The world is my oyster and I came to claim the fucking pearl
-- Carl Hose

Those are my words. The concept isn't original but the phrasing is. I appreciate every breath I take, I love my family and friends, and I make every day count. I'm married to a woman who is beautiful in every way, I have awesome kids, and my career is booming. I'm claiming the pearl. 

I am the author of the anthologies Deadtown and Other Tales of Horror Set in the Old West, Weird Horror and Other B-Grade Tales, Fematales Unleashed, Dead Horizon, the zombie novella Dead Rising, and the erotic anthology Pornocopia, all published by MARLvision Publishing.

My work has appeared in many horror anthologies and magazines, including Cold Storage (which I co-edited), Peep Show, Deathgrip: It Came from the Cinema, Deathgrip: Exit Laughing, Champagne Shivers, Tentacles, Butcher Knives and Body Counts, Through the Eyes of the Undead, Silver Moon, Bloody Bullets, Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes,  Writer's Journal and Lighthouse Digest magazine.

Special thanks to:
My wife Marcee for bringing love into my life
My kids, Nick, Haley, Seth, Ethan, and Caleb
My editor Patience Stuart for relentless editing
All of the readers who give me an audience
 - Carl Hose