Scott C. Holstad has authored 60+ books & has appeared in the Minnesota Review, Exquisite Corpse, Pacific Review, Chiron Review, Southern Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Bristol Noir, Hidden Peak Press, PULP, Horror Sleaze Trash & Cyber-Psychos AOD. He’s an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Cal State U Long Beach, UCLA & Queens University of Charlotte. Influences include Bukowski, Ferlinghetti, Sartre, Burroughs, Lovecraft, Camus & PK Dick. He’s moved 40+ times & lives near Gettysburg PA.
Books

HSTQ: Winter 2025
Horror, Sleaze and Trash, 2025

Shadows Before the Maiming
Gothic Press, 1999

Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. 5th ed.
Pearson, 2016

Places
Sterling House, 1995

The Napalmed Soul
Chiron Review Press, 1999
Selected work
- Fiction
2
- Nonfiction
2
- Poetry
2
- Other
1

Madnesses Again
Libre , 2025

Musings on Husserl’s Personal Transcendental Phenomenology
SYNCHRONIZED CHAOS, 2025

A Sufferer's Digest - invisible
A Sufferer's Digest, 2025

BE-STILL-ING
WIREWORM MAGAZINE, 2025

Phoenix ER (Sur)Reality
Mad Swirl, 2024

The Final Episode?
Bristol Noir, 2024

Nightfalling
The Beatnik Cowboy, 2025