Best New Horror 27 by Stephen Jones

Author:Stephen Jones [Jones, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: P S Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

KURT FAWVER

MARROWVALE

KURT FAWVER is a writer of horror, weird fiction and dark fantasy. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Aeons, the Lovecraft eZine, Weird Tales and Nightscript. He has also released one collection of short stories, Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, 2013), and his non-fiction has been published in periodicals such as Thinking Horror and the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Fawver holds a Ph.D. in literature and teaches at a large state university where, every semester, he tries to impart to his students the necessity of horror.

“The primary inspiration for my story was my hometown,” he explains, “which, like the eponymous ‘Marrowvale’, is an unassuming, slowly eroding backwater village nestled in central Pennsylvania. The people there are largely xenophobic and highly protective of their customs and culture—a culture that, above all else, revels in tromping about the wilderness (whether to hunt game, go camping, ride all-terrain vehicles, or hold alcohol-fuelled bonfire parties).

“Growing up, I always suspected that the people of my hometown were belligerent to outsiders because they were hiding some sort of deep, dark secret—maybe about themselves, maybe about their town. This secret would most naturally manifest itself in the wilderness and be latently (if not openly) hostile toward anything from the ‘outside’ world.

“‘Marrowvale’ provided an opportunity to glimpse such secrets, and to explore the uneasy insularity that binds together small, rural towns like the one I grew up in.”

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