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.

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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.

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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.

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David B. Silva’s novel, The Presence, will be available for free for Kindle owners on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 and Thursday, May 3, 2012. You can download the ebook here: The Presence

Description: Allie Turner’s husband Max has been missing for nine months now, and Allie is struggling to hold her family together. But things begin to fall apart when her son Sean, 12, is caught in a fire at the abandoned lumber mill. When Sean confesses to his brother, Darrell, that he saw their father at the mill, Darrell sets out to find the man. His quest leads him to Old Miner’s Creek, where he uncovers something strange and otherworldly has come to Kingston Mills. A curious, determined evil.

“The Presence was originally published in hardcover and paperback, but was never made available in the United States,” says Silva. “This Kindle edition is the first time it’s been re-released in almost twenty years.”

And now you can pick it up for free here: The Presence

Gerard Houarner’s 6th collection, A Blood of Killers, originally published in limited hard cover and trade paperback editions by Necro Publications in 2009, is now available as an ebook from Crossroads Press. The collection’s 26 stories feature 13 reprints, with 8 having received Honorable Mentions in various editions of St. Martin Press’ Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, as well as 12 original stories, including a 30,000 word novella. Ten of these original stories were selected for Honorable Mention for Year’s Best Horror 2.

Description: Prolific horror author Houarner (The Oz Suite) assembles a disturbing collection of 13 reprints and 12 originals. Most of the tales highlighting his twisted supernatural assassin, Max (featured in 2001’s The Beast That Was Max), are brief, but “Like Smoke Rising from the Burning Ghats” offers detailed descriptions of a young boy in Calcutta becoming something monstrous, and the novella “Dancing with the Skeletons at the Feast of the Dead” is almost symphonic in its depiction of brutality in a small Mexican village. The other stories are no less dark: in “Let Me Tell You a Story,” a babysitter manipulates her charges into committing acts of evil, while “The Shape” is a harsh tale of mental illness and abuse. The bleakness might turn off some readers, but fans of intense, psychology-driven horror and sharp writing will be more than satisfied.

Check it out on the publisher’s website: A Blood of Killers

JE Gurley has has seen the release of his novel, Ice Station Zombie, in both paperback and digital editions.

Description: For most of the long, cold winter, Antactica is a frozen wasteland. Now, the ice is melting and the zombies are thawing. Arctic explorers Val Marino and Elliot Anson race against time and death to reach Australia, but the Demise has preceded them and zombies stalk the streets of Adelaide and Coober Pedy.

You can check in out on Amazon here: Ice Station Zombie