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Exclusive Wordfire Press Pre Order Launch of Midnight Lullabies by Jonathan Maberry!
WordFire Press is proud to share an exclusive pre-order of Midnight Lullabies: Unquiet Stories and Poems, a collection of the horror short stories and poems –both old and new—by NY Times bestselling author and 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, Jonathan Maberry. Cover Art by Lynn Hansen.
It’s dark out there…and it lasts a long time…
In the darkest hours of the night the natural world yields to the creatures who dwell in the dark. A serial killer who adopts orphaned children during the apocalypse; a heartbreaking reconciliation of two estranged brothers; a paralyzed MMA fighter receiving an offer he can’t refuse; strange voices crying out from the heart of a collapsed mountain; a little girl who enlists the aid of the monsters in her closet to battle cosmic horror; a delicious revenge by a refugee from the death camps; rednecks battling zombies; a terrified child whose family has become monsters; Earth-borne horrors taking hold on an alien world; and more! Plus, new horror tales and eerie poems.
With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author, Joe R. Lansdale.
About the author:
JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, editor, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action; for adults, teens and middle grade. He is the editor many anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Don’t Turn Out the Lights, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. His comics include Black Panther: DoomWar, Captain America, Pandemica, Highway to Hell, The Punisher and Bad Blood. He is the editor of Weird Tales Magazine, and the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. Website: www.jonathanmaberry.com Find @jonathanmaberry on Instagram, Twitter, and Threads; and https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.maberry.5/
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Leaving soon: these titles are leaving this Wednesday June 5th!
Hellhound on My Trail: Rock Band Fights Evil 1 by D.J. Butler
Guilt-ridden boozer Mike Archuleta stands in on bass for just a single gig. One more show is all he wants, before he shoots himself out of loneliness and guilt over the death of his brother.
Hell has other plans, though; before he can even get off the stage, the bar is on fire and Mike is running and gunning for his life, with a Hellhound—and worse---on his heels.
Cults of Death and Madness: The Book of Ancient Evil 1 by John Haas
The Thuggees see their goddess Kali in the ancient book, but Shaw knows it’s a much older god in those pages.
A Hero Born: Realms of Chaos 1 by Michael A. Stackpole
An apprentice swordsman, Locke has ridden the narrow trail to the City of the Sorcerers to see with his own eyes the Ward Walls that hold back the Realms of Chaos. It is Locke’s dream to become a Chaos Rider, and he seeks his destiny beyond the Wall. And it is Locke’s hope that somewhere in the Wildness, where time and change rage out of control, his lost father still survives.
But more than mere survival is at stake. For on the other side of the Wall awaits a Darkness beyond all ken—a burgeoning evil that will test the steel of one young hero … and the entire bold and foolish race called Humanity.
Coming this Wednesday!
Zen In the Art of Slaying Vampires by Steven-Elliot Altman
How to control the bloodlust?
How to find inner peace as the living dead?
The Way of the Wooden Stake.
One man rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body terribly transformed…
He strains to overcome his murderous instincts through zen meditation and blood deprivation.
He is reclaimed by The Ministry, an underground society waging war with the undead.
Again and again he will find his will tested, and his thirst tempted, by the killers who demand his allegiance … and the zen masters who will burn him down at his first missed step…
He must walk a tightrope between the living and the dead ... to master himself and his hunger. And the way of the wooden stake...
The 25th Anniversary Revised Author Edition of LA Times bestselling author Steven-Elliot Altman’s controversial Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires. Foreword by New York Times bestseller Nancy Holder, author of Angel, Smallville, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels.
The Best of Penny Dread Tales edited by Kevin J. Anderson and Quincy J. Allen
Four years of Penny Dread Tales have revealed some fantastic talent. In this edition we’ve collected the cream of the crop. Herein lies the very Best of Penny Dread Tales: fourteen stories of boiler-splitting steampunk with a blend of sci-fi, paranormal, western, and horror. These stories will take you on a thrilling ride and you will love every minute of it!
Including stories by: Cayleigh Hickey, Aaron Michael Ritchey, J.M. Franklin, Gerry Huntman, Laura Givens, Keith Good, Quincy J. Allen, David Boop, Vivian Caethe, Aaron Spriggs, David W. Landrum, Sam Knight, Mike Cervantes, and Jonathan D. Beer.
The Aeronaut by Bryan Young
Action, espionage, and romance in an alternate version of World War I
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Europe is at war. Bloody trenches on the front lines form a new kind of hell that has never before been seen on the battlefield.
Computational machinery has allowed great technological leaps on both sides—and trench warfare is even deadlier for soldiers at the front.
Some men go to war to defend their homeland or to prove themselves. But Robert Preston flees America and joins the French Army to escape heartbreak.
He's placed in the 5th Aeronautic Corps, an elite unit that specializes in using high-tech jetpacks to leap over trenches and the No Man’s Land between them. It’s a dangerous job with a low survival rate, but Preston is determined to make a difference.
There, he meets a man he calls his best friend, and a woman he believes is the love of his life. But a top-secret mission behind enemy lines, and a heart full of jealousy, threatens to tear the three of them apart forever.
New Releases
The Call of the Canyon with Original Foreword by Jeffrey J. Mariotte by Zane Grey
From one of the greatest writers of Western fiction.
It’s the early 1920s, and Carley Burch loves New York City life.
Carley Burch also loves Glenn Kilbourn.
Will Carley travel all the way from New York City to the wilds of Arizona to bring Glenn, her fiancé, back to civilization?
Recovered from injuries he received during World War I, Glenn found a home in Oak Creek Canyon. Can he convince Carley to make Arizona her new home?
Zane Grey is well known for his rough-and-tumble westerns, soaring descriptions, and love of the outdoors. He includes all of that in this tale of Carley’s journey to what is truly important to her—whether it’s life as a New York socialite or Glenn’s wife and partner.
This fine new edition of the Zane Grey classic includes an original foreword by multiple award-winning writer Jeffrey J. Mariotte.
About the author:
Pearl Zane Grey, the fourth child of Alice Josephine Zane and Lewis Gray, was born in Zanesville, Ohio. After Zane’s birth, the family changed their last name from Gray to Grey. Lewis Grey, a dentist, did not want his son to waste his time writing stories. Lewis ripped up Zane’s first story when he was only fifteen. The only thing Zane wanted to do was play baseball and write, but he was forced into dentistry for practical reasons.
Zane attended the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship. He was a decent athlete and played in the minor leagues. After graduation with a degree in dentistry, Zane moved to New York and opened his dentistry business where he struggled with his need to write. He went camping and fishing with his brother in Pennsylvania where he met Lina Roth, known as Dolly. Zane and Dolly were married in 1905. He warned her he would not stop being a free spirit and had numerous affairs after his marriage.
In 1918, the Zanes moved to California and settled in Altadena in 1920. Dolly, a former schoolteacher, edited all of Zane’s manuscripts and managed his career including all his contracts. Zane traveled and explored the west, went fishing, and wrote. He had a cabin in Oregon on the Rogue River, and in the desert by the Mogollon Rim near Payson, Arizona. He wrote articles for magazines, serializations, and novels. His most famous novel was Riders of the Purple Sage. In 1939, Zane Grey died at the age of 67. After his death, his wife and son published some of his unfinished novels. At least fifty movies were made based on his novels.
About the editor:
Eva Eldridge, Student Editor, Biography
Eva Eldridge has edited three editions of SandScript, an award-winning art and literary magazine. Recently she curated and edited Trouble in Tucson, an anthology of mystery stories located in the Tucson, Arizona, area. She is currently enrolled in the Publishing cohort of Western Colorado University’s Graduate Programs.
Traveling to cooler climates is one of the ways Eva manages to avoid the desert heat, but she always returns to Tucson where she enjoys gardening, food, summer storms, and writing about her travels. Eva’s travel writing and podcasts can be found at https://blendradioandtv.com/.
She lives with her husband and Sera, a pushy old dog. Her website can be found at http://evaeldridge.com.