Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … Convulsive by Joe Koch

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“With their latest collection, Koch cranks things up to a fever pitch with surreal tales that stretch the boundaries of horror fiction to the breaking point.” The horrifying new collection from the author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands Why we’re excited about this book:  Joe Koch is a relative newcomer to the horror fiction scene, but …

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Look Out For … Passersthrough by Peter Rock

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“In Rock’s latest novel, a father and daughter try to come to grips with a horrifying event from the past, with the threshold between life and death never far behind.” While camping with her father Benjamin at Mount Rainier National Park, eleven-year-old Helen disappears into the wilderness. After being missing for a nerve-wracking week, Helen …

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Look Out For … The Fall: Five More Tales From The Gulp by Alan Baxter

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“With this second entry set in The Gulp locale, Baxter ups the ante and rips the place apart with five more novellas of nightmarish cosmic horror.” Some maps don’t even have a location for the isolated Australian harbor town called Gulpepper. Only outsiders call it Gulpepper … the locals call it The Gulp.  The Gulp …

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Look Out For … The Resting Place by Camilla Sten

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“With her latest novel, Sten twists two timelines as a young woman who can’t recognize faces tackles family secrets in a house filled with dark secrets of its own.”  Living with prosopagnosia isn’t easy for Eleanor. Her inability to recognize even familiar faces causes her stress and anxiety. Then she comes face to face with …

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Meet the Writer: Red Lagoe

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Red Lagoe is the author of horror collections Lucid Screams and Dismal Dreams. She is the owner of Death Knell Press and editor of its upcoming anthology Nightmare Sky. When Red is not spewing horror onto the page, she can be found under the stars, enjoying the hobby of amateur astronomy. Find Red on Twitter …

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Look Out For … All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

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“With harsh and frozen Antarctica as the setting, Wilkes presents a story of isolation and grief as a group of men try to survive a vicious supernatural threat.” As a stowaway on the ship of his hero, the world-renowned explorer James “Australis” Randall, Jonathan Morgan can finally be his true self, his true gender, and …

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Look Out For … Below by Laurel Hightower

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“With her latest novella, Hightower gives us her own personal twist on the legendary Mothman, with the tale of a young woman faced with a terrible decision.” Deep in the mountains of West Virginia, a recent divorcee begins to experience strange electrical problems. Stranded, she has to place her trust in a charming truck driver. …

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Look Out For … Shadow Flicker by Gregory Bastianelli

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“With his latest novel, Bastianelli taps into the real phenomenon of “shadow flicker”, spinning a frightening story of madness and paranoia.” Heading off for the coast of Maine to Kidney Island, Oscar Basaran is to document the effects of shadow flicker from the residents living near the wind turbines. What he finds is quite disturbing. …

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Look Out For … Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror, edited by John F.D. Taff

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“Paying homage to the groundbreaking anthology Dark Forces, Taff has collected all new tales from the Dark Stars of modern horror fiction.” Forty-two years ago, an anthology was released that changed horror fiction forever. Dark Forces opened the doorway and expanded the canvas of horror in ways readers had never seen before. Now, under the …

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Meet the Writer: Donnie Goodman

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Donnie Goodman is a reader, writer, and collector of horror fiction. When he is not out in the wild, searching for Paperbacks From Hell in Central Virginia, he is likely reading, writing, or playing video games. His short story collection, The Razorblades in My Head, and poetry collection, I Eat Its Seeds, are available now. …

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