New Releases by HWA Members
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This Month's Releases
July 2009
Dark Time: Mortal Path Book 1
by Dakota Banks
HarperCollins/Eos
ISBN-10: 0-06-168730-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-168730-3
Release_Date: July 28, 2009
In the 17th century, a woman is ripped from her husband's arms, thrown in jail, and then set afire as a witch. Saved from the flames by an ancient Sumerian demon, she becomes the Black Ghost, his Ageless assassin gifted with otherworldly skills and superbly trained in martial arts. Centuries pass before Maliha Crayne finds a way out of the life she hates. If she saves as many lives as she's taken, she'll break the demon's hold on her.
Predatoress
by Emma Gabor
Newmedia Publishing
ISBN-10: 1893798577
ISBN-13: 9781893798571
Release_Date: July 4, 2009
Out on the town one night at Club Colosso for a joint feeding session with my friends, I dance with Zoltan Szabo, a genetic research fellow at the university. We form a friendship based on scientific interests and fall in love at a charity ball. I now realize working with Zoltan could be the key to freeing myself and my friends from vampirism. I must, with great pain, hold back from telling him the truth and from making him one of The Undead. My conscience and desire to love Zoltan and live a normal life drives me relentlessly to find a cure through original research. I now have a chance to rid the world of vampires and become a power for good!
The Estuary
Derek Gunn
Permuted Press
ISBN-10: 1934861243
ISBN-13: 978-1934861240
Release Date: July 1st 2009
The residents of Whiteshead are trapped within a quarantine zone with the military on one side and ravenous hordes of living dead on the other. Escape is no longer an option.
Far out in the mouth of the estuary a small Keep sits forlornly surrounded by an apron of jagged rocks. This refuge has always been unassailable, a place of myth and legend that has grown in folklore through the years. Now, it’s the survivors’ only hope of sanctuary. But there are thousands of flesh-eating infected between them and the Keep and time is running out …
Silver and Gold
by David Sakmyster
Dragon Moon Press
ISBN-10: 1-896944-98-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-896944-98-2
Release Date: July 15, 2009
A legendary prospector finds his fame – and nobility – amidst the gold rushes of the 19th century, facing off against fierce arctic beasts, evil industrialists, and the relentless forces of nature.
Recent Releases
June 2009
Feral Passion
by Stephanie Bedwell-Grimes
Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-60504-572-6
Release Date: 2 June 2009
It's never a good idea to date your prey...
Liquid Diet
by Michael McCarty
Black Death Books
ISBN-10: 0-9799881-7-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-9799881-7-2
Release Date: June 2009
As Andrew Bloodsworth, vampire writer and real life vampire, reveals over the all-night radio station airwaves his origins and the dark secrets and desires of the undead, listeners call in to talk to the undead writer. Most of the listeners are vampire and horror enthusiasts who are overjoyed to talk to a real life vampire, but OTTO—the Opposition To The Occult, a religious right organization—is also listening to the radio show — and they’re upset.
Dismember
by Daniel Pyle
Wild Child Publishing
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The summer he turned seven, Dave Abbott survived a gruesome mountainside car accident that left the rest of his family savaged and dead. Now, after living twenty-three years with the twisted backwoodsman who pulled him from the wreckage, Dave is carrying out a plan to replace each of his lost loved ones with members of nearby, unsuspecting families. He has prepared, he’s stalked, and now his chance has come to get his family safely out of the mountains once and for all. Whether they like it or not.
May 2009
The Kult
by Shaun Jeffrey
Leucrota Press
ISBN-10: 0980033985
ISBN-13: 978-0980033984
Release Date: May 2009
People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill.
Acting out of misguided loyalty to his friends, police officer Prosper Snow is goaded into helping them perform a copycat killing, but when the real killer comes after him, it’s not only his life on the line, but his family's too. Now if he goes to his colleagues for help, he risks being arrested for murder. If he doesn't, he risks being killed.
A Robe of Feathers and Other Stories
by Thersa Matsuura
Counterpoint LLC
ISBN-10: 1582434891
ISBN-13: 978-1582434896
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In Japan, nothing is as simple as it seems. When a child playing near a river fails to return home, it is whispered that she was swept away by an adzuki arai, or Bean Washer. Waking up to find your pillow at the foot of your bed is thought to be the trick of a makura gaeshi, otherwise known as a Pillow Turner. Your neighbor isn’t merely an eccentric old woman—she might very well be a shape-shifting, grudge-harboring Water Sprite.
Quarantined
by Joe McKinney
Lachesis Publishing
ISBN-10: 1-897370-65-2
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Detective Lily Harris hunts for a killer in a city quarantined by the military and torn apart by riots and a deadly outbreak of the flu.
The Unseen
by Alexandra Sokoloff
St. Martins Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-38470-8
Release date: May 26, 2009
Two psychology researchers discover the files on a long-buried poltergeist investigation and decide to move into an abandoned mansion with two exceptionally gifted students to replicate the experiment, unaware that the entire original research team ended up insane... or dead. Inspired by the real-life, world-famous ESP experiments conducted by Dr. J.B. Rhine in the Duke University parapsychology department.
Pressure
by Jeff Strand
Leisure Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8439-6253-6
Release Date: May 26, 2009
What if your best friend was a killer...and wanted you to be just like him?
April 2009
The Black Act
by Louise Bohmer
Lachesis Publishing
Release date: April 28, 2009
The history of a curse is fraught with bloody battles, bitter hatred, and
dark secrets. Two witch twins are about to learn their peaceful life is a facade, and
beneath lies the dreadful truth of their cursed heritage.
Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Viking Juvenile
ISBN-10: 0670061417
ISBN-10: 978-0670061419
Release Date April 16, 2009
In this follow-up to Datlow and Windling’s A Wolf at the Door and Swan Sister, the duo again amass an anthology of fairy-tale retellings, for 8-12 year olds, only this time they keep focus upon the backstories of well-known villains.
Chimeric Machines
by Lucy A. Snyder
CGP
ISBN-10: 189495355X
ISBN-20: 978-1-894953-55-9
Release date: April 14th.
This collection offers three dozen dark poems to delight readers who enjoy sly wordplay and subtle allusion, high intelligence and fierce heart.
Upcoming Releases
August 2009
DARE TO BE SCARED 4
Thirteen More Tales of Terror
by Robert D. San Souci
illustrated by David Ouimet
Cricket Books / Carus Publishing
ISBN-10: 0-8126-2754-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-8126-2754-1
Release date: August 1, 2009
In this new addition to the series, author Robert D. San Souci and illustrator David Ouimet join forces to present 13 deliciously frightening tales. Elements of urban legend and folklore are utilized to weave powerful and suspenseful (yet age-appropriate) stories that young readers are sure to revisit, finding new meaning — and shivers — with each reading.
September 2009
Visions
by Lawrence C. Connolly
Fantasist Enterprises
ISBN-10: 1-934571-01-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-934571-01-9
September 29, 2009
For three decades, Lawrence C. Connolly has defied category, writing across genre to create stories where dreams are reality, the future is now, and a lone madman may be the sanest person in the room. Presented here are twenty classic and two all new stories with introductions that discuss the origins of each. Additionally, the book features a retrospective essay about the road to publication and beyond.
