Eight Days of Coffin Hop – Anthologies! Carnage: After the End, Volume 1 & 2

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

CarnageV1_coverCarnage: After the End, Volume 1

The Apocalypse has come, leaving in its wake small pockets of survivors battling to stay alive; each carving out a new beginning for mankind.

The ten stories in Carnage: After the End – Volume One are the terrifyingly harsh and brutal realities those survivors must face. Each one takes us to a place where humanity’s stragglers are forced to battle with enemies outside of their control; mutant beasts, groups of depraved and desperate people, and the terrifying threat of a dwindling food supply. Their fight for survival gets even more difficult as they search among the tatters of civilization for the will to carry on.

In a world where society has collapsed and terror lurks around every corner, no one can be trusted and nothing can be taken for granted.

Hell has invaded and happy endings are a thing of the past…

Contributing Authors:
Kimberly A. Bettes, Shane Cashman, Shane R. Collins, Laura Diamond, Rodney James Galley, Michael Griffin, Russell Linton, Adam Millard, Christofer Nigro, and Julianne Snow.

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Carnage: After the End, Volume 2

Hell has invaded Earth and happy endings are a thing long since forgotten.

The ten stories in Carnage: After the End – Volume Two tell of the frighteningly horrific and cruel lives the survivors must face. Each one takes us to a place where humanity’s stragglers are forced to battle for their very existence against their own grim reality; creatures from different worlds or times, individuals or groups of miscreants who feed on the fear of the weak, and even the terrifying threat of unknown bacterial organisms. Their will to go on diminishing among the tatters of the civilization they once knew.

In a world where society has collapsed and terror lurks around every corner, no one can be trusted and nothing can be taken for granted.

The Apocalypse has come, leaving in its wake small pockets of survivors battling to stay alive; each carving out a new beginning for mankind…

Contributing Authors:
Angel D. Callido, Charlie Fish, Harper Hull, Magda Knight, Jason Lairamore, Harry Manners, Zachary O’Shea, Wednesday Silverwood, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and L.E. White.

Available from:

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Gimme the goods, man!
Picking the Coffin Hop Prize: There will be one winner from each day’s comments who is welcome to take a look through the Sirens Call Publications catalog and choose whichever e-book they would like. I’ll be randomly picking from each day at the end of the hop. (one prize per person on this blog, but hit my other two or The Sirens Song, you might get lucky again!)
Sotet Angyal – The Dark Angel
The Road to Nowhere…
The Sirens Song
Pen of the Damned
and don’t forget the other Coffin Hoppers!
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Eight Days of Coffin Hop – Anthologies! Now I Lay Me Down To Reap

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

Reaping_Cover_Final_for_ezineNow I Lay Me Down To Reap

The eighth commandment; thou shalt not steal.

But everyone covets something that isn’t theirs…

Wander down the darker paths of the minds of twelve brilliantly talented authors as they conjure stories of retribution, deceit and betrayal.

Would you chance your family’s fate to the gods in return for a favor? Are the finer things in life worth having once you know the cost someone else had to pay for you to indulge in them? Would you give up your most addictive passion so that others might reap the benefits, regardless of the reward? Or perhaps, the chance at a fresh start and a new life appeals to you? Are you prepared to reap what you have sown?

Within this collection, you’ll find tales all too believable and beyond your oddest imaginings. But there is one thing you will not find…

In this anthology, there are no happy endings.

Contributing Authors:
Ryan C. Anderson, Thomas James Brown, Aspen deLainey, John H. Dromey, Amber Keller, Christian A. Larsen, Jeffery X Martin, Lori Michelle, Sergio Palumbo, J. Marie Ravenshaw, Bill Read, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Available from:

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Gimme the goods, man!
Picking the Coffin Hop Prize: There will be one winner from each day’s comments who is welcome to take a look through the Sirens Call Publications catalog and choose whichever e-book they would like. I’ll be randomly picking from each day at the end of the hop. (one prize per person on this blog, but hit my other two or The Sirens Song, you might get lucky again!)
Sotet Angyal – The Dark Angel
The Road to Nowhere…
The Sirens Song
Pen of the Damned
and don’t forget the other Coffin Hoppers!
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Eight Days of Coffin Hop – Anthologies! Twisted Realities: Of Myth and Monstrosity

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

MandMFrontCoverTwisted Realities: Of Myth and Monstrosity

Myth or reality…

Explore the twelve tales of horror and intrigue in Twisted Realities: Of Myth and Monstrosity and ask yourself, what would you consider a fair price to pay for life immortal… or the chance of life at all?

Would a young woman pass up a shiny bauble if she believed it to be nothing more than a harmless trinket? What transpires once a year in a peaceful and remote village that no one will ever speak of? What better way for a broken man to honor a crippled existence than with a memorial of blood and vengeance? How could a disfigured woman ever dream of chancing across an object that would restore her beauty – and at what cost?

Follow the twists and turns of each writer as they delve into the legends of days gone by, as well as the consequences that are wrought when myths and monstrosities collide with our world.

Contributing Authors:
Thomas James Brown, Nina D’Arcangela, K. Trap Jones, Amber Keller, Lisamarie Lamb, Edward Lorn, Kate Monroe, Alexa Muir, Joseph A. Pinto, J. Marie Ravenshaw, Julianne Snow, and Jonathan Templar
Available from:

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Gimme the goods, man!
Picking the Coffin Hop Prize: There will be one winner from each day’s comments who is welcome to take a look through the Sirens Call Publications catalog and choose whichever e-book they would like. I’ll be randomly picking from each day at the end of the hop. (one prize per person on this blog, but hit my other two or The Sirens Song, you might get lucky again!)
Sotet Angyal – The Dark Angel
The Road to Nowhere…
The Sirens Song
Pen of the Damned
and don’t forget the other Coffin Hoppers!
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Eight Days of Coffin Hop – Anthologies! Childhood Nightmares: Under the Bed

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

CN_UTB_CoverChildhood Nightmares: Under the Bed

They haunt us all…

Those whispered tales of monsters hiding under the bed, or of the demons lurking in the shadowy corner where we dare not glance for fear that seeing them will make them all too real. Oh, how the innocent landscape of a child’s imagination lends fertile soil to horrors ready to be sown on the slightest of sounds; the tales and the terror they wreak on our youthful minds never quite leave us.

We asked the authors in this collection to reach into the forgotten recesses of their twisted minds and share with us the tales of nightmares that can only thrive in the hidden corners of a child’s imaginings; the bogeyman under the bed, the outlandishly fiendish creature lurking in the dark, the slight murmur of sound coming from the hall… did you close the door completely?

Explore the myriad terrors that only a child can twist from nothing into some ‘thing’ in the span of a single rapid breath. Do you dare delve into your own memories? Perhaps you’ll start sleeping with the lights on again…

Tell us, who is Under the Bed?

Contributing Authors:
Colin F. Barnes, Nina D’Arcangela, Phil Hickes, Amber Keller, Kim Krodel, Lisamarie Lamb, John McIlveen, Kate Monroe, Brandon Scott, Joshua Skye, Julianne Snow and Jack Wallen

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Gimme the goods, man!
Picking the Coffin Hop Prize: There will be one winner from each day’s comments who is welcome to take a look through the Sirens Call Publications catalog and choose whichever e-book they would like. I’ll be randomly picking from each day at the end of the hop. (one prize per person on this blog, but hit my other two or The Sirens Song, you might get lucky again!)
Sotet Angyal – The Dark Angel
The Road to Nowhere…
The Sirens Song
Pen of the Damned
and don’t forget the other Coffin Hoppers!
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The Savage Dead, by Joe McKinney

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

The Savage Dead
author: Joe Mckinney
genre: Zombie Horror

TheSavageDead_JoeMcKinneyIt starts in a laboratory. A man-made strain of flesh-eating virus. Created by a power-hungry cartel. Capable of turning victims into brain-dead carnivores. Smuggled aboard a cruise ship that’s about to set sail…One by one, the passengers are exposed. A U.S. senator. A young couple. An undercover agent. A beautiful assassin. Some will be infected. Others will survive. But no one will be spared if the outbreak isn’t contained – and the dead outnumber the living…Enter Delta Force operative Juan Perez. He’s fought the deadliest killers in the darkest hellholes on earth. But he’s never seen anything like this – an apocalyptic cargo of pure zombie mayhem heading for the coast. If Perez and his SEAL team can’t stop it, America, and quickly the entire population of the world, are finished. The plague years will begin…

Available on Amazon – click here!

 

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Lynnwood, Thomas Brown

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

Lynnwood
Thomas Brown

The unthinkable is happening in Lynnwood – a village with centuries of Lynnwoodguilt on its conscience.

Who wouldn’t want to live in an idyllic village in the English countryside like Lynnwood? With its charming pub, old dairy, friendly vicar, gurgling brooks, and its old paths with memories of simpler times.
But behind the conventional appearance of Lynnwood’s villagers, only two sorts of people crawl out of the woodwork: those who hunt and those who are prey. Visitors are watched by an entity between the trees where the Dark Ages have endured to the twenty-first century. Families who have lived behind stone walls and twitching curtains know that the gusts of wind blowing through the nearby alluring Forest bring with them a stench of delightful hunger only Lynnwood can appease.

Reviews:

“A quintessentially British folk horror chiller, with an escalating power of dread that is rendered deftly. A new voice in British horror, that you’ll want to read, has entered the field.” – Adam Nevill, Author of Apartment 16 and The Ritual

‘The plot line is new and exciting, I won’t say anymore about that because I don’t want to give it away! But I know I was surprised more than once at what was happening. If you are looking for a good book, definitely pick up this one.’ – Alison Mudge, Librarian, USA

“ … A dark journey not only of the mind, but of the soul. This beautifully crafted tale of the horror that lurks in a picturesque English village is hopefully the first of many to come from this brilliant young author. Mr. Brown’s extraordinary talent is evident as he paints a virtual feast for the reader with eloquently chosen prose in this powerfully engaging novel.” – Nina D’Arcangela

‘An exciting, on the edge of your seat gothic that will have readers begging for more.’ – Rosemary Smith, Librarian and Cayocosta Book Reviews

Available on Amazon

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What Tangled Webs, by Dan Dillard

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

What Tangled Webs
A collection by Dan Dillard

WTWA new series of scaries from Dan Dillard, author of Demons and Other Inconveniences. What Tangled Webs includes more stories of the macabre. Includes the novella, “The Wager”. Jacob Kane finds himself living in a hell on Earth. He’s lost the woman he loves, his peaceful life, and worst of all, his soul. What has the devil got in store for him? Bounty hunting the worst, most despicable people on the planet.

Cheating death, cheating time, looking for the easy way out. These things have consequences. Consequences that can be violent and painful.

What Tangled Webs we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

“What Tangled Webs” is short story collection that tells it like it might be.. when the balance is off and the monsters come out.

“…sufficiently gruesome. Dan Dillard has proven again that his imagination is twisted enough to warrant a place in the horror genre.” 5 Stars

“You will be riveted by some of these scary tales. And thankful they are only stories or are they?” 4 Stars

“…stories that remind me of the 1/2 hour horror shows that I used to watch growing up.” 4 Stars

“Superbly written and thoroughly engrossing, this is a fantastic read and perfectly balanced to send chills up and down your spine.” 5 Stars

Available on Amazon
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The Sirens Call eZine – Free Download

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

FREE DOWNLOAD!

The Sirens Call Issue #08 – Men in Horror

Featuring 98 pages of Short Stories, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Artwork, Book Ads, an interview with artist Mariusz ‘Noistromo’ Siergiejew, and an interview with Lane Kareska, author of the upcoming novella North Dark.

Because we featured an all female issue in February for WiHM, in the interest of being fair, this is our guys only issue!

Plenty of Fiction:
Fairbanks – Lars Kramhoft
Do Us Part – Brent Abell
Legacies – Alex Chase
Solitary – Jon Olson
First Person Shooter – Ken MacGregor
All or Nothing – Adam Millard
The Stairwell – C.W. Schultz
Oats – Joseph A. Pinto
Three Poems: She Took My Bones; Ruth; For Jill – Christopher Hivner
Man’s Best Friend – Chad P. Brown
Failed Experiment – Blaze McRob
Precautions – Jay Wilburn
Roadkill – Christofer Nigro
Urban Outdoorsman – Jeffrey Hollar
Wolf Song – Thomas Brown
The Predator – Timothy C. Hobbs
Confessions of an Ordinary Man – Benjamin T. McElroy
Eight Scared Women – Jerome Poirier
Hourly Rate – Douglas Rinaldi
Leech – Bruce Lockhart 2nd
Two Poems: The Passing; The House – Mathias Jansson
31 Flavors of Love – L.E. White
A Sleazebag Out of Time’s Grasp – Michael Shimek
Fifteen Minutes – James Everington

Plus our regular Features:
Editorial: Gender in Genre by Julianne Snow
Editorial: The Double D Factor in Horror by Nina D’Arcangela

and our 300 Word Comparative Flash:
Ghosts in the Field – Nina D’Arcangela
Forgotten – Julianne Snow

Pleas feel free to share this around, whether or not your name is on the list!

Visit Sirens Call Publications, where you can download all 8 issues for free!

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The Matriarch, by Kevin A. Ranson

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

The Matriarch
by Kevin A. Ranson

TheMatriarchGlenville Normal School – 1919
Sarah Louisa “Sis” Linn, class of 1877, is brutally murdered in her home on the school’s campus. No motive or murderer is found.

Glenville State College – 2013
Nearly 100 years has passed since Sis Linn’s unsolved murder. The school’s name has changed, and the story of her death and tales of her apparition have become fodder for frightening incoming freshmen. But a century is merely a moment for a spirit – and less than a blink of an eye for even more sinister entities that endure beyond the grave. Student Janiss Connelly will soon learn that not only are some ghost stories true, but that there are greater things to fear in life – and in death – than ghosts.

Kevin Ranson takes Janiss and you on a terrifying journey from the past to the present – and from this side of the grave to the next – to uncover not only the truth behind a century-old murder, but behind the centuries-old legends of the vampire.

You can pick up your copy on Amazon.com

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Insight behind “Sweet Nectar of Life”

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Nina D'Arcangela

Reblogged from Joseph A. Pinto: Insight behind “Sweet Nectar of Life”.

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I had a blast writing “Sweet Nectar of Life!”  It wasn’t such a blast getting there, however.

Just months before crafting the tale, my daughter entered this world.  I simply didn’t know how I’d cope.  I’d lost my father to pancreatic cancer only two months before, and the swell and swing of emotions was simply beyond my grasp.  I couldn’t comprehend that my own father was gone, let alone that I was becoming one.  It became a dark time within my heart, and I was oblivious to the sunshine surrounding me.

So how could I have had so much fun writing “Sweet Nectar of Life?”  It became very therapeutic for me; the story spoke and I listened.  My tongue firmly planted in my cheek throughout, it is nonetheless a dark tale, and the suspense and cold dread are without question palpable.  More than anything else though, “Sweet Nectar of Life” taught me an invaluable lesson.  If I did “dad” things instead of thinking I was now a “dad,” well, then “dad” would be just fine.  And I was.  From that point forward, being anything other than a dad to my sweet little sunshine seemed incomprehensible, and still is to this day.

“Sweet Nectar of Life” is currently in the Cruentus Libri Press anthology ‘The Dark Side of the Womb.’  A glowing review for the anthology can be found at Review Folder.

Wet your appetite with a little taste:

“Sweet Nectar of Life”

DSotWYet did I somehow… no, impossible!  I’m beginning to sound like a crazy man.  But what if… what if I’d inadvertently cursed the child while it still lay in its mother’s womb?  Like the hex the infamous Mother Leeds placed on her ill-fated thirteenth infant, doomed to suffer a fate only the damned could appreciate. 

I’d done no such thing, of course.  Not consciously.  Oh but how the worry picks at my brain the way a rat nibbles on discarded scraps!  And I did have my worries.  I was justified to have my worries.  I’d expect any man to have them – but would they voice them as I had?  Raising a child in today’s world… the corruption of society… the erosion of morals… the implosion of economics…  I’m not ashamed for stating that a man and woman could be considered downright selfish for introducing an innocent soul into this cesspool we call humanity.  What is greater – the loss or the gain?

Read more on Joseph Pinto’s blog at Insight behind “Sweet Nectar of Life”.

Or head over to Amazon to pick up a copy: Dark Side of the Womb

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