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Hey guys. It’s that time of year again. Go over to Goodreads and write in Limbus, Inc. in the Horror category on the Goodreads Choice Awards.That will make me love you.

The Void is still on sale for 99 cents, and now you can add Limbus, Inc. to the sale list as well! 99 cents on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. And considering that you are getting stories from true horror heavyweights Jonathan Maberry, Joseph Nasisse, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, and Anne Petty (not to mention me), I don’t know how you can pass it up.

The Void

You know, like most proud parents, my first is my favorite (sorry to break this to all of you second and third children). So sometimes, I lavish all my praise on That Which Should Not Be while ignoring my other children. Well, now it’s time to celebrate The Void! So starting today and through the Halloween weekend, pick up The Void for only 99 cents for your Kindle or your Nook. I promise you won’t regret it.

Hard to argue with this analysis, particularly the “hot” part.

Check it out here. The discussion starts around the 38 minute mark. (h/t to Sean on Goodreads)

I don’t think they liked it, though who can say? Nice to see they dug up a picture of me at the Kentucky Derby, though. Check it out here if you can read Cyrillic.

It had to happen eventually, and now it has. After two years and 108 reviews, That Which Should Not Be has finally received its first one star review on Amazon. I present it here in its entirety. From June Savard:

I could’nt even get into this book, I just took it off my reader, so I really can’t tell you more.

Now, I could complain about all that’s wrong with this review. But I’m not going to do that. As I said, this is a time to celebrate. 69 five star reviews. 29 four star reviews. 6 three star reviews. 3 two star reviews. And 1 lonely one star review. How lucky I am.

A big thank you to all of you who have read and reviewed That Which Should Not Be. It’s been truly an honor to write for you. Even you, one star.

Tonight I’ll be hanging out at the Daily Dish in Silver Spring, Maryland–one of the best restaurants in the DC Area–for a Halloween Reading and Book Signing. I’ll be reading from That Which Should Not Be and Haunted Tuscaloosa, answering questions, signing and selling books, and generally having a spooky time with everyone involved. To make things even better,Flying Dog Brewery out of Frederick, Maryland will be sponsoring the event, and they are featuring their Halloween themed brews, The Truth, The Fear, and the Belgian Devil!

In other words, it’s going to be one awesome night. I hope that everyone in the DC, Maryland, Virginia area can make it out, and I hope that you will support my friends at the Daily Dish and Flying Dog.

The Daily Dish is located at 8301 Grubb Road, Silver Spring, MD, 20910. Call them at 301.588.6300

The fun starts at 6:00 PM!

The .99 cent sale on Kindle and Nook versions of That Which Should Not Be ends tomorrow, so buy now!

Something a little different this week…

October. The greatest month of the year. And the perfect time to read some classic horror. Below is a reading list for those of you who seek the dark places of the world. Beware the shadows!

1. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny–The definitive horror novel for the month of October, the criminally underrated A Night in the Lonesome October tells the story of Jack and his loyal dog snuff as they seek to prevent the return of the Great Old Ones on Halloween Night. In the process, they have to deal with Vampires, Frankenstein, Werewolves, Witches and the like. The book is written in 31 chapters, one for every day of the month. Oh, and did I mention it’s all told from the perspective of the dog? Truly one of my top ten favorite books of any genre, this is a book you need to read.

2. High Moor by Graeme Reynolds — There are numerous reasons to love this book, but let’s start with the literary ones. High Moor takes the tired, metrosexualized werewolf genre and injects desperately needed excitement, violence, horror, and heart. High Moor is a page-turner of the highest quality, and when you finish it you will immediately buy High Moor 2: Moonstruck, and then you will wish High Moor 3 was already available. But there’s another reason to love High Moor. Graeme Reynolds is an example for unpublished authors all over. He believed in High Moor so he embarked on the treacherous world of self-publication, and he did it the right way, paying for an editor and a professional cover design. I’m just waiting on the movie. Read my review here.

3. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson — You can’t have Halloween without a haunted house, and there is no greater story about a haunted house than Shirley Jackson’s classic story of isolation, alienation, and good old fashioned ghosts. Just check out this first line–“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

4. The Mourning House by Ronald Malfi — Another story of a haunted house, The Mourning House is the shortest entry on this list. It is also one of the best. In life, there are times when one comes upon a work of art that is so stunning, so brilliant, and so fantastic that the mind struggles to accept that it is real. So is Ronald Malfi’s Mourning House. For years, I have searched for a piece of storytelling, a novel, a short-story, a movie, a television show, that could chill me. That could reach down in my soul and twist it. That could make me shudder and break out in goosebumps. Something I could savor every moment of and enjoy at some deep, transcendent level. It’s a rare thing, a piece of fiction like that. But “Mourning House” accomplished it. I loved this story. I loved every word, every syllable. I found myself reading it line-by-line, both afraid and excited to scroll down and see what was next.

5. Verland: The Transformation by B.E. Scully — Verland is by no means a perfect book, but it is one of the best vampire stories to emerge in the last few years. Scully has an eye for detail, perfectly describing her settings without drowning the reader in the sort of overindulgent excess that plagues so many books. Scully’s characters are as deeply fleshed out as her scenery. These are people with flaws and strengths that the reader will believe in. There’s also little of the convenient stupidity that is a staple of horror–no one runs up the stairs when they should run out the front door. All and all, a great choice if you are in the mood for vamps, though if you haven’t read Dracula, do yourself a favor and go for it.

All three of my novels–That Which Should Not Be, The Void, and Limbus, Inc.–are available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble for .99 each until October 6! So if I am worth less than a cup of coffee to you, buy my books today! Amazon links to each are below.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005RR20RM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005RR20RM&linkCode=as2&tag=thsithshnobe-20

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008IUV4UY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008IUV4UY&linkCode=as2&tag=thsithshnobe-20

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CHMIYP2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00CHMIYP2&linkCode=as2&tag=thsithshnobe-20

On Thursday, October 17, I’ll be hanging out at the Daily Dish in Silver Spring, Maryland–one of the best restaurants in the DC Area–for a Halloween Reading and Book Signing! I’ll be reading from That Which Should Not Be and Haunted Tuscaloosa, answering questions, signing and selling books, and generally having a spooky time with everyone involved. To make things even better, Flying Dog Brewery out of Frederick, Maryland will be sponsoring the event, and they are featuring their Halloween themed brews, The Truth, The Fear, and the Belgian Devil!

In other words, it’s going to be one awesome night. I hope that everyone in the DC, Maryland, Virginia area can make it out, and I hope that you will support my friends at the Daily Dish and Flying Dog.

The Daily Dish is located at 8301 Grubb Road, Silver Spring, MD, 20910. Call them at 301.588.6300

The fun starts at 6:00 PM!