Here’s a nice package for those Dean Koontz fans out there.

We’ve got four Dark Harvest titles. These were published in signed, slipcased deluxe editions. Each of the four is signed by Dean Koontz and artist Phil Parks, and all are PC – personal copies. All were originally written as “by Leigh Nichols.” Here’s what you get in this package:

The Servants of Twilight
Dark Harvest
1988
Signed, Slipcased Deluxe Edition, PC
Limited to 450 copies
Interior Illustrations and Dustjacket by Phil Parks
Pristine Condition

The Eyes of Darkness
Dark Harvest
1989
Signed, Slipcased Deluxe Edition, PC
Limited to 400 copies
Interior Illustrations and Dustjacket by Phil Parks
Pristine Condition

The House of Thunder
Dark Harvest
1988
Signed, Slipcased Deluxe Edition, PC
Limited to 550 copies
Interior Illustrations and Dustjacket by Phil Parks
Pristine Condition

The Key to Midnight
Dark Harvest
1989
Signed, Slipcased Deluxe Edition, PC
Limited to 550 copies
Interior Illustrations and Dustjacket by Phil Parks
Pristine Condition

How much?

Only $150 plus $10 shipping.

First come, first served. We only have one set.

American history meets fantasy in one of the greatest action-adventure tales of all time, Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, a newly updated cinematic adaptation of the beloved literary classic, The Mysterious Island (1874), landing on DVD May 29 from Green Apple Entertainment.

Description: As famine and death ravage Richmond, Va., five northern Civil War POWs, including Emmy Award-winner, Pruitt Taylor Vince (AMC’s The Walking Dead, JFK, Drive Angry, Constantine) and Lochlyn Munro (Dead Man on Campus, White Chicks), plan a daring escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on a desert island … but they’re not alone.

Littered with wreckage, the island is home to a cast of survivors who have been lost in space and time, including Abby and Jules Fogg (Susie Arbromeit, Battle: Los Angeles, and Gina Holden, Saw 3-D, Alien vs. Predator), two young women from modern times who become stranded while flying over the Bermuda Triangle.

Forced to defend themselves against vicious pirates, terrifying creatures and a volcano that’s ready to blow, they must find a way to survive. Their only hope to escape the island lies with its longest resident, Captain Nemo (W. Morgan Sheppard, Star Trek, Transformers, Gods and Generals). With his help, they craft another plan … But will they make it before the island claims them all forever?

Directed by Mark Sheppard (Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, Firefly, Warehouse 13), who makes a cameo appearance as a young Nemo (the adult role portrayed by his real-life father).

Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island is presented in widescreen with an aspect ratio of 16 x 9 (2.35:1) and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound.

You can pre-order from Amazon here: Mysterous Island

Bad Moon Books is offering readers a chance to pre-order Neil Gaiman’s The Rhyme Maidens. These are being released in May by Biting Dog Press in three states: regular, ultra, and folio. Both the folio edition and the ultra edition have already sold out at the publisher’s website. The Folio Edition is limited to 50 copies – bound and slip cased in black fiscagoma, includes two versions of the poem signed by both Neil Gaiman and George Walker and possibly by Amanda Palmer. Blind stamped front and back, heavily embossed.

Description: These hand-printed broadsheets were made in celebration of the wedding of Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. The poem was written by Neil Gaiman about the night before their wedding. Fifty unique folios contain two versions of the same broadsheet: a proof copy and the final edition that were printed in a limited edition of 250. The typefaces used are Granjon, Dyer, Willow and You Murderer. The embossing was done from polymer plates that were mounted type high and then squeezed through the press by hand. The paper is acid free 250 gm archival Rising Stonehenge. The wood engravings are incised on end grain maple and were made by George A.Walker who also designed and hand-printed the whole project on his Vandercook SP15 proof press in the winter of 2012.

To order the Folion Edition from Bad Moon Books: The Rhyme Maidens Folio

To order the Ultra Edition from Bad Moon Books: The Rhyme Maidens Ultra

To order the Regulate Edition from Bad Moon Books: The Rhyme Maidens Regular

288 Vroom LLC added 100 new scary stories to their top selling (now) 200+ Horror Stories, Sounds And Scares for iPhone, iPod touch and iPod. But this app is so much more than its extensive library of horror and ghost stories, this app also brings the horror experience to life and sets the mood with more than 40 haunting sounds, pranks you can play on your friends and on yourself, spooky animations, plus horrifyingly hilarious surprises all designed to make your hair stand on end!

Here are some of the features of the app:

• The Stories are some of the greatest fright fests of all time by some of the greatest authors of all time, including ghost stories, tales of the supernatural, classic gothic, vampires, werewolves, monsters, and so much more. Authors include Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, and many more. Stories and books include Dracula, Dracula’s Guest, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Oblong Box, A Christmas Carol, Phantom Of The Opera, Turn Of The Screw, The Canterville Ghost, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, and many, many more.
• The Sounds are not your kids’ sound effects. The high-quality sounds of thunderstorms, screams, ghostly music, things that go bump in the night will set the perfect mood for a good horror story. There are currently over 40 Sounds that can be played while reading or anytime.
• “Auto-Scare” randomly plays sounds and scares at anytime making the app an even creepier experience. Even if you’re not reading, just leave the app on for a scary atmosphere.
• The Pranks – seemingly harmless games that are really Pranks that you can scare your friends with.
• The Surprises – there are also a few surprises hidden throughout the app, that would be no fun to mention here so look around for them

Device Requirements:

• iPhone and iPod touch
• Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:

200+ Horror Stories, Sounds And Scares 5.2 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Books category. Review copies are available upon request. All future updates, including story and sound additions, are included with initial purchase.

200+ Horror Stories, Sounds And Scares 5.2

The guys over at The Hollywood Reporter where fortunate enough to get the exclusive first look at Johan Harstad’s horror novel, 127 Hours on The Moon and have some brief information along with the novel’s trailer which you can view.

Our culture is filled with tales of the walking dead. They’re in our mythology. They’re in our religions. They’re in our comic books. We fear them, we love them, we’re just plain obsessed with them. But we know the zombie apocalypse is just a fairy tale. We know it couldn’t really happen. Could it?

McFarland has released some of the best horror related books over the years. They go above and beyond with their horror related releases, and Horror Films Of The 1990s is no exception. Read the full review…

Quebec’s master of horror – Bestselling author, Patrick Senécal, (500,000 books sold) has been conjuring the unimaginable for a loyal following of fearless readers since 1994, when he published his debut novel, 5150 rue des Ormes. He’s since penned dozens of unreasonably gory thrillers and has shaped what homegrown psychological terror looks like on the big screen, thanks to three examples: the Éric Tessier-directed Sur le seuil (2003) and 5150 Elm’s Way (2009), and filmmaker PodZ’s Les 7 Jours du Talion (2010). Yet he remains virtually unknown outside Quebec.

With the advent of the Amazon Kindle , the Barnes and Noble Nook , and the myriad tablets and smartphones on the market, the opportunities for discovering new authors and genres are growing exponentially. Author interview: Scott Nicholson, eBook Horror author.

Acclaimed indie director Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers) may have found his next slow-burning horror story … in bed. Deadline is reporting that West has been hired to write a big-screen adaptation of the 2011 novel Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters, best known for his hit “mashup” book Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

Horror film soundtracks: best and scariest – The iconic scenes in horror movies are framed by vital pieces of musical score, the obvious examples being music from Psycho and music from Jaws. It stays with us – it often becomes ripe for parody, reused for comedic effect in spoof films, recontextualised, sampled for hip-hop tracks.

Bram Stoker was born at No 15 Marino Crescent in Clontarf in 1847, while famine raged in Ireland. It would be nice to say that he died in luxury on April 20, 1912 in London, suitably honoured for having created one of the great characters of 19th century literature and 20th century film. But only when Dracula was adapted for film in 1929 did his widow, Florence, enjoy the true benefits of his fame. She used part of the $40,000 film rights to install in her London home the rarest of rare luxuries – a downstairs lavatory, which in gratitude she christened “Room Dracula.” Read more about Stoker…

“That’s the genre I love: horror, mystery, suspense. That’s the way my mind works,” said Susan Berliner, a Yorktown grandmother who lives with her husband, Larry, a retired English teacher and fellow writer. “But it’s not as gory as Steven King.” Read an interview and learn more about Berliner…

First of all, the publisher has described it very much as an “action horror” game which puts it into the same category as instalments four and five – which weren’t very horrific at all. Action denotes dynamism – quick movement, plenty of ammo – and … Is Resident Evil 6 the death of survival horror?

From Night of the Living Dead and Nosferatu to Dario Argento’s Deep Red, the original House on Haunted Hill and more, 411′s Joseph Lee counts down the top 10 horror films in the public domain!

There’s so much mystery and inviting darkness in The Pack, the new French film from Franck Richard, that horror fans will likely be impressed. The atmosphere of this sordid tale is the movie’s strongest suit. Catch the full review…

Around these parts when prolific horror author Stephen King talks, we listen, and believe you me this is something that you cats are going to want to hear about! In addition to King’s sequel to The Shining called Dr. Sleep, the master of horror is currently at work on a new slasher tale entitled Joyland. Find out more…

Ed Pessalano’s book of short stories, Night Shivers is a cluster of 13 stories full of misfortune, and in some cases, good luck, the spooky tales are targeted to young readers now getting into the horror genre or looking for something else to sink their teeth into. And some of the stories are bound to induce some shivers. Read more: Greenpoint Star – Spooky stories of horror fill pages of Night Shivers

Legion of Night is a horror comic set firmly in the Marvel Universe in which Fin Fang Foom is the big plot point. It stars a bunch of characters that Gerber had created in other Marvel horror books over the years but had been left by the wayside.

The public has seen a lot of film adaptations of vampire fiction, from the popular classic Dracula to the more recent Twilight series. Just recently, another vampire novel has been turned into a 3-D action horror film. What is it? Find out…

For author Beth Waite writing has always been a passion for as long as she can remember. The two-time published author said her love of writing comes from a compulsion that she can’t explain. For her it’s just something that comes naturally to her. Find out more about Waite…

In April of 2011, author Ed Kurtz had a self-published debut novel to plug and a cranium full of ideas. By the end of the year, his novel, Bleed, had made the “Best of 2011? lists at Anything Horror, HorrorTalk and Geeks of Doom. Now, only twelve months later, Kurtz has three published books and is the owner and editor of Redrum Horror and Abattoir Press, two projects that are up and running with big-name writers behind them. Learn more about Ed Kurtz…

The Zombie Dawn roll-out will begin April 20th in select cities with additional locations added over the coming months. In a special arrangement with theaters, cinema ticket buyers shall receive a free limited edition copy of the Zombie Dawn: Safehouse comic book that contains a prequel tie-in story to the feature film.

Monstermatt Patterson, Kyle Kaczmarczyk and West Neb Books have announced the upcoming Monstermatt’s Bad Monster Jokes Vol.2, slated for a 2012 Halloween release.

This follows up the well-received first volume “bad” monster jokes. Monstermatt’s Bad Monster Jokes Vol.1 collected over 400 gags, puns, and rhymes. Vol.1 showcased monsters, horror films and all sorts of characters and creeps from across the horror genre. Vol.2 will have nearly 500 jokes, picking up where Vol.1 left off, to simultaneously lampoon and honor the obscure and profound elements of the weird world of monsters.

Vol.1 continues to receive great reviews from all over the globe. Vol.1 poked fun at independent films like Basket Case, The Manitou, The Human Centipede and Troma films, while also joking on the classic Universal Monsters and movies.

What can readers expect from the follow up? Vol.2 keeps that theme alive, taking aim at the Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Faces of Death, Trog and many more! Once again, using a formula of rhymes, song parody lyrics, puns and zingers, coupled with insightful and humorous illustrations, the duo of Kaczmarczyk and Patterson hope to keep you grinning, groaning and laughing!

Monstermatt Patterson, dubbed ‘The Man of a Thousand Bad Monster Jokes,’ says, “We wanted to pay tribute to the classics, the b-movies, the grindhouse and obscure films, while making it fun and even educational, for most every age group, from horror novice to professional. We’ve gotten many emails about people getting into horror and or further into it, all because of the jokes and illustrations. There is something for nearly everyone!”

Monstermatt Patterson’s Bad Monster Jokes Vol.2 is slated for release in time for the 2012 Halloween Season.

The new zombie movie, The Dead, from the Ford brothers, is a strangely effective horror film. It features virtually no plot, and the characterization is thin. Other than the apocalyptic mayhem and barren countryside of rural Africa, there’s not much to the 105-minute feature. Read the full review of The Dead…

The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they’ve only been awarded since 1953. That’s where this column comes in — Jess Nevins will be awarding honorary Hugo Awards to the best novels of the Victorian era … and beyond. The Victorian Hugos: 1890…

Zombies have a knack for invading the works of Joe McKinney. Now they come bearing prestigious hardware. The San Antonio-based author recently won the 2012 Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in a novel with his undead chiller Flesh Eaters. Read the interview with McKinney…

The Unseen, by New York Times best-selling author Heather Graham, is sure to please her fans and win new readers to her Krewe of Hunters series. Read the full review…

For horror fans, it’s what they have been waiting for since 1986… Written by Stefan Hutchinson and Barry Keating, with artwork by Jeff Zornow and Peter Fielding, Demons 3 is an original sequel to the first two Demons films, presented as a 2-book comic, which will come housed in the Blu-ray and DVD editions of Demons and Demons 2. Check out this Demons 3 comic book preview…

Seth Grahame-Smith sold the screen rights and script for Unholy Night – a thriller starring the Bible’s three wise men — to Warner Bros. for close to $2 million. Lionsgate optioned his breakout best seller, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which sold more than a million copies in 27 languages. A 3-D action movie based on his 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter hits theaters in June. Find out more about Grahame-Smith…

Manhattan College brought its students back to M.A.R.S. this week — The Major Authors Reading Series, that is. The school welcomed writer Emma Straub on Monday for the second author presentation of the semester, during which students were able to hear her read an excerpt from her book, Other People We Married, and question her on all things writing. Read more about Emma Straub, Peter Straub’s daughter…

The new episode of Monster Men is up: A tribute to horror author Brian Keene. Brian is one of the best in the business and a favorite of The Monster Men. A movie based on his book Ghoul debuts on the Chiller Network on Friday, 4/13/12. If you are not reading Brian Keene, check this out and see what you are missing in this episode of Monster Men.

Summer 2012 is going to be one very expensive summer for fans of the comic book, science fiction, and horror genres of movies. Comicbook.com has compiled a list of what they consider to be the ten most anticipated movies of the summer of 2012.

A 13-episode horror series set in Pennsylvania, Hemlock Grove will be directed and executive produced by Eli Roth of Hostel fame. Liboiron is set to play Peter alongside Bill Skarsgard’s Roman.

That’s a lot of people crammed into only 47 square miles, but it’s not as many people as Scott Sigler envisions in his horror novel Nocturnal (Crown Publishers, 576 pages, $26.00). Read the full review…

Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Rachel Deering has always had a passion for Horror comics and novels. Combined with her skill of the written word, she set out to collaborate with other female creators in last year’s Womanthology project. Read the full interview with Deering…

Graduate creative writing programs have been accused of churning out a great deal of monotonous fiction – think Connecticut divorcées frowning over the fine silver – but McGreevy’s willingness to follow his gut is, in part, what makes his novel an exception: “I went to the Half Price Books on Lamar and saw a short story collection that looked interesting to me called The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. And I’m like, “Oh, this entire book is about f—ing werewolves and things like that, but she’s a very, very literary writer.” And so that, for me, was sort of an epiphany: “Oh, I don’t have to be trying to put myself in a box that I don’t particularly have the talent for.” Read more about Brian McGreevy and his novel, Hemlock Grove…

Champion mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale, one of America’s most acclaimed living authors, chats with FEARnet about his novel Edge of Dark Water, and his unique approach to horror and suspense. Available from Mulholland Books on March 27, 2012.

Horror fans have plenty to look forward to this Fall, thanks to the deeply creepy anthology The ABCs of Death. Taking a page from children’s educational books, this collection of terror will offer 26 death-centered stories from 26 of modern horror’s rising stars.

Within popular culture, there exist guides with the express purpose of wreaking havoc and unleashing hell on humanity. While the Kindle, iPad and Nook might have a killer effect on the book industry, these are books that are very industrious at killing. Find out what these books are…

Let me go on record by saying that when I think about stories involving the sinking of the Titanic, vampires and a good dose of horror don’t usually come to mind. I mean, seriously… the survivors of Titanic have just watched over a thousand of their fellow passengers perish in the cold Atlantic waters. Read the full review of Carpathia…

The Lovecraft Anthology, Volume 1 recently landed on my doorstep, and, as a fan of the storyteller from Providence, I felt compelled to read it. I was well rewarded for my effort. The graphic novel retelling of some of Lovecraft’s greatest tales does not disappoint, providing a remarkable primer to Lovecraft’s strange and eldritch world. Read the full review…

She’s already known for her romantic fiction, but author Dana Fredsti is poised to make a splash in a totally new genre: horror. With her novel Plague Town, Fredsti introduces zombie lovers to Ashley Parker, a college student whose sleepy town is taken over by the undead. Read the full interview with Fredsti…

A monthlong festival dedicated to the writings of 19th-century American author Edgar Allan Poe kicked off April 1 with a family festival in Balboa Park, and continues through May 1 with readings, performances, films, art projects and more.