New Releases by HWA Members
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This Month's 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.
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.
Recent Releases
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.
August 2008
Eternity
by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
Double Dragon
ISBN-10: 1-55404-603-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-55404-603-4
August 2008
After a horrific car accident Sandy Logan finds herself trapped in limbo with only one way out. Sent back to earth inhabiting another body, she tries to do what is right in her new life, but lands in trouble ... possibly for all Eternity.
The Nightmare Collection
by Bruce Boston
Dark Regions Press
ISBN-10: 1888993596
ISBN-13: 978-1888993592
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Fifty-three previously uncollected poems -- dark, satiric, surreal -- from SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston. Illustrated by Russell Morgan. Cover art by Marge Simon.
A Whisper of Blood: A Collection of Modern Vampire Stories
Edited by Ellen Datlow
Fall River Press
ISBN-13: 9781435109629
Release Date: August 2008
This is a brand new edition of two vampire anthologies, Blood Is Not Enough (1989) & A Whisper of Blood (1991). Only available from Barnes & Noble or bn.com
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Agnes Hahn
by Richard Satterlie
Medallion Press
ISBN-13: 9781933836454
Release Date: 1 August, 2008
For Agnes Hahn, something always seemed to be missing, like there was a hole in her life. Why did it take a series of murders to fill the void?
Legacy
Jeanne C. Stein
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01626-6
Release date: Aug 26 08
Anna must protect those she loves from a predator out for the two most precious things in the world-blood and money.
The Darker Mask
edited by Gary Philips and Christopher Chambers, with stories by Alexandra Sokoloff and others
Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0765318510
Release date: August 19, 2008
An illustrated anthology of noir superhero stories, with tales of marginalized heroes and heroines from Walter Mosley, Tannarive Due, Jerry Rodriguez, Alexandra Sokoloff, and more.
Upcoming 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.
