No doubt you've already received your catalog from Amazon and a thousand other retailers for your holiday shopping. Well, we didn't have your address, so we decided to post our recommendations for seasonal book-buying for those readers on your list (or yourself!). All these titles are from regular contributors here on the blog.
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Santastein
by Bryan K. Morris
If you found The Nightmare Before Christmas to be way too saccharine, this is the book for you. Read it aloud to someone you love and try, just try, to maintain a straight face. In this tale of irreverent holiday horror, Dr. Victor Frankenstein raids the graveyard to assemble not just a man, but the Spirit of Giving himself. However, will the creature save Christmas for the village or will he lead to its destruction?
We say that Santasteinis laugh-out-loud funny, but we only go by what other people tell us.
Aeros & Heroes
by Ef Deal
Can the Mistress of the Forge best the Mistress of the Night?
Strength is forged in the moment when you dare to be vulnerable. Despite this inherent knowledge, Jacqueline Duval struggles with feelings of weakness and failure when a private celebration for her twin sister’s marriage turns fraught with peril. Beset by vampires and insurrectionists and rogue monarchs, how is Jacqueline to keep her invited—and uninvited—guests safe, and the King of the French on the right side of the grave?
Setting Suns
by Elizabeth Donald
- A nightmarish fun house turned deadly.
- A couple trapped in a futile journey through time.
- A single baleful eye watching from the deep.
- An assassin waiting in a snow-covered tree.
- A toy that seems to have a life of its own.
- A pair of soldiers trapped between death and something worse.
- A tenebrous hand reaching out of the shadows.
These are the award-winning tales and terrors of Elizabeth Donald, writer of things that go chomp in the night. This new anniversary edition is being released 20 years after the first story was published, now including a bonus short story and the author’s reflections on twenty years of twilight tales. In that space between evening and nightfall, between consciousness and sleep, the moment when the light fades and the shadows take over… These are the lands of the Setting Suns.
Winner of the 2005 Darrell Award
“Elizabeth Donald is the George R.R. Martin of horror.”
– Michael Knost, author of Return of the Mothman
– Michael Knost, author of Return of the Mothman
“Donald’s is one of the strongest and freshest new genre voices out there.”
– Bryan Smith, author of 68 Kill and The Unseen
– Bryan Smith, author of 68 Kill and The Unseen
“Elizabeth Donald delves into the shadows of the human psyche and plucks out the darkest, squirmiest bits fit for the spookiest of campfire gatherings.”
– Sara Harvey, author of Music City
– Sara Harvey, author of Music City
"One of the strongest writers it is my privilege to know.”
– H. David Blalock, author of Ascendant
– H. David Blalock, author of Ascendant
“A storytelling ability to rival that of Stephen King.”
– Enchanting Reviews
– Enchanting Reviews
The Challenger Chronicles Volume One
by Gordon Dymowski, Barbara Doran, Michael Panush, and Samantha Lienhard
Airship 27 Production is thrilled to debut brand new adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s second great hero. Prof. George Challenger. In this premier volume, writers Gordon Dymowski, Barbara Doran, Michael Panush, and Samanthan Lienhart send the daring Challenger to strange and exotic locales always in search of new wonders and thrills. Artist Clayton Hinkle provides both the interior illustrations and the dramatic color cover.
A Crowd in Babylon and Other Dark Tales
by Sean Taylor
Featuring 17 tales of Southern horror, dark fantasy, and weird adventure inspired as much by Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Shirley Jackson as by F. Marion Crawford, Stephen King, and Ray Bradbury, Sean Taylor's A Crowd in Babylon takes readers from the chilling underside of the urban landscape to the homegrown terrors of rural life and hidden frights that lie beneath suburban smiles.
Inside the pages of A Crowd in Babylon, readers will meet a diverse and macabre group of characters, including:
- A zombie writer whose work funds the lifestyle of her cheating husband
- A musician who learns that true art requires irretrievable loss
- A Cherokee brave who must face the monsters from his people's legends
- A time-traveling widow nursing a violent and deadly grudge
- A woman who needs four-footed help to teach her grandchild to grieve
- A young writer obsessed with a dead actress
- An immigrant haunted by the vengeful ghosts of children
- And ten other creepy tales!
Yeti Left Home
by Aaron Rosenberg
Peaceful, unassuming Wylie Kang -- a Yeti with an appreciation for more human creature comforts -- lives a quiet life in his self-built sanctuary on the outskirts of Embarrass, Minnesota. But when violent dreams disturb his peace, and a series of strange murders plague the area, a Hunter comes to town, nosing after Wylie's trail.
Fleeing pursuit, Wylie packs up his truck and heads for the Twin Cities, hoping to lose himself in the urban jungle, only to find a thriving supernatural community.
Just as he begins to settle in -- with the help of some new-found friends -- he discovers the bloodshed has followed... as has the Hunter.
Can Wylie catch the killer, before the Hunter catches him?
Dragon Tales
Edited by Michael A. Gordon
Dragon Tales is a benefit book celebrating Atlanta’s largest multi-media pop culture convention for fans by fans. Containing stories, essays, memories, pro-tips, and more by folks who honor Dragon Con in their heart and try to keep it all the year. Featuring contributions by Darin M. Bush, Jerry Chandler, Joe Crowe, Kevin Eldridge, Michael Falkner, Esther Friesner, Bernadette Johnson, Rob Levy, Bobby Nash, Mary Ogle, James Palmer, Ashley Pauls, R. Alan Siler, Beth Van Dusen, and DJ Spider.
Rumble Paperback
by Nikki Nelson-Hicks
BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU DIG... There is something very wrong in the Gobi Desert at the natural gas mining camp, BST147.Two weeks ago, satellite photos showed a thriving operation.Two days ago, a war zone.That’s where the Stonecipher Tactical Security team comes into play. Hired to do a simple search and rescue, the situation quickly turns when the sun goes down and the team is attacked by creatures from above and below. To say nothing of the other dangers lurking all around them: a wild man whose flesh is carved with arcane symbols, Eco-terrorists and, most dangerous of all, an office bureaucrat with a clipboard.It’s going to be a long night.
Aym Geronimo and the PostModern Pioneers:
Tall Tales Paperback
by John Morgan Neal, et al
ACTION! ADVENTURE! SCIENCE FICTION! MYSTERY! HORROR! DRAMA! SPORTS!
Something for Everyone!
TALL TALES is a collection of short stories of Aym Geronimo and the PostModern Pioneers. Headquartered in the Wonder Wall, a complex carved from a side of the Grand Canyon. The PostModern Pioneers travel to all corners of the globe and undertake dangerous deeds, discover the unknown, defy disasters, and defeat the diabolical using the advanced tools of technology forged by the brilliant mind of Ms. Geronimo and the prodigious skills of her comrades.
Bikini Jones Vs. The Brainnappers From Outer Space
by Patrick Thomas
Cursed by a witch to forever wear a bikini, she fights for justice in a dangerous world.
Bikini Jones has come a long way and saved the world many times over.
But no matter how far you've come, family is still family. So when her estranged sister uncovers an Egyptian pyramid outside of Philadelphia, PA and needs her help, Bikini drops everything. Soon a search for missing women uncovers an eons-old plot for world domination.
Bikini faces off against Prohibition-era gangsters, a brain-transplanting mad scientist, the mummy of the first pharaoh, and aliens who need the brains of human women so they can conquer the world.
If Bikini fails, humanity will be enslaved. If she succeeds, she still has to put up with her sister.
When the Devil Drives
by John L. French and C.J. Henderson
Bad things happen.
Sometimes there is no other choice but the lesser of two evils — sacrifice some for many, make the deal and take your chances. Look into the Abyss and dive right into it.
In this collection of 16 weird stories, John L. French writes of how some miscreants, faced with these choices, deal with them. There are zombies, witches, vampires, angels good and bad. Amidst the chaos and evil, sometimes hope can be found at the bottom of the box, even if it is only a hope in Hell...
Tom Myers Mysteries Vol. 1
by Bobby Nash
READERS LOVE A GOOD MYSTERY…
TOM MYERS LOVES SOLVING THEM!
WELCOME TO SOMMERSVILLE
BEN Books presents: Tom Myers Mysteries Vol. 1 collects 3 action-packed stories from award-winning author Bobby Nash [IN THE WIND, SUCH A NIGHT, and STANDING ON THE SHADOWS] together for the first time.
IN THE WIND - When a secret joint FBI/US Marshal safehouse is attacked, federal witness Bates Hewell flees custody in the confusion and heads into the wilds of Sommersville. Can local sheriff, Tom Myers find him and bring him in before a band of hired killers do?
SUCH A NIGHT - No one talks about it, but everybody knows what happens in the trailer on Dogwood Alley. When a brutal double homicide rocks Sommersville, Sheriff Tom Myers and his deputies discover is a decades old secret, deception, danger, back-door deals, and a betrayal that could rip their peaceful small town asunder.
STANDING ON THE SHADOWS - A startling discovery points to a decades old murder whose outcome could spell disaster for Sommersville and those who call the rustic, small town home. When the once ice-cold case suddenly burns white hot, Sheriff Tom Myers discovers a cover-up meant to keep the truth buried forever.
Sola-Tay
by Robert Krog
Exiled Khar-elt and his adopted siblings have found peace at the very edge of the world in backwater Sola-Tay, so long as Khar-elt’s sword and gift for command can earn coin solving problems for local lords. But youngest sibling, Trantis, has found a purse of gold that belongs to the chief priest and faces a death sentence, though he is innocent. Saving him will doom the siblings to flee again into further exile, but may plunge the region into ruin. For the demon-gods of Sola-Tay have awakened and will exact a price from all if the malefactor is not sacrificed.
Holly and Ivy
by Selah Janel
Holly is forced to return to her parents’ farm after she loses her job and goes through the worst breakup of her life. Incapacitated by hopelessness and embarrassment, she doesn’t expect to bump into a forgotten childhood friend who isn’t supposed to exist.
Ivy is a dryad who lives in the pine trees Holly’s family grows as part of their livelihood. As the friends reconnect, Ivy not only shares her views on life, nature, and the modern world but it also gives Holly a magic charm that will change both their lives.
As the year progresses, things magically fall into place and a new figure is introduced into Holly’s life. Still, guilt lingers that maybe all the good developments aren’t deserved and aren’t even her own doing. Christmas not only brings surprises, but a choice.
What’s more important: success, happiness, and love, or keeping a promise to an old friend?
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