Halloween Carnival: Volume Four has been published and is now available for immediate download! Featuring stories by Kealan Patrick Burke, Ray Garton, Bev Vincent, C.A. Suleiman, and Paul Meniczek! Join these authors as treat readers to some spooky tricks with a hair-raising assemblage of tales gathered together by author, editor, and master of the macabre Brian James Freeman.
Hydra, a division of Random House, will be publishing my new series of Halloween eBook anthologies called Halloween Carnival in the weeks leading up to Halloween 2017!
Halloween Carnival: Volume Four featuring stories Kealan Patrick Burke, Ray Garton, Bev Vincent, C.A. Suleiman, and Paul Meniczek will be published on October 24, 2017, but you can preorder your copy today, so you can be spend the week leading up to Halloween reading these tales of horror’s favorite holiday!
As I mentioned earlier this week, the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, recently hired Kealan Patrick Burke to create new covers for the first five volumes in the Dark Screams series, and today I’m thrilled to show off what he came up with for Volume Four:
I’ll post the other new covers over the next few days, but each one is amazing! My thanks goes out to Kealan and the Hydra team for their incredible work on this series!
As you might remember, Richard Chizmar and I joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to publish a series of horror eBook anthologies called Dark Screams that feature the best horror authors working in the business today.
ALL five volumes are available for instant reading OR listening, so please be sure to check them out:
Dark Screams: Volume One
Featuring Stephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, and Ramsey Campbell
As you might remember, Richard Chizmar and I have joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to publish a series of horror eBook anthologies called Dark Screams that feature the best horror authors working in the business today.
Tantor Audio also published ALL FIVE volumes on audio, so please be sure to check out what they’ve done because we were really impressed with the readers they selected!
Good news! The audiobook of Dark Screams: Volume Four from Tantor Audio is now available, and it features creepy new cover artwork that won’t be appearing on any other edition:
About the Book: THE DEPARTED by Clive Barker
On All Hallows’ Eve, a dead and disembodied mother yearns to touch her young son one last time. But will making contact destroy them both?
CREATURE FEATURE by Heather Graham
What could be better publicity for a horror convention than an honest-to-goodness curse? It’s only after lights out that the hype—and the Jack the Ripper mannequin—starts to feel a little too real.
THE NEW WAR by Lisa Morton
Mike Carson is a war hero and a decorated vet. He doesn’t deserve to be trapped in a hospital with some black thing sitting on his chest as patients die all around him. His only hope is to take out the nurse—before it’s his turn.
SAMMY COMES HOME by Ray Garton
It’s what every family prays for: a lost pet returning home. But when Sammy, the Hale family sheepdog, appears on their doorstep, he brings back something no parent would ever wish upon his or her child.
THE BRASHER GIRL by Ed Gorman
Cindy Marie Brasher is the prettiest girl in the Valley, and Spence just has to have her. Unfortunately, Cindy has a “friend”… a friend who tells her to do things… bad things.
As you might remember, Richard Chizmar and I have joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to publish a series of horror eBook anthologies called Dark Screams that feature the best horror authors working in the business today.
Tantor Audio published an audiobook edition of Dark Screams: Volume One and we’re pleased to announce they’ve now also acquired the rights to publish audiobooks of Volumes Two, Three, Four, and Five!
Publishers Weekly has chimed in with a review of Dark Screams: Volume Five and they had a lot of positive things to say:
“Freeman and Chizmar’s fifth horror anthology runs the gamut from throwback horror to lyrical and heartbreaking tales… The crown jewel is Kealan Patrick Burke’s luminous ‘The Land of Sunshine,’ about a husband guilty of infidelity who gives the ultimate gift to win his wife’s forgiveness. Another standout is Mick Garris’s gonzo ‘Everything You’ve Always Wanted,’ a gory, darkly funny tale about a has-been movie director who meets the woman of his dreams at a horror convention, with disastrous results… Loosely tied together with themes of broken hearts and wayward love, this collection will satisfy most horror fans.”
As you might remember, Richard Chizmar and I have joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to launch a series of horror eBook anthologies called Dark Screams that feature the best horror authors working in the business today! Volumes One,Two, and Three have all been very well received, and Dark Screams: Volume Four is now available for download for just $2.99.
About the Book: THE DEPARTED by Clive Barker
On All Hallows’ Eve, a dead and disembodied mother yearns to touch her young son one last time. But will making contact destroy them both?
CREATURE FEATURE by Heather Graham
What could be better publicity for a horror convention than an honest-to-goodness curse? It’s only after lights out that the hype—and the Jack the Ripper mannequin—starts to feel a little too real.
THE NEW WAR by Lisa Morton
Mike Carson is a war hero and a decorated vet. He doesn’t deserve to be trapped in a hospital with some black thing sitting on his chest as patients die all around him. His only hope is to take out the nurse—before it’s his turn.
SAMMY COMES HOME by Ray Garton
It’s what every family prays for: a lost pet returning home. But when Sammy, the Hale family sheepdog, appears on their doorstep, he brings back something no parent would ever wish upon his or her child.
THE BRASHER GIRL by Ed Gorman
Cindy Marie Brasher is the prettiest girl in the Valley, and Spence just has to have her. Unfortunately, Cindy has a “friend”… a friend who tells her to do things… bad things.
I’ve always thought of this early work of mine as a “chills and thrills” B-Movie type of story and I think Steven Roy Grimsley ran with that idea when he recorded his excellent reading. This audiobook features the revised version of the text and the introduction by Ray Garton from the trade paperback and eBook editions that were published earlier this year.
Here’s the sales copy:
It’s been twenty years since the group of friends known as the Lightning Five last visited their hunting cabin together.
Twenty years spent living in the shadow of something they did in high school, an event that forever defined them in the minds of everyone in their small town.
Now they’re returning to the cabin to reminisce about old times and forget their troubles, but Mother Nature has other plans in mind.
Before too long supplies will be running low and the Lightning Five will have to make some hard choices… like who gets to live and who has to die.