Happy New Year to all our readers! 2016 is shaping up to be a busy time at JournalStone, and we’re excited to share what’s on the horizon.
First off, a big thank you to Russ Thompson for all his hard work on past issues of the newsletter! Not to worry though, he’ll still be lurking around JournalStone in some ghostly form or another. And a quick hello: I’m Jess Landry – you may have seen me posting news and reviews on the JournalStone sites. I’ll now be your newsletter hostess with the mostess. Think of me as the Cryptkeeper, but with a less impressive cackle. Now then, onto some big news!
Have you checked out the newly redesigned sites for Hellnotes, Horror World, The Horror Review and Buy Zombie? And with a new look comes the need for more reviewers. Interested in being apart of the JournalStone family and reading books or seeing movies…for free? Check out the details below.
On the publishing front, we’re gearing up for the release of Book III from the Phoenix Girls saga by Brian Knight, which comes out on February 12th. We’ve also got a few audio books coming your way – The Gods of HP Lovecraft, edited by Aaron J. French, will be available this month from Audio Realms, and Laird Barron’s X’s For Eyes will be released soon after.
Speaking of Laird Barron, the latest issue of Dark Discoveries sees none other than the critically acclaimed author himself grace the cover. Be sure to subscribe today so you don’t miss out on more of our badass author covers and all the special features packed into every issue!
That’s it for this month – stay warm, everybody!
Jess Landry
JournalStone Network Assistant Editor
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Halfway Down The Stairs by Gary A. Braunbeck
Climb halfway down the stairs with Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Gary A. Braunbeck, into worlds that occupy the spaces between “here” and “there,” where office workers become little more than scrolls of code and an ordinary man discovers that he has to help reassemble the missing face of God; from battle-scarred veterans who have to protect their village from encroaching spirits to a college experiment that may bring about the end of days, all of these stories feature Braunbeck’s trademark element: an unblinking eye for emotional detail that elevates the subject matter of each piece into the realm of the genuinely literary.
The stories span Braunbeck’s thirty-year career from some of the very first tales of Cedar Hill to all-new stories, including the never-before-published author’s preferred version of the controversial, “The Sisterhood of Plain-Faced Women.”
Several stories herein are introduced by such luminaries in the horror/dark fantasy field: Ramsey Campbell, Laird Barron, Elizabeth Massie, Graham Masterton, and Jonathan Maberry, to name only a few.
Halfway Down the Stairs is a treasure chest of wonders for Braunbeck fans.
The Gods of HP Lovecraft Edited by Aaron J. French
The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the twelve principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose within its pages. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many NY Times bestsellers, full of original fiction and artwork, and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson.
About the book: Lovecraft’s bestiary of gods has had a major influence on the horror scene from the time these sacred names were first evoked. Cthulhu, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth-this pantheon of the horrific calls to mind the very worst of cosmic nightmares and the very darkest signs of human nature. The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft brings together twelve all-new Mythos tales from:
Cthulhu (Adam Nevill) – Yog-Sothoth (Martha Wells) – Azathoth (Laird Barron) – Nyarlathotep (Bentley Little) – Shub-Niggurath (David Liss) – Tsathoggua (Brett Talley) – The Mi-Go (Christopher Golden & James A. Moore) – Night-gaunts (Jonathan Maberry) – Elder Things (Joe Lansdale) – Great Race (Rachel Caine) – Yig (Douglas Wynne) – The Deep Ones (Seanan McGuire)
With commentary on each deity by Donald Tyson
Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists. Alas, life is complicated in mid-1950s USA when you’re child heirs to the throne of Sword Enterprises, a corporation that has enshrined Machiavelli’s The Prince as its operating manual and whose patriarch believes, Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds, would be a swell company logo.
Consider also those long, cruel winters at the Mountain Leopard boarding school for assassins in the Himalayas, or that Dad may be a supervillain, while an uncle occasionally slaughters his nephews and nieces for sport; and the space flight research division of Sword Enterprises “accidentally” sent a probe through a wormhole into outer darkness and contacted an alien god. Now a bloodthirsty cult and an equally vicious rival firm suspect the Tooms boys know something and will spare no expense, nor innocent life, to get their claws on them.
Between the machinations of the disciples of black gods and good old corporate skullduggery, it’s winding up to be of a hell of a summer vacation for the lads.
