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STEAMPUNK TALES #1 Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

STEAMPUNK TALES #1 Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

STEAMPULP PUBLISHING has released the first issue of STEAMPUNK TALES. Steampulp Publishing LLC has released the world's first electronic pulp fiction magazine created exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch! Emulating the style of the pulp adventure magazines of the 1920s and '30s, Steampunk Tales contains first-run, original fiction written by an A+ list of award-winning authors. Issue #1 contains 10 stories, each running between 4,300 to 11,000 words, for the unbelievable price of only $1.99. Authors contributing to issue #1 include Jay Lake, Catherynne M. Valente, SatyrPhil Brucato and G.D. Falksen. The cover art was painted by popular artist Melita "missmonster" Curphy. 10 pieces of exciting steampunk pulp fiction for ...

CHINA MIÉVILLE Guest Blogging All This Week at Omnivoracious

CHINA MIÉVILLE Guest Blogging All This Week at Omnivoracious

CHINA MIÉVILLE, author of THE CITY & THE CITY as well as PERDIDO STREET STATION, IRON COUNCIL, and many others will be guest blogging at OMNIVORACIOUS for the week of June 15th. Omnivoracious is proud to welcome China Mieville as a guest blogger this week. Arguably one of the most important fantasists of the last decade, Mieville made his mark with the insanely imaginative Perdido Street Station. The novel single-handedly reconfigured the landscape of genre fiction with its combination of pulp and the surreal, the political and the personal. In Perdido Street Station and subsequent novels The Scar, Iron Council, and the New York Times bestseller Un Lun Dun, Mieville also remade the idea o...

MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS by DAVID NICKLE Available for Pre-order from CHIZINE PUB

MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS by DAVID NICKLE Available for Pre-order from CHIZINE PUB

CHIZINE PUB has announced that MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS by DAVID NICKLE is now available for pre-order. A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it. A repentant father summons help from a pot of tar to ensure it. A starving woman learns from howling winds and a whispering host, just how fulfilling it can finally be. Can it be love? Table of Contents • Introduction by Michael Rowe • The Sloan Men • Janie and the Wind • Night of the Tar Baby • Other People's Kids • The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement and then Take Questions • The Pit-Heads • Slide Trombone • The Inevitability of Earth [Download MP3 from Pseudopod] • Swamp Witch and the Tea...

TEL AVIV DOSSIER by LAVIE TIDHAR & NIR YANIV Released in Trade Paperback from CHIZINE

TEL AVIV DOSSIER by LAVIE TIDHAR & NIR YANIV Released in Trade Paperback from CHIZINE

TORONTO, Ontario (May 19, 2009) – ChiZine Publications will release the post-apocalyptic novel The Tel Aviv Dossier in trade paperback on July 1, 2009, available exclusively for pre-order from its website until June 30. Written by Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv, The Tel Aviv Dossier documents the destruction of the city of Tel Aviv and the life that carries on in its ruins. Told through letters, transcripts, and personal accounts, the book describes a whirlwind that came from the sea and laid waste to the city and its inhabitants. In its wake, survivors struggle to stay alive—facing the challenges of finding food and safety as well as dealing with the memories of unexplainable nightmare images they encountered during the city's destru...

New Publisher ATOMIC FEZ Set to Publish New RHYS HUGHES

New Publisher ATOMIC FEZ Set to Publish New RHYS HUGHES

Some information coming from RHYS HUGHES that new publisher, ATOMIC FEZ, is going to publish his book, TWISTHORN BELLOW: However, bad news is often counterbalanced by good, and so I now take great delight in announcing the official launch today of the publishing company that intends to issue my novel Twisthorn Bellow in September. Atomic Fez was set up by the Canadian fellow Ian Alexander Martin, former sachem-and-sheik of Humdrumming Ltd, publishers of my Less Lonely Planet collection (aptly enough, Atomic Fez also plan to being out a second edition of that volume, an expanded version, sometime next year). I am particularly satisfied with how extreme my novel is in terms of multilayered absurdity and twisted logic. Is it ...

ChiZine Publications Releases Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière Available in Limited Edition Hardcover

ChiZine Publications Releases Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière Available in Limited Edition Hardcover

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, Ontario (April 28, 2009) – Independent publisher ChiZine Publications has released a collection of twelve short stories by Montreal writer and editor Claude Lalumière titled Objects of Worship.  This collection will be available in a special edition hardcover for a limited time. Called “the debut of a highly original voice in fantastic fiction” by Jan Lars Jensen, this collections contains stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as On Spec, Year's Best SF, Interzone, Electric Velocipede, and Tesseracts Eleven as well as the previously unpublished “The Darkness at the Heart of the World” and “Roman Predator’s Chimeric Odyssey.”  This volume also feature...

MARY SANGIOVANNI'S Must Have List PDF Print E-mail
Mary SanGiovanni received a Masters in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2007. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines since 2001. Both The Hollower and Found You have been published by Leisure Books. She lives in New Jersey with her son.Visit her at her website.
 

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TIM LEBBON Appearance at Waterstone's in Cardiff

Cardiff Waterstone's, Friday, 6:30 - my book launch (THE ISLAND in hardback, FALLEN in paperback). Then pub. via Tim's Twitter. @timlebbon

GOOGLE Setting to Sell E-Books in 2009

From Electronista: Google this weekend signaled its plans to offer paid e-books through its site. The approach would let users effectively "unlock" books and view them over the web; offline reading...

TIM LEBBON New Book BAR NONE from NIGHTSHADE BOOKS

While browsing the catalogue for NIGHTSHADE BOOKS, HFNN came across an entry for BAR NONE by TIM LEBBON.  It is scheduled for release in September 2008 and the summary from NIGHTSHADE is:

THE RISING Audio Book Shipping

Good news: The Rising audio-book is slated to ship next week. Also, the story for the Cemetery Dance t-shirt is finished and has been turned in. It’s called “Waiting For Darkness”...

TIM LEBBON Delivers THE ISLAND to Bantam

I've just delivered the reworked version of THE ISLAND to my editor at Bantam Spectra! I always quite enjoy the whole editing process - edit letter, revisions, rethinking some parts of the novel. This...

SYMPHONY OF THE FORGTTEN, Horror Collection from ANGELINE HAWKES, to be Published This Fall

LIFE SUSPENDED by MARK E DELOY is Released

BITS OF THE DEAD, edited by Keith Gouveia Available for Pre order

CHIZINE PUBLICATIONS Picks up New Collection

New Reading Room Content Available

DELIRIUM BOOKS Has Two New Offerings

PERMUTED PRESS Releases TOC for MONSTEROUS

TIM LEBBON Set to Do Another HELLBOY Novel

DARREN SHAN Updates for the Month of May

PRIME BOOKS New Anthology PHANTOM TOC Announced

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STEAMPUNK TALES #1 Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

STEAMPUNK TALES #1 Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

STEAMPULP PUBLISHING has released the first issue of STEAMPUNK TALES. Steampulp Publishing LLC has released the world's first electronic pulp fiction magazine created exclusively for iPhone...

RESERVOIR GODS by BRIAN KNIGHT Released by DELIRIUM BOOKS

RESERVOIR GODS by BRIAN KNIGHT Released by DELIRIUM BOOKS

DELIRIUM BOOKS has announced that they have released the digital edition and trade paperback edition is up for preorder of BRIAN KNIGHT'S RESERVOIR GODS. Delirium’s June’s title...

MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS by DAVID NICKLE Available for Pre-order from CHIZINE PUB

CHIZINE PUB has announced that MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS by DAVID NICKLE is now available for pre-order. A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it....

TEL AVIV DOSSIER by LAVIE TIDHAR & NIR YANIV Released in Trade Paperback from CHIZINE

TORONTO, Ontario (May 19, 2009) – ChiZine Publications will release the post-apocalyptic novel The Tel Aviv Dossier in trade paperback on July 1, 2009, available exclusively for pre-order from its website...

PS PUBLISHING Updates on POSTSCRIPTS 18

PS PUBLISHING has announced that POSTSCRIPTS 18 will be an all new writer issue. Postscripts had gone AWOL, we’re all-systems-go again and the book is expected before the end of May. From...

ChiZine Publications Releases Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière Available in Limited Edition Hardcover

THE BLACK SUN SET by LEE THOMAS to Be Published by BURNING EFFIGY

TOC and Cover of LOVECRAFT UNBOUND Edit by ELLEN DATLOW Revealed

Burning Effigy Press Announces the Upcoming Publication of PRIMEVAL WOOD by RICHARD GAVIN.

CEMETERY DANCE MAGAZINE Issue #60 Production Update

THE CHOIR BOATS by Daniel Rabuzzi Available in Limited Edition Hardcover

SMOKE AND MIRRORS Edited by RICHARD CHIZMAR Coming from CEMETERY DANCE

Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King Coming from CEMETERY DANCE

New Printing for NEIL GAIMAN & GENE WOLFE'S A WALKING TOUR OF THE SHAMBLES

CATASTROPHIA Anthology Update - Final Deadline Announced

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CHINA MIÉVILLE Guest Blogging All This Week at Omnivoracious

CHINA MIÉVILLE Guest Blogging All This Week at Omnivoracious

CHINA MIÉVILLE, author of THE CITY & THE CITY as well as PERDIDO STREET STATION, IRON COUNCIL, and many others will be guest blogging at OMNIVORACIOUS for the week of...

New Publisher ATOMIC FEZ Set to Publish New RHYS HUGHES

New Publisher ATOMIC FEZ Set to Publish New RHYS HUGHES

Some information coming from RHYS HUGHES that new publisher, ATOMIC FEZ, is going to publish his book, TWISTHORN BELLOW: However, bad news is often counterbalanced by good, and so I now...

DARREN SHAN Updates for April 2009

DARREN SHAN has released his April 2009 newsletter that includes information on the upcoming Cirque du Freak movie as well as book updates for the Demonata Series. Welcome to the April issue...

SARAH LANGAN Reports on Upcoming Signing Events and Books

SARAH LANGAN has posted her upcoming signing events and books on her author's blog. March 10, 7:30pm, Brooklyn, NY: I'll be reading, along with my good friend Playwright Maggie Cino at The Perch...

Gerard Houarner's The Oz Suite now available in Hardcover and Paperback

Eibonvale Press has released a small collection of three large stories by Gerard Houarner, all touching on the idea and themes of The Wizard of Oz.

THE TEL AVIV DOSSIER by LAVIE TIDHAR is Now Available for Pre-Order

SARAH LAGAN News and Upcoming Appearance on Dec. 2

PERMUTED PRESS to Publish new DEREK GUNN novel

ZOMBIES vs. UNICORNS Anthology Gets a Publisher

KEALAN PATRICK BURKE Updates on New Relases and Up Coming Books

FOOL by CHRISTOPHER MOORE Coming On February 10th.

ESCAPE FROM HELL by HAL DUNCAN Coming in December from MONKEYBRAIN

THE CALLING & OTHER WRAITHS By SIMON CLARK coming from TASMANIAC PUBLICATIONS

STEPHANIE MEYER Abandons MIDNIGHT SUN

BAR NONE by TIM LEBBON Confirmation and Follow Up

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IDW Parking Lot Sale December 6

IDW is having a huge parking lot sale in December. On Saturday, December 6, from 10 am - 3 pm IDW will be having a parking lot sale! With special guests. A number of comic book creators will be...

FREAKANGELS VOLUME 1 by WARREN ELLIS and PAUL DUFFIELD Out This Wednesday

Out from Wednesday in North America, out from Thursday in the UK and other territories — collecting the first 144 pages of the FREAKANGELS webcomic.

DEADWORLD HEADS TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE

(August 4, 2008). Deadworld, the long running independent zombie title that has appeared from Arrow, Caliber, Image, and currently, Desperado Publishing, will have two new projects coming out for the October...

DARK HORSE COMICS Publishes CREEPY ARCHIVES

DARK HORSE COMICS will issue an archive edition of CREEPY "assembling the first five issues of the 1964-debuting magazine – compiles stories by beloved writer/editor Archie Goodwin, and...

MARVEL Releases THE STAND Preview Sketchbook

NEWSARAMA has an exclusive sneak peal of a few sketch pages of the forthcoming THE STAND comic from MARVEL. Head on over to the NEWSARAMA page to take a look. Source: Newsarama

DEAR DRACULA by Joshua Williamson and Vinny Navarrete Coming In September

MARVEL Announces THE STAND Comic Creative Team

BEN TEMPLESMITH Announces New Comic Project and Exclusivity with IDW

BOOM! STUDIOS Brings ZOMBIE TALES Monthly

CRAWL SPACE from IMAGE COMICS Coming in October

VERTIGO to Publish PETER STRAUB Graphic Novel: THE GREEN WOMAN

HELLBOY: DARKNESS CALLS Released Today

GUTSVILLE Coming from IMAGE COMICS

NEWSARAMA Interview with BEN TEMPLESMITH on 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: RED SNOW

TALES FROM THE CRYPT Comic to be Published by PAPERCUTZ

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LOVE IS HELL Anthology Released This Week

LOVE IS HELL Anthology Released This Week

SCOTT WESTERFELD has noted that the anthology that he is involved in, LOVE IS HELL, has been released.  He shares the pages with Melissa Marr, Gabrielle Zevin, Laurie Faria Stolarz,...

RL STINE to Publish New GOOSEBUMPS: HORRORLAND

RL STINE to Publish New GOOSEBUMPS: HORRORLAND

RL STINE will release a set of 12 new books in a new GOOSEBUMPS series. The Series GOOSEBUMPS: HORRORLAND is the first new Goosebumps books in close to eight years. Now his American publisher, Scholastic,...

DARREN SHAN September Newsletter Updates

DARREN SHAN has posted his September newsletter detailing upcoming events and releases of his work. Welcome to the September edition of the Shanville Monthly!!!...

WICKED DEAD by PETRUCHA and PENDLETON Coming August 28

For Immediate Release WICKED DEAD NEW YA HORROR SERIES by Stefan Petrucha & Thomas Pendleton Website Live! Book 1: Lurker Available August 28! LURKER, the first book in the WICKED...

DARREN SHAN April Newsletter Update and Tour Dates

Darren Shan has his April Newsletter up on his site with some new book release dates as well as his US tour and UK tour dates. Although "Bec" (book 4 of "The Demonata") isn't officially...

EXTRAS by SCOTT WESTERFELD Due from SIMON & SCHUSTER in October 2007

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SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDS Fund Raiser at KGB Bar

Press Release For Immediate Release Contact: JoAnn F. Cox Awards Administrator admin@shirleyjacksonawards.org Leading authors read from Shirley Jackson canon to commemorate 60th anniversary...

HWA Awards Two Lifetime Achievment Awards

Feb. 3, 2008 For immediate release Contact Steven Wedel, HWA publicity TWO GENRE ICONS AWARDED LIFETIME HORROR AWARD The Horror Writers Association will award two Lifetime Achievement...

Press Release: The Horror Mall to Open End of October

Big news from Bloodletting Books!!!! We will officially be opening a new bookstore with Shane Staley the publisher of Delirium Books. The site will go live on Halloween and will be the most state...

Press Release: MANY BLOODY RETURNS

Press Release for MANY BLOODY RETURNS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Tina Anderson, Publicity Manager, 212-366-2007 VAMPIRES LOVE BIRTHDAYS, TOO! Readers Will Sink Their Teeth (into...

Angeline Hawkes named Texas A&M University-Commerce Alumni Ambassador

    Angeline Hawkes has been named Alumni Ambassador for the department of Literature & Languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce by the TAMU Alumni Association and the Division...

Derek Gunn Options VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE

WILDSIDE PRESS Reorganizes WEIRD TALES

Monthly Press Relase from HORROR WORLD

Thriller Author JON F. MERZ Offers FREE Serialized Fiction on MySpace.com

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CHINA MIEVILLE UK Appearances for July and August

CHINA MIEVILLE will be making a few appearances around the UK in July and August for his new book THE CITY & THE CITY. Just got this from Pan, and it’s China Mieville related...

BENSON, GOLDEN, SNIEGOSKI Signing In Cambridge, MA on June 19

Mark your calendars! There's a triple-threat book signing happening this Friday: Friday, June 19th, 2009 from 7-9 PM Amber Benson, Thomas E. Sniegoski, and Christopher Golden at Pandemonium Books...

KGB FANTASTIC FICTION Reading Series Upcoming Events

ELLEN DATLOW has announced the upcoming KGB FANTASTIC FICTION READING SERIES in New York City through the summer. May 20 F. Brett Cox Naomi Novik June 17 Mary Robinette...

CHRISTOPHER MOORE: Author Guy List of Upcoming Appearances

CHRISTOPHER MOORE has updated a few more dates of appearances in support of FOOL: (And no, I can’t come to your town so don’t ask because I can’t. Because I can’t, that’s why. And if...

NEIL GAIMAN'S THE GRAVEYARD BOOK Book Tour Schedule

NEIL GAIMAN has released the schedule of his appearances supporting his new novel THE GRAVEYARD BOOK.

CHARLAINE HARRIS, JEFF MARIOTTE Signing on May 10 in San Diego

SCOTT WESTERELD Schedule of UK Appearances Posted

SCOTT WESTERFELD Appearance Updates for NYC

STEPHEN KING Talks Short Stories with Leonard Lopate on WNYC

JOE HILL Appearances Supporting 20th CENTURY GHOSTS

STEVE NILES Appearances: FANGO CON, NJ and Others

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH Upcoming Library Tour Dates

NEIL GAIMAN at Hay-on-Wye Festival

JEFF MARIOTTE Signing Dates For MISSING WHITE GIRL

CHUCK PALAHNIUK RANT Tour Dates

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MAURICE BROADDUS'S Must Have List

MAURICE BROADDUS'S Must Have List

Maurice Broaddus graduated in 1993 from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Biology (with an undeclared major in English). He works as an...

WESTON OCHSE'S Must Have List

WESTON OCHSE'S Must Have List

Weston Ochse is the author of Scarecrow Gods, Recalled to Life, Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way and a slew of short stories and non-fiction articles that have appeared in comic books, professional writing...

MARY SANGIOVANNI'S Must Have List

Mary SanGiovanni received a Masters in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2007. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines since 2001. Both The Hollower and Found You have...

BLOODSTONE by NATE KENYON

Nate Kenyon grew up in a small town in Maine, an avid reader and writer from a very early age. He attended Trinity College in Connecticut, majoring in English and winning awards for playwriting and fiction....

Nate Kenyon's Must Have List

Nate Kenyon grew up in a small town in Maine, an avid reader and writer from a very early age. He attended Trinity College in Connecticut, majoring in English and winning awards for playwriting and fiction....

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Horror Literature Quarterly

Horror Literature Quarterly was a free online magazine with stories from authors such as Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, Kealan Patrick Burke, Lavie Tidhar and many more.  WFN has recently made the four issues available again for download. You can download all four issues in PDF format here and individual stories will be available in the near future on the WFN website.

Excerpts

The Reading Room is proud to host an excerpt of BLOODSTONE by NATE KENYON. Fist published by 5 Star Publishers it is now out in a mass market paperback from Leisure Books. A man on the run from his past. A woman taken against her will. A young man consumed by rage…and a small town tainted by darkness. In White Falls, a horrifying secret is about to be uncovered. The town seems pleasant enough on the surface. But something evil has taken root in White Falls—something that has waited centuries for the right time to awaken. Soon no one is safe from the madness that spreads from neighbor to neighbor. The darkness is growing. Blood is calling to blood. And through it all…the dead are watching. Take a look at the excerpt in The Reading Room and purchase your copy through Amazon.com

HFNN Book Store

WFN has added The Book Store for our visitors. In the store you will be able to purchase the books from the Must Have Lists and the excerpts featured on the site. The store has sections for Must Have Lists and Reading Room excerpts and a General Horror section. A small portion of each sale goes to help support the maintenance of WFN. Click The Book Store link and go shopping.

WFN Recommends Clarkesworld Issue 30 PDF Print E-mail
Fiction
Herding Vegetable Sheep
by Ekaterina Sedia
The Loyalty of Birds
by Rachel Sobel

NonFiction
An Interview with Tobias Buckell
by Jeremy L. C. Jones
Remake Love, Not War
by Daniel M. Kimmel
2008 Reader's Poll Results
by Neil Clarke
 
WFN Recommends Electric Velocipede Issue 15/16 PDF Print E-mail
Issue #15/16, the first double issue, 164 pages and almost 100,000 words of content! Featuring an amazing color wraparound cover from T. Davidsohn. There's also fiction from people like Patrick O'Leary, Patricia Russo, William Shunn, Rachel Swirsky, and more. Lucius Shepard takes the Blindfold
 

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