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15 Year Anniversary Release of THE MONSTER VARIATIONS by Daniel Kraus
THE MONSTER VARIATIONS by Daniel Kraus
Publisher: Cemetery Dance | June 2024
Someone is killing boys in a small town. The murder weapon is a truck, and the only protection is a curfew enacted to keep kids off the streets. But it’s summer—and that alone is worth the risk of staying out late for James, Willie, and Reggie.
Willie, who lost his arm in the first hit-and-run attack, finds it hard to keep up with his two best friends as...
Cover Reveal: American Narcissus by Chandler Morrison
AMERICAN NARCISSUS by Chandler Morrison
Release Date: May 14th, 2024 from Dead Sky Publishing
Cover Artist: Mark Maryanovich
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The American dream is dead, and Los Angeles is burning. Hopeless and anesthetized, four lost souls contend with the darkest elements of the human experience in a desperate attempt to quench their thirst for meaning and connection in a world without a future. For Arden Coover, a spun-out acid junkie...
Cover Reveal: THE DEADING by Nicholas Belardes
Cover Artist: Christina Mrozik
Stephen King’s Under the Dome meets The Last of Us in this harrowing dystopian novel about the downward spiral of a seaside town that becomes infected by a mysterious ocean-borne contagion.
If you want to stay, you have to die.
In a small fishing town known for its aging birding community and the local oyster farm, a hidden evil emerges from the depths of the ocean. It begins with sea snails washing ashore, attacking whatever they cling...
Cover Reveal: LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER by Joshua Chaplinsky
LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER by Joshua Chaplinsky
Jonas Williker is considered one of the most sadistic serial murderers of the modern era. This epistolary novel explores the aftermath of his arrest and the psychological trauma of those who lived through it.
The Pennsylvania native brutalized his way into the zeitgeist during the early part of the new millennium, leaving a trail of corpses across five states before his eventual arrest. All told, Williker was responsible for the rape and murder of 23 women, and is...
Cover Reveal: NECESSARY DEATH by Chirs Grosso and Preston Fassel
Based on very real and practical commentary, life experience, and occasionally, tongue-in-cheek-misfortunes of horror legends, Necessary Death explores how the horror genre, its motifs and characters, offer individuals a unique opportunity for insight and understanding of their own lives.
Necessary Death looks back on several iconic horror films and finds that maybe the genre wasn’t ever really just about men in hockey masks chasing good looking coeds through old dark houses. Even a cursory examination of the horror convention will reveal a plethora of stories from recovering addicts, survivors of...