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THE GARDEN OF SIN – Hardcore Horror Book

May 10, 2013 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

The Garden of Sin is a brand new horror themed book that just launched this week on Kickstarter! Its a Fully Illustrated, poetic, adult story book, inspired by the seven deadly sins, very dark, and very scary! It is as elegant as it is grotesque! And could be viewed as a re-telling of Dante’s Inferno.

The Garden of Sin takes the reader on a journey through Hell, reminiscent to Dante’s Inferno, as Virgil guided Dante through the Inferno, the reader is guided by a mysterious cloaked figure, known as The Shadow, your tour guide and narrator through The Garden of Sin. On your voyage, The Shadow brings you deeper and deeper, as you experience many different levels (or “circles”) of Hell, each representing one of The seven deadly sins. All the way from The Wood of the Damned, where your journey begins, through the Abyss of Lust, to The Slaughterhouse of the Gluttons, down to the deepest part of Hell, where The Shadow Judges the sinners right before your eyes while you, the reader, judge yourself. Is your conscience clean enough to face The Shadow?

The Garden of Sin is set up very much like a children’s book, or fairy tale book, where every page is illustrated, with writing on the left side, and illustrations on the right, some being double page spreads. All of the illustrations throughout the book were drawn by hand, and none of the images inside the book are digital. The entire book is written in a poetic, verse style, most of it being narrated, where as some pages are direct expressions of each sinner representing one of The Seven Deadly Sins (ex. Lust, Greed, Wrath etc.). Each of the sins will be divided into chapters, where the style of font will change according to the atmosphere set by the artwork. The Garden of Sin will be available in soft cover or hardcover format, with full color images, and will be roughly 120 pages.

The Garden of Sin needs your help! Contribute through Kickstarter with the below link to make this happen!

  • KICKSTARTER CONTRIBUTE LINK
  • TEASER TRAILER

Filed Under: Featured, Horror Books Tagged With: book, Dante, garden, horror, illustrated, inferno, kickstarter, Shadow, sin, sins, teaser, themed, trailer, virgil

Incredible Indie Actor Maria Olsen Co-Produces A New Film

May 5, 2013 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

WAY DOWN IN CHINATOWN has been finalized. The amazing and talented independent horror star Maria Olsen from SHELLTER, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3, DIE-NER (GET IT?), amongst many more co-produces alongside 33 other luminaries to create a one-of-a-kind horror tale.

WAY DOWN IN CHINATOWN was shot mostly in black and white, and is, beyond classification.  It has elements of horror, noir and SciFi, and is both hilariously funny and grotesquely creepy.  It was made partly as an homage to great pictures like Metropolis and Nosferatu, and partly as an apocalyptic end-of-the-world fable.  It is, though, primarily the story of two normal people, Victor and Jessica Mitchum, who, one day, are made an offer they can’t refuse…

WAY DOWN IN CHINATOWN is currently streaming privately to select reviewers and will become available to the public very soon, so keep an eye out on this movie that dares to test the boundaries of horror!

Filed Under: Featured, Upcoming Horror Movies Tagged With: Black, chinatown, down, horror, jessica, maria, Mitchum, noir, olsen, scifi, victor, way, white

Killer Spiders (Book Review)

April 28, 2013 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

Killer Spiders Book CoverBook: Killer Spiders
Year: 2013
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.
Author: Lex Sinclair
Language: English
Chapters: 21
Pages: 302
Type: Novel

 

Lex Sinclair Author PictureAuthor’s Summary: It is 2005 in Great Britain, and an invasion of venomous spiders has hit the country. Hitchhiking’ in imported food, the spiders are able to thrive in the changing climate. At first, coverage of the attack is overlooked in favor of world events, but soon the spiders begin to take over. They cover everything they come across in gigantic webs and kill everything in sight. Their favorite food? Humans. Immune to insecticides and pesticides, the spiders multiply and take over towns and villages, spreading outwards from the London sewers. Dire consequences ensue for many residents of Great Britain as they fight to keep the killer spider epidemic under control. Soon everyone is affected, and all still-living residents are made to evacuate their homes. As the spiders spread, so does the havoc they wreak and the numbers they violently kill.

 

Review: I loved this story immensely – it has distinct properties of a Science Fiction/Creature style movie of the long since forgotten era. It was very creative and completely vivid keeping my mind in turmoil during the entire read.

Killer Spiders is basically about an Entomologist and a few researchers that discover this type of crazy spiders (ooh I loath spiders too). One of the Scientists studies this deadly species and finds out that there not from the local territories but across state lines. The group soon try to eradicate the hairy creatures but the Scientists aren’t as smart as they look, as when they try to exterminate them, the spiders spread out into different groups keeping their survival intact, and protecting their new queen to continue onwards creating havoc in the city.

The thing about these ferocious spiders is that – all it takes is one venomous bite, which paralyzes the human body and causes a slow and painful death. During the amuck, a lone person (kept anonymous) has the fortitude to locate the leader before the birth of more deadly soldiers in the arsenal of already there being an overrun population of scary, freaky, haunting spiders about the lay of the land.

Killer Spiders is available to purchase at better book stores all over the world. The lowest price I came across for the Paperback is $13.52 at The Book Depository, a great, and not well-known book store. As a bonus, if you don’t mind reading a PDF on your computer, or if you have a Kindle or Tablet you can get the Electronic Version or E-Book Version for free. This is an outstanding book that I highly recommend to all. It has all facets of traditional horror that we have all come to love over the years. Not counting, those dark nightmares thinking there is a spider in your bed!!! This novel will have you finishing it in a flash, and it’s a longer book too, which I always like. It keeps your mind wandering after its finished. Put very, very, very simply, get this book today, you won’t be disappointed. My ratings, suggestions and links are below.

More Horror Book Reviews

See AUSTIN MACAULEY Interview with Lex Sinclair about Killer Spiders, and for more information.

Reviewer: Dark Goddess
Date: 04/28/2013
Rating: 9½/10
Suggestion: Paperback: Buy
Suggestion: E-Book: Get
Book: Killer Spiders
Paperback: The Book Depository
Social Media: Facebook
Social Media Publisher: Twitter

Filed Under: Featured, Horror Books Tagged With: austin, book, britain, creature, depository, ebookeo, fiction, great, killer, lex, macauley, publishers, science, scientists, sinclair, Spider's

A Vampire Feature “The Ecstasy Of Isabel Mann” Needs Your Help

April 24, 2013 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

The Ecstasy Of Isabel Mann is slated to be a violent teen vampire feature film from the award winning production company October Eleven Pictures out of Dublin, Ireland.

Jason Figgis (Director) has worked on projects such as;  Sky One, Sky Arts, the Discovery Channel amongst others, and has distributed Hollywood Studio, Lionsgate films.

The Ecstasy Of Isabel Mann is campaigning for donations and is very important at succeeding in the goal to get this incredible vampire tale made. Everyone involved in this feature film project has worked hard over several months preparing the film in drama workshops with the teenagers involved in the cast as well as a huge amount of time and effort on set from all involved to realize this exciting feature film.

DONATIONS and INFORMATION LINK.

Anyone who contributes to this project will help them realize the end result of this film to the highest standard possible. They believe they have a very exciting take on the Vampire genre…with no holds barred in terms of the performances from the teen and adult cast alike. This is like a Socio-realist vampire film but with plenty of gore!!!

Filed Under: Featured, Upcoming Horror Movies, Vampire Tagged With: campaign, campaigning, donate, donations, dublin, ecstasy, eleven, Figgis, ireland, isabel, jason, mann, october, pictures, teen, vampires

SNOW DAY Novella Offers Chills For Horror Fans

April 21, 2013 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

Black Rapids Press Introduces a New Voice in Dark Fiction; Plans April Launch of New Novella in eBook and Audiobook Editions.

Robbinsville, NJ (April, 2013) – Dan Maurer (www.danmaurer.com), award-winning producer and director of stage plays and musicals, recently completed work on the horror novella Snow Day. Black Rapids Press will publish the title as both an ebook and audiobook on April 30th through Amazon.com, Audible.com and iTunes, other online retailers will be added in the fall. In addition to authoring the story, Maurer also directed the audiobook edition, which features the voice talents of award-winning actor Allwyn Baskin. “With reading going digital, and tablets making it easy to combine different forms of media to deliver a richer experience, it made sense to launch Snow Day in multiple formats,” Maurer said.

Snow Day is a novella that blends equal parts nostalgia and nightmare as it takes readers back to 1975. It recounts the tale of ten-year-old Billy Stone, who played carefree in the snow until an adventure gone awry left him far from home, staring death in the face, and running from a killer bent on keeping a horrible secret.

“Setting things in 1975 gives the story a whole different frame of reference when it comes to children; how they were treated, and how they were supervised,” Maurer said. “It was a time before Amber Alerts and printing a missing kid’s face on a milk carton. Back in those days, you sent your kid out to play in the morning and didn’t see him again until the sun went down and he came home for dinner. You wouldn’t think of doing that today in this age of play dates and the highly scheduled lives that we create for our children. Looking at that period of time was both nostalgic and frightening for me. I hope readers will feel the same.”

The story, running about 30,000 words, and about 3 hours in recorded form, is fiction written in the style of a memoir so it lends itself well to audio interpretation.

Maurer said: “I’m very fortunate that Lynn Baskin came on board for this project. He’s an accomplished actor with an engaging style and a voice that fits the material well. His reading really gave Snow Day a whole new dimension – very accessible, yet very creepy. Once I heard the finished recording of his reading, it gave me chills.”

The audiobook edition of Snow Day marks the third time Maurer and Baskin have collaborated. Most recently, Maurer directed Baskin in a 2011 production of Elton John & Tim Rice’s AIDA. Before that, they worked together in the same capacity on a production of Driving Miss Daisy, for which Baskin won the NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play.

Dan Maurer is a 1988 graduate of East Carolina University and a resident of Robbinsville, NJ. He spent seven years in trade book publishing including stints in the editorial departments of both Doubleday and Houghton Mifflin. In recent years, he has divided his between being a full-time digital marketing strategist and a part-time theater producer and director. Snow Day is his first published work of fiction.

Allwyn (Lynn) Baskin, an award-winning actor based in New Jersey, has appeared in a variety of musicals, comedies and dramas. He has performed voiceovers for commercials and public service announcements. In addition to his great love for the spoken word, he is also an interpreter of American Sign Language and received his theatrical interpreting training from the Julliard School.

Snow Day is written by Dan Maurer, narrated by Allwyn Baskin, and published in ebook and audiobook by Black Rapids Press. The ebook edition will be available for sale from Amazon.com April 30, with copies available from Barnes & Noble.com, Smashwords, and the Apple iBookstore this Fall. The audiobook edition will be available for sale April 30 from Audible.com, Amazon.com and iTunes.

NOVELLA DETAILS:

TITLE: Snow Day
AUTHOR: Dan Maurer
eBOOK LENGTH: 30,000 words / 100 pages (estimated) eBOOK ISBN: 978-0-9889946-0-7
PRICE: $2.99

AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR: Allwyn Baskin
AUDIO RUN TIME: Approx. 3 hours
AUDIOBOOK ISBN: 978-0-9889946-1-4
PRICE: TBD

LINKS:

Amazon Catalog Link: https://amzn.to/10f4imW

Sample Chapter: https://bit.ly/10kyoW1

Audiobook Sample: https://snd.sc/109Rag8

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/danmaurer

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danmaurerauthor

Filed Under: Featured, Horror News Tagged With: allwyn, audible, audiobook, baskin, Black, dan, dark, ebook, fiction, horror, itunes, maurer, novella, press, rapids

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