Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
When Garrett Walkinshaw pays a visit to his sister, he finds her murdered— throat sliced and nipples missing, his albino niece left emotionally scarred on her bed. Determined on getting revenge, the two set out after the killer, following a bloody trail of skin-lacking bodies. After Garrett’s best friend— a recently freed slave— joins the road-trip hunt, they’re forced to teach Garret’ s niece the dark world of survival and assassination in the gritty, wild west, where they’re met with myriad of roadblocks in the form of evil lawmen, bizarro brothers, a swamp witch, and more. Hap & Leonard meets Leon: The Professional, chasing down Ed Gein. Available now in eBook and paperback editions, you can grab your copy here.
Coming soon from AM Ink Publishing and writers Heather Wixson and Patrick Bromley, In Search of Darkness: The Definitive Look at 80’s Horror
You Loved the Films… now read the book! In Search of Darkness is now a beautiful coffee table book featuring an in-depth look at over 200 movies from the documentaries with hundreds of photos and bonus material, making it the definitive look at 80s horror. Available as a limited-time pre-order pack with a stadium cup, your name in the book and other pre-order perks, you can find all the details and guarantee your copy here.
The new issue of Nightmare Abbey is available now from Dead Letter Press. Fourteen chilling tales of terror featuring haunted houses, tormented souls, and the creeping unknown! Featuring the macabre art of Allen Koszowski; a photo-illustrated article revisiting Night of the Eagle, aka Burn, Witch, Burn, and fiction from the likes of Ian Rogers, Ray Cluley, Helen Grant, John Llewellyn Probert and many more. Currently available only in a paperback edition, you can pick up your copy here.
A woman and her former-supermodel grandmother must fight a possessed dummy that has haunted her family since the fantastic success of her world-famous ventriloquist great-grandfather. Playwright Lee Guzman, whose stage debut You Got Moxie explored the psychology of a reclusive former 1950s child star coming out of retirement to oppose the Vietnam War, here taps into the strange twentieth-century appeal of famous ventriloquists and their dummies like Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Dummies are always ripe for spookiness, but Dominic takes a unique angle, playing with their place in American pop culture.Available for pre-order now in eBook, with a paperback edition to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
KEV HARRISON