Larry Atchley Jr. is a writer of primarily science fiction, fantasy, horror, and poetry. His other interests include Qi-Gong Kung Fu, British Humour, hiking, mountain biking, everything about tea, sword fencing, traditional archery, reading and collecting books, and playing harmonica and guitar. He is a crewmember of the piratical poetry and musical performance group The Seadog Slam and is frequently a guest author at various literary conventions and other events. He is a contributing author to Janet Morris’s Heroes in Hell series. You can read his blog, The Short Pale Writer in the Long Black Coat, at www.larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com.
Poets in Hell
The best, the worst, and ugliest bards in perdition vie for Satan’s favor as poets slam one another, Satan’s Fallen Angels smirk up their sleeves, and the illiterati have their day. Find out why the damned deserve their fates as Hell’s hacks sink to new poetical depths! The first Bible writer drafts a deal with the Devil. Attila the Hun learns his punishment’s just begun. Mary Shelley and Victor Frankenstein make a monstrous mistake. Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp get their unjust deserts. Hell’s Undertaker goes on holiday. The Damned Poets Society slams away. A nameless soul shows Dorothy Parker that fame is a bitch.
In the underworlds, injustice always reigns: Join us and our damnedest poets for the crookedest poetry festival in perdition where language comes to die and no rhyme goes unpunished.
Words – Chris Morris
Seven Against Hell – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Reunion – Nancy Asire
Hell-hounds – Bruce Durham
The Kid with No Name – Jack William Finley
All Hell to Pay – Deborah Koren
Poetic Injustice – Larry Atchley, Jr.
When You Gaze Into an Abyss – Matthew Kirshenblatt
Pride and Penance – Tom Barczak
Grand Slam – pdmac
Undertaker’s Holiday – Joe Bonadonna and Shebat Legion
Red Tail’s Corner – Yelle Hughes
Faust III – Richard Groller
Tapestry of Sorrows and Sighs – Bill Snider
Haiku d’État – Beth W. Patterson
A Mother’s Heart – Bill Barnhill
We the Furious – Joe Bonadonna
Damned Poets Society – Michael H. Hanson
All We Need of Hell – Michael A. Armstrong
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Dreamers in Hell
Seven million years on the New Hell Sinday Times bestseller list… The damned are revolting The underworld explodes with excitement as Satan himself rebels against forces from on high. Or does he? Dreams are dashed and strongholds topple as the greatest shared universe of all times convulses with mystery and mayhem. Shakespeare and Marlowe begin a new play to please the Devil…. Satan and Samael plot to expose the unrepentant damned… Before Napoleons eyes, Caesars villa explodes in chaos… Goethe finds out that hell is all around him… Isadora Duncan forgets that dreams can be hell… Hells librarian throws a bash and the damned party down… and down… and down… All over the netherworlds, worse comes to worst as Hells Most Unwanted try assaulting heavens gates and raise more hell than they bargained for….
Fools in Hell – Chris Morris
Alms For Oblivion – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
The Unholy Hole – Nancy Asire
Essence Helliance – Yelle Hughes
Barefoot, On Brimstone – Sara M. Harvey
Ophie and the Undertaker – Shebat Legion
Just Dessert – John Manning
Hell, I Must Be Going – Michael A. Ventrella
Head Games – Bill Snider
Blood and Ash – Tom Barczak
Hellexandria the Great – Sarah Hulcy
The Knife-Edged Bridge – David L. Burkhead
The Wager – Deborah Koren
More Light! – Bettina S. Meister
In the Shadow of Paradise – Jason Cordova
Zero Sum Game – Richard Groller
And the Truth Shall Set You Free – Jack William Finley
The ITTT – Michael H. Hanson
Siegfried’s Blade – Petra E. Jorns
Stairway to Heaven – Edward McKeown
Knocking on Heaven’s Gates – Larry Atchley, Jr.
Hell Bent – Janet Morris
Rogues in Hell
Hot on the heels of Lawyers in Hell, the New Hell Sinday Times bestseller, comes ROGUES IN HELL… The war heats up, Satan antes up, and rogues go adventuring as Hell’s landlord faces off with Heaven’s auditors. Veteran Hellions sin again and new writers fall from grace: Shirley Meier, Bradley H. Sinor, and Michael Z. Williamson.
Babe in Hell – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Which Way I Fly is Hell – Janet Morris
Downtown Run – Nancy Asire
Madly Meeting Logically – Michael A. Armstrong
Library Redux – Sarah Hulcy
A Hatful of Dynamite – Deborah Koren
Colony – Bruce Durham
Searcher – Edward McKeown
The Miraculous Roadside Attraction – Jack William Finley
BDA – Richard Groller
Hell Road Truckers – Michael H. Hanson
If Necessary – Bradley H. Sinor
Pursued by the Tauwu – Shirley Meier
Ragnarok & Roll – Larry Atchley, Jr.
Scent of a Weapon – Bill Snider
Showdown at Brimstone Arsenal – John Manning
The Place of Fear – David L. Burkhead
Chasing the Key – H. David Blalock
A Hard Day at The Office – Michael Z. Williamson
An Unholy Grail – Julie Cochraine
Battle of Tartaros – Chris Morris
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Lawyers in Hell
Heaven lays down the law and Hell gets more hellish as the greatest shared universe of all time makes its malevolent return. Souls you hate to love and souls you love to hate reunite for Lawyers in Hell, in twenty-two infernal tales from the underworlds, where Injustice must be served.
Story list:
Interview with the Devil – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Tribe of Hell – Janet Morris
The Rapture Elevator – Michael Armstrong
Out of Court Settlement – C.J. Cherryh
Revolutionary Justice – Leo Champion
Tale of a Tail – Nancy Asire
And Injustice For All – Jason Cordova
Measure of a Man – Deborah Koren
The Adjudication of Hetty Green – Allan F. Gillbreath
Plains of Hell – Bruce Durham
The Register – Michael H. Hanson
Island out of Time – Richard Groller
Appellate Angel – Edward McKeown
With Enemies Like These – David L. Burkhead
The Dark Arts – Kimberly Richardson
Heads You Loose – Michael Z. Williamson
Check and Mate – Bradley H. Sinor
Disclaimer – John Manning
Orientation Day – Sarah Hulcy
Remember, Remember, Hell in November – Larry Atchley, Jr.
Theo Khthonios – Scott Oden
Erra and the Seven – Chris Morris
Pirates in Hell
The depths of hell chill the boldest sinner as damned souls learn why the deeper in hell you go, the colder it gets.
Twelve tales of piracy in the Heroes in Hell universe, created by Janet Morris and spun by Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Nancy Asire, Paul Freeman, Larry Atchley Jr, Rob Hinkle, Michael H. Hanson, Joe Bonadonna, Andrew P. Weston, S.E. Lindberg, and Jack William Finley.
Bitter Business – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Pieces of Hate – Andrew P. Weston
Evil Angel – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Who’s a Pirate Now? – Nancy Asire
Curse of the Pharaohs – S.E. Lindberg
Lir’s Children – Paul Freeman
Unholiest Grail – Larry Atchley, Jr.
The Bitter Taste of Hell’s Injustice – Jack William Finley
Serial Recall and Beautiful Tortures – Michael H. Hanson
Drink and the Devil – Rob Hinkle
The Pirates of Penance – Joe Bonadonna
Muse of Fire – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Hell Hounds (excerpt) – Andrew P. Weston
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