Virginia native J.C. Schweingrouber has released his fifth book titled To The Edge...And Back Again, a collection of short stories in the horror and suspense genre. It has been released in e-book format. The tales of terror take the reader through a maze of the mysterious and macabre as eclectic characters face their worst fears as well as the unknown. The stories range from the twisted and slightly humorous, to the more horrific stories such as "The Waiting List," where one man’s vanity leads him into the darkness awaiting him in his new home. The e-book contains six short stories that will keep you, the reader, on the edge. "I’m excited to get my fifth work out for the public to read. The book was written with a couple of goals in mind before I even started. I not only wanted the readers to be entertained and feeling that they got their money’s worth, but I also wanted to give the readers a bit of a laugh and make them think about some of the underlying themes even after they put the book down," said Schweingrouber. Schweingrouber’s previous work was the fourth book in a series titled, Legends and Landmarks, Volume IV: Devil’s Cave, in which the setting took place in Southwest Virginia. To The Edge...And Back Again can be found on Amazon.com and Smashwords.com along with his other writings, as well as many other worldwide online book retailers.

Laura’s Wrath weaves a timeless tale of revenge as it launches in paperback and e-book format on Lulu.com and the Amazon Kindle Store this month, with other outlets to come at a later date. The novel, authored by Martin and Elaine Stab, tells a poignant yet thrilling story of revenge that spans decades and extends beyond generations. Initially set in 1865, with Laura McBride losing her husband Robert, by execution, for a crime he didn’t commit, the novel explores the uncertainties of life, and with Father O’Brien bound by canon law to let an innocent man die, it delves into the existential dilemma between good and evil. And as Laura’s wrath drives her to call on Satan for vengeance and lives on to terrorize Charles and Maria Weston in 1965, the novel explores the power of revenge that extends beyond time. This timely novel reaches into themes that are significant to any time, whether it be 1865, 1965, or the present. With model trains, nightmares, demonic apparitions, and satanic rape in the mix, Laura’s Wrath makes a thrilling, exciting, yet powerfully meaningful read. With the e-book version now on the Amazon Kindle Store, it is possible for Kindle users to download this powerful new novel and start reading it in under a minute. Amazon currently charges $5.00 US for the e-book, and the price includes free international wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet Service. For paperback collectors, Laura’s Wrath is also available on Lulu.com for $15.99 in a 262-page perfect-bound paperback format. Lulu.com will ship the novel in 3 to 5 business days.

Popular Hollywood actor/filmmaker Paul Parducci’s first psychologically intense and twisted horror novel, Wet Linda, has been released in a digital edition for only $2.99. Description: A self-hating Eighteen year-old moves into a sterile California suburb and her life becomes a lung-filling nightmare as she comes under the control of something very evil met at the community pool.

David B. Silva is offering his novel, The Many, for free on the Kindle for 24 hours, beginning at 12:01 am on February 2nd. Description: When Jeremy Taft schedules a meeting with an old childhood acquaintance, it seems he wishes to unburden himself of the guilt from a past tragic event that caused the death of a young schoolmate. But instead, all the unanswered questions from that incident are brought to the surface, and the two men suddenly find themselves as allies, desperately trying to save a girl from a long-ago wrong that has trapped her in a time warp. David B. Silva has written seven novels, his most recent, All The Lonely People. His short fiction has since appeared in The Year's Best Horror, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and The Best American Mystery Stories. In 1991, he won a Bram Stoker Award for his short story, "The Calling." His first collection, Through Shattered Glass, was published by Gaunlet Press in 2001. In 2009, Dark Regions published his collection of eleven new stories and one reprint, In The Shadows of Kingston Mills. You can download your free Kindle edition here: The Many

Mark Fuson’s new werewolf horror novel Darwinism (published by iUniverse) has been released in three editions: hardcover, paperback, and digital. The book takes readers into a typical American town with a population problem: werewolves are moving in and threatening to take over. Description: Darwin Foster has become a werewolf, and with each passing day his bloodlust is growing. A battle is raging inside the new werewolf. Visions from a dark realm inside his mind tell him that eating the flesh of man is unavoidable. Darwin resists his urges only through fear of losing control and harming the only person he truly cares for. Though Darwinism is a horror story at heart, Fuson also wants readers to find the message beneath the gore. “I want readers to have fun ... it’s entertainment!” he says. “I also want readers to realize that how we treat others does affect them over the long run.” Darwinism assures horror fanatics who are looking for classic horror themes that there will be plenty to take away from his story, but he also wants to prevent uninitiated horror readers from turning away – so he injects an important message in the subtext. “Bullying and homophobia may seem minor but the cumulative aspects of this abuse drive many to kill themselves,” says Fuson. “Darwinism may ... be entertainment designed to scare and sicken – but it’s also designed to remind people that shipping people away because they were ‘undesirable’ has a historical precedent – and we should never forget that.” You can check it out on Amazon here: Darwinism

David Niall Wilson is making his short story collection, Etched Deep & Other Dark Impressions, available for free for Kindle readers until Thursday. Description: This brand new collection by Bram Stoker Award-Winning author and poet David Niall Wilson brings together fourteen tales of madness, horror, fantasy, zombies, and dark magic, as well as fourteen original poems. Spanning more than two decades of his career, the stories offer a wide range of glimpses into the creative process that has formed his career. Contents include the short stories: Through an Eyeglass, Darkly, Fear of Flying, Moving On, One off from Prime, Headlines, Wayne's World, Redemption, Swarm, The Purloined Prose (With Patricia Lee Macomber), Shift, Pretty Boys in Blue and Long Hair Dangling, To Strike a Timeless Chord, Etched Deep, and Unique. Also included are the poems: End of Days, The Acropolis, Clamdigger, Cuttlefish Squeezings, Thanatology, A Poem of Adrian, Gray, The Fishmonger, Revelation, Loch Ness, Mirrored Hearts, Dark Man, Banished, End of Days, & Longhaired Puppies. David Niall Wilson is a former president of the Horror Writer's Association, as well as CEO of Crossroad Press, a cutting edge digital publishing company. David's recent works include My Soul to Keep, the Origin of Donovan DeChance, The Parting, a novel of the O.C.L.T., The Second Veil, part of the series Tales of the Scattered Earth, and the novella The Temple of Camazotz, also part of the O.C.L.T. series. There is a free excerpt from My Soul to Keep at the end of this collection You can pick up your free Kindle edition copy here: Etched Deep & Other Dark Impressions And don't miss Wilson's new novel Kali's Tale - Book #4 of The DeChance Chronicles, which is live exclusively for a promotion at Barnes & Noble.

Here are the prizes: 10 Free Kindle Fires, 75 free ebooks, a $500 library donation. Here's the story behind the prizes: On Feb. 1-2, bestselling thriller authors J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, Lee Goldberg, and Scott Nicholson are making 75 Kindle books free on Amazon. They are also making a $500 donation to the local library of one Kindle Fire winner. The contest is international, and no purchase necessary. You can also join the Facebook party. Three easy ways to enter:

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