Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town

Author: White, Wrath James
Artist: Mike Bohatch
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 160pp.
Pub. Date: May 31st, 2010
Publisher: Thunderstorm Books

Mika Shaw is a promiscuous, drug-addicted, schizophrenic who lives in Bishop, California, a small town in the Eastern Sierras where there’s nothing to do but drink, get high, and have sex.

Plagued by bizarre hallucinations, reality and nightmares co-exist in her mind, indistinguishable from one another. When her closest friends begin dying all around her under increasingly violent and bizarre circumstances, Mika is terrified that this time the nightmares aren’t just in her head.

The Paiute believe that malevolent spirits called Pahoha, water-babies, live in the Owens River.

The Pahoha have pale skin and black eyes and their voices sound like the cries of young children summoning strangers to the lake to be drowned. Sometimes they look like lost loved ones, dead friends or relatives calling from the other side.

To see them is to be fatally cursed . . . and Mika has seen them.

The Third House

Author: Deane, Andy
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: ??pp.
Pub. Date: May 13st, 2010
Publisher: Thunderstorm Books

They had driven similar roads on similar nights hundreds of times before. They’d grown accustomed to empty stretches of pavement that led to grimy nightclubs and seedy bars.

But on this night, one wrong turn will lead a group of band-mates on tour down a gravel highway to a place where nightmares live, breathe . . . and walk.

Soon the five friends will encounter a family of creatures that are both monstrous and somewhat human at once, and this tour may very well be their last.

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He Stepped Through

Author: Southard, Nate
Cover Art: Zack McCain
Format: Limited Edition Chapbook
Type: Horror Novelette
Page Count: 50pp.
Pub. Date: April 30, 2010
Publisher: Bloodletting Press

One gray morning, the words appear everywhere: on the lips of the men shooting up an inner city burger joint, scrawled across a bloody crime scene, and written on the wall of the only occupied apartment in a downtown slum.

In the space of a single day, they infected Los Angeles.

Crooked detective Walker wants to know what the words mean. Officer Megan Ricks can’t get the words out of her head. Gangbanger 2Bit wants to get as far away from the words as possible.

But the words can’t be escaped. They’re written in violence, and promise terror. When their meaning becomes clear, no one will be safe.

This is number 3 in the popular Bloodletting Press Novelette Series.

Do Unto Others

Author: Gonzalez, J. F.
Cover Artist: Daniele Serra
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 154pp.
Pub. Date: May 31, 2010
Publisher: Thunderstorm Books

Jim Cornell used to be believe in God.

But when things went bad — his daughter getting cancer, his layoff from his well-paying job, the strain of his marriage — he began to have no use for God anymore.

When Jim’s forced into a situation that will require his participation in another man’s murder, his faith will be tested. Because while Jim used to believe in God, he’d never given that much thought to the Devil.

Now he’s going to have to. Because like it or not, Jim is involved with people who have a deep religious faith too.

Jim is about to discover that where there is light, there must be darkness. There’s more than one kind of religious faith and his is about to be put to the ultimate test.

Note: There will also be a 52 copy hardcover of this Elemental chapbook produced. Details forthcoming.

Humpty’s Bones

Author: Clark, Simon
Cover Art: Vincent Chong
Format: Signed Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 122pp.
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Telos Publishing

Something nasty found in a village garden by an amateur archaeologist, something which has lain buried for centuries, and which has seen tribute paid to it by generations of local inhabitants. But what happens when the bones are removed and Humpty once more stalks the Earth . . .

With an evocative cover by multiple award winning artist Vincent Chong.

The paperback edition contains Humpty’s Bones, a special introduction and author’s notes by Simon Clark, and a new long short story called Danger Signs, about a group of children who investigate an abandoned military bunker, and find that everything there is not quite as dead as they expected.

Signed by Simon Clark and Vincent Chong.

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Postcards from Purgatory

Author: Anderson, Sam W.
Cover Art: Tom Moran
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 210pp.
Pub. Date: April 26, 2010
Publisher: Sideshow Press

Book Three in the First Cut Series

Sideshow Press is proud to present Postcards from Purgatory, an exciting and eclectic collection of 16 tales of horror, madness, and the bizarre by Sam W. Anderson.

Included in this collection, and published for the first time, are three stories from Anderson’s genre-bending The Money Run mythos. It’s a bizarre underworld of drugs, gambling, human trafficking, and . . . midget tossing found on America’s lost highways and dark corners.

Features an introduction from acclaimed horror author Thomas Tessier.

This edition is limited to 100 signed and numbered trade paperbacks. A hardcover edition will be made available at a later date.

Brian Keene’s Dark Hollow Limited Edition T-Shirt

Store: The Bag And The Crow

Limited to 100 shirts/The Bag and the Crow exclusive

This is a double-sided shirt. On the front is the cover of Dark Hollow as released by Leisure Books. On the nape of the neck is The Bag And The Crow Logo in red.

This tee has a rock album cover feel to it and once these tees are gone . . . they’re gone. There will be no reprints.

Dark Hollow is currently being made into a movie. To commemorate this, The Bag And The Crow has created this fine T-shirt.

From the back cover of book:
Something very strange is happening in LeHorn’s Hollow.

Eerie, piping music is being heard late at night, and mysterious fires have been spotted deep in the woods. Women are vanishing without a trace overnight, leaving behind husbands and families.

When up-and-coming novelist Adam Senft stumbles upon an unearthly scene, it plunges him and the entire town into an ancient nightmare. Folks say the woods in LeHorn’s Hollow are haunted, but what waits there is far worse than any ghost. It has been summoned . . . and now it demands to be satisfied.

About the movie:
Bram Stoker Award winning US horror author Brian Keene and British Fantasy Award winning writer Paul Finch are combing forces to bring Dark Hollow to the big screen.

The film is based on Keene’s novel, which was first published last year, that tells the story about a satyr that comes to life in a forest and begins capturing women.

Award winning short film director Paul Campion, who is also a former Weta Digital texture painter, will make this his directorial debut, with a script written by Paul Finch. And to add icing to the cake, Weta Workshop will design and and create the creature makeup.

This is a High Quality Six Color Design.

6.1 oz., 100% preshrunk cotton. Seamless collar. Double-needle stitched. Taped shoulder-to-shoulder.

Generous Fit. High quality, heavyweight t-shirt at a great price.

Creeptych

Author: Everson, John
Cover Art: John Everson
Format: Limited Mini-Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 156pp.
Pub. Date: May 15, 2010
Publisher: Delirium Books

Does your skin crawl when you see a spider on the wall or a roach on the kitchen floor? Do you find yourself itching uncontrollably after being touched by a fly or mosquito? Do you ever lie awake half the night because you felt something delicately, carefully crawling across your feet beneath the sheets?

Then this Creeptych of three bug-ridden stories is for you!

Bad Day: Paul Hughes had a really bad day. He lost his job, his wife and then after getting bit by a bug . . . his life. Compared to what happens to his neighbors after the Luna Roaches come to town, his day wasn’t so bad at all. At least he died. . . .

Eardrum Buzz: Wes couldn’t get enough of the music of Eardrum Buzz’s first disc, Misery Machine; the drone of their guitars was hypnotizing. But when he is brought into the band’s inner circle to join The Swarm, he soon has the music within him. Terrifyingly deep within him. . . .

Violet Lagoon: When a quartet of co-eds decide to reenact The Blue Lagoon on an abandoned Florida Key, they find more than just sex and sand is on the agenda. Stings turn out to play a part in their weekend as well. Lots and lots of stings. But those were just the beginning of the pain. . . .

Table of Contents:

• Bad Day
• Eardrum Buzz
• Violet Lagoon

Clickers III: Dagon Rising

Author: Gonzalez, J. F. and Brian Keene
Cover Art: Dave Kendall
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 244pp.
Pub. Date: April 27, 2010
Publisher: Delirium Books

They thought it was over, but the second wave was only the beginning.

In the aftermath of the Clickers and Dark Ones’ siege and a coup against an insane President, America rebuilds. Change has come, and a better future is promised to all. But promises can be broken and there may be no future at all because deep beneath the ocean, a new terror awaits.

Dagon, god of the Dark Ones, is waking up . . . and if humanity doesn’t stop him, then mankind will face extinction.

Trapped on a South Pacific Island, the cast of Clickers and Clickers 2: The Next Wave join forces with a mysterious group of occult agents to face off against the Clickers, the Dark Ones, Dagon and an all-new threat — the deadly obsidian Clickers. The stakes have never been higher. Dagon is rising… and humanity will fall.

Clickers III: Dagon Rising — It’s more giant monster carnage and B-movie fun as only J. F. Gonzalez and Brian Keene can bring you.

Succubi

Author: Lee, Edward
Artist: Chris Trammell
Format: Signed Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 240pp.
Pub. Date: April 2010
Publisher: Necro Publications

ANGELS OF LOVE

Long, sleek legs, siren-like faces, flawless naked bodies glazed in moonlight and sweat . . .

DEMONS OF DESIRE

No prayer can save you, no force of will can resist their unholy caress. Through midnight’s veil, they will lead you from your wildest dreams into a nightmare of passion, pain and death . . .

DAUGHTERS OF HELL

Their beauty beckons. Their flesh seduces. And they’re coming now — for you.

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