Barbed Wire Dreams: A Short Story Collection

“The Haunting of Doric Lodge”
A Mason’s strange account and investigation into paranormal activity plaguing a Northern Ontario lodge.

“Alecto’s Smirk”
Local hood Trapt is unaware of extradimensional fallout.

“The Penteract Factor”
Max Allan’s déjà-vu leads to a comprehensive re-write.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James C. Stewart began his career as a journalist working at small town newspapers in Northern Ontario. In the late Eighties and early Nineties he was involved in Toronto’s underground music scene as both musician and journalist. As a dramatist, he authored two one-act scripts; Fractured (1999) and The Ezekiel Complex (2002). Both had successful runs, with Fractured being accepted into the Victoria British Columbia Fringe Festival, and The Ezekiel Complex adapted into a short independent film. His short fiction has appeared in Paradox: The Magazine of Historical & Speculative Fiction and in anthologies published by Wildside Press (Rockville, Maryland), Psychochick Cabaret (Toronto, Ontario) and Gadfly Productions (North Bay, Ontario). His non-fiction publications include The Ashlar Magazine (Scotland), The Canadian Awareness Network, Project Lixx and the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon.
Mr. Stewart resides in North Bay, Ontario.

ABOUT PARANOIA PRESS

Paranoia Press has been a percolating idea for over a decade, incubated in the murky seas of change that are the digital and publishing industries.
We love strange fictional worlds, revolutionary ideas, and imaginative authors interested in traversing these bizarre literary waters along with us, for the way is often very dark.
Publishing genre (Horror, Sci-fi, Dark Fantasy), creative non-fiction and other radical words.