Revenge of the Downtrodden: The Hanging Chads Omnibus, Volume 1
by Evan Clouse
REVIEW
Revenge of the Downtrodden by Evan Clouse
Category: Horror
Infant Spirits by Janice Tremayne
Flash Paranormal Fiction: 13 Stories by D.P. Roseberry
D. P. Roseberry
Genre: Horror/Paranormal flash
Date of Publication: July 2023
Number of pages: 65
Word Count: approx. 12,000 words
Cover Artist: D. P. Roseberry
Tagline: Don’t worry. Sleep is over-rated …
Book Description:
This collection of flash fiction is strictly paranormal … and creepy.
Flash Paranormal Fiction will send your flesh crawling with ghosts, witches, aliens, cryptids, and creatures of all kinds.
These 13 Flash stories are for those readers (just like us) who love quick and fun ghostly gatherings!
Still … maybe you shouldn’t read it at night…
But don’t worry. Sleep is overrated…
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/HiMcUPPRyAc
Purchase at RoseberryBooks.com
Excerpt – Zombie Love
It was a beautiful morning, just gorgeous. I was sitting back in my no-gravity lounge chair holding a cup of hot coffee and sipping away the sunrise. The temperature was just right and the plants along the front screen of the porch seemed to reach toward the warm glow of the sun. This was a day that made all the other days’ worth dealing with. It whispered relaxation and creativity.
The only thing I couldn’t get my mind around on this glorious day was the zombie that was trying to open the latch on the screen door. I’d been watching it for a good ten minutes or so, just as it was watching me drink my coffee. My question: Where the hell had this thing come from? And why was it ruining my perfectly quiet morning?
This one I was looking at was none too bright. It could easily punch through the screen, but instead, it fiddled with the sliding lock. I’d heard about these things. A bit short on brains. But then again, who knew? Maybe it thought I was stupid for drinking coffee. I’d thought that one or two times myself.
Just then I heard a voice. “Hey man, what’s that you got there trying to get into your house?”
It was my neighbor, Monroe. We were pretty close on most days. “Gots me a zombie, me thinks,” I replied after a nice long coffee swig.
Monroe, standing back from the door but still close enough to talk through the screen continued. “What’s ya gonna do when it figures out the door?” He yawned.
“Hmmm. Good point,” I said with a nod. “Guess I better go get the gun so I can take care of business if I need to.”
Monroe was nodding as well. “Terrible way to spend this beautiful morning, though. Still, zombies are nothin’ to mess with. So I heard.”
“Maybe wait a little while, though,” I said. “It’s too nice out to make things all blood and guts. We got time.”
“I hear ya,” answered Monroe.
Then suddenly, another voice erupted through the morning. “Outta the way, boys!”
At that point a woman and a teenage girl raised rifles and blew holes in the zombie’s head. The thing fell like a rock.
Both Monroe and I jumped back to keep from getting muck on our clothes. I’d had to roll out of my chair, and I spilled my coffee.
“Dam
women!” I yelled out. “Know just how to ruin a morning!”
Dinah Roseberry, or D. P. Roseberry, has been writing about the imagined world for many years. She dabbles in paranormal romantic intrigue (her most recent paranormal romance is Three Months to Change), sci fi, fantasy, horror, and many kinds of speculative fiction. With a special interest in UFOs, she is the founder of the UFO Management Group.
Dinah is also a practicing certified hypnotist with her practice centering on past-life regression, alien abductions, and other paranormal topics. She reads the Tarot and varied oracles as well and finds that divination brings sharp interpretation to daily living and uses it as a method in her writing. Her latest Tarot decks are First Light Tarot and A Christmas Tarot: Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future.
Writing Paranormal Flash is a guilty pleasure and she finds herself in the middle of these quick and ghosty stories more often than she likes to admit. Flash Paranormal Fiction is her first attempt at putting them from mind to media for you to read. For more information about other works and ongoing projects, visit www.roseberrybooks.com
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Whispers from the Dead of Night by Lee Allen
Whispers From the Dead of Night
by: Lee Allen
From the first story, which envelopes you in mystery and suspense, I was captivated by this collection. They are short stories of varied themes and topics, with varying degrees of realism and closure. I love short stories because they appeal to my short attention span, making reading novels lengthy and arduous. But these stories were short in length, but had the volume of a whole novel. What I mean is, the author packed in a lot of action, mystery, and vivid imagery in a short space. The writing itself was especially beautiful, poetic and well-detailed, which also gave the stories a higher quality than most of the short fare that I have read and also enjoyed.
Slasher Witch at the Waterpark by Penny Moonz
Slasher Witch at the Waterpark
by Penny Moonz
Zelda the bog witch wakes up after a long slumber, finding herself in a modern waterpark full of tropical drinks, pools, slides, and families. Her wrath is pretty immediate, paused only briefly to sample a light frozen beverage. But it is pure carnage from start to finish– human eating slides, murderous octopi, snaked and frogs, and sharp claws. Zelda tours the park leaving nothing but chaos and gore in her wake. It was a lot of fun from start to finish because she did not mess around! I also really loved her old-fashioned way of talking, and the various comments of people commenting on how badly she stinks. If you like horror or more specifically splatterpunk, I think that you will have a lot of fun witnessing the page after page of relentless carnage Zelda leaves in her wake as she ruins vacations and scorns family fun with sharp claws.
Real Ghost Stories: Graveyard Hauntings by Eve S. Evans
Real Ghost Stories: Graveyard Hauntings
by Eve S. Evans
This volume just backs up what, for many, is common sense: you don’t play in a graveyard or cemetery. They might be cool, peaceful, interesting places full of history, but they are also places sacred to the dead. Once again, we are given a collection of first-hand accounts from people who have submitted their spooky graveyard stories. We are regaled with tales of ghostly bodies, disembodied voices, orbs, spirits that follow unsuspecting visitors home, and much more. Since they are all submitted by different people, they run the gambit of experience and perspective, and again I am struck by how much I enjoy not just the spooky encounters but the way people handle such a thing. Some people are sure braver than I am! Like most of these, they are great for late-night reading in bed. You know, when you are alone in the dark and vulnerable. It really amps up the spook factor. They were all very good, very interesting. I also liked that they feature graveyards from countries outside of the United States. Fun read for those who love ghost stories and true life hauntings.
Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison
Dead Inside
by Chandler Morrison
Recently, I have been putting my toes into the waters of extreme horror and splatterpunk, and this book has been recommended heavily in all groups I joined. It is one of the featured books most fans of the two genres have read. Our MC is a college student by day, security guard by night. He is the security guard of a hospital, the perfect jobs for him because he is a, well, necrophiliac. Let me both assure and warn you there is a lot of necrophilia in this book. And it does not at all shy away from being graphic and prolonged. The MC isn’t just a necrophiliac, but he also seems to genuinely like the utter carnage of a destroyed, violated body. One night, as he makes his rounds, he meets a pretty maternity doctor named Helena who also happens to have her own twisted affliction. She eats babies. Yes, she is a cannibal with a particular taste toward dead fetuses. The two begin a twisted romance as neither sees anything extraordinarily wrong with the other. It’s a sort of love story between vile people, I guess. Even though the MC is probably incapable of love, and that is part of what draws him toward dead women. So some trigger warnings: gore, cannibalism, necrophilia, abortion, murder, self-harm… and something with a little dead fetus that would probably get my review flagged and removed for even mentioning. The end scene was a full-on crazy frenzy, fast, intense, and a little open-ended. But there is a sense of justice to the end, so I was satisfied.
West of Sundown, Volume 2 by Tim Seeley, Aaron Campbell, and Jim Terry
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the WEST OF SUNDOWN Vol. 2 by Tim Seeley & Aaron Campbell, Jim Terry Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Author: Tim Seeley & Aaron Campbell, Jim Terry (Illustrations)
Pub. Date: July 25, 2023
Publisher: Vault Comics
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 144
Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/WEST-OF-SUNDOWN-Vol-2
From Dusk Till Dawn and American Vampire meet The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen in this terrifying tale of the Old West,
survival, blood, and monsters.
La Sangre es la Vida
The New Mexico town of Sangre De Moro has accepted its strange new residents:
beautiful vampire Constance Der Abend, her thrall, Frankenstein’s monster, and
the would-be mad scientist, Griffin. But a new threat has come for the
evil-saturated soil of the mesa: Dr. Moreau and his strange companions.
West of Sundown – where Hammer Horror and literary monsters
stake their claim in old New Mexico.
A Western tale of survival starring a cast of literary horrors from the
diabolical minds of Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash, Vampire: The Masquerade, Money
Shot), Aaron Campbell (Hellblazer, Infidel), and Jim Terry (Vampirella,
Come Home, Indio)!
For fans of Westworld, Red Dead Redemption, American
Vampire, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hammer
Horror films, Universal monsters, and Preacher!
Collects the entire second arc, issues #6-#10, of the smash-hit series!
“If you like your horse operas bloody, if you thought The
Searchers was fine, except for all the missing vampires and werewolves
and monsters, then … Tim Seeley, Aaron Campbell, and Jim Terry have a book here
for you. Come walk with them through the Old West, and don’t trust them when
they tell you it’s all going to be fine. It’s not. And we wouldn’t have it any
other way.” —Stephen Graham Jones (New York Times bestselling
author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a
Chainsaw and Don’t Fear the Reaper)
“Vigorous, bloody pulp fiction boned with fierce intelligence and blooded
with delicate observation. This just might be the start of the best monster
universe since Universal’s.” — Daniel Kraus (New York
Times bestselling author of The Shape of Water, Trollhunters,
and The Autumnal)
“Western gets weird in this gore-strewn, rollicking adventure set in the 1870s
…with a wink toward gothic Victorian horror.” – Publishers Weekly (Starred
Review)
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About Tim Seeley:
TIM SEELEY is one of those “slash” people…a writer-slash-artist. He has drawn a number of different comic book series including G.I JOE, HALLOWEEN, WILDCATS and ANT-MAN & WASP. His writing work include NIGHTWING, MONEY SHOT , INJUSTICE v. MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE ,the critically acclaimed REVIVAL, and the NY TIMES bestselling HACK/SLASH. He resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife, daughter and 80s action figure collection. Hometown: Chicago, IL
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Aaron Campbell has been working as a comics artist for a decade, and is now the co-writer of Vault Comics horror title, West of Sundown. During his time in comics, he’s illustrated the adventures of some of the world’s most iconic characters, including Hellblazer, Batman, Harley Quinn, The Shadow, Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, and Infidel, working with such revered writers as Garth Ennis, Matt Wagner, James Robinson, and Andy Diggle. Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
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About Jim Terry:
JIM TERRY is a Native American comic book artist who’s memoir Come Home, Indio was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Ignatz, as well as the artist on such titles as THE CROW, HACK/SLASH, HEAVY METAL and more. He is currently working on WEST OF SUNDOWN from Vault Comics. He lives in Chicago with his 4 cats.
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Giveaway Details:
2 winners will receive a finished copy of WEST OF SUNDOWN Vol. 1 & WEST OF SUNDOWN Vol. 2, US Only.
Ends August 15th, midnight EST.
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True Ghost Stories: Vile Encounters with Restless Spirits by Eve S. Evans
True Ghost Stories: Vile Encounters with Restless Spirits
by Eve S. Evans
I could watch true-life paranormal stories all day. I especially love the ones with the malevolent ghosts and spirits, the ones with the ill intent, not the peaceful passive little residual hauntings. So I dove into this volume, hoping to get my full fill of scary hauntings, and it did not disappoint. I wanted stories that would make me, a fully adult human, a little scared to walk out in the dark after reading. And I admit, without shame, that it did. I can’t even imagine the fear of the people, and their stories were great, exciting pieces of insight into how people deal with the supernatural at an emotional level. The stories were varied, so none felt repetitive or bland. If you like hauntings and people’s personal ghost stories, I would recommend this. It’s a fun late-night read to dive into in bed with the lights off. Tuck in snugly because some of the stories gave me the creeps.
Haunted Lakes: and Their Chilling Ghost Legends and Stories by Eve S. Evans
Haunted Lakes: And Their Chilling Ghost Legends
by Eve S. Evans
Haunted Lakes takes on the haunted geography of America, its theme about the various legends surrounding supposed hauntings on some famous and some unknown lakes. Really, you don’t realize how many women in white haunt lakes until their stories are all compiled together. I always enjoy thematic volumes, so I was engrossed in these stories. Lots of drownings, lost loves, accidents, and tragic wedding days. I can just imagine the generations of teenagers sneaking down to these locations to witness the paranormal in the dead of night, which is totally something I would have done if I were there. Of course, since so many of the stories were similar, it sometimes got a bit repetitive. But what I liked is that the author tried to describe the stories and settings in different ways to give each tale, no matter how similar to others, a bit of unique flair. I’m all about Haunted Geography, so many these will inspire campers to head down and do a little ghost hunting.
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