Dennis
Latham
An excerpt from one of Dennis's newest novella was accepted for publication in June 2006 by Hellbound Books and will be included in a collection titled DeathGrip: Exit Laughing.
Dennis's latest novel, The Bad Season, has been published by Clocktower Books and is on the best-seller list for horror on fictionwise.com.
Dennis Latham has been called either a nut or a comic genius. He thinks either definition fits his personality.
"I'm like the insane relative mumbling in the corner during family gatherings," he says. "After the Marine Corps in Vietnam, I've tried not to worry too much about anything life can toss my way."
His novels, Michael In Hell, The Bad Season and Driving With Ace are currently published by Clocktower Books on fictionwise.com along with reprints of several short stories.
A novella The Gambler, a Dog, and the Demons taken from his novel in progress The Lord Of Homicides has sold to Hellbound Books for Death Grip: Exit Laughing to be released in November 2005.
Sudden Victims, a story collection, will be published by Hellbound Books in March of 2007. He also writes a monthly bizarre humor column Ask The Smart Guy for Far Sector Magazine.
For the last decade has written a bi-monthly newsletter for combat veterans, The S-2Report, dealing with VA benefits and the psychological affect of war.
He has been among other things an ironworker, a bar bouncer, bodyguard, horse handicapper, and a lead singer in a professional road band. He has a BA in English from the University of Cincinnati and currently shares a Victorian house in Indiana with his wife, a world class chef, and several cranky ghosts.
sci-fi/fantasy, horror, military/techno, sports.
In June of 1995, a dozen people were slaughtered in a rural Kentucky valley. Locals avoided the Owenton Hollow after dark during certain summers known as "the bad season." They buried the dead and kept the events secret so the media would not invade their county, which had become a prime marijuana source. By 1995, several outsiders had built houses on the rim of the hollow. The DEA had also decided to enforce drug laws in the county. None were aware of the danger they faced. Based on fact and myth, this novel is a fictional account of what occurred. |
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