Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … Two Minutes with the Devil by Matt Micheli

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“With his latest, Micheli takes us back to the 1980’s with a supernatural tale of a group of kids who gamble with a nightmarish children’s game that plays for keeps.” It’s 1986, and in the Gulf Coast town of Harbor Bluff, school’s out for summer. Rampage is all the rage at the arcade, Maximum Overdrive …

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Look Out For … Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin

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“With Night’s Edge, Kerin presents a timely vampire tale full of family secrets, tragic heartbreak, and a gruesome amount of bloodshed.” With a mom like Izzy, Mia had to grow up fast. So many rules: no friends over to the house, no extracurricular activities, and definitely no dating. Oh, and no one is supposed to …

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Escaping The Herd

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Today is the third in a series of columns by David Moody to mark the release of Autumn: Exodus, the final book in his acclaimed Autumn series. Moody has been writing about the end of the world for almost thirty years. His novel, Hater, was optioned for film by Guillermo del Toro. Things have changed …

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Look Out For … Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

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“With his latest, LaRocca easily slips into the supernatural with a story of occult horror tinged with the realities of bigotry and hatred.” A string of disappearances has hit Henley’s Edge, Connecticut in a bad way. While local law enforcement desperately works to find who is responsible for the disappearances, a grieving widower is drawn …

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Look Out For … No One Dies from Love: Dark Tales of Loss and Longing by Robert Levy

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“With his first collection, Levy blurs the psychological with the speculative, fearlessly treading into forbidden territory with nightmarish results.” A young boy observes his father’s growing obsession with interplanetary visitors. Teenage girls at summer camp find something strange, hungry, and very powerful while exploring the woods. Recovering from the fallout of a bad relationship, a …

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Look Out For … No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed

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“Mohamed takes a dive into the bottomless pit of cosmic horror with emotionally vibrant tales of uncanny dread.” Gods and monsters … cast from stone, flesh, and vengeance. From the icy abyss of space, from the dark ocean waters. They prowl strange cities, entering worlds of chaos where science and humanity are tested to the …

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Look Out For … The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

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“With their latest, Khaw twists the fairytales of our past into a blood-splattered nightmare with horrors that linger long after the last page is turned.” You might think the fairytale goes this way: A mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But the story always forgets mermaids have teeth. This mermaid’s daughter has even …

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Meet the Writer: Wesley Southard

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Wesley Southard is the two-time Splatterpunk Award-Winning and Imadjinn Award-Winning author of nearly a dozen books. His work has been optioned for film and has also been published in Italian and Spanish. He lives with his wife and his son in Pennsylvania. Visit him online at www.wesleysouthardhorror.com. What first attracted you to horror writing? Well, …

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Look Out For … Vial Thoughts by Van Essler

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“With her debut novella, Essler presents a personal tale of generational trauma set in a strange world where knowledge is a deadly currency.” After inheriting her father’s estate, Lenora Leahill is prepared to take her place in the Age of Awareness … books can now be instantly consumed via injection from an Aqua Peritia cuff. …

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Evolution of The Dead

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Today is the second in a series of columns by David Moody to mark the release of Autumn: Exodus, the final book in his acclaimed Autumn series. Moody has been writing about the end of the world for almost thirty years. His novel, Hater, was optioned for film by Guillermo del Toro. Last time I was …

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