I Am Blogging at Armand Rosamilia's Blog for the Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness Blog Tour Today

Check out my guest post stop at Armand Rosamilia's blog on the Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness blog tour. http://armandrosamilia.com/2014/05/28/guest-post-pamela-k-kinney/

Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness Blog Tour This Week, Starting Today

Starting today is the Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness blog tour. Mine will be May 28th at Armand Rosamilia's BLOG.

Tour Schedule and Activities
May 26 I Smell Sheep                                         Guest Post
May 26 Novel-ties                                                 Review
May 27 Deal Sharing Aunt                                   Guest Post
May 28 Armand Rosamilia                                  Guest Post
May 28 Book in the Bag                                       Interview
May 29 Spellbindings                                          Guest Post
May 29 Bees Knees Reviews                            Guest Post
May 30 Beauty in Ruins                                      Guest Post
May 31 Vampires, Witches and Me Oh My!       Guest Post
May 31 Sheila Deeth Blog                                   Guest Post

Having a Book Release Party at Ravencon This Saturday, April 26th

I will have a book release party for Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness this Saturday, April 26th from 10-11 a.m. at Ravencon . Cupcakes and drinks (nonalcoholic and Darkside red wine and Vampire white wine will be served and she will read her story, "Let Demon Dogs Lie" from it. Afterwards, there will be the drawing for a basket of devilish goodies, including a bottle of Darkside red wine) for one lucky winner, and sales of the book.

So if you are attending the science fiction, fantasy and horror convention, stop by my book release party! 

Supernatural Friday: Demonic Entities

In honor of the anthology, Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness, that my short story, "Let Demon Dogs Lie" is included with 20 other stories, I wanted to touch on demonic entities for today's Supernatural Friday. 

What makes a demon, and are they in all the world's myths and legends, or just the Christian Bible? Every culture in the world has some sort of demon belief. Of course, the most widely known are concerned with the Judaic, Christian, and Catholic sources. Gemon is also called diamon and daemon (from Ancient Greek).

Hard to really pinpoint the first demon tale, but a good place would be the Persian and Assyrian empires. In the ancient past, demons had both capacity for both doing evil and good. The word "demon" meant 'celestial body,' maybe coming possibly from Indo-European sources. Also in all religions and cultures, demons are likely more than half animal, besides grotesque in appearance.

Devil and demon were confusing in their meaning in Orthodox traditions. A devil usually fought a divine authority for control of existence. Such scenarios had the "end of time" where good vanquishes evil.

Demons are like angels and under control of the Devil--unclean spirits. Malevolent, they always seek to torment humanskind with their wickedness. Demons did this by whispering wicked ideas into humans' ears, with corruption of said human as the goal. They also wandered the world as spirits to torment and frighten mortals with their forms. Last, they possess a living body, controlling the actions, with harm to the possessed in mind.

Demons in many Christian stories and legends are also summoned and controlled. Many times this is a wizard, sorcerer, witch, Satanist, and even by a normal human. And of course, the Christian Devil has horns and a tail, with a pitchfork. Though that was not aways the look he had, not until after pagans turned to Christianity in medieval Europe. No doubt, this came from the horned God and Goddess of the old religion.

Sigmund Freud developed the concept that demons were the important relation of living to the dead, revealing that demons are thought of those as those who recently passed away shows how much mourning has on the origin of belief in demons.

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Cover of Southern Haunts 2: Devils in the Darkness Reveled--also When Released

My short story, "Let Demon Dogs Lie" will be included in this anthology from  Seventh Star Press

From the publisher's website: 
Seventh Star Press is proud to unveil the brand new cover art by Enggar Adirasa for the newest installment in the popular Southern Haunts Anthology series, Devils in the Darkness.  Featuring 20 tales of horror and dark fantasy, from editors Alexander S. Brown and Louise Myers, the eBook version of Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness will be released this Thursday, with print availability to follow next week!  The release also features 20 brand new interior illustrations from Robert K!