New Releases by HWA Members

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This Month's Releases

November 2008

One of the Wicked

A Mick Callahan Novel
By Harry Shannon
Five Star Mystery
ISBN-10: 1594147035
Release Date: November, 2008

In this dark third book in the series, the talk show host and psychologist tries to help an old friend repay a debt to the mob. Soon Callahan is on the run from both the police and an evil Russian hit squad.

 

Recent Releases

October 2008

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.

The Devil's Sanctuary

by Brian Douglas Coyle
Sterling House
ISBN-10: 1-56315-396-3
ISBN-13: 9781563153969
Release Date: October 29, 2008

Mark, an unhappy high school senior from a well-to-do family, seeks the answers to his bizarre visions when he runs away from home accompanied by his friend Josh, his social opposite, to face an unexpected evil whom he must battle to save his family and friends from certain death in a devilish sacrifice.

 

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.

 

September 2008

The Dead Parade

by James Roy Daley
Swarm Press
ISBN-10: 1934861103
ISBN-13: 978-1934861103
Release Date: Sept. 2008

On the morning his life goes to hell, James McGee is comfortable and clear minded, leaving for what he expects will be an uneventful workday. Within the hour James will witness the suicide of his closest friend, be responsible for countless murders, and become a fugitive from the police. In the shadow of James' mind, a demon lurks. Bloodlust is a virus infecting his logic. James has become a pawn in a game he does not understand, and only one thing is clear: Survival is not an option.

 

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection

edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN-10: 0312380488
ISBN-13: 978-0312380489
Release Date: September 30, 2008

250,000 words of fantasy and horror by M. Rickert, Lisa Tuttle, Laird Barron, Chaz Brenchley, Tanith Lee, & others plus the annual overview of the year.

 

Symphony for the Forgotten

by Angeline Hawkes
Daverana Enterprises
ISBN-13: 978-0-9816626-1-9
ISBN-10: 0-9816626-1-7
Release date: September 19, 2008

From ancient goddesses and Philistines, Mary Queen of Scots and the French Revolution, to country roads and different worlds…Symphony for the Forgottentakes you on a journey through time and places feared. Fourteen stories of torment and terror. Introduction by Michael Largo. -- C. Dean Andersson

 

The Oz Suite

by Gerard Houarner
Eibonvale Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9555268-1-7
Release Date: September 1, 2008

The Oz Suite is a set of three amazing and very diverse large stories using the theme of Oz as a psychological reference point. They range from apocalyptic vision to psychological odyssey.

 

Attack of the Two-headed Poetry Monster

by Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty
Skullvines Press
ISBN: 978-0-9799673-2-0
Release Date: September 2008

Features more than 80 horror and dark fantasy poems by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin and Bram Stoker Award Finalist Michael McCarty. The styles of the poems range from wickedly light-hearted to Gothic to midnight-horrific. Introduction by Rain Graves and Afterword by Sandy DeLuca.

 

Shadows in the Mist

by Brian Moreland
Berkley
ISBN: 978-0-425-22433-5
Release Date: September 2nd, 2008

Summary: Death and demonic forces are linked to a mysterious Nazi relic entombed beneath a WWII German battlefield. A war hero's diary reveals a dark secret: how his entire platoon vanished back in 1944.

 

Upcoming Releases

December 2008

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.