With a surgeon's skill, editor Kevin L. Donihe stitches a diverse collection of fiction and poetry together to bring Bare Bone to life. Another Dr. Frankenstein, he assembles the pieces of others, birthing one complete monster to send lurching towards the darkness.

Stories from past issues have received Honorable Mentions in several editions of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and another was reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #13. Bare Bone is now a bi-annual anthology.

Fiction:

Conner's Menagerie • Benjamin X. Wretlind
Into the Amniotic Sky • Tim Emswiler
Shame on Me • Gary Fry
Dogfight • Andrew Humphrey
Mistaken Memory • Mark Howard Jones
Elderly Lady, Lives Alone • Paul Finch
Muscle Car • Kurt Newton and L.L. Soares
Never Let Go • Mitch Maraude
Three Hammers • Albie
And Still Insists He Sees the Ghosts • Jeff Somers
The Third Horseman • Chris Ringler
Chokecherryblack • Alyssa Sturgill
Dana • Colette Phair
Razor Jack • Tim Curran
The Whispered Sighs of Grateful Souls • Mark Justice
Laughter on the Rain • C.J. Henderson
Crying Tears of Blood, Sweet Like Honey • James Chambers

Poetry:

Blood Memory • Joy Marchand
Night Nurse • K.S. Hardy
The Anorexic Hatches God • Cameron Pierce
Mojo Anna • Christopher Danaher
The Price of Shoes • Jeffrey A. Stadt
disposable poet • Curtis
Aerie • James S. Dorr
After the Cosmologist's Death • John Hayes
Machine Gun/Latte • Amy Grech
Sometimes • Dustin LaValley
Conspiracy • Lida Broadhurst

Honorable Mentions:

Paul Finch "Elderly Lady, Lives Alone"
Mark Justice "The Whispered Sigh of GratefulSouls"
Joy Marchand "Blood Memory"
Chris Ringler "The Third Horseman"
Alyssa Sturgill "Chokecherryblack"

What they're saying about Bare Bone #9:

"I'm glad I got a copy of Bare Bone. Raw Dog earned a new fan here. The book makes for a great travel item; it's something awesome for the short attention span types such as me. You can enjoy a kick ass story and move onto the next! Bare Bone #10 is about to be released which I want to get, plus I think I want to get my hands on all the older books. I am hooked for sure!"
—ICanSmellYourBrains.com

“An interesting thing about dark surrealistic fiction: it’s like having an acid trip without needing the LSD. Bare Bone #9 certainly falls into that category; just about every conceivable form of dark fiction can be found in its pages. So, yeah, get ready to “trip out,” uh, dudes…This was simultaneously the most frustrating and also the most rewarding anthology I’ve ever had the privilege to review.”
—Tangent Online

“The one thing that always strikes me about Kevin L. Donihe’s Bare Bone series is the level of craftsmanship apparent in the stories. Each contribution, whether it appeals to me or not, is never anything but well written…I’m hardly going out on a limb by saying that Bare Bone is a winner – its continuing appeal is evidence enough of that – but if you’ve not yet encountered the charm of this great little title, issue #9 is a damn good place to start.”
—Whispers of Whickedness