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…
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).
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.
Now available for Kindle and print pre-order, Aeryn Rudel’s Effectively Wild.
Martin “Wags” Wagner, an aging catcher relegated to a minor-league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, is offered a new assignment—take a promising young pitcher under his wing and show him the ropes. Martin’s manager is cagey about the new player, giving only his name, Andrei Dinescu, and his country of origin, Moldova. Despite the mysterious circumstances, Martin accepts the assignment, hoping to earn a return to the big leagues.
After his first bullpen session with the new pitcher, Martin is stunned by Andrei’s lack of physical ability and his unfamiliarity with baseball. However, with each passing week, Andrei’s strength and skill grow exponentially, and his miraculous leaps in both ability and pitch velocity frighten Martin. His fear is compounded by the organization’s obvious attempts to keep Andrei separated from the rest of the team. When Martin discovers the shocking truth about Andrei Dinescu, he realizes his path back to the big leagues is one stained with horror and blood.
This title releases on October 15, 2022.
COMING FALL 2022
Martin Wagner, an aging catcher in the San Francisco Giants farm system, is offered a new assignment—take a promising young pitcher under his wing and show him the ropes. Martin’s manager is cagey about the new player, giving only his name, Andrei Dinescu, and his country of origin, Moldova. Despite the mysterious circumstances, Martin accepts the assignment, hoping to earn a return to the big leagues.
After his first bullpen session with the strange new pitcher, Martin is shocked by Andrei’s lack of physical ability and his unfamiliarity with the game of baseball. However, with each passing week, Andrei’s strength and skill grow exponentially, and his miraculous leaps in both ability and velocity begin to frighten Martin. This fear is compounded by the organization’s obvious attempts to keep Andrei separated from the rest of the team.
At the height of his prowess, Andrei is put into the rotation for his first start with Martin behind the plate. Before the game, the manager offers a devil’s bargain, and the source of Andrei Dinescu’s bizarre abilities becomes horrifically clear. Martin is faced with a desperate choice: walk away from baseball and everything he has known or deal with the monster on the mound and earn his way back to the majors.
Seven long years have passed since Betty-June Gray and her son, Jesus, escaped the horrific events that befell them on the Tucker farm. For Betty-June, those years have been spent trying to forget about the past while dealing with the nightmarish results of toxic poisoning from the Atkins Chemical Plant, which are quickly making her son deathly ill.
Desperate for cash for Jesus’s medical treatment, Betty-June starts waitressing at the Pig-Whistle Truck Stop Diner. Fearing she won’t bring in enough money, she’s faced with the very real possibility of having to earn extra cash servicing truckers in the privacy of the diner’s supply closet. But she’s about to come face-to-face with a sex-crime vigilante called “The Headhunter,” who is getting ready to castrate another victim.
Against a backdrop of deformed gators, evil politicians, racist policemen, and a six-foot-tall Moth Man stalking the truck stop, is anyone safe on this dark, sultry evening in Cold Currant, Mississippi?
Find out in the continuing saga of Betty-June Gray…
The Mississippi Glory Hole Mutilations
COMING JULY 22, 2022
Release Day!
Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow?
Well, I bet the Tuckers got you beat. Find out in Blood Cult of the Booby Farmers, by Peter N. Dudar, out now.
Print: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Booby-Farmers-Peter-Dudar/dp/1947227734
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Booby-Farmers-Currant-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B09ZC77M8Q
Grinning Skull Press 