Here’s a teaser for the cover art of my next novella, “Love/Sick”
It is an expanded rewrite/reworking of my previously published short story, “I Love You” which appeared in the Living Dead Press anthology: “Book of Cannibals 2: The Hunger”
Now, it’s more sadistic and extreme then ever!
More details coming soon!
Click the cover for a more detailed look, plus the great blurb from the prolific author Eric S. Brown
Hey everyone, my second novella was released a couple weeks back. I know, I know, I haven’t been the quickest with updating this site. There are some things in the works, things that I will eventually get around to discussing here. Until then…. Enjoy!
In 1962, Chuck Winters’ committed suicide in his brand new Cadillac.
51 years later, Derek Roman purchases Chuck’s “death car” for a steal, promising his girlfriend a night on lover’s lane she will never forget!
The only problem, Chuck is back and he wants his car.
Click HERE to snag a copy!
I’m a comic fan and if you’ve read any of my books or even a handful of previous posts on this blog, it’s no secret. I love me some of those vintage, anthology comics and well, surprise! The fine folks at Evil Jester Press are doing just that!
And like any fiendishly good project, they need your help!
NOTE: Click HERE for the link to their youtube video. For reasons unknown to the Elder Gods, it won’t let me embed it.
Impressed?
Head on over to their indie go go page and help the evil jester reach his goal!
And while I won’t be in this issue, I am anxiously awaiting the day when they open for submissions, ’cause I got a handful of comic scripts floating around that need a bloody good home!
I’ve returned to my former webzine dedicated to horrorpunk–Technicolor Terror!
I started it a couple years back with the help of my friend, Justin Stankus – a fellow horrorpunk junkie, deriving our name from the Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space song of the same name.
With my return, I want to broaden the scope – focus not only on the horrorpunk genre, but also movies, books and comics and maybe even toys. I also intend to release my next novella, “The Death Car” through Technicolor Terror as well. And am also planning to release an anthology as well, but Technicolor Terror press isn’t on the radar…yet.
For those interested, click the banner below!
Rebecca Besse
r originally wrote Hall of Twelve as a flash fiction story (1000 words or less) for a contest on the Collaboration of the Dead forum. Although she didn’t win, she and a few others were in love with the concept of the story – beings for an alternate realm that had flesh craving monster pets. These Beings captured those who didn’t serve as immediate meals for the pets and took them to the Hall of Twelve, where each captive was given the chance to win their freedom by a roll of dice.
This version – the short story version – is much expanded past the original one that didn’t even reach 1K, and she plans to expand Hall of Twelve into a full length novel sometime in the future.
The short story in ebook form usually sells on Kindle for $.99, but she has decided to give Hall of Twelve away for free March 15-17th (2013) so you can “taste” her brand of horror. I hope you enjoy the story and look up more of her writing. You can find out more about Rebecca Besser by visiting her website HERE or by searching her name on Amazon to find more of her work. (She recently released a novel entitled, “Nurse Blood,” for Kindle.)
To “wet” your appetite for Hall of Twelve, enjoy this brief excerpt!
Excerpt from Hall of Twelve by Rebecca Besser:
“Lying on the bottom step was his daughter’s tennis shoe with a bloody bone protruding out of it, pointing into the corner. Blood dripped from the leg to the step and onto the tile of the foyer; strips of muscle and skin hung loosely from the bone, slouching limply against the red, saturated carpet.
Jack bent over as he lost the contents of his stomach, adding color and acidity to the already wet floor. He fell to his knees, and that’s when he saw Regan’s head; it was sitting in the potted fern by the door.
Her eyes were gone, leaving dark hollows where the windows to her soul had once been, and all the flesh was missing from her face. Her cheekbones were still pinkish red from the blood that was trickling down over her small, exposed white teeth to drip into the dark soil beneath her jawbone, which hung at a drunken angle.
Slowly, he crawled over to her, envisioning her beautiful face and her bright smile. Held in his vision of the girl he loved so much, he lifted his hand to caress her hair, but when his hand came in contact with slick, rough skull, he knew the carnage was indeed reality. He cupped the head of his daughter in his hand and drew it close into the crook of his arm – his mind and body were numb with shock and grief.
Jack’s hand absently caressed the top of the bloody skull and his fingers became entangled in the few scraps of scalp and clinging hair that still remained on the bone. With disgust he shook them off, and as they landed in the blood and vomit mixture with a plop, he noticed for the first time that there was a hole in the back and the brains were missing. Around the hole were deep groves that looked like they’d been made with something long and sharp. The only thing his brain could come up with was tooth marks, but he couldn’t think of anything that large with teeth that big. Now curious, he looked over at the leg bone laying a few feet from him; he could clearly see similar grooves on it.
Suddenly, his brain cleared a bit and he remembered his wife. He’d been so shocked at finding the severed pieces of his daughter, he’d forgotten all about her.
“Maggie,” he whispered, and looked around frantically, but he didn’t see any of her laying in the entrance way of their home.”
Get your copy from Amazon (Free March 15-17, 2013):
Amazon US
Amazon UK
(Also available on other Amazon sites. Look up your local one to get it there.)
Later this month/early next month, I will be releasing my second novella – a short 15k word tale of retro horror with a modern twist.
Below is an insanely simplified version of the plot, just to give ya’ll a little taste of what’s to come.
In 1962, Chuck Winters’ committed suicide in his brand new Cadillac. 51 years later, Derek Roman purchases Chuck’s “death car” for a steal, promising his girlfriend a night on lover’s lane she will never forget!
I’ll post more info it sometime in the next week or so.
In the meantime, my novella “Trickery of a Corpse” is currently free over course of this weekend! Pick up a copy HERE.
Timothy W. Long, author of Among the Living, Among the Dead, Beyond Barriers and the Zombie Wilson Diaries was kind enough to let me hijack his blog for a day and ramble there for a change.
