The Influence by Bentley Little eBook Discounted to Just $1.99 This Week!

The Influence by Bentley Little eBook Discounted to Just $1.99 This Week!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report the eBook edition of The Influence by Bentley Little is discounted to just $1.99 as part of an eBook retailer’s Halloween Special Sale this week! All of the other US retailers have price matched (and we think some of the non-US retailers have as well), so now is the time to order this one if it’s missing from your e-reader collection!

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The InfluenceThe Influence: A New Novel
by Bentley Little

Everything is about to change…

When Ross Lowry moves into his cousin’s guest house in the small community of Magdalena, Arizona, he expects nothing more than breathing room and a brief respite from his economic woes.

But something is not right in the desert.

After a raucous party on New Year’s Eve, the luck of the attendees undergoes an immediate U-turn. The rich and successful suddenly find themselves facing catastrophic failure while the less well-off are unexpectedly flush with good fortune.

This is only the beginning…

Soon the citizens of Magdalena are experiencing unnatural desires.

Next their children begin to disappear and freakish creatures emerge from the surrounding wilderness.

The community is unraveling at a frightening pace.

But these are merely the early warning signs of a showdown with a powerful force of darkness that could obliterate the world forever, and only Ross Lowry sees the danger that lurks ahead…

Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!

Review: 'Seize the Night' edited by Christopher Golden

Seize the Night edited by Christopher Golden
Gallery Books (October 2015)
544 pages, e-book $13.99, paperback $11.93
Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington

seizeChristopher Golden is a very busy writer. If a project involves the written word, it seems as if Christopher is willing to give it a go. This includes comics, media tie-ins, YA novels, and books for adults. Oh, and let’s not forget editing anthologies. Christopher’s latest project is one such anthology. Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror is built upon the premise that “once upon a time vampires were figures of terror…And they can be again.”

The twenty-one authors collected in this volume have accepted that challenge and have largely succeeded in returning vampires and their ilk back into our nightmares where they belong. Although a few stories had me scratching my head looking for the vampiric connection, each tale delivered the goods. And by goods, I mean terror.Continue Reading

Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks: Surprise New Signed Limited Edition In-Stock & Shipping Now!

“Legendary author Terry Brooks weaves a tale about an apocalyptic showdown in a small Illinois town between humans and the amber-eyed trolls from another realm that only a girl named Nest can see.”
Library Journal

Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks
Surprise New Signed Limited Edition In-Stock & Shipping Now!

Hi Folks!

We’re extremely pleased to announce our special signed Limited Edition of Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks is now in-stock and shipping!

Note for the Collectors:
Running With the DemonThis is the first of several Limited Editions by Terry Brooks that we’ll be publishing, and collectors who order this book through our website will be the first notified about future special editions!

About the Book:
In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin…

Sinnissippi Park, in Hopewell, Illinois, has long hidden a mysterious evil, locked away from humankind by powers greater than most could even imagine. But now the malevolent creatures that normally skulk in the shadows of the park grow bolder, and old secrets hint at a violent explosion.

The brewing conflict draws John Ross to Hopewell. A Knight of the Word, Ross is plagued by nightmares that tell him someone evil is coming to unleash an ancient horror upon the world. Caught between them is fourteen-year-old Nest Freemark, who senses that something is terribly wrong but has not yet learned to wield the budding power that sets her apart from her friends.

Now the future of humanity depends upon a man haunted by his dreams and a gifted young girl — two souls who will discover what survives when hope and innocence are shattered forever…

Special Features Exclusive to this Deluxe Collector’s Edition:
• deluxe oversized design different from any other edition
• a full-color signature sheet personally signed by the author
• fine binding for both the Limited Edition and the Lettered Edition
• epic cover artwork by Tomislav Tikulin
• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the edition you’ve seen in bookstores — and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!

Read more on our website or place your order while supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Dark Screams: Volume Two On Sale For Just 99 Cents For A Limited Time Only!

Dark Screams: Volume Two
Featuring Robert McCammon, Norman Prentiss, Shawntelle Madison, Graham Masterton, and Richard Christian Matheson!

On Sale For Just 99 Cents For A Limited Time Only!

Hi Folks!

The eBook edition of Dark Screams: Volume Two has been selected for a special Halloween sale at Barnes & Noble, and all of the major eBook retailers have matched their heavily discounted price of just 99 cents for a limited time only!

Dark Screams 2About Volume Two:
Robert McCammon, Norman Prentiss, Shawntelle Madison, Graham Masterton, and Richard Christian Matheson scale new heights of horror, mystery, and grimmest fantasy in Dark Screams: Volume Two from Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar of world-renowned Cemetery Dance Publications.

THE DEEP END by Robert McCammon
Everyone thinks the drowning death of Neil Calder in the local swimming pool was a tragic accident. Only his father knows better. Now, on the last night of summer, Neil returns in search of revenge.

INTERVAL by Norman Prentiss
Flight 1137 from St. Louis by way of Nashville has gone missing. As anxious friends and family gather around the gate, a ticket clerk finds herself eyewitness to a moment of inhuman evil.

IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK by Shawntelle Madison
Eleanor has come from New York City to prep an old Victorian house in Maine for America’s Mysterious Hotspots. Although she’s always thrown herself into her work, this job will take her places she’s never dreamed of going.

THE NIGHT HIDER by Graham Masterton
C. S. Lewis wrote about a portal that led to a world of magic and enchantment. But the wardrobe in Dawn’s room holds only death—until she solves its grisly mystery.

WHATEVER by Richard Christian Matheson
A 1970s rock ‘n’ roll band that never was—in a world that is clearly our own… but perhaps isn’t, not anymore… or, at least, not yet—takes one hell of a trip

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Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Voices of the Damned by Barbie Wilde Beautiful New Hardcover From The UK!

PW StarIn this impressive collection of short stories, actor Wilde (who played the Female Cenobite in the film classic Hellbound: Hellraiser II) reveals a world of beautiful fear… Wilde’s mastery of shocking violence is given full rein in subjects ranging from reclusive self-imprisonment to the exploration of European nightmares. As much a chilling collection of frightful fiction as a delight for the darker senses, this is a satisfying triumph in a befitting, unforgiving, style.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Voices of the Damned by Barbie Wilde
Beautiful New Hardcover From The UK!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to report that we’ll be getting some copies of Voices of the Damned by Barbie Wilde from SST Publications in the UK, but we don’t expect our stock to last long because this title is now in HIGH DEMAND due to the outstanding Publishers Weekly review it just received.

Voices of the DamnedVoices of the Damned
by Barbie Wilde

Publisher: Short, Scary Tales Publications

About the Book:
Enter into the mind of Barbie Wilde, whose disturbing interior world teems with the voices of rebellious female demons, devilish witches, semen-hungry neo-vampires, raging gods and home invaders, the fiends of sleep paralysis, pint-sized store-front preachers with a whiff of sulfur, body horrors of the most grotesque kind, clandestine aliens and Zulu zombies.

These truly are the Voices of the Damned: eleven short horror stories from Barbie Wilde, actress (Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Death Wish 3) and dark crime-horror novelist (The Venus Complex). Fangoria has called Wilde “one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around.”

Each story is accompanied by seductive, haunting, full color artworks and illustrations created by some of the most imaginative artists in the genre: Clive Barker, Nick Percival, Steve McGinnis, Daniele Serra, Eric Gross, Tara Bush, Vincent Sammy, & Ben Baldwin.

Foreword by Chris Alexander, Editor in Chief, Fangoria
Afterword by the Soska Sisters

Full Color Interior Artwork & Illustrations by

Clive Barker
Nick Percival
Steve McGinnis
Daniele Serra
Eric Gross
Tara Bush
Vincent Sammy
Ben Baldwin

Read more or place your order today while supplies last!

Antics on the Web: Free (Official!) Full-Length Horror Movies on YouTube? Yes Please!

Antics on the Web: Free (Official!) Full-Length
Horror Movies on YouTube? Yes Please!
by Robert Brouhard

TexasChainsawMassacrePart2(onesheet)1.jpgWhat do The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Loved Ones, The Sender, The Colossus of New York, Circle of Eight, Beneath, The Deadly Bees, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, In Dreams, Shanks, Ghost Team One, and Rumpelstiltskin all have in common? They are all available free on YouTube thanks to Paramount Pictures Corporation starting their own channel there called The Paramount Vault.

Many of these were on Netflix and other pay services before, but now anyone can watch them online (if it’s rated R, like Bound, you’ll have to have a YouTube account).Continue Reading

October Dreams 2: A Celebration of Halloween In-Stock and Shipping!

October Dreams 2:
A Celebration of Halloween

Hi Folks!

October Dreams 2While the authors are still busy signing the signature sheets for the special editions of October Dreams II edited by Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, don’t forget that the beautiful trade hardcover is IN-STOCK and ready to ship now!

Featuring Ray Bradbury, Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, Robert Bloch, Stewart O’Nan, Glen Hirshberg, Joe R. Lansdale, Al Sarrantonio, Whitley Strieber, Lisa Morton, Matthew Costello, Elizabeth Massie, and dozens of others, this oversized volume will contain spooky Halloween short fiction, dozens of authors and artists recalling their own personal memories of Halloween, and essays detailing the “history” of Halloween.

Many of the contributing authors will also autograph the signed editions, and we don’t have many copies left for reservation!

About the Book:
The long-awaited follow up to one of the most acclaimed Halloween anthologies ever! This oversized volume contains spooky Halloween short stories, dozens of authors and artists recalling their own personal memories of Halloween, and essays detailing the “history” of Halloween.

Read more or place your order while supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

An Interview with John Skipp & Andrew Kasch: Telling 'Tales of Halloween'

An Interview with John Skipp & Andrew Kasch:
Telling ‘Tales of Halloween’

TalesHalloween2One Halloween night. Ten interlocking tales. That’s the premise of Tales of Halloween, the new anthology film scheduled for limited theater and nationwide video on demand release on October 16. The movie boasts an impressive lineup of creative talent, including directors Lucky McKee (May, Red) and Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers), and the writer/director combo John Skipp and Andrew Kasch.

Skipp and Kasch were kind enough to take time away from their hectic pre-release schedule to talk about their segment of the film, how it all came together, and what it was like to film a Halloween movie in the middle of the Christmas season.Continue Reading

Cemetery Dance #73 Announced!

Cemetery Dance #73 Announced!
Featuring Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Gerard Houarner, Keith Minnion, Thomas F. Monteleone, and many others!

Hi Folks!

We’re pleased to announce Cemetery Dance #73 will be sent to the printer early next month and will be published around the end of the year!

This issue features short stories by Gerard Houarner, Keith Minnion, Michael Wehunt, Nik Houser, and Amanda C. Davis.

The non-fiction includes “The Rise of Modern Horror Fiction” by Christopher Fulbright featuring Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, and Robert Weinberg.

Our usual suspects return with new columns by Bev Vincent, Thomas F. Monteleone, Michael Marano, Ellen Datlow, Ed Gorman, Robert Morrish, and Mark Sieber.

This issue’s cover artwork is by Sarah X. Dylan and there’s also interior artwork by Zach McCain, Chris Bankston, Steve Gilberts, Chad Savage, and Glenn Chadbourne.

CD #73

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Review: 'The Art of Horrible People' by John Skipp

The Art of Horrible People by John Skipp
Lazy Fascist Press (August 2015)
176 pages, e-book $5.95, paperback $12.95
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand

HorriblePeopleOn the back cover of John Skipp’s The Art of Horrible People, author Josh Malerman implores readers to “savor this book.” It’s a good suggestion, but difficult to follow with prose like this, which fully embodies the tried-and-true cliché of being difficult to put down.

The book collects nine stories written over the last decade, each of them featuring the razor-like wit and sharp insight which has characterized Skipp’s work all the way back to his days as a young (splatter)punk breaking into the business. Continue Reading

Dark Hallows: Last Chance To Get Your Copy Signed By Chizmar and Freeman!

Dark Hallows: Ten Halloween Haunts
A surprise new Halloween anthology featuring well-known authors and up-and-coming new voices!

Last Chance To Get Your Copy Signed By Chizmar and Freeman!

Hi Folks!

This week marks your last chance to preorder your SIGNED copy of DARK HALLOWS, a surprise new value-priced trade paperback Halloween anthology coming soon from Scarlet Galleon Publications!

Dark HallowsEdited by Mark Parker, this book is a bargain and features stories by Richard Chizmar, Brian James Freeman, Norman Partridge, Robert Morrish, Al Sarrantonio, Ronald Malfi, Aaron Dries, Adam Cesare, Mark Parker, and Lisa Morton!

About the Book:
Some treats are better than tricks!

As summer turns to autumn, Scarlet Galleon Publications, publisher of the Amazon #1 bestselling horror anthology, DEAD HARVEST: A Collection of Dark Tales, offers readers a collection of Halloween tales to help celebrate the season in a chillingly unforgettable way.
10 authors. 10 haunting tales. 1 incredible anthology.

DARK HALLOWS will have you leaving the lights on, just to make sure you’re really alone.

Featuring NEW fiction from Cemetery Dance founder and publisher, Richard Chizmar. With original artwork by Aaron Dries.

Also included are stories from:

Brian James Freeman, Norman Partridge, Robert Morrish, Al Sarrantonio, Ronald Malfi, Aaron Dries, Adam Cesare, Mark Parker, and Lisa Morton

Read more on our website or place your order while supplies last!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Zoopraxis by Richard Christian Matheson Signed Limited Edition Hardcover!

Zoopraxis by Richard Christian Matheson
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover From Gauntlet Press

Hi Folks!

MathesonWe’re pleased to report that we’ll be getting some copies of Zoopraxis by Richard Christian Matheson from Gauntlet Press, but we don’t expect our stock to last long!

About the Book:
In the addictive new collection, “ZOOPRAXIS,” critically-acclaimed, #1 bestselling author Richard Christian Matheson gathers stories of dread, menace, and the surreal.

The tales range from prisoners executed with a hi-tech twist, to the ravages of empathy, to an uncooperative parrot, to a shape shifter’s carnal memoirs, to a man who can’t stop talking, to a murderer devoured by ice, to a baby photographer who ruins lives, to a dog that reads minds.

As in his previous collections, Matheson’s distilled style is fierce and hypnotic. The lettered edition includes additional new stories and non-fiction essays.

Read more or place your order today while supplies last!

Review: 'Rage Master' by Simon Clark

Rage Master by Simon Clark
Earthling Publications (October 2015)
250 pages, signed/numbered hardcover $45
Reviewed by David Simms

RageMasterEach year as the special holiday approaches, Earthling Publications treats horror readers with a special book that harkens back to the good old days of the genre. The supernatural is at play with haunted houses, monstrous creatures, and otherworldly scares which make the Halloween Series such a fixture in horror fiction. Paul Miller has yet to produce a bad book, yet after last year’s stellar The Halloween Children, expectations were set at a high level.Continue Reading

Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #184 (Haven 5B)

The old ways are gone. This is the new Haven.

Preview: Haven Season 5B, episodes 1 & 2

All good things must come to an end, and tonight marks the beginning of the end for the Syfy series Haven. For the past 65 episodes, since the series premiered in 2010, the residents of Haven have been dealing with the most recent outbreak of the Troubles, which are far worse this time around than they’ve ever been before, in part because people have been meddling with the works. If Nathan and Duke and Dwight and the rest of the merry band had simply let matters run their natural course, Audrey Parker would have gone into the barn and everything would have been fine for another generation. But, no! They had to try to fix things and, by doing so, everything has gotten exponentially worse.Continue Reading