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The Spiritualism of Death Perception

When I first got the idea for Death Perception, my most popular supernatural thriller, I knew nothing about Spiritualism. I came from a Protestant/Evangelical/Pentecostal Christian background and held a general belief in life after death.

But all of the after-death spirit communication and paranormal abilities, I invented from an imagination fueled by a lifetime of movies, short stories, and novels.

At least I thought it was made up…

Sweeping life changes lead me on a new spiritual path...

Religion and Horror in The Covenant Sacrifice

I must have been born a goth. Since childhood, I’ve been fascinated by the morbid, the macabre, by death and the afterlife.

I didn’t get this from my parents; my father was an Evangelical United Brethren pastor, and my mom taught Sunday School.

(Come to think of it, when I was 12, my dad did turn me on to a story from his college freshman English Lit textbook: William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” [1930]. But that was it.)

Somehow, at an earlier age—like second grade—I’d caught the horr...

Book Review: On the Subject of Blackberries by Stephanie M. Wytovich

“Wytovich discloses the festering secrets of her darkest thoughts with the inevitable doom of Emily Dickinson and the dread-infused paranoia of Poe’s ‘Tell-Tale Heart.’
Recommended for lovers of
the exquisitely macabre.”

—Lee Allen Howard, author of The Covenant Sacrifice

Stephanie M. Wytovich’s latest poetry collection, On the Subject of Blackberries, dishes up sugar-coated fruit pervaded with poison and decay, each poem a rot-infested berry picked by a bleeding hand from a bush of brambles.

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What Readers Are Saying About The Covenant Sacrifice

Reviews are coming in for my latest release, and I’m excited!

Here’s what readers are saying about The Covenant Sacrifice, cult horror/gay romance:

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Read the First Prologue to The Covenant Sacrifice

Did you know I originally wrote a different prologue for The Covenant Sacrifice, set in 1979? During revision and editing, I replaced it with the current prologue in the book, set in 1996.first prologue to The Covenant Sacrifice

But I like the original prologue, and I’m sharing it here as a prequel to the novel, which I’m billing as LGBTQ horror, cult horror, religious horror, and gay romance. Here it is…

I hope this excerpt whets your appetite for another. I’d love your comments. Feel...

Winners of THE COVENANT SACRIFICE

The Covenant Sacrifice

The winners of The Covenant Sacrifice, LGBTQ horror/gay romance, were chosen by Goodreads at random. They are:

Rayena Foyle
Dalar P
Sieglinde Gleim
Shelly Sales
Jamie Johnston
Guin Reese
Stefanie Ciro
Becky Ryczek
Gary R
Lori Wilen

Congratulations! I hope you enjoy the book. I look forward to your kind yet honest review.

Thanks to everyone for entering!

—Lee Allen Howard, MA, MFA

Book Release: My Look Back on Writing The Covenant Sacrifice

New LGBTQ horror/gay romance novel available now for purchase

Today’s the day! I just released my latest LGBTQ horror novel, The Covenant Sacrifice, into the world like the winged beast that haunts the cover!

I’m excited about and grateful for the journey it took me on as a writer and as a human being. The Covenant Sacrifice was a long time coming. Here’s the story—and my thoughts on the book.

Developing the idea for The Covenant Sacrifice

I first got the idea about a “dead cem...

BISAC Categories for The Covenant Sacrifice

In creating the ebook version of The Covenant Sacrifice, I assigned various BISAC categories that apply to the novel.

BISAC stands for Book Industry Standards and Communications. It is a list of subject headings and codes developed by The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) to describe and categorize individual books throughout the publishing industry.

Here are all the codes I assigned to The Covenant Sacrifice, and why.

BISAC CategoryBISAC CodeDescriptionFICTION / HorrorFIC015000The Cove...

This Review of The Covenant Sacrifice Made Me Cry

Folks, I’ve been writing dark fiction for over 50 years, and no one has ever “got” my writing like Kevin. His 5-star review of The Covenant Sacrifice made me weep in gratitude. Here’s the Goodreads review in its entirety.

In Lee Allen Howard’s gripping and haunting novel, The Covenant Sacrifice, readers are taken on a chilling journey into a remote rural community where the line between the living and the dead blurs, and the true monsters may not be what they seem. With a captivating blend o...

Goodreads Giveaway for The Covenant Sacrifice

Enter the Goodreads giveaway to win 1 of 10 Kindle copies of Lee Allen Howard’s LGBTQ horror novel, The Covenant Sacrifice.

Goodreads Book Giveaway
  THE COVENANT SACRIFICE

by Lee Allen Howard

Giveaway ends July 7, 2023.

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