Bestselling Pre-ordered Horror Books for July 2010

Cherry Hill (The John Crowley Series #1)

Author: Moore, James A.
Artist: Alan Clark
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 350pp.
Pub. Date: October 31st, 2010
Publisher: Morning Star

This is volume I in the John Crowley series

Welcome to Cherry Hill.

Attendance is mandatory.

The Cherry Hill Sanitarium isn’t a friendly place. The inmates are among the most mentally deranged and dangerous minds known to the world. It’s the sort of place that sane people would do well to avoid, if they value their lives.

John Doe is not a normal man. He can’t remember his name, nor much of his past. He’s almost certain he’s been dead for a while, and that the asylum that has become his residence is haunted by more than broken minds and twisted memories.

John isn’t wrong. Something dark is growing inside the walls of the asylum, something that festers and hungers to be free of its prison. That something has never lived before, but it wants to live now, even if it has to destroy everything it encounters to get its way.

John Doe might just be the only person in the world who can stop the madness that is trying to be born into the walls of Cherry Hill. He might be the only chance for the staff and the patients alike. The problem isn’t simply that he can’t remember how to help them.

It’s worse than that. John Doe is almost certain that if he does remember his past, the knowledge could very well drive him mad.

Gardens of Night

Author: Gifune, Greg F.
Artist: Chas Hendricksen
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 200pp.
Pub. Date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Uninvited Books

Recovering from an unthinkably violent trauma, Marcus Banyon comes to perceive a different reality.

Have his eyes been opened to forces long hidden from the rest of humanity, or has he suffered a psychotic break as his doctors suggest?

As he retreats to an isolated chalet with his also-recovering wife and his oldest friend, Marc’s visions lead them to an ancient mythology steeped in mystery and deception . . . and to a trio of sinister beings who hold the fate of the world in their hands.

The Wild Hunt

Author: Moore, James A.
Artist: Tom Moran
Format: Deluxe Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 200pp.
Pub. Date: October 1, 2010
Publisher: Sideshow Press

How well do you know your friends?

They’ve been chums since high school. Every year, they go hunting together to reminisce about old times and relive their glory days as they try to bag their limit.

Would you die for them?

Now, something has gone terribly wrong. Someone has grabbed their loved ones, leaving strict instructions about where they must go and when they must meet if they want their families back alive.

Would they kill for you?

One of them is hiding a secret — a secret linked to a past hunt. He has offended the wrong people and unless he comes clean, every last one of them will die . . . or lose his loved ones in his stead.

Do they deserve to live?

They have only one other option — a test of skill against the very creatures they offended, blood for blood in the middle of a wintry nowhere. Fight and kill and win your freedom, or hesitate and die for your foolishness.

The Wild Hunt has begun and before it’s over, somebody dies.

Pontypool Changes Everything

Author: Burgess, Tony
Artist: Erik Mohr
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 350pp.
Pub. Date: November 15th, 2010
Publisher: ChiZine Publications

What if you woke up and began your morning by devoting the rest of your life to a murderous rampage, a never-ending cannibalistic spree?

And what if you were only one of thousands who shared the same compulsion?

This novel depicts just such an epidemic. It’s the compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus.

You catch it through conversation, and once it has you, it leads you on a strange journey — into another world where the undead chase you down the streets of the smallest towns and largest cities.

Now a major motion picture by Hard Core Logo director Bruce McDonald.

BONUS: Original CBC radio play script, featuring a different ending than the film!

The Reverend’s Powder (Book 5 in the Chapbook Series)

Author: Williams, Erik
Cover Artist: Tom Moran
Artist: Jacob Parmentier
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 100pp. for both books together
Pub. Date: August 24, 2010
Publisher: Sideshow Press

This two-book offer contains the first pair of books from the Black Ink Chapbook Series Two at a special low price. This time around, we’re offering the books in three sets of two, this being the first set.

Both books are fully-illustrated and signed by the authors and numbered.

Both books will be released and shipped on the same date.

If you have the first set, and you would like to keep your number, please include it in the “Notes” section of your order.

(Note: Books will be offered individually for the regular cover price of $13 each when they are ready to ship. Only those who pre-order the first set will have their numbers gauranteed for future books in the series. A two-book hardcover set with slipcase will be offered at a later date).

Then:

Reverend Billy Simms has healed tens of thousands during his two decades as a faith healer, and his reputation as “the real thing” draws thousands of the sick, the weak, and the wounded.

Against his better judgment, Matthew agrees to accompany his cancer-stricken sister to the faith revivalist’s assembly.

A skeptic at heart, he recognizes the reverend as a fraud, but can’t help but to feel hope as his sister’s condition seems to improve.

Two days later, she is dead.

Now:

As Reverend Simms stands naked, unconscious, and strapped to a hand truck, Matthew has a decision to make.

He has reached a fork; one road stretching toward forgiveness and the other descending into bloody revenge.

From the author of Blood Spring comes a story of love, loss, and revenge.

Fiona and Grams (Book 6 in the Chapbook Series)

Author: O’Neill, Gene
Artist: Tom Moran
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 100pp. for both books together
Pub. Date: August 24, 2010
Publisher: Sideshow Press

This two-book offer contains the first pair of books from the Black Ink Chapbook Series Two at a special low price. This time around, we’re offering the books in three sets of two, this being the first set.

Both books are fully-illustrated and signed by the authors and numbered.

Both books will be released and shipped on the same date.

If you have the first set, and you would like to keep your number, please include it in the “Notes” section of your order.

(Note: Books will be offered individually for the regular cover price of $13 each when they are ready to ship. Only those who pre-order the first set will have their numbers gauranteed for future books in the series. A two-book hardcover set with slipcase will be offered at a later date).

Fiona and Grams includes two stories from Stoker award winning author Gene O’Neill

Fiona

After the death of her surrogate grandmother, Fiona moves from New York City to the quaint, rural community of Sleepy Hollow.

When Fiona and her uncle’s trusty servant Benjy have a run in with school bully Hans Van Brunt, they become the target of the boy’s revenge. On the night of the autumn harvest celebration, Hans makes his move.

But a Rorkun, an evil shadow spirit, is said to stalk the swamps around the tiny township, and the children are unwittingly gathering for a confrontation with dark magics.

Grams

Grams was funny in both senses of the word—both ha-ha and peculiar, sometimes at the same time.

After her death, her house is sold and scheduled for demolition.

When workers make a grim discovery in a hidden, sealed-off room, brothers Sonny and Vic are forced to revisit their childhood home — and some long-forgotten memories — one last time.

Little Things

Author: Little, John R.
Artist: Alex McVey
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 352pp.
Pub. Date: August 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

John R. Little has been publishing his unique brand of short stories for almost 30 years.

Little Things is a retrospective of his career, containing his best work.

The stories in this collection will make you feel a sense of wonder. Some will shock you, make you sad, bring laughter, scare you, and they will sear into your memory.

The author is the winner of the Bram Stoker award and the Black Quill award for his book Miranda.

Siren

Author: Everson, John
Artist: Travis Anthony Soumis
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 374pp.
Pub. Date: August 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

Music can transport you to the depths and heights of emotion. Music can make life worth living. Music can steal your soul.

Evan’s soul is dead as he walks the empty Northern California beach every night.

Petrified of the water all his life, he’s never recovered from seeing his son drown in the ocean’s waves. But then one night, he hears a song on the beach. A beautiful, tortuously emotional melody that leads him right to the brink of the surf.

That’s when the music ends, and a gorgeous nude woman dives off the black rocks to disappear in the waves. His fears for her safety are allayed when she returns the next night to sing again . . . only this time, he’s touched by more than her song . . .

He’s touched by something that won’t let him go . . .

The Chosen

Author: Lee, Edward
Artist: Paul John Ballard
Format: Collector Hardcover Edition
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 341pp.
Pub. Date: October 2010
Publisher: MHB Press

The deluxe edition of The Chosen is displayed as the collector hardcover edition has not been prepared yet.

This will be the World First Hardback Edition and First British Edition of this title, originally published in the USA as a paperback original by Pinnacle books.

For the first time Edward Lee’s classic novel of erotic horror will be available to collector’s and fans in a quality, signed hardback edition.

Printed on matte coated Vancouver 90gsm paper. Sewn block, bound in red Colorado cloth with headbands, colored endpapers and bound in ribbon bookmark with DJ.

Synopsis: Restaurant manager Vera Abott seems to have been given the job of her dreams. With a huge salary, company car and accommodation thrown in she moves to The Inn — a new restaurant / hotel being developed at the secluded Wroxton Hall by the mysterious Mr. Feldspar.

But from the day she arrives she realises something is seriously wrong. She hears strange noises and sees shadowy figures prowling the corridors late at night and in her dreams is seduced by a hideous stranger who uses her body to satisfy his depraved lusts.

The Inn hides a terrible secret and Vera is about to be initiated into a secret world of diabolical sex and horror.

WARNING — the content and illustrations mean this one is Strictly Adults Only!

Concrete Jungle (The Jungle Trilogy #1)

Author: McBean, Brett
Cover Art: Steve Crisp
Interior Art: Keith Minnion
Format: Signed Limited Edition Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: ??pp.
Pub. Date: December 2010
Publisher: Tasmaniac

Jungle:

1. any dense or tangled thicket or growth
2. a place of intense competition or ruthless struggle for survival

We’re trapped in a world of modern convenience, of steel giants and oceans of concrete. For the most part we’re content to live in this colourless existence. But we’ve paid for our comfortable lifestyles.

Instead of looking out our windows and seeing a forest of trees, we see a forest of buildings; instead of a clear flowing river, we see rapids of asphalt and an endless stream of vehicles cascading along its surface. Smog chokes the once clean air. Noise pollution drowns out the birdsong. It’s a jungle out there, but not in the way nature intended.

Which is why nature has decided to take back control.

Welcome to the new world.

A world in which the land has reverted back to jungle, where you no longer fight for a parking space, but for your life; where supermarkets have become places of savagery and your next-door neighbour looks at you not as a friend, but as perhaps their next meal.

A world where survival is reserved only for the fittest . . . and for the cunning.

Welcome to the jungle.

In a series of three novellas, Brett McBean takes a look at life in the modern world and turns it inside out. He transforms the common into the uncommon, the banal into the unreal, as everything from a multi-level car park, to a typical suburban sprawl become dangerous hunting grounds.

Forget TV dinners and 50% discounts at your local Target — it’s a fight for survival as nature takes over your homes and shopping centres.

Book 1: Concrete Jungle

It’s late. A few remaining shoppers head for the multi-story car park after attacking the sales at an adjacent shopping center.

However, they become trapped in the underground bunker when, incredibly, trees start to sprout from beneath the car park, transforming the concrete structure into a ruined, maze-like cavern.

Unable to find a way out it becomes a struggle for survival, for not only does the car park continue to transform back into a jungle, wild animals have begun to appear, governed by hunger under the foliage canopy. Now the humans must fight to survive — not only Mother Nature, but a foe just as deadly . . . each other.

With bonus Jungle stories from Nate Kenyon and Tim Kroenert.

Cover art by Steve Crisp. Internal illustrations by Keith Minnion.

Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door: Movie Omnibus

Author: Ketchum, Jack; Philip Nutman, and Daniel Farrands
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 300pp.
Pub. Date: October 31st 2010
Publisher: Cargo Cult Press

Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door: Movie Omnibus (limited Edition)

Many horror genre collectors hold The Girl Next Door as a literary classic and with the release of the movie in 2007 the rest of the world learned just how powerful and moving this story truly is.

Cargo Cult Press in conjunction with Moderncine studio is proud to be releasing Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door Movie Omnibus.

This book will include:

• The original Screenplay written by Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman
• Introduction by Jack Ketchum
• Essays written by the following:
• Blanch Baker (Actress Playing Ruth Chandler)
• Blythe Auffarth (Actress Playing Meg Loughlin)
• Producer Andrew van den Houten
• Director Gregory Wilson
• Score: Ryan Shore
• Producer and Cinematographer: William M. Miller
• Interview with Jack Ketchum, Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman
• Many behind the scene’s photos
• DVD and Music Score will be included and housed in the binding of the book.
• Color and black and white behind the scenes photos

Signed by all contributors!

Synopsis:

Inspired by true events, this thriller set in 1958 follows the harrowing story of two adolescent girls (Blythe Auffarth, Madeline Taylor), who upon losing their parents in an accident are sent to live with their Aunt Ruth (Blanche Baker), a sadistic psychopath. Unbeknownst to the residents of the small New Jersey suburb, the girls endure unthinkable punishment at the hands of their aunt and three cousins.