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April 25, 2017
JUST PUBLISHED! Dark Screams: Volume Six featuring Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran!
Richard Chizmar and I are pleased to announce that the eBook edition of Dark Screams: Volume Six from Hydra is now available for immediate download and we hope you’ll check it out!
Purchase the eBook:
Amazon.com • Amazon.ca • Amazon.co.uk • Barnes & Noble • iBookstore • Kobo
About the Book:
Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran plunge readers into the dark side in this deeply unsettling short story anthology curated by legendary horro...
April 20, 2017
JUST ANNOUNCED! Dark Screams: Volume Seven featuring Robert McCammon, Brian Hodge, James Renner, Kaaron Warren, Bill Schweigart, and Mick Garris!
Richard Chizmar and I have once again joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to produce five more volumes in our acclaimed Dark Screams horror eBook anthology series! Each volume collects stories by the best authors working in the business today, and we’re pleased to announce that Dark Screams: Volume Seven will be published on July 25, 2017!
About the Book:
Robert McCammon, Brian Hodge, James Renner, Kaaron Warren, Bill Schweigart, and Mick Garris reve...
April 19, 2017
A Voice From The Oklahoma City Bombing That Haunts Me To This Day: “Whoever did this, I hope you’re happy”
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Everyone over a certain age probably remembers this iconic photo featuring one of their victims.
According to Wikipedia, “McVeigh stated in his authorized biography that he wanted to minimize non-governmental casualties.”
From the same article: “He parked the Ryder truck in a drop-off zone situated under the building’s day-care center…”
Over the years, I’ve found mysel...
April 18, 2017
THE HALLOWEEN CHILDREN reviewed by The Behrg: “Beautifully crafted, this is horror that will affect even the most jaded of horror fans.”
Early reviews are now appearing for The Halloween Children, my novel co-written with Norman Prentiss, which will be published as an eBook by Hydra/Random House this June.
For example, The Behrg has posted a review that represents a very fair and balanced assessment of the novel — and of course I would say that considering the praise you’ll find in this short excerpt:
The savvy reader begins to get the real picture of what’s going on by what’s NOT being said. I’ve always enjoyed the unreliabl...
April 7, 2017
JUST ANNOUNCED! Reading Stephen King edited by Brian James Freeman!
I’m very pleased to announce Reading Stephen King, an anthology of essays by some seriously incredible writers, will be published later this year by Cemetery Dance Publications!
About the Book:
Stephen King has inspired millions of readers with his writing for more than four decades, and this special volume of essays gathers together some of his high-profile fans to discuss why they love reading the works of Stephen King.
Many of these fans are acclaimed authors of fiction in their own right....
March 22, 2017
DISCOUNTED! Dark Screams: Volume One featuring Stephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, and Ramsey Campbell!
Dark Screams: Volume One featuring stories by Stephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, and Ramsey Campbell is on sale for just 99 cents for a very limited time only! Read more or place your order:
Amazon.com • Barnes & Noble • iBookstore • Kobo
March 13, 2017
Coming in June! THE HALLOWEEN CHILDREN eBook Edition!
I’m very pleased to report that The Halloween Children, the novel I wrote with Norman Prentiss for Earthling Press, will be re-released as an eBook from Hydra/Random House this June! You can read more about the book at these links:
Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Barnes & Noble • iBookstore • Kobo
March 10, 2017
JUST ANNOUNCED! Dark Screams: Volume Six featuring Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran!
Richard Chizmar and I have once again joined forces with the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, to produce five more volumes in our acclaimed Dark Screams horror eBook anthology series! Each volume collects stories by the best authors working in the business today, and we’re pleased to announce that Dark Screams: Volume Six will be published on April 27, 2017.
About the Book:
Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran...
February 20, 2017
NEW COVER! Dark Screams: Volume Five featuring Mick Garris, J. Kenner, Kealan Patrick Burke, Del James, and Bentley Little!
As I mentioned earlier this week, the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, recently hired Kealan Patrick Burke to create new covers for the first five volumes in the Dark Screams series, and today I’m thrilled to show off what he came up with for Volume Five:
Purchase the eBook:
Amazon.com • Amazon.ca • Amazon.co.uk • Barnes & Noble • iBookstore • Kobo
My thanks goes out to Kealan and the Hydra team for their incredible work on this series!
February 18, 2017
NEW COVER! Dark Screams: Volume Four Featuring Clive Barker, Heather Graham, Lisa Morton, Ray Garton, and Ed Gorman!
As I mentioned earlier this week, the cutting edge team at Hydra, a division of Random House, recently hired Kealan Patrick Burke to create new covers for the first five volumes in the Dark Screams series, and today I’m thrilled to show off what he came up with for Volume Four:
Purchase the eBook:
Amazon.com • Amazon.ca • Amazon.co.uk • Barnes & Noble • iBookstore • Kobo
I’ll post the other new covers over the next few days, but each one is amazing! My thanks goes out to Kealan and the Hydr...


