Siren

Author: Everson, John
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 320pp.
Pub. Date: July 27, 2010
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester

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Bad Day

Author: Everson, John
Format: Audio Book/Digital MP3 Download
Type: Horror Short Story
Duration: 33:50
Pub. Date: May 15, 2010
Publisher: Darkside Digital

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 . . .

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

The 13th

Author: Everson, John
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 320pp.
Pub. Date: October 27, 2009
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester

The 13th

Author: Everson, John
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 344pp.
Pub. Date: August 1, 2009
Publisher: Necro Publications

Castle House Lodge.

A century ago it was an exclusive resort hotel. But for years it’s stood empty, a haunting shadow of its former glories. Now, after twenty-five years of rumors and ghost stories, the overgrown grounds are showing signs of being tended. The building itself has been repaired. Castle House has new occupants.

What was once a haven for the elite is now a madhouse, a private asylum for pregnant women.

But are all the patients really insane?

And is it just a coincidence that people have begun to disappear from the nearby town?

David Shale’s girlfriend is one of the missing, and he’s determined to find the truth behind the mysterious Dr. Rockford and his house of secrets.

He will learn the meaning of the red X painted on the basement door . . . and he will know the ultimate fear, the horror of . . . The 13th.

Needles and Sins

Author: Everson, John
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 320pp.
Pub. Date: October 17, 2007
Publisher: Necro Publications

Roses scented with bitter deception, Oracles redolent in hidden redemption, a body-mod-obsessed ingenue with an amputee fetish and a demon gone soft on a bitter angel.

Dreamcatchers, an alternate Nativity with a pimp God and a non-compliant Mary, Stupid Bitch the three-legged cat and the secret explanation of how Germany almost won the war with the devil on their side.

These are just a few of the provocative sets in these 19 stories rife with Needles and Sins . . .

Table of Contents:

• Needles and Sins
• Something Inside
• The Strong Will Survive
• Beginning Was the End
• Letting Go
• The Char-Lee
• Bloodroses
• Made For Each Other
• Spirits Having Flown
• Warming the Women
• Mary
• Green Green Glass
• Devil’s Platoon
• Mutilation Street

Love and Sex and Rope and Screams: A Circus in Five Acts

• And Then Some
• After the Fifth Step
• Birth and Death
• You Never Got Used to the Needle
• Irrelevant in Anathzebra

Sacrifice (The Joe Kieran Series #2)

Author: Everson, John
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 321pp.
Pub. Date: April 28, 2009
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester

Sacrifice (The Joe Kieran Series #2)

Author: Everson, John
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 383pp.
Pub. Date: March 2007
Publisher: Delirium Books

Ariana is on a killing spree.

Dressed in a black vinyl catsuit, she lures men to hotel rooms, where they will leave their bodies behind — in multiple pieces. That’s the part of the story that the newspapers know. The “Sunday Slasher,” as she’s dubbed for her habit of leaving behind a corpse every Sunday morning, doesn’t just have a wealth of misanthropic bones in her body.

She’s also got a hunger for ultimate power and control. Through ritual sexual sacrifice, she aims to open the door between this world and the domain of the powerful, but violently perverse Curburide demons. She will be their queen, and they will rape the world.

Joe Kieran is a young reporter who has just left the East Coast port town of Terrel with a demon on his back. Literally.

Having forged a covenant with the demon, Malachai, to save the lives of two women, he now has a constant invisible companion, albeit one who is less than trustworthy.

When Joe picks up Alex, a teen hitchhiker on her way to the Rocky Mountains, he soon finds that he’s been setup by Malachai. Alex is more than just a perky runaway; she has the ability to talk to ghosts, something her right-wing parents forced her to hide.

But now she will need that talent more than ever; as Malachai sets them all on the path that can only lead to . . . Sacrifice.

Failure

Author: Everson, John
Format: Mini-Sized Hardcover Chapbook
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 100pp.
Pub. Date: January 2006
Publisher: Delirium Books

Raymond is such a failure, he can’t even kill himself and get it right.

Cindy just plain doesn’t care; she’ll get on her knees for anyone beneath the football field bleachers to score a nickel bag hit.

And Sal is a frustrated goon with a hook nose and an attitude so sour he can’t nail a girl even with the lure of free dope and a getaway car.

When these three desperate teens meet Aaron, a failed practitioner of the dark arts who offers them the best high they’ve ever smoked in exchange for some kinky sexplay inside his pentagram, things can only go from bad to worse. Aaron hopes to ensnare and re-birth the spirit of a late witch, to capture her power from beyond the grave for his own.

Soon, they’ll all learn the darkest, bloodiest, most terrifying definition of Failure.

Covenant (The Joe Kieran Series #1)

Author: Everson, John
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 352pp.
Pub. Date: August 26, 2008
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester

Covenant (The Joe Kieran Series #1)

Author: Everson, John
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 307pp.
Pub. Date: November 30, 2004
Publisher: Delirium Books

The 2004 Bram Stoker Award winner for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. (tie)

Joe Kieran has found that unearthing the truth for a newspaper can be painful, and telling it, heartbreaking. Hiding from his past big city exposes in the quiet coastal town of Terrel, he stumbles upon a web of mysterious teen suicides that somehow connect a ring of five women.

Is there really a malevolent presence inside Terrel Cliff that holds all of the town in thrall as Angelica, a fortune teller, suggests? Or is there a murderous covenant between five women to sacrifice their first-born? When Angelica is kidnapped right under his nose, Joe suspects that there is more at work in Terrel than a dark, tragic streak.

Deep beneath the remains of a long-demolished lighthouse on its tragic cliff, Joe discovers Terrel’s secret history and salvation. And in his desperate bid to save two women, he forges a new covenant, one that puts his own soul in deadly danger.

Vigilantes of Love

Author: Everson, John
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 132pp.
Pub. Date: April 4, 2003
Publisher: Twilight Tales
Extra: John’s teaser descriptions of each story

This is the second book collection of John Everson’s short fiction, focusing more on dark fantasy than the extreme horror work of his first collection Cage of Bones and Other Deadly Obsessions.

Vigilantes of Love debuted at World Horror Convention 2003 and includes 15 dark fantasy and horror tales, including the title story, written especially for this collection and “Lovesong” a 5th Place winner in the 2000 World Horror Convention Fiction Contest.

Extra: Read “Hard Heart”, “Christmas, The Hard Way” and “Vigilantes of Love” online.

Table of Contents:

• Calling of the Moon She answered the calling of the moon. But not before he felt its touch.
• Lovesong She lured him into the arms of alternative music. He lured her to face the room at the top of the stairs.
• A Time for Music A fairy flute can make dangerous music.
• Trick and Treat All he wanted was a little company for the holiday.
• After the Fifth Step Sometimes, walking the tightrope isn’t just a balancing act.
• Seven Deadly Seeds Bellinda liked to plant things. And Penelope was happy to give her the seeds.
• Preserve “I don’t kill, I preserve,” the taxidermist said. But Richard wanted to die.
• Hard Heart Sometimes, wearing a heart on your sleeve can be tough. But giving it away can be even worse.
• Frost When David left the plane to live with the frost sprite, he thought his problems were over.
• Anne’s Perfect Smile She’d disappeared without a trace. And then he found the post-it note.
• A Lack of Signs If you really know what you want, sometimes, you can find it.
• Christmas, The Hard Way There’s a reason for every tradition, even if you have magic.
• The Humane Way Christmas dinner can lead to unsavory philosophical debates.
• The Right Instrument Jack’s career as a jingle writer was on the deep skids after his breakup. But Eddie knew, all he needed was the right instrument.
• Vigilantes of Love They came in silence from the swamps by the light of the full moon. They left only bloodstains on the sheets. Ribaud knew that it would take a voodoo queen to reverse the curse.

Cage of Bones and Other Deadly Obsessions

Author: Everson, John
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 192pp.
Pub. Date: October 13, 2000
Publisher: Delirium Books
Extra: John’s teaser descriptions of each story

John Everson’s first collection of short stories. These are the more erotic horror stories.

Extra: Read Pumpkin Head online

Table of Contents:

• Yellow The cave held the seed of ancient gods . . . their vacation provided the climax of despair.
• Long Distance Call There are some calls you should never answer.
• Cage of Bones It was beautiful. After weeks of preparation it was finished. A full body restraint. Made of steel. Wood. Leather. And bones.
• Dead Girl On The Side of The Road Her body was his, unchanging, for 25 years to enjoy whenever he chose.
• Pumpkin Head She held the browning vine up from her belly, and with squeamish understanding, he dug through his clothes for his pocketknife.
• Direkit Seed Her name was Ceiran, with a C. She sang sexy Barry Manilow songs and worked in a club. And she was a witch.
• Every Last Drop Tony couldn’t resist the promise of the perfect blowjob. But more than his orgasm was being sucked away.
• When Barrettes Brought Justice To A Burning Heart The derelict with the milky white eyes promised revenge, and that was something Bill wanted more than life itself.
• The Mouth The defining evidence that separates sex and murder is really only the amount of blood left behind on the bed.
• Creaks Sometimes the most frightening parts of growing up are the discoveries of our own nature.
• Remember Me, My Husband Ella Marie had been dead for 100 years when she gave him her ring.
• Wooden “Tonight,” she promised, “I’ll be back. I’ll bring some matches. We’ll have a bonfire, you and I. Dead wood burns best.”
• Swallowing The Pill Some pills get easier to swallow . . . with practice.
• Broken Window In giving him entrance to her soul, had Katrina given too much?
• Tomorrow He was a bored child prodigy who could use his will to make his pets and parents do whatever he chose. What will he do tomorrow?
• Mirror Image The mirror reflects his true nature. Or is it someone else?
• Murdering The Language Gretta only wanted to protect the library’s patrons from smut and filth. But some lessons in literature are painful.
• Anniversary Margaret lived for the nights of the full moon. And she wanted this night to be perfect; it was their first anniversary.
• The Last Plague When nothing else is left, what is there left to lose?
• Bloodroses She was blinded by lust and razored by marriage. But at least she had the thorns of her rose garden to soothe her.

Candy in the Dumpster: New and Used Stories

Author: Mundt, Martin; John Everson, Bill Breedlove, and Jay Bonansinga
Editor: Breedlove, Bill
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 152pp.
Pub. Date: May 10, 2006
Publisher: Dark Arts Books

The first Dark Arts Books release is Candy in the Dumpster, a compilation of 12 “new and used” horror stories by four Chicago authors: Jay Bonansinga, Bill Breedlove, John Everson, and Martin Mundt. This volume features an introduction by another Chicago horror veteran, Mort Castle.

Table of Contents:

• The White House by John Everson
• Swallowing the Pill by John Everson
• Pumpkin Head by John Everson
• A Perfect Plan by Martin Mundt
• The Cure by Martin Mundt
• Babies Is Smart by Martin Mundt
• The Lost Collection by Bill Breedlove
• Free to Good Home by Bill Breedlove
• Drowning in the Sea of Love by Bill Breedlove
• Animal Rites by Jay Bonansinga
• Stash by Jay Bonansinga
• Deal Memo by Jay Bonansinga

Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire

Authors: Rhoads, Loren; Maria Alexander, Mehitobel Wilson, and Christa Faust
Editor: Everson, John
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 260pp.
Pub. Date: January 4, 2008
Publisher: Dark Arts Books

The third Dark Arts Books release is Sins of the Sirens, a compilation of 14 new tales and rare reprints from four of horror’s most provocative authors: Maria Alexander, Christa Faust, Loren Rhoads and Mehitobel Wilson.

The seduction of an angel; the lure of the lash; the touch of psychic hands; living ropes that wind and bind . . . these are just a few of the alluring sins of these sirens. Look inside, but be careful they don’t lure you in too far . . .

Table of Contents:

• The Angel’s Lair by Loren Rhoads
• Sound of Impact by Loren Rhoads
• Still Life With Broken Glass by Loren Rhoads
• Last-Born by Loren Rhoads
• Pinned by Maria Alexander
• The Dark River in His Flesh by Maria Alexander
• The Last Word by Maria Alexander
• Heavy Hands by Mehitobel Wilson
• Close by Mehitobel Wilson
• The Wild by Mehitobel Wilson
• Parting Jane by Mehitobel Wilson
• Love, La Llorona by Christa Faust
• Firebird by Christa Faust
• Tighter by Christa Faust

Spooks!

Editors: Jens, Tina L. and John Everson
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 312pp.
Pub. Date: October 23, 2004
Publisher: Twilight Tales

Ghostly revenge. Ghostly salvation. Ghostly poltergeistic pranks . . . Inside the pages of Spooks! you’ll find 29 tales of the unexplained, the unexpected and the undead.

Some people just refuse to stay in their graves!

Table of Contents:

• The Beaumont Prophecy by Jay Bonansinga
• Redux by J.A. Konrath
• The Vivi by Charlee Jacob
• Hearken Not to the Zurry Bird’s Cry by Edward DeGeorge
• Fleeting Light a poem by Linda Addison
• Agnus Dei by Maria Alexander
• The Sending by James S. Dorr
• And Death Came Down like Moonlit Frost by Martin Mundt
• I Walk through Arid Places by Viki Rollins
• The Portrait Room by Barbara J. Ferrenz
• Two Sizes too Small by David P. Munger
• The Forgotten House a haiku cycle by John Weagly
• Terror Terror on the Wall by Allen Salter and Jay Bonansinga
• Genie’s Last Wish by Eric M. Cherry
• Wisps of Dreams by Jerry Gilio
• The Death of Uncle Edgar by Janet L. Hetherington
• The Ghost in the Attic a true ghost story by Liz Mandville Greeson
• The Tapping by John Everson
• Burial Ground by Steve Laurent
• Nuestra Senora by Carrie Richerson
• Red Whiskey by Tina L. Jens
• The Haunted Lizzie Borden House a true ghost story by Lisa Mannetti
• Dispossession by Laura Anne Gilman
• Education / Magnificence poems by Katherine Norem
• One Last Duet with Davy by Ken Goldman
• Trick by Jody Lynn Nye
• Old as a Rose in Bloom by Lawrence Schimel
• The Lost Pictures of Franklin Field by Bruce Hoff
• A Word about the Ghosts: An interview with John Cordwell, circa 1991 a true ghost story by Tina L. Jens