THE DISAPPEARED by David B. Silva Dark Regions Press Ten years ago: Gabriel Knight, age 11, takes a bike ride to the park and becomes one of the … disappeared. When Teri Knight answers a knock at the front door, she discovers her son Gabriel standing in the doorway. Only it can’t be her son. Gabe took a bike ride …

A call for boycotting Dorchester from Brian Keene http://www.briankeene.com/?p=6140

ALICE ON THE SHELF by Bill Gauthier (Bad Moon Books) “Where’s Alice? Down the Rabbit Hole.When Brad awakens with this question on his lips but his friend Miranda on his mind, a sense of unease fills him. When he finds she isn’t home, and a strange visitor is outside her house looking for a missing pocket watch, Brad knows something …

Twilight Hankerings – Things That Go Bite in the Night (Crossroad Press) CONTENTS: Peacemaker The Boxcar Consumption Then Came a Woodsman Oh, Sordid Shame! The Thing at the Side of the Road Whorehouse Hollow Thinning the Herd From the author: “”Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “appetite” as: a) any of the instinctive desires necessary to keep up organic life; specifically: …

THE BONE TREE by Christopher Fulbright (Bad Moon Books) Above a Civil War graveyard in the backwoods of Texas, Kevin and Bobby’s treehouse was their haven against the world. But the day Tom Plecker comes screaming through the creek below, terrified of a shadow man, that all changes. Walking Tom home they see it — the tree, its branches twisted …

AS I EMBRACE MY JAGGED EDGES by Lee Thompson Sideshow Press – 2011 Entrusted with a bronze shard of Solomon’s Temple, Boaz’s family has lived in constant danger. Moving from place to place, they have protected the relic from people who wanted to use its magick to procure wisdom and power over demons. It’s a demanding and dangerous responsibility; one …

Willy by Robert Dunbar (Uninvited Books) In a school for boys with emotional problems, a disturbed adolescent struggles against a mire of superstition and oppression. Then he meets Willy … and the other boy – charismatic and strange – saves him. Or damns him.

VALLEY OF THE SCARECROW by Gord Rollo Dark Regions Press During the great depression, a small backwoods community in Iowa face even more difficult times than most, having to endure the slowly fading sanity of their leader, Reverend Joshua Miller. When it is clear the man has slipped beyond the edge of reason and perhaps signed a deal with the …

The king of “Southern Fried Horror” Ronald Kelly has published a new and original piece of short fiction. You can read the story here.

Finally, one of my favorite and one of the best horror editors is back in the game. Don D’Auria was the former executive editor for Dorchester Publishing’s Leisure Books imprint. When Dorchester decided to restructure Don was shown the door. He has now been hired by Samhain Publishing to launch a new line of horror fiction. Don has worked with …

LORD OF THE MOUNTAIN By William Ollie “October 1929 Times are hard in Whitley, West Virginia, and harder times are just around the corner. But not for William Pitch, as long as he returns to Ward Rock Mountain and gives that creature what he wants. And not for the Mayor or the Judge, or the young country doctor as long …

The Vampire Hunters – Book 1 by Scott M. Baker “Modern day vampire hunters wage a brutal battle against the undead in the nation’s capital. As former Boston cops, Drake Matthews and Alison Monroe thought they had experienced it all… until they found themselves tracking down a serial killer who turned out to be one of the undead. Stopping him …

“Recovering from a violent trauma, Marcus Banyon comes to perceive a different reality. Has he suffered a psychotic break as his doctors suggest? Or have his eyes been opened to forces long hidden from the rest of humanity? As he and his wife retreat to an isolated cabin, Marc’s visions lead them to an ancient mythology steeped in mystery and …

Mischief Night by Paul Melniczek “When Rusty and his friends decide to visit the local neighborhood haunted house on Halloween night, they get much more than they bargained for, becoming embroiled in a hair-raising escapade which threatens to drag them into a living nightmare. There are more tricks than treats to be found in this old fashioned Halloween romp, and …

Gardens Of Night by Greg F. Gifune “The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.” ~ D. H. Lawrence “Recovering from an unthinkably violent trauma, Marcus Banyon comes to perceive a different reality. Have his eyes been opened to forces long hidden from the …