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Strangehouse Books On The Cusp Of Releasing Their 10th Novel

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Kevin Strange the owner of the cult horror fiction publication of Strangehouse Books is happy to announce the release of their 10th book, STRANGE VS LOVECRAFT on July 1st 2013!

Strange Vs Lovecraft Synopsis: “What happens when a group of the rowdiest authors of cult horror fiction take on one of the most iconic figures in the entire genre? STRANGE VERSUS LOVECRAFT features eleven of the absolute weirdest short stories set in the Cthulhu mythos you’re likely to ever read. From fish-mouthed prostitutes to undersea fast food restaurants and the house raping spawn of Yog-Sothoth, you’ve never read Lovecraft done quite like this. Next generation authors Kevin Strange, D.F. Noble, Jason Wayne Allen, and Jesse wheeler lead this shambling pack of pervert writers toward untold lows as they defile the sacred name of H.P. Lovecraft in this loving send up to the man who brought tentacles into the main stream. Kevin Strange’s Kindle single MCHUMANS drops June 15th with an EXCLUSIVE extra scene not found in SvL, while the full anthology rears its tentacly head piece on July 1st. 12.99 for paperback, 2.99 for eBook.”

Stories Compiled by: Kevin Strange, D.F. Noble, Sean Ferrari

Edited by: Sean Ferrari

Cover Art by: Chris Hamer (https://www.Urbnpop.com)

StrangeHouse Books Blurb: “We are a publisher of the weird, the bizarre, the horrific and the Strange. Strangehouse Books is a small press publisher of horror and cult fiction. Our goal as a publishing house in the 21st century is to publish shit so deliriously fucked up, outrageous, and blindingly neurotic, that even a behemoth as large as the Hollywood machine couldn’t replicate our books. They can create enormous spectacle and spend hundreds of millions of dollars on special effects, so we as writers must work harder to create characters and worlds that force our readers’ imaginations to explode into overdrive, or be left as an obscure anachronistic afterthought in the footnotes of entertainment history.”

Kevin Strange: “Kevin Strange is a prolific underground filmmaker and author with six feature films, more than a dozen short films, as well as two full length books and many short stories to his credit. His second novel, VAMPIRE GUTS IN NUKETOWN was released in 2013.”

Quick Facts:

  • Kevin Strange’s novella MCHUMANS exclusive kindle version released June 15th, 2013 with an extra scene for only 99 cents.
  • Full anthology, STRANGE VS LOVECRAFT released in paperback and Kindle version July 1st, 2013 for only 12.99 in paperback and 2.99 on Kindle.

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THE GARDEN OF SIN – Hardcore Horror Book

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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!

Incredible Indie Actor Maria Olsen Co-Produces A New Film

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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!

SNOW DAY Novella Offers Chills For Horror Fans

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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

New And Free Wallpaper For Horror Fans

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Just added to our Freebies section is another new horror wallpaper for you to enjoy on your desktop! This makes the fifth creepy background for you to embellish absolutely free.

While visiting the Freebies page and stylizing your desktop, grab one of the two audio CD’s we have available also.

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