25 Gates of Hell Gains Amazon #1 Rating

This was the facebook announcement today from Editor Rookie Burwick: 25 GATES is back at #1 yet again!!! It spent all year in Amazon’s Top 100 for Horror Anthologies, and now it’s skyrocketed to the throne once more. Thank you to everyone who’s giving it a chance! Pick it up for FREE on Kindle until November 8th!

Or, from Amazon’s blurb: Once, in another age, the gates that guard the fiery inferno that is hell creaked open in the dark and unleashed, upon this earth, every drop of terror that could be wrung from beyond them. A group of storytellers banded together to chronicle the tsunami of evil that ensued. Their scribblings depicted events so horrific, the manuscript was hidden away.

Now, dear reader, you seem to have stumbled upon it.

And yes, I happen to have a story in it, “The Re-Possessed” (see December 9, October 20 2020, et al.) — slightly differently titled in the book itself as “The Repossessed” (no hyphen), but otherwise the same tale. Originally published in CEMETERY RIOTS (Awol From Elysium Press, 2016), “The Re-Possessed,” with or without the hyphen, is a useful guide to the undertaker’s trade in 19th century London, especially prior to the passage of the Warburton Act (a.k.a., the Anatomy Act of 1832) by Parliament. Or in any event, a primer on why honesty — especially by the bereaved — could be the best policy at any time.

So if you haven’t read it, it can be found here and, at least for the next few days, may be free on Kindle. Or better yet one might consider its purchase in paperback, for which we authors can look for a royalty (a.k.a. every bit helps).