Category Archives: H. P. Lovecraft,

Friday Flash Fics—Noblesse Oblige With Bryce Going. January 31, 2025.

Posted on January 31, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Noblesse Oblige by Jeff Baker (A Bryce Going Story) I was working in a little diner on the outside of town when I found the money. Corley’s Burgers was about the size of a couple of single-wide trailers fixed together … Continue reading →

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Reading Report December ’24/January ’25, from Jeff Baker. (January 20, 2025)

Posted on January 20, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report; December2024/January 2025 Continuing my Rudyard Kipling jag I (re-)read “The Bridge Builders,” a story I had read before maybe 30+ years ago. Read some of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Wonder Book,” where he re-tells Greek Myths for a young audience. … Continue reading →

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“I Don’t Like Spiders And Snakes.” But I DO Like the October 2024 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Story by Jeff Baker. (October 10th, 2024)

Posted on October 10, 2024 by jeffbaker307

I Don’t Like Spiders and Snakes by Jeff Baker AUTHOR’S NOTE: The draws for the October 2024 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were A Monster Story set in a Cake Shop involving a Rubber Duck. Here’s the story, but can you … Continue reading →

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Reading Report; April 20th, 2024, from Jeff Baker.

Posted on April 20, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report: March/April 2024 from Jeff Baker Okay, I didn’t read Poe this time around! Didn’t read a lot of any fiction this month. Except for the usual; the Kaje Harper stories and the Flash Fiction Draw Challenge stories (not … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Draw Challenge May 2023—The Results!! Mike Mayak (Jeff Baker) May 15, 2023.

Posted on May 15, 2023 by jeffbaker307

Flash Fiction Draw Challenge May 2023; The Results! May 15, 2023. Hi, again! Mike here, also known as “Jeff Baker.” The draws for the May 2023 FFDC were: A Lovecraftian Horror Story Set on an Assembly Line Involving a Broken … Continue reading →

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Listen For “The Lurker In the Details,” and Beware! Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Story for May 2023 by Mike Mayak (aka Jeff Baker!)

Posted on May 11, 2023 by jeffbaker307

(Above—Mike in his H.P. Lovecraft, E.A. Poe shirt. Photo by Mike Mayak.) The draws for the May 2023 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were: A Lovecraftian Horror Story Set on an Assembly Line Involving a broken Walkman. Here’s what I came … Continue reading →

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More of the Best Of Ballantine’s “The Best Of…” Compiled By Jeff Baker. February 13, 2023.

Posted on February 13, 2023 by jeffbaker307

More of The Best of the Best of Ballantine’s The Best of… Compiled by Jeff Baker From about 1974 through at least the late 80s, Ballantine Books published a series of over 22 (paperback and hardcover) “Best of” collections of … Continue reading →

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Reading for Halloween: A Treasury of American Horror Stories. Jeff Baker, October 30, 2022.

Posted on October 30, 2022 by jeffbaker307

A Treasury of Terror by Jeff Baker Every year around Halloween I post something involving a selection of spooky tales for the season of Jack O’Lanterns and soaring witches. This year, something different; an entire anthology. In fact, an influential … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthologies, August Derleth, Books, Edward D. Hoch, Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost Story, H. P. Lovecraft,, Horror, Jack London, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Arthur, Robert Bloch, Short-Stories, Stephen Vincent Benet | Leave a comment

“Sixteen Things I Learned…” Rainbow Snippets for October 23, 2022 from Jeff Baker.

Posted on October 23, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Rainbow Snippet October 22, 2022 Every week we post six lines from a work of ours, a work-in-progress or published, or a recommendation of someone else’s work with at least one LGBT character. Posted at Rainbow Snippets here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 It’s … Continue reading →

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Sixteen Things I Learned During the Big Heat Wave. Cool Off With Friday Flash Fics for August 26, 2022 by Jeff Baker.

Posted on August 26, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Sixteen Things I Learned During the Big Heat Wave by Jeff Baker (August 21, 2022) 1.) Relatives are nothing but trouble, even if they pay you money. 2.) Sometimes, when your Aunt rents out rooms in her big old house, … Continue reading →

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