Just so You Know I'm not Dead

✍ Scribed by Anonymous-9

• Publisher: Elaine Ash
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

JUST SO YOU KNOW I'M NOT DEAD contains three previously published shorts: "Triangulation" about an unusual love triangle gone very wrong, "2,984,000 Pounds of Pressure" about the best or worst day in the life of a gas company employee (you be the judge) who discovers a missing child, and "Dreaming Deep," a tribute to horror master H. P. Lovecraft set on a tugboat in Long Beach, California and featuring a sidetrip to Atascadero, the real-life penal asylum for the criminally insane.

TRIANGULATION
was chosen by editor Nick Mamatas to launch THE BIG CLICK magazine in March 2012 alongside crime-fiction greats Ken Bruen and Tom Piccirilli. Design by Jeremy Tolbert.

2,984,000 POUNDS OF PRESSURE
appeared in Crime Factory's first anthology THE FIRST SHIFT published by New Pulp Press; Keith Rawson, Cameron Ashley and Jimmy Callaway, editors. Duane Swierczynski, the author of FUN AND GAMES called the book, "audacious, innovative and downright twisted..."

DREAMING DEEP
belongs to the "weird fiction" and "cosmic horror" subgenres pioneered by H.P. Lovecraft who is highly regarded among the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. He died in poverty. This story is a tribute to Mr. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu mythos. Dreaming Deep was first published in HORROR FACTORY, A Crime factory Special Edition; Liam José, Jimmy Callaway and Cameron Ashley, editors; Nathanael Scott, illustrations; Matthew C. Funk is credited as "Helpful Spirit."

ABOUT ANONYMOUS-9: Listed as a one of the freshest, most inventive writers in crime fiction today, Anonymous-9 is named on many blogs and "Best of" lists year after year. She is the winner of Spinetingler Mag's Best Short Story on the Web, 2009, recipient of a 2012 Readers Choice Award from The House of Crime and Mystery, Canada and was on MYSTERYPEOPLE'S Top 5 Debut Novels of 2013. She has been nominated for 2 Thriller Awards sponsored by the International Thriller Writers and two Derringer Awards sponsored by The Short Mystery Fiction Society.