Monthly Archives: October 2015

Ronald Kelly’s Mister Glow Bones and Other Halloween Tales is now shipping!

First time in hardcover!  Only 80 copies!  Already 90% sold out.

Happy Halloween!

Click the cover for ordering details:

 

Maelstrom VI is up for preorder!

1. The Complex by Brian Keene

A BRAND NEW NOVEL!

Meet the residents of the Pine Village Apartment Complex. A young trans woman looking for acceptance. A suicidal middle-aged horror writer. A single mother worried about her child. A Vietnam veteran who feels the world has forgotten him. A pair of hunted would-be criminals. An elderly widow who lives for her cats. Two newlyweds just starting their lives together. And the serial killer known as The Exit.

Until tonight, they were strangers — to each other, and to themselves. Now, as their world teeters on the brink of an apocalypse and a murderous horde descends upon the neighborhood, they will have to reveal and embrace their true selves if they hope to escape…THE COMPLEX.

 

 

 

2. The Cruelty of Autumn by Brian Keene

A NEW COLLECTION, including some new stories, a chilling introduction, and story notes!

Autumn is the cruelest season. It reminds us with bleak, bittersweet, melancholy certainty that spring and summer are gone, never to returns, and that winter is coming. Poets like Yeats, Keats, and Verlaine knew this to be true. So did Ray Bradbury and Richard Laymon. And so does Brian Keene, in this new collection of short stories featuring fourteen tales, including “Hide and Seek”, “Fetish”, “Baby Talk”, “The Guardian of Tsalal”, “Going Under”, “Keepsakes”, and many more.

THE CRUELTY OF AUTUMN is exclusive to this Maelstrom 2015 set. The book will never be reprinted, making it a true collectible.

 

 

 

 

3. The Daughters of Inanna by Rachel Deering, Livia Llewellyn, Chesya Burke, and Amber Fallon

A NEW 4 NOVELLA anthology edited by Brian Keene!

The next wave in horror starts here! Thunderstorm Books and Maelstrom are proud to present this exciting anthology of all-new novellas by some of the brightest rising stars in horror fiction.

Featuring Livia Llewellyn’s “The One That Comes Before”, Chesya Burke’s “Cut. Pour.”, Rachel Autumn Deering’s “Husk”, and Amber Fallon’s “The Terminal”, as well as an Introduction by Brian Keene, THE DAUGHTERS OF INANNA runs the gamut from quiet supernatural tales to extreme and pulp, offering a diverse selection sure to please and terrify even the most jaded reader.

 

 

 

PREORDERS will be taken until Tuesday, November 3rd.  After that, the books will be sold out.  Act fast, don’t let this 3 week window pass you by!

SHIPPING is scheduled to begin in mid-December.  Makes a great Christmas present for yourself or the “hard to shop for” lover of horror!

https://thunderstormbooks.com/thunderstorm/maelstrom-vi/

 

11 book limited edition deal between Thunderstorm Books and Jonathan Janz!

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Thunderstorm Books and Jonathan Janz have teamed up to offer collectors limited editions of many of Jonathan’s novels. We are calling the line Shadow Side.

Here are some of the production attributes:

  • Books will be jacketless with an upgraded La Crema binding. All titles will match in color and size.
  • Marbled or specialty endsheets will be standard.
  • Print size will be based on the number of people who sign up for the line.
  • Satin ribbon page markers included.
  • Bonus features will be included such as new introductions and deleted scenes.
  • $75 per book (no sign up fees).

Book 1 will be THE SORROWS and will have 3 deleted scenes with notes as a bonus.  This book will be released in early 2016.

HERE IS THE LINK FOR SIGNING UP!

https://thunderstormbooks.com/thunderstorm/jonathan-janz-shadow-side-series/

New Books Now Shipping: SanGiovanni, Dearborn, and Smith

THE BLUE PEOPLE by Mary SanGiovanni

From the acclaimed author of cosmic horror, Mary SanGiovanni, comes a new supernatural thriller which will make your blood run cold….

The worst snow storm of the year has just hit Colby, Connecticut. But this is no ordinary storm. For one thing, it’s almost June, and there is no sign of it letting up anytime soon. Schools and businesses have closed, power has gone out in some places, cell phone reception is limited and Internet access is down.

There is also a number of dead bodies accumulating with the snow, and countless other townsfolk have gone missing. There are killers out there in the dark and cold of Colby. The human ones are intent on ushering in an evil the likes of which this world has never seen. But the ones that are not human have far worse plans in store.

Cut off from the rest of the world, Jack Glazer and Kathy Ryan are heading a task force to investigate and put a stop to the killings in Colby. They are trapped with the cultists who have brought the storm to town through occult means, and they are running out of time and resources to survive. As the number of innocent townsfolk diminishes, the strength and amount of snow seems to increase, and terrible things are howling and swirling through those growing drifts, intent on spilling blood. Though Jack and Kathy fear their team may be hopelessly underprepared for a fight to save the world, they are determined to stop the murder cult at the heart of the storm before everything and everyone they love is buried under in an arctic hell forever.

STOLEN AWAY by Kristin Dearborn

Trisha doesn’t have much going for her, but she is a good mother. That’s what she’s always told herself, anyway. She wakes in the middle of the night to hear her infant son has been taken. Her daughter, who saw the kidnapping, tearfully tells her a monster took him. Her ex-boyfriend Joel owes the Russian Mafia a million dollars, but that’s nothing compared to the trouble Trisha’s got herself into. Searching for her son, Trisha and Joel won’t let gangsters, demons, or Joel’s overbearing mother stop them.

Trisha and Joel are forced to confront demons along the way, and not all of them are the literal kind. Not everyone can be trusted, and that has nothing to do with who’s a demon and who’s human. Trisha knows her son is out there, and is alive. Will she be able to reunite her family?

 

 

“THE REBORN is part gory thriller with a supernatural twist, part hilarious screwball rom-com, and all awesome.”–THE HORROR FICTION REVIEW

Murder. Sexual violence. Necrophilia. These are the things Josh Booker has fantasized about since he was a boy. For years the conflicted young man struggled to contain the dark urges growing inside him, but now he has succumbed and taken his first victim. In the aftermath, he alternately feels elation and despair. Now that he’s done it once, however, the urges are stronger than ever and he knows he will kill again. But then something unexpected happens. His first victim returns, alive again and in a pristine new body. For reasons unknown, Mia Holloway finds herself helplessly drawn to the man who killed her. Together they descend into a twisted nightmare of complications and bloody murder.

“THE REBORN is Bryan Smith’s most Laymon-esque novel to date.”–Brian Keene, author of The Rising