Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper Available Now
“Teenage Girls Can Be Demons is Hailey Piper at her best.” (Adam Cesare, author of the Clown in a Cornfield series). 13 coming-of-rage stories the way only Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper can tell them—wildly inventive, brilliantly imaginative, and completely and utterly enthralling.
A vicious group of college upperclassmen prey on the freshman girls in ‘Why We Keep Exploding’; across the world, something is mutating adolescents into bizarre creatures in ‘The Turning’; a girl on a night out realizes a bizarre cop is hunting her in ‘The Long Flesh of the Law’; and in the acclaimed novella ‘Benny Rose, the Cannibal King’, a Halloween prank goes horribly wrong when a murderous ghost steps out of an urban legend and into the real world.
These stories take our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into new and terrifying shapes, where the monsters are real and you’ll do whatever it takes to get away, or get even. Secure your paperback or ebook copy now.
Veil by Jonathan Janz Released This Week
It begins at night. People vanish from parks and city streets. Then in broad daylight, they’re dragged screaming into the woods, into the water, into the sky.
People take refuge in their homes, but still the invisible creatures come, ripping people away from their horrorstruck loved ones. Spouses. Parents. Children. Nowhere is safe and no defense can stop them. Because nothing can save you from what you can’t see. High school teacher John Calhoun loses his son the first night. A day later, they take his wife. For two months, he and his thirteen-year-old daughter manage to survive, but in the end, she is abducted too. In John’s darkest moment, he meets a motley group of survivors who have a secret: a near-fatal car accident has given one of them the ability to detect what normal human eyesight cannot. The survivors believe they can replicate the brain injury that will enable them to see the creatures. To discover how they’re invading our world. To fight them.
Desperate to save his family, John volunteers. And after the veil of invisibility is lifted, he and his new friends will risk everything to achieve the impossible: enter an alien world and bring their loved ones back. Available now in paperback, ebook, and audio, get your copy here.
Out Now … Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within by Josh Malerman
“It will light an inspiring torch inside you and send you rushing to the keyboard or camera or canvas.”—Benjamin Percy, author of The Ninth Metal and Red Moon
One night, bestselling author Josh Malerman—then just an aspiring writer—watched Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead with his fiancée and two friends. It was a gathering that could’ve gone unnoticed, another date night with a movie, but for Malerman, it became a landmark. It changed the course of his life, and it will inspire you to reflect on your own journey and to discover existing triumphs that are within you already.
Describing the course of the night, Malerman reflects on his life, from his career as a musician to his stack of rough drafts, written prior to ever being published—and on how meeting the love of his life, a fellow creative, opened him to new experiences and new ways of viewing the world they now quest through together. Malerman deploys his own story to help readers not only write their unwritten stories but celebrate their uncelebrated victories: to find their voice, their vision, and their joie de vivre.
By simply describing an uncommon and uncanny night, he guides aspiring writers beyond the blank page to the immortal life of the writer. Get the book now, in hardback, ebook, or audio.
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BOB PASTORELLA
