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Hopedale Press Present Walking Wolf: A Weird Western

Walking Wolf a/k/a Billy Skillet is the orphaned son of white settlers,
found as an infant by the warrior called Eight Clouds  and raised to be a proud Comanche brave. He also
happens to be a werewolf. When he loses control of his darker nature and
ends up killing both the woman he loves and his best friend, he must
head out into the White Man's world to learn more about who--and
what--he is. He travels the Old
West, crossing the paths of deranged serial killers, a
traveling medicine show, a vampire gunslinger, and even a fellow werewolf,
as well as such historical figures as Quanah Parker and Sitting Bull.
But of all the dangers he finds himself facing, none is as deadly as the
bounty hunter known as Witchfinder Jones, who holds the secret of
Walking Wolf's origins.



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Interview And Contests @ Literal Addiction & Book Monster Reviews July 11th!!

Literal Addiction & Book Monster Reviews are featuring an interview with Yours Truly on Wednesday, July 11th. They're also running a contest, where the lucky winner(s) get their choice
of  either RIGHT HAND MAGIC or LEFT HAND MAGIC,  the first and second books in the Golgotham series, signed by me.

Hopedale Press Presents HELL COME SUNDOWN

Hell Come Sundown









Troubled by Specters, Ghosts and Phantoms? Fear No More! There Is Help!
Call For The Dark Ranger: Ghost Breaking A Specialty! No Spook Too
Small, No Fiend Too Fierce! Write Care of: Box 1, Golgotha, Texas. Our
Motto: ‘One Wraith, One Ranger.’



Meet Sam Hell, a former law man turned professional spook-buster. He and
his Comanche medicine woman companion, Pretty Woman, ride the high
plains in search of Sangre,the undead conquistador responsible for
transforming him into the Dark Ranger. Award-winning author Nancy A.
Collins brings readers yet another thrilling tale of the Weird, Weird
West.



Originally published in Dead Man's Hand (2004), this is the first reprint of this novella in any form.



 Hell Come Sundown is $4.99 and available from the following distributors:



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Hopedale Press Presents The Ice Wedding: A Chilling Gothic Fairytale

The Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna was famous for her cruel practical
jokes and capricious nature towards those she considered beneath her.
Neither peasant nor prince, was safe from her wrath. Prince Mikhail, the
scion of a noble and powerful family, found himself forced to become
her court jester on the day his wife died. Later, he was forced to marry
her chambermaid in an elaborate mock wedding. When the Czarina offers
the newlyweds their freedom if they agree to spend their wedding night
in the cottage she has had built for them, they eagerly agree, even
though it is made of solid ice. Award-winning author Nancy A. Collins
crafts a chilling Gothic fairytale based on an amazing historical event.



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Sonja Blue's DNA Part 4

The last major 'donors' to the creative DNA that resulted in Sonja Blue are millionaire socialite & kidnapping victims Patty Hearst and John Paul Getty III. The stories of these two scions of America's super-class--only slightly older than myself--who were snatched off the street and subjected to torture, rape and mutilation, before being returned to their families forever changed--had a deep impact on me at the time (1973-1974). The fact Getty's family refused to negotiate for his release until the kidnappers sent them his ear was particularly shocking, as it was the first time I realized that some families place more value on their money than their children. Even more disgusting/shocking was how the boy's grandfather, billionaire J. Paul Getty, shunned him following his release and blamed him for what happened. Its not too hard to see the paralells between the real-life Hearst famiily & Getty clan, and Denise Thorne's family in Sunglasses After Dark.



 While Patty Hearst has seemed to be able to put the horror of what was done to her by the Symbionese Liberation Army behind her, Getty III was swallowed alive by his own version of The Other, spending the rest of his life as an alcoholic junkie. He was paralyzed and partially blinded by a stroke in 1981 after ingesting a cocktail of drugs.He died in 2011 at the age of 54.



Patty Hearst circa 1974



                              John Paul Getty III circa 1973    













Patty Hearst circa 2008                                         John Paul Getty III prior to his death in 2011

Hopedale Press Presents Aphra: A Tale of Erotic Horror

A married man develops a bizarre fascination with a medical skeleton he
buys at a garage sale. Award-winning horror writer Nancy A. Collins,
author of Sunglasses After Dark, presents a macabre tale of sexual
obsession and erotic horror. Originally published in Shudder Again (NAL, 1993)

From the Publisher's Weekly review of SHUDDER AGAIN:


"Aphra,"
by Nancy Collins, wittily follows the evolution of the narrator's
boyhood fascination with X-Ray Specs into a spooky adult fetish.



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Hopedale Press Presents THE THING FROM LOVER'S LANE

“Ia! Ia! Shubb-Niggurath
fhtagn!”

 






 



It's the 1950s and Misty Valley is just another sleepy, All-American
town, nestled along the Miskatonic River. Unlike sister cities Arkham
and Dunwich, Misty Valley has managed to avoid the peculiar occurrences
that have plagued the region since the days of the colonial witch
trials. That is, until the night Carol Anne Fairweather and her
boyfriend, Billy Mahan, parked too far down on Lover's Lane. On that
old, foggy night Billy was attacked and knocked unconscious, while Carol
Anne was brutally raped by someone--or something--that came out of the
woods. Now, in order to clear his name, Billy must discover what really
happened that horrible night. But can his mind withstand the awful truth
he uncovers? Or will he end up as mad as Old Gooney, the crazed hermit
who claims to keep watch against the dark forces that would make Misty
Valley their own? Inspired by the work of H.P.Lovecraft, award-winning
horror writer Nancy A. Collins adds another tale of terror to the
never-ending Cthulhu Mythos.

First published in 1995, The Thing
From Lover's Lane was a finalist for the Horror Writers Association's
prestigious Bram Stoker Award for Best Novelette.



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Hopedale Press Presents THE TORTUGA HILL GANG'S LAST RIDE

The Tortuga Hill Gang, lead by "Black Hat" Johnson, was one of the Old
West's more colorful, and mysterious, outlaw groups. Rumored to be able
to float safes like toy balloons and walk though bank walls, the six
desperadoes--Johnson, the twin Chandler Brothers, Horseflesh Donnegan,
Coyote Pete and the giant known as "Little Red"--disappeared without a
trace in the 1890s. What really happened to the notorious Tortuga Hill
Gang? Some say they met their fate at the hands of the Federalis. Others
say the Devil came and dragged them to Hell. The only person who claims
to know for sure is an old man who says he's the sole surviving member
of the gang. This is his story of living the outlaw life in the Weird,
Weird West.



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Sonja Blue's DNA Part 3

Marvel's Tomb of Dracula was one of my favorite comics, and one of the few books, along with Howard the Duck and The Defenders, where I owned the entire original run. (Do I still have them? No, of course not.) The character of Blade made a huge impression on me at the time, and provided a sizable chunk of the DNA that would result, years later, in Sonja Blue. While the Wesley Snipes version of the character was entertaining, I still yearn to see the funky-jive-soul-brother vampire hunter from my misspent youth.