2024 Newsletter #10. Two new books: Sisters of Slaughter and Ronald Kelly (and an award).
Hello all,
Last weekend I was presented with the Horror Writers Association’s 2024 Specialty Press Award. Brian Keene provided the introduction, for which I am eternally grateful. Thank you to everyone who has supported this press the last 15 years. I can’t begin to express how much I love this job (yes, even during the bad times).
Two new books to announce!
SLAUGHTER CITY
by Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason
The Sisters of Slaughter have put together a macabre gathering of tales dripping with blood, guts, and spectral torment in their very first collection of short stories. It’s a mix of classic S.O.S offerings originally published in anthologies spanning the last ten years from some of the darkest publications and a handful of never-before published yarns, displaying their brutality and dark humor, to satisfy your gore-hungry cravings. These stories are also accompanied by two novellas that are sure to make you cringe, gag, and giggle. From tooth decay demons to isolated mansions, from ghost dogs and road kill, to paranormal hunters and vengeful brides, take a trip through the darkness and straight to the gates of Hell. Grab your ticket and hop on the horror train! Welcome to Slaughter City!
Signed by Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason
Limited to 40 copies
Cover art by Caroline O’Neal
Order today!
BOOK THREE OF THE SAGA OF DEAD EYE: MAN-EATERS, MUMMIES, AND MURDEROUS MANIACS
by Ronald Kelly
ACROSS THE BURNING DESERT…
Driven by the desire to rescue his abducted son and a relentless thirst for
retribution, the zombified gunfighter, Dead-Eye, continues his search for the
renegade vampire, Jules Holland, and his unholy entourage. Accompanying
him on his journey is the Louisiana mojo man, Job, who is hellbent on putting
an end to his daughter Evangeline’s wicked shenanigans. As long as she
possesses the demonic tome, Necronomicon, and holds the ability to open the
otherworldly Hole Out of Nowhere, no territory is safe from the infinite evil
the dark enchantress has at her fingertips!
AND INTO THE PIT OF HELL!
As Dead-Eye and Job travel across the scorching deserts of Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona, horrors await them in the form of flesh-devouring
critters, rampaging mummies bent on revenge, and the town of Hellbound, a
haven for deranged and blood-thirsty desperados who kill at the drop of a hat.
Along the way, they come across the pugnacious Missy Slatter, a child
abandoned in the wilderness after the outlaw gang, Baker’s Dozen, slaughters
her family and steals their horses. It is up to the gunfighter and the swamp
shaman to keep the girl safe and deliver her to her grandparents… and
perhaps deal some much deserved vengeance to the Baker’s Dozen along the
way!
Signed by Ronald Kelly
Limited to 65 copies (I will match numbers if you ordered Book 2)
Cover art by Alex McVey
Order today!
One last announcement. Thank you to all of you who have been so patient with me in 2024. I am down to the last month left of the ordeal I have been preoccupied with since February. I see the light at the end of the tunnel and expect my life to get back to normal after July 4th weekend!!!
Shipping Update!
This week I am going to start shipping the following three titles!
Heavy Oceans by Tyler Jones (sold out)
The Everywhere House by Mary SanGiovanni (down to the last copies): Order here!
Mr. Tilling’s Basement and Other Stories by Edward Lee: Order here!
Please be patient when it comes to shipping. I expect it to take a solid week or two to process all the orders. Thank you.
Also, this is the last chance to pick up Hailey Piper’s limited edition of The Worm and His Kings Saga! Order Now!
This is going to be marked as sold out in the morning. If you want it, make sure you get in your order first thing after your coffee!
2024 Newsletter #9: New Mary SanGiovanni! New Edward Lee! Shipping in a couple of weeks.
THE EVERYWHERE HOUSE
by Mary SanGiovanni
A group of paranormal investigators is bribed or extorted by a wealthy real estate holding company to investigate and neutralize their most sinister and powerful property — a mansion in a small suburb of Connecticut. However, Carrington House is not like other haunted houses; its ghosts are not like other ghosts. Death in Carrington House is inexorable and multifaceted…and only the beginning of the horrors that await in its halls. The team needs to find a way to stabilize the house and escape it, because the longer they stay, the less likely that they will ever find their way out again — in this universe, or in any other.
Signed by Mary SanGiovanni
Limited to 50 copies
Cover art by Vincent Chong
Expected Ship Date: May 2024
Order today!
MR. TILLING’S BASEMENT AND OTHER STORIES
by Edward Lee
Mr. Tilling‘s Basement
If an intriguing woman knocked on the door to your craptastic new house and offered to sell you some knowledge about it for a small fee, and then she showed you a secret room in your basement where the former owner smoked hallucinogens and performed occult rituals, would you be curious to explore it with her? If you’re a morose and horny retired professor like Herman Tilling, you sure as Hell would! But it might not end up the way you expect.
The Night-Sitter
When Jessica accepts an offer of free room & board and $500 per night from a reclusive retiree to house-sit for him while he sleeps, she figures there must be some kind of catch. But it’s easier money than being a cam-girl. And he doesn’t want sex. He just wants her to stay awake all night and keep an ear out for unusual noises. He’s probably just paranoid, right?
An American Tourist in Poland
Foster Morley, a retired professor, travels to Poland in the hopes of satisfying his sexual appetites at the local fleshpots, only to run into unexpected and increasingly deranged events.
The Statement of Sgt. Jessop
Sgt. Jessop of the Innsmouth Police Department was on patrol when he first realized something was seriously wrong. In this interview, he recounts his first-hand experience as one of the only living survivors of the cosmic horror that transpired that day.
Signed by Edward Lee
Limited to 100 copies (I will match numbers if you ordered The Television)
Cover art by Vincent Sammy
Expected Ship Date: May 2024
Order today!
LAST CHANCE TO ORDER VEILED! Preorders end 4/30.
The first time their eyes lock, it’s an amused and sympathetic look from Alice at the next table. She can tell Nate’s blind date is going horribly awry.
The second time is a chance meeting at a grocery store. Or is it by chance? It’s a little weird, but either way, Nate and Alice hit it off immediately.
He really likes her. They have great chemistry. But there’s something a little off—okay, a lot off—about her. Not just the unexplained sadness. It’s an intense desire, almost a desperation, for things to move much faster than Nate is comfortable with.
Alice has an obvious secret. What’s she hiding?
When Nate finds out…well, nobody said this was a romantic comedy…
Signed by Jeff Strand
Limited to preorders through APRIL 30, 2024. On May 1st this will be sold out and no longer available.
Cover art by Frank Walls
Expected Ship Date: June 2024
PRE-ORDER TODAY!
2024 Newsletter #8: New Hailey Piper limited edition up for pre-order!
THE WORM AND HIS KINGS SAGA
by Hailey Piper
“Long ago, in a time now dead, one note changed our world forever.”
Manhattan 1990: Monique’s girlfriend Donna has vanished without a trace. Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does she hear the rumors of a gray creature rising from the underground to snatch victims off the street, and Donna might be one of them. When Monique decides to give chase, she’ll plunge into a subterranean world of monsters, monarchs, cultists, and gods both beyond her understanding and closer than she thinks.
So begins the sprawling trilogy of the almighty Worm. Join Monique, Donna, the Gray Maiden, and more in desperate searches for lost lovers, dire revelations, and shattered futures, where every step brings the discomforting touch of celestial cruelty.
Hailed as a modern cosmic horror classic, exploring queerness, worship, connection, transcendence, and fate, the original novella The Worm and His Kings has been gathered here for the first time in a single volume with its sequels, Even the Worm Will Turn and Song of the Tyrant Worm. Together, they invite you down mysterious caverns within the earth, into strange histories, and out of the world you know, where you’ll come face-to-face with a darkness that stretches from the dawn of time and across the stars.
Signed by Hailey Piper
Limited to preorders taken by 5/19
Cover art by Evangeline Gallagher
Expected Ship Date: July 2024
Order Here!
2024 Newsletter #7: New Jeff Strand pre-order. Update on the Drive-In anthology.
All,
April is here and it feels good to be through March. February was chaotic. March was a bit smoother (although last week was rough from a shipping standpoint, hoping to catch up this week). However, I still have three months to go before I am back to normal.
Two announcements to go over in this newsletter.
First, I am taking pre-orders on Thunderstorm’s 11th Jeff Strand book. The first five I published were all under my standard oversized Black Voltage line. The second five were all under Jeff’s Gleefully Macabre imprint. And after some discussion, we decided to return to the Black Voltage production. We want to get a good grasp on how many Strand collectors are planning on picking these up since they will have different production attributes and price points. The first book (11th book) will be Veiled. We are in talks of doing Creep Out next.
VEILED
by Jeff Strand
The first time their eyes lock, it’s an amused and sympathetic look from Alice at the next table. She can tell Nate’s blind date is going horribly awry.
The second time is a chance meeting at a grocery store. Or is it by chance? It’s a little weird, but either way, Nate and Alice hit it off immediately.
He really likes her. They have great chemistry. But there’s something a little off—okay, a lot off—about her. Not just the unexplained sadness. It’s an intense desire, almost a desperation, for things to move much faster than Nate is comfortable with.
Alice has an obvious secret. What’s she hiding?
When Nate finds out…well, nobody said this was a romantic comedy…
Signed by Jeff Strand
Limited to preorders
Cover art by Frank Walls
Expected Ship Date: May/June 2024
PRE-ORDER TODAY!
The second announcement is that shipping for Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex is scheduled to begin one week from today. 4/8/24. One important thing to note is that if you have moved in the last year (preorders started nearly a year on the dot last year), please email me your new address at thunderstrombooks@gmail.com. The post office will not forward media mail, so your address needs to be up-to-date.
