Prior to the first American Publication of Brian Lumley’s ground-breaking, dead waking, best-selling Necroscope in 1988—the first novel in a long-lived, much-loved series—this British author had for twenty years been earning an envious reputation writing short stories, novellas, and a series of novels set against H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmic Cthulhu Mythos backdrop. In addition and for a further twenty years Lumley’s non-Mythos Fantasy, SF, and Horror stories have been appearing on a regular basis in some of the world’s most famous publications; for example The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Weird Tales, along with anthologies such as Karl Edward Wagner’s Year’s Best Horror Stories, Charles L. Grant’s Final Shadows, and Kirby McCauley’s Frights, among others.

With his multiple-award-winning literary career now spanning over four decades, Lumley continues to write his superior fictions, examples of which from each of those decades can be found in this current collection, where Weird Tales itself is represented by no less than five stories!

And so, to complete a trilogy of volumes begun with the Lovecraft-inspired The Taint and Other Novellas, and followed by Haggopian and Other Stories, Subterranean Press is now offering No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories, a handpicked collection of Brian Lumley’s best macabre tales…

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Fruiting Bodies
• The Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream
• The Picnickers
• The Viaduct
• The Luststone
• The Whisperer
• No Sharks in the Med
• The Pit Yakker
• The Place of Waiting
• The Man Who Killed Kew Gardens
• My Thing Friday
• The Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave

Pick up a copy directly from Subterranean Press: No Sharks in the Med

Redrum Horror #5 is coming in June — Bottled Abyss, the second novel by Bram Stoker Award winning author Benjamin Kane Ethridge.

Description: Herman and Janet Erikson are going through a crisis of grief and suffering after losing their daughter in a hit and run. They’ve given up on each other; they’ve given up on themselves. They are living day by day. One afternoon, to make a horrible situation worse, their dog goes missing in the coyote-infested badlands behind their property. Herman, resolved in preventing another tragedy, goes to find the dog, completely unaware he’s on a hike to the River Styx, which according to Greek myth was the border between the Living world and the world of the dead.

Long ago the Gods died and the River dried up, but a bottle containing its waters still remains in the badlands. What Herman discovers about the dark power contained in those waters will change his life forever…

Benjamin Kane Ethridge is the Bram Stoker Award winning author of the dark fantasy novel Black & Orange. He lives in Southern California with his wife and daughter, both lovely and both worthy of better. When he isn’t writing, reading, or guitaring, he’s defending California’s waterways and sewers from pollution.

JournalStone Publishing has announced their first ever shared world anthology, Limbus, which will be released in the fall of 2012.

“We are featuring five authors, combining five individual stories, that will come together as one,” says JournalStone President, Christopher C. Payne. “The star studded cast of authors are, Joseph Nassise, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Anne C. Petty, Brett J. Talley and Jonathan Maberry. These authors combine for several accolades including multiple Bram Stoker awards as well as multiple nominations, New York Times best sellers, international best sellers, service as HWA President and on and on.”

Description: Are you laid off, downsized, undersized?

Call us. We employ. 1-800-555-0606

How lucky do you feel?

So reads the business card from LIMBUS, INC., a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. LIMBUS’s employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a business in the ordinary sense of the word.

Job offers vary greatly in their particulars: one might find anything from a high-level assassination to a seemingly simple cat-sitting job and all the worlds of horror/dark fantasy in between.

In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and scifi pool their warped take on the shadow organization that offers employment of the most unusual kind to those on the society’s fringe.

Who can say whether the recruiters for LIMBUS, INC. are good guys or bad guys? They might be both. The terms of the jobs offered might be as outrageous as the compensation promised. There may be contingency clauses not obvious to the recruit. The end result of the job may be success or failure, and the contractor may live to seek another assignment, or not.

One thing’s for sure – you’ll never think the same way again about the fine print on your next employment application!

If you were anticipating a novel that will be the talk of 2012, this will be it.

Look for future announcements/updates on the project over the next few months.

Premier Digital Publishing announced today the launch of three eBooks by award-winning and best-selling horror and urban fantasy author Nancy A. Collins. The books include the best-seller and groundbreaking novel Sunglasses After Dark, Tempter, and Angels on Fire. The titles were previously launched as print titles under New American Library’s Onyx and White Wolf Publishing’s Borealis imprints.

“I am very excited to finally have Sunglasses After Dark, Tempter and Angels On Fire finally back in print in an easily available edition,” said Ms. Collins. “Not only was there no such thing as an eBook when I first wrote these novels, there was no ‘Urban Fantasy’ and ‘Paranormal Romance,’ either. I am very glad that the people at Premier Digital Publishing were able to help me bring my work to a new generation of readers.”

Thomas Ellsworth, President of Premier Digital Publishing commented, “I am extremely pleased to add Nancy Collins to the Premier Digital Publishing family. Her writing prowess is undisputed – as evidenced by the HWA’s Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Society Award. It is incredibly gratifying to publish eBook versions of these wonderful titles for Nancy’s current readers as well as help her reach new audiences.”

All eBooks are currently available via Kindle, Nook & iTunes.

You can pick up the Kindle edition here:

• Sunglasses After Dark
• Tempter
• Angels on Fire

Cemetery Dance reports that they’re now taking preorders for the Scribner trade hardcover of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, his brand new sequel to The Shining. They’re also producing a custom-made slipcase for this title like they have for the last couple of King books, which you can also preorder now.

Description: Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood winter, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Doctor Sleep is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

You can pre-order here: Doctor Sleep

Astor + Blue Editions has released the digital edition of Allen Wyler’s Dead End Deal.

Description: World renowned neurosurgeon Jon Ritter is on the verge of a medical breakthrough that will change the world. His groundbreaking surgical treatment, using transplanted non-human stem cells, is set to eradicate the scourge of Alzheimer’s disease and give hope to millions. But when the procedure is slated for testing, it all comes to an abrupt and terrifying halt.

Ritter’s colleague is gunned down and Ritter himself is threatened by a radical anti-abortion group that not only claims responsibility, but promises more of the same. Faced with a dangerous reality but determined to succeed, Ritter turns to his long-time colleague, corporate biotech CEO Richard Stillman, for help. Together, they conspire to conduct a clandestine clinical trial in Seoul, Korea. But the danger is more determined, and more lethal, than Ritter could have imagined.

After successful surgical trials, Ritter and his allies are thrown into a horrifying nightmare scenario: The trial patients have been murdered and Ritter is the number one suspect. Aided by his beautiful lab assistant, Yeonhee, Ritter flees the country, now the target of an international manhunt involving Interpol, the FBI, zealous fanatics and a coldly efficient assassin. Dead End Deal is a fast paced, heart-pounding, and sophisticated thriller.

Penned by master neurosurgeon, Allen Wyler — who often draws from experience and actual events when writing — Dead End Deal is unmatched as a technical procedural. Its medical and scientific details can impress even the most seasoned medical practitioners. And yet, the fascinating expertise is seamlessly woven into a riveting plot, with enough action and surprises to engross even the most well-read thriller enthusiast. A smart, unique, page-turner, Dead End Deal delivers.

You can read the first two chapters online for free here: Dead End Deal Excerpt

And you can order the Kindle edition here: Dead End Deal

For a limited time, Simon & Schuster is making Bryan Gruley’s Starvation Lake and The Hanging Tree available together in a digital edition at a special low price of only $14.99.

Description of Starvation Lake: In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake – the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation’s legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn’s accident happened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder.

Gus Carpenter, editor of the local newspaper, has recently returned to Starvation after a failed attempt to make it big at the Detroit Times. In his youth, Gus was the goalie who let a state championship get away, crushing Coach’s dreams and earning the town’s enmity. Now he’s investigating the murder of his former coach. But even more unsettling to Gus are the holes in the town’s past and the gnawing suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secrets secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep.

Description of The Hanging Tree: When Gracie Mcbride, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent suicide shortly after her homecoming, it sends shock waves through her native Starvation Lake. Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the Pine County Pilot, sets out to solve the mystery with the help of his old flame and now girlfriend, Pine County sheriff deputy Darlene Esper. As Gus and Darlene investigate, they can’t help but question if Gracie’s troubled life really ended in suicide or if the suspicious crime-scene evidence adds up to murder.

But in such a small town it’s impossible to be an impartial investigator—Gracie was Gus’s second cousin; Darlene’s best friend; and the lover of Gus’s oldest pal, Soupy Campbell. Yet with all the bad blood between Gus and Gracie over the years, Gus is easily distracted by other problems. His employer is trying to push him out, the locals are annoyed that his stories have halted construction on a new hockey rink, and Darlene’s estranged husband has returned to reclaim his wife.

When Gus tries to retrace Gracie’s steps to discover what happened to her in the eighteen years she was away from Starvation Lake, he’s forced to return to Detroit, the scene of his humiliating past. And though he’s determined to find out what drove Gracie back home, Gus is unprepared for the terrible secrets he uncovers.

Check this one out on the Kindle: Starvation Lake Mystery Series