Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Anything Can Be Dangerous

Anything Can Be Dangerous Review



Anything Can be Dangerous contains four amazing stories, plus a preview to the highly praised novel Husk, by Matt Hults. The stories include:

Anything can be Dangerous ~ the simple things in life can kill.

Through the Valley of Death ~ a dark vampire story that will make you remember fear.

The Finger ~ zombie literature has never been so extraordinary.

Feeding Frenzy ~ lunchtime in a place called Hell.

Husk ~ this is what people are saying about Husk:

"Matt Hults delivers a crackling, creepy tale. A fast-paced read with a generous body count, 'Husk' will make your skin crawl."
-Scott Nicholson, Bestselling author of They Hunger

"Remember the first time you read Joe Lansdale's The Drive-In, or Freezer Burn? Remember how exhilarated you felt as you tore through the pages as Lansdale kept knocking your jaw to the floor with his endless inventiveness, unexpected belly-laughs, and those even more unexpected moments of terror and pathos? Miss that feeling of being completely at the mercy of a writer's imagination and boundless energy for his subject? Fret no more, friends-you now have Matt Hults's Husk. This sucker is the real thing, an in-your-face, rollicking, scary, funny, and unexpectedly poignant potpourri of a horror story, an unabashed and unapologetic throwback to the early pulps infused with a vindictive modern-day sensibility that will have your head spinning and your mouth hanging open. It doesn't get any more fun than this."
-Gary A. Braunbeck, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award, author of Coffin County and Destinations Unknown

"Suspenseful and gruesome, with just the right leavening of hopefulness and nod-wink humor."
-Dr. Kim Paffenroth, Bram Stoker Award Winner for Dying to Live.

"Husk is wild, bloody, scary, action-packed, and entertaining as hell. Matt Hults seems to be having a blast telling his tale, and I had a blast going along for the ride. Great fun!"
-Jeff Strand, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of PRESSURE

"'Husk' is a chilling and relentless tale that will make you want to check your closets, lock your windows and keep an eye in your review mirror...but don't think that'll save you!"
--Fran Friel, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of Mama's Boy

"Husk is violent, intense and terrifying. The characters are as real as you and I, and every triumph is rapturous while every death is harrowing. Matt Hults proves himself as a master of the genre with his striking debut novel. It will leave you feeling skinned alive and dying for more."
-Joel A. Sutherland, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of Frozen Blood

"I have come across some pretty mind-blowing demons on paper, on the big screen, and especially in my mind. But the 'Husk' Matt Hults created in this his first novel breaks all my thresholds for fear, and believe me I have built some pretty sound barriers in my time."
-Giovanna Lagana, author of With Black & White Comes the Grey


Saturday, March 10, 2012

Underneath

Underneath Review



For Dean Lovell, the nightmare begins with a dare that comes with the promise of violence if he chickens out: He must ask out on a date the school pariah, a horribly disfigured girl named Stephanie Watts. Dean agrees, and soon learns that there is more to Stephanie than anyone dared imagine, that beneath the scars, there are terrifying secrets underneath...

A short story from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY.

***WARNING: Contains some scenes of violence and strong language***


Wednesday, March 7, 2012

OPEN: A Short Horror Tale

OPEN: A Short Horror Tale Review



A stop at a roadside diner on a dark desolate road forces a man to face his horrific past and come to terms with what he had done. He must face death itself and make a decision that will affect his eternity. How far will he go to escape his current fate despite the terrible consequences it may cause?

Find yourself a comfy seat and enjoy this short tale of love and horror.


Monday, March 5, 2012

Fire From Heaven: A Horror Novel

Fire From Heaven: A Horror Novel Review




FIRE FROM HEAVEN

Written By Pator Jomo K. Johnson

Jacob Collin's Church hasn't been the same since the economic collapse of his hometown Flint Michigan during the 1980's. Throughout the following years, crime and poverty have turned the once upscale Church into a shadow of its former self. Despite his best efforts to revive the city, the seasoned Pastor begins to question his calling.

After a series of assaults on his congregants, Jacob decides that it is too costly to turn the other cheek. In his anger, he publicly curses the neighborhood where the assaults happened, by praying that God destroy the area. Two days later the area suffers a tragic fire that leaves many in the neighborhood dead. Jacob is shocked to see his words fulfilled. He is even more amazed when the survivors of the fire flock to the Church to seek God's forgiveness and reconciliation.

When Jacob learns the true cause of the fire, he must choose to allow the city to believe a lie or continue with a ministry of vengeance, knowing that the secret could be his undoing.
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Friday, March 2, 2012

SKIN CRAWL : Darkly Erotic Horror Stories

SKIN CRAWL : Darkly Erotic Horror Stories Review



SKIN CRAWL is a short story collection of deviant, dark, erotic horror by Alex Severin. Let that be a warning! This is NOT a romance book or straight-up erotica. This is erotica for the demented. Please download a sample and try before you buy to see if it's your cup of tea.

Featuring online favorites that launched Severin into the horror underground a decade ago, little seen micro-press anthology orphans, and an exclusive, never before published short story.

SKIN CRAWL runs the gamut from a priest with an unHoly obsession with his Virgin Mary statue, a romantic pair of necrophiliacs, a beastly old magician with very strange eyes, to a proud, but unusual surrogate mother, this is raw, uncompromising erotic horror at its darkest.


TABLE OF CONTENTS - (Descriptions in parenthises to address inaccurate story descriptions in a customer review.)

Blessed is the Fruit of Thy Womb (Virgin Mary Obsession)
In the Flesh (Necrophilia)
Premature (Serial Killer)
Romancing the Dead (Necrophilia)
The Blair (Spooky Old House)
Fuckhead (Car Wreck)
The Surrogate (Graveyard Sex)
The Man with the Absinthe Eyes (Surreal Horror)
Coyote Bang (Coyote Skull Fetish)
Ripened Fruit (Erotic Horror with Grigori Rasputin)


Excerpts from SKIN CRAWL -

From RIPENED FRUIT...
His coarse fingers probed the wet silk of her cunt; her face contorted with equal amounts of disgust and pleasure.

The matted beard of her lover scraped against the peach of her cheek as she forced down her rising gorge, her nostrils under assault from the stench of the rancid morsels of days-old food that nested there. A wave of nausea washed over her but the fluttering of her eyelids and the gasp in her throat could not deny the skill of his hand.

She pulled him close to her and felt his hot sermon in her ear, his divine wisdom seeping into her, feeding her, soothing her like a warm injection.


From THE BLAIR...
He crept away from the quiet cottage, parents gently snoring in their bedroom, then belted down the road at full speed; his pulse throbbed in his ears with excitement.

He reached the house in a few minutes and stood at the bottom of the drive, staring at the darkened windows.

There were shapes moving in those windows, whispers penetrating the night air and filtering over to him as he stood there.

He couldn't decipher what they were saying but he didn't like it. The whispers made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.

The whispers were about grown up things, things he didn't know about, but knew enough that he shouldn't be listening to them.

He wanted to leave but he couldn't move, couldn't prise himself from the spot, couldn't even scream when he realized there was a man standing in the shadows under a tree, just a few feet away from him. He'd been there the whole time, watching him while he watched the shadows in the window and listened to the whispers in the dark.

The man lunged forward and grabbed him by the arm, forced a palm over his mouth.

“You shouldn't be here, boy. This is no place for you. This is a bad place, a bad place for everybody.”


From THE MAN WITH THE ABSINTHE EYES...
“Be still. You are not yet ready to move. You must allow yourself become familiar with your new condition.”

He looked at the man, eyes squinting

“My new condition?” he croaked, his throat dry, vocal cords violin-tight and coated with panic.

The man was vaguely familiar; he had seen that hideous, yet compelling face before, and that insane gaze. Black and white photographs with sinister captions came to mind. He had visions of devout worshipers at his feet and Latin phrases echoing off stone walls in the torch-lit gloom of a castle.

The name escaped him, but he knew he had seen him before.

“Sleep,” the man said to him, “Rest. Soon you will begin your new life as The Font.”


Monday, February 27, 2012

The Demon of Walker's Woods

The Demon of Walker's Woods Review



An envelope from an old friend holds an obituary that should bring one man peace. He's been haunted by nightmares of his childhood neighborhood for decades. The memories flood back in detail of that last summer with his friends, with his brother, and with the demon that lived in the house down the street.
A short story that has been compared to early Stephen King and "To Kill a Mockingbird" with a vicious streak.

Part of the collection, "Demons and Other Inconveniences"

From the author of "What Tangled Webs" and also "The Unauthorized Autobiography of Ethan Jacobs", a paranormal horror novel also available for Kindle!


Sunday, February 26, 2012

Husk

Husk Review



ONE NIGHTMARE ENDS…
Serial killer Kale Kane has finally died, having survived five years in a coma after a shootout with police. But is his reign of terror truly over? When he died, Kane took the reasons for his atrocities with him, along with the answer to a question police never got to ask: did he work alone?

…AND A NEW HORROR BEGINS.
Mallory Wiess is a typical teenage girl… or so it seems. When she moves to rural Minnesota with her father and younger brother, she quickly discovers her new home won’t be as boring as she’d feared. Who is the dark figure watching her from the house across the street? What is the shape hanging in the shadows of the old barn behind the neighborhood? And why has someone begun digging up graves at the ancient cemetery in the forest? Soon Mallory will learn the truth. For she has attracted the attention of a killer, a ruthless predator who believes only her death will finish the work Kale Kane began, and unleash an evil that has faded into legend. In the end, one night will decide if the dead will rise.

“Matt Hults delivers a crackling, creepy tale. A fast-paced read with a generous body count, ‘Husk’ will make your skin crawl.”
—Scott Nicholson, Bestselling author of They Hunger

“Remember the first time you read Joe Lansdale’s The Drive-In, or Freezer Burn? Remember how exhilarated you felt as you tore through the pages as Lansdale kept knocking your jaw to the floor with his endless inventiveness, unexpected belly-laughs, and those even more unexpected moments of terror and pathos? Miss that feeling of being completely at the mercy of a writer’s imagination and boundless energy for his subject? Fret no more, friends—you now have Matt Hults’s Husk. This sucker is the real thing, an in-your-face, rollicking, scary, funny, and unexpectedly poignant potpourri of a horror story, an unabashed and unapologetic throwback to the early pulps infused with a vindictive modern-day sensibility that will have your head spinning and your mouth hanging open. It doesn’t get any more fun than this.”
—Gary A. Braunbeck, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award, author of Coffin County and Destinations Unknown

“Suspenseful and gruesome, with just the right leavening of hopefulness and nod-wink humor.”
—Dr. Kim Paffenroth, Bram Stoker Award Winner for Dying to Live.

“Husk is wild, bloody, scary, action-packed, and entertaining as hell. Matt Hults seems to be having a blast telling his tale, and I had a blast going along for the ride. Great fun!”
—Jeff Strand, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of PRESSURE

"'Husk' is a chilling and relentless tale that will make you want to check your closets, lock your windows and keep an eye in your review mirror...but don't think that'll save you!"
––Fran Friel, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of Mama's Boy

“Husk is violent, intense and terrifying. The characters are as real as you and I, and every triumph is rapturous while every death is harrowing. Matt Hults proves himself as a master of the genre with his striking debut novel. It will leave you feeling skinned alive and dying for more.”
—Joel A. Sutherland, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of Frozen Blood

“I have come across some pretty mind-blowing demons on paper, on the big screen, and especially in my mind. But the ‘Husk’ Matt Hults created in this his first novel breaks all my thresholds for fear, and believe me I have built some pretty sound barriers in my time.”
—Giovanna Lagana, author of With Black & White Comes the Grey

Includes previews:
James Roy Daley's ~ Terror Town
James Roy Daley's ~ Into Hell