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Authorcon 3/Scares That Care 2024 Roundup with Kev Harrison and Michael Clark

Kev Harrison and Michael Clark at Authorcon 3 2024

Two weeks ago, I went to Authorcon 3, part of the Scares That Care series of horror conventions in Williamsburg, VA. It was my first big convention of this kind, and I shared a vendor table with fellow author Michael Clark, who had visited Scares That Care previously, way back in 2021, though this was …

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Look Out For … Kosa by John Durgin

Kosa by John Durgin - cover

“With his latest, Durgin takes readers on a strange coming-of-age journey with an isolated young girl and her enigmatic and overpowering mother.”  Kosa lives in a mansion, secluded from the outside world. Her life revolves around the strict rules of her mysterious mother. These rules are the guiding principles of Kosa’s life, the basis of …

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Look Out For … My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen - cover

“With her debut novel, van Veen presents a gothic tale of a woman with a ghastly spirit companion caught in the embrace of sapphic desire.” Ruth. Dead for centuries. Strange, and very much like a corpse. She’s a spirit companion only Roos Beckman can see, and Ruth is the light of Roos’ life. Well, she …

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Look Out For … Undead Folk by Katherine Silva

Undead Folk by Katherine Silva - cover

“With her latest, Silva presents an apocalyptic tale of a woman facing horrors personal and grief-stricken in a world of darkness.” Just beyond the smoke-filled skies of a United States in the throes of an apocalypse, a woman treks the grim railroad tracks in a small town. With her only companion an undead fox, reanimated …

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Look Out For … The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower

The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower - cover

“With her latest, Hightower delves into a haunted family’s nightmarish past and their need to finally confront the evil that has torn them apart.” The four Lasco siblings have been through a lot. They banded together to fight a world that failed to give them protection. One hellish night marked the end of their childhood. …

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Look Out For … The Demon of Devil’s Cavern by Brennan LaFaro

The Demon of Devil's Cavern by Brennan Lafaro - cover

“With his latest, LaFaro returns to Buzzard’s Edge and the world of Rory Daggett with a horrifying tale of betrayal and survival.” It’s been six months since the death of Noose Holcomb, and now Buzzard’s Edge sits in an uneasy quiet. Can a town that brims with such hatred stay peaceful? Forced into exile, Rory …

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Look Out For … Withered by A.G.A. Wilmot

Withered by A.G.A. Wilmot - cover

“With their latest effort, Wilmot presents a teenager haunted by grief facing impossible odds to save themselves in a nightmarish supernatural war, and those they love.” Seeking a simpler life, 18-year-old Ellis moves in with their mother in Black Stone. Dealing with both the tragic death of their father and surviving an eating disorder, they …

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Look Out For … Lord of the Feast by Tim Waggoner

Lord of the Feast by Tim Waggoner - cover

“With his latest, Waggoner presents a woman searching for relatives that attempted to create their own god, and her cousin who wants to unleash the evil entity on the world.” Around twenty years ago, a strange cult conjured their own god. The Lord of the Feast was a dreadful misbegotten thing. The horrified cultists killed …

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Look Out For … The Gathering by C.J. Tudor

The Gathering by C.J. Tudor - cover

“With her latest, Tudor delivers a vampyr novel set in a frozen landscape, with community tensions rising as the nights grow longer.” A small Alaska town is upended when a boy is found with his throat ripped out, no blood found in his body. It’s been twenty-five years since Deadhart have seen a killing of …

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Look Out For … All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill

All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill - cover

“With his upcoming novel, Nevill presents an evil not of this world as a horrifying alien race arrives to end all life on earth.” Seeing the morning is no blessing. Confronting blood-red skies and hordes of predatory horrors, the scattered survivors do what they can. An occupying force—one that never came from the earth—is hellbent …

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