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This Month's Releases
February
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King, Carol Emshwiller, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Danvers, and Theodora Goss and a previously unpublished story by Susanna Clarke, plus feline-centric fiction by Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, Lucius Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates, Graham Joyce,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.
Recent Releases
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.
October 2009
The Haunted Heart and Other Tales
by Jameson Currier
Lethe Press
ISBN-10: 1590212037
ISBN-13: 978-1590212035
Release Date: October 2009
In his newest collection of short stories, The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, author Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural. A circuit boy stays at a haunted hotel. An actor recounts a grisly murder in the English countryside. A gay parent unravels a mysterious souvenir. A journalist chases a story through the streets of Amsterdam. An artist grapples with his muse. A musician is inspired by the spirit of a sailor.
Vampire Apocalypse: Fallout
by Derek Gunn
Black Death Books
ISBN-10: 0979988195
ISBN-13: 978-0979988196
Release Date: October 2009
Fallout is Derek Gunn’s latest book in is his Vampire Apocalypse series. In this military/post-apocalyptic series the Vampires rule. Humanity is enslaved in a nightmare world where those who are still alive are bred as food for the vampires and the entertainment for the vicious thralls who guard them. This installment sees vampires pitted against vampires and the thralls use this war to their advantage. But the small band of human survivors hold a secret of immeasurable power – a coating for bullets that can kill vampires. The thralls want it, and the vampires must destroy it. And across the country another power struggle threatens them all and the doomsday clock continues to tick relentlessly towards Armageddon.
Holiday Madness
by Fred Wiehe
Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN-10: 2009910455
ISBN-13: 9780984213658
Release Date: October 17
All of the stories in this anthology were originally written and then read on the radio by author Fred Wiehe. Stories for Christmas, Halloween and two bonus stories (for all occasions) make up this volume for tweens, teens and adults alike.
Ghostly Tales of Route 66 (Vol. II)
by Connie (Corcoran) Wilson
Quixote Press
ISBN-10: 1-57166-568-4
ISBN-13: 1-57166-568-4
Release Date: Oct. 2, 2009
The second in a trilogy of ghost stories set along Route 66, Volume II is a solo project by Wilson (see YouTube video for first volume) She will be the featured speaker at the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge Second Annual Route 66 Festival on October 3rd in St. Louis, Missouri.
Upcoming Releases
March
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…
