The Horror Writers Association presents

Blood Lite

Blood Lite

…a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge.

Edited by NYT Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson

Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quarter of die-hard environmentalists host a fundraiser with a gory twist in “An Evening with Al Gore”…In an all-new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there’s no such thing as a “Day Off” for the Chicago P.D.’s wizard detective, Harry Dresden…Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting seraph with one hell of an afterlife in “Where Angels Fear to Tread”…Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out séance tour, but behind the scenes a disgruntled ghost has a bone to pick in Kelley Armstrong’s “The Ungrateful Dead.”  Plus tales guaranteed to get under you skin - in a good way - from :

Janet Berliner

Don D’Ammassa

Nancy Holder

Nancy Kilpatrick

F. Paul Wilson and J.A. Konrath

Joe Lansdale

Will Ludwigsen

Sharyn McCrumb

Mark Onspaugh

Mike Resnick

Steve Savile

D.L. Snell

Eric James Stone

Jeff Strand

Lucien Soulban

Matt Venne

Christopher Welch

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

ISBN-10: 0809571501
ISBN-13: 978-0809571505

Now Available

Bringing back into print a classic anthology of adult fairy tales by Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Nancy A. Collins, Roberta Lannes, Gahan Wilson, and others

And don’t miss the earlier volume

Black Thorn, White Rose

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

ISBN-10: 08095577

ISBN-13: 978-0809557752

Bringing back into print a classic anthology of adult fairy tales by Peter Straub, Howard Waldrop, Jane Yolen, Storm, Constantine, and others.

www.datlow.com

BENEATH THE SURFACE

13 SHOCKING TALES OF TERROR

ISBN# 978-0-9801870-0-7

Trade Paperback.

BENEATH THE SURFACE features more than 13 original horror stories written by award-winning authors hailing from across the United States and the United Kingdom.

The Cold Spot

Tom Piccirilli
Bantam Books
ISBN-10: 0553590847

ISBN-13: 978-0553590845
Release date: April 2008

A young thief raised by his career criminal grandfather goes on the straight and narrow after falling in love with a sheriff’s daughter. Years later, when tragedy strikes, he must enlist the aid of his dangerous grandfather to help him seek revenge.

Thinner Than Mist

Cullen Bunn, J. P. Edwards, Curtis Hoffmeister and Mark W. Worthen
Bones and Caskets Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60585-943-9
Release date: March 27, 2008

These thirteen short stories and novellas all have ghosts and spirits as their common thread. These four Missouri-based authors will entertain, disturb and quite possibly cause you to get up and turn on the lights.

The Reaper

Joseph McGee
Magus Press

ISBN-10: 0979700027
ISBN-13: 9780979700026
Release date: March 28, 2008

One woman’s allure with the paranormal turns deadly and leads to a man’s quest for answers.

Daemon

Harry Shannon
Delirium Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-929653-94-2
Release date: March 1, 2008

A special ops team pursues the ghoul that is stalking Las Vegas in this trade paperback version of the third novel in Harry Shannon’s “Night Trilogy.”

Sleuth Slayer

Jeffrey B. Burton and Bruce W. Burton
Pocol Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-929763-32-8
Release Date: May 2008

America’s leading mystery writers are being brutally murdered. Through a dark labyrinth of film studio power brokers, publishing industry politics, a decadent family’s wealthy influence, police immorality — as well as the dawning realization that he himself is on the killer’s list — third-tier author Guy Davitt (a would-be Dashiell Hammett) pursues the truth.

Firefly Rain

By Richard Dansky
Wizards of the Coast
ISBN-10: 0786948566
Release date: January 8, 2008

The first title in Wizards of the Coast’s new Discoveries imprint, Firefly Rain is the story of Jacob Logan, returning home from a failed business in Boston to a small town in North Carolina. But there are promises he has made before he left that have not been forgotten, and there’s a reason the fireflies will no longer shine on his land…

Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire

by Loren Rhoads, Maria Alexander, Mehitobel Wilson and Christa Faust
Dark Arts Books
ISBN 10: 0-9779686-2-6
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Sins of the Sirens spotlights the deadly, seductive lures of four amazing writers. This erotic horror collection features new stories and rarities from Maria Alexander, Christa Faust, Loren Rhoads and Mehitobel Wilson. At 260 pages, this is the largest Dark Arts collection yet, with 20,000 words of fiction from each author, including “Firebird,” an original novelette from Christa Faust!

The Infected

by Michael McBride
Delirium Books
Release Date: January 2008
The pandemic is at hand. Those afflicted become enraged creatures functioning on instinct alone, capable only of killing and spreading the disease. The sick now hunt the dwindling bands of survivors, who will soon learn that the only thing worse than dying, is becoming one of The Infected.

Universal Monsters

By Bryan D. Dietrich
WordTech Communications
ISBN-10: 1933456914
ISBN-13: 978-1933456911
Release date: January 2008

From boudoir to abattoir, from desire to dissolution to divorce, from The Bride of Frankenstein to Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, this is a book that engages monsters, yes, but also the everyday human

Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

edited by Ellen Datlow

·  ISBN-10: 0765315580

·  ISBN-13: 978-0765315588

December 10, 2007

Tor Books

Twenty all new stories by Lee Thomas, Glen Hirshberg, P. D. Cacek, Laird Barron, Conrad Williams, and fifteen others

THIS RAGE OF ECHOES

Author: Simon Clark

Publisher: Leisure

ISBN: 0-8439-5494-9

Author web page: www.bbr-online.com/nailed

‘You know the monster’s face… it’s the one in the mirror.’ The future looks good for Mason Konrad until the night he is attacked by someone who looks exactly like him. Super-violent, super-gruesome, this is the march of the Echomen against humanity. An army of blood crazy killers that become evil replicas of the people they meet.