John Everson's Blog, page 24
July 22, 2012
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-22
Today is my son Shaun's birthday and to celebrate PETEYBOO AND THE WORM is free to kids on Amazon: http://t.co/7zBjo3YI #kids #free #
Today is my son Shaun's birthday and to celebrate PETEYBOO AND THE WORM is free to kids on Amazon: http://t.co/9KLf79Jw #kids #free #
It's Sunday. You could go to church with your spouse, or you could go to NIGHTWHERE with Sin-D. Explore The Red today: http://t.co/QIZ4Eo4y #
Help send PETEYBOO to #1 today on my son Shaun's birthday! Please post the link to this FREE kids ebook: http://t.co/FzkoU1Q8 #kids #free #
Today is Shaun's birthday! To celebrate, the book I wrote for him is FREE all day. Download PETEYBOO & THE WORM! http://t.co/uTCsEJde #kids #
Today is my son Shaun's birthday and to celebrate PETEYBOO AND THE WORM is free to kids on Amazon: http://t.co/HnYUlqXK #kindle #free #kids #
Download the ebook PETEYBOO AND THE WORM for your kids today, while it's FREE on Amazon! http://t.co/tQf4wg5x #free #ebook #kids #parents #
Please help promote PETEYBOO today on Shaun's birthday! Download a FREE copy & click the LIKE button at Amazon? Thanks! http://t.co/tVVymDFR #
Download the ebook PETEYBOO AND THE WORM for your kids today, while it's FREE on Amazon! http://t.co/lHif4xYE #free #ebook #kids #
Know a 1st Grader? Download PETEYBOO AND THE WORM for them today while it's FREE on Amazon! http://t.co/whVeYKhy #free #ebook #kids #
Shaun had an awesome birthday weekend! Thanks to all who downloaded PETEYBOO & THE WORM! You can still get a FREE copy: http://t.co/XOsRs6ST #
Last chance to download PETEYBOO for your kids for FREE from Amazon! Grab one by midnight! http://t.co/4XxAhOor #kids #free #ebook #kindle #
Awesome review ("incredible climax") of my 3rd novel, THE 13TH, just went up at Cutis Anserina today: http://t.co/GNEuB6xg #kindle #horror #
Take a walk on the wild side this weekend. Visit the dark erotic world of NIGHTWHERE: http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #ebook #erotichorror #kindle #
Tune in to Suspense Radio tomorrow @ 1pm Central. I'll be in the interview hotseat for my @samhainpub novel NIGHTWHERE! http://t.co/K8bj8SWp #
I was interviewed today on Suspense Radio about my new @samhainpub novel NIGHTWHERE. Catch the recording here: http://t.co/uT3hx0Nd #horror #
July 15, 2012
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-15
What's your favorite music for XXX? NIN? Rob Zombie? Ke$ha? Melody Gardot? Join the conversation after my post at: http://t.co/Z8HRGfhI #
AmazonUK reader: If you read a lot of horror, it becomes a tad mundane, a here we go again feeling. Not with this book: http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #
Today I finally decided to weed my vegetable garden. Too bad there were no vegetables hiding amid the weeds. #WheresMy Jalapeno? #
It's Friday the 13th so I have to ask… Do you have YOUR copy of… THE 13TH? http://t.co/9dOqsHO8 #horror #fridaythe13th #
To celebrate Friday the 13th, visit the micro-website devoted to exploring THE 13TH! http://t.co/a5J2omKM #fridaythe13th #scary #horror #
What music do you listen to for XXX? Read about and listen to my picks at the @samhainpub website & then show me yours! http://t.co/fpQ2DGhB #
The night's here. How far could you be seduced by the dark? How deep could you be lured by lust? http://t.co/E3450meR #seduction #erotic #
To celebrate my son Shaun's birthday, the book I wrote for him, PETEYBOO AND THE WORM, is free on Amazon all weekend! http://t.co/SEE2IehQ #
Do you have kids aged 5-8? Download PETEYBOO AND THE WORM for them — it's free on Amazon all weekend! http://t.co/LxfQKuot #kids #ebook #
PETEYBOO & THE WORM is free on Amazon Sat-Sun. to celebrate my son's birthday. Download it and spread the word! http://t.co/eq74zBFt #kids #
If you haven't seen (or heard) it yet check out "What music do you listen to for XXX?" I'll show you mine, if you'll… http://t.co/NU8CcpMY #
Peteyboo was just a hungry bug with 18 legs and 37 eyes who needed a friend. Download PETEYBOO for your kids FREE today http://t.co/mHCo6A1R #
Tomorrow is my son's birthday, so the book I wrote for him is FREE for kids via Amazon! Download PETEYBOO & THE WORM: http://t.co/PxBxRJrv #
PETEYBOO AND THE WORM has cracked the Amazon Top 10 in the Kids Short Story Book category today! http://t.co/4XxAhOor #kids #free #ebook #
Download PETEYBOO AND THE WORM for your kids for FREE! One review said: My daughter was enthralled from start to finish http://t.co/el69aXUF #
"I literally couldn't put it down and finished the last third in one sitting." Get into NIGHTWHERE on Amazon: http://t.co/IdVnaiw6 #kindle #
PETEYBOO & THE WORM has hit #6 on Amazon in Kids Short Story books today! Download a copy while it's free: http://t.co/etX7Sb1J #kids #free #
July 14, 2012
~ PETEYBOO is Free for Kids This Weekend!
To celebrate my son’s 7th birthday this weekend, Amazon is offering the book I wrote for him, Peteyboo and the Worm, as a free download all weekend. If you have kids from 5-8 years old (or know parents who do), I hope you’ll download Peteyboo and help them discover the story of a hungry bug with 18 legs and 37 eyes who needed a friend. The book even includes a link at the end to an Audio Edition, so kids can listen to me read the story on a computer or iPad or other Internet connected device, as they follow along with the e-book.
And if your kids (or your neighbor’s kids… or your friend’s kids…) enjoy the story, please post a short review, or hit the Facebook “Like” button on the book’s Amazon page. Check it out here:
http://www.amazon.com/Peteyboo-and-the-Worm-ebook/dp/B0082UE600/
July 8, 2012
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-08
Dreadful Tales calls my new erotic horror novel NIGHTWHERE: "a batshit crazy, hot, wet ride into hell!" http://t.co/UjUceqXw #horror #ebook #
NIGHTWHERE just entered the Horror Bestsellers List for the month over @samhainpub! http://t.co/ImDEbN8R #erotic horror #ebook #
Want some summer Fireworks? How about a visit to the dark world of NIGHTWHERE this week? http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #fireworks #erotic horror #
NIGHTWHERE has been in the Samhain Bestsellers list all week… and today is at #1 See the list on the right column: http://t.co/CmtAVCPu #
A new "Sizzling Hot" review of NightWhere that calls it "very gripping" but "not for the faint of heart": http://t.co/jBcRk6On @samhainpub #
July 1, 2012
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-01
My erotic horror novel NightWhere made today's DAILY DEAD: http://t.co/LAqmLh59 #kindle #horror #ebook #
Famous Monsters of Filmland just posted a review that calls NIGHTWHERE "…one hell of a ride." http://t.co/7OL03SDn #kindle #horror #ebook #
Today I have a blog posted over on my publisher's site @SamhainPub about the lure of the forbidden. Read if you dare! http://t.co/eelzBJw0 #
Ever stayed home from work sick, when you weren't? Ever thought about doin' your neighbor? Read: http://t.co/eelzBJw0 #lust #desire #ebook #
Lured by Lust. Seduced by the Dark. How far would you go, if you could indulge in your darkest fantasy? http://t.co/eelzBJw0 #desire #erotic #
June 30, 2012
~ Tweets for June 2012
Thanks for the retweet Paul! #
Just a couple more hours to get a free heartwarming book for your 1st or 2nd grader: PETEYBOO & THE WORM: http://t.co/4XxAhOor #kindle #kids #
Today is NW day! Discover “The Red” when you download my 6th novel, NIGHTWHERE, now available as an ebook! Read more: http://t.co/X3X4A0bi#
“Nightwhere is an erotic horrorfest you won’t be able to put down!” -Lucy Taylor. Download for Kindle: http://t.co/wJ96BKFp #kindle #horror #
Today is NW day! Discover “The Red” when you download my 6th novel, NIGHTWHERE, now available as an ebook! Read more: http://t.co/Q4LQwUlQ#
Today marks the debut of my 6th novel, NIGHTWHERE. If you like erotic horror, I hope you’ll sample a copy today: http://t.co/iJ1BdpU7... #
Today is NW day! Discover “The Red” when you download my 6th novel, NIGHTWHERE, now available as an ebook! Read more: http://t.co/1Q7EKFM9#
Help NIGHTWHERE debut high on the “charts” today… download my 6th novel now at: http://t.co/ylNAtX8F#
The @samhainpub site’s New Releases page features my new novel NIGHTWHERE, as well as @JonathanJanz ‘s latest: http://t.co/sfLcXRf8 #horror#
NightWhere has hit the #15 000 rank on Amazon in its debut day! Hoping we can drop a zero off that tonight! http://t.co/zclL8EhU #kindle#
I’m really liking the creepy looks of the other Horror release from my publisher today: @JonathanJanz ‘s HOUSE OF SKIN: http://t.co/GKfhUZ0q#
Today is NW day! Discover “The Red” when you download my 6th novel, NIGHTWHERE, now available as an ebook! Read more: http://t.co/Mz66vNaS#
NightWhere has debuted in the top #10 000 on Amazon tonight! Please help spread the word about this “erotic horrorfest” http://t.co/F8PGIxtm#
The 1st reader review for NightWhere has already hit Amazon -5 Stars! “Has to be my BEST read of 2012″ http://t.co/sjpr6Hai#
Some sex clubs should never be sought: NIGHTWHERE. http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #fiftyshadesofgrey #sexclub #horror #kindle #
Looking for a place to get away for the weekend? How about NightWhere? http://t.co/zbEOOYuL But beware the whips & chains! #horror #kink #
#10ThingsIMustDoBeforeIDie Meet Sin-D, the blonde and barely clad bartendress in NIGHTWHERE: http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ#
#Twitterhorror When you are invited to a sex club & wake up with faces staring down at you from the ceiling. NIGHTWHERE http://t.co/9RmLyKaH#
I’ve hit an even 1,500 followers today!!! Now, if each of them would download NIGHTWHERE today, we’d have a bestseller! http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ#
Only the good die young. Unless the lustful enter The Red in NIGHTWHERE. Read an excerpt about the Field of Flesh: http://t.co/uiovDjvr#
What do you get when you cross a BDSM Sex Club with Brigadoon? (No, not #fiftyshadesofgrey You get NIGHTWHERE. http://t.co/hBGItAd2 #books#
Saw this at @eBookDiscovery and it looks pretty cool (and free!) CHASING DARKNESS by Danielle Girard http://t.co/21F7zmTG #Thriller #ebook #
As heard from the Red Room of NIGHTWHERE: “Don’t you want me baby? Don’t you want me…Ooooo (scream)!” http://t.co/jLXTFDDx #horror #books #
Looking for a place to get away for the weekend? How about NightWhere? http://t.co/CntHC9bj But beware the whips & chains! #horror #kindle #
Have you ever wished you could visit a club where you could do anything you want? ANY thing? You wished for NIGHTWHERE: http://t.co/ASXvob4d#
Some sex clubs should never be sought: NIGHTWHERE. It’ll steal your soul. http://t.co/ssGt1CbS #fiftyshadesofgrey #erotic #horror #thriller #
Only the good die young. Unless the lustful enter The Red in NIGHTWHERE. Read an excerpt about the Field of Flesh: http://t.co/eD5nQAFX #sex#
Now signing books for the afternoon at the HWA booth at the Printers Row Litfest in Chicago! #printersrow #hwa #horror#
What’s the opposite of Sunday morning Church? A dark visit to NightWhere: http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #horror #sunday #
I don’t think so! http://t.co/fQT7r5ow #
“A Delightful Story for Children” — PETEYBOO AND THE WORM, now on ebook: http://t.co/4XxAhOor #kids #childrensbooks #kindle #
Looking to get away? Visit NightWhere (if you can find it)…but leave your inhibitions at home! http://t.co/3TE3UYHB #books #kindle #ebooks #
Do U like to read? Do U like to read about dark seduction? Have U read NIGHTWHERE? Do U dare? http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #kindle #ebooks #sex #dou #
NIGHTWHERE has three 5-star reviews on Amazon! One called it” a fast paced, wild ride from start to finish.” http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #kindle #
It’s almost the weekend. Have you received your invitation to NightWhere? What will you wear…or leave on the floor? http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #
Read more about the horror of NIGHTWHERE today at http://t.co/LlOXAukB, http://t.co/ekUpX55G, or http://t.co/RYwMsAsr #horror #kindle #
NIGHTWHERE Sale Alert – Amazon has my new “wickedly entertaining” erotic horror novel on sale now! http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #kindle #sale #ebook #
#NoPantyDay - Every day is No Panty Day in the erotic horror world of NightWhere. Just sayin’: http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #ebook #
REQUIRED READING FOR THE WEEKEND (especially if you’re hooking up): Jonathan Janz’s Top 5 Fearsome Supernatural Women: http://t.co/P05VW61o #
The Horror Review “Highly Recommends” my new novel NIGHTWHERE, calling it an “emotionally charged…risky venture” http://t.co/mlGg2VF1 #
“A little sexual experimentation is fine, but the wrong kind can get you killed…or worse.” Read more: http://t.co/anWBl6cd #sex #horror #
June 28, 2012
~ Lured by Lust. Seduced by the Dark
Today I have a post about the lure of the forbidden posted on my publisher’s website. It’s on their home page now, but here’s the direct link:
http://www.samhainpublishing.com/2012/06/lured-by-lust-seduced-by-the-dark-how-far-would-you-go/
I’ll eventually repost the content here, but for now, please stop by Samhain and give it a read!
Here’s how it opens:
Have you ever wanted to do something you knew you shouldn’t? Maybe just something small, like driving 80 mph on the highway in a 55 mph zone? Who hasn’t done that?
Or calling in to work and saying you’re sick, when actually, you’re going to spend the day lounging on the couch, reading a good book?
Or how about slipping next door through that creaking, come-hither open gate in the middle of the afternoon and having raw, animal, passionate sex with your neighbor who is lounging half-dressed outside by the pool… when you’re both wearing someone else’s ring?
There’s a part in all of us that yearns to peer over the fence and indulge in the forbidden... Read More
June 24, 2012
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-24
NIGHTWHERE Sale Alert – Amazon has my new "wickedly entertaining" erotic horror novel on sale now! http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #kindle #sale #ebook #
#NoPantyDay – Every day is No Panty Day in the erotic horror world of NightWhere. Just sayin': http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #ebook #
REQUIRED READING FOR THE WEEKEND (especially if you're hooking up): Jonathan Janz's Top 5 Fearsome Supernatural Women: http://t.co/P05VW61o #
The Horror Review "Highly Recommends" my new novel NIGHTWHERE, calling it an "emotionally charged…risky venture" http://t.co/mlGg2VF1 #
"A little sexual experimentation is fine, but the wrong kind can get you killed…or worse." Read more: http://t.co/anWBl6cd #sex #horror #
June 20, 2012
~ Jonathan Janz stole my blog – with Fearsome Supernatural Women!
The June Horror releases from Samhain Publishing this month are my novel NightWhere and Jonathan Janz’s House of Skin. So to celebrate our newfound status as the June standard-bearers of horror, Jonathan and I decided to trade blogs today. You’ll find a post from me over at Jonathan’s place. And here’s his entry (and one of the first guest blogs I’ve ever hosted):
MY FIVE BEST HORROR NOVELS
FEATURING A FEARSOME SUPERNATURAL WOMAN
It’s an honor to be on John Everson’s blog. I’ve been a visitor of his site for a good while now, and I’ve been enjoying his fiction even longer. And before we go any further, let’s get one thing out of the way…
I’m going to share with you a list of my top five favorite “ferocious supernatural female” books in horror fiction, and one of the novels I’ve decided to omit is Mr. Everson’s outstanding SIREN. My reasoning was that I read it after I’d written HOUSE OF SKIN (on sale now!), and it therefore had no influence on my novel. Which is another unifying theme in this list—every book in some way helped shape my second novel.
Now…the books that are on the list (below the cover of my new novel HOUSE OF SKIN):
You’ll find my comments on these novels short, but that’s because I’ll be counting them down on my blog later in the summer and will save my unabridged windage for then. For now, however…the list:
5. H. Rider Haggard’s SHE
Honey Ryder after a good toweling off
Who knew Ursula Andress played Ayesha back in the sixties? Okay, so maybe some of you knew that, but I sure didn’t, and if you think I got on Netflix and began to search for this film the moment I learned of it, you might be right.
This book isn’t as old as the Old Testament and its Lillith (who, by the way, plays a crucial role in my third novel THE DARKEST LULLABY, due out from Samhain in early 2013), but it’s still one of the grandaddies—er, grandmammies of the sub genre. H. Rider Haggard wrote this tale well enough that it’s still in print 125 years later. Like some of the writers of his day, Haggard’s narrative style can distance the reader from the story a bit too much (I prefer my authors to stay out of the way), but that doesn’t alter the book’s status as a seminal depiction of an awesome and fearsome female entity that both attracts and terrifies the men who encounter it.
For any horror fan, SHE is required reading.
4. Richard Matheson’s EARTHBOUND
The lovely…and awful Marianna
This isn’t Matheson’s best, nor is it even in his top five. But that’s the problem with a writer as great as Matheson—people forget that on a bad day he’s still far, far better than most writers will ever aspire to be. And EARTHBOUND is a good sight better than many horror books that folks consider paragons of the genre.
But enough about how under appreciated Mr. Matheson is. I appreciate the heck out of this creepily erotic masterpiece. The woman in it (Marianna) will haunt you as surely as she haunts David Cooper, Matheson’s troubled protagonist. Read this one and let it linger in your mind. It’ll take hold. I promise.
3. Jack Ketchum’s SHE WAKES
Glorious, Greek, and Ghastly
I’ve spoken about Ketchum a hundred times over the past several months, so anyone familiar with me won’t be surprised by his inclusion on this list. Like EARTHBOUND and Matheson’s body of work, SHE WAKES is widely considered a minor entry into the Ketchum canon. That’s more a comment on Ketchum’s incredible bibliography (when you’ve written stuff like THE GIRL NEXT DOOR and OFF SEASON, people tend to raise their expectations for your work) than it is on the novel’s quality. Also problematic for some readers is the supernatural nature of this yarn, which marks a bit of a departure for Jack Ketchum, who usually dabbles in real-life horrors.
But I love SHE WAKES. And the primary reason for my love, as you might have guessed, is his fearsome goddess. She’s a perfect manifestation of female power unleashed, as well as a sinister foil to the vivid Greek setting Ketchum draws. If you forget your other experiences with Ketchum’s novels and take this one on its own merits, I think you’ll find the experience very rewarding.
And deeply unsettling.
2. John Farris’s ALL HEADS TURN WHEN THE HUNT GOES BY
Of all the covers you could have chosen for this blog post…
This one has just been re-released (by Crossroad Press, I believe), and contemporary readers who’ve never taken the plunge into Farris’s nightmarish world are in for a treat. The novel, which sports one of the best titles in horror history, is bookended by a pair of scenes of such raw, nightmarish ferocity that they’d make the novel memorable all by themselves.
But the reason this book clocks in at number two on my list is that everything in between the aforementioned scenes is awesome too.
Farris is a muscular writer. He has a stunning command of the language, as well as a phenomenal grasp of form. Basically, there’s nothing he doesn’t do well, and for my money, this is probably his best book.*
(*Of course, I haven’t read SON OF THE ENDLESS NIGHT yet, and I’m told that one is a towering example of great storytelling. But until I do, ALL HEADS TURN WHEN THE HUNT GOES BY will remain my favorite book by one of my favorite authors.)
Oh, and the woman at the novel’s center is a beast.
1. Peter Straub’s GHOST STORY
Haunting
This is my favorite horror novel ever, so is it any surprise that Eva Galli/Alma Mobley/Anna Mostyn is my favorite ferocious femme on this list? There was a movie made from this novel, and despite the brilliant source material and the all-star cast (particularly Fred Astaire, who deserved better), the film doesn’t really work.
But Straub’s novel…man, does it work and work and work and work!
The woman at the dark heart of this novel represents every terrible secret every man has ever harbored. She is the WRONGED WOMAN, and her wrath is boundless. No matter how kind a man tries to be, chances are that at some point he will do or say something to a woman that he will come to regret. This means that the dread invoked by Eva/Alma/Anna is well-nigh universal and absolutely inescapable. When she appears in Straub’s masterpiece, she induces gooseflesh and shudders. But even when she’s not on the page, she still lingers with the reader. Peering over his shoulder, whispering to him of forgotten deeds, reminding him that he isn’t really safe after all.
Shameless and unrelated plug for my debut novel
The primal fear Eva/Alma/Anna evokes in the reader is the true reason behind this novel’s resonance. It is awful and it is true and it will give you nightmares, no matter how jaded you are. For my money, GHOST STORY is the best horror novel ever written, and by extension, the inexorable female presence that drives this narrative is one of the finest creations in all of fiction.
*And…cut!*
Thank you so much, John, for having me on your blog. I’m proud to be published alongside you and hope everyone discovers what a great writer you are. And, of course, I hope they read HOUSE OF SKIN too. There’s an evil woman in my book who’s hungry to meet all of you. She’s seductive and unspeakably cruel. Pick up my novel and give Annabel the opportunity to seduce you too.
June 17, 2012
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-17
I don't think so! http://t.co/fQT7r5ow #
"A Delightful Story for Children" — PETEYBOO AND THE WORM, now on ebook: http://t.co/4XxAhOor #kids #childrensbooks #kindle #
Looking to get away? Visit NightWhere (if you can find it)…but leave your inhibitions at home! http://t.co/3TE3UYHB #books #kindle #ebooks #
Do U like to read? Do U like to read about dark seduction? Have U read NIGHTWHERE? Do U dare? http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #kindle #ebooks #sex #dou #
NIGHTWHERE has three 5-star reviews on Amazon! One called it" a fast paced, wild ride from start to finish." http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #kindle #
It's almost the weekend. Have you received your invitation to NightWhere? What will you wear…or leave on the floor? http://t.co/7qGqPvbQ #
