The Kickstarter for Welcome to Miskatonic University has launched! These are modern tales from that most iconic of strange and magical New England institutions, Miskatonic University. In the third of our anthologies exploring a more modern Cthulhu Mythos, this time we're telling tales where it intersects with modern small town life and academics.

This will create a minimum of one anthology, but there were so many great stories that there's a second anthology, It Came from Miskatonic University, right behind it to unlock. And additional goodies, like My Miskatonic, a guidebook to Arkham and the university. So many wonderful contributors, you're bound to already know some but also to find new favorites. You can even have your likeness turned into a portrait illustration by artist Yves Tourigny. Plus there're stickers, posters, buttons, squid hats, critiques, hand-bound special editions, and maybe even another open call.

Authors in Welcome to Miskatonic University:

•     Marcus Chan, "Like Candles in a Passing Breeze"
•     Elliot Cooper, "The Needle’s Eye of Nothingness"
•     Kristi DeMeester, "The Long Hour"
•     Scott R. Jones, "The Steeplechase"
•     Brenda Kezar, "Wyrd Science"
•     Gwendolyn Kiste, "A Lost Student’s Handbook for Surviving the Abyss"
•     K.G. McAbee, "The Official Inquiry into the Waite-Gilman-Carter Antarctic Expedition Sponsored by Miskatonic University and the Unfortunate Conclusion Thereof"
•     Bennett North, "Glory Night"
•     Brandon O'Brien, "Some Muses Are Not Gentle"
•     Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., "Beyond the Surface"
•     Liz Schriftsteller, "Through Cryptic Caverns, the Shoggoths Come at Night"
•     Nate Southard, "Something Beautiful"

Authors in It Came from Miskatonic University:

•     Dani Atkinson, "Between the Holes"
•     Mary Berman, "Ordinary People"
•     Jennifer Brozek, "The Librarian's Handbook"
•     Jacqueline Bryk, "Gills"
•     Richard Lee Byers, "Student Body"
•     S.L. Edwards, "Office Hours and After"
•     Lynne Hardy, "Identity Crisis"
•     David Kammerzelt, "Intermediate Yithian"
•     Tonya Liburd, "Fear of a Black Planet"
•     Matt Maxwell, "The Kingdom of Is"
•     Chuck Regan, "The Secret Trials of Jared Bloom"
•     Angela Slatter, "Reading Off the Curriculum"
•     Oliver Smith, "Mowbray’s Museum"
•     Dawn Vogel, "Hashtag TPE"

And Michael Bukowski did the amazing cover illustration. (Authors are listed alphabetically. The final TOC is still to be determined.)

As we move along in the campaign, I'll be interviewing our creative partners and showing off their work and unveiling new possible designs (whether for stickers or bookmarks or buttons or even new covers or maybe even hats!) and even explaining why I decided to split the stories into two anthologies. I'll also be giving a taste of what it's like building an anthology and show you a little of the behind-the-scenes work.

If you've enjoyed one of our previous anthologies (or other books!) or are just curious about what's going on, I hope you'll go check out what we're building and even become a part of it.


>>COME SEE our Kickstarter - Welcome to Miskatonic University from Broken Eye Books

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557256029/welcome-to-miskatonic-university-an-anthology/

Broken Eye Books is publishing the serial Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars by Lucy A. Snyder, continuing where the author left off in her contribution to Ride the Star Wind (our Lovecraftian space opera anthology). Publishers Weekly described Snyder's short story as "superbly creepy."

This serial chronicles the adventures of Beatrice Muñoz and Joe Jorgensen as they travel through space on their quest to find and annihilate the spawn of Azathoth. But as they fight to protect the Earth from the ancient horrors lurking in deep space, can they retain their humanity and sanity? Or will they ultimately become monsters more fearsome than the spawn they set out to destroy? And what if Azathoth isn't the only ancient malign god they have to face in the cold reaches of the cosmos?

"My original story referenced Frankenstein and 'Rappaccini's Daughter' in addition to the Cthulhu Mythos," Snyder says. "I'm planning to work with and update other themes from classic weird fiction. And of course, the story will deliver on the space opera adventure, interstellar battles, and cosmic horrors that my Ride The Star Wind story promised. I'm also going to make good use of the space science I learned at the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop last summer. 

"I personally love narratives that blend science fiction and horror. My goal for this novel is to create an immersive world and character-driven story that satisfies fans of both genres, and I hope my readers enjoy it."

The story begins February 2018 in Eyedolon Magazine with the reprint of the story that started it all.

Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of ten books and about 100 published short stories. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, and Best Horror of the Year. She lives in Ohio and is faculty in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com and you can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder. She is also creating content at www.patreon.com/LucyASnyder.

Broken Eye Books is an independent press, here to bring you the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction. Our stories tend to blend genres, highlighting the weird and blurring its boundaries with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.