The following is a list of new and upcoming releases by members of HWA. If you are a member and have an upcoming book release, please click here to enter the private web site for guidelines on eligibility and how to be included on this page.
Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet
Edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder
Dark Scribe Press, LLC
ISBN-13: 978-0-9818632-0-7
Release date: December 1, 2008
340 pages of queer horror from Lee Thomas, Sarah Langan, Scott Nicholson, Kealan Patrick Burke, Jameson Currier, Rick R. Reed, and 17 others.
The Price (paperback edition)
by Alexandra Sokoloff
St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-357504
Release date: December 2, 2008
When a Boston District Attorney's terminally ill daughter miraculously goes into remission, the DA suspects his wife has made a terrifying bargain with a mysterious hospital counselor to save their child.
Frozen Blood
by Joel A. Sutherland
Lachesis Publishing
ISBN-10: 1-897370-61-X
Release date: December 28, 2008
Three estranged family members become trapped inside their late father’s mansion during the worst hailstorm the world has ever seen. But as odd things start to happen, they slowly begin to suspect that they’re not alone.
The Many Faces of Van Helsing
edited by Jeanne Cavelos
Ace
ISBN: 9780441016471
Release date: October 2008
A *brief* one or two line summary of the book: A mass market paperback edition of the acclaimed anthology, originally published in 2004 and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Contributors include Joe Hill, Christopher Golden, Tanith Lee, Thomas Tessier, Thomas F. Monteleone, Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem, and many others.
Virgin of the Apocalypse
by Corrine De Winter
Sam's Dot Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780981636597
Released October 2008.
The latest book release from Bram Stoker Award Winning area author, Corrine De Winter, De Winter's work has been widely published, and has been the recipient of awards from The New York Quarterly, Writer's Digest, Triton College, Rhysling Award, Esme Bradberry Award, Madeline Sadin Award, and is a four time Pushcart Prize nominee.
Vampire Apocalypse: Descent into Chaos
Author Derek Gunn
Black Death Books
October 2008
The enthralling sequel to Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder, soon to be a major motion picture. The vampires have won ... and the brutal fight for humanity’s survival is only just begun.
The New Annotated Dracula
edited by Leslie S. Klinger, introduction by Neil Gaiman
W.W. Norton
ISBN: 978-0-393-06450-6
Publication Date: October 15, 2008
With over 1,500 footnotes and more than 200 illustrations (Victorian
pictures, movie stills and posters, stage bills and contemporary
photos), a complete chronology, an extensive bibliography, and a guide
to Dracula societies, this classic work illuminates the timeless genius
of the king vampire.
Cheap Scares! Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets
Gregory Lamberson
McFarland & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-3706-1
Release Date: October, 2008
Lamberson devotes half this book to his own experiences in the low budget film world and half to in depth interviews with filmmakers, an entertainment attorney, and distributors, with an emphasis on storytelling and marketing. “It’s the best book on filmmaking I’ve ever read.”—Dread Media.
Johnny Gruesome
Gregory Lamberson
Medallion Press
ISBN-10: 1934755451
Release Date: October 1st, 2008
First it was a Limited Edition HC, then it was a rock CD, then it was a Halloween mask, then it was a music video starring Misty Mundae, then it was an award-winning on-line comic book, and now, finally, it’s a mass market trade paperback. Greg Lamberson’s heavy metal monster lives!
Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless
Abandon Through the Ages
by Michael Largo
HarperCollins
ISBN-10: 0061466417
Release Date: October 7th, 2008
From the dawn of civilization there has always been a fine line between creativity and self-destruction. An inherent compulsiveness is often required in art to master a level of original thought and superlative skill. It requires everything, some believe, even one’s own life. Genius and Heroin chronicles the lives of the famously talented who entwined their genius with one of the many paths toward self-ruin.
The Witch’s Trinity
by Erika Mailman
Three Rivers Press
ISBN : 978-0-307-35153-1
Release date : Oct. 7, 2008
In a small medieval German village, Güde Müller fights for her life—accused of witchcraft by her own daughter-in-law. The problem is, she isn’t sure she’s innocent.
The Gentling Box
Lisa Mannetti
Darkhart Press
ISBN-10: 0-9787318-9-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-9787318-9-2
Release date: October 25, 2008
A 19th century half-gypsy horse trader, Imre, has been cursed with a hideously disfiguring and fatal disease by the Romanian sorceress, Anyeta. On the verge of death, he must contend with his most hellish childhood memory -- which he has sworn never to use -- in order to save his wife and daughter. A presence even more terrifying to him than Anyeta: the gentling box.
The Piper
by Helen McCabe
Myrmidon Books
ISBN-10: 1905802250
ISBN-13: 978-1-905802-25-8
Release Date: October 7th, 2008
Legend has it that in medieval times the children of Hamelin were led East
into Transylvania ... In bleak post Ceausescu Romania, Dr Sacha Marcu, a
psychiatric researcher absorbed with the high incidence of mental illness
among the women of Alva, a remote mountain village near the border with
Russia, gradually uncovers a horrific history of ritual child murder. In
Sunny Mead, New Hampshire, the musical Durrant family find out that "to pay
the Piper" takes on a new and sinister meaning.
Everdead
by Rio Youers
Graveside Tales
ISBN-10: 0980133831
ISBN-13: 978-0980133837
Release Date: October 14th 2008
A thrilling vampire novel set in the party capital of the world: San Antonio, Ibiza ... one long exhilarated scream.
