Deborah Sheldon has recently published Cretaceous Canyon with Severed Press. And, running true to form, she has written a novel that will seize you in the first chapter and then thrill, horrify, enmesh and sicken in turn as it propels you through to the final page. I could not put this book down, so I was pleased to be able to speak with Deborah about how this scintillating story came to life.
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Title: The Never-Ending Party
Author: Joe Corallo, Rachel Pollack,
Art: Eva Cabrera (Illustrator)
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Genre: Horror, Occult, Fantasy, LGBTQIA+
Release date: 23rd August, 2023
Synopsis: Twenty-five years after losing her lover Lulu in a cult ritual for Dionysus gone wrong, Mindy Morrow is trying to live her life and put the past behind her.
Unfortunately for Mindy, the past won’t let her go. While she’s taking care of her friend Flavia, her frenemy Kate is trying to lure Mindy back into the old club scene, and something more ancient and terrifying awaits them all.
From Joe Corallo and Rachel Pollack, the winner of The World Fantasy Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a Nebula nominee comes a story about dark pasts and the supernatural.
Collects The Never-Ending Party #1–#5 from the ComiXology original digital series, in print for the first time!
Horror literature is infamous for exploring the darkest corners of human — and inhuman — existence. Daring authors tap into primal fears to craft haunting stories of the unknown. Aging is a universal and inevitable aspect of the human experience, yet it remains one of the most feared and haunting concepts in our collective consciousness. In most literature, you’ll find themes of mortality, isolation, illness, bodily changes, and even the afterlife that weave an intricate web of what it means to be human and the fear that makes us so.
For years to come, stories will very likely tackle this real-life topic in varying, evolving ways. The following is an exploration of the implications of how horror literature has depicted aging and how it may do so going forward.
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Title: Anna Dressed in Blood
Author: Kendare Blake
Publisher: Tor Teen
Genre: YA / Horror / Fantasy
Release date: 12th September, 2023
Synopsis: Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father’s mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.
When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn’t expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he’s never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.
But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas’s life.
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Title:The Headsman Cristina Mîrzoi
Author:Cristina Mîrzoi
Genre: Horror / Fantasy / Collection
Release date: 14th March, 2022
Synopsis: Take a glimpse into the world of a headsman, a gloomy village in which each dweller has a secret: an evil witch, a shrewd florist, a naive young man, a foreign merchant, a dreadful husband, a mischievous maid, and a lustful duke. These stories are intertwined, weaving a dark narrative of love, trickery, brutality, and loss.
Under the bleak aesthetic, raw human emotions unravel themselves in a gripping story about moral decay. In a world that belongs to the wicked, how far can one walk this path while keeping a clean conscience?
The Headsman is a collection of short stories that focus on interconnected characters, sometimes looking at the same event from a different perspective. As a genre, it falls somewhere under dark fiction territory.
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David Hankins, a winner of The Writers of the Future contest, has written his first novel based on his award-winning short story, “Death and the Taxman.” During the month of August, he has been running a Kickstart to help fund its publication, which ends on September 7th. He initially asked for $1500 US and reached his goal in two hours. As of the writing of this article, the fund was over $8500 US. I sat down to learn more about his project.
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