“With Rowland’s latest, a cursed winter storm hits a small New England community and delivers a nightmarish entity hungry for their sins.”
John Stephenson looks out his window on a Tuesday morning and sees nothing but clear, grey skies. Within 48 hours, the world becomes a waking nightmare. The whispering starts when the first flakes begin to fall. While walking her dog, a woman leans close to the sidewalk, convinced there is something buried beneath, speaking to her.
A storm is coming to this small New England community, and the residents are not ready for the ancient curse hiding within the snow … it knows their sins, their regrets, and will stop at nothing to consume what belongs to it.
The storm grows more ferocious, and everyone in town hears it calling.
What it says, however, few may survive to repeat.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Rebecca Rowland has consistently delivered the goods when it comes to strange, hard-hitting horror fiction. The author of Pieces (with Michael Aloisi), Optic Nerve, and the collections The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight and White Trash and Recycled Nightmares, Rowland’s short fiction has been featured in such publications as The Years Best Hardcore Horror, Vol. 4, Coffin Bell Journal, The Sirens Call, Dark Disasters, The Rack, and Strange New Moons among others. As well as an acomplished writer, Rowland has also edited several anthologies such as Generation Xed and American Cannibal to name a few. With Rowland’s latest, a cursed winter storm hits a small New England community and delivers a nightmarish entity hungry for their sins. Jonathan Janz (Veil, The Dismembered) says: “Wicked, lusty, blood-soaked, and tense, Rebecca Rowland’s Eminence Front is the claustrophobic tale of a blizzard that does something terrible to a neighborhood…and the people who do far worse to each other. A brisk, unsettling shocker!”, and Christopher Golden (Road of Bones, The Night Birds) says: “Rowland gets under your skin, down to the frigid bone marrow with this creepy-as-hell winter horror. Everyone has secrets, and this book amps up the isolation, dread, and paranoia to remind us how vulnerable we really are. It’s a chiller!”
Releasing from CLASH Books 20 January 2026, Eminence Front by Rebecca Rowland is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
