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Authors: Aaron Sterns & Greg McLean WOLF CREEK: ORGIN Nature vs nurture turns out to be a bloodbath. The wide open outback offers plenty of space for someone to hide. Or to hide a body. When wiry youngster Mick Taylor starts as a jackaroo at a remote Western Australian sheep station, he tries to keep his head down among the rough company of the farmhands. But he can't keep the devils inside him hidden for long. It turns out he's not the only one with the killer impulse – and the other psychopaths don't appreciate competition. Is Cutter, the station's surly…

Author: L. Andrew Cooper DESCENDING LINES When Megan met Carter Anderson at Harvard, their college romance took a mystical turn thanks to THE ALCHEMY OF WILL, a book by Dr. Allen Fincher that gave them the power to do almost anything, with disastrous results. Years later, they have a six-year-old daughter, Caitlin, dying a slow death from bone cancer. Dr. Fincher’s book offers them a cure: they can save the life of their first-born by sacrificing the life of their second. But Megan and Carter don’t have a second-born… yet. Only half-convinced, Megan, confined to their New York apartment, begins nine…

Author: Frazer Lee THE JACK IN THE GREEN A nightmare made real. On Christmas Eve, six year-old Tom McCrae witnessed an unspeakable atrocity that left him orphaned, his childhood in tatters. Now in his mid-thirties, Tom still has terrifying nightmares of that night. When Tom is sent to the remote Scottish village of Douglass to negotiate a land grab for his employer it seems like a golden opportunity for him to start over. But Tom can’t help feeling he’s been to Douglass before, and the terrible dreams from his childhood have begun to spill over into his waking life. As…

Author: Collie James THE FORGOTTEN When young Alley Anderson, moves into her newly acquired home, she soon finds that there's more wrong with the house than the fact that it is over a hundred years old. She doesn't know what exactly, but there's something hidden and horribly off . With the help of her Dashing new friend, Kody Farmer, she sets out to find what haunts the old house before she is attacked again. Will the next assault be worst one thus far, or will they discover a way to end haunting before it's to late? The Forgotten is an…

Author: D. Alexander Ward A FEAST OF BUZZARDS Take a journey through a twisted version of the American South with these stories by author D. Alexander Ward as he draws back the curtain on a world where isolation, faith and transformation all play a part in the struggle between light and dark—and the battles that rage within us all. The ghost of a young boy’s father helps him discover the hero within as he strives to rescue his mother, abducted during a drug deal gone bad. During a trip across Mississippi, a man listens as a voice on the radio…

Author: Nikki Hopeman HABEAS CORPSE When a series of grisly murders terrorizes the Steel City, Theo-an undead "Riser" working as a forensic technician for the Pittsburgh police-decides to use his dark gift to hunt the killer. "DEXTER meets Deadite... Nikki Hopeman's book just might be the most clever zombie story to hit the shelves in quite some time." ~ Michael Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Play Dead "If George Romero had created CSI, the result might have been something like Nikki Hopeman's Habeas Corpse. A cross-genre blend of mystery, horror, and urban fantasy, with strong characterization and razor-sharp prose.…

Author: Marty Young 809 JACOB STREET Fourteen year old Byron James wishes he'd never been dragged to Parkton. It's a crazy sideshow of a town in the middle of damn nowhere, and he's stranded there. To make matters worse, his two new friends - his only friends - turn out to be class rejects with an unhealthy interest in monsters. They want to discover the truth to the infamous monster house at number 809 Jacob Street. Joey Blue is an old bluesman who fell into his songs and couldn't find his way out again. Now he's a Gutterbreed, one of…

Editor: William Cook FRESH FEAR FRESH FEAR: Contem­porary Horror is a collection of horror from some of the genre's best writers of dark fiction. This collection has no central theme other than the stories' ability to scare the hell out of the reader! Tales steeped in psychological horror sit alongside visions of strange worlds and inner landscapes drenched in blood. 'Quiet horror' sits comfortably next to more visceral portrayals of the monsters that lurk deep within the human heart. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famously once said, "where there is no imagination there is no horror" - the horror expressed by…

Editors: R. J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris HORROR LIBRARY VOLUME 5 Spanning the universe of modern literary horror, this volume features 30 genre rich short stories by 30 cutting edge authors, some well known, some soon to be. If you'd like a snapshot of where horror fiction is headed, you have found the right book. With stories by Bentley Little, Ray Garton, Jeff Strand, Michael A. Arnzen, Tracie McBride, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Shane McKenzie, Taylor Grant, Kristin Dearborn, Charles Colyott, and 20 others! Publisher: Cutting Block Press Publication Date: November 15, 2013

Author: Gary McMahon WHERE YOU LIVE Horror is everywhere… It’s waiting behind a closed door, sitting in an ordinary chair, or following you on a country walk. Perhaps it’s washed up on a tranquil beach, hanging at a local skate park, recorded on an MP3 player hard drive, or even embedded somewhere deep within the design of something as simple and innocuous as a supermarket barcode. Horror is everywhere, in the shadows and in the light. It takes on every shape, comes in every conceivable size. But most of all it’s right where you live. Gary McMahon is a spellbinding…

Author: Kevin Lucia THINGS SLIP THROUGH 2009 British Fantasy Award Winner for Best Collection The twenty-one stories collected in Bull Running for Girls are widely varied, both in setting and subject. From small town life in Madison County to the dangers of bull running in Pamplona, the stories seem, at first blush, unrelated. They are bound, however, by Allyson Bird’s strength. She is a remarkable woman, the stories collected here as personal as they are unsettling. The atmosphere, the tone and mood invoked by the author aside – it is the humanity at the heart of each tale that is…

Author: Allyson Bird BULL RUNNING FOR GIRLS 2009 British Fantasy Award Winner for Best Collection The twenty-one stories collected in Bull Running for Girls are widely varied, both in setting and subject. From small town life in Madison County to the dangers of bull running in Pamplona, the stories seem, at first blush, unrelated. They are bound, however, by Allyson Bird’s strength. She is a remarkable woman, the stories collected here as personal as they are unsettling. The atmosphere, the tone and mood invoked by the author aside – it is the humanity at the heart of each tale that…

Author: John Everson VIOLET EYES Their bites are more than deadly... The small town near the Everglades was supposed to offer Rachel and her son a fresh start. Instead it offered the start of a nightmare, when an unknown breed of flies migrated through the area, leaving painful bites in their wake. The media warned people to stay inside until the swarm passed. But the flies didn't leave. And then the radios and TVs went silent. That's when the spiders came. Spiders that could spin a deadly web large enough to engulf an entire house overnight. Spiders that left stripped…

Author: Michael Hibbard WAKING DREAM: DEVLIN BOOK 1 Devlin is the first book in this nine novel series that explores the universe as a Waking Dream. Over the centuries, people known as Dreamers and Immortals learned how to change the reality by tapping into a primordial force known as the Weird - the energy responsible for the creation of the physical world. Set in the present day, in the strange, hidden town of Devlin nestled in the mountains of Virginia, a battle for the control of reality is about to begin. With the Halloween festival upon them,the Dreamers of Devlin…

Author: Bruce T. Jones THE LOST REFLECTION Brian Denman, a retired CIA agent and lethal mercenary turned private investigator, unearths the scum and scandals among the politically powerful. When his friend Phillip Wilder, owner and editor of Urban Legends tabloid, recruits him to gather information for a blockbuster story, Brian cascades into a series of unexpected events. Sent to New Orleans, Brian probes into the centuries-old myth of what the Vatican conceals on the third floor of the Old Ursuline Convent. As he delves deeper into the mystery, Brian is hurled into New Orleans' dark and dangerous underworld, a labyrinth…

Author: Chantal Noordeloos DEEPLY TWISTED: TWENTY DARK TALES WITH A TWIST A mother murders her eldest daughter. A clock appears in the middle of a park. A one-eyed man with a raven on his shoulder joins three homeless men on a chilly night… Embrace the night and all its terrors in this macabre gallery of monsters. The living and the dead, the spectral and the material—horrifying visions from the tormented mind of Chantal Noordeloos. Your nightmares will never be the same. The Ministry of Zombies was provided with a review copy of these sordid tales in exchange for a review.…

Author: Mark Onspaugh THE FACELESS ONE In 1948, when he was just a boy, Jimmy Kalmaku trained with his uncle to be the shaman of his Tlingit village in Alaska. There he learned the old legends, the old myths, the old secrets. Chief among them was that of a mask locked in a prison of ice, and of the faceless god imprisoned within: a cruel and vengeful god called T'Nathluk, dedicated to the infliction of pain and suffering. Now all but forgotten in a Seattle retirement home, Jimmy finds his life turned upside down. For when an unwitting archaeologist pries…

Author: Joe McKinney and Sanford Allen DOG DAYS /  DEADLY PASSAGE Dog Days: It’s the summer of 1983 and the suburbs of Houston are reeling from a disastrous hurricane. But the storm brought more than wind and floodwaters. In the swamps that surround Clear Lake a brutal and possibly supernatural killer is gathering strength, and waiting for the full moon. The focus of his bloodlust is fifteen year old Mark Eckert. Reckless to a fault, with a knack for making spectacularly bad decisions, Mark had planned to spend that last summer before high school wandering the swamps with his friends…

Author: Matthew Warner 400 DAYS OF OPPRESSION Natasha has met the man of her dreams, and there is nothing she wouldn't do to please him. Kenyatta has taught Natasha about herself, given her a sense of safety she has never felt before, and shown her a whole new world of sexual experiences. Now she must learn the hardest part of love: understanding. To help Natasha overcome her white-trash upbringing and understand African heritage, Kenyatta offers her a wager. A very real and dangerous wager, but one worth taking. Can Natasha's love endure... 400 DayS of Oppression? Publisher: Blood Bound Books…