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Webster defines "obsession" as an "a persistent disturbing abnormal preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling."
Obsessions sometimes include a hobby or collection that has gotten out of hand. Other times an obsession can drive a person to invent something new, cure a disease or attempt to right a great wrong. And at other times, obsessing can send a person down a dark and disturbing path.
Obsessions can be healthy; can be born out of love and the desire to protect. They can stem from a need to fix something that is broken or replace something that is missing. But they can also be pervasive and disgusting, unhealthy and bizarre. They can be mild or quaint and eclectic, or they can be all-consuming and life altering.
These authors tackle the subject with all original genre-bending fiction:
- Ezekiel James Boston
- Stephen Couch
- Joe Cron
- Leah Cutter
- Dayle Dermatis
- Robert Jeschonek
- Kari Kilgore
- Michael Kingswood
- Kate Pavelle
- Annie Reed
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Leigh Saunders
- Rebecca M. Senese
- Dean Wesley Smith
- David Stier
- Julie Strauss
Stories curated by Mark Leslie, editor of Campus Chills, North of Infinity II, Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound and multiple volumes in the Fiction River anthology series. Foreword by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Mark Leslie
Mark Leslie has been afraid of the dark his entire life - and has spent most of it writing about what lurks there. A writer, speaker and podcaster with more than thirty years in the Canadian book industry as a bookseller, bookstore manager and publishing representative, he turned his lifelong fascination with ghost stories into a body of paranormal nonfiction that includes Haunted Hamilton, Spooky Sudbury, Creepy Capital and Haunted Hospitals. In fiction he enjoys horror (One Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years) and urban fantasy (A Canadian Werewolf in New York). He grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, not far from the shores of Georgian Bay; lived in Hamilton, ON, for twenty years; and currently makes his home in Kitchener-Waterloo. The Great Lakes have never been far from his home, nor his imagination. Visit him at www.markleslie.ca
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Dean Wesley Smith
USA TODAY bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has published more than two hundred novels and hundreds of short stories across multiple genres. He has written approximately two dozen Star Trek novels, along with novels set in numerous gaming, film, and television worlds.
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