Dear Reader,
It’s cold. It’s snowy (for some). It’s December. What better way to give the month a proper Bah-humbug than by staying indoors, sipping hot cocoa, curling up by the fire and digging into our new releases?
Jonathan Maberry is back with Beneath the Skin: The Sam Hunter Case Files. Sam Hunter is a PI in the big bad city. When he takes a new case it’s like he’s accepting the client into his ‘pack.’ And Sam will do anything to protect the members of his pack. Dogs are like that. So are wolves. And so, too, are werewolves. Like Sam.
Sam is a benandanti, an ancient race of werewolves who fight evil. And evil comes in all shapes and sizes; it comes at people from all directions. The cases Sam takes range from saving the world from genetically-engineered super soldiers to saving a young boy from the very real monster in his closet.
The Sam Hunter Case Files gather together the weird, strange, funny, heartbreaking and disturbing adventures of a low-rent private investigator taking on very odd jobs. These stories include cameos by fan-favorite characters from Maberry’s bestselling Joe Ledger thrillers and The Pine Deep Trilogy. Get your Sam Hunter fix here!
Hitting newstands is the latest issue of Dark Discoveries! Issue 36 features all new fiction by: Nisi Shawl, Lauren Beukes, Nancy Palmer, Kathryn Ptacek, R.A. MacAvoy, and Christopher Golden. Interviews with: Christopher Golden, Richard Smoley, Philip Fracassi, and more! Articles on: “The Subtle Spaces of Heresy by Craig Williams,” and Featured Film Reviews by Colleen Wanglund. Columns from Mike Davis, Laird Barron, Robert Morrish, Donald Tyson, and Richard Dansky! Dark Poetry by Michael Collings, and a helluva lot more! Treat yo self, grab a copy here.
That’s it, that’s all, folks. Whether you believe in Santa Claus or Krampus (or anything in between), have yourself a lovely December.
Jess
Assistant Publisher
NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES
BENEATH THE SKIN
Sam Hunter is a PI in the big bad city. When he takes a new case it’s like he’s accepting the client into his ‘pack.’ And Sam will do anything to protect the members of his pack. Dogs are like that. So are wolves. And so, too, are werewolves. Like Sam.
Sam is a benandanti, an ancient race of werewolves who fight evil. And evil comes in all shapes and sizes; it comes at people from all directions. The cases Sam takes range from saving the world from genetically-engineered super soldiers to saving a young boy from the very real monster in his closet.
The Sam Hunter Case Files gather together the weird, strange, funny, heartbreaking and disturbing adventures of a low-rent private investigator taking on very odd jobs. These stories include cameos by fan-favorite characters from Maberry’s bestselling Joe Ledger thrillers and The Pine Deep Trilogy.
DARK DISCOVERIES #36 – RADICAL SPIRIT
All new Fiction by: Nisi Shawl, Lauren Beukes, Nancy Palmer, Kathryn Ptacek, R.A. MacAvoy, and Christopher Golden
Interviews with: Christopher Golden, Richard Smoley, Philip Fracassi, and more!
Articles on: “The Subtle Spaces of Heresy” by Craig Williams, and Featured Film Reviews by Colleen Wanglund
Columns from Mike Davis, Laird Barron, Robert Morrish, Donald Tyson, and Richard Dansky!
Dark Poetry: Michael Collings
And much more!
BATTERING THE STEM
It’s going to be a long, hellish day on Utica Ave. The employees of Brooklyn’s seediest soul food joint, Clayvon’s King Prawn Chicken N’ Biscuit, have a mysterious new patron: Edgerin. Called a “vagrant” and a “beggar,” he’s got a thing or two to learn them in the delicate art of begging… Within twenty four tense, bloody hours, all the filthy secrets buried under the nail beds of the Clayvon staff are revealed in this darkly comic urban crime story from author Bob Freville.
WONDER WEAVERS
Starting in the fall of 1896, something very strange was going on in the night skies of the western United States. Newspapers and law enforcement were inundated with reports of bizarre machines flying over cities and towns, mostly in Texas. There are thousands of accounts in the newspapers from that time; no one knew what to make of them then, and today in the 21st century, we still don’t. There were also numerous reports of odd people or figures manning the airships of unknown origin and speaking in unfamiliar languages. What was going on? Were people on the ground just making up these stories or do we have a case of multiple witnesses to a major secret event occurring years before the Wright Brothers?
Matt Bialer, poet of the weird and unexplained, grapples with the mystery in his epic poem, WONDER WEAVERS. The narrator of the poem is writing a book on the subject while at the same time helping his extremely shy teenage son prepare a book report on HG Wells’ INVISIBLE MAN. He is also continuing his never-ending search for his long lost missing brother who loved airplanes and who first told him about the Wonder Weavers.
Then the key to the mystery of the airships is possibly found: A series of large old scrap books of esoteric drawings, collages and watercolors of these unreal flying machines are found at a garbage dump. The books are from another time and possibly even another realm. They turn out to be the creation of a reclusive old Prussian butcher who lived in Texas in the 1890s named Charles Dellschau. The drawings have German and some sort of code in them and many references to a “Sonora Aero Club.” The object here is to crack the code; the code of human ingenuity. And to soar to the heights of exhilaration and imagination and maybe something even well beyond.
