The Wind Through The Keyhole Giveaway - Test your knowledge of The Wind Through The Keyhole and enter for a chance to receive a copy of the audiobook read by King and a Wind Through The Keyhole tee shirt. Five lucky entrants will receive both the audiobook and a tee shirt and 15 others will receive just the tee shirt. Recipients will be chosen at random from correct entries. In order to allow everyone a chance to read the book, entries will only be accepted from May 21st until May 28th.

Stephen to Speak at UMass Lowell – King will make a live appearance on December 7th at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell. As the first guest in the Chancellor’s Speaker Series, King will read from his work, talk about writing and hold a Q&A session with the audience.

The new Dark Tower Site - The new Dark Tower Official Website is now live. Now in its third generation, the site features updated artwork, an expanded glossary and much deeper connections section. The Constant Reader will also find an issue-by-issue breakdown of the comics and soon-to-be added fan-art platform sure to please Dark Tower fans.

Poets Wear Prada have announced that Senior Editor Roxanne Hoffman will be reading at several literary events in New York City this month. In Loving Memory, her lyrical ballad chronicling a small-town church congregation from funeral to marriage, features illustrations by Connecticut artist Edward Odwitt.

“In Loving Memory should be on everyone’s shelves as it reflects on one of the darkest human experiences with insight and humanity in a charmingly gothic presentation,” said Garth von Buchholz, publisher, member of the National Book Critics’ Circle and author. Vampire verse by author Hoffman, a frequent dabbler in the horror genre, can be heard during Dave Gold’s 2005 indie flick Love and the Vampire. Twice included in the House of Horror best-of-the-year anthology, her 2010 contribution was nominated for Pushcart Prize.

Hoffman, now making her home in Hoboken, New Jersey, grew up on Manhattan’s Upper Westside. A Bronx High School of Science alumna, she lived for several years in Greenwich Village, while attending New York University’s Stern School of Business and later when she worked on Wall Street at Chase Manhattan Bank.

This coming Sunday, May 6th, Hoffman returns to her hometown where from 6:00 until 8:00 PM she joins The Hebrew Mamita Vanessa Hidary at the JujoMukti Tea Lounge, located at 211 East 4th Street, between Avenues A and B. Five dollars admission buys both a pot of tea and a spot on the roster for anyone wishing to participate in the open portion of the “unplugged” reading hosted by David Lawton, poet, actor and musician. Directions: F train to Second Avenue, 6 to Bleecker, or 14A bus from Union Square along Fourteenth to Third Street at Avenue A.

Host Lawton described the event where Hoffman and Hidary will read round-robin as “Mixed communities. Different backgrounds. Contrasting styles. Two lovely female poets come together to represent the state of the art with good humor and sex appeal.” Featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Hidary, herself a native New Yorker, recently published her first book “The Last Kaiser Roll in the Bodega.”

Saturday, May 19th, Hoffman goes west, to Greenwich Village where she will be reading for the Greek American Writers Reading Series at the Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street (off Bleecker). Convening every third Saturday of the month, for poetry, prose — music, occasionally, and song — from 5:45 until 7:45 PM, the series, with Dean Kostos — his latest book, “Rivering,” soon to be published by Spuyten Duyvil Press — as host, has a $7 cover charge, which includes one free house drink. Co-featuring with Hoffman on the 19th will be Larissa Shmailo, Tom Fink and Penelope Karageorge.

Roxanne Hoffman worked on Wall Street. She divides her time now between a “night” job, answering the patient hotline for a New York home-healthcare provider, and a “day” one, running the literary press Poets Wear Prada. Her writing has appeared and continues to appear in periodical publication, widely — Champagne Shivers, Danse Macabre, Dark Eye Glances, Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine, Hospital Drive, House of Horror, Lucid Rhythms, Mirror Dance, The Pedestal Magazine, Scarlet Literary Magazine, SNM Horror Magazine among many others, and numerous anthologies including The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates (Soft Skull Press), Love after 70 (Wising Up Press), and It All Changes in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial).

You can pick up a copy on Amazon here: In Loving Memory

Razorline Press has released the digital edition of Dark by Gerald Dean Rice and Jay Rauld. This is a collection of Flash Fiction stories.

Description: A woman discovers the end of mankind leaking out of the janitor’s closet, a husband who can’t bear for his wife to leave him predicts how their relationship will end, and a woman unsure of the future of her relationship discovers her mate’s emotions on a tragedy-stricken freeway.

Check it out on the Kindle: Dark

Stephen Mark Rainey has just released his new novella, The Gods of Moab, in a digital edition. “Scare you silly it will,” says Rainey. “Unless you’re already silly … in which case, I’ve no idea what to do with you.”

Description: A pleasant New Year’s Eve outing becomes an experience in otherworldly horror when two close-knit couples discover a shocking secret in the darkest corners of the Appalachian mountains. At an opulent mountain inn, Warren Burr, his fiancee, Anne, and their friends, Roger and Kristin Leverman, encounter a religious zealot named John Hanger, who makes it his business to bear witness to them of his peculiar … and disturbing … faith. His efforts rebuffed, Hanger insidiously assumes control of the couples’ technological devices, leading them to stumble into unexpected, surreal landscapes … landscapes inhabited by nightmarish beings that defy explanation and rationality. To return to the world they thought they knew, Warren and his friends must not only escape the deadly entities that pursue them but somehow stop John Hanger’s nightmare-plague from spreading to the outside world.

You can pick up the Kindle edition for only $2.99 here: The Gods of Moab

Author and Conshohocken resident, T. A. Bradley, has published, through Barren Hill Publishing, Relic of the Damned a two volume horror/thriller that will take the reader into the depths of Banderman Falls’s hell – a small town nestled between Philadelphia and Conshohocken, PA. These books were originally released as a single edition ebook entitled: Lucifer’s Pommel. Due to the response, it has been expanded into a two volume set, and is now available in paperback format.

Description: When an ancient relic of enormous power inadvertently falls into the hands of a weak and desperate antiques dealer, hell on earth becomes more than just a cliché to the small town of Banderman Falls, Pennsylvania. Seduced into believing that the relic is his to command, Carlton Wedgemore is manipulated into serving the demonic incarnation of all evil, Zachariah Witherstone. And Banderman Falls is plunged into a nightmare of darkness from which it may never awaken. In his quest to acquire the icon, Witherstone usurps the minds of the townspeople through dreams of lust and torment. He divides the town, pitting men against women, husbands against wives and brothers against sisters. And the people soon find themselves no more than puppets dancing on the strings of destruction.

It begins with the murder of a young convenience store clerk. At first, Sheriff Jack Dougherty is convinced it’s a robbery gone awry. But when two men go missing and his deputy turns up dead, Jack begins to sense that there may be more powerful forces at work in his town – a sense that is confirmed when he is brutally attacked by insects in defense of their master.

At the same time that Jack is discovering that the peace and harmony of Banderman Falls is unwinding, Father Gabriel Jacobs receives a visit from an old friend. Geoffrey Dunsmore, a man with unusual abilities, enlists his friend’s aid in a struggle that will claim more than lives.

As the terror unwinds, ordinary people must rise to a challenge that will test their faith, test their courage and demand the ultimate sacrifice for a chance at victory. Hell has come to devour all, and has chosen Banderman Falls as its first entrée.

Check it out on Amazon: Relic of the Damned

T Allen Press has released Ty Schwamberger’s Grave Intentions in a trade paperback edition to accompany the earlier-released digital edition.

Description: Rodney’s life started to spiral out of control after the untimely death of his beloved wife. He ended up on the rough streets: fighting for his sanity, his next fix and feeding himself. But it was his hunger for getting high and trying to forget his former life that was the hardest for him to control. Or at least he thought. Then came the night when he and another junkie walked into Parkside Cemetery, dug up the dead body of Becky Smithshire and…bit into her cold body.

That’s when Rodney’s life really changed.

Derrick, Craig, Joan and Stacy were the best of friends, if not a little more at times. Late one night before their impending first days of college, they decided to have a liquid-picnic in their local cemetery. It was supposed to be a night of laughs, booze and sex. Until Derrick came running back to his three friends, scared half to death. He started babbling about seeing something that looked like a werewolf.

Now the three friends must escape from the cemetery before the werewolf finds them and chomps them into little pieces.

Will all four friends survive? Or will the bloodline of the werewolf win the night?

Only the deepest bonds of friendship and something even greater holds the answer.

The Trailer

Check it out on Amazon: Grave Intentions

John Claude Smith is pumping up his short story collection, The Dark is Light Enough For Me, which was originally published in January by Martin Brown Publishers, LLC in both paperback and digital editions.

Description: From dark speculative fiction author John Claude Smith comes a powerful debut collection comprised of twelve intricate tales of bittersweet madness, twisted desire, and souls in crisis. Exploring the deepest realms of the human—and not so human—condition, each masterfully crafted yarn brutally ravages the thin veneer of reality as we know it, expertly exposing the human psyche’s desperate need to survive at any cost.

Check it out on Amazon: The Dark is Light Enough For Me