Edited by HWA Member Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Under the onslaught of supernatural evil, the acts of good people can seem insignificant, but a courageous few stand apart. These brave men and women stand up to the darkness, stare it right in the eye, and give it the finger. These are the stories of those who rage against the night, stories of triumph, sacrifice, and bravery in the face of overwhelming evil.

Rage Against the Night features the megastars of dark fantasy and horror, including Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Straub, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Nicholson, Nancy Holder, Sarah Langan, and many, many more.

All proceeds will be donated to Rocky Wood, author and President of the Horror Writers Association, who is battling motor neurone disease.

Table of Contents

(in order of appearance)

• “The Gunner’s Love Song” by Joe McKinney
• “Keeping Watch” by Nate Kenyon
• “Like Part of the Family” by Jonathan Maberry
• “The Edge of Seventeen” by Alexandra Sokoloff
• “The View from the Top” by Bev Vincent
• “Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway” by Gary A. Braunbeck
• “Following Marla” by John R. Little
• “Magic Numbers” by Gene O’Neill
• “Tail the Barney” by Stephen M. Irwin
• “The Nightmare Dimension” by David Conyers
• “Roadside Memorials” by Joseph Nassise
• “Dat Tay Vao” by F. Paul Wilson
• “Constitution” by Scott Nicholson
• “Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle” by Peter Straub
• “Agatha’s Ghost” by Ramsey Campbell
• “Blue Heeler” by Weston Ochse
• “Sarah’s Visions” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• “More Than Words” by David Niall Wilson
• “Chillers” by Lisa Morton
• “Changed” by Nancy Holder
• “Dead Air” by Gary Kemble
• “Two Fish to Feed the Masses” by Daniel G. Keohane
• “Fenstad’s End” by Sarah Langan
• “Fair Extension” by Stephen King
• “Rocky Wood, Skeleton Killer” by Jeff Strand

Rage Against the Night can be purchased as an ebook from Amazon and Smashwords.

It will soon be available from Barnes & Noble, Apple, Sony, Diesel, and all other leading online retailers. The print version will be available in late January.

Publisher: Brimstone Press
Published: December 2011.
Price: $3.99 (ebook)

Author: Jack Ketchum, Jonathan Maberry, F Paul Wilson, et al.

Exclusive to Post Mortem Press, an excerpt of Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee’s The Woman – Novel AND Screenplay. Jonathan Maberry’s rare urban fantasy, “Like Part of the Family”. F. Paul Wilson’s genre-defining classic, “Soft.”

With nearly two dozen books in print during its first year, Post Mortem Press grew from a distraction against the worries of a corporate career gone awry to a successful independent publishing concern. We apparently did something unusual; we combined business acumen with a love of the written word and respect for the authors who create them.

This book represents 15 of the best short stories published by Post Mortem Press in 2011. It also brings to the same pages the work of some of Post Mortem Press’ authors favorite and influential authors within the horror genre.

Includes original stories from Paul Anderson, Matt Ashcraft, TL Barrett, C Bryan Brown, Kenneth W Cain, Jason Downes, Nancy Rosenberg England, Scott Lange, Thomas Malafarina, Ricky Massengale, Nelson Pyles, Andrew Risch, Patrick Scalisi, Magen Toole, and Joseph Williams. Edited by Eric Beebe

Table of Contents:

“The Stranger” by Jason Downes
“Sewer Rats” by C Bryan Brown
“The Reservoir” by TL Barrett
“Warmth Within Thy Depths” by Kenneth W Cain
“In the Rain” by Ricky Massengale
“The Woman” by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee
“Carousel Gardens” by Patrick Scalisi
“Waking Dead” by Andrew Risch
“Ain’t No Grave” by Magen Toole
“For Eternity” by Thomas Malafarina
“Soft” by F Paul Wilson
“My Friend, Beer” by Scott Lange
“Where The Apple Shine Won’t Reach” by Nelson W Pyles
“Cordula’s Ballerina” by Nancy Rosenberg England
“Out in the Cold” by Joseph Williams
“Like Part of the Family” by Jonathan Maberry
“Gracie” by Matthew Ashcraft
“Powerless” by Paul Anderson

“I’m delighted to be on board with old colleagues as well as some of the hot new voices in modern horror.” Jonathan Maberry (Facebook post)

Publisher: Post Mortem Press
Release Date: 10/31/2011
ISBN_10=0615552021
ISBN_13=978-0615552026

At long last, the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2008 Bram Stoker Awards at its annual Stoker Banquet held Saturday, June 13th, 2009 as part of its Stoker Weekend in Burbank, California. Nine new bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the writers responsible for creating superior works of horror last year. This year’s winners are:

Superior Achievement in a NOVEL
DUMA KEY by Stephen King (Scribner)

Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL
THE GENTLING BOX by Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart Press)

Superior Achievement in LONG FICTION
MIRANDA by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)

Superior Achievement in SHORT FICTION
“The Lost” by Sarah Langan (Cemetery Dance chapbook)

Superior Achievement in an ANTHOLOGY
UNSPEAKABLE HORROR edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder
(Dark Scribe Press)

Superior Achievement in a COLLECTION
JUST AFTER SUNSET by Stephen King (Scribner)

Superior Achievement in NONFICTION
A HALLOWE’EN ANTHOLOGY by Lisa Morton (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in POETRY
THE NIGHTMARE COLLECTION by Bruce Boston
(Dark Regions Press)

Works can be recommended by any member of the HWA. Members with Active status then vote works onto a preliminary ballot. From there the field is narrowed to the final ballot and Active members then choose the winners. The award is named for Bram Stoker, best known as the author of Dracula. The trophy, which is a miniature haunted house, was designed by author Harlan Ellison and sculptor Steven Kirk.

HWA also presented its annual Lifetime Achievement Awards and its Specialty Press Award. F. Paul Wilson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, receiving Lifetime Achievement Awards, were on hand to accept. The Specialty Press Award went to Larry Roberts of Bloodletting Press. The Silver Hammer Award, for outstanding service to HWA, was voted by the organization’s board of trustees to Sephera Giron. The President’s Richard Laymon Service Award was given to John R. Little.

(left to right) Chad Helder, Vince Liaguno, Lisa Morton, F. Paul Wilson, Lisa Mannetti, Larry Roberts, Sephera Giron, and John R. Little

The Horror Writers Association has chosen two long-time icons of the genre to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award this year. The award, given for an author’s overall body of work, will go to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and to F. Paul Wilson.

Yarbro rose to fame with her vampire hero, Count Saint-Germain. She is the first woman ever to receive the International Horror Guild’s Living Legend award. She also was the first woman elected president of the Horror Writers Association. Yarbro’s novels are notable for laying the groundwork for the recent upsurge of “paranormal romance” and trans-genre fiction.

Wilson is best known for his Repairman Jack series of novels, though those are only a part of his more than 40-book canon. In 1979 he won the first Prometheus Award and claimed a Porgie Award in 1984. He won a Bram Stoker Award in 1999 and has been recognized by the American Library Association and the New York Public Library.

Deb LeBlanc, current HWA president, said, “Both of our winners this year have made incredible contributions to the field of dark literature. We are very pleased to add Chelsea and Paul to our roster of LAA recipients.”

The Lifetime Achievement Award is the most prestigious of the Bram Stoker Awards, given by the HWA in acknowledgment of superior achievement not just in a single work but over an entire career. Past Lifetime Achievement Award winners include such noted authors as Stephen King, Anne Rice, Joyce Carole Oates, Ray Bradbury, and Peter Straub. Winners must have exhibited a profound, positive impact on the fields of horror and dark fantasy, and be at least sixty years of age or have been published for a minimum of thirty-five years.

The LAA will be presented as part of the 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend conference to be held June 12-14 at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Burbank, California.

To learn more about this year’s winners, visit them online. Wilson can be found at www.repairmanjack.com and Yarbro at www.chelseaquinnyarbro.net.

Please note that the conference and the awards banquet are open to the public. Members of the press wishing to attend the awards ceremony should contact Steve Wedel, HWA Publicity Chairman, at steve(at)stevenewedel(dot)com.

For more information about the HWA, the Stoker Awards or the Stoker Conference, please visit the Stoker Weekend Website or the HWA Website.