Ooh, Book Mail!! Got this great series from author Stephen D. Sullivan. Nice new covers as he just published the full series. Oh, and I blurbed one, too! Click photos for full size.
You can also read some of the serialized versions of the books, plus some other Frost Harrow stories at his website Frost Harrow page. Bonus! He does a new Halloween story every year, so find those on the bottom of the page at the link.
** Happy Reading!! **
Not for the faint of heart... Santa is NOT himself!
In my story, "Nick's Secrets," things are out of control at the Claus household when Mrs. Claus finds the body of a dead elf in the closet. Nick also has been acting strangely and, it turns out, he has plenty of dark secrets...
The anthology serves up twelve tales of Yuletide violence, dark humor, and righteous mayhem.
Expect blood on the sleigh, bullets in the chimney, and justice served cold as a December wind. Twelve stories that lean into the darker possibilities of the season — what happens when Santa knows everything about everyone, when the pressure of a single global deadline cracks the mind of the man who carries it, when elves wake up angry and reindeer bite back. Some tales deliver violent escapism. Others deliver karma with a bow on top. All of them turn the sugar-coated Christmas myth on its head.
Includes stories by Ron Clyburn, Tom Haftmann, Michael Ferreter, John M. Floyd, Geoff Holder, Christine Verstraete, Pat Remick, John T. Aquino, April Kelly, Beverle Graves Myers, Madison Blackwell and a sequel story from editor Kevin R. Tipple
Fellow writing group member Warren Langlois's first novel, Crawl Space, is now out! And with a description like that... wow! (Ooh, I love b/w covers!) ** Subscribe to his Substack page here.
* Buy Crawl Space at Publisher site. - Buy: Amazon
About the book:
In 1963, a wandering drifter is dragged screaming into the earth behind a quiet Wisconsin house. A year later, nine-year-old Henry Adams narrowly escapes the same fate — and watches in horror as a neighborhood bully is devoured by whatever lives beneath Old Lady Appleton’s overgrown backyard. The Big Boys call them crocodiles. Henry knows better. And he spends the next fifty years running from what he saw.
Now, in 2012, Henry — known to the world as bestselling novelist Luther Adams — has come home. His parents are dead. The old house on Dekoven Avenue is his to empty, his to sell, his to finally leave behind. But the crawl space beneath the family kitchen is exactly where it’s always been. The field out back is still hungry. And something down there remembers him...
About the author:
Newly published and out on Kickstarter 1 week only!
Get in on it now! * Ends Oct. 25.
Ghouls, demons vampires, oh my! Eerie series by noted author Stephen D. Sullivan.
FH#1 Scream Lover Synopsis: After Ivy Frost’s near-death experience, something evil follows her back to the land of the living.
FH#2 Die with Me Synopsis: When Tony Frost discovers a pale woman washed ashore near his home, his life becomes a nightmare of haunted desire.
FH#3 Ghouls Synopsis: A mysterious killing disrupts Grant Winslow’s plans for an eco-friendly subdivision and thrusts him into a world of subterranean horror.
FH#4 Ghoul King Synopsis: Newly unearthed skeletons drag Grant and Ivy further into ghoulish danger and supernatural madness.
This time around it's Netflix's turn to air their version of the Lizzie Borden murder saga - Monster - The Lizzie Borden Story, starting today.
Yes, it will be bloody, judging from the photos shown online.
Well, we'll see. I've watched every Lizzie Borden movie, with Christina Ricci's series, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles a bloody, irreverent, and unique favorite. (2015 follow up to the TV movie, LIzzie Borden Took An Ax.)
Of course, you can't beat the classic Elizabeth Montgomery version, The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975). I've rewatched both several times on DVD and it might be time for another viewing.
Was Lizzie a monster? Misunderstood? Innocent? Guilty? Read on for some other intriguing views of the murders...
Lizzie was acquitted of the 1892 crimes, but 134 years later, the questions, and opinions, remain.
Why not? There's every other reason out there. In Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter, I followed the trial, and excerpted trial and news transcripts, but there's more to the story and why.
You can read chapter 1 here.
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The Lizzie Borden House anthology Includes 20+ stories by authors including NYT Bestseller Heather Graham and Stoker Award Winner Linda D. Addison.
PLUS! A new Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter story by me: "You Can Go Home Again."
* BUY: Get it on Amazon - Publisher: Riverdale Ave. Books - Goodreads - Barnes & Noble, ebook -
Wow. This really is fantastic and worth the praise. Others agree, judging from the reviews in the thousands. Funny, as the foreward by Joe Hill states, the book was first published in 2012, dropped like a stone unnoticed, but was republished and now has made a resurgence in popularity. Odd, how that works.
* Review: Wow. This is different, so different. Besides the amazing writing, it's a tale of medieval faith and religious fears come to life in horrific images of modern horror and monsters, and a supernatural fight for good vs. evil. In the end, it's a trail through hell and redemption. Truly worth a read.
But it is a lush, descriptive tale of the horrors of living during the big plague outbreaks in 1348 in Europe.... Always found it a fascinating, yes, horrific topic that half a population could die based on ignorance, lack of hygiene, and lack of medical knowledge. Oh...are we heading that way again?
While the topic is horror enough, I'm thinking, what classifies this as "horror" as we define it?
I'm halfway through and then I got to the monsters... still trying to figure out what this creature is and then there are other things that appear. I won't give it away, but I'll say it's different and weird and imaginative.
Looking forward to finding out what comes up next and what makes the little orphan girl Delphine, who appears to talk to angels and see "demons?", seem like a saint, or a psychic, or as her traveling companions, a fallen knight and a drunken priest call her, a witch...
Really enjoying this one. I have to read fast as I have to get it back to the library in two weeks!
I've got two new stories coming out soon!
* And it's already crept into the Top 100 of the Bestsellers in Horror Collections. Yay!
Inside the pot lies something sinister, a strange spice, an out-of-place herb, a dash of the unexpected...
In my story, "Be Mine," Charlotte finds her life is about to change drastically but she's assured she'll soon have a special place in her exclusive community.
Story Start: Charlotte started bleeding the day after Easter.
And....
My story, "The Change," will be in Behind the Shadows IV anthology, coming in July from Inkd Publishing.
** You can get in on some deals now via the Kickstarter (by June 7.)
In my story, Drusilla's formerly quiet life as an herbalist and healer becomes an unending cycle of misery after she's attacked by a strange, hairy intruder in her yard.
