THE TRAITEUR’S RING by HWA Member Jeffrey Wilson

Author: Jeffrey Wilson After a troubling childhood Ben Morvant finds a home as a medic in Viper Team, of The US Navy SEALs. He was raised in the Louisiana Bayou by his grandmother – a spiritual healer – and despite his attempts to put his past behind him he continues to be haunted by nightmares. The circumstances of her death creep into his life, challenging his very hold on reality. Ben battles not only the creatures that haunt him during the night, but his own self-doubt about who he is and what he has the potential to become. His team,…

IL POSTO NERO – August Links (HWA Italy)

Horror in Italy is alive and hungry! Catch up with what's been happening by browsing this collection of posts from the month of August on the HWA Italy Chapter website, sent in by Alessandro Manzetti. HWA Italy: The Raven -News From Hell # 2 -The Italian HWA Bulletin (in Italian)  Autopsies: Review of La Felicità dei Cani by Adamo Dagradi edited by Sergio Gilles Lacavalla (in Italian)  Interview with Dacre Stoker (in English)  Black Pills: Interview with Daniele Serra (in Italian)  Autopsies: Review of The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft edited by Giancarlo Marzano (in Italian)  Interview with…

SURREALITIES by HWA Member Bruce Boston

Author: Bruce Boston SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston brings together 29 poems surreal and about surrealism. Along with seven poems appearing here for the first time, Surrealities includes reprints from leading genre and literary publications such as Chiaroscuro, Dreams and Nightmares, Paper Crow, The Pedestal Magazine, and Strange Horizons. Also includes six original and striking Rorschach illustrations Boston has created specially for this collection. “Here, the surreal beauty of a muscular mind, poems like evil flowers, cachinnating snow monkeys, blue-eyed chateaus, scarlet snails. Here, all the boats are drunk, all the architecture soft and hairy, all the nights lit by…

ANNOUNCEMENT: Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award

The Horror Writers Association is the premiere writers’ organization in the horror genre, with almost 600 members. It has presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987. MEDIA QUERIES Direct media queries to: Rocky Wood (President, HWA) Leslie S. Klinger (Jury Chair) The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce it will present the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award at the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet in 2012. The Banquet will be held at World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City on 31 March next year. The Award will mark the Centenary of Bram Stoker’s…

VAMPS by HWA Member James Dorr

Author: James S. Dorr Illustrations by HWA Member Marge B. Simon. Meet the vampiress Annchuck who first saw night in 1990′s out-of-print chapbook TOWERS OF DARKNESS, Max Schreck (with a nod, too, to Bela Lugosi), “Guillemette” (née Mina Murray), Nadja, Nikki, a modern Medusa, a tourist who meets up with “Cape Man” in France (“… he had a tendency to change the subject when I asked him what he did. Eurotrash, I suppose”), a competitive runner who races the sun, a baseball fan who dotes on night games, a modern Carmilla who also likes jazz, a future version of Kipling’s…

IL POSTO NERO – July Links (HWA Italy)

The first episode of Il Posto Nero's link collection is here. In the month of July, Alessandro Manzetti posted an awesome list of articles and interviews for our Italian HWA members and other horror fans in that country. Some come with an English translation, but even if they don't, remember that most browsers offer a "translate" feature. While it may not be perfect English, you'll definitely be able to understand the great information in these articles. Horror Street: Interview with John Everson (in English, in Italian)  Queen Anne’s Resurrection – Journey II – The Voice of Elsewhere with Lisa Morton,…

ALERIC: MONSTER HUNTER by HWA Member Fred Wiehe

Author: Fred Wiehe Aleric Toma Bimbai is a two-hundred-year old Gypsy who hunts monsters for bounty. His task this time, however, is to save a zombie rather than exterminate it. But Wasso Wonko is no ordinary zombie. He can still think. He can talk. Besides, Wasso is Gypsy. In his search for answers Aleric uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the very existence of his people. He will have to go up against the self-proclaimed King of the Gypsies and test his reputation of being unkillable. Gauthier Publications, Inc. Release Date: 9/2/2011 ISBN_10 0983359318 ISBN_13 978-0983359319

Benefit Bash for HWA Member L.A. Banks

L.A. Banks has been fighting cancer. In order to raise money to help her and her family cover medical expenses, the Philadelphia Liars Club is holding a benefit auction event designed specifically for writers, readers, and anyone who loves L.A. Banks or hates cancer. So, if you're a writer and can get to Philadelphia for this amazing event, go! Writers' Bash: Benefit for Author L.A. Banks Saturday, August 6 7-11:30 p.m. Smokey Joe's Bar 208 S. 40th St. (University City) Philadelphia PA Cost: $20, $10 for students with college I.D. Join the Liars Club and tons of authors, editors and…

MULTIPLEX FANDANGO by HWA Member Weston Ochse

Author: Weston Ochse Multiplex Fandango is subtitled "A Weston Ochse Reader" for good reason. This collection contains a comprehensive representation of short fiction and novellas by the Bram Stoker award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee, including his recent powerful Stoker finalist short story, "The Crossing Of Aldo Rey" and his brilliant Stoker finalist novella, Redemption Roadshow, as well as acclaimed favorites, "Catfish Gods" and "Big Rock Candy Mountain". Also included in this omnibus volume of sixteen short stories and novellas are six original new works of short fiction written especially for this collection including such future classics as "Tarzan Doesn't…

STEPHEN KING: UNCOLLECTED by HWA Member Rocky Wood

Full Title: Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished Revised for this special eBook edition, Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished is the most comprehensive review of the Stephen King works you've never read, including coverage of nearly one hundred unpublished and uncollected works of fiction — novels, short stories, screenplays, and poems! Best of all, it features the first book publication of two lost works written by King, including an entire chapter from King's unpublished 1970 novel Sword in the Darkness that has never been published anywhere in the world! Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished also gives in-depth coverage to the nearly one hundred variations…

IN THE SHADOW OF DRACULA edited by HWA Member Leslie S. Klinger

Editor: Leslie S. Klinger, ed. (editor of the acclaimed "New Annotated Dracula") As popular and influential as Bram Stoker's classic tale of nocturnal menace is, this 1897 novel did not invent vampire fiction, nor was it alone in feeding the Gothic fantasies of the Victorian period. IDW Publishing presents an expertly selected menu of outstanding vampire stories that either informed or benefited from Bram Stoker's hugely popular creation. These eerie tales of the undead - some 22 in all - form the core cannon of classic vampire literature. Chosen and introduced by celebrated literary scholar and author Leslie S. Klinger…

Il Posto Nero – HWA Italy!

A new blog from the Italian chapter of the HWA has hit the e-waves: The Raven--News from Hell. Headed up by Rome-based HWA member, Alessandro Manzetti, it delivers news, interviews, and information related to the Horror industry in Italy. Although designed in Italian, you can click on either the "Translate" (at the top) or "English version" (scroll down, right column) buttons to read it in English.

CLOCK STRIKES TWO by HWA Member Derek Clendening

Author: Derek Clendening Full Title: Clock Strikes Two and Other Stories Step into a world of darkness where nothing is as it seems. Meet a woman who has been exorcised of a demon, but cannot live without him, so she invited him back into her live. Learn how far a mother will go to reunite with her estranged son. Visit a ghost town that struggles to return to life. Find out what strange things happen on Wysocki street. Ghosts, demons, murder and more await you in Clock Strikes Two and Other Stories. Mausoleum Press Release Date: April 2011 ISBN_10=ISBN-10: 0986919802…

TEAR OF THE GODS by HWA Member Joseph Nassise

Author: Alex Archer (Joseph Nassise) The legacy of a pagan king could unleash terror on the world It started as a dream—a redheaded warrior king fought and died for his men centuries ago. The dream would lead archaeologist Annja Creed to the king's undisturbed corpse...and one of England's greatest mythical artifacts. Deep in an archaeological dig in England's Midlands, Annja locates a braided necklace around a mummified king's neck. Made of an unusual material—not quite obsidian, but gleaming with multihued color—the torc is an astonishing find. But someone knows exactly what the torc means. And he will do anything to…

NAKED CITY edited by HWA Member Ellen Datlow

Editor: Ellen Datlow Full title: Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy In Jim Butcher’s "Curses" Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs’ "Fairy Gifts," a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr’s "Guns for the Dead," the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black’s "Noble Rot," a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day…

MISERERE by HWA Member Teresa Frohock

Author: Teresa Frohock Exiled exorcist Lucian Negru deserted his lover in Hell in exchange for saving his sister Catarina's soul, but Catarina doesn't want salvation. She wants Lucian to help her fulfill her dark covenant with the Fallen Angels by using his power to open the Hell Gates. Catarina intends to lead the Fallen’s hordes out of Hell and into the parallel dimension of Woerld, Heaven’s front line of defense between Earth and Hell. When Lucian refuses to help his sister, she imprisons and cripples him, but Lucian learns that Rachael, the lover he betrayed and abandoned in Hell, is…

HWA Member Ellen Datlow Wins Locus Award

Congratulations are in order for Ellen Datlow, who was awarded the Locus Award for Editor today at a banquet in Seattle. The other nominees for Editor were: Gardner Dozois, Gordon Van Gelder, David G. Hartwell, and Jonathan Strahan. The complete list of winners follows: Science Fiction Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra) Fantasy Novel: Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey) First Novel: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US) YA Book: Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown) Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean) Novelette: “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”,…

BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR, V3 edited by HWA Member Ellen Datlow

Editor: Ellen Datlow A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase... and a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town; a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site; a sweet little girl entertains herself... by torturing faeries; a group of horror aficionados attempts to track down an unfinished film by a reclusive cult director; a man spends a chill night standing watch over his uncle's body;…

Bram Stoker Award 2010 Winners Announced

Superior Achievement in a NOVEL A DARK MATTER by Peter Straub (Doubleday/Orion) Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL (Tie) BLACK AND ORANGE by Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Bad Moon Books) THE CASTLE OF LOS ANGELES by Lisa Morton (Gray Friar Press) Superior Achievement in LONG FICTION INVISIBLE FENCES by Norman Prentiss (Cemetery Dance) Superior Achievement in SHORT FICTION “The Folding Man” by Joe R. Lansdale (from HAUNTED LEGENDS) Superior Achievement in an ANTHOLOGY HAUNTED LEGENDS edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor) Superior Achievement in a FICTION COLLECTION FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King (Simon and Schuster) Superior Achievement…