WICKED DEAD by PETRUCHA and PENDLETON Coming August 28

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on August 1, 2007 For Immediate Release WICKED DEAD NEW YA HORROR SERIES by Stefan Petrucha Thomas Pendleton Website Live! Book 1: Lurker Available August 28! (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061138495?ie=UTF8 tag=horficnewnet-20 linkCode=as2 camp=1789 creative=9325 creativeASIN=0061138495)LURKER, the first book in the WICKED DEAD series is available for pre-order now and will be in bookstores everywhere August 28. WICKED DEAD is an ongoing teen horror series from HarperCollins, written by Stefan Petrucha and Thomas Pendleton (Lee Thomas). Teen readers participating in Harper's First Look program have already called the book, “Amazing!” “Heart pounding!” and “...not a page turner but a page burner!” A website devoted to the series is now live. (http://www.wickeddead.com) In the future it will be expanded to include a flash game and a video. WICKED DEAD: Four ghost girls, Daphne, Anne, Shirley, and Mary, trapped in the abandoned ruins of the hulking Lockwood Orphanage, live in fear of the evil Headmistress. In an effort to escape her dread punishment, each night they roll a set of dice-like bones, which conjure tales of violent death, one of which they pray will unlock the secret of their own earthly confinement. Come visit… if you dare! Lee Thomas (http://www.leethomasauthor.com/)

CREEPING HEMLOCK PRESS Announces JACK’S MAGIC BEANS by BRIAN KEENE

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on July 25, 2007 CREEPING HEMLOCK PRESS has announced that they will be publishing a novella by BRIAN KEENE titled, JACK'S MAGIC BEANS. It is scheduled tentatively for released before the end of 2007. It was originally planned to be published later on in the UNTO DUST novella series but was bumped up. The second volume of the series will be CHILDREN OF THE NEW DISORDER by TIM LEBBON and LINDY MOORE.

CREEPING HEMLOCK PRESS New Address

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on July 25, 2007 Heads up: we've moved back to Louisiana, 100 or so miles away from New Orleans. If the Big Easy takes another hit, we should make out better than we did last time...Please make a note of our new address: PO Box 2243 Harvey, LA 70059 (http://www.creepinghemlock.com/)

MIDLISTERS by KEALAN PATRICK BURKE Coming from BITING DOG PRESS

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on July 25, 2007 BITING DOG PRESS has announced that it will be publishing the novella MIDLISTERS by KEALAN PATRICK BURKE. It will be published in a 400 copy limited edition signed by both KEALAN PATRICK BURKE and JACK KETCHUM (Forward) and illustrated by KEITH MINNION. 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. Source: Biting Dog Press (http://bitingdogpress.com/Bitingdogpub/midlisters.htm)

SAROB PRESS Closing Its Doors

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on July 25, 2007 SAROB PRESS is closing at the end of this year. I will be giving up the rat-race and the daily 130 mile commute and moving abroad next year with Sara - to a smallholding (small farm) in northern France. Although I thought hard about running the press from France, I have, bearing in mind the life changes our move will entail, decided that, all things considered, closing down the press is best. (http://home.freeuk.com/sarobpress/)

Horror Literature Quarterly Issue 2/Summer 2007 Published

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on July 23, 2007 Issue 2/Summer 2007 of Horror Literature Quarterly is now available. Each issue is free with prior issues available only to registered members of Horror Literature Quarterly. Registration is free. Horror Literature Quarterly can be read in two different formats; on the website and via PDF. Horror Literature Quarterly will release the PDF version of each issue first and will place the stories on the website within two days of the PDF being released. You can click here to download the new issue. (http://horrorlit.horrorfictionnews.com/index.php?option=com_docman task=cat_view gid=20 Itemid=43) Coming in August will be new fiction by Tim Lebbon. This new story will be available only to registered members. I hope you enjoy this new issue. Horror Literature Quarterly (http://horrorlit.horrorfictionnews.com/ ) is published four times a year. Issue 2/Summer 2007 is now available. The first issue is still available to those that are registered. The next issue will be available in October.

Issue 2/Summer 2007

Posted by Horror Literature Quarterly on July 23, 2007 Issue 2/Summer 2007 of Horror Literature Quarterly is now available. Each issue is free with prior issues available only to...

DEAD MAN’S Song by MABERRY Released

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on July 17, 2007 John Mayberry has informed HFNN that his new book DEAD MAN'S SONG has been release into the wild by PINNACLE BOOKS. You can get more information at his website. (http://www.jonathanmaberry.com)

CRAWL SPACE from IMAGE COMICS Coming in October

Posted by Horror Fiction News Network on July 17, 2007 IMAGE COMICS has announced that CRAWL SPACE by RICK REMENDER and KIERON DWYER will be issued in October 2007. It will be published as an ongoing full color series. Crawl Space is a series of horror stories Kieron and I have been cooking up for years. Like an expanded Tales From the Crypt where each tale is given many issues to develop -- it's not an anthology, explains Remender, the series' writer. Since completing Sea of Red, Kieron and I have been cooking up new horror stories together and over the next few years, they'll all be wedged out of the Crawl Space and into the horrible light of day. The first four issue story arc, XXXombies, takes a look at, zombiesploitation with its twisted tale of sex stars, cannibalism and the '70s. Our story's focus is a sleazy producer who has gathered a bevy of adult stars for a weekend film shoot. When they emerge, they discover a zombie plague has overrun a now-quarantied Los Angeles. The results are unlike any previous tale of the undead, especially with Rick and Kieron's special guest collaborator - Tony Moore, the original artist of The Walking Dead. Source: Newsarama (http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=121359)