Journalstone’s 2011 Warped Words – 90 Minutes to Live “There’s a time to live and a time to die When it’s time to meet the maker There’s a time to live, but isn’t it strange As soon as you’re born you’re dying” Bruce Dickinson-Iron Maiden Clairvoyant 1988 A true milestone for any budding author is to pen a tale that …
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Book Review: Nightmare Ballad – Author Benjamin Kane Ethridge
NIGHTMARE BALLAD By: Benjamin Kane Ethridge JournalStone Publishing 260 Pages When part time swim instructor Luke Rhodes witnesses the inconceivable, a drowning within his pool, his life slowly becomes unravelled. Haunted by the chords and melodies of a vague recollection in song, he becomes possessed in unravelling its meaning. Cognitive snippets of recollection burst within his memory as the body …
Read More »Book Review: Cthulu Blues – Author Douglas Wynne
Cthulu Blues By Douglas Wynne JournalStone Publishing 232 Pages Becca Philips is a tormented soul. Struggling with a burden of regular nightmares, her subconscious is beckoning something beyond this world. Her one and only true ally Jason of the SPECTRA paranormal investigation team may be her only semblance in her sanity. The two’s reunion is more sinister than either of …
Read More »Book Review: The Conveyance – Author Brian W. Matthews
THE CONVEYANCE By Brian W. Matthews JournalStone Publishing 255 Pages The sleepy hollow of Emersville is not quite as serene and uneventful to the unsuspecting eye. Dr. Brad Jordan, a psychologist struggles to help determine the mental malady of a childhood patient named Doug. As the psychological layers are peeled back one mystifying circumstance is unfolded after the next. Could …
Read More »Book Review: The Devil of Echo Lake – Author Douglas Wynne
THE DEVIL OF ECHO LAKE By Douglas Wynne JournalStone Publishing A heavy metal/gothic rock star named Billy Moon begins to soon realize his fame and fortune has come at a rather unholy cost. Signing to record his third album in the famed, secluded Echo Lake Studios, a converted church with a macabre past, Moon begins to come apart at the …
Read More »Book Review: Forever Man – Author Brian W. Matthews
FOREVER MAN By: Brian W. Matthews JournalStone Publishing The quaint town of Kinsey, Michigan has been overthrown to chaos as a young boy is found mutilated in the local woods after a high school dance. His date remains missing. After Police Chief Izzy Morris has been dispatched to the scene she realizes the very real terror no parent should have …
Read More »Book Review: He Who Walks in Shadow – Author Brett J. Talley
He Who Walks In Shadow By: Brett J. Talley JournalStone Publishing 179 Pages “Well, that’s quite the story, isn’t it? Not exactly what one wants to hear on the eve of an expedition,” He laughed, but it was no more honest than his smile. After the ominous book, The Incendium Maleficarum has disappeared from the personal safe of Carter Weston, …
Read More »Book Review: Revelation – Author Brian W. Matthews
Revelation By: Brian W. Matthews JournalStone Publishing 175 Pages “I’m too old to believe in coincidence,” Bartholomew Owens. When an ancient artifact shows up at collector Miles Knight’s home, something most monumental begins to unfold. The silk bag containing the article possesses qualities that challenge the very parameters of his perception. While a band of unearthly dwellers will stop at …
Read More »Book Review: Contrition – Author Robert E. Hirsch
CONTRITION By: Robert E. Hirsch Journalstone Publishing When a mysterious drifter is saved in a small town off the gulf coast of the Mississippi, strange things begin to transpire. Brother Joseph of The Holy Cross had saved the stranger, Tristan from certain drowning. He’s acquired a certain sense of amnesia knowing little about his past, how he’d gotten into his …
Read More »Book Review: The Donors – Author Jeffrey Wilson
THE DONORS By Jeffrey Wilson JournalStone Publishing Every now and again the literary world presents a gift unto horror fans that is the pinnacle of restoring all that is delightfully macabre in the realm of terror. Undoubtedly Jeffrey Wilson is one such gift. Breaking away from the monotony and refusing to gravitate to saturated markets the masses salivate over, Wilson …
Read More »Book Review: Summer’s End – Author Lisa Morton
A celebrated author and historian on Halloween rituals is contacted to assist in interpreting an ancient Celtic manuscript. While an Irish archaeologist exhumed the rare find and is working around the clock to translate it, something seems dreadfully awry. Could the passages and pages contain a conjuring to unleash the malevolent Sidh to rain hellfire and brimstone on its unsuspecting …
Read More »Book Review: The Demon’s Wife – Author Rick Hautala
THE DEMON’S WIFE By: Rick Hautala JournalStone Publishing 318 Pages When Claire McMullen has succumbed to the mediocre misgivings in life her defenses ultimately come down. Despising her job, putting up with a questionable roommate and realizing Mr. Right may be just romantic dream, she embarks upon the bar scene with her friend Sally. A mysterious stranger named Samael enters …
Read More »JournalStone Publishing’s Limbus, Inc. Comes to Barnes & Noble Bookstores
JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that Limbus, Inc., the collaborative anthology featuring five authors (Jonathan Maberry, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Joseph Nassise, Brett J. Talley and Anne C. Petty – Editor) and the obscure corporate entity of Limbus, Inc. will be stocked in select Barnes & Noble bookstores. “We are very pleased with our progress …
Read More »Book Review: Special Dead – Author Patrick Freivald
SPECIAL DEAD By: Patrick Freivald JournalStone Publishing 260 Pages As the dust settles from the ill-fated high school prom Ani Romero and seven additional survivors have been held in a quarantine type environment to resume their studies. Far from the conventional curriculum the students have to cope with trigger itchy soldiers wielding flame throwers, outside radical protestors and continuous poking …
Read More »Book Review: Steel Breeze – Author Douglas Wynne
STEEL BREEZE By: Douglas Wynne Journalstone Publishing 256 Pages Desmond Carmichael is an ordinary everyday single father struggling to make ends meet and bring up his young son in a happy, healthy, safe environment. Tortured by the pain of his wife Sandy’s untimely demise, it seems as though her memory exudes through everything. Now a very real, and undeniable threat …
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