Hopedale Press Year End Extravaganza!

Hopedale Press is offering all its short fiction at reduced sale prices for a limited time, starting Saturday, December 28th, 2013!  Virtually all short fiction will be between .99-1.99 on both the Kindle and Nook platforms! What better way to welcome the New Year?

Celebrate the Spooky Season With Hopedale Press!

Celebrate the Spooky Season With A Halloween-Themed Ebook From Hopedale Press!

The Pumpkin Child

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Calaverada

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Judgment Night 
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IT CAME FROM LOVERS LANE: A Cthulhu Mythos Story Now Available In DRM-Free Mobi & ePub Straight From My Blog

It's the 1950s and Misty Valley is just another sleepy, All-American town, nestled along the Miskatonic River. Unlike sister cities Arkham and Dunwich, Misty Valley has managed to avoid the peculiar occurrences that have plagued the region since the days of the colonial witch trials. 

That is, until the night Carol Anne Fairweather and her boyfriend, Billy Mahan, parked too far down on Lover's Lane. On that old, foggy night Billy was attacked and knocked unconscious, while Carol Anne was brutally raped by someone--or something--that came out of the woods. 

Now, in order to clear his name, Billy must discover what really happened that horrible night. But can his mind withstand the awful truth he uncovers? Or will he end up as mad as Old Gooney, the crazed hermit who claims to keep watch against the dark forces that would make Misty Valley their own? 

"It Came From Lovers Lane" was a Finalist for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Best Novelette in 1996

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RETURN TO HELL HOUSE Ebook Now Available Directly From Author (Mobi & ePub)

1927: Infamous millionaire occultist Emeric Belasco disappears without a trace, leaving behind dozens of dead bodies in the rambling, isolated mansion known as Hell House. 

1931: A team of parapsychologists enter Hell House in order to solve the riddle of Belasco's ultimate fate, only to meet with horror, insanity and death. The doors to Hell House are closed and locked for nine years.

1940: A second team of psychic and scientific experts, including the 15 year-old "Ghost Boy" Benjamin Franklin Fischer--the most gifted physical medium in modern history--return to explore the secrets of the most haunted house in the world--only to find Hell House eagerly awaiting its newest guests. 

This novella was written, with permission from Richard Matheson, as a prequel to his classic haunted house novel, Hell House (1971), and originally appeared in the tribute anthology He Is Legend (Gauntlet Press, 2009). 

Warning: Contains Graphic Sex Scenes

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JUDGMENT NIGHT: A Tale Of Terror Now Available In Mobi Or ePub Directly From My Blog

Four bored and alienated teens break into a house on Halloween in order to play a trick on the owner, only to find themselves the prey of a depraved serial killer. Can they survive a night of unspeakable horror and escape a madman's terrible judgment? 

Based on the true-life crimes of Dean Corll and Jack Walls III. 

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Happy Hopedale Halloween Giveaway!

Hopedale Press, my epublishing venture, is pleased to announce its celebrating the Halloween season with a special promotion: The Happy Hopedale Halloween Giveaway!

Starting Midnight (PST) Monday, October 22^nd  and running until the Witching Hour (PST)  Thursday, October 26^th, every Halloween-themed ebook in the Hopedale Press catalog will be available for free on Amazon Kindle.

 The ebooks that comprise the giveaway promotion are The Pumpkin Child, Judgment Night and Calaverada (which is set during Dia de los Muertos, but why split hairs?).

In THE PUMPKIN CHILD, a desperate man makes a deal with a witch to exchange his luck with that of the man he envies most, only to have his chickens come home to roost on a dark Halloween night.  

Free On Kindle

In JUDGMENT NIGHT, a group of bored, outcast kids decide to break into a house on Halloween night in order to vandalize it, only to find themselves at the mercy of a depraved serial killer.  

Free On Kindle

In CALAVERADA, a band of hired killers arrive in Old Mexico in search of outlaws on the Day Of The Dead

Free On Kindle

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM HOPEDALE PRESS!

Hopedale Press Present Walking Wolf: A Weird Western

Walking Wolf a/k/a Billy Skillet is the orphaned son of white settlers, found as an infant by the warrior called Eight Clouds  and raised to be a proud Comanche brave. He also happens to be a werewolf. When he loses control of his darker nature and ends up killing both the woman he loves and his best friend, he must head out into the White Man's world to learn more about who--and what--he is. He travels the Old West, crossing the paths of deranged serial killers, a traveling medicine show, a vampire gunslinger, and even a fellow werewolf, as well as such historical figures as Quanah Parker and Sitting Bull. But of all the dangers he finds himself facing, none is as deadly as the bounty hunter known as Witchfinder Jones, who holds the secret of Walking Wolf's origins.

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The Original Sunglasses After Dark Cover

The original cover for Sunglasses After Dark, first published in 1989, was by artist Mel Odom, an immensely talented and highly stylized illustrator whose work has graced numerous book covers over the last 20+ years, as well as periodicals such as Playboy, Andy Warhol's Interview and The Advocate (which recently pubbed an article about Gene, a collectible 'art doll' that Mel designed). I attribute a good deal of the success of Sunglasses After Dark to its striking cover. In a time when 99.9% of all "horror" novels had embossed black covers featuring either a skeleton, skull or a demonic child (if not all three) , mine was released with a white cover and free of type. If you have a copy with this artwork, but with a title  across the top, you have a 2nd edition.  Mel's design for Sunglasses After Dark was nominated for, and won, several design awards within the commercial publishing industry that year. He would later provide covers for Tempter and In The Blood as well.