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This Month's Releases
August 2010
Down the Drain
by Daniel Pyle
Blood Brothers Publishing
ISBN-10: 0-9828691-0-X
ISBN-13: 9780982869109
Release Date: August 3, 2010
When Bruce comes home to an emptier-than-usual house after a hard day of work, he doesn't have the energy to do much more than drop into the tub. What he doesn't realize is that even when you think you're completely, totally alone...you're not.
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Haunted Houses: Are You Scared Yet? Series
by Robert D. San Souci
Christy Ottaviano Books / Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8750-5
Release Date: August 2010
Here's the first book in scare-master Robert D. San Souci's new macabre series. In his winning style, he serves up ten chilling tales about untraditional haunted houses: a mansion full of pirate treasure, a ghost trapped in a mysterious dollhouse, a boy whose vacation house comes complete with people-eating spiders, and many more. A must-have collection for middle-grade readers who are fans of the bone-chiller genre.
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Chosen
by Jeanne C. Stein
Ace Books
ISBN-10: 044101917X
ISBN-13: 978-0441019175
Release Date: August 31
It’s been almost a year since bounty hunter Anna Strong became a vampire, but as she’s about to discover, her greatest powers have yet to be unleashed. What Anna doesn’t know is that she’s been chosen to shape the destiny of the vampire race — and all of mankind…
Recent Releases
July 2010
Dark Matters
by Bruce Boston
Bad Moon Books
ISBN-10: 0-9844601-5-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-9844601-5-1
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Bruce Boston's 30th poetry collection: 49 dark poems, six appearing here for the first time. “Whether he’s writing about an errant siren, a grimoire, a vulture, or the apocalyptic implosion of our way of life, Boston does it with stunning and unexpected complexity. There is a sense of completeness to his poems, a sense that he has turned the thing around and looked at it from every angle. He offers insights that are startling in their clarity, and — after he’s shown them to us — completely logical. This is a laudable achievement in and of itself, but the fact that he can balance his eye for detail and his intuition about character with a poet’s ear for the lyrical joy of language is awe-inspiring.” –Joe McKinney, author of Dead City and Quarantined
Succumbing to Gravity
by Richard Farnsworth
Reliquary Press
ISBN-10: 0984183345
ISBN-13: 978-0984183340
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Greg used to be an angel, but that was an eternity ago. Back when he was Araqiel, part of the celestial chorus. Back before he gave in to his temptations. Before he fell. Now he roams the wet streets of a hopeless city, feeding his addictions and punishing himself for sins that cannot be forgiven. But when a desperate girl and a host of vengeful demons cross his path, Greg must choose between redemption and damnation. For him, the two may not be so different.
The Pharos Objective
by David Sakmyster
Variance / Deviation
ISBN-10: 1-935142-15-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-935142-15-
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Driven by visions of his dead father, Professor Caleb Crowe reluctantly joins the Morpheus Initiative, a team of remote-viewing archaeologists determined to locate the remains of the seventh Wonder of the Ancient World - The Pharos Lighthouse - beneath which the legendary treasure of Alexander the Great is rumored to be hidden.
Crowe's quest spans two thousand years of visionary history that connects the ashes of Herculaneum and the lost Library of Alexandria with a secret government program and an ancient society called The Keepers.
To discover a threshold guarded by deadly traps and forgotten prophecies is one thing, but facing the truth about himself is something else altogether.
June 2010
Wolf's Bluff
by W.D. Gagliani
Leisure Books
ISBN-10: 0843963484
ISBN-13: 9780843963489
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Third in the Detective Nick Lupo series, following Stoker-nominated WOLF'S TRAP and its sequel, WOLF'S GAMBIT.
Homicide cop--and werewolf--Nick Lupo has battled other werewolves before, killers who unlike Nick have no problem hunting human prey. So when a new series of savage animal attacks terrifies the area, Nick already has a suspect in mind. And he knows that if he's right it'll be up to him to destroy her. But even as begins his surveillance, someone else is out there, watching them both. Someone with a very deadly plan. Someone who knows just what it takes to kill a werewolf.
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The Frenzy Way
by Gregory Lamberson
Medallion Press
ISBN-10: 0123456789
ISBN-13: 9781605421070
Release Date: June 1, 2010
They live among us in the shadows: a species unknown to man except in legend. Highly intelligent, with the ability to adapt their flesh to new forms, they are capable of great destruction and ruthless behavior but desire only to live in peace. In New York City, a rogue member of their underground society threatens to reveal their existence to mankind, which will provoke a terrifying war unlike any seen before.
Anthony Mace, the heroic captain of an NYPD homicide unit, is a media darling because of his successful record in apprehending serial killers. But Mace faces the case of his career — a case no one else wants to touch — when a series of vicious and bloody murders sends the city reeling in panic. His only clue is a historic artifact discovered at one of the crime scenes: the hilt of a sword with a broken silver blade, bearing the likeness of a pious Inquisitor ... and an angry wolf.
Each horrifying murder leads Mace closer to an impossible truth that his superiors refuse to consider. In the midst of a national media firestorm, Mace must risk his career—and his very life—to stop this supernatural horror.
God's Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man's Eternal Search for the Divine
by Michael Largo
HarperCollins
ISBN-10: 978-0-06-173284-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-173284-3
Release Date: June 22, 2010
What is the meaning of life? Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has sought to answer the mysteries of existence. Unfortunately this restless search for the divine has, all too often, driven seekers in regrettable directions — toward the comically ridiculous and irrational but also the frighteningly horrific and maniacal.
May 2010
Curse of the Full Moon
edited by James Lowder
Ulysses Press
ISBN-10: 1569757887
ISBN-13: 978-1569757888
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The first touch of moonlight transforms the kindly, sad-eyed stranger into something else--something vicious, terrible, and beyond the reach of reason. The curse has taken hold. From fog-shrouded heaths and urban mazes to fantastic realms and unsettling futurescapes, the werewolves are on the prowl...
With stories from such world-renowned voices in horror and fantasy as Peter S. Beagle, Ramsey Campbell, Nancy A. Collins, Jonathan Carroll, Charles de Lint, Harlan Ellison®, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, and Gene Wolfe, Curse of the Full Moon presents a remarkable collection of works that examine the legend of the werewolf from a wide variety of insightful and inventive perspectives. The battle against the beast within can create heroes or horrors, and only the light of the full moon reveals which it is that you face: your savior or your doom.
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A Host of Shadows
by Harry Shannon
Dark Regions Press
Release Date: May, 2010
"Everyone carries a shadow," wrote analyst Carl Jung, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."
Few of us see the shadow with any clarity. Turn around for a peek, it slips away. Our violent, sexually tinged fantasies are indulged regularly in darkened theaters, savored in eerie prose, celebrated in song, sometimes reluctantly encountered within the depths of a reoccurring nightmare. When we do look hard at one, long enough to recognize it as our own, the experience can challenge reality. We can then choose to become wiser as a result -- or spin totally out of control. How many fragments of a shattered mirror could you examine and still survive? In this collection, his first in nearly ten years, award winning author Harry Shannon gives us twenty three short stories, some published here for the first time.
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Upcoming Releases
September 2010
Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears
edited by Angela Challis and Dr. Marty Young
Brimstone Press
ISBN-10: 0-9805677-4-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-9805677-4-8
Release Date: September 2010
Macabre is a snapshot of the fears that have gripped Australians for over 200 years: the isolation of the bush, monstrous fauna, supernatural terrors, violence, war, terrorism, alienation, cannibalism, and murder. From the very earliest colonial ghost stories through to grim tales of modern life, Macabre will take you on a journey through the terrifying heart of Australian horror.
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October 2010
Toothless
J. P. Moore
Dragon Moon Press
ISBN-10: 1-897492-18-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-897492-18-5
Release Date: 10/31/2010
An ancient evil leads a rampaging army of demons and undead warriors across the countryside. One knight, a failed Templar, is the last hope of the living. The dice are cast against him. He is slain, only to rise in service to the very evil that he hoped to destroy. He is a gifted minion. But life is not done with him yet.
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Shotgun Sorceress
by Lucy A. Snyder
Del Rey
ISBN-10: 0-345-51210-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-51210-9
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Outlaw sorceress Jessie Shimmer and her friends are trapped in an isolated West Texas town that is being decimated by a soul harvester named Miko. As they battle Miko and her minions, Jessie discovers a darkness within herself that she must overcome to save the town, her friends, and her own soul.
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November 2010
The Painted Darkness
by Brian James Freeman
Cemetery Dance Publications
ISBN-10: 1-58767-208-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-58767-208-8
Release Date: November 2010
When Henry was a child, something terrible happened in the woods behind his home, something so shocking he could only express his terror by drawing pictures of what he had witnessed. Twenty years later, Henry makes his living by painting his disturbing works of art. He loves his wife and his son, and life couldn't be better. Except there's something not quite right about the old stone farmhouse his family now calls home.
A winter storm is brewing, and soon Henry will learn the true nature of the monster waiting for him down in the darkness. He will battle this demon and, in the process, he may discover what really happened when he was a child — and why, in times of trouble, he thinks: I paint against the darkness. But will Henry learn the truth in time to avoid the terrible fate awaiting him?
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