Maelstrom 7 shipping soon!
There is still time to get in your order for Maelstrom 7! Click on the image to order your set today.
This set includes:
1. Throne of the Bastards by Steven L. Shrewsbury & Brian Keene
Rogan is back in this sequel to Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury’s award-winning KING OF THE BASTARDS, and this time, he’ll show no mercy. Learning that his family are in danger, Rogan returns to his former kingdom, now under siege from foreign invaders led by his bastard son. Now, the aging barbarian and his trusted companions, Javan and Akibeel, must forge an alliance new friends and old foes, mustering an army to retake the kingdom. Surrounded by savages, soldiers, demons, and dark magic, it will take all their cunning, skill, and courage to survive the war and determine once and for all who shall sit upon the THRONE OF THE BASTARDS.
2. School’s Out by Brian Keene
Eight-year-old Alan doesn’t like going to school, but when a global pandemic leaves him orphaned, cold, starving, and lonely, he has no choice but to set out on a dangerous quest to return to his third-grade classroom. SCHOOL’S OUT, an all-new post-apocalyptic novella by Brian Keene, was suggested to him by his son, marking their first official collaboration, and is suitable for all ages.
3. Come to Dust by Bracken MacLeod
Ever since her mother abandoned her, five-year-old Sophie has had to depend on her uncle Mitch for everything. But he’s struggling. Restarting a life interrupted by time in prison is hard enough without having to balance work and single parenthood. Mitch is determined to make it work though, striving to keep their family together despite the obstacles in their way, because no matter how difficult things get, they are good for each other. And life for the two of them seems to be looking up. But when Sophie dies tragically, it all comes crashing down. Mitch descends into a crippling grief, coming to understand how little his freedom means without her to share it with. And though released from the sudden responsibility thrust upon him, all he wants is his niece back, safe and alive.
When he gets his wish and scores of children around the world begin to inexplicably rise from the dead—Sophie among them—everything becomes much harder.
Mitch rescues her from the morgue, determined to carve out a normal life for them no matter what, though it soon becomes clear that may not be possible. While the kids who’ve returned behave like living children, they still look very dead. And they can do something else that normal children cannot. Something terrifying. Beliefs differ whether the children’s return is a mercy or a sign of approaching judgment, and a congregation of religious fanatics determined to usher in the apocalypse has their own plan for salvation.
Now Mitch must find a way to save Sophie from an increasingly hostile world that wants to tear them apart and put her back in the ground for good.
Maelstrom 7 will be up for pre-order this Sunday!
Only 225 copies will be produced. Click on this link on Sunday! https://thunderstormbooks.com/thunderstorm/maelstrom-vii/
This set includes:
1. Throne of the Bastards by Steven L. Shrewsbury & Brian Keene
Rogan is back in this sequel to Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury’s award-winning KING OF THE BASTARDS, and this time, he’ll show no mercy. Learning that his family are in danger, Rogan returns to his former kingdom, now under siege from foreign invaders led by his bastard son. Now, the aging barbarian and his trusted companions, Javan and Akibeel, must forge an alliance new friends and old foes, mustering an army to retake the kingdom. Surrounded by savages, soldiers, demons, and dark magic, it will take all their cunning, skill, and courage to survive the war and determine once and for all who shall sit upon the THRONE OF THE BASTARDS.
2. School’s Out by Brian Keene
Eight-year-old Alan doesn’t like going to school, but when a global pandemic leaves him orphaned, cold, starving, and lonely, he has no choice but to set out on a dangerous quest to return to his third-grade classroom. SCHOOL’S OUT, an all-new post-apocalyptic novella by Brian Keene, was suggested to him by his son, marking their first official collaboration, and is suitable for all ages.
3. Come to Dust by Brandon MacLeod
Ever since her mother abandoned her, five-year-old Sophie has had to depend on her uncle Mitch for everything. But he’s struggling. Restarting a life interrupted by time in prison is hard enough without having to balance work and single parenthood. Mitch is determined to make it work though, striving to keep their family together despite the obstacles in their way, because no matter how difficult things get, they are good for each other. And life for the two of them seems to be looking up. But when Sophie dies tragically, it all comes crashing down. Mitch descends into a crippling grief, coming to understand how little his freedom means without her to share it with. And though released from the sudden responsibility thrust upon him, all he wants is his niece back, safe and alive.
When he gets his wish and scores of children around the world begin to inexplicably rise from the dead—Sophie among them—everything becomes much harder.
Mitch rescues her from the morgue, determined to carve out a normal life for them no matter what, though it soon becomes clear that may not be possible. While the kids who’ve returned behave like living children, they still look very dead. And they can do something else that normal children cannot. Something terrifying. Beliefs differ whether the children’s return is a mercy or a sign of approaching judgment, and a congregation of religious fanatics determined to usher in the apocalypse has their own plan for salvation.
Now Mitch must find a way to save Sophie from an increasingly hostile world that wants to tear them apart and put her back in the ground for good
5 new books released! New O’Neill and Mars, New Curran, New Bernstein, New Janz, New Rufty!
All, I have been under the weather for the last week so this newsletter is a bit late. Good news is that most of these books are still in-stock and shipping now. Clicking on the picture takes you directly to the ordering page.
Later this month: Some Bryan Smith announcements.
In early December: The official announcement of Maelstrom 7.
SHIPPING NOW:
NEW Gene O’Neill and Chris Marrs! Only 52 copies produced. Only two copies left.
Entangled Soul
by Chris Marrs and Gene O’Neill
Entangled Soul is a dark fantasy loosely based on the ideas in quantum entanglement.
Finnegan McCullough lives in San Francisco, a boxer forced to retire early at 32. Sophie Lindberg is a reclusive agorophobe living in Seattle. Two fragmented lives. Strangers, who begin sharing dreams. Those dreams eventually have a direct effect, entangling their real-life lives.
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NEW David Bernstein! Only 52 copies produced. Only four copies left. Click on the picture to order.
Blue Demon
by David Bernstein
When the meek need defending, they call on Blue Demon, a guardian of bloodshed and retribution. Its loyalty is forever, as long as you remain righteous. For those that oppress the demon’s flock, life grows short. It kills in the most brutal fashion, and maims those it most despises. It has no feelings, only loyalty and devotion for the ones it protects. Of course, this is all from the Blue Demon television show and Cal Langston, Blue Demon’s biggest fan, knows such things can’t be real, at least not until the people who messed with him start dying in the most horrific of ways. Frightened and not sure what to believe, he sets out to discover what is truly going on, and if Blue Demon is for real, does he want it watching over him?
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NEW Tim Curran! Only 52 copies produced. Only a few copies left. Click on the picture to order.
Grim Riders
by Tim Curran
Nathan Partridge broke out of prison to get what belonged to him—his wife and $80,000 in robbery money. Now he’s being hunted by the law. By desperados. By a relentless federal marshal. And, worse, by a pair of bounty hunters who are barely even human. A showdown is coming. And it will be hell on earth.
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NEW Kristopher Rufty! Only 52 copies produced. Only a few copies left. Click on the picture to order.
Seven Buried Hill
by Kristopher Rufty
Everyone told her that her father wasn’t missing, but Catherine Dalton knew better. That old man could handle his horse like nobody’s business, and not only was he able to survive in the wild—he thrived there. So after many days passed since he headed for the mountains of western Carolina and still hadn’t reached his destination, Catherine knew with certainty something was wrong. Ill fortune had undoubtedly befallen her father. Former outlaw Henry Hardin and his gang weren’t known as the helpful type, but with time and terror mounting, Catherine had run out of options. As the mercenary crew treks into the remote mountains in search of their payday, one-by-one they learn of the black heart that beats there, of the evil palpitating through each step they take forward. Brutal savagery glides through the gloom silently alongside them, biding its time, nurturing appetites only sated by slaughter. Little do the outlaws know that their quest to save a life might end with a battle for their own, as two breeds of evil collide, the hunters become the hunted, and desolate mountains ring with the screams of men and savages fighting to survive.
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NEW Jonathan Janz! Only 60 copies produced. Sold Out. If you bought a copy of the last Shadow Side book, Castle of Sorrows, I have your matching number reserved for you.
Children of the Dark
by Jonathan Janz
High school freshman Will Burgess lives with his drug-addicted a single mother. He’s singlehandedly taking care his six-year-old sister. As if that weren’t enough, Will’s dream girl is dating his arch-enemy, the most sadistic junior at Shadeland High. But things are about to become immeasurably worse.
The Moonlight Killer—one of history’s most frightening serial killers–has escaped from prison, and he’s being drawn to Will’s hometown of Shadeland by an ancient evil. When the worst storm of the decade descends on the town, so do the Moonlight Killer and the creatures from Shadeland’s caves.
Will must band together with his friends to save everyone he can. But the powers of evil are ferocious. And they’re eager to spill innocent blood.
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New Books Shipping. Brian Keene, Jonathan Janz, and Kristopher Rufty
New Brian Keene. Only 100 copies produced. Uniform in design with the Trigger Warnings limited edition:
Thunderstorm Books is proud to present Brian Keene’s brand-new non-fiction collection, in which nothing is sacred…or safe. Be it loving tributes to authors J.F. Gonzalez and Tom Piccirilli (and a heartfelt account of how their deaths impacted him), ruminations on middle-age, a rueful look at how publishing and writing have changed, sarcastic barbs at pop culture’s obsession with superhero movies, a hard look at both sides of the social justice war, or thoughtful examinations of the works of writers like Jack Ketchum and Mary SanGiovanni, Brian Keene once again offers an honest, no-holds-barred critique our lives, our culture, and our world, and proves that we are all inhabiting … UNSAFE SPACES.
New Jonathan Janz. Only 60 copies produced. Already nearly sold out.
When Ben Shadeland and his family barely escaped the Sorrows, a haunted island in the Pacific, he swore he’d never return. But Ben’s infant daughter has been kidnapped, and he suspects the culprit is the ancient creature that lives in the island’s castle.
Ben, a cop, three federal agents, a sultry medium, and several others will journey to the Sorrows to rescue Ben’s baby. But the visitors bring their personal demons with them, demons that will become flesh on the island. Even worse, the creature has grown more powerful. And it won’t rest until it has its revenge.
New Kristopher Rufty. Only 52 copies produced. This book has sold out. If you buy Black Voltage editions via the clubhouse page, I still have your copy set aside for you.
Grant Marlowe hoped taking his family to their mountain cabin for Christmas would reunite them after his alcoholic past had torn them apart, but it only puts them in a battle for their survival. On Christmas Eve, a stranger from Grant’s past invades the vacation home and takes his wife and children hostage. His agenda is simple—make Grant suffer the same torment that Grant’s drunken antics have caused him. Now Grant must confront his demons head on and fight for his family’s lives against a foe with nothing left to lose.
3 New books in-stock and shipping! Very low stock levels, almost sold out!
TERROR CELL by Tim Curran! 5 novellas bound together in white leather.
Limited to just 52 copies. Less than 6 remain! Order today.
Terror Cell.
They operate in the dark anti-world between the shadows.
They thrive in the deranged nightmare labyrinth at the pit of
human consciousness. They walk alone just beyond the
realm of human perception. In nameless gutters of night
where parasitic life forms turn Napoleonic soldiers into
flesh-eating ghouls and winged night shades haunt the
Atlantic City boardwalk. Where primeval deep-sea gods of
wrath avenge the death of their spawning subhuman
children and predatory beasts of legend stalk the bone piles
of Stalingrad. And, ultimately, where an entity from beyond
time and space torments its human cattle, fattening them on fear
and driving them into the killing grounds of the stockyard.
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REVENGE OF THE CANNIBAL SPEAR MAIDENS by Sam W Anderson, Shane McKenzie, Erik Williams, and Mike D McCarty.
Limited to just 52 copies. Less than 5 remain. Order today!
Sunny Philippines!
Tropical Philippines!
Beautiful Philippines!
Bloody Philippines!
Some places are great to make movies. Others are cheap. In the Philippines, you get both.
Sometimes, you get more than you bargained for. Sometimes, you get what’s coming to
you.
You may have government permits to film on these barbarian spear maidens’ land.
But you don’t have their permission.
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ODD MAN OUT by James Newman
The signed hardcover is limited to 52 copies bound in black leather. Only 4 copies remain. Order today!
The Black Mountain Camp for Boys. Summer of ’89. It is a time for splashing in the lake and exploring the wilderness, for nine teenagers to bond together and create friendships that could last the rest of their lives.
But among this group there is a young man with a secret — a secret that, in this time and place, is unthinkable to his peers.
When the others discover the truth, it will change each of them forever. They will all have blood on their hands.
ODD MAN OUT is a heart-wrenching tale of bullies and bigotry, a story that explores what happens when good people don’t stand up for what’s right. It is a tale of how far we have come … and how far we still have left to go.
Foreword by Aaron Dries.
“The story moves from innocence to brutality in one savage heartbeat. It is daring and powerful, not for the faint of heart, but ultimately affecting. With ODD MAN OUT, James Newman stands alongside the best in the genre.”
— Rio Youers, author of WESTLAKE SOUL and POINT HOLLOW
“James Newman’s ODD MAN OUT is sweet and wise and dipped in golden shades of nostalgia. It’s also stark and brutal and ultimately heartbreaking — you’ll never forget it.”
— Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance Publications, author of A LONG DECEMBER
