLOID PURPOSES was a strong disassociation with how the horror genre is now, and wanted to bring back to what it was during the Lovecraft heyday as well as the Ray Bradbury years. I wanted to follow that same tradition with TABLOID PURPOSES II, and later with TABLOID PURPOSES III. TPII was more of the 'fuck you' to what was going on with the trends, Nicholas S. Mounts and Macey Baggett Wuesthoff (the two stars from the first anthology returned with the opening and closing stories. Macey's has the punch similar to my own story THE FANDOM WRITER. While Nick's story opened some doors for me to begin writing more Science Fiction works, I gave Macey a cameo in the third LAKE FOSSIL.

Nicholas will be making a cameo in some of my other Science Fiction titles that are now out. Authors I respect appear in the science fiction stories, while authors I can't stand will be appearing in the horror stories. TPII is by far the milestone of my editing career along with QUAKES AND STORMS: A NATURAL DISASTER ANTHOLOGY which four of the authors from TPII are in that one too meaning you're going to see works from Macey, Skinner, Bell, and Hallin in that one along with Erin Mackay and John Floyd.

So for me not to mention Quakes and Storms will be something hard to do especially talking of TABLOID PURPOSES, both are controversial anthologies but this one is more the middle finger of the anthologies out there now.

So with that being said, I will see some of you on TPIII. The third is not quite the size of the second one but bigger than the first already (at the time when I started but now it is bigger than TPII by about one hundred pages.)

Check out Evermore anthology featuring Ken Goldman if you want to see where Ken went right after being part of Chimeraworld and Tabloid Purposes II, and now he's coming back for TPIII with Gull Tender, a very dark story which revolves around the sport of Hockey with a nod to Hitchcock's The Birds.