Archive for Horror Authors
Wanted Undead Or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil
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Citadel is set to release Wanted Undead Or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil by Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman on August 31st.
Description: These days you can’t swing an undead lycanthrope without hitting a Minion of Evil. They’re everywhere – TV, film, the basement – right behind you! It’s never been more important to know what you can do to keep them at bay. Garlic? Silver bullets? Holy water? Torch-wielding mob?
From today’s foremost experts on nightmares-come-to-life, this indispensible guide identifies and describes mankind’s enemies-supernatural beasts, ghosts, vampires, serial killers, etc. – and unearths effective time-proven responses to each horrific threat.
Separate fact from fiction, the deadly from the merely creepy.
Learn when to stand your ground and when to run screaming for your life.
Determine which monster-specific heroes to call and their likelihood of success.
Consider your own potential as a Champion for Good, Conqueror of the Damned.
“Our book deals with the struggle of good versus evil in world myth, literature, comics, film, pop culture and the real world,” says Bashman. “Everything from vampire slayers to paranormal investigators to FBI serial-killer profilers. It includes interviews with folks like Stan Lee, Mike Mignola, Peter Straub, Charlaine Harris and many more; and the book is fully illustrated by top horror, comcis & fantasy artists.”
You can pre-order from Amazon.com here: Wanted Undead Or Alive: Vampire Hunters
Hellnotes will be following up with a book review near the publication date of August 31st.
Spotlight on Ty Schwamberger
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The Aurora Advocate is running a short piece on our own Ty Schwamberger.
In it, Schwamberger talks a bit about his shyness, though many who don’t know him well don’t believe it. He says, “Actually, I think all writers, at least to some degree, are withdrawn from society. I think it’s the nature of the craft. You’re alone, sitting at the computer, most of the time with little to no sound around you and no one to talk to for hours at a time. To an outsider the life of a writer seems like a fascinating thing, and for the most part it is, but I don’t think that a lot of people realize just how much work and the hours it takes to write a perfectly crafted story – whether it’s a 3,000 word short story or an 80,000 word novel.”
You catch the complete profile here: Ty Schwamberger
Cryptic Creatures Collection
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In Cryptic Creatures, author Brian C. Anderson immerses readers in five fast-moving, spine-tingling stories about beasts and beings that lurk ominously on the outer reaches of our consciousness.
Description: If you like horror that highlights a legendary hog/man who delights in malicious murder, you will not be disappointed. How about an inter-dimension parasite that sucks the enjoyment out of the main character’s life? Or, if you prefer terror that extends into the realm of the creepy-crawly, you won’t want to miss the tale of the toxic insect invasion. A vile winged God, an ancient cult, and a mythical sea monster round out an extraordinary cast of bloodcurdling beasts.
“The tales in Cryptic Creatures are actually back-stories for characters in an epic tale I’ve been working on for several years,” says Anderson. “I thought it would be interesting introduce certain characters and events before unleashing the main story. It’s a fairly ambitious project.”
Readers will also find it interesting that buried between the five startling stories is a series of vignettes that provides reliable information about classic cryptids such as Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster.
“Obviously I’d like readers to be scared or at least repulsed. But also, I want them to think,” adds Anderson. “There is a heavy undercurrent of anti-establishment throughout the book. I’m hoping people will take a look at the world we live in and realize that governments, corporations, and institutions don’t always have the common man’s best interests in mind.”
You can learn more about the book and the author here: Cryptic Creatures
Choose Your Path Wisely
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Visions Given Life Publishing Company has released Choose Your Path Wisely (Volume 3 of Paradigms of Suffering) by Gregory Dixon.
Description: Begrudgingly, you look into the mirror as you stew in nervous beads of your perspiration. Trembling. Gazing into that which you fear. Confronting your reflection, your ultimate form of suffering. Catching a glimpse into your shameful past; witnessing the reenactment of your pathetic life – the frightening tale of a tragic entity. The only thing you see is the emotionless reflection of your eyes. The only thing you hear is a stale silence. The only thing you smell is the appalling stench of your rotting soul.
Touching the mirror, your flesh begins to melt. It dissolves into the crystallized surface, disappearing in a sea of liquefied glass, entering a gateway into the manifestations of your delirium. You are trapped between two worlds; the world you created in your mind and the world you are about to leave behind.
Pleasure and pain.
Dreams and nightmares.
Life and death.
Choose Your Path Wisely is a collection of vulgar, yet profoundly written, short stories that will force you to lift the dark veil of your mental burden and look in mirror, confronting the one thing you can never escape: the reflection of your misery.
The paperback is available through Amazon.com here: Choose Your Path Wisely
Succumbing to Gravity
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Reliquary Press has released Richard Farnsworth’s debut novel, Succumbing to Gravity.
Description: Stories have been told of beings that once walked among mortals, standing between mankind and the darkness. They were called by many names; Egregori, Irin, even Angels. Greg was once such being of grace. But he lost his way and now he’s damned and alone on the street with humanity’s detritus, heroin addiction is his only respite.
A chance meeting with a haunted young woman threatens to provoke a genuine emotional response from him. She is an immigrant, alone herself, and hunted by a terror Greg knows only too well. Now he has to make a choice, be the hero he once was, or again turn to the needle when he is needed most.
Succumbing to Gravity tells the fast-paced story of Greg, a fallen angel, and his struggle with the inner demons of guilt and heroin addiction and external demons of a more literal nature.
Succumbing to Gravity is available from Amazon for $13.95, or direct from Reliquary Press for $11.
You can learn more about Farnsworth’s work here: Richard Farnsworth
