New Releases by HWA Members
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.
This Month's Releases
June 2009
Feral Passion
by Stephanie Bedwell-Grimes
Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-60504-572-6
Release Date: 2 June 2009
It's never a good idea to date your prey...
Recent Releases
May 2009
Quarantined
by Joe McKinney
Lachesis Publishing
ISBN-10: 1-897370-65-2
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Detective Lily Harris hunts for a killer in a city quarantined by the military and torn apart by riots and a deadly outbreak of the flu.
The Unseen
by Alexandra Sokoloff
St. Martins Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-38470-8
Release date: May 26, 2009
Two psychology researchers discover the files on a long-buried poltergeist investigation and decide to move into an abandoned mansion with two exceptionally gifted students to replicate the experiment, unaware that the entire original research team ended up insane... or dead. Inspired by the real-life, world-famous ESP experiments conducted by Dr. J.B. Rhine in the Duke University parapsychology department.
Pressure
Liesure Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8439-6253-6
Release Date: May 26, 2009
What if your best friend was a killer...and wanted you to be just like him?
April 2009
The Black Act
by Louise Bohmer
Lachesis Publishing
Release date: April 28, 2009
The history of a curse is fraught with bloody battles, bitter hatred, and
dark secrets. Two witch twins are about to learn their peaceful life is a facade, and
beneath lies the dreadful truth of their cursed heritage.
Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Viking Juvenile
ISBN-10: 0670061417
ISBN-10: 978-0670061419
Release Date April 16, 2009
In this follow-up to Datlow and Windling’s A Wolf at the Door and Swan Sister, the duo again amass an anthology of fairy-tale retellings, for 8-12 year olds, only this time they keep focus upon the backstories of well-known villains.
Chimeric Machines
Lucy A. Snyder
CGP
ISBN-10: 189495355X
ISBN-20: 978-1-894953-55-9
Release date: April 14th.
This collection offers three dozen dark poems to delight readers who enjoy sly wordplay and subtle allusion, high intelligence and fierce heart.
March 2009
Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament
by S.G. Browne
Broadway
ISBN 10: 978-0-7679-3061-1
ISBN 13: 0-7679-3061-4
Release Date: March 3, 2009
A dark comedy about undeath through the eyes of an ordinary zombie. A classic story of suffering and redemption, like The Color Purple or the New Testament. Only with cannibalism.
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Edited by Ellen Datlow
Tor
ISBN-10: 0765315599
ISBN-13 978-0765315595
Release Date: March 31
state-of-the-art non-themed anthology of 20 new stories by some of horror fiction's best and brightest. Winner of the International Horror Guild Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.
Title: Twists of the Tale
edited by Ellen Datlow
Wildside
ISBN-10: 0809557959
ISBN-13: 978-0809557950
Release Date: March
In ancient Egypt they were worshiped. In the Middle Ages they were crucified. From a gentle purr to a sudden scratch, enter the dark, secret world of the creature who is definitely not man's best friend - and who likes it just fine that way. In this extraordinary collection, 24 master storytellers look into the inscrutable eyes of felis catus, and see a reflection of the frightening, the fantastic and the bizarre. From birds' feet left at your door to a howl in the night, from a preen to a pounce, find out who they really are... if you dare.
Martyrs & Monsters: A Collection of Short Fiction
by Robert Dunbar
DarkHart Press
ISBN 10: 0-9801004-3-7
Release Date: March 31, 2009
From the author of The Pines and The Shore, these stories embrace vampires and sea serpents, werewolves and swamp creatures ... as well as a host of nightmares for which no names exist.
Skarlet
by Thomas Emson
Snowbooks
ISBN-10: 1905005989
ISBN-13: 978-1905005987
Release date: March 2, 2009
Fear grips London as dozens of clubbers die after taking a sinister new drug. But that's only the beginning. Hours later, the dead clubbers wake up - and London gives a name to its terror: Vampires.
Eternal Vigilance, The Death of Illusions
by Gabrielle S. Faust
Immanion Press
ISBN-10: 1904853536
ISBN-13: 978-1904853534
Release Date: March 2009
With the second installment of the acclaimed Eternal Vigilance vampire series, Gabrielle S. Faust, referred to as the new “Queen of Cyber Goth,” continues her epic story of Tynan Llywelyn and his quest to save the world from an evil technological dictatorship and the vampiric god they wish to invoke.
Solomon's Grave
by Daniel G. Keohane
Dragon Moon Press
ISBN-10: 189694499X
ISBN-13: 978-1896944999
Release Date: March 15, 2009
For thousands of years a secret has been hidden from the world. Popes
and Kings have sought it. Theologians and historians have debated its
very existence. Since the days of Solomon, one person is chosen to keep
its secret, protect it from an ageless group claiming the treasure for
their own dark god. Nathan Dinneck's role as new pastor of his small
hometown parish may be shorter than he expects, for visions of angels
and cemeteries foreshadow coming battle for history's most holy relic,
and perhaps even the gateway to heaven itself.
ReVamped (Void City Book 2)
J. F. Lewis
Pocket
ISBN-10: 1439102287
ISBN-13: 978-1439102282
Release Date: March 10th, 2009
Eric has lost his strip club, his Mustang, and even Marilyn, the elderly love of his (mortal) life. Even his body was obliterated. In short, they almost got him. But when you're a vampire, "almost" is a very important word. Blood will flow, fangs will be bared, and the claws will come out, because revenge is never pretty...and Eric has plenty to pass around.
Upcoming Releases
July 2009
Silver and Gold
David Sakmyster
Dragon Moon Press
ISBN-10: 1-896944-98-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-896944-98-2
Release Date: July 15, 2009
A legendary prospector finds his fame – and nobility – amidst the gold rushes of the 19th century, facing off against fierce arctic beasts, evil industrialists, and the relentless forces of nature.
