THE CHESSMAN by HWA Member Jeffrey B. Burton

Author: Jeffrey B. Burton Hidden forces are willing to kill any and all who stand in the way of untold billions. To toss the authorities off track, they borrow the modus operandi of a brutal serial killer The Chessman who stalked the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. some years earlier. The ruse is working brilliantly except for one minor detail. The real Chessman is not pleased not pleased one iota that someone has stolen his M.O. Enter Drew Cady, ex-FBI agent, who finds himself being sucked back into the very case that almost took his life, a case that…

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES published by HWA Member David Sutton

Author: Richard Davis Publisher: David Sutton's Shadow Publishing David Sutton's Shadow Publishing is pleased to announce that The Female of the Species & Other Terror Tales by Richard Davis (1935-2005) will be published late Spring this year. Richard never saw a collection of his stories publishing in his lifetime, and this book will include all of the author's short stories, culled from as far back as 1963 and 'The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories' up to the 1980s. The collection will include an introduction about his life, the fiction and anthologies, including his work as story editor for the…

An Interview with HWA Member Christopher Conlon

Interview by Ron Breznay Christopher Conlon bills himself on his web site as a writer, poet, and editor. He has written a number of prose works, including many short stories and two novels, Midnight on Mourn Street And A Matrix of Angels (he has adapted the former into a two-act play). Some of his short stories have been gathered into two collections, Thundershowers at Dusk and Saying Secrets: American Stories. He has published many poems in various magazines as well as in four collections of verse: Starkweather Dreams: Landscape with Figures, Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt, The Weeping Time:…

THE COLOR OF EVIL by HWA Member Connie Corcoran Wilson

Author: Connie Corcoran Wilson "The Color of Evil" has been awarded the Gold Medal (1st place) in the 2012 E-Lit awards. Tad McGreevy has a power that he has never revealed, not even to his life-long best friend, Stevie Scranton. When Tad looks at others, he sees colors. These auras tell Tad whether a person is good or evil. At night, Tad dreams about the evil-doers, reliving their crimes in horrifyingly vivid detail. But Tad doesn't know if the evil acts he witnesses in his nightmares are happening now, are already over, or are going to occur in the future.…

BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES by HWA Member Joseph Nassise

Author: Joseph Nassise Train them . . . Arm them . . . Then turn them loose on the zombies! At the tail end of 1917, the Germans introduced a new type of gas to the battlefield, T-Leiche, or "corpse gas," and changed the face of the war by resurrecting the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited source of fresh troops. When the American ace Major Jack Freeman poster boy for the war against the Kaiser's undead army of shamblers is downed over enemy lines and taken captive, veteran Captain Michael "Madman" Burke is the only…

THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ETHAN JACOBS by HWA Member Dan Dillard

Author: Dan Dillard A computer programmer follows his obsession with the occult to a dark place. Visions of a domineering father drive him beyond the help of a best friend, a loving girlfriend, and even his dog, Slobber, to look for answers to questions we all wonder about. At first, it's a hobby, but after meeting a woman who claims she was haunted as a child, Ethan becomes entranced. When the entity first visits him, he is energized, but quickly becomes tortured and spirals away to a place where no one can reach him to help. He battles back with…

POSEIDON’S CHILDREN by HWA Member Michael West

Author: Michael West Man no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change. After the ruins of a vast, ancient civilization are discovered on the ocean floor, Coast Guard officers find a series of derelict ships drifting in the current high-priced yachts and leaking fishing boats, all ransacked, splattered in blood, their crews missing and presumed dead. And that s just the beginning. Vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus has just witnessed a gruesome shark attack, a young couple torn apart right before his eyes. At…

THE COLD SPOT by HWA Member JG Faherty

Author: J.G. Faherty Clay Daniels is an outcast among outcasts. Cursed with a terrible birthmark on his face, his life is an endless misery of teasing and physical abuse from his classmates. Things only get worse when his parents die and he's forced to move in with cruel relatives who make the torture of school seem like paradise. Then everything changes when he meets a boy named John in the woods behind his house. John and his friends don't care what Clay looks like, or that he's not strong or particularly smart. That's because they're dead, and the dead don't…

An Interview with New Member Gregory Frost

By Ron Breznay Gregory Frost is a writer living in southeastern Pennsylvania. He has penned novels, short stories, articles, and book reviews in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres. Greg has an extensive education in writing. He is a graduate of the writing program at the University of Iowa and of the Clarion Writers Workshop, at which he was later an instructor. He attended many Sycamore Hill Writers Workshops, the Nameless Workshop, and the Philadelphia Stories Workshop. In addition, he was one of the rotating Fiction Writing Workshop Directors at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Greg’s work has been…

CARNAGE ROAD by HWA Member Gregory Lamberson

Boone and Walker, the last surviving members of the Floating Dragons motorcycle gang, set out to "re-discover America" during the zombie apocalypse. Their odyssey takes them from Buffalo to Ohio, Kansas, Hollywood and Texas. Along the way, they discover that their fellow survivors pose an even greater threat than the undead. Jack Kerouac, Roger Zelazny and Cormac McCarthy have a new traveling companion. With Carnage Road, Greg Lamberson has taken his unique talent on a savage apocalyptic road trip tailor-made for the zombie generation. This book is dark gold, and demonstrates once again why readers who like their horror shot…

THE SORROWS by HWA Member Jonathan Janz

Author: Jonathan Janz The Sorrows, an island off the coast of northern California, and its castle have been uninhabited since a series of gruesome, unexplained murders in 1925. But its owner needs money, so he allows film composers Ben and Eddie and a couple of their female friends to stay a month in Castle Blackwood. Eddie is certain an eerie and reportedly haunted castle is just the setting Ben needs to find musical inspiration for a horror film. But what they find is more horrific than any movie. For something is waiting for them in the castle. A being, once…

THE LADY OF SEEKING IN THE CITY OF WAITING by HWA Member Jennifer Brozek

Author: Jennifer Brozek Welcome to the City of Waiting. Welcome to Shadeside. From the moment Jane enters Shadeside, she is a pawn in a dangerous game between rivals. With no real memory of who she is or where she came from, Jane embarks on a quest to discover her past as well discover who it is she promised to meet. Along the way, she is protected by guardsman Derax, counseled by Lady Ellowyn, and warned of plots and betrayal by the most powerful oracle in the city. Through her travels, Jane meets a myriad of strange, wonderful, and terrible people.…

DARKEST KNIGHT by HWA Member Karen Duvall

Author: Karen Duvall After the warrior she loves saved her from a murderous gargoyle, Chalice watched helplessly as Aydin turned into a gargoyle himself. Now, free from the curse that enslaved her, Chalice pledges to join her sister knights in The Order of the Hatchet and do whatever it takes to regain Aydin's humanity and his love. What she encounters within their hallowed sanctuary is pure intrigue. Someone or something is murdering her sisters in their sleep, provoking fear and suspicion among the order. Meanwhile, Aydin, unable to stay away, starts haunting Chalice's dreams, urging her onward. Ultimately, Chalice will…

CEMETERY CLUB by HWA Member JG Faherty

Author: J.G. Faherty 20 years ago, four friends awoke an ancient evil. Now it's back, and only the Cemetery Club can stop it before the whole town ends up dead. Or worse. Rocky Point is a small town with a violent history. Mass graves, illegal medical experiments, and brutal murders dating back centuries. Of course, when Cory, Marisol, John, and Todd form the Cemetery Club, they know none of this. They've found the coolest place to party after school - an old crypt. But then things start to go bad. People get killed, and the Cemetery Club knows the cause:…

HAMMERED: MEMOIR OF AN ADDICT by HWA Member G.N. Braun

Author: G.N. Braun GNBraun led a life of addiction and slow decay. Drugs, crime and ennui pervaded every part of his day-to-day alienation. He dragged his way out of the pit without resorting to God or alcohol or any of the other crutches people commonly use. Here is his story. Pray your children don't make the same mistakes. This is a hard journey well shared and a book that risks real sadness to tell its human truth. -–Kris Saknussemm Thoroughly enjoyed reading this - such an honest well written book. Not only did the author share his struggle with drug…

Interview with HWA Member Kaaron Warren … by Ron Breznay

Kaaron Warren is an Australian writer living in Canberra. Before venturing into novel-length work, she published short stories for nearly two decades. Some of her stories were gathered into two collections, The Grinding House (published in the U.S. as The Glass Woman) and Dead Sea Fruit. Kaaron’s first novel, Slights, was published in 2009. This was followed by Walking the Tree in 2010 and Mistification, coming out in June 2011. Her stories have won the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) Writing and Publishing Award, the Ditmar Award (twice), and the Aurealis Award. Slights recently won the Canberra Critics Circle Award. Hello,…

AD NAUSEAM – 13 TALES OF EXTREME HORROR by HWA Member C.W. LaSart

Author: C.W. LaSart Exotic, Erotic, Gruesome and Gory! What if your Muse really was a twisted bitch, and she lived in your spare bedroom? And how far would you go to improve your station in life? In this premiere collection by C.W. LaSart, you will find 13 gruesome tales of the macabre, from a simpleton who forms an unnatural obsession with his own backyard to a lonely woman whose suitor is not heaven-sent. These stories, ranging from the supernatural to the darkness that lives within the human heart, are sure to send a chill down your spine and a flush…

CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY? Edited by HWA Member Lincoln Crisler

Editor: Lincoln Crisler Contributors: Weston Ochse, Jeff Strand, Joe McKinney, Cat Rambo, A.D. Spencer, A.S. Fox, Andrew Bourelle, Anthony Laffan, Edward M. Erdelac, Jason Gehlert, Jason M. Tucker, Jeremy Hepler, Karina Fabian, Kris Ashton, Lee Mather, Lincoln Crisler, Malon Edwards, Tim Marquitz, Trisha J. Wooldridge, Wayne Helge, Wayne Ligon, and William Todd Rose. ABSOLUTE POWER… The only family member to survive the 9/11 attacks. A sidekick-turned-construction-worker. The teenaged products of an institute for unwanted metahuman children. The man who can make anyone do anything. Are they heroes? Are they villains? Sometimes they’re both. Often, even at the same time. Corrupts…

NERVES by HWA Member John Palisano

by John Palisano Something strange has changed in Josiah. He has awoken with the power to give life to the dead. And he isn t the only one with an amazing new ability. Halfway across the world, his brother Horace discovers his very presence can kill. The brothers powers are not a secret to everyone, however. The vampiric witch Ogam plans to claim them for his own. The only hope for the brothers safety is to escape to the otherworld known as Alta, where they can realize the true power of their supernatural gifts. Will they be able to defeat…

Interview with HWA Member Michael Koryta … by Ron Breznay

MICHAEL KORYTA Michael Koryta is a young author with a bibliography that is short (so far) but impressive. His novels have won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Great Lakes Books Award, and St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel prize, and has earned nominations for the Edgar, Quill, Shamus, and Barry Awards. He recently earned a six-book contract with Little, Brown and Company. Michael graduated from Indiana University with a degree in criminal justice. He is a private investigator and former newspaper reporter. Michael currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Bloomington, Indiana. His first five…