TORN

By Lee Thomas Cemetery Dance Publications Novella series #23 ISBN: 978-1-58767-265-1 $30 Limited HC, $175 Lettered HC 130 pages; 2012 Lee Thomas’s Torn is a different take on the Werewolf genre, one that produces generally good chills and scares. Luther’s Bend is a sleepy town we’ve all visited before, and Jim Thompson’s psychos and anti-heroes [...]

Dark Discoveries, Jasunni Productions and William F. Nolan at Write to Publish at PSU this weekend

I’ll be taking part in the Write to Publish conference at Portland State University tomorrow (Saturday 4/28/12) for the day (http://ooligan.pdx.edu/w2p/) along with regular Dark Discoveries contributors William F. Nolan and Jason V Brock (for his Jasunni Productions/Publications. Author guests (besides Nolan and Brock) are: Phillip Margolin, Jay Lake, Chelsea Cain, Jeff Burk (Deadite Press) [...]

World Horror 2012 Wrap Up

What a whirlwind weekend trip to Salt Lake City for the World Horror Convention and Stoker Awards it was at the start of this month! Drove all day with my wife and kids on Friday and got in at 2am. Spent the day in the dealer’s room on Saturday splitting a table with a new [...]

DARK DISCOVERIES PUBLICATIONS UPDATES AND A THANK YOU TO JASON V BROCK

Dark Discoveries #19 Delays I ran a bit short on copies of issue #19 and some of your copies were delayed. For those of you that didn’t get a copy, I am very, very sorry and I have more on hand now. I’m going through my lists now and anybody who didn’t get one will [...]

Temporarily closing for fiction submissions now

Due to another huge amount of story submissions when we reopened this last October, we’re going to go ahead and close the doors now. We’re still catching up on some of the 2011 stuff and some older maybe stories, so we want to be able to keep up on it a bit better than we [...]

Bone Marrow Stew

By Tim Curran Tasmaniac Publications ISBN:978-0-9806367-9-6 July 2011; $40.00 Signed HC   The sad fate of many excellent horror writers remains to labor in relative obscurity.  Even once they begin to gain attention for their novels, as Michigan writer Tim Curran has done in recent years with the horror-western Skin Medicine (a favorite of mine) [...]

GENE O’NEILL’S STORY FROM DD #18 MAKES THE FINAL STOKER AWARDS BALLOT!

Just got the exciting news that Gene’s story from issue #18, “Graffiti Sonata”, has made the final ballot for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards for the Horror Writers Association. We’ve had nominations for stories in the past and even had a couple make the preliminary ballot last year, but this will be the first time [...]

Gene O’Neill’s story from DD #18 on the 2011 preliminary Bram Stoker Award

The announcement was just made on the Preliminary Ballot for the Horror Writer’s Association Bram Stoker Awards and Gene’s great story from issue #18, “Graffiti Sonata”, made it on there (and with, from what I understand, were the most recommendations of any of the stories). If anybody on the Dark Discoveries email list is a [...]

THE WOMAN

Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee Cemetery Dance Publications ISBN: 978-1-58767-253-8 2012; $35.00 Trade Hardcover The Woman is a continuation of sorts of Jack Ketchum’s controversial first novel, Offseason, and the sequel Offspring, about a cannibal tribe (loosely based on the Sawney Bean clan) living in Maine on the coast. This time around, it’s a collaboration [...]

THE DEVIL’S COATTAILS

Edited by Jason V Brock & William F. Nolan Cycatrix Press ISBN: 978-0-9841676-3-0 2012; $49.95 Trade HC, $195.00 Deluxe HC When I first heard about The Devil’s Coattails, the new anthology from Jason Brock and William Nolan (co-editors of the landmark anthology The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers), it was billed as a “Cross-Genre” [...]