Dear reader,

You may have noticed that we love the short fiction of Hailey Piper, award-winning horror author whose upcoming novel already has a movie deal.

Heck, it may be that your love of Hailey Piper brought you down some curvy digital path to Planet Scumm. For evidence of our superfandom look no further than the facts:

1. She is the only author ever to have FOUR stories appear in Planet Scumm.

2. She is the only person ever to serve as our Guest Editor in Chief.

We’re proud to say that the good ship Scumm just happens to be—get this—the FIRST market to buy one of Hailey’s short stories. A literal hundred short story sales later, and Hailey is still killing it.

The tooting of our own hornganelles aside, this is a stellar selection of issues from our last three years, including our two horror-themed issues (#6 and #13) and Hailey’s special guest-edited #11, which is also our only issue fully illustrated (cover and all spots) by our production artist Maura McGonagle.

To the authors out there, Hailey’s four stories can serve as a clinic in how to get published multiple times by the same place. Her style and writing talent can be summed up in one word: range. Hailey’s Scumm stories included herein span folk horror, deep-future sci-fi, and the mystery genres. As a whole the stories cover witches, brain-hungry cultists, mythological people-eaters summoned from nature in defense of a queer teenager, and, a deep meditation on the long-term future and forms of life on this planet from the point of view of a one-way, accidental time traveler.

This legendary, recklessly discounted pack includes:

• Something Up Ahead (Issue #13) feat. “Pleasant Guests with Better Games”

• Snake Eyes (Issue #11), guest-edited by Hailey Piper

• A Bloody Pulp (Issue #9) feat. “Brain Trust”

• A Wrinkle In Slime (Issue #7) feat. “Reptile”

• O Scumm All Ye Faithful (Issue #6) feat. “Scarlet Hide Molly”