Originally published in the December 2008 issue of Macabre Cadaver, Breeder is the story of a
a teenage girl who is visited nightly by a shadowy visitor and his gleaming scalpel. In this short story, the reader can
see the author beginning to explore some of the themes he would later incorporate into Shadow of the Woodpile.
The PDF version is provided courtesy of Macabre Cadaver magazine. Click the link below to read what
one reviewer described as "perhaps the strangest horror story I have ever read"
In July 2009, William Todd Rose made another appearance within the pages of Macabre Cadaver magazine. This time, the
story was The Winter Experiment: a chilling tale of an obsessed and psychotic scientist struggling to manifest
the Japanese demon Yuki-onna in a remote, mountaintop cabin. Written in a stream-of-conscousness narrative similar
to 1950s-era Beat authors Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, this short story also lays groundwork for the prose style
that would later be adopted in Shadow of the Woodpile.
In 666 words William Todd Rose weaves the tale of Timmy and Michelle, two teenage lovers who discover an
ancient book of spells in his grandfather's attic. From these cursed pages, the demon Aeshma is released
and provides instructions on what steps need to be taken to ensure they become King and Queen of a new, dark
world. Steps that require the spilling of fresh, human blood . . . .
From the pages of Issue 19 of OG's Speculative Fiction magazine comes the short story by William
Todd Rose, Day of the Sentient. In this work, which the blog Pubic Static Void Man described as
"compelling" and "thought-provoking", the author delves into the mind of a robot in lament over its
sad state of disrepair.
This is an audio presentaton of the short story The Blood Shed, which was recorded and mixed by the author. Permission is freely given to use this on your website or podcast as long as the work is properly credited and a link is provided back to www.williamtoddrose.com
