HWA President Deborah LeBlanc unveiled the table of contents for the next official HWA anthology, Blood Lite 2. The sequel to 2008′s bestselling collection of humorous horror is again being edited by New York Times-bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and promises double the horror — and double the laughs!

On behalf of the entire HWA Board, President LeBlanc offered her heartfelt congratulations to everyone who made the cut for Blood Lite 2:

• Death and Taxes | Heather Graham
• Table for Two | Jeff Ryan
• Treatment | J.A. Konrath
• Dead Clown Séance | Christopher Welch
• The Day the Devil Swallowed a Heapin’ Helpin’ of Pride at the Beaulahville Gospel Jubilee | Scott Nicholson


Click on the cover image to check out the first volume of 'Blood Lite'!

• Piecemaker | Don d’Ammassa
• Good Breeding | Lucien Soulban
• Tails | John R. Little
• Dog Tired (of the Drama!) | L.A. Banks
• A Sweet Girl for Todd | Mark Onspaugh
• Dark Carbuncle | Kevin J. Anderson & Janis Ian
• Tastes Like Chicken | Jordan Summers
• Presumptuous Beast Throws Sumptuous Feast | Mike Baron
• Bad German | Edward Bryant
• The Halloween War | Brian J. Hatcher
• Oh, the Ho-Ho Horror | Joel A. Sutherland
• The Unfortunate Persistence of Harold Francis Beamish | Aaron Polson
• Dick and Larry | D.L. Snell
• Son of…a Bitch! | Sam W. Anderson
• Her Lucky Day | Allison Brennan
• A Wing and a Prayer | Sharyn McCrumb
• Barewolf | Daniel Pyle
• American Banshee | Eric James Stone
• The Epicurean | Amy Sterling Casil
• The Ghoul Next Door | Nancy Kilpatrick
• Daycare of the Damned | Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Season’s Tickets | Derek Clendening
• The Close Shave | Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn
• Shaggy Dog Story | Steve Rasnic Tem
• Eight-Legged Vengeance | Jeff Strand
• Lucifer’s Daughter | Kelley Armstrong

Warning: This anthology contains works of fiction that are gruesome. Disturbing. Horrifying. And drop-dead hilarious!

…a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge.

Edited by NYT Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson

Blood Lite

Editor: Kevin J. Anderson

Publisher: Pocket

Release Date: October 21st, 2008

ISBN-10: 1416567836
ISBN-13: 978-1416567837

Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quarter of die-hard environmentalists host a fundraiser with a gory twist in “An Evening with Al Gore”…In an all-new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there’s no such thing as a “Day Off” for the Chicago P.D.’s wizard detective, Harry Dresden…Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting seraph with one hell of an afterlife in “Where Angels Fear to Tread”…Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out séance tour, but behind the scenes a disgruntled ghost has a bone to pick in Kelley Armstrong’s “The Ungrateful Dead.”  Plus tales guaranteed to get under you skin – in a good way – from :

Janet Berliner

Don D’Ammassa

Nancy Holder

Nancy Kilpatrick

F. Paul Wilson and J.A. Konrath

Joe Lansdale

Will Ludwigsen

Sharyn McCrumb

Mark Onspaugh

Mike Resnick

Steve Savile

D.L. Snell

Eric James Stone

Jeff Strand

Lucien Soulban

Matt Venne

Christopher Welch

Whispers about Blood Lite…

“This toothsome anthology of 21 funny-scary stories from members of the Horror Writers Association arrives just in time for Halloween. On the humorous end, Matt Venne’s ‘Elvis Presley and the Bloodsucker Blues’ recreates Presley’s voice with pitch perfect swagger and sets the record straight on how he really died, while Charlaine Harris’s ‘An Evening with Al Gore’ depicts a novel way to deal with environmental criminals; both tales are truly outstanding. In a creepier vein, Steven Savile’s ‘Dear Prudence’ finds a conflicted man repeatedly revising a note where he details gory plans for his significant other, and Nancy Holder’s ‘I Know Who You Ate Last Summer’ features stomach-churning rock star cannibals. Big names like Jim Butcher and Sherrilyn Kenyon will have comic horror fans grabbing this anthology off the shelves.” - Publishers Weekly

“Blood Lite is a new horror anthology that promises to give readers a unique taste of horror combined with just the right amount of humor.” – Hellnotes