Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, everyone!
First, I would like to thank everyone out there who supported Thunderstorm Books in 2025. It turned out to be a pretty good year for me. And that is all because of you. Over the last couple of months, I have had a lot of titles come out. But I didn’t quite get all of them out. So some of those 2025 titles are going to carry over into January. I just got back to the keyboard from a two week self induced vacation and am ready to get back into the saddle.
These three books should be shipping this week!
To Cut A Man
by Justin Holley
When Annette, the editor of a survivalist magazine, embarks on a weekend getaway up Minnesota’s north shore with her boyfriend Sebastion, events spiral out of control when a gang of rowdy bikers starts to show up at their every stop and pay her more attention than she feels comfortable with.
The always-prepared Annette does not believe in coincidences.
To further complicate the situation, Annette is also dismayed when Sebastion questions her worries and suggests they are nothing but a result of cutting her PTSD meds. As if in direct rebuttal to his position, the bikers rumble into the same remote B&B as the couple, the gang’s aggressive leader inviting Annette and Sebastion to join them outside at the bonfire for drinks and weed. Feeling cornered, and long ago vowing to never allow an unwanted touch again, Annette’s actions continue to escalate, resulting in an explosion of bloody violence and revenge inspired by her survivalist skills.
When the true evil of the situation reveals itself, only Annette’s rage and cunning, no matter her guilt or innocence, can possibly save them.
40 copies!
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This is the hardcover of Michael McBride’s Extant. Only 50 signed and numbered copies! Order today!
Extant
by Michael McBride
ONE OF HISTORY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES.
In 524 BCE, Cambyses II, King of Persia, dispatched his forces to the Siwa Oasis to destroy the Oracle of Amun, whose priests refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt. According to historical records, 50,000 soldiers marched into the desert from Luxor and vanished into a sandstorm.
NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.
Hoping to discover the lost army’s fate, a team of scientists utilizes satellite archeology to locate ancient ruins hidden beneath the dunes. Subsequent excavation reveals a temple devoted to Sekhmet, warrior goddess of destruction. Hidden within it are chambers filled with bones.
THEY NEVER STOOD A CHANCE.
The scientists quickly realize that they’re not alone. Something is hunting them inside the buried tomb, a creature that has evolved to live in complete darkness, an extant species that will stop at nothing to make sure that no one ever learns of its existence, because in the end…
NATURE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY.
(I also have signed paperbacks still available: Paperback link
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This is the lettered edition. Limited to 26 genuine leather bound copies in a clamshell box. I only have a couple of copies left. Order today!
Kill Your Darling
by Clay McLeod Chapman
The body of Glenn Partridge’s 15-year-old son was discovered in a vacant lot nearly forty years ago. The police are still no closer to finding the murderer decades later.
Glenn refuses to let the memory of his son fade—or let anyone else within this small working class community forget. His long-suffering wife signs him up for an amateur fiction writing workshop at the local library, just to get him out of the house and out of his own head.
Rule number one: Write what you know—so Glenn decides to share his son’s story. The class offers him a chance to make sense of a senseless crime and find the fictional closure life never provided. But as Glenn’s story takes on a life of its own, someone from the past is compelled to come out of hiding before he reaches… The End.
Christmas Eve Carnage by John Lynch
Only 40 signed limited copies.
Two novels bound together in one omnibus edition!
Book 1:
CHRISTMAS IS CANCELED!!!
Life has been difficult for the Feltcher family since the loss of loving wife and mother, Courtney Feltcher.
Her husband, Jack Feltcher, buries his grief in his job, working long hours and neglecting his children
The Feltcher children struggle with the loss of their mother, and a father who is too busy with work to be present.
Chad Reynolds, an ex-con with a bone to pick, plots his revenge, while a malevolent Christmas elf rises.
A nor’easter slams the town as Chad and Sprinkles are on the loose.
There will be no silent night, only…
CHRISTMAS EVE CARNAGE!!!
Book 2:
SPRINKLES IS BACK, BABY!
Cindy is the lone survivor of the Christmas Eve Massacre, hospitalized and alone.
Laurie, estranged aunt to Cindy, makes a surprise trip to visit the Feltcher family. But the Nor’easter delays her travel and she arrives at her brother’s house to discover her entire family is dead, except for Cindy.
Laurie meets Detective Moore, the best homicide Detective on the force, but when a call comes in about an accident that may not be what it seems it’s a race against time to save Cindy.
SPRINKLES IS BACK AND READY TO FINISH WHAT HE STARTED!
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December Update. New Michael McBride chapbook, New Kristopher Rufty, New Mark Matthews, New Ronald Kelly
So just as I am wrapping up shipping on The Egotist and Don’t Let Them Get You Down by Philip Fracassi, new books have arrived and I will start shipping them this week.
First up is Extant by Michael McBride. A chapbook and a perfect stocking stuffer! Only $13.95! 166 pages including four b/w illustrations by Steven Gilberts all on a 4.5″x7″ trim. These are signed by Michael McBride and limited to 200 softcovers. (Note: a hardcover edition will be available in January).
Extant
by Michael McBride
ONE OF HISTORY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES.
In 524 BCE, Cambyses II, King of Persia, dispatched his forces to the Siwa Oasis to destroy the Oracle of Amun, whose priests refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt. According to historical records, 50,000 soldiers marched into the desert from Luxor and vanished into a sandstorm.
NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.
Hoping to discover the lost army’s fate, a team of scientists utilizes satellite archeology to locate ancient ruins hidden beneath the dunes. Subsequent excavation reveals a temple devoted to Sekhmet, warrior goddess of destruction. Hidden within it are chambers filled with bones.
THEY NEVER STOOD A CHANCE.
The scientists quickly realize that they’re not alone. Something is hunting them inside the buried tomb, a creature that has evolved to live in complete darkness, an extant species that will stop at nothing to make sure that no one ever learns of its existence, because in the end…
NATURE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY.
Order today!
Next up is the newest title with Kristopher Rufty’s Lurkers books! A signed limited edition of only 40 copies.
Lurkers Go To College
by Kristopher Rufty
Spring Break is here for the small college town of McLeansville, Wisconsin. With nothing else to do, a small group of students venture out to the historical murder sites of Haunchyville, where legends claim small creatures used to roam and hunt. And kill.
Little do they know that when they head back to campus, they bring along a pack of tiny stowaways with bottomless appetites and mouths packed full of sharp teeth ready to munch on human flesh.
The Haunchies are still alive, and they’re out of control!
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Also, a new signed limited edition by Mark Matthews! Again limited to just 40 copies.
Those Willing To Drown
by Mark Matthews
To save her daughter’s soul, a grieving mother must battle a sinister pastor who feeds off the cremains of the dead and haunts a lake community.
When Jewel Jordan dies from cancer, her father’s wish is to scatter the ashes inside their beloved Torch Lake. But after the grieving mother hears her daughter’s voice coming from inside the urn…
How can she let the ashes go?
Especially after a mysterious pastor begs her to keep them and promises to reunite her with her daughter’s spirit.
Who should she listen to?
Even creatures from the lake whisper to her at night, pleading for the remains of her daughter.
Who can she trust?
Nobody knows the truth and the bargain she made that led to her daughter’s death. Now she has to fight to save her child’s soul, and Torch Lake holds the answers. But the lake is cold, the truth is deep, and you have to earn the right to hear such secrets, for the lake speaks most honestly to those willing to drown.
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And finally, the latest hardcover installment of Ronald Kelly’s Dead Eye Saga. This is book 4 (of a five book series).
Book IV of the Saga of Dead Eye: Golems, Ghouls, and Grisly Gargantuans
by Ronald Kelly
BENEATH THE UTAH WILDERNESS…
Following the bloody showdown in Hellbound, the zombie gunfighter Dead-Eye
and the Louisiana mojo man Job continue their pursuit of the renegade vampire
Jules Holland, the Unholy Three, and the dark enchantress Evangeline. They soon
find themselves in the middle of a Utah desert, drawn into a conflict between a
wealthy gold baron and a mysterious entity with a supernatural hunger for
vengeance and violence. Soon, they find themselves descending into the dark
depths of the Earth to confront the immortal brute and the master who controls it!
AND INTO THE MOUNTAINOUS UNKNOWN!
Later, their travels take them northward into Colorado territory, where they
encounter graveyard-raiding ghouls who have abandoned feasting upon the dead
for the warm, vibrant sustenance of living flesh. As they enter the high country of
the Rocky Mountains, more danger presents itself in the form of wildlife
transformed into mutated behemoths. Accompanied by legendary mountain man
Gabriel Bass and the wolf hunter Timber Gray, they ascend the peak of Flat Top
Mountain to battle primitive giants… colossal beings that would make the biblical
Goliath look like a snot-nosed child. As the confrontation grows near, Dead-Eye
and Job wonder if death awaits them there and if their quest to deliver justice and
retribution to Holland and his gang will abruptly come to an unsatisfactory end!
Order today!
Black Friday Grab Bags! (Extremely limited)
Black Friday Grab Bags!
by various
I have a extremely limited number of grab bags available. These are ready to ship and will start to go out on Tuesday.
Each grab bag contains 4 signed limited editions (3 are oversized 7x10s)
$99
If you order two grab bags, you will get 8 different books. However, more than two will very likely end up with duplicates, so there is a limit two per household.
Order today!
New Rebecca Rowland limited edition up for pre-order! (Shipping soon).
White Trash and Recycled Nightmares
by Rebecca Rowland
Shirley Jackson Award Finalist for Best Single Author Collection
A workaholic splits his time between home and hotel rooms until an anonymous cryptic message arrives, setting off a wrinkle in the time continuum and slowly shredding his sanity. Elsewhere, a woman’s jealousy over her spouse’s connection with their only child boils over, leading her to see monsters everywhere except the mirror. University fraternity brothers discover that a cruel prank has dire consequences but the full extent of their punishment is yet to come, while an intrepid hiker explores an abandoned Cold War facility hidden within a Massachusetts mountain only to realize that military secrets aren’t the only things buried within. From witches, wendigos, and werecats to sirens, sadists, and serial killers, Rebecca Rowland serves readers a twenty-tale meal of cosmic, creature, and quiet horror in platters heaping with unsettling trepidation. In Rowland’s long-awaited follow-up to The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, a lighted room provides no safe haven, and in the darkest corner of the basement waits a ravenous dread. The most sinister objects of fear are never truly discarded…just repurposed. Includes a foreword by Mary SanGiovanni.
This edition is signed by Rebecca Rowland, Mary SanGiovanni, and Chris Panatier.
This book should start shipping in mid-November!
PRE-ORDER TODAY!
