COVER REVEAL!
The zombie invasion continues with Zombies!, a collection of short fiction by Paul Kane, COMING SOON.
Artwork by Dominic Harman, cover designed by Jeffrey Kosh.
The re-issue of Bryan Hall’s Containment Room 7, with a stunning cover by Jeffrey Kosh.
In a far corner of space, orbiting a massive black hole, the research ship DARC12 discovers a strange asteroid—one that seems to be alive. After loading the rock on board for study, the ship quickly descends into madness. It begins with voices, whispers filling the shadows and the minds of the crew. A once-sane man declares that their discovery is not just a rock, but a god. Then the killing begins, and a cult rises, swearing allegiance to their newfound deity.
As the murders mount and the dead themselves begin to rise, a small group of survivors clings to the hope that they can somehow escape the hell they’ve been plunged into. But their problems escalate as they face an army of undead crewmembers, the reanimated corpses of hundreds of failed genetic experiments, the murderous cult, and—worst of all—the rapidly evolving creature in…
2023 is going to be a special year. Not only will there be a brand spanking new Deathlehem collection for year, but we will also be doing a Best of… collection, which will compile 25 of the best stories from the past nine volumes. We have a good idea as to some of the stories that will appear, but we want to hear from you, the readers. What stories do you consider the best of the best of Deathlehem. You can email us at deathlehem@grinningskullpress.com and include “Best of… Recommendation” in the subject line.
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, Deathlehem 2022, ‘Twas the Fright Before Christmas in Deathlehem, has been delayed. It is the first time since 2013 that we didn’t make the Christmas deadline. But thankfully there are 12 days of Christmas, and the Kindle edition is NOW available.
‘Twas the fright before Christmas,
nightmares fill my head,
the creatures, they’re a-prowling
’til everyone is dead…
Welcome back to Deathlehem, where…
…a stranger grants a grieving father’s Christmas wish…
…charitable acts are purely self-serving…
…a man plans his last Christmas in a post-apocalyptic world…
…a serial killer targets the wrong victim…
…sometimes it’s better not to go home for the holidays…
…and more! Seventeen more tales of holiday horrors to benefit The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Kevin David Anderson’s NIGHT SOUNDS: From Podcast to Print
Frantic, hungry claws scraping against wood… The whining of a drill as it grinds through bone… The ravings of a lunatic amid the honking of gridlocked cars… Agonized shrieks through the phone line, followed by the rending of flesh… The hypnotic, deadly tones of a calliope on a warm summer night… When the sun goes down and darkness claims the land… When the silence descends, isolating the lonely, the desperate, the weak… These are the
NIGHT SOUNDS
you would hear, should you care to listen. And just below it, if you strain your ears, you will hear what the night sounds mask… The sounds of human suffering, the music of the night.
Night Sounds: From Podcast to Print is a collection of scary, sometimes humorous stories, mostly written for popular fiction podcasts. The book is a throwback to Anderson’s earliest fiction influences, what we now call Old Time Radio.
Available in print and for Kindle (other digital formats to follow).
Please be advised that we are currently closed to submissions (UNLESS it’s a last-minute Deathlehem submission). We will re-open the submission window on January 2, 2023.
We wish you a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season, and we hope to hear from you in the New Year.
Well, the holidays are rolling around once more, and that means one thing around here… A trip to Deathlehem. For folks not familiar with this project, Deathlehem is an annual anthology series featuring tales of holiday horror that benefits the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
How this project came about is kind of a long story, which is highlighted in the introduction of the very first anthology, O Little Town of Deathlehem.
Jeffrey Kosh, who has designed all the Deathlehem covers since the beginning back in 2013, never fails to deliver, and this year we feel he has done another amazing job. Quite often he starts thinking about the following year’s Deathlehem as soon as the current volume releases and we’ll get mock-ups soon after we announce that the submission window is open, which is normally in January. From there, we usually come up with the title. This year, however, we got mock-ups later. You can’t rush the creative process. So, after seeing the images Jeffrey sent us, we came up with this year’s title. Deathlehem 2022’s title is ‘Twas the Fright Before Christmas in Deathlehem. And the cover… <<drumroll please>>
“Viscerally horrifying on an elemental level.”
—Theresa Halvorsen, author of River City Widows and Warehouse Dreams
“A barrage of short, tongue-in-cheek blasts of horror that hit like
a load of buckshot to a zombie’s braincase…”
—Brian Asman, author of Man, Fuck This House
Frantic, hungry claws scraping against wood…
The whining of a drill as it grinds through bone…
The ravings of a lunatic amid the honking of gridlocked cars…
Agonized shrieks through the phone line, followed by the rending of flesh…
The hypnotic, deadly tones of a calliope on a warm summer night…
When the sun goes down and darkness claims the land…
When the silence descends, isolating the lonely, the desperate, the weak…
These are the
Night Sounds
you would hear, should you care to listen.
And just below it, if you strain your ears, you will hear
what the night sounds mask…
The sounds of human suffering,
the music of the night.
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We are thrilled to announce that we will be launching a new imprint dedicated to mysteries/thrillers. The premier publication of Midnight Machinations Press (logo courtesy of Jeffrey Kosh) will be Walking Shadow by Mickey Lewis.
We ask that you not send submissions at this time. MMP will have a limited submission window, which we will announce at a later date.
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