New Releases by HWA Members
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This Month's Releases
April 2008
Like a Chinese Tattoo
by Cullen Bunn, Rick R. Reed, David Thomas Lord and J. A. Konrath
Dark Arts Books
ISBN-10: 0-9779686-3-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-9779686-3-3
Release date: April 2008
Unusual, weird and wonderful, herein are twelve stories from the minds of four supremely talented — and twisted — authors. From the curse of the living dead to vengeance from beyond the grave, from the darkest corner of Africa to the bowels of the local cemetery, these tales are as unique and as mysterious as … well, a Chinese Tattoo!
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Ellen Datlow
Del Rey Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-49632-4
release date: April 29
Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices.
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Prime Books
ISBN-10: 0809571501
ISBN-13: 978-0809571505
Release date: April 19, 2008
Bringing back into print a classic anthology of adult fairy tales by Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Nancy A. Collins, Roberta Lannes, Gahan Wilson, and others.
Black Thorn, White Rose
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
ISBN-10: 08095577
ISBN-13: 978-0809557752
Release date: April 2008
Bringing back into print a classic anthology of adult fairy tales by Peter Straub, Howard Waldrop, Jane Yolen, Storm, Constantine, and others.
The Cold Spot
by Tom Piccirilli
Bantam Books
ISBN-10: 0553590847
ISBN-13: 978-0553590845
Release date: April 2008
A young thief raised by his career criminal grandfather goes on the straight and narrow after falling in love with a sheriff's daughter. Years later, when tragedy strikes, he must enlist the aid of his dangerous grandfather to help him seek revenge.
Recent Releases
March 2008
Thinner Than Mist
by Cullen Bunn, J. P. Edwards, Curtis Hoffmeister and Mark W. Worthen
Bones and Caskets Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60585-943-9
Release date: March 27, 2008
These thirteen short stories and novellas all have ghosts and spirits as their common thread. These four Missouri-based authors will entertain, disturb and quite possibly cause you to get up and turn on the lights.
The Reaper
Joseph McGee
Magus Press
ISBN-10: 0979700027
ISBN-13: 9780979700026
Release date: March 28, 2008
One woman's allure with the paranormal turns deadly and leads to a man's quest for answers.
Daemon
Harry Shannon
Delirium Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-929653-94-2
Release date: March 1, 2008
A special ops team pursues the ghoul that is stalking Las Vegas in this trade paperback version of the third novel in Harry Shannon's "Night Trilogy."
Beneath the Stones
Edited by Mark W. Worthen & J. P. Edwards
Bones and Caskets Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60585-944-6
Release date: March 27, 2008
Beneath the Stones contains 25 stories and poems from midwestern writers to be peeled like the onions they are to find out the lessons, the scares, the chills and the sheer fun hiding beneath.
February 2008
The Bitchfight
Michael A. Arnzen
Bad Moon Books
Release date: February 2008
A veterinarian is asked to perform a very bizarre house call to pay off a gambling debt, and winds up playing ringside doctor to a terrible bloodsport. Introduction by Brian Hodge. A collector's perfect-bound horror novelette released in 200 signed trade paperbacks and 26 lettered hardcover editions from Bad Moon Books.
Witch Island
by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
Cerridwen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1419914249
Release Date: 7 February 7, 2008
Computer Specialist, Roxanne Gerik, accepts an unusual contract in a secluded area, only to have the very island turn against her.
Lucifer's Ark
by Simon Clark
Severn House
ISBN-13: 978-0-7278-6580-9
Release date: February 2008
Description: A cargo of psychotic murderers is being shipped to an overseas jail when a shadowy agency intervenes. Shipwrecks, chilling premonitions, webcam footage of slayings, forbidden lust, friendship forged in a furnace of absolute evil. This routine sailing has just become a voyage to hell.
Hellboy: Emerald Hell
By Tom Piccirilli
Dark Horse
ISBN-10: 1595821414
Release date: February 2008
In the deep South, Hellboy teams with a wandering hillbilly and the two take on an evil mystical preacher, his murderous moonshine-swillin' henchmen, and a swamp town of freaks.
High Risk
by Rick R. Reed
Amber Quill Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-953-7
Release date: February 2008
Beth Walsh seems like the perfect housewife until an irresistible--and monstrously twisted--stranger comes along and turns her well-ordered life into a nightmare.
The Price
By Alexandra Sokoloff
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10: 0-312-357516
Release date: February 20, 2008
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In the eerie twilight world of Briarwood Hospital, a Boston District Attorney begins to suspect that his wife has made a terrible bargain with a mysterious counselor to save the life of their dying child.
Upcoming Releases
May 2008
Sleuth Slayer
by Jeffrey B. Burton and Bruce W. Burton
Pocol Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-929763-32-0
Release Date: May 2008
America’s leading mystery writers are being brutally murdered. Through a dark labyrinth of film studio power brokers, publishing industry politics, a decadent family's wealthy influence, police immorality — as well as the dawning realization that he himself is on the killer's list — third-tier author Guy Davitt (a would-be Dashiell Hammett) pursues the truth.
