THE SAVAGE DEAD by HWA Member Joe McKinney

Author: Joe McKinney THE SAVAGE DEAD It starts in a laboratory. A man-made strain of flesh-eating virus. Created by a power-hungry cartel. Capable of turning victims into brain-dead carnivores. Smuggled aboard a cruise ship that's about to set sail...One by one, the passengers are exposed. A U.S. senator. A young couple. An undercover agent. A beautiful assassin. Some will be infected. Others will survive. But no one will be spared if the outbreak isn't contained - and the dead outnumber the living...Enter Delta Force operative Juan Perez. He's fought the deadliest killers in the darkest hellholes on earth. But he's…

THE OMEGA DOG by HWA Members Thom Brannan & D.L. Snell

Authors: Thom Brannan & D.L. Snell THE OMEGA DOG A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE A stranger appears in the dark of the Mexican desert. They say he can change his face. He could be anyone, at any time. And they say he can bring the dead back to life. A KILLING MACHINE On the brink of life and death, a monster, self-aware, dangles at the end of a puppeteer’s strings, forced to help the very man he seeks to destroy. AN EPIC JOURNEY SOUTH Twisting and turning through hordes of zombies, cartel territory, Mayan ruins, and the things that now inhabit them, a…

LOVELESS by HWA Member Dev Jerrett

Author: Dev Jerrett LOVELESS Till death do us part . . . sometimes. When a hapless explorer disturbs the watery grave of Muriel Wallace, a terrifying chain of events is put into motion. Corey Rockland, sheriff of a sleepy Georgia town, must now unravel the mystery behind a corrupt family and a broken heart dating back to the Civil War. Unless he can find a way to stop her, Muriel will unleash her vengeance on anyone she deems loveless. “This is a great summer read . . . unless you happen to be by a lake . . . or…

The Lucifer Glass by HWA Member Frazer Lee

Author: Frazer Lee THE LUCIFER GLASS "It may cost you your soul." Daniel Gates is a fixer. Whatever his client wants, he can get for a price. But the price of his latest assignment is a high one indeed. He is to travel to Scotland to exchange a rare demonic text, a grimoire, for a consignment of even rarer whiskey. Reading the grimoire, Gates learns of the legend of Lucifer s Glass and the unholy trinity of green-eyed demons who protect it. As he does battle with the demons, Daniel realizes too late that there is much more to his…

SPECIAL DEAD by HWA Member Patrick Freivald

Author: Patrick Freivald SPECIAL DEAD Shackled to her desk, Ani Romero has a hard time concentrating on her studies. One of eight zombie survivors of the Prompocalypse, she’s back at school, but this time it’s no secret. Locked in their room, flamethrower-toting soldiers watching their every move, they’re tasked with homework and classes during the week, and macabre experiments on the weekend. When the courts rule they’re not human, only an appeal keeps them alive long enough to discover a cure. College applications and SATs pale under the threat of incineration, and desperation turns them into lab rats… …but the…

WISH YOU WERE HERE: ADVENTURES IN CEMETERY TRAVEL by HWA member Loren Rhoads

Author: Loren Rhoads WISH YOU WERE HERE: ADVENTURES IN CEMETERY TRAVEL Over the past two decades, Loren Rhoads has visited literally hundreds of graveyards. She’s traveled to London’s Highgate Cemetery, strolled through the Paris Catacombs, seen Hollywood Forever pulled back from the brink of destruction, studied Native American graveyards in Michigan, explored a circuit minister’s churchyard on Maui, delved into the Protestant Cemetery of Rome and Zoshigaya Reien in Tokyo, and made stops in Prague, Boston, Los Angeles, Hiroshima, Yosemite, Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, and New Orleans along the way. Come along on her adventures in cemeteries around the world. “Lovingly…

SUMMER’S END by HWA Member Lisa Morton

Author: Lisa Morton SUMMER'S END When Lisa Morton, author of The Halloween Encyclopedia, is called in to consult on the recent discovery of a fifteen-hundred-year-old Celtic manuscript, she’s at first excited about the light this monumental find might shed on Samhain, the mysterious Celtic precursor to Halloween. Conor ó Cuinn, the Irish archaeologist who excavated the manuscript, thinks it reveals ancient magic. Lisa is skeptical…until people around her begin dying. Dr. Wilson Armitage, the university professor who was translating the manuscript, is found torn apart by wild animals…or was he actually attacked by vicious sidh, malicious Celtic spirits that wreak…

SMOG / BAGGAGE OF ETERNAL NIGHT (Double Down #2) by HWA Members Lisa Morton and Eric J. Guignard

Authors: Lisa Morton and Eric J. Guignard In Smog, tomboy Joey thinks she’s got the perfect life: It’s 1965 and she lives in an idyllic Southern California suburb where everyone works for the aerospace industry. But when something goes wrong with a rocket test, the smog thickens and the teenagers change into rampaging killers. Can Joey survive long enough to escape the neighborhood before she joins their ranks? BAGGAGE OF ETERNAL NIGHT: 1963 Detroit is a hotbed of gambling, and the weekly baggage auctions keep a busy trade. Regulars, Charlie Stewart and Joey Third, are skilled in the methods of…

HORROR! UNDER THE TOMBSTONE by HWA Member David A. Sutton (Editor)

Author: David A. Sutton (Editor) IMAGINE THE SIXTIES and Seventies... Hammer films and American International Pictures... The time of Plague of the Zombies, Lust for a Vampire, Quatermass and the Pit, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace and The Masque of the Red Death. Imagine we're back there now. No mobile phones, no videotapes or DVDs, no personal computers. And iPads and Kindles are decades away. Where we are now, music is played on vinyl records with a stylus picking up the recorded sound on an old fashioned "radiogram" or a "portable" record player. Horror stories had their emphasis on…

SEASON OF THE WOLF by HWA Member Jeffrey J. Mariotte

Author: Jeffrey J. Mariotte When Alex Converse, heir to a coal company fortune, visits Silver Gap, Colorado to make an environmentally themed documentary film, he's hoping to change some minds and to soothe his own troubled conscience. But there's more going on—in his mind, and in Silver Gap—than Alex knows. People are dying and women are disappearing. Some of the killers have fur, fangs, and claws—but some don't. What is Alex's connection to the missing women? Will anyone live long enough to find out? And what's up with those wolves? Season of the Wolf is a heart-stopping supernatural thriller about…

OUT OF STONE by HWA Member John G Rees

Author: John G Rees Sechra may have been a child when she was salvaged from the revolution, but not before witnessing the barbaric nature of the enemy. The nightmares she lived through could not be forgotten nor the odium in her soul denied. She hid the execration behind sparkling eyes and an open nature. Just behind the eyes however lurked something entirely disturbing. Sechra's subconscious found release through her artistic abilities. No one thought anything of her stone renderings other than they lent themselves to the macabre. The subject matter was overlooked, as it seemed a cathartic for the young…

BLACK MAGIC by HWA Member Russell James

Author: Russell James Website_Link: http://www.russellrjames.com Short_Synopsis: In this magic shop the magic is real. And the trick is on you. Citrus Glade is a dying town that needs new businesses, but the one that just opened is doing much more harm than good. Lyle Millerā s magic shop seems to only stock what its select customers desire. When four outcast boys buy common party tricks, only Lyle knows what those tricks can really do. As subtle changes occur around town, a few residents realize that something is amiss. But it may be too late. Lyleā s black magic has empowered…

STEALING NIGHT by HWA Member Peter Giglio

Author: Peter Giglio Jack has nothing to live for, nothing worth dying for, no one to love, nothing to lose; but that all changes when his sisterâ s life unravels and he takes guardianship of Nora, his eleven-year-old niece. Looking out for her fast becomes the only thing he has ever done right. Driven to move his family from the bleak flatlands, to give his niece a chance at a better life, Jack takes the only job he can find, washing cars for minimum wage, saving every penny. When an old friend steps back into Jackâ s life, a joyride…

LOOKING BACKWARD IN DARKNESS by HWA Member Kathryn Ptacek

Author: Kathryn Ptacek These nineteen intriguing fantasy and horror tales challenge the very heart and soul of the reader. From unhappy husbands and beleaguered wives, to those individuals living completely on their own, these hard-edged and gritty psychological gems present life--and death--on the edge. Whatever the outcome, there's always a price to be paid... Among the stories included are: "Three, Four, Shut the Door," "Bruja," "The Grotto," "Hair," "The Home," "Snow," and "Each Night, Each Year." First-rate supernatural fiction by a masterful storyteller. "Each Night, Each Year" was a Bram Stoker-award finalist. Publisher: Borgo Press Release_Date: March 8, 2013 ISBN_10:…

THE SPELLCASTER’S GRIMOIRE by HWA Member Mark All

Author: Mark All estselling witchcraft author Trish Sinclair has a shameful secret: sheâ s a lousy spellcaster, and the spells in her books belong to others. So when a dying warlock entrusts her with an ancient and powerful grimoire, she runs for her life from his murderer, psychotic witch Kate Cavanaugh. Kate pursues Trish relentlessly to obtain the grimoire, which holds spells to command the fearsome power of a magic crystal hidden in town When the town coven refuses to help Trish protect the grimoire, she is forced to turn to cynical warlock Aidan McCarthy, who has a secret agenda…

BLACK TEA AND OTHER TALES by HWA Member Samuel Marolla

Author: Samuel Marolla Includes three stories: Black Tea, Crocodiles and The Janara. The first two stories were previously published in hard copy (in Italian) in the collection Malarazza (Epix Mondadori, 2009), while the last one, The Janara, was published by the author in 2011 in ebook. This new edition offers a fully revised English version of the stories, edited by the Bram Stoker Awards winner Benjamin Kane Ethridge. The collection also contains an introduction by another Bram Stoker Awards winner, Gene O'Neill, entitled: A box of lovely dark chocolate. Samuel Marolla's stories, are different as for atmosphere, setting and use…

BROKEN by HWA Member Weldon Burge

Author: Weldon Burge This is a collection of five horror/suspense stories by Weldon Burge, including: SIZZLE -- A philandering doctor meets a hill man who wants the "sizzle" cut out of his brain ANOTHER HIGHWAY FATALITY -- A college girl, driving alone late at night during a heavy storm, is stalked by a car with a missing headlight WHITE HELL, WISCONSIN -- A snow plow driver, plowing back roads in rural Wisconsin during a blizzard, fights for his life against elusive assailants PERMANENT DETENTION -- A stressed-out teenager believes his History teacher is actually one of the living dead BLUE…

GUNSLINGERS & GHOST STORIES by HWA Member David B. Riley (editor)

Author: David B. Riley (editor) Ghosts are not just found in haunted houses. They have a disturbing tendency to turn up where you least expect them: like saloons, brothels, Indian ruinsâ and sometimes even in the middle of a gunfight. Saddle up for a haunted ride through the Wild West. Featuring spooky stories by Joel Jenkins, Dana Bell, Laura Givens, Henrik Ramsager, Kit Volker, Kenneth W. Cain, Adrian Ludens, C. J. Killmer, Darla Upchurch, John Howard & J. A. Campbell. Publisher: Science Fiction Trails Release_Date: 12-1-12 ISBN_10: 0615725848 ISBN_13: 978-0615725848

HAIR SIDE, FLESH SIDE by HWA Member Helen Marshall

Author: Helen Marshall A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the extraordinary journey to the beginning of the universe. Lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting, Helen Marshallâ s exceptional debut collection weaves the fantastic and the horrific alongside the touchingly human in fifteen modern parables about history, memory, and cost of creating art. 'Masterful…

THE WALLS OF THE CASTLE by HWA Member Tom Piccirilli

Author: Tom From four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award and finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award Tom Piccirilli comes an intense and visceral psychological thriller novella, the first title in the Black Labyrinth imprint illustrated by Gothic artist Santiago caruso. 20% of all hardcover proceeds and 100% of ebook proceeds will be donated directly to author Tom Piccirilli in his fight against brain cancer. In the labyrinthian maze of endless corridors, annexes, and wings of the enormous medical complex known as The Castle prowls a grief-stricken man determined to…