We saw on Mercedes M. Yardley’s BLOG today that someone has been going around, submitting plagiarized stories to small horror magazines, etc.  Not only is this person rewriting Stephen King stories, but new writers are falling prey, as well.  Here’s another EXAMPLE and yet ANOTHER.

And apparently, this person is DEAD.  So it’s probably not his/her real name.  Now that the offender has been exposed, he or she may simply pick another name and keep at it.

So be on alert, both publishers and writers.  If a publisher gets an email submission from this person, perhaps you can turn the email over to authorities for tracking purposes.

We can only imagine what kind of a douche would do such a thing.