Bad Moon Books is accepting pre-orders for the June release of the trade hardcover of Joe Hill’s Locke & Key: Clockworks. The price is $22.00.

Description: The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the whispering iron thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surprises beyond imagination will be revealed.

You can order from Bad Moon here: Locke & Key: Clockworks

BearManor Media released this one a couple years back, but if you’re a horror fan or a horror writer, you might want to take a look at it anyway: Masters of Imagination: Interviews with 21 Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers and Filmmakers by Michael McCarty.

Description: This is a collection of 21 interviews with horror, science fiction and fantasy most intriguing writers and filmmakers. The book features firsthand accounts and conversations from many of the crème de le crème including such iconic filmmakers as: John Carpenter, Linnea Quigley, Adrienne Barbea and Fred Olen Ray. And such world-renowned genre authors as: Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub, Laurell K. Hamilton, Joe Lansdale, Jack Ketchum, Jeff Long, Thomas Ligotti, Frederik Pohl, William F. Nolan, Christopher Moore and more.

This interview odyssey features a foreword by speculative fiction scribe Alan Dean Foster and an afterword by filmmaker and author Gregory Lamberson. Nominated for the Stoker Award.

Michael McCarty is a former stand-up comedian, musician and managing editor of a music magazine. He holds the David R. Collins Literary Achievement Award from the Midwest Writing Center; and is a third-time Bram Stoker Finalist. This is his fifth nonfiction book. He lives in Rock Island, Illinois with his wife Cindy.

You can still pick up a copy through Amazon here: Masters of Imagination

Each year, a multitude of movies, television shows and books appear in the horror genre, from novels by Stephen King, to the Paranormal Activity series. For author Ioannis Night however, she believes many of these aren’t very frightening or even able to keep one’s interest. In response, she has penned her new fast-paced horror novel, Haunted Horror (published by Trafford Publishing).

Haunted Horror tells the story of Zik, a young man living in England with his girlfriend, Angelina. Together they live a normal life, nothing out of the ordinary. That is until Zik receives a strange email:

Dear Zik

You probably don’t know about me, but I know everything about you. I will pass this to you because you are the person that I believe that needs it the most. I have a mansion in southwest England and it’s your heritance now. Details about the mansion and how to get there, can be found in the following pdf file”

After a restless night’s sleep, and much confusion, Zik and Angelina decide to follow the email’s instruction and search for a village that doesn’t appear on any map. Unfortunately for them, upon their arrival they meet the ghost of a young girl with a creepy smile, encountering a spirit whose only purpose is to collect people’s souls.

“I believe that there is a lack of actually good horror stories,” explains Night. “I am reading only horror books and most of the times, a book appears to have a great plot, but when you are reading it, the action comes really slow and it is not as satisfying as you were expecting it. In my book, you will be part of the story within the first pages already.”

About the Author

Ioannis Night was born in Athens, Greece in 1988. Since she was five years old, she has been watching horror movies. She recently graduated from the University of Theology of Athens with a degree from the Social Department and has a keen interest in learning languages. She has also been in theater for two years and enjoys playing the guitar.

You can try out this one on Amazon here: Haunted Horror

Bram Stoker Award winning author, David B. Silva, has released a new short story collection on the Kindle titled Losing Touch for only $2.99.

“This collection is actually based on a collection I did for Borderland Press in 2005 called A Little White Book of Lies,” says Silva. “Unfortunately, two of the stories also appear in Through Shattered Glass. Since I didn’t want to duplicate stories, I pulled out ‘Brothers’ and ‘The Hollow’ and added ‘And He Who Mourns,’ ‘New To The Neighborhood,’ ‘Through Desmond’s Eyes,’ and ‘Trouble Follows.’ The original theme of lies doesn’t cross every story, however, the theme of losing touch comes fairly close.”

The full table of contents (adding up to 155 pages):

• Introduction – Part One
• Introduction – Part Two
• And He Who Mourns
• New To The Neighborhood
• Never Far From Mind
• Fade In/Fade Out
• Through Desmond’s Eyes
• Trouble Follows
• Where The Past Lay Buried

You can pick it up on the Kindle and start reading almost immediately here: Losing Touch

Charles L. Grant (1942-2006) won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection Nightmare Seasons, a Nebula Award in 1976 for his short story “A Crowd of Shadows,” and another Nebula Award in 1978 for his novella “A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn’s Eye,” the latter telling of an actor’s dilemma in a post-literate future. Grant also edited the award-winning Shadows anthology, running eleven volumes from 1978-1991. Contributors include Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Al Sarrantonio, R.A. Lafferty, Avram Davidson, and Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem. Grant was a former Executive Secretary and Eastern Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and president of the Horror Writers Association. His story “Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street” was adapted into an episode of Tales from the Darkside entitled “The Milkman Cometh” in 1987.

Crossroads Press has quietly been releasing some of Grant’s titles in digitaL editions. Here are two of the newest releases:

The Curse - Syd and Theresa Guiness got out of their crowded city apartment and moved to a quaint house on a quiet cul de sac in the suburbs. Their dreamhouse. Then little things began to happen. Theresa was certain it was just her imagination and didn’t pay much attention … until it was too late – their dreamhouse had become a nightmare.

The Grave – An Oxrun Station Novel - Josh Miller has a talent for finding things. So far, the things people have asked him to find – antique tables, old movie posters – have been innocuous enough. And Andrea Montague, the daughter of a local writer, may be his most interesting find so far.

But no one’s asked Josh to find the missing fifth victim of an unexplained auto accident – the one who vanished from the scene of the crash without leaving a trail of blood, though he must have been badly hurt. No one’s asked Josh to look for the other missing people – residents of Oxrun Station who mysteriously and inexplicably vanished on their birthdays.

Someone very definitely doesn’t want him to find the clearing full of century-old gravestones, the clearing that feels so evil.

This time whatever Josh is hunting is hunting him, too … and it’s hungry.

Check them out on the Kindle:

The Curse
The Grave

Or other digital formats from Crossroads Press: Charles L. Grant

Chet Williamson has made the third book in his series, The Searchers, Siege of Stone availalbe for free on the Kindle. But it’s only free if you pick up a copy today, so don’t put this one off.

Description: From Chet Williamson, winner of the International Horror Guild Award and multiple World Fantasy, Edgar and Stoker Award Nominee, comes the third in an amazing series … The Searchers: Siege of Stone

He is The Prisoner, ageless, deathless, powerful beyond measure – and now he is free.

A being as old as time, he has always been. For centuries a clandestine order of knights has guarded him, keeping his existence secret from an unsuspecting world. But The Prisoner has escaped his shackles, cutting a bloody swath of terror across America.

His time is now.

For covert CIA operatives Tony Luciano, Joseph Stein, and Laika Harris, the search is nearing an end. Each passing moment brings them closer to answers to the mystery they have been entrusted to solve; what spawned this awesome being and released him into the world? And what is his horrifying purpose? But their hunt has left an FBI man dead, and now the Searchers are the hunted. Yet they dare not falter, for the Prisoner must be stopped at any cost, before he forges an unholy terrorist alliance that will rain destruction and death up on the Earth, and damn an enslaved human race to the torments of an eternal living Hell.

Be sure to check out books I and II of The Searchers. Crossroad Press offers a number of other books for your Kindle by Chet Williamson, including the novels Ash Wednesday, Lowland Rider, Reign, Second Chance, Dreamthorp, and the two new – original novels Defenders of the Faith & Hunters. Crossroad Press offers a wide variety of horror, dark fantasy, original series, Sci-Fi, Westerns, and more from authors like Tom Piccirilli, Richard Christian Matheson, Bill Crider, Loren D. Estleman, Ed Gorman, Sidney Williams, David Niall Wilson, and many more. If you like The Searchers, be sure to check out the original series O.C.L.T.

Get your fee copy here: The Searchers: Siege of Stone

Del Rey has just released House of Odd, the graphic novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author of suspense Dean Koontz. The story plunges everyone’s favorite spirit-spotting fry cook into his most frightening encounter yet, in this thrill-packed third Odd Thomas graphic novel.

Description: Transforming a ramshackle mansion into a dream house has become a nightmare for onetime Hollywood producer Nedra Nolan, whose newly purchased fixer-upper in Pico Mundo has sent a string of spooked contractors scurrying off the job, claiming the place is haunted. Who’s she gonna call? Her friend recommends Odd Thomas, the mild-mannered young man with a gift for communing with ghosts who won’t rest in peace. With his soul mate and sidekick, Stormy Llewellyn, in tow, Odd agrees to investigate the eerie incidents. But his spirit-seeking style is cramped by the obnoxious TV ghost hunters Nedra hires to flush out the troublesome phantoms with elaborate gadgets.

As night falls and a raging storm traps them all in the mazelike manse, Odd tries in vain to scare up some lost souls. But instead, something more terrifying than any apparition — something with flesh, blood, and teeth — makes its sinister presence known. And with nowhere to hide, Odd and his fellow hunters suddenly become the prey.

Check it out on Amazon: House of Odd