NAMED ONE OF THE TOP HORROR NOVELS OF 2023!!
"Dead Ends is a highly original and decidedly odd dark drama which encompasses small-town horror, paranoia, families in crisis, politics, gossip, social problems and a house which may or not be haunted. There is a lot of ambiguity in this perfectly pitched novel and it would undoubtedly have been much easier to write a story about an ‘evil’ house which infects or pollutes the area around it than the much subtler whispering and twitching drama Fitch delivers."
-- Horror DNA review by Tony Jones
"Dead Ends is a no-holds barred look at the modern world and the issues that boil under the surface of even a seemingly perfect neighborhood. Dead Ends is everyone's nightmare... It is brutal and shocking and everything that can be asked of a novel. I still cannot believe what I read."
BOY IN THE BOX
One of the best horror novels of 2020. Available at all major retailers!
"I doubt I will read many better horror novels in 2020. Box in the Box was a complete triumph and deserves to be very widely read, even beyond the horror genre." -- Tony Jones, Gingernuts of Horror
"Fitch spins isolation and paranoia into a frighteningly successful yarn." -- Publisher's Weekly
"This is what true horror is meant to be, quiet and thoughtful, an eerie sense of something lurking just ahead in your path with no way of escape; BOY IN THE BOX by Marc E. Fitch is the haunting guilt that reminds us mistakes from the past can return at any time, and in the worst of ways."
—Eric J. Guignard, award-winning author and editor, including That Which Grows Wild and A World of Horror
"Late in Marc Fitch’s book Boy in the Box, the protagonist says, “I don’t think we know what we’re dealing with here,” and so we head fearfully into the final 100 pages or so of a skillful exercise in horror one can’t help but compare to a masterpiece of the genre, Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.”
--Alec Cizak, editor, and author of Lake County Incidents, Breaking Glass and Manifesto Destination
IN THE PRESS
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That philosophical dichotomy that leads the lives of so many of us like a lighthouse in a cosmic storm is at the center Marc E. Fitch's lyrical and brooding detective novel Paradise Burns, an inspired but little known hardboiled thriller with horror influences I was lucky enough to stumble upon.
-Dead End Follies
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The men stare into the darkness of the forest and although nobody says anything, none are prepared to wander far from the safety of the cabin. I would have done the same, this place is terrifying. The supernatural element is handled subtlety and beautifully worked into a gripping story. Not everything is spelled out, but the writing is so skilled it does not need to be, with the reader looking between the lines for further answers or clues. This is an outstanding horror story where the sense of deep dread slowly tightens around the reader like slow strangulation. Unmissable.
--Horror DNA, Tony's Top Ten Horror Novels of 2020, Boy in the Box
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Fitch shows a subtle sympathy for religion in his comparisons between the legitimation rituals of old and the present. He’s not, however, condemning the pseudo-experts—his “shmexperts”—for running afoul of some other body of certain truths, though these may well exist. Rather, he is defending agnosticism, or what might better be called by the more old-fashioned word “humility,” against all the blustering pretense that we can calculate our way to confidence about everything from longevity to love to the precisely-numbered secrets of success.
-Splice Online, Shmexperts
BIO
Marc E. Fitch is the author of Paranormal Nation: Why America Need Ghosts, UFOs and Bigfoot and Shemexperts: How Power Politics and Ideology are Disguised as Science as well as the novels, Boy in the Box, Old Boone Blood, Paradise Burns and Dirty Water. He was 2014 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.
Marc lives and works in Connecticut and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Western Connecticut State University.
Other Reviews & Interviews
Horrorbound -- Boy in the Box
New York Journal of Books -- Boy in the Box
Grimdark Magazine -- Boy in the Box
Publisher's Weekly - Boy in the Box
Horror Novel Reviews - Paradise Burns
Dead End Follies - Paradise Burns
The Washington Free Beacon - Shmexperts
Splice Online - Shmexperts
Salvo Magazine - Shmexperts
Mav Skye Blog - Dirty Water
Horror Maiden Reviews - Paradise Burns
A. E. Siraki - Horror Library Vol. 6
Interview with 280 Steps - Dirty Water
Interview with Pulp Metal Magazine - Paradise Burns
Interview with Caravan to Midnight - Shmexperts
Interview with One Bite at a Time - Dirty Water
Interview with Stand For Truth Radio - Shmexperts
Interview on Bill Martinez Live - Shmexperts
Interview with Dark Sun Rising - Paranormal Nation
PUBLISHED FICTION
THE STARRY CROWN - Horror Library vol. 6, 2017
DEATH SENTENCE - Pulp Modern Magazine Vol. 2 Is. 1 2017
THE NAMELESS - The Big Book of Bootleg Horror Vol. 1 2017
CREATURES - Strange Beasties Anthology, Third Flatiron Press, 2017
THE ZBRUCH IDOL - CEA Greatest Anthology Written (for the world record)
TICK-TOCK IN THE HOUSE AMERICA BUILT - Pulp Modern Vol. 2 Issue 2
THE STARRY CROWN - Best Horror of the Year Volume 10, ed. Ellen Datlow, 2018
SOLITUDE - Beneath The Waves, Tales from the Deep. Things in the Well, 2018
DEMIURGE - Weirdbook, Vol. 39, 2018
A QUIET DEATH BY A MILLION BITES - Last Shot Fired Anthology, Midnight Writers Association 2018
THE STARRY CROWN - Audio performance by Jason Hill
SOLITUDE - Audio performance by Jason Hill
LITERATURE IS BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF HORROR -- Crime Reads essay, 2020
THE HEAD OF THE MEADOW - The Prick of the Spindle, 2008
THE FORGOTTEN EAR OF CORN - Cezanne's Carrot, vol 3, issue 2. 2008 (available online)
THE HIT-MAN - A Twist of Noir, 476. 2010 (available online)
ALTAR BOYS - The Big Click, issue 4. 2012 (available online) Reprinted in Great Jones Street, 2017
MONSTER - Thuglit, issue 2. 2012
JUMP 20$ - Horror Society Stories, vol. 1. 2013
DIRTY WATER - Under The Bed, vol. 1, No. 7. 2013
SAVAGE WORK - Massacre Magazine, issue 1. 2013
CAIMANO-MAN - The Big Click, issue 11. 2013 (available online)
THE MONK - Massacre Magazine, issue 3. 2014
TOMMY, WHO LOVED TO LAUGH - Thuglit, issue 13. 2014 (available online) Reprinted in Great Jones Street, 2017
THESE TWO HANDS - Pulp Metal Magazine 2014 (available online)
THE HERO OF EAST VALE - The Big Click, issue 25. 2015 (available online)
THE TREES ARE TALL HERE - Nightscript, vol 1. 2015
GOD DOES DAMN THE MIND - Whispers From the Abyss, vol 2. 2015
THERE WAS NO ONE THERE - Pulp Metal Magazine, 2015 (available online
ICHTHYS REACHES - Disturbed Digest, #12. 2016
THESE TWO HANDS - Phase 2 Magazine, issue 5. 2016 (reprint)
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN NOTHING - Dark Lane Anthology, vol. 3. 2016
THE IMMORTAL COIL - Illuminati At Your Door Anthology. 2016
THE DREADFUL WIND AND RAIN - DarkFuse Magazine 11/18/16
IN THE VALLEY OF THE HEADLESS CORPSES - Ink Stains: A Literary Anthology, vol 3. January 2017
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