Meet Jason Tennant, a writer of violent horror novels whose career is mired firmly in a maddening swamp of frustration somewhere north of nowhere and south of success. He is a midlister, those thankless souls who labor in the shadows of sometimes better, sometimes luckier writers, and it's starting to take its toll.

Meet Kent Gray, wildly popular author of a string of so-called "sex-fi" novels. He's wealthy, handsome, and the object of Jason Tennant's professional jealousy.

Welcome to Baltimore, Maryland, and the Aurora Science Fiction & Horror Convention, where these two men, midlister and bestseller, will meet for the first time, and the midlister motto "Better Read Than Dead" will be put to the ultimate test.

Midlisters [SIGNED, Limited]

Kealan Patrick Burke

Biting Dog Publications

School is out and summer has begun.  For eleven-year-old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery.

The Turtle Boy

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Necessary Evil Press

Master of the Moors

Only 400 signed limited edition hardbacks will be published. Publisher: Bloodletting Press On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, an unpiloted boat drifts ashore, watched by a man to whom the dead are something to be feared... In a small stone chapel that stands hunkered against the vicious island winds, a woman whispers a frantic prayer to the gathering dark as something pale and dreadful scratches at the window. A young girl in love races to the shore to meet her lover and finds something monstrous instead... And in a confessional, a dead man waits to tell his sins... A gunshot in a church in Los Angeles leads Tim Quinn halfway around the world and into a nightmare, for on Blackrock Island, he will find love, murder and madness, and discover an earth-shattering truth about the Curtain, and those who hide behind it.

Vessels

Bloodletting Press

Nominated for the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology, this book features the latest work from the hottest and most talented horror writers of our day. These are cutting edge selections running the spectrum of the genre, from the spooky spine-tingler to the blood curdling screamer, this book covers it all, hence the title, +Horror Library+.

Horror Library, Volume 3

Michael A. Arnzen

Jeff Strand

John Everson

Gary A. Braunbeck

R. Michael Burns

Bentley, Little

Cutting Block Press

Winner of the prestigious Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology...
 Something unspeakable is coming out of the closet...
From the ghosts of dead lovers and malevolent queer faeries to devious doppelgangers and twisted psychopaths, an eclectic lineup of award-winning writers from the horror and GLBT literary communities come together in this groundbreaking collection of queer horror stories. These tales will surprise with their universally resonant themes while exploring the deeper aspects of the closet experience - coming out, staying in, and being haunted by. Join Lee Thomas, Sarah Langan, Jameson Currier, Rick R. Reed, Scott Nicholson, Kealan Patrick Burke and others as they throw open their literary closet doors with 23 chilling tales. Be prepared as these master dark scribes reveal what lurks in those shadowy corners at the back of our closets. And the horrors found there promise to be unspeakable.

Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet

LEE, Thomas

17 Others

Jameson Currier

SARAH LANGAN

Rick R. Reed

Scott. Nicholson

Dark Scribe Press, LLC

Barbers &amp; Beauties is a flipbook anthology with four stories from male writers on one side, and four stories from female writers on the other side, each exploring the dark possibilities of beauty. It features introductions by Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel, with stories from authors Gary A. Braunbeck, Tim Lebbon, Kaelan Patrick Burke, Lee Thomas, Rhodi Hawk, Roberta Lannes, Fran Friel and Lisa Morton, with cover art by Cortney Skinner.

Barbers & Beauties

Tim Lebbon

Lisa Morton

Rhodi Hawk

Michael Knost

Fran Friel

Roberta Lannes

Hummingbird House Press

Mona Gallagher is having a very bad day, and it's only going to get worse when she looks into the mirror and sees the enormous swirling dent in her forehead...

Looking Glass (Cemetery Dance Signature Series #1) [Signed and limited]

Joe Hill

Brian Keene

Thomas F. Monteleone

John Skipp

Bev Vincent

Al Sarrantonio

Tom Piccirilli

Ray-garton

Robert Morrish

Dominick Canci

Cemetery Dance Publications

Kealan Patrick Burke's first collection RAVENOUS GHOSTS was released in a very limited run, promptly sold out, and now commands high prices on the secondary market. We are very pleased to introduce you to the author's follow-up collection, an ambitious gathering of some of the tales for which he is best known.The lonesome sound of a long forgotten train draws an old man to memories of a horrific past... A journalist makes the mistake of visiting a website where real-life executions are the order of the day... At the foot of an old tree, an insidious evil awaits two boys digging for treasure... A browbeaten salesman finds hope and a possible escape from the banality of his world when he returns home to find a fairytale beanstalk sprouting from his garden... A man resists the social pressure to quit smoking and puts himself at an unimaginable risk... A high school student accepts a dare to ask out the ugliest girl in school and enters a world of pain and violence... A bunch of barflies doomed to murder sinners get together for one last drink in a dying town...These are some of the passengers, headed for a ride through the dark uncharted regions of the heart and mind, on a train unbound by any law but its own.All Aboard The Number 121 to Pennsylvania.There will be no stops.

The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

Welcome to Eddie's Tavern, the only functioning waterhole in a near-dead town. Among the people you'll meet tonight are: Tom, Milestone's haunted lawman, who walks in the shadow of death; Gracie, the barmaid, a wannabe actress, doomed to spend her hours tending bar in a purgatory of her father's making; Flo, the town seductress, who may or may not have murdered her husband; Cobb, a nudist awaiting an apology from the commune who cast him out; Wintry, the mute giant, whose story is told only in cryptic messages scribbled beneath newspaper headlines; Kyle, the kid, who keeps a loaded gun beneath the table; and Cadaver, who looks like a corpse, but smells real nice, and occupies his time counting stacks of pennies. And then there's Reverend Hill, who will be in at eleven, regular as clockwork, to tell them who's going to die, and who's going to drive. Welcome to Eddie's, where tonight, for the first time in three years, nothing will go according to plan.

Currency of Souls

Subterranean

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