Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Arriving 13 March from author James Mordechai, A Crack in the World: The Reckoning
USSR, 1941: In the frozen desolation of Siberia, a shaman unleashes an ancient entity from its slumber deep within an abandoned salt mine.
England, 1996: The echoes of that distant ritual reach across time as Meren-Ptah, a foe the RPI Gran Maestro occultist Gino Marcotti once vanquished, returns. With the line between the living and the dead blurred, Gino and Carter Williams must unravel the mystery connecting the past to the present. What dark force has been awakened, and how can the mistakes of history be undone? When the past and the paranormal collide, only the dead hold the key to saving the living.
This is the second book in the A Crack in the World series. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with a paperback edition to follow soon, you can guarantee your copy here.
Available now from Sam Richard and Weirdpunk Books, The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God
A drunk widower wanders through an endless, abandoned mall while the war machine marches. 90s queer metalheads repeatedly try to burn down a regenerating church.
Denizens of a punk house are confronted with the reality of what happened to their missing peer. An artist with acidic bodily fluids finds another like him.
Award-Winning author Sam Richard returns with eleven weird horror stories ranging from body to cosmic to existential and beyond. The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God explores the raw honesty of grief, isolation, brokenness, and desperation. Available now directly from the Weirdpunk Books online store, you can pick up your copy here.
Coming 11 March from editor William Sterling and Truborn Press, Punk Goes Horror: A Mixtape Anthology
15 Authors. 15 Songs. 15 Nightmares.
PUNK goes HORROR is a mixtape anthology, full of terrifying tales inspired by some of your favorite authors’ favorite punk, or punk adjacent, songs. Get ready for hymns of rebellion and stories of musical mayhem which connect body horrors to bass drums, rhythm guitars to psychological terrors, and microphones to human monsters. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee yours here.
KEV HARRISON
