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Authors: Patrick & Philip Freivald BLOOD LIST Paul Renner has toyed with the FBI since his first kill. When an anonymous contract threatens his father’s life, his search for answers hits a dead end. Desperate to save his dad, he cuts a deal with Special Agent Gene Palomini. With each new development, the FBI needs Paul less, and their agreement begins to unravel. As they fall into a world of inhuman violence and macabre medicine, each side knows that betrayal is only a matter of time. Publisher: JournalStone Publication Date: Nov. 15, 2013

Author: Nikki Hopeman HABEAS CORPSE Years after the Event, Risers have become a way of life. The resurrected dead may be your cashier, lawyer, or local postman. Theo Walker is a riser who works with forensics. But Theo has a dark secret…and it allows him to see a pattern in the recent, grisly murders that have plagued Pittsburgh. Now Theo is the only one who can stop a serial killer before it’s too late. This is NOT the run-of-the-mill apocalyptic zombie novel. It’s a graphic murder mystery with an undead twist. Fun for fans of horror and thrillers. "Dexter meets…

Author: E. Michael Lewis LOST AND FOUND Some things were never meant to be found. When a family goes missing in the wilds of Washington State, veteran outdoorsman Ken Holbrook agrees one last time to lead a team of teenage search-and-rescue trainees—a joker, a brain, an Eagle Scout, a cute couple and a bully—deep into the forest to find them. But their compasses point them in wrong directions, their terrain doesn’t match their maps, and their radio—their only link to the outside world—spews only static. They will soon discover that the family they are looking for is not the only…

Editor: Geoff Brown Midnight Echo Issue 9 features more than 100 pages of fiction, art, interviews, book releases, and more! All based on myths and legends, including a novella by Jonathan Maberry and non-fiction by Robin Furth. TOC: Literature Changeling by Jonathan Maberry Black Train Blues by James A Moore Black Peter by Martin Livings The Road by Amanda J Spedding Coffee Rings by Kristin Dearborn The Wee Folk by JG Faherty From the Forebears by Steven Gepp Little Boy, Little Girl, Lost in the Woods by Mark Patrick Lynch The Fathomed Wreck to See by Alan Baxter Poetry ganesh…

Author: David A. Riley David A. Riley began writing horror stories while still at school and had his first professional sale to Pan Books 1969, which was The Lurkers in the Abyss, published in the The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories. This story was chosen by John Pelan for inclusion in The Century's Best Horror Fiction, published by Cemetery Dance in 2012. Over the years he has had numerous stories published in Britain and the United States, plus translations into German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. Publishers include Pan, Sphere, Doubleday, Corgi, ROC, Cemetery Dance, DAW, Robinson, Vintage, Skyhorse, and…

Author: Bruce Boston DARK ROADS: SELECTED LONG POEMS 1971-2012 Long_Synopsis: Considered one of the leading genre/speculative poets for more than a quarter century, Bruce Boston has received the Bram Stoker Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Asimovâ s Readers Award, the Rhysling Award, and the first Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Dark Roads collects the best of his long dark poems from more than forty years of publishing. Strikingly illustrated by acclaimed artist M. Wayne Miller, these poems range from direct narratives to surreal explorations of time, memory, obsession and transformation. Includes two Rhysling Winners and three Rhysling…

Author: James Chambers No greater musician than Gorge ever lived in the realm of the sidhe. No faerie musician ever delved so deeply into the taboo songs and the forbidden music&emdash;the Way of the Bone. Yet, Gorge refused to deny himself their temptations. In reward his true love betrayed him, and the faerie kings and queens who once praised him stripped him of his magic and exiled him to the mortal world. Left to go mad and die, Gorge discovered new life in the arms of a mortal woman, Delilah, and new magic in the music that sings in the…

Author: James Gurley GRAVE DANCER'S CLUB Sleepy little Corinth, Mississippi has its share of ghosts. The bloody battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Corinth during the Civil War left thousands in their graves. Cemeteries and battlefields dot the surrounding area like drops of blood on the map. When fourteen-year old Jeff Mason and his fellow Grave Dancer Club members decided to forgo their usual ghost story and spy on a reported real ghost, they do not foresee becoming mice in a deadly cat-and-mouse game between them and a two-hundred year old Strigoi vampire named Albert Whitney. Whitney, buried one…

Author: David Bernstein DAMAGED SOULS John Crawford wasn’t able to deal with the pain and took the easy way out. At least he thought he did. Instead, he’s been offered a deal by a nightmarish creature and given a second chance at life. But he’s no longer human. And he’s been assigned an impossible task. He must kill a demon before it opens the gates of Hell and brings about the apocalypse. If John succeeds, the human race will be safe and he can become human again. If he fails, mankind will perish and he will be lost for all…

Author: John F.D. Taff THE BELL WITCH The Bell Witch by John F.D. Taff is an historical horror novel/ghost story based on what is perhaps the most well-documented poltergeist case to occur in the United States. It tells the story of the Bells, an early 19th-century Tennessee farm family who begin to notice strange occurrences—odd noises, bangings, gurglings. Eventually, an entity reveals itself to the family, calling itself, simply, the Witch, and makes it clear from the outset that it was sent to kill the patriarch of the family, John Bell, for a reason it never makes quite clear. The Witch’s…

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…

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…

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…

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…