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Pray You Die Alone

Pray You Die Alone: Horror Stories
Ebook Coming February 2012
Paperback Coming Late 2012

Contents:

The Summer of Flies
Deathtripping in New Orleans
Durning
Air Cathedral
The Nowhere Roome
Black Rosita's Man
Rayles

I Am Giving You War This Xmas

A fake one!

Beginning 12AM (Pacific) on Friday, December 23 through Christmas Day at midnight (Pacific), you can download My Fake War for Kindle for FREE. But please read on!

If you have already bought a paperback, that's cool. Thanks. Think about downloading the free version anyway and lending it to a friend. If you've already read it and liked it, help spread the word because...

In 2012 ALL OF MY PROCEEDS from this book (digital and paperback) are being donated to the Dayton International Peace Museum.

Why?

Because it's been a really rough year. I've lost almost everything I had at this time last year and yet I still have a family I'm close to, a place to sleep, things to eat, a job, people who read my shit and find it vaguely entertaining, and I don't have to go to sleep wondering when the next bomb is going to hit. If you live in America and you have those things, you have it SO GOOD.

Be festive this holiday season. Give lots of people lots of hugs. Seriously!

Books Read in 2011

Here's a list of all the books I read this year. I'm not a hypercritical reader and I read almost everything for its entertainment value, depending on what mood I'm in. I put an asterisk next to the ones I remember particularly enjoying.

1. Dress You Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
2. A Special Place by Peter Straub
3. Blindness by Jose Saramago
4. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6. Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler*
7. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky*
8. Top of the Heap by Erle Stanley Gardner
9. Cows by Matthew Stokoe*
10. Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
11. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
12. Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas
13. Floating Dragon by Peter Straub
14. High Life by Matthew Stokoe*
15. Spare Key by R. Frederick Hamilton
16. Pork Pie Hat by Peter Straub
17. To Each Their Darkness by Gary Braunbeck*
18. Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits by Cate Gardner
19. The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
20. Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies by Bryan Smith
21. Beyond the Curve by Kobo Abe
22. Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch*
23. 5 Stories by Peter Straub
24. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
25. Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee
26. A Life On Fire by Chris Bowsman*
27. The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee
28. Book of Souls by Jack Ketchum
29. Ladies' Night by Jack Ketchum
30. Shadowland by Peter Straub*
31. Unearthed by Gina Ranalli
32. Love in the Time of Dinosaurs by Kirsten Alene*
33. Muscle Memory by Steve Lowe*
34. The Artichoke Room by Cameron Pierce and Kirsten Alene*
35. Suicide Girls in the Afterlife by Gina Ranalli*
36. Clickers by Mark Williams and J.F. Gonzalez
37. Waiting Out Winter by Kelli Owen
38. The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
39. Abortion Arcade by Cameron Pierce*
40. Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley Sands*
41. You Hear Ambulance Sounds and Think They Are For You by Sam Pink
42. Sleep Disorder by Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee
43. To the Devil, My Regards by Victor Gischler
44. Dark Surge by Gina Ranalli
45. Fuckin' Lie Down Already by Tom Piccirilli*
46. Heinous by Jonathan Moon
47. Carrie by Stephen King
48. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis*
49. Bible Camp Bloodbath by Joey Comeau
50. It by Stephen King*
51. The Damned Highway by Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas*
52. Goddamn Electric Nights by William Pauley III
53. Mile 81 by Stephen King
54. Wolves Dressed As Men by Steve Lowe
55. The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink*
56. Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock*
57. Hurt Others by Sam Pink
58. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
59. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
60. The Crud Masters by Justin Grimbol*
61. By the Time We Leave Here We'll Be Friends by J. David Osborne*

Free Sex Weekend

If everything goes well, you should be able to enjoy a weekend of weird, creepy, uncomfortable, hardcore, super hot sex this weekend by downloading The Sex Beast of Scurvy Island for FREE. If the stellar cover art doesn't grab you, then surely this synopsis will:

There is a sex beast loose on Scurvy Island! Can this gang of wholesome young adults hunt down this heinous monster (and love!) in this beautiful tropical paradise?

INTENDED FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE!!!

This should begin at midnight Pacific time on Friday morning (really soon!) and run through midnight Sunday. I've had many people ask if I'm going to write any more of these. I want to do. I will want to even more depending on how many times it's downloaded.

50 Songs from 2011

Here's a Spotify playlist of 50 songs I found myself listening to and enjoying in 2011. Most of them were released/rereleased in 2011, also. I won't say they're the "best" songs of 2011. I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I forgot to put on there. It was hard keeping it to 50. It could have easily been 500. Listening to music is really important to me. I have a pretty dull day job but it allows me to listen to music all day and that's what keeps me sane. It was, in many ways, one of the shittiest years in a loooong time, so I'm very happy that so many artists are making such great music.

You should be able to listen to all 50 songs HERE


And here are Spotify links to a bunch of albums from 2011 I really like:

The Advisory Circle - As the Crow Flies
Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles
Amon Tobin - ISAM
araabMUZIK - Electronic Dream
Battles - Gloss Drop
Buraka Som Sistema - Black Diamond
bvdub - Tribes At the Temple of Silence
CHILLNGR - Haven
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Com Truise - Galactic Melt
Cults - Cults
Das Racist - Relax
David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs. Evil
Eleven Tigers - Clouds Are Mountains
Grimes - Geidi Primes
Georgia Anne Muldrow - VWETO
James Blake - James Blake
Lanu - Her 12 Faces
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Peaking Lights - 936
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Sbtrkt - SBTRKT
Radiohead - The King of Limbs and TKOL REMIX 1234567
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Serengeti- Family & Friends
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
YACHT - Shangri-La
Zola Jesus - Conatus
Zomby - Dedication

How to Wear a Book

For the past few months designer Sam McKanna has been screen printing strange authors and weird books on t-shirts. You can look at them or buy them HERE. There's a shirt featuring the cover of Fuckness, as well as ones emblazoned with the Grindhouse Press and Eraserhead Press logos. Check it out!

Fuck Black Friday This Shit is Free Part 2

FREE SLAG ATTACK!!!

AND OTHER REAL CHEAP THINGS!!!

Halloween Playlist

Happy Halloween!

Sunruined: Horror Stories is now available for a miserable 99 cents. This collection contains the following short stories:

The Jackthief
The Screaming Orchard
Glowers Point
Cruel Women with Whiplike Smiles
The Smoke of Samuel
Sad Clown, Kentucky
Sunruined

This is the second of three volumes containing most of the short horror stories I've written over the past several years. The third will be out around the first of 2012 and then they'll all three be released simultaneously in paperback around the middle of 2012.

Also, for a limited time, Jack and Mr. Grin is FREE for the Kindle (and all other platforms). Thanks to all the people who have already downloaded or purchased a copy. Your support is overwhelming. You've made one of the most awful years personally into one that wasn't crushingly disappointing writing-wise.

And I will be attending BizarroCon (in Portland, Oregon) this year. Check it out and, if it sounds like your thing, there's still time to sign up.

This will probably be my last post until the New Year. I might pop in with an end of the year music playlist but I'm off to edit the five books I have in the queue so you have something new to read next year. I will still be (relatively) active on Twitter and Facebook.

Later!

Brandon Duncan's Fuckness

Brandon Duncan has designed the covers for most of my books. He keeps me from looking like the amateurish slob that I actually am. I've received a lot of praise for these covers, as well as the ones I've commisioned for Grindhouse and Atlatl Press. After a couple of attmepts at designing my own covers, I decided to step very far away from the design element and, much like music, appreciate it from a distance. Brandon opens the closet door on his design process for my book, Fuckness and walks you through step by step. Read his blog and find out how he designs like a serial killer...