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NEWS
Progress continues on bringing out trade paperback editions of classic horror. We nearly have the entire line of Macabre Ink Resurrected Horrors in print, this week adding two titles you’ll find linked below from the late Charles L. Grant, and Kathryn Ptacek. We will have more trade paperbacks from Brian Lumley coming out soon, as well as a David Schow title. It’s a busy time of year shipping off books to authors who have Halloween signings and convention appearances.
Soon we will be debuting a new feature. In this first episode, Author Stephen Mark Rainey, Narrator Joshua Saxon, and David Niall Wilson will gather to discuss how Mark and Joshua began the long journey of Joshua’s audio work with Crossroad Press, how narration became his career, other books… and things. Stay tuned for links!
NEW IN TRADE PAPERBACK
Night Songs – Charles L. Grant – Universal Book Link
SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT THEY ARE SINGING SONGS OF DEATH…
Colin Ross, twice thwarted in love, once abandoned, quit the mainland for Haven's End, a wounded soul on an idyllic island, seeking to heal his life. But instead of peace, he is hurled into chaos. Some dark and ancient hatred, some evil force, is unleashed, wreaking vengeance on the islanders, mangling the living and mutilating the dead. And, as the piercing songs rise to met the roaring wind, Colin Ross, against his will, is sucked into the raging storm.
GILA! – Kathryn Ptacek (Writing as Les Simons) - Universal Book Link
FROM ECSTASY TO AGONY!
Just a moment before, Maria had been shuddering with pleasure in the arms of her teenage lover. Now she lay frozen as she saw the bedroom wall of het cottage bulging inward, then cracking wide open. “God Almighty!” the boy moaned and tore himself from Maria’s arms. But he could not escape the nightmare creature coming into the room. He shrieked over and over as the giant jaws closed around his torso, snapping him in the middle as if his body was a twig. The creature raised its head. Blood and bits of warm, wet flesh slipped from the mouth, down onto the bed and the naked girl. An overwhelming rotting odor flooded the room, and Maria began to pray as the orange-and-black creature opened its mouth to let what remained of her lover’s body slip out...to make room for her....
SPOTLIGHT
“His work…will haunt your imagination and your heart in equal measure, and it both expands and defines the genre. ” Adam Mills, Weird Fiction Review
Steve Rasnic Tem’s writing career spans over 40 years, including poetry, plays, short stories, and novels in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, crime, regional fiction set in the Appalachian South, as well as a less-classifiable imaginative prose more than one critic has called “Temism.” His collaborative novella with his late wife Melanie Tem, The Man On The Ceiling, won the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild awards in 2001. He has also won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and British Fantasy Awards for his solo work. His recent novel UBO (Solaris, January 2017) is a dark science fictional tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin, and Heinrich Himmler. Steve’s southern gothic novel Blood Kin (Solaris, March 2014), won the 2014 Bram Stoker Award. His other novels are his YA The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack (Hex, 2018), Deadfall Hotel (Solaris, 2012), The Man On The Ceiling (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries, 2008, written with Melanie Tem as an expansion of their novella), The Book of Days (Subterranean, 2002), Daughters (Grand Central, 2001, also written with Melanie Tem), and Excavation (Avon, 1987). A handbook on writing, Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Fiction, also written with Melanie, appeared in 2017 from Apex Books.
Steve has published over 450 short stories. His first collection of stories, Ombres sur la Route, was published by the French publisher Denoël in 1994. His first English language collection, City Fishing (Silver Salamander, 2000) won the International Horror Guild Award. His other story collections are The Far Side of the Lake (Ash Tree, 2001), In Concert (Centipede, 2010-collaborations with Melanie Tem), Ugly Behavior (New Pulp, 2012-noir fiction), Onion Songs (Chomu, 2013), Celestial Inventories (ChiZine, 2013), Twember (NewCon, 2013-science fiction), Here With The Shadows (Swan River Press, 2014), the giant 72-story treasury, Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors, (Centipede Press), Figures Unseen: Selected Stories (Valancourt, 2018), The Harvest Child And Other Fantasies (Crossroads, 2018), the YA-oriented Everything Is Fine Now (Omnium Gatherum, 2019), and The Night Doctor and Other Tales (Centipede, 2019).
A transplanted Southerner from Lee County Virginia, Steve is a long-time resident of Colorado. He has a BA in English Education from VPI and a MA in Creative Writing from Colorado State, where he studied fiction under Warren Fine and poetry under Bill Tremblay.
NEW IN AUDIO
Close Call - by Matt Manochio – Performed by Connie Shabshab - A bad umpiring call ruins a pitcher’s once-in-a-lifetime chance to make Major League Baseball history. Fans boo and sports talkers bray—but murder? FBI Special Agent Patti Moreland knows nothing about baseball, but she must uncover who’s leaving a trail of bodies outside of stadiums in New York and New Jersey, and why. Each body comes with a note demanding the league commissioner reverse the call that ruined an ultra-rare perfect game, or more people die—including a player close to the investigation who’s vanished and has less than thirty-six hours to live if the commissioner doesn’t buckle. Unless Moreland catches the madman first. AUDIO SAMPLE
City of Knives – by William Bayer – Performed by Juan Carlos Magana - CITY OF KNIVES is a psychological thriller set in one of the world’s most fascinating cities. The destinies of four main characters, each pursuing his/her own agenda, intersect in Buenos Aires. MARTA ABECASIS, homicide detective, known as La Incorrupta (“the incorruptible one”) is assigned to investigate the murder of a prostitute. As her investigation unfolds she uncovers a political conspiracy involving powerful people who will stop at nothing to obstruct her. BETH BROWDER, a San Francisco teacher, comes to Buenos Aires to search for her missing lover and to immerse herself in the tango. Soon after her arrival she is drawn into a frightening decadent demimonde that pushes her to the brink of madness. DR. TOMÁS HUDSON, a psychoanalyst specializing in the treatment of the damaged children of los desaparecidos (“the disappeared ones”), is approached by an extortionist offering to sell him the name of the person responsible for the arrest and murder of his wife. HANK BARNES, a militaria dealer, is hired by an anonymous stranger to travel to Buenos Aires to retrieve a long-lost jewel-encrusted dagger that once belonged to Nazi leader, Hermann Goering. As he pursues this quest, he suspects he is being manipulated by the intelligence service of a foreign government. Other characters include a corrupt priest, a young investigative journalist, an incestuous brother-sister, and an imprisoned right-wing military leader. The city in which they cross paths becomes a character itself – Buenos Aires, rich and cruel, haunted by a violent past, a gorgeous city of intrigue and decay, a dangerous city...a City Of Knives. AUDIO SAMPLE
A Multitude of Monsters -Book 2 of the Ebenezum Trilogy by Craig Shaw Gardner – Performed by Adam Hobbs - "I've got you now, you wizardly pest, in my stomach you soon will rest!" Thus spoke Guxx Unfufadoo to the mighty wizard, Ebenezum. The dreaded rhyming demon had cruelly cursed the mage with a malady of magicks and now he was determined that the suffering sorcerer never reach Vushta, the City of Forbodden Delights, where he might find a cure. – AUDIO SAMPLE Book One, A Malady of Magicks, Also available & Book Three coming soon!
AUDIO SPOTLGHT
Strangewood -by Christopher Golden – Performed by Scott MaDonald – Audio Sample: The young son of a popular children's book author vanishes into the dangerous fictional world his father created. And it's going to take more than a vivid imagination to get him back alive.
FREE AUDIOBOOK DOWNLOAD CODES FOR AUDIBLE
Here is our new list of books we are offering free download codes for. We are trying to build reviews, and while we don’t require a review for a free download, even just a rating on Audible or Amazon can make a huge difference in visibility. Beneath the new books are those from last week, because all still have some codes available for US and UK listeners. We will offer them to the first five who request them, and only one title per requester. To request a code send a note to [email protected]
THIS WEEK’S TITLES
A Kiss of Thorns – Tim Waggoner – Performed by Gary Noon – Audio Sample: Bram Stoker Award nominee
Lonny lost his beloved sister Delia 30 years ago. Since then, he's sacrificed many lives in order to return her to the world of the living, but without success. His next target is Julia, a young women with a unfulfilled marriage and a passion for '80s horror films. She will soon discover that not only is real life more complicated than the movies, it's far more terrifying
Alternate Killer – Matthew Franks – Performed by Derek Green – Audio Sample:
Sam Floyd leads a normal life until Special Detective Erica Sayles unexpectedly appears one day and asks for his help to catch a killer. But not just any killer. In an alternate universe, Erica’s been pursuing Thomas Weir, Sam’s homicidal other self. Despite Sam’s reservations, Erica convinces him to accompany her to a different version of Earth. Sam soon finds himself in a technologically advanced society where high-ranking police officers can change their appearance at will and the president holds daily televised dance parties. Channeling a unique emotional and psychic connection to Thomas, Sam assists Erica in tracking him. But stopping Thomas doesn’t prove easy. He takes Erica and Sam down an ambitiously twisted trail of murder that ultimately puts both of their worlds in jeopardy.
Autumn Crow – Cameron Chaney – Performed by Matt Godfrey – Audio Sample:
Cameron Chaney, host of Library Macabre, presents seven new tales of All Hallows terror, along with his newly revised novella There Are Monsters Here."
Welcome to Autumncrow Valley, where every night is Halloween. Enjoy your stay! But first, a few words of warning: Stay out of the forest. Never venture out after dark. And don't stare too long into the shadows . . . you may not like what you see. Have a pleasant visit. We hope it won't be your last.
LAST WEEK REVIEW COPIES -Codes still available
Clickers Vs. Zombies – J. F. Gonzalez & Brian Keene – Performed by Chet Williamson AUDIO SAMPLE
Sunray Alice – Jeremy Hepler – Performed by Cathi Colas AUDIO SAMPLE
Vortex – Ray Garton – Performed by Caroline McLaughlin AUDIO SAMPLE
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