What do you think?
Rate this book
Blood and Blasphemy
If you enjoy your horror dipped in buckets of blood and sprinkled with generous amounts of blasphemy, then you've come to the right place!
Blood and Blasphemy is a collection of over thirty of the most sacrilegious horror stories ever written. Within these irreverent pages, you will encounter a priest that keeps his deformed spawn chained in a root cellar, a convent where a poisonous species of salamander is worshiped, a demonic altar boy, possessed religious relics that kill, blood-drinking clergymen, a Son of God who feeds on sin, an unsuspecting couple who run afoul of religious lunatics in a small town, the divine (and deadly) turd of Christ, and other terrifying tales guaranteed to make church ladies faint and nuns clutch their rosaries.
Featuring stories by: Aron Beauregard, George Alan Bradley, Cardigan Broadmoor, Scot M. Carpenter, Myna Chang, Clay McLeod Chapman, Nick Dinicola, Jude M. Eriksen, Michael Martin Garrett, Ken Goldman, Gerri R. Gray, Christopher Hamel, Carlton Herzog, B.T. Joy, A.L. King, Daryl Marcus, Jeremy Megargee, Donna J.W. Munro, Hari Navarro, Trevor Newton, Drew Nicks, C.C. Parker, Wolfgang Potterhouse, J.L. Shioshita, J.J. Smith, Henry Snider, J.B. Toner, Sheldon Woodbury, and Shawn Wood.
Blood and Blasphemy is a collection of over thirty of the most sacrilegious horror stories ever written. Within these irreverent pages, you will encounter a priest that keeps his deformed spawn chained in a root cellar, a convent where a poisonous species of salamander is worshiped, a demonic altar boy, possessed religious relics that kill, blood-drinking clergymen, a Son of God who feeds on sin, an unsuspecting couple who run afoul of religious lunatics in a small town, the divine (and deadly) turd of Christ, and other terrifying tales guaranteed to make church ladies faint and nuns clutch their rosaries.
Featuring stories by: Aron Beauregard, George Alan Bradley, Cardigan Broadmoor, Scot M. Carpenter, Myna Chang, Clay McLeod Chapman, Nick Dinicola, Jude M. Eriksen, Michael Martin Garrett, Ken Goldman, Gerri R. Gray, Christopher Hamel, Carlton Herzog, B.T. Joy, A.L. King, Daryl Marcus, Jeremy Megargee, Donna J.W. Munro, Hari Navarro, Trevor Newton, Drew Nicks, C.C. Parker, Wolfgang Potterhouse, J.L. Shioshita, J.J. Smith, Henry Snider, J.B. Toner, Sheldon Woodbury, and Shawn Wood.
427 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 6, 2019
21 people are currently reading
108 people want to read
About the author
Gerri R. Gray
35 books74 followersGerri R. Gray is a New York-based novelist, short story writer, poet, songwriter and a lifelong aficionado of horror, dark humor, and all things bizarre.
Her interest in creative writing developed at an early age. She began writing poetry, short stories, magazine articles, and stage plays complete with musical scores while in her teen years.
By the spring of 1980, she was publishing a small press literary journal called Golden Isis, a one-woman operation that specialized in mystical poetry and offbeat fiction. Its international circulation grew to nearly 3600 and it attracted subscribers from places as far away as Puerto Rico, Australia, Italy, and Japan.
Her debut novel, The Amnesia Girl (an outrageously dark comedy about the misadventures of two women who escape from a psychiatric hospital in the 1970s), was published by HellBound Books in 2017 and has received favorable reviews by readers.
She currently has thirteen published books with HellBound and over two-dozen books with other publishers, including Penguin, Kensington, New Page, and Adams Media.
Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association and Ladies of Horror Fiction, and one of her short stories was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Writing under the pen name, Gerina Dunwich, she is also the author of over two dozen books on Wicca, the paranormal, and the occult. Her articles, poetry and interviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Playgirl, American Woman, Moving Words, and Llewellyn's calendars and datebooks. She is repped by Stephany Evans (Ayesha Pande Literary, FinePrint Literary Management).
https://www.amazon.com/Gerina-Dunwich...
A part-time antique dealer and former B&B proprietor, Gerri lives in upstate New York in an historic and decidedly haunted nineteenth-century house with her husband and a bevy of spirits. When she isn't busy editing and creating strange worlds filled with even stranger characters, she can often be found rummaging through antique shops, exploring haunted places, dabbling in the occult or traipsing through old cemeteries with her digital camera in hand.
Her interest in creative writing developed at an early age. She began writing poetry, short stories, magazine articles, and stage plays complete with musical scores while in her teen years.
By the spring of 1980, she was publishing a small press literary journal called Golden Isis, a one-woman operation that specialized in mystical poetry and offbeat fiction. Its international circulation grew to nearly 3600 and it attracted subscribers from places as far away as Puerto Rico, Australia, Italy, and Japan.
Her debut novel, The Amnesia Girl (an outrageously dark comedy about the misadventures of two women who escape from a psychiatric hospital in the 1970s), was published by HellBound Books in 2017 and has received favorable reviews by readers.
She currently has thirteen published books with HellBound and over two-dozen books with other publishers, including Penguin, Kensington, New Page, and Adams Media.
Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association and Ladies of Horror Fiction, and one of her short stories was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Writing under the pen name, Gerina Dunwich, she is also the author of over two dozen books on Wicca, the paranormal, and the occult. Her articles, poetry and interviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Playgirl, American Woman, Moving Words, and Llewellyn's calendars and datebooks. She is repped by Stephany Evans (Ayesha Pande Literary, FinePrint Literary Management).
https://www.amazon.com/Gerina-Dunwich...
A part-time antique dealer and former B&B proprietor, Gerri lives in upstate New York in an historic and decidedly haunted nineteenth-century house with her husband and a bevy of spirits. When she isn't busy editing and creating strange worlds filled with even stranger characters, she can often be found rummaging through antique shops, exploring haunted places, dabbling in the occult or traipsing through old cemeteries with her digital camera in hand.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
January 19, 2020
Although I published three stories in this anthology, I must admit that there are more than a few I like better than my own. A clear case of blasphemy envy if ever there one. They are the Cherub, Vow of Obedience, and, of course, Holy Shit (clever).
I think its great that we live in a country where we are free to push the envelope. if this were Russia, Putin would have sent all of us to the Siberian Gulag for a good scolding and reeducation.
Carlton Herzog
I think its great that we live in a country where we are free to push the envelope. if this were Russia, Putin would have sent all of us to the Siberian Gulag for a good scolding and reeducation.
Carlton Herzog
May 29, 2021
To their ultimate horror, they had physically transformed into dung beetles, and instinctively knew they were doomed to wander the earth, for all eternity, eating shit.
October 25, 2022
Just like any short story collection, some are great and some are not so great. Some made me giggle, some went over my head I think and others left me 😳
I had fun here anyway
I had fun here anyway
August 28, 2023
Some great stories in this one.
January 23, 2025
Good short stories there's quite a few to choose from some are great some thoughts are great enjoyed it nonetheless
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 18, 2025
a pretty good anthology, there was a few I didn’t understand but uh yeah 🤩
idk if I have a favourite for this one… maybe finding christ or the alter boy from hell
idk if I have a favourite for this one… maybe finding christ or the alter boy from hell
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews