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This Month's Releases
March 2010
Unbound and Other Tales
by David Dunwoody
Library of Horror Press
ISBN-10: 1451511582
ISBN-13: 978-1451511581
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Unbound and Other Tales is an excursion into the most bizarre corners of author David Dunwoody's imagination. The titular novel and eight short stories that follow present strange horrors from every walk of life - and beyond. Insects imprinted with human rage, gleeful heralds of the apocalypse, ghosts who take the living for joyrides, and a fictional villain come to life wait within. Here are 9 tales of the weird and the obscene ... of things that should not be, and things that shall. From the depths of the mind to the corridors of Purgatory to the streets of small-town USA, the warped nightmares of these pages know no limits. They know no end. They are Unbound.
Deep in the Woods, Vampire Babylon, Book Six
by Chris Marie Green
Ace Trade
ISBN-10: 0441018203
ISBN-13: 978-044101820-8
Release Date: March 2, 2010
With the female master of the London Underground in her hands, stuntwoman-turned–vampire hunter Dawn Madison must fight off her followers, a vicious pack of undead teenage girls who put the vamps Dawn had to deal with in Hollywood to shame.
But Dawn must wring all the information she can out of her captive. For Costin—her boss and sometime lover—has disappeared into the labyrinth under the girls’ school to pursue the male master of the nest. Every moment counts as Dawn and her team race to save him, not only from the threat of death but from the more terrible danger that he might succumb to his own vampiric nature—and be lost to them all forever…
Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead
by Nancy Kilpatrick
Edge SF&F Publishing
ISBN-10: 1894063333
ISBN-13: 978-1894063333
Release Date: March 2010
Meet the New vampire! 23 stories and 1 poem of the new vampire. Vampires have evolved over time and they are changing again. This innovative anthology begins with the undead we see today in literature, film and TV and leads readers to the next step in the vampire's evolution. See what the near future holds.
Recent Releases
February 2010
Tails of Wonder and Imagination
edited by Ellen Datlow
Night Shade
ISBN-10: 1597801704
ISBN-13: 978-1597801706
Release Date: February 2010
What is it about the cat that captivates the creative imagination? No other creature has inspired so many authors to take pen to page. Mystery, horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories have all been written about cats.
From legendary editor Ellen Datlow comes Tails of Wonder and Imagination, showcasing forty cat tales by some of today's most popular authors. With uncollected stories by Stephen King, Carol Emshwiller, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Danvers, and Theodora Goss and a previously unpublished story by Susanna Clarke, plus feline-centric fiction by Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, Lucius Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates, Graham Joyce, Catherynne M. Valente, Michael Marshall Smith, and many others.
Tails of Wonder and Imagination features more than 200,000 words of stories in which cats are heroes and stories in which they're villains; tales of domestic cats, tigers, lions, mythical part-cat beings, people transformed into cats, cats transformed into people. And yes, even a few cute cats.
Prey
by Thomas Emson
Evileye Books
ISBN-10: 1906727368
ISBN-13: 978-1906727369
Release Date: February 1, 2010
When a Russian criminal is torn to pieces by a powerful animal, Moscow cop Lev Dasaev follows the trail to the U.S. – and to the lair of a murderous madman called Wheeler Burns. Ruth Templeton will stop at nothing to destroy Laura Greenacre, the mysterious woman who was last seen disappearing into the tunnels beneath London, and her quest leads her to America. The Templetons and the Greenacres will go to war one last time. And as in London eight years previously, werewolves will be unleashed, this time on the streets of New York. Bloodlust and vengeance unite Ruth and Burns as they conspire to annihilate Lev and Laura, and the ultimate hunter becomes the ultimate prey.
Hellfire and Damnation
by Connie Corcoran Wilson
Sam's Dot Publishing
ISBN- 10: 978-1-93559-007-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-93559-007-1-51095
Release_Date: Feb. 12, 2010
With an introduction by William F. Nolan, "Connie (Corcoran) Wilson's debut collection, 'Hellfire & Damnation', marks her not so much as a writer to watch, but one to watch out for. Exploring the 9 levels of Dante's Inferno via contemporary settings and sensibilities -- and the sins punished therein -- this collection veers from sinister noir ("Going Through Hell") to the bizarrely whimsical ("Amazing Andy, the Wonder Chicken") to the outright, no-holds-barred horrific. Never have the 9 Circles of Hell been so much fun! I had a blast following Wilson on her tour of the Inferno, and you will, as well." (Gary A. Braunbeck).
January 2010
Break of Dawn, Vampire Babylon, Book Three
by Chris Marie Green
Ace mass market
ISBN-10: 0-441-01839-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01839-0
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Hollywood: It Can Suck the Life Out of You…
After facing off against the lethal Vampire Killer, Hollywood stuntwoman Dawn Madison and her friends are reeling with shock. They’re injured, exhausted, and hurting in every way possible.
For Dawn, the pain is much more personal. She’s learned more about her missing father and long-dead mother than she ever wanted to know—a burden of truth that is straining her sanity. And her conflicted feelings about both her enigmatic boss Jonah, and P.I. Matt Lonigan are only making things worse.
Yet Dawn is still determined to save her father. Her private battle will lead her directly into the Vampire Underground, where she will encounter an unthinkable betrayal. And where, finally, the question of who is truly good and who is truly evil will become a matter of life, death—and undeath…
The Sculptor
by Gregory Funaro
Pinnacle Books
ISBN-10: 0786022124
ISBN-13: 978-0786022120
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A scholarly work on Michelangelo by Dr. Catherine Hildebrant becomes the obsession of a twisted killer, who turns his victims into replicas of Michelangelo's most famous sculptures.
December 2009
Demon Days
by Richard Finney and D.L. Snell
Ape Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1934944769
ISBN-13: 978-1934944769
Release Date: December 2009
Brace yourself for a harrowing journey of thrilling suspense as tragic, unexplainable events seem to point to a deadly future for the world. While on vacation, journalist Sandy Travis and her fiancé Tom are in a horrendous helicopter accident. Tom is seriously injured and has an N.D.E., a near-death experience. After Tom is revived, he tells Sandy that he's spoken to God. As it turns out, Tom is wrong. Horribly wrong.
Now Sandy is in a dangerous race to save her fiancé from dark forces that want to control his every action. She must follow a trail of coded secrets and targeted assassinations if she is to unveil the otherworldly cabal who uses the process of N.D.E. to orchestrate Armageddon.
Demon Days is a spellbinding tale of puzzles, prophecy and possession that will make you think twice about the world we live in. And the climax will leave you gasping for air.
The Pack: Winter Kill
by Mike Oliveri
Evileye Books
ISBN-10: 0982578911
ISBN-13: 978-0-9825789-1-9
Release Date: December 2009
When tourists are murdered in a resort town in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, FBI Special Agent Angela Wallace is called in to investigate. But what she finds tests her training and sanity, for what she discovers should not exist.
Vintage Soul
by David Niall Wilson
Five Star
ISBN-10: 1594147574
ISBN-13: 978-1594147579
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Donovan DeChance is a collector of ancient manuscripts and books, a practicing mage, and a private investigator. When, despite the finest in natural and supernatural security, a sexy and well-loved, three hundred year old lady vampire is kidnapped right out from under her lover’s nose, Donovan is called in to investigate.
Upcoming Releases
April
Feral Passion
by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
ISBN: 978-1-60504-600-6
Release Date: 6 April, 2010
Xandra had a thing about vampires—like not dating one. Ever. But now that she’s on the hunt for the mastermind behind a newly formed vampire army, she’s sucking it up and dating every vamp in her little black book. Her prime suspect: Dante. Cop, vampire—and drop-dead gorgeous.
As the police force’s vampire liaison officer, Dante is no stranger to crime. Feral vampires are attacking in droves, and he’s hell-bent on finding out who’s responsible before the backlash robs them all of their hard-won rights. His number one suspect: Xandra. Hunter, smartass—and sexy as sin.
No one is more surprised than Xandra when Dante shows up as her date. Her cover is not all that’s blown during their mutual interrogation. Sparks of attraction fly -- right before an attack leaves her gravely injured. With no choice but to inoculate her with his blood, Dante has more questions than ever before. Like who wants her silenced.
As they race to uncover a long-buried secret, Xandra realizes she can trust no one. Not even Dante. Especially since his blood is giving her unpredictable side effects…
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The Wolf at the Door
Jameson Currier
Chelsea Station Editions
ISBN-10: 0-9844707-0-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-9844707-0-9
Release Date: April 1, 2010
When a death occurs at Le Petite Paradis, a guesthouse in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the spirit world becomes unsettled, or so Avery Greene Dalyrymple III, the co-owner believes. The son and grandson of Southern evangelists, Avery is also an overworked and overwrought middle-aged gay man, a cynical “big-time drinker and sinner” fairly certain he can maintain a family of “other deviants and delinquents stumbling along Bourbon Street” to keep him company. But Avery is also the only person in contact with the spirit world on his property—ghosts from the house’s origins during the 1820s—and he must use the history left behind from another ghost -- a gay man from the 1970s—to find a way to restore peace to his household and rejuvenate his faith.
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May
A Host of Shadows
by Harry Shannon
Dark Regions Press
Release Date: May, 2010
"Everyone carries a shadow," wrote analyst Carl Jung, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."
Few of us see the shadow with any clarity. Turn around for a peek, it slips away. Our violent, sexually tinged fantasies are indulged regularly in darkened theaters, savored in eerie prose, celebrated in song, sometimes reluctantly encountered within the depths of a reoccurring nightmare. When we do look hard at one, long enough to recognize it as our own, the experience can challenge reality. We can then choose to become wiser as a result -- or spin totally out of control. How many fragments of a shattered mirror could you examine and still survive? In this collection, his first in nearly ten years, award winning author Harry Shannon gives us twenty three short stories, some published here for the first time.
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