SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD by Scott Nicholson Available In Digital!
Haunted Computer Books has just released SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD by Scott Nicholson in your favorite e-book format!
A man’s promise to channel his dead wife goes haywire when he stirs up demons at a paranormal conference–a place where even angels can’t be trusted.
Digger Wilson and his Spirit Seekers International paranormal investigation team host a conference at the White Horse Inn, the most haunted hotel in the Appalachian Mountains. Digger drags his gear and his imaginative teen-aged daughter to the hotel where the girl was conceived 16 years earlier–and Digger and his wife made a morbid pact. But keeping the pact isn’t easy when demons view the paranormal conference as a personal playground, and restless spirits aren’t what they appear–or don’t appear–to be. From the author of The Red Church, The Skull Ring, and Drummer Boy, and inspired by an actual paranormal conference Nicholson hosted in 2008.
Available (as is everything at Darkside Digital) in PDF, MOBI and EPUB formats.
Ash Wednesday: New Digital Releases by Chet Williamson
Macabre Ink Digital has released Chet Williamson’s Ash Wednesday in ebook and audiobook formats and both at a special pre-release price, good through 15 August, 2010 – get your copy now!
In Merridale, semi-transparent blue apparitions have appeared. These aren’t ghosts, exactly. They are visions of the dead in their final moments – the last seconds of their lives portrayed for all to see. They don’t move, and they don’t speak.
Ash Wednesday is a thoughtful horror story about what happens to people when they are forced to gaze into the face of death and, specifically, the face of their own personal dead: their friends and family, those they believed to be dead and gone. Murders are revealed, rapes and other crimes. People despair, and try to create new lives out of the wreckage. Two of these are Bradley Meyers, a vet already driven half-crazy by his experiences in Vietnam, confronted by the sight of his dead son, and now barely capable of containing his rage, and Jim Callender, whose son has died in the same accident, for which he is partly responsible. As Callender sinks into guilt, Meyers moves toward murder.
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Necro Publications Added To Darkside Digital
We’re delighted to have Necro Publications join the #1 independent outlet for digital horror with three classics now available for immediate download in your favorite ebook formats (PDF, MOBI, or EPUB):
PORTRAIT OF THE PSYCHOPATH AS A YOUNG WOMAN by Edward Lee & Elizabeth Steffen
She is utterly beautiful,
and utterly insane.
A novel from Edward Lee & Elizabeth Steffen.
A full-force, hardcore psycho thriller.
Unlike anything you’ve seen from Ed Lee before.
P s y c h o p a t h
She shackles them to the bed.
She glues their eyes closed.
She punctures their eardrums.
She sews their lips shut.
T o r t u r e s s
They can’t move. They can’t see or hear.
They can’t scream.
All they can do is feel.
And with her tools — her scalpels and needles,
her bonesaws and her knives –
She gives them a lot to feel…
“The novel that American Psycho should have been… brutal, break-neck, and very real. An astonishing, gruesome feminist thriller…”
- Andrew Harper, author of Bad Karma
TALES OF THE FALLEN: Book 1 by David G. Barnett
David G Barnett offers up the beginning of what will hopefully be a long series of novellas and shorts centered around the battle for heaven. These first three tales are fast-paced, funny, raunchy and poignant. Barnett’s world comes to life with horribly flawed characters that you will like or hate, but won’t forget, abominable creatures and visions of Heaven and Hell that will begin to pave the way for more tales to come.
Of Angels Fallen
They rescued him from the streets and with their help he has become the world’s greatest assassin. So much death, so much blood, but it all ends after this one final job. Just one more death and Mal will finally get what was promised him so many, many years ago.
Jonas White is a powerful man, an empire builder. He commands adoration and respect from everyone who meets him. He is a good man, does good things. But now he’s also a marked man. He knows destiny is banging on the door. What will happen when he opens it?
Two men fated to meet each other on one cataclysmic evening. An evening when secrets will be revealed, loyalties will be tested, old grudges settled and new ones made. This is just one stop along a long road. A road that leads back to where it all began so very long ago.
Daddy Demon’s Day Out
He wanted revenge for an atrocity committed so many years ago. Back when his world collapsed around him with a single knock on his door.
But that was then and this is now and revenge is at hand. Years of planning, years of blasphemous dealings and terrible actions have led to this moment. He has worked for decades to be able to summon the demon of revenge and now he’s ready. Tonight he will demand the demon grant his one wish and all this will finally be over.
But Travis Burnsfield will soon find out that the demon of revenge has other plans for the evening. Plans that involve Starbucks, cheese steaks and a trip to the infamous Painfreak where many creatures go, all with very different hungers. Some with hungers that can be sated by the sorrow of a tired old man who only wants revenge for something taken from him so very long ago.
Sleeper Angels Awaken
The old man hadn’t been here in… Well, he couldn’t really remember. But what he did know was that it had changed. Changed so much. His heart was heavy at seeing the destruction and knowing what it all meant. But he didn’t have time to mourn. No, he had to move on.
He had placed them here so long ago, but over time he grew careless and forgot to keep track of them. But the time has come for him to track them all down. Things had changed and now he needed their help. It was time to seek out the others and awaken them…awaken his army. He only hoped they wanted to be awakened and wanted to help him. It would take some time. But after all, time was all he had right now.
Science fiction, Lee-style. This critically acclaimed novella involves a U.S. Air Force test pilot recruited for a very special mission: to fly an operational recovered UFO. Any test pilot’s dream, right? Wrong. Special disfiguring surgery is required for anyone human who wants to fly the craft. This expertly plotted novella proves to detractors that Lee can write in many arenas, not just horror, and doesn’t have to rely on the “gross-out” to keep readers enthralled. (Lee has implied that he may one day expand this project to novel-length, just as he hopes to expand his hard sci-fi TRIAGE novella 2202.) “OPERATOR “B” made the Preliminary Ballot for 1999 HWA Stoker Award for Best Novella. Little known fact: the working outline for this novella was a screenplay, which is also the case for his well-reviewed conspiracy/UFO novel THE STICKMEN.
Haunted Computer Books
Darkside Digital is now carrying a new digital press called Haunted Computer Books which is run by author Scott Nicholson. The first title, The Red Church, is now available for instant download in all our standard formats (PDF, MOBI & EPUB).
2003 Stoker Award finalist. A boy and a sheriff must solve the mystery of a haunted Appalachian church after a mysterious preacher returns to town.
“Hold onto your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off.”–J.A. Konrath, Origin
For 13-year-old Ronnie Day, life is full of problems: Mom and Dad have separated, his brother Tim is a constant pest, Melanie Ward either loves him or hates him, and Jesus Christ won’t stay in his heart. Plus he has to walk past the red church every day, where the Bell Monster hides with its wings and claws and livers for eyes. But the biggest problem is that Archer McFall is the new preacher at the church, and Mom wants Ronnie to attend midnight services with her.
Sheriff Frank Littlefield hates the red church for a different reason. His little brother died in a freak accident at the church twenty years ago, and now Frank is starting to see his brother’s ghost. And the ghost keeps demanding, “Free me.” People are dying in Whispering Pines, and the murders coincide with McFall’s return.
The Days, the Littlefields, and the McFalls are descendants of the original families that settled the rural Appalachian community. Those old families share a secret of betrayal and guilt, and McFall wants his congregation to prove its faith. Because he believes he is the Second Son of God, and that the cleansing of sin must be done in blood.
“Sacrifice is the currency of God,” McFall preaches, and unless Frank and Ronnie stop him, everybody pays.
Deep Blue Audiobook
From Macabre Ink Digital comes David Niall Wilson’s Deep Blue in audiobook format! Narrated by Chris Patton and more than 11 hours long, get this new digital download for 50% off the retail price for a limited time only! There is a free sample posted on the ordering page to download.
Brandt is a down-and-out guitarist and vocalist who believes his life has hit rock bottom. He has trouble making the rent on his apartment, and he drinks so much he can barely make it to the crappy gig that keeps his band afloat, let alone play when he gets there. When he leaves the bar one dark night with a bottle of Jose Cuervo in one hand and his guitar case in the other, he finds he’s locked out of his apartment with nowhere to go. He enters an alley filled with trash can fires and the homeless.
In that alley, Brandt meets Wally, an old black harmonica player who can play the music that Brandt dreams of – the blues. Not the blues as you hear them on the modern radio, but they way they were once played – filled with an extra “something” that can’t be taught. Despite Wally’s warning, Brandt begs the old man to teach him the songs he is playing, and in the ensuing encounter, Brandt is gifted – or cursed – with new abilities.
He feels the pain building up around him and inside him. Not his own pain, but the pain of others, the pain of those who have passed away, the pain of those who died with no one to hear their stories. He becomes a conduit for the pain of the world, and then he is left alone.
Together Brandt and his companions must meet the challenge of the music and the pain with the world hanging in the balance.
Two New Jack MacLane Novels Available From Macabre Ink
Macabre Ink Digital extends its line of quality new digital releases with a duo of MacLane novels…
Hubert is a killer. He loves the sport of it—the thrill of the hunt—and Hubert can feel and share in the pain of his victims as they breathe their final breath.
Larry is a young boy who dreams about death before it happens. He can’t remember his dreams by day, but by night he is haunted by the faces and words of the dying. When the two end up in the same town, and become aware of one another, a classic battle of good and evil ensues. Blood Dreams is an old school supernatural thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
JUST BEFORE DARK by Jack MacLane
It’s just an old junkyard, a place where Lane Hamner loved to play among the rusty old car bodies. But you never know what you might find in a junkyard, especially when your uncle isn’t the kindly old gentleman you think he is. He’s actually the kind of man who would put someone into a car that’s about to be run through the crusher, just to get rid of him.
Frank Castella isn’t so easy to get rid of, however. When his spirit takes over the junkyard, bent on revenge, a lot of people are going to die, and Frank isn’t going to make it easy on them.
Darkside Digital’s 10,000th Download of 2010!
I wanted to take some time out to thank everyone who has downloaded digital editions or audiobooks from Darkside Digital. I’m proud to announce that we’ve just moved our 10,000th download of the year.
While that may not seem like a lot to some…consider the fact that we’re offering just barely over 100 titles in stock and catering exclusively to independent horror. This is huge for an independent company and really showcases the growth of the digital medium.
Even more impressive, we’ve been following sales trends on horror titles currently available both at Darkside Digital and also at the bigger online digital sellers and we’re happy to report that the majority of sales have actually came direct from our shop, which tells me that our focus on specializing in quality horror is paying off.
If you’re an independent horror publisher and want to take advantage of our booming digital customer base for the horror genre, then please visit our submission page.
If you’re a horror author and you’re not getting exposure here, then I’d send a friendly note to your publisher asking them why. If you still don’t get a progressive response (or have a publisher that doesn’t believe in digital), then please watch out for our digital conversion services that will be announced next week.
New Steven Savile & Jack MacLane
Two new offerings from Macabre Ink Digital now available…
GOODNIGHT MOOM by Jack MacLane (Digital Edition)
LITTLE HARRY WASN’T LIKE OTHER CHILDREN
Harry never cared for reading or writing. He never showed any interest in baseball or TV. Harry lived for other things — like the pleasing sound of living creatures screaming in agony. And the soothing feel of warm blood running through his fingers. But when his grisly experiments progressed beyond stray pets and farm animals to classmates, Harry’s dad decided to lock the boy away for good in the family basement. After all, the neighbors might begin to talk…
In the solitude of the dank, musty cellar, Harry waited and grew… and grew… and GREW! And while he waited, he was counseled by his one and only friend — the bright silvery orb in the inight sky that he called “Moom.” Harry spoke to Moom. And Moom spoke to Harry. Moom told Harry what he should do when he finally broke out of his subterranean prison …
Moom told Harry to kill…
and Kill…
and KILL…
THE FORGETTING WOOD: The Complete Hoke Berglund Stories by Steven Savile (Audiobook)
The death of a beloved children’s writer, Hoke Berglund, draws Jon Sieber into a world he cannot hope to understand—a world filled with Hoke’s creations, including the vile Mr. Self Affliction who is the cruel master of this place. In a world where angels are beautiful women and the by-blows of nightmares people the mythical Forgetting Wood, Jon, heir apparent to all that Hoke created, falls for Kristen, the writer’s daughter, but cannot let her secret remain secret.
Darkside Digital Exclusive: The Summoning by J. F. Gonzalez
Darkside Digital has just released an exclusive original collection by J.F. Gonzalez called The Summoning & Other Eldritch Tales.
The Summoning contains 7 collected tales of Lovecraftian-inspired nightmares from J. F. Gonzalez. Featured in this collection are two original pieces: “Holes” and “The Summoning” (co-authored with Mike Baker).
This collection includes:
- Opening The Way: An Introduction
- Tattoos
- Going Home
- The Revenge Of Cthulhu
- Holes
- The Man Who Had A Death Wish
- The Summoning
- The Watcher From The Grave
Each story contains special story notes penned by the author.
Macabre Ink Releases New Stephen Mark Rainey & Jack MacLane
Two new novels released today by Macabre Ink Digital…
THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER by Stephen Mark Rainey
The town of Silver Ridge, West Virginia, has disappeared from the face of the earth. To the outside world, a chasm of impenetrable mist is all that remains of the town. But inside Silver Ridge, the nightmare is just beginning.
Confined by this unimaginable barrier, the townspeople find themselves confronted by the denizens of a distant dimension: horrifying creatures that intend to transform the valley town into their own outpost. To these extra-dimensional travelers, human beings are nothing more than pests to be exterminated.
Russell Copeland and Debra Harrington are determined to resist the invaders… but as they face death to restore Silver Ridge to its rightful place on Earth, they find that their true enemy may not be the incomprehensible invaders, but an insidious evil whose origin is closer to home than they can imagine.
An Evil Secret
Danny West knew that something was wrong from the first day his folks moved into the rundown house next to the creepy graveyard. The neighborhood kids would never come over to play. At night, he saw weird shadows prowling around the crumbling tombstones, and heard strange gurgling sounds. But his parents wouldn’t listen to him. They said he had a good imagination…
Then bad things started to happen. Terrible, gruesome things that even scared his dad. There was something in the graveyard. Something in the graveyard. Something that no kid could ever have imagined. Something that should have been left alone to Rest In Peace.