Michael Frederick Korn (MF Korn), a lifelong resident of Louisiana, writes sort-of-surreal dark fantasy, quiet weird Horror and strange science fiction. He has written twelve novels and a screenplay and has two hundred and forty short story appearances.

Three of his books, CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL AND OTHER STORIES, and ALIENS, MINIBIKES AND OTHER STAPLES OF SUBURBIA, and also SKIMMING THE GUMBO NUCLEAR were mentioned in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection. CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL AND OTHER STORIES was mentioned in The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror. RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST was also mentioned the following year.


Here is his Myspace page


Latest news: An 83,000 word novel manuscript called CREATURE FEATURE is now finished, cowritten with David Mathew of Britain.

ALL THE MUTANT TRASH IN ALL THE GALAXIES or how we managed to rape known space planet by planet
, by ERASERHEAD PRESS. Four novels by M. F. Korn, (including his first SF novel effort) Available for $14.49 at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.
A collection of four novels describing sentient abused robots, outback conmen, mutant robber barons, off-world oilfield and nuclear blue collar workers, melancholy cognitive schizophrenic aliens, vid outlaws, chitinous thieves, indentured androids, known space barflies, pharmaceutical overlords, non-sentient squatters, grotesque smut merchants. Each has an introduction by: D.F. Lewis, Sherry Decker, Jeffrey Thomas, M Philbin. Book size: approx 145,000 words. ORDER PRICE 11.87
THE MAN WHO LOVED IN LIGHT YEARS (A juvenile effort, his very early first SF novel): In a strange world where a gov-drug addicted citizenry on Terra and the rest of closer known space are fascinated by infinite partitions of teen angst holo-sitcom pablum, a man decides to stalk a phenomena through known space, a person with massive traces of mutant pheromones. Hudson follows her until he ends up on a series of gossip-stalker networks filmed by small drone probes, good entertainment for billions of bored Terran viewers throughout the system. This very early first attempt at a SF novel was written as soft SF surreal techno-fantasy. Introduction by D.F. Lewis.
MOVIETONE MARS: Cinema is illegal, either by crudely projecting the image, video, or post-post digital -- all Movie stars and celebrities were purged long ago -- Every citizen has his own television show daily. If a citizen's show gets too popular on the realm, a massive enclave of Gov censors cancel that citizen's show for a while. It is the New Age of Equality - Everyone is his own recursive celebrity. Paul Roberts, a gov archivist with a masters in the history of game shows, discovers an ancient document about the Great Purge that turns him into a fugitive, a vid outlaw hiding out near the architrave of seedy leaking Theme Parks on Mars among the worn simulacra of W C Fields, Bob Hope that are indentured to entertain the Terran tourists on vacation. Introduction by Jeffrey Thomas.
TILTING PLANET (THE TROUBLE WITH XENODES): Droves of terran shrinks are shuttled into far space to treat a species of dying schizophrenic alien. Brister is one of thousands of psychiatrists sent to Xenode from Earth to study the melancholy species. Huxley Pharmaceuticals has a miracle drug that may stave off the illness. Word has it that a monolithic company has spawned the pandemic by dumping massive amounts of hallucinogenics in the water. Introduction by Sherry Decker.
GALACTIC SMUT MERCHANTS: Surreal Alien Pay-per-view - Something new to watch for the grunts on the outerbelt mining planets -- but could they conquer the Terran pay-per-view market? In is a time when the Earth is swept by the "Modern Jezus" Movement, and it's founder, the Reverend Cyborg, a grotesque hillbilly ex-drug-runner-turned prophet after his outlaw ship crashed on the lunar surface. Entertainment merchant Hans Bendixon and all the other New Hollywood studios on Mars are desperate to win over a puritanical Earth in the Pay-per view markets. Even if it means using a previously unknown species of the lusterous Tryphen indigenous to a small moon of a gaseous planet in a far-off sector. Scientific studies have shown that these creatures seem to have a rather strange hypno-erotic effect on all human senses. A manned probe is sent to film them as background for the Fall Lineup of Spice Channel Pay-Per-View shows. Intro by M Philbin.












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SWAMP WITCH PIQUANTE AND SCREAM QUEEN BISQUE

Available
from Silverlake Publishing : $13.95.


Format: Cover art by Jason Just
$13.95
Horror: Two short novels
196 pages
63,900 words

ORDER at Amazon.com for 11.16. Or $12.55 at Barnes and Noble.

Two short novels:

In "The White Trash Witches Coven", Keith Ogden accidentally meets a witch in a Super-Usav-Mart. When she invites him to join the coven, he accepts, thinking of evil sorceries and dances with the devil. The gaggle of chatty women he encounters severely disappoints, with their baby pictures, recipes, and addictions to trashy afternoon TV. Is this "coven" just a group of wannabes, or is something more sinister lurking underneath the chicken grease?



In "Pavane for a Scream Queen", Jeff Vincent, freelance writer for Filmland Magazine and as-of-yet-undiscovered novelist, has landed the interview of a lifetime with cult favorite Aurora Sterling, scream queen of the 1950's classic B-movies. But when Dame Aurora cancels and those who worked with her die or go into hiding, Jeff finds himself in the middle of a mystery. What is the secret behind this gorgeous, elegant woman? Is it just Hollywood hype, or something else much older and eternal?



RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST Available from Silverlake Publishing for $12.95. Available for 11.95 at Shocklines bookstore, or available at Barnes and Noble for 11.65. It's available at Amazon.com for 10.36.






Korn's first novel, Rachmaninoff's Ghost, (51,000 words, 160 pp): $12.95, available at Barnes and Noble for 11.65. Available at Amazon.com for 10.36.

A blandishment about MF Korn's first horror novel:

"...Michael Korn has fed upon Poe, Lovecraft and Richly Sinewed Music, but above all upon  himself! I thought the first two-thirds of RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST splendid, but its last third of Jungian nightmare literally took my head off. If Korn's photo is not on the front of TIME magazine, as a result, injustice will sure be done..."-D.F. Lewis



DIE EARTHMAN DIE: TALES OF HORROR AND SF by DF LEWIS, MIKE PHILBIN, DAVID MATHEW, MF KORN -- 34 STORIES at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.

  • DF Lewis - winner British Fantasy Award, author 1500 stories, ed. Nemonymous
  • Mike Philbin - aesthetic author of a hundred stories and several novels
  • David Mathew - former reviewer, Interzone, author several novels, 400 stories
  • MF Korn - Louisiana author of twelve novels and 240 short stories


  • SAMPLE OF CONTENTS: A man stumbles upon a monolith in his back yard ** A woman is with child by an image in a silent screen film ** A blind old man and his cyborg-bot pick up old satellites as junk dealers ** The first manned probe lands on the Face on Mars ** Two alcoholic androids are hired for dangerous deep space exploration ** Is the secret ingredient in specialty meats from the graveyard? ** Are a young girl’s childhood friends from beyond the grave? ** What backordered package is making a geologist and his girlfriend quarrel in far space? ** Why has a Wal-mart store turned into Dante’s Inferno? ** Will a young boy find his deceased mom in a carnival side show? ** Why are Ivan the Terrible and Stalin in a Codependency Clinic? ** What will a young rocket mechanic get on his 18th birthday offworld? ** What will two killers on the lam find in a Mars Resort?

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    M F Korn's books are at Fictionwise, Double Dragon Books, and ebook outlets.

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    NOVELS AND COLLECTIONS:


    THE WHITE TRASH WITCHES COVEN --

    SWAMP WITCH PIQUANTE:

    AVAILABLE FROM Silverlake Publishing : $13.95.
    Swamp Witch Sauce Piquante and Scream Queen Bisque (Over a Bed of Rice)

    By M.F. Korn

    Format: Cover art by Jason Just
    $13.95
    Horror Collection
    196 pages
    63,900 words

    ORDER at Amazon.com for 11.16. Or $12.55 at Barnes and Noble.

    Two short novels.

    In "The White Trash Witches Coven", Keith Ogden accidentally meets a witch in a Super-Usav-Mart. When she invites him to join the coven, he accepts, thinking of evil sorceries and dances with the devil. The gaggle of chatty women he encounters severely disappoints, with their baby pictures, recipes, and addictions to trashy afternoon TV. Is this "coven" just a group of wannabes, or is something more sinister lurking underneath the chicken grease?

    In "Pavane for a Scream Queen", Jeff Vincent, freelance writer for Filmland Magazine and as-of-yet-undiscovered novelist, has landed the interview of a lifetime with cult favorite Aurora Sterling, scream queen of the 1950's classic B-movies. But when Dame Aurora cancels and those who worked with her die or go into hiding, Jeff finds himself in the middle of a mystery. What is the secret behind this gorgeous, elegant woman? Is it just Hollywood hype, or something else much older and eternal?



    Rachmaninoff's Ghost --

    RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST:

    AVAILABLE FROM Silverlake Publishing : ($12.95)or available at Amazon.com for 10.36. Available at Shocklines bookstore, it's available at Barnes and Noble for 11.65.


    Product Details:

    Format: Paperback, 160pp.
    ISBN:1931095418
    Publisher: Silverlake Publ
    Pub. Date: January   2003

    Korn's first horror novel, Rachmaninoff's Ghost, (51,000 words, 160 pp) written eighteen years ago.
    History: Sold to Papercapers, CANCELED, resold to Silverlake Publishing, CANCELED:   Silverlake under new mgt, resold again to Silverlake publishing.

    A blandishment about Korn's first novel written eighteen years ago:

    "...Michael Korn has fed upon Poe, Lovecraft and Richly Sinewed Music, but above all upon  himself! I thought the first two-thirds of RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST splendid, but its last third of Jungian nightmare literally took my head off. If Korn's photo is not on the front of TIME magazine, as a result, injustice will sure be done..." ----- D.F. Lewis


    ALL THE MUTANT TRASH IN ALL THE GALAXIES

    ORDER at Amazon.com for 11.87. Or $14.49 at Barnes and Noble.

    A collection of four short novels by M F Korn, describing lovesick stalkers, synthetic tramps, abused robots, conmen, robber barons, off-world oilfield and nuclear blue collar grunts, schizophrenic aliens, video outlaws, offworld rednecks, thieves, indentured androids, barflies, pharmaceutical overlords, squatters, smut merchants. Each of the four short novels has a separate introduction from one of these writers: D.F. Lewis, Sherry Decker, Jeffrey Thomas, M Philbin. (book size: approx 145,000 words).

    Four novels by M. F. Korn
    ORDER at Amazon.com for 11.87. Or $14.49 at Barnes and Noble.

    The Man Who Loved in Light Years (An early first SF novel) : A drug-addled philosophy professor stalks a pheromoned person through known space.
    Movietone Mars: Cinema is illegal—Movie stars purged—everyone has his own television show.
    Tilting Planet (The Trouble with Xenodes): Terran shrinks sent to cure schizophrenic artistic alien race, but who caused the outbreak?
    Galactic Smut Merchants: Alien pay-per-view –something new for grunts on mining planets—But could they conquer the Terran pay-per-view market?



    Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear
    Out by Eraserhead Press. Available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. Available at Shocklines bookstore. Regular Price $16.95. At Amazon for $11.87.

    Format: Paperback, 292pp.
    ISBN: 0971357269
    Publisher: Eraserhead Press
    Pub. Date: November  2001

    A grand epic wasteland of surreal pandemic plague. Pollution quotient in the delta regions of the state of Louisiana, the dustbin of the Mississippi river and the nation, whose motto is the "Sportsman's Paradise", a paradisio where all are grappling for a slice of lassez bon temps roule, "let the good times roll", but now all are fighting for their very lives. Nature had to fight back sooner or later, and now what will happen to this tourist state gone amuck with plague?

    ISBN: 0-9713572-6-9 — 292 PAGES — Regular Price $16.95. At Amazon for $11.87. 14.95 at Shocklines.



    Confessions of a Ghoul and Other Stories

    Format: Paperback, 122pp.
    ISBN: 1931095175
    Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing
    Pub. Date: January  2001

    Order from (at 10.75)Barnes and Noble, Silverlake Publishing   (11.95) or from Amazon. 9.56 or (11.95) at Shocklines bookstore.

    Introduction by D. F. Lewis Cover art by Lawrence D. P. Miller Trade Paperback $11.95 CD $9.95 Disk $5.95 Download $3.95 Horror Collection 120 pages 50,000 words

     

    Aliens, Minibikes and Other Staples of Suburbia

    Format: Paperback, 114pp.
    ISBN: 1931095272
    Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing
    Pub. Date: January  2001
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    Out in paperback (at 14.95) at Amazon by Silverlake Publishing (11.95). Available at Barnes and Noble. 14.95
    "While reading, you'll be picked up and dropped straight into your own history while visiting various, imaginary neighborhoods...It's nostalgia at its finest."
    --Sherry Decker, from the Introduction 

    "M. F. Korn's richly detailed, highly idiosyncratic portraits of America call to mind a Bradbury on magic mushrooms...he's a Norman Rockwell speaking in tongues with a voodoo doll in one hand and a flaming paintbrush in the other."        --Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown 

    Trade Paperback $11.95 CD $9.95 Disk $5.95 Download $3.95 Speculative Fiction Collection 114 pages 47,000 words

     


    DIE EARTHMAN DIE: TALES OF HORROR AND SF -- 34 STORIES OF HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION

    by Cosmic Eyeball Press
    Order at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.




    Cover art by Rafael Maza
    $16.40
    Horror and Science Fiction Collection
    ISBN 1-4116-4129-9
    Cosmic Eyeball Press
    270 pages
    80,451 words

    SURREAL TALES OF BOTH HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION --
    Thirty Four Stories by Four Unique Talents in the Horror / Science Fiction Field --

    Each writer is known for his Night Gaunts brought to Life

    * DF Lewis - winner of the British Fantasy Award, author of 1500 stories, editor/publisher of magazine Nemonymous --

    * Mike Philbin - aesthetic author of 100 stories and several novels --

    * David Mathew - former reviewer for Interzone, author of several novels and 400 stories --

    * MF Korn - Louisiana author of twelve Novels and 240 short stories --



    The Less Fashionable Side of the Galaxy
    by M. F. Korn, D. F. Lewis, and H
    Chimera $2.25, 24 pages

    NO ISBN

    From Eraserhead Press. Order from Shocklines bookstore.
    Three writers of bizarre speculation combine
    talents to create five experimental tales of insane fiction. Featuring M. F. Korn, author of Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear, H Chimera, and the king of the weirdmongers, D. F. Lewis.

     

     

     

    The White Trash Witches' Coven

     Tanjen Ltd, Paperback, April, 99: CANCELED. Sold to Gargadillo, CANCELED. SOLD. Even Shakespeare had his "Pericles"...

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Movietone Mars: Hartwick Electronic Press, 1994
    Translated into Russian after was sold to Baziat Literary Agency in 1993, Russia CANCELED. 

    The Trouble with Xenodes (Tilting Planet), serialized, Weird Stories

    The Man Who Loved in Light Years: D&S Associates, (Electronic) 1994

    Galactic Smut Merchants, Tanjen, Ltd. paperback, 2000
    CANCELED. 

     

    Alone Against a Revolution

    Golden Meteorite Press,
    hardback, 1997, Library Binding - 89 pages (August 1, 1996) Golden Meteorite Press Limited; ISBN: 1895385539

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Stygian Relics of the Lachrymose

    Golden Meteorite Press, limited edition. 1998 Hardback collection of short stories:  Library Binding - 178 pages (January 1, 1998) Golden Meteorite Press Limited; ISBN: 1895385636

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The Spectral Carnival Show and Other Stories

    Golden Meteorite Press, 1998, limited edition,  Library Binding - 140 pages (January 1, 1998) Golden Meteorite Press Limited; ISBN: 189538561X

     

     

     

     

     


    Pavane for a Scream Queen, SOLD.


    SHORT STORY ACCEPTANCES:

    • 2 to Vision Magazine
    • Tome
    • Dark Tome
    • FEAR magazine
    • 40 stories in P L
    • Potent Aphrodisiac
    • Sweet Dreams Baby
    • Left-Footed Wombat
    • a mag named "V-Pulp"?
    • A forgotten small mag out of New York City
    • 2 to Premonitions
    • Zero Hour
    • Killer Frog Anthology
    • Spider Eyes
    • Fast Lizard
    • Lost
    • Genrere
    • Cacophony
    • Cacophony Hardback Anthology
    • Project Mars
    • 2 to Razor
    • 2 to Blue Lady
    • 7 to Silver Shadows
    • 2 to Taler's Tale
    • The Ultimate Unknown
    • Hundredth Anniversary Lovecrafter
    • Louisiana State University magazine Delta
    • 16 stories to Fading Shadows Pulps
    • Weird Stories
    • Startling Science Stories
    • Forbidden Lines
    • a few to House of Pain
    • Cosmic Visions
    • Midnight Gallery
    • Classic Pulp Stories
    • DREAD
    • Artstar Journal
    • Northern Fusion
    • Sinister
    • Dark Corridors (can't confirm)
    • Australian paperback AntipodeanSF
    • LC-39
    • A few to Brazilian magazine Megalon
    • Iconoclastia (wordhunger)
    • Words (mag whose charity is London's St. Mary's Hospital)
    • 3AM Publishing (wordhunger)
    • Winedark Sea paperback (Vol 3) w/ DF Lewis and M Philbin
    • The Dream People Chapbook
    • 5 stories to Gathering Darkness w/ DF Lewis and M Philbin
    • Grail paperback anthology w/ DF Lewis and M Philbin
    • The Ministry of Whimsy
    • EOTU
    • 21st Century Bitch Goddess
    • Imaginary Worlds (wordhunger)
    • SteelCaves
    • Spooky's F.O.D. w/ DF Lewis
    • Ministry of Whimsy (also a review of GHOUL Collection)
    • Driver's Side Airbag w/ M Philbin
    • two stories with M Philbin to REDSINE paperback anthologies
    • Alternate Species (w/ Dave Mathew and M Philbin)
    • E-GENRE
    • Planetmag
    • Apocalypse Fiction Magazine w/ M Philbin
    • Thomas Deja's Underworlds Anthology w/ M Philbin and Dave Mathew
    • another to UNDERWORLDS w/ M Philbin
    • another to The Dream People w/ M Philbin
    • yet another to UNDERWORLDS w/ DF Lewis and M Philbin
    • sale to German May-2002 anthology SPLATTERPUNK:A NEW GENERATION w/ M Philbin
    • The Dream Zone w/ Dave Mathew
    • another to Apocalypse Fiction magazine w/ M Philbin
    • another to REDSINE paperbacks w/ M Philbin
    • HORRORFIND
    • The Storyville Anthology
    • 12 story run of "Eli" series to Apocalypse Fiction w/ M Philbin
    • Frightwriters, w/ DF Lewis and M Philbin
    • placed story w/ Dave Mathew to "Flesh and Hunger" anthology by Dream People Editor
    • 4th story sale (!) to Thomas Deja's Underworlds Anthology w/ M Philbin
    • 5 stories at Tjersland horror site
    • 5th story sale to Thomas Deja's Underworlds Anthology w/ M Philbin
    • sale to Muse Apprentice Guild
    • sale to Thomas Deja's Amicus paperback anthology
    • I wrote dozens of stories with a collective called WORDHUNGER (collection now sold to Double Dragon Books)
    • sale to editor/writer G W Thomas's anthology GHOSTBREAKERS: Sinister Sleuths (w/ Dave Mathew and M Philbin)
    • sale to Thomas Deja's anthology about Warren Zevon
    • sale to Cyberpulp's Halloween paperback anthology
    • article for Wicked Writers Carnival
    • sale to "Trip the Light Horrific" anthology(w/ M Philbin)
    • sale to "Travel a Time Historic" anthology
    • sale to "Grave Tappings" anthology?
    • sale to "Mind Scraps" anthology
    • sale to "Vintage Wine: Werewolves and Vampires" anthology
    • sale to Scattered, Smothered, Covered anthology, collab w/ Jeff VanderMeer and DF Lewis
    • pro sale to RED SCREAM (w/ David Mathew)
    • sale to "NEW WRITINGS IN THE FANTASTIC" anthology(w/ M Philbin)
    • sale of "Weird Western" story collab w/ DF Lewis to DEVIL'S GULCH paperback anthology
    • sale to DEAD ENDS Anthology by Screaming Dreams Publ
    • reprint of collab w/ Jeff VanderMeer and DF Lewis in German collection by VanderMeer


    MARGINALIA:

    • Eleven volumes of Epistolary Discourse

    • A screenplay, "The Revival Theatre"

    • Best Stories of the Year by P L Mag, 1998

    • Honorable Mention by the Soft Science Fiction Writers Association
      for story "The Old Man and the Cyborg" , 1996

    • Won a category of Killer Frog Contest, approx. 1992

    • Best Stories of the Year by P L Mag, 1990

    • During College, wrote Science Fiction novella, now lost mss

    • Wrote numerous stories for High School Literary Magazine, now lost

    • Wrote novelettes as a teen, now all mss lost


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