ELDER SIGNS PRESS Shipping HIGH SEAS CTHULHU

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on August 28, 2007 ELDER SIGNS PRESS has announced that they are shipping their anthology, HIGH SEAS CTHULHU. Stories from GERARD HOUARNER, MICHAEL MCBRIDE, JOHN SHIRLEY, and others.

PS PUBLISHING Quick Updates for August

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on August 27, 2007 PS PUBLISHING has added updates for August. They have announced nine new titles (http://news.pspublishing.co.uk/2007/08/21/acquisitions-round-up-nine-new-titles-publication-dates-to-be-confirmed/). A new book from RAMSEY CAMPBELL. A new novella from RICK HAUTALA. PS PUBLISHING has also updated their site with a RSS capable News section. Click to find out more details from PS PUBLISHING.

Press Release: MANY BLOODY RETURNS

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on August 26, 2007 Press Release for MANY BLOODY RETURNS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Tina Anderson (mailto:Kristina.Anderson@us.penguingroup.com), Publicity Manager, 212-366-2007 VAMPIRES LOVE BIRTHDAYS, TOO! Readers Will Sink Their Teeth (into Cake) at the Nationwide Birthday Party Honoring the Publication of Ace Books' Newest Title by Ace Books. New York, NY Â? August 23, 2007 Contributors of the upcoming short-story collection MANY BLOODY RETURNS: Tales of Birthdays with Bite (Ace Hardcover; $24.95) will celebrate the book's birthday at bookstore events across the country on September 4, the day the book is officially released to the public. Booksigning events have been scheduled in five cities, and birthday cake will be included in the celebration. Framingham, MA * 7:00 PM BARNES NOBLE 1 Worcester Road 508-628-5567 Contributors Toni L.P. Kelner and Christopher Golden Dallas, TX * 7:00 PM BARNES AND NOBLE 616 Preston Royal Shopping Ctr 214-363-0924 Contributors Charlaine Harris, P.N. Elrod, and Rachel Caine Kansas City, MO * 7:00 PM BARNES NOBLE Country Club Plaza 420 W 47th Street 816-753-1313 Contributor Jim Butcher Delray Beach, FL * 7:00 PM MURDER ON THE BEACH 273 Pineapple Grove Way (at NE 2nd Ave.) 561-279-7790 Contributor Elaine Viets Mobile, AL * 6:00 PM BARNES NOBLE 3250 Airport Blvd B-30 251-450-0084 Contributor Carolyn Haines A fun and unique story collection, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, MANY BLOODY RETURNS contains thirteen all new, never before published stories, each one offering a fresh take on the concept of what birthdays mean to the undead. Toni and I had some wonderful planning sessions about the theme for the anthology, writes Charlaine Harris in the introduction to the book. We decided to pick two apparently unrelated concepts Â?vampires (the dead) and birthdays (normally considered a celebration of life)Â?and see what different ways some very talented writers could combine the two. Contributors include: Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner, Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, P.N. Elrod, Rachel Caine, Jeanne C. Stein, Tanya Huff, Carolyn Haines, Tate Hallaway, and Elaine Viets. Harris and Kelner were careful to choose an even balance of traditional mystery and traditional fantasy writers; the result is an outstanding anthology and a fantastic introduction for new readers to some of the best-known writers in the field (RT Book Reviews). MANY BLOODY RETURNS: Tales of Birthdays with Bite, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, will be published in hardcover by Ace Books on September 4, 2007 ($24.95/ISBN: 978-0-441-01522-1). # # # ABOUT THE EDITORS: Charlaine Harris writes the New York Times bestselling paranormal series featuring Sookie Stackhouse (the basis for the upcoming HBO series True Blood) and the New York Times bestselling mystery series featuring lightning-struck corpse locator Harper Connelly. She lives in Magnolia, AR. Toni L.P. Kelner is the award-winning author of the Laura Fleming Southern mystery series. She lives in Boston, MA. For more information about this nationwide birthday celebration, contact Tina Anderson (mailto:Kristina.Anderson@us.penguingroup.com), Publicity Manager, at 212-366-2007 Visit our website: Penguin Group (USA) Inc. (http://www.penguin.com) is the U.S. member of the internationally renowned Penguin Group. Penguin Group (USA) is one of the leading U.S. adult and childrenÂ?s trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Berkley Books, Dutton, Frederick Warne, G.P. PutnamÂ?s Sons, Grosset Dunlap, New American Library, Penguin, Philomel, Riverhead Books and Viking, among others. The Penguin Group is part of Pearson plc, the international media company.

Depopulator- Lavie Tidhar

Posted by Horror Literature Quarterly on August 26, 2007 Lavie Tidhar is the winner of the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury Prize (awarded by the European Space Agency), and the author of...

Night Service- Gerard Houarner

Posted by Horror Literature Quarterly on August 26, 2007 Gerard Houarner was married at a New Orleans Voodoo Temple and works at a psychiatric institution. His latest novel, Road...

BLOODLETTING PRESS Takes on New Associate Editor

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on August 22, 2007 Larry Roberts of BLOODLETTING PRESS has announced that he has added a new associate editor, JAMES A MOORE. Moore is the author of BLOOD RED, BLOODSTAINED OZ with Christopher Golden, and the SERENITY FALLS series. Jim is a very well respected author and editor among both publishers and peers and will be a driving force in making our press one of the best in the business. Jim will be taking an active role in all aspects of the publishing side of our business and will be my right hand man in all future projects. With Jim’s expertise, experience and knowledge Bloodletting's publications will only get better and better. Source: Bloodletting Press (http://www.bloodlettingpress.net/board/index.php?topic=375.msg5337;topicseen#new)

Iron and Lead- John Urbancik

Posted by Horror Literature Quarterly on August 22, 2007 John Urbancik is the author of Sins of Blood and Stone, Breath of the Moon, and Wings of the Butterfly....

DELIRIUM BOOKS Announces THE INFECTED by MICHAEL MCBRIDE and THE CONDEMNED by DAVID JACK BELL

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on August 21, 2007 DELIRIUM BOOKS has just announced that they will be releasing THE INFECTED by MICHAEL MCBRIDE and THE CONDEMNED by DAVID JACK BELL. From the Publisher on THE INFECTED: They’re breeding in the darkness, underground, feasting on blood and carrion. For centuries they’ve been sustained by offerings of ritualistic sacrifice, propagating the contagions to be unleashed on the world through savage stingers when the day of destiny finally arrives. Millions of sand flies, swarming through caverns riddled with human and animal remains, awaiting the vernal equinox when the serpent god Kukulcán will descend from the heavens to release them and deliver his vengeance upon those who drove his worshippers from their sacred land. The pandemic is at hand, for contained within each of the insects is a deadly combination of microorganisms capable of laying waste to the human immune system and ravaging the flesh, killing the cerebrum and leaving the victim at the mercy of the primitive hindbrain. Those contaminated become enraged creatures functioning on instinct alone, capable only of killing and spreading the disease. The sick now hunt the dwindling bands of survivors, who will soon learn that the only thing worse than dying, is becoming one of The Infected. From the Publisher on THE CONDEMNED: The world is at war…the city is dying…and those left for dead within its walls have awakened… A terrorist attack on the water supply has left the city quarantined by the army and inhabited by the City People, the mindless living dead who rule the urban night. Jett Dormer works for the government. During the day he and his partner Vince drive a wrecker, collecting abandoned cars from the city’s dying core, scrap metal to feed the nation’s raging war machine. They finish their work before nightfall and return to home base outside the city and then to their wives and families. Until the day Jett and Vince are overrun by a horde of City People, and only Jett makes it out.Plagued by nightmares and wracked with guilt for having left his best friend behind, Jett returns to work, hoping to provide for his family. But his new partner, a wounded veteran known only as the Kid, won’t let Jett forget what happened to Vince. And he won’t let Jett forget that Vince might not be entirely dead. You’re never going to feel right, or be right, as long as he’s out there… Soon Jett and the Kid are on a mission to find Vince and bring whatever’s left of him home. But as their city raids grow bloodier, Jett finds himself increasingly under the mysterious influence of his new partner. And just as his murderous rage for the City People grows nearly out of control, he realizes things may not be exactly as they appear. The night, and those who control it—the City People—hold many secrets. Secrets that might just set Jett free…or destroy him and everything he holds dear. Source: Delirium Books (http://www.deliriumbooks.com/insider/?p=337)

BLOODLETTING PRESS Announces HERO by WRATH JAMES WHITE and JF GONZALEZ

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on August 21, 2007 Larry Roberts of BLOODLETTING PRESS has announced that he will be publishing HERO by WRATH JAMES WHITE and JF GONZALEZ (http://www.bloodlettingbooks.com/hebywrjawhan.html). The book is expected to ship in the last quarter of 2007 and is #6 in the Bloodletting Novella Series. It will be limited to 400 signed and numbered copies. Adelle Smith has lived her entire life for the betterment of mankind. A Civil Rights Activist in the Sixties and Seventies, she has spent most of her adult life attending marches, giving speeches, and lending a hand to anyone in need. But on the very evening she is to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian efforts, a stroke leaves her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Now Adelle's in the care of a ruthless hospice nurse, who sees not a hero before her, but the cause of her many hardships growing up as a child of interacial parents, someone who decides to give Adelle her very own brand of Physical Therapy consisting of pain and suffering, mental cruelty and torture. And now, after a lifetime of helping others, Adelle needs help, quickly, before another round of brutal treatment snuffs out her life.Source: Bloodletting Press (http://www.bloodlettingbooks.com/hebywrjawhan.html)