We just announce the release of Pulp Studio's new brand, Kanigit Media and our first audio book, Smoky Mountain Horrors by Weston Ochse. This collection of short stories takes place in Appalachian country and is filled with frighteningly familiar characters. Today, we visit with Weston and play a short story for you. To download another free short story, visit Kanigit Media. More are available from your favorite digital audio book provider.

Weston Ochse is the author of science fiction and horror novels, as well as a slew of short stories and non-fiction articles that have appeared in comic books, professional writing guides, literary journals, magazines and anthologies. He won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel in 2005 for Scarecrow Gods and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Fiction in 2003 for his collection Appalachian Galapagos. He has appeared internationally at conventions and conferences as author, teacher and toastmaster. Weston currently lives in Southern Arizona with his wife, Yvonne Navarro, and Great Danes, Pester Ghost Palm Eater and Goblin Monster Dog. For entertainment he races tarantula wasps, wrestles rattlesnakes, and bakes in the noonday sun.