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The personal blog of John Goodrich, including, but not limited to kaiju film and comics involving swamp creatures.

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John Goodrich

John Goodrich: Vermont; I write horror, science fiction, fantasy, and literary criticism. I love kaiju films, comic-book swamp monsters, and semiotics.

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Free to Read

“Champagne”
Second place at the Horror World gross-out contest 4/15/07
Free to read at qusoor.com

Published

“Arkham Rain”
Sold to Arkham Tales, 6/12/05
Pub—8/2006
YBF&H Honorable Mention 2007

“Captains of Industry”
Sold to Cthulhu’s Dark Cults 6/9/06
Pub— 6/2010

"The Dark Horse"
Sub–Dark Rites of Cthulhu, 11/15/2013
Sold—2/12/2014
Pub— 5/5/2014

“Death on the American Family Farm”
Sub to Clock In, Clock Out 12/6/07
Rej—1/22/08 Form
Sub—Dark Recesses Magazine 4/5/08
Rej—8/7/08 personal
Sub—Space and Time 10/7/08
Rej-10/7/08 form
Sub — Scrybe Press 12/4/2008
Sub-GUD Magazine, 5/3/09
Rej-5/6/09 form
Sub—Living Dead Press 5/15/09
Sold—to The Book of the Dead at Living Dead Press 5/18/09
Pub—7/15/09

“God of Chickens”
Rej—Clarkesworld 6/5/07 (personal)
Rej—Chizine 7/31/07 (form)
Sub—Dark Faith 9/28/09
Rej—11/7/09 (form)
Sub—Midnight Echo #5 3/28/10
Sold—11/24/2010
Pub— 3/1/2011

"In the Temple of Millions of Years"
Sub–Undead & Unbound
Sold—11/7/11
Pub—8/12/2013

"The Masked Messenger"
With David Conyers
Sub 2/16/08 – Nyarlathotep, Visages of the Void
Anthology dropped
Sub 10/1/09 Dead but Dreaming 2
Rej—11/7/09
Sub—Black Static 1/4/10
Rej—3/13/10 Form
Sold—12/13/2010 Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
Pub— 2/1/2011
BHOY Honorable Mention 2011
Reprint 2/2013 The Lovecraft E-Zine

“N is for Neville”
Rej—Nyarlathotep anthology 10/19/07
Sub–Terrible Beauty 10/24/07
Rej—6/3/08, Form
Query-LENG 7/4/08–unanswered
Sub—Black Static Magazine 8/12/08
Rej—11/18/08, Form
Sub—Dark Faith 8/7/09
Rej—9/25/09, form
Sub—Pseudopod 9/28/09
Rej—11/22/09, personal
Sub—Dead but Dreaming II 1/5/10
Sold—1/1/11
Pub—6/27/11

"The Neighbors Upstairs"
Sub–Urban Cthulhu; Nightmare Cities 4/1/2011
Sold—5/17/11
Pub—4/2012

"Nickolaus Passionate and the Children of Ereshkigal"
Sub—8/15/14 Lake Fossil II
Sold—10/6/14
Pub—2/2015

"Not an Ulcer"
"Sire" Placed in The King in Yellow #2
Published 8/19/07
Sub: Unspeakble Horrors, 10/25/07
Revision request 1/4/08
Renamed "Tatterdemalion"
Rej — 2/26/08 personal
Renamed "Not an Ulcer"
Sub—Shroud Magazine 5/29/08
Rej — 9/25/08 form
Sub- Space and Time 10/29/08
Rej—10/30/08
Sub-New Genre 12/1/08
Rej—7/28/09
Sub-Weird Tales 7/28/09
Rej—11/15/09
Sub—NEHW Anthology 5/24/11
Sold—6/18/11
Pub—11/2011

“Odd Grimsson, Called Half-Troll”
Sub—High Seas Cthulhu 2 11/8/09
No response
Sub— NEHW Anthology 11/25/14
Sold—1/19/15
Pub—6/2015

"Pain Wears No Mask"
Sub 5/17/2012—Steampunk Cthulhu
Sold—8/8/2012
Pub—7/2014

“The Patriot”
Sold to Cthulhu Express, pub 9/06
OP 2/9/07
Sold to Cthulhu Unbound, 10/11/07
Pub—3/30/2009
BHOY Honorable Mention 2010

"A Poor Sinner's Hands"
Sub—Atomic Age Cthulhu 10/31/2012
Rej—11/29/12 personal
Sub—Anthology 2013 3/14/2013
Sold—7/8/2013

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