Both collections are available as trade paperbacks from Cemetery Dance Publications, with eBooks available at Amazon. Keep reading for descriptions of each book:

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In the Porches of My Ears (trade paperback; eBook)

LEAN CLOSER. Let these stories whisper poison into your ears.

This debut full-length collection from Norman Prentiss opens with the Bram Stoker Award-winning title story, where an overheard conversation in a movie theater has unexpected effects on a couple’s relationship.

In other unsettling tales: suffer the consequences of an ill-timed Halloween prank; encounter strange creatures in the woods or in an airport waiting room; visit an abandoned amusement park or a secluded town of oddly shaped inhabitants; confront a sinister murderer who seems to be everywhere at once, or meet a man who simply can’t be bothered to die.

The collection concludes with “Four Legs in the Morning,” the first appearance of Dr. Sibley, a mysterious college professor who enacts revenge on those who defy or disappoint him; and the full-text of the Stoker-winning novella, “Invisible Fences.”

“Prentiss’s understated style works excellently for the subject matter—there’s a creeping menace under many of his stories that worms its way beneath the reader’s skin before it can even be noticed. Weird fiction readers will find a lot to love here.” —Publishers Weekly

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The Apocalypse-a-Day Desk Calendar (Omnibus Edition) — (trade paperback 666 pages!! ; ebook)

In this eclectic assortment of flash fiction, Bram Stoker Award-winner Norman Prentiss concocts a different end-of-the-world scenario for each calendar day. The stories range from humorous to bizarre to unsettling, commemorating holiday and observance days (New Year’s or Valentine’s Day, National Pig Day), famous birthdays (Robert Frost, Charles Dickens), or notable historical events (the first computer…and the first computer virus; the sinking of the Titanic or the Great Chicago Fire).

Other daily entries include a riff on the first (and only) golf game on the moon; “The Milking of Elm Farm Ollie,” which reinvigorates an in-flight publicity stunt by adding apocalyptic results; and occasional letters from the sardonic “Dear Apocalypse” advice column. A handful of longer, serialized stories include: “The Hell of Food That Looks Like Other Food,” “The Exterminator’s Visit,” and “The Child Who Ended the World.” This massive collection includes all 365 entries from an ambitious yearlong project: more than 170,000 words of bleak or humorous vignettes, stories, serials, poems, and a few unclassifiable oddities—ready to be sampled in small doses just like the pages of those desk calendars you buy for 50%-off in February…or available all at once for your immediate binge-reading pleasure!

The trade edition includes dozens of illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, perfectly complementing the horror or gruesome humor as the apocalyptic year unfolds.