Micah Castle

 Choose Your Own Horror FAQ Choose Your Own Horror #4 is upon us and everyone can vote! This one will be different than the previous iterations that I think will be more interesting as a reader and challenging as an author. Story will be told is second person (“You” instead of “I” and “he/she/they/them”) as though someone is talking to you. Two choices per entry from me, but a third as a…

Good morning! Mid-June and we just got a cold front and I’m relishing it after a week of humid high 80°s. It’ll be short lived I’m sure, but until then… Weightlifting is going steadily, increasing the weight no more than five pounds per week. Might be slower than necessary, but I rather not get a hernia. Plus, I’m weaker than I usually am, so any sort of ego lifting is out the window. Last…

Homecoming, a small town cult horror book, turns one today! It doesn’t feel it has been a whole year since it’s release, that’s for sure. The book was the kick-start to my self-publishing journey, the first release of my own imprint, Anhedonia Press, and the cover art aesthetic set the trend for future releases through the press. If it hadn’t been rejected after making the short list for the…

Good morning! We’re now into June proper and surprisingly it’s been colder thus far than it was in earlier months. Weird, but I’ll take it. Not much’s gone on with me personally since Updates #36, except that after four months of not weightlifting on doctor’s orders I finally had my first session yesterday. I’m going very slow because the fear of getting a hernia is high, it’s around a 50%…

Hello! As before, the last two weeks were gone as soon as they came. I didn’t realize it had passed until yesterday, as to why this is a few days late. Sorry! Besides the usual, I spent the week in the Pocconos in Pennsylvania with my wife’s family and my BIL’s family, totaling about eighteen people under one roof. Fortunately, the house was large enough to accommodate that many people, although…

“Rookie detective Dana Cauldwell is handed a cold case no one cares to solve: a string of “mercy killings” across the city. Her job is clear—reopen the wounds of the grieving families and hunt down the “Doctor” behind the needle. But as Dana digs into the investigation, her own life begins to fracture. Between a fellow officer determined to put her in her place and her mother’s questionable…

Hello! It’s like I blinked and two more weeks have gone by and, honestly, it’s been all a blur. Nothing notable happened besides a minuscule amount of health related issues and working overtime at my day job. In a week, the family will be going on vacation to the Poconos, so that should be nice. But, not to waste anymore time, let’s move onto something else. Continue reading Updates #35 — Two…

Choose Your Own Horror FAQ | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | The Story So Far But the bastard still tried to open the hatch. Que was thrown across the room, crashing into the wall as the Creature flew up to it. Its wraps like tattered wings dragging behind it, drifting in the orbit it seemingly created all its own. Que hit the floor and watched it dig its claws into the metal.…

Hello!It hasn’t been too exciting since the last update. Summer heat came (although we’re supposed to get snow Sunday?), skipping over spring. AC units were put in. Lawn mowed. Weeds pulled. The beginning of the cycle ‘till October, hopefully. Outside that, just been working, writing, and reading. So, let’s get into the interesting bits. Continue reading Updates #34 — Summer Snow

This idea of being a performer has been bouncing around in my head for a while, how artists cannot be just artists anymore. I’m going to talk specifically about authors since that’s what I am. I mean, some authors can survive on their work—it’s clearly possible, but they’re few and far between. Most cannot, having to perform primarily online for their audiences as well as attracts more people,…

Cult, small-town horror Homecoming and the techno-horror Inevitability books are releasing as audiobooks later this month through Haruspex Audio! Both narrated by Rain Corbyn, who was the narrator for the sci-fi horror book The World He Once Knew. You can listen to them for free before anyone else, by redeeming them through these links: Homecoming / Inevitability — there’s only 10 available…

I Dr. Josie O’Neil “What’re we going to do with her?” Sam, pacing, spat in the living room at night. She wore a maroon t-shirt and pajama bottoms. The news played on the TV, forgotten except for the soft din of the newscaster reiterating the Cold Zone had overtaken a large portion of the east coast. In the background, the Flower towered over the landscape like a god. Helicopters tread air…

The date on the dash read April 12. The blood filled glass jug in the back shook against the two dozen eggs rattling on the floor as Heather turned from one road to another. The tenderly wrapped bundle on the passenger seat was buckled in, unable to budge, move, as though it could. As the city disappeared in the rear view mirror and the passing woods outside turned to empty farmland, soaked…

Hello! Since the last update, the loathsome taste of summer has come to Western PA in combination with mandatory overtime at work and other things I prefer not to do as an adult, like more appointments, but here we are. In the past, the former wouldn’t have been such an issue since I would just suck it up, haul the AC units from the basement/attic and be done with it.  But now with the stoma, I…

Choose Your Own Horror FAQ | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | The Story So Far Derek had been given more chances than Que could count to stay alive, to not be stupid and get himself killed, and even though this time he attempted to save Que, he still felt like it was Derek’s fault for what he was about to say. “No,” he said, shaking his head. “You don’t need him.” “Well,” Derek said. “That…

Hello! Two weeks flew by and I don’t have much of an update this time around. Mainly just work, writing, reading, and playing the new World of Warcraft expansion with my wife when I can fit it in. Continue reading Updates #32 — Same Old, Same Old

A Home in the Darkness will be going out of print at the end of the month. The rights are reverting back to me, so it will be republished with a new cover through MCB/AP, but I don’t have a time frame as to when. It likely won’t be in KU either, but that’s undecided as of yet. So, if you haven’t checked out the book or if you’re a collector and want a paperback with this artwork, grab it…