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May 31, 2025
Free download of The Black Seas of Infinity
We’ve entered the last two days for the free download of The Black Seas of Infinity.
This is a heavily illustrated cosmic, dystopian horror. Aliens, ancient ruins, and long-running government conspiracies are all intertwined. As the disillusioned protogenist steals recovered alien technology from his government job, the carefully planned retreat falls apart as the United States fractures into competing states. Long-suppressed tensions erupt, and interstate travel descends into chaos.
Your downloads and reviews on Amazon will help secure an ever-elusive Bookbub spotlight!
Get your free copy here
You can check out the trailer here, and visit a slideshow of the included illustrations here!
A war in space erupts as the U.S. Government collapses.
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May 26, 2025
New Deal on The Black Seas of Infinity!
New Deal on The Black Seas of Infinity!
For a limited 4 days only, my cosmic horror novel is a free download on Amazon at https://tinyurl.com/y8h89eb7 starting tomorrow!
I’m looking to score an elusive Bookbub deal and need more reviews!
Anyone interested, please download the ebook and write a review on Amazon!
You can view more of the illustrations included here
and view the book trailer on YouTube here https://tinyurl.com/ymhybp45
For 4 days only, Dan’s heavily Lovecraft Inspired cosmic horror novel is a free download on Amazon.
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May 25, 2025
Pulp adventure magazines of those long-gone days!
Pulp adventure magazines of those long-gone days!
Does anyone remember those old pulp magazines?
The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Weird Tales?
They were the hot thing on newsstands before comic books, and always featured heavily illustrated stories. The first Batman is a direct rip-off of a Shadow story, word by word and plot point by plot point.
They always drew in my wonder and attention as a kid, and I strive to replicate some of that feel in both my cosmic horror series and anthologies.
My new anthology, The Joke is on Mankind, should be out late next month. As usual, it features a slew of talented writers!
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The anthologies and cosmic horror novels by Dan Henk all feature a slew of comic book style illustrations
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May 17, 2025
Promotion on Bookbub for my new anthology
Promotion on Bookbub for my new anthology.
I’ll be premiering the release of my new cosmic horror anthology, The Joke is on Mankind, through Bookbub
A whole slew of talented authors Ryan C. Thomas Patrick Lacey Tommy Clark Merrill David Nat Robinson, Dicey Grenor, Jeff Strand, Christine Morgan, Cody Goodfellow, Lucas Magnum, Terry Campbell, Robert Essig. and of course, yours truly, will all be contributing stories!
The more followers, the wider the release, and of course, the numbers will help in my upcoming book promotion on the same site!
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Heavily illustrated, upcoming anthology The Joke is on Mankind
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May 13, 2025
Illustrations for the new anthology The Joke is on Mankind.
Illustrations for the new anthology The Joke is on Mankind. I finished the last 2 illustrations for my new anthology of cosmic horror stories, “The Joke is on Mankind.”
These are for Ryan C. Thomas’s “Earl of Imprudence” and Patrick Lacey’s “Graveside Journals”.
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Book illustrations for Ryan C Thomas and Patrick Lacey’s cosmic horror stories.
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May 11, 2025
Promo fo my new book on Bookbub
I want to run a BookBub promo for my cosmic horror series.Bookbub is pretty selective, but what helps is having plenty of followers.To that end, anyone wanting to help me can sign up for Bookbub and follow me. It’s free! Login here!
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Dan henk’s four available novels, with one on the way!
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May 7, 2025
War in Space!
War in Space!
Like many kids in my era, I wanted to be an astronaut growing up!
When I realized they were just the test dummies for the space program, I wanted to be a rocket scientist. Taking advanced calculus, I read books on string theory and advanced physics.
But I always drew and wrote. By the end of high school, I realized our technology was just not advanced enough yet to take us to the top.
I love sci-fi and horror, and after reading Watchmen, I resolved to do illustrated Cosmic Horror stories. This illustration appears in The Black Seas of Infinity, my first delving into this concept! With, of course, a little Lovecraft flair to accompany it!
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War on an alien moon.
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May 6, 2025
Long Forgotten
Long Forgotten.
The rear cover for my anthology novel “The Never Dead“. Oil on wood, 14″ by 16”.
I pictured this as the gate to the long-buried remains of R’yleh, the ancient city of the Elder gods.
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The long-forgotten city of the elder gods.
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May 4, 2025
The real truth about Wachington, D.C.
I lived for a few years near Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. When D.C. was the murder capital of the US and Marrion Barry was the major (the same guy caught smoking crack with a hooker in a hotel by the FBI).
Most people living there were hipsters and always seemed slightly on edge. They didn’t make enough to live in Georgetown or Capitol Hill, which had their own police.
I always thought that if anything serious went down, they’d run around and scatter like chickens, which is exactly what happens in my heavily illustrated novel The End of the World.
The U.S. falls apart, and local militias roll in to seize power.|
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As the US falls apart, local militias sweep in to take control.
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May 3, 2025
Christmas is Cancelled
Christmas is Cancelled.
I always viewed the character of Santa as being highly questionable.
For my short story “Christmas is Cancelled”, I imagined him as this solitary, archaic figure who just does what he is always required come Christmas season. As he takes off in his sleigh, a brush with what might be a UFO panics the reindeer, and the sleigh crashes in the wilderness. Santa purposefully leaves hungry, so he can consume all the milk and cookies left for him, and struggling in the snowy wilds for hours, he becomes starving. So famished in fact, he ends up noshing on the remains of a reindeer that died in the crash.
These are not normal reindeer; they can fly and are almost immortal. The flesh erodes his faculties and turns him into a ravenous monster.
The illustration is for my tale of the same name and is in my collected work of short stories, Down Highways in the Dark…by Demons Driven.
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The illustration is for a tale of the same name and is in my collected work of short stories, Down Highways in the Dark…by Demons Driven.
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