These are the books on pre-order that will be released within the next few months. Click the book title links to purchase your copy today.
by David Simms
(Release date – 7/16/2024)
On the way home from a gig with his band, Derek Boone dies. Then, miraculously, doctors manage to revive him, using new cutting-edge technology. He’s alive, but in a coma.
Months later Boone wakes into a world of blurred visions and danger. The memories of that accident are incomplete. He experiences them in strange flashbacks he calls “bruised memories.” And he’s not the only one. A deranged cult made up of men and women who’ve had near death experiences begins to harass him, wanting to know what he experienced, and a dangerous agent from a religious organization wants him to tell his story… if that story is the one the church needs. Otherwise, they want him dead.
Finally, while on a talk show with others who have had similar experiences, a gunman opens fire on the entire panel. Escaping with his life, Boone is on the run from New Jersey to the Adirondack mountains, desperately seeking his own truth, even if it leads him into the hands of an enemy.
His experience could change everything and leave the world’s religions in shambles.
Tales of an Eldritch Wasteland
By C. T. Phipps
(Release date – 7/26/2024)
“There are a million tales of the Mythos. Here are some of mine.” – C.T. Phipps
Author C.T. Phipps wrote the post-apocalypse meets H.P. Lovecraft novel Cthulhu Armageddon in 2015 but he had been a fan of the Cthulhu Mythos for far longer. Having written stories ranging from Assassins in Acre to detectives in the Dreamlands, he’s tackled every part of the sinister tentacle-filled world that has been influenced by authors ranging from authors Robert E. Howard and Brian Lumley to film directors George Miller and Stuart Gordon.
TALES OF AN ELDRITCH WASTELAND collects over a dozen of his short stories, novelettes, and novellas set both before as well as after the Great Old Ones’ rising. Stories of action, horror, and everything in between.
“I’m a sucker for anything C.T. Phipps. I can’t get enough of his style of writing.” – Brian’s Book Blog
“Dark and sinister with a side order of action.” – The Bookwyrm Speaks
“Phipps […] should appeal to those who like full kitchen sink Cthulhu Mythos stories and the attendant sports of restructuring the Mythos.” – Marzaat
by Alison Scott
(Release date – 7/30/2024)
Can a man be in two places at one time?
Three months have passed. Gil is confined to Jason Fairchild’s clinic, his sanity doubted by all but Crazy Ivan, when Feannag appears with Aidan’s seeing stone. Rescued by Ivan, he escapes to the river, the Underwater Bridge, and 9th Century Orkney.
All has changed. Burned by the Golden Knight, Cille Aidan and Einar’s Holm are deserted ruins, their people exiled to Floki’s lands on Hrolf’s Isle. Mercenaries roam the islands, seeking rumoured treasure and a stolen royal bride.
Hidden on an island across a treacherous tide-race, Janetta is safe. Rachel shelters in a cell beside Aidan’s new church. Percy, Earl’s Cupbearer at Floki’s High Table, never leaves his side. But Danni, Ismail and Hakon, captured in the flight from Caledon and sold to a Norwegian sea-king, are hostages in Norway, awaiting ransom. While Magnus broods on the high price paid for the Warrior’s quest, Floki raises a sea force to win them back.
Labouring in Eyolf Grimsson’s shipyard and daring the tide-race in a skiff to meet Janetta, Gil learns both ships and sailing. When Silver Dragon leads Floki’s fleet to Norway, Gil is on the steersman’s bench, Helmsman to the Earl.
Arriving, they meet betrayal. The king has sold the hostages to a slave trader, ten days before. Demanding the release of Hakon’s crew, Floki takes the king’s young son hostage to ensure he keeps his word. As the weeping boy is carried to Silver Dragon, Gil swears he will find a better way to live. But can he?
So begins a voyage far longer than any imagine. From Norway to the slave markets of Jorvik, on to the pilgrim port of Dofras and beyond to the island fortress of Mont Tombe, where in a tournament melee Gil crosses lances with Jocelyn Guidbairn and finds his father, Lance’lot. But still the sea roads roll on before them, and still Danni is captive …
Come sail the Northlands seas as Odin’s Maiden’s dance and follow Frigga’s spindle South. Come helm a Viking warship with the Warriors of Tir nan Og.
Edgar Allan Poe and the Specter Eliminator
by Keith Gouveia and Matt Peters
(Release date – 8/6/2024)
Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet, critic, and Steampunk Ghostbuster!
Poe has always had a close and personal relationship with death. Once he used his pen to keep his demons at bay, but after the death of his beloved wife Virginia, he is taking a more direct approach. Poe has invented The Specter Eliminator, a portable device capable of extinguishing spirits. With it, he moonlights as a ghost hunter while trying to raise the funds to start his one magazine, The Stylus.
When Poe is tasked with clearing a malevolent spirit from a Georgia mansion, he meets a rival ghost hunter who is very interested in the Specter Eliminator. Poe refuses to join forces and the rival makes it clear he will have Poe’s invention one way or another.
Join Edgar Allan Poe as he uncovers an insidious plot to enslave the dead and revolutionize modern warfare in this steampunk, ghost-hunting adventure that takes you from Boston, Massachusetts, to the Wild West.
(Release date – 8/6/2024)
Barbara Connolly thought she was giving her daughters a better life when she left her abusive ex-husband and moved back to her home town. But Rapture, Pennsylvania, just wasn’t the same anymore. There have been two murders right on her street, in the same house her brother disappeared in over twenty years before. Bodies are turning up everywhere, all missing flesh and with the same ragged teeth marks on the bones. Teenage girls are disappearing.
And something—or someone—is crawling around inside Barbara’s walls.
As the police race to find the killer, Barbara fights to keep her daughters from becoming its next victim.
(Release date – 8/13/2024)
A less violent, but equally skillful, Lisbeth Salander, with an inherited drive for justice…on her own terms
With a suspended federal prison sentence looming compliments of an ex-boyfriend’s betrayal, Fatál Wood accepts an almost-legal request by her new boss to hack the Ohio college where she’s rebuilding her life. But she discovers the school’s director is using the network for personal, illegal, reasons, leading to a second betrayal and the death of her best friend. Fatál is framed for the crimes, and she’s caught between rival law enforcement agencies, a suspicious probation officer…and a murderer. She marshals her personal geek squad, twenty-first-century tech savvy, and a too often ignored Romani sixth-sense to protect her newly reunited family and to give justice—and karma—a push.
Ameri-Scares: Pennsylvania – The Ghost Notes
(Release date – 8/20/2024)
Allie and her mom are hard at work recreating the dress of a nineteenth-century ancestor Clare Rapple for the upcoming Founder’s Day celebration. Nate, newly arrived in Rappleville to live with his aunt after losing both parents in a terrible car accident, wishes for one last chance to talk to them one last time.
Both teenagers find themselves caught in the web of the local Legend of The Ringing Rocks: the Ghost Notes, and the secret of possibly bringing the dead back to life. What Allie and Nate don’t realize is that the Ghost Notes might bring back more than fabled ancestors or lost loved ones. They might also summon evil thoughts, terrible creatures, your worst nightmare…
(Release date – 9/3/2024)
The survivors of what has come to be known as The Catskill Cataclysm are not out the woods yet. As the last known members of The Hidden, they are marked for extermination. Their allies—Chan and Danni, and the Troika—are hunting them as well, but the Hidden do what they do best: hide.
Something new surfaces in the South Atlantic: a Manhattan-size iceberg. And embedded within it is a long lost Nazi U-boat. Back in the day, the Third Reich claimed part of Antarctica for its own. Was the sub on an exploratory mission? It carried a strange artifact that it was ferrying home when it was trapped in the ice. The bodies of the crew are perfectly preserved from the subzero temperatures… but they all were murdered.
Could the appearance of the sub have any relationship to the Catskill Cataclysm? Unlikely. But then, there are no coincidences.
Edited by C. T. Phipps
(Release date – 9/24/2024)
“Have you seen the Yellow Sign?”
Hastur was not a creation of H.P. Lovecraft but an adaptation of concepts created by Ambrose Bierce and Robert W. Chambers. Nevertheless, Hastur, AKA The King in Yellow, has since gone on to become one of the most iconic Great Old Ones. Whether the mysterious Lord of Leng in the Dreamlands or Cthulhu’s alleged half-brother, he is a figure who haunts the dreams of those mortals who touch upon even the barest knowledge of his existence.
THE BOOK OF HASTUR is a collection of short stories and novellas depicting Hastur’s influence over a variety of individuals as well as those individuals affected by his presence. Some of them are horror, some of them are Pulp adventure, and some are a mixture of the two.
(Release date – 10/1/2024)
Since childhood, successful New Jersey realtor Yvette Rollins’ friend Celine has helped her with all life decisions. But no one can see Celine, and the only person who hears her is Yvette. A serious car accident shatters Yvette’s body and exposes the crumbling façade of her seemingly perfect life. Her loyal twin, Anna, jumps in to help care for her three-year-old nephew, Max, while Yvette is in rehab. To Yvette’s dismay, the accident has also silenced Celine.
When Yvette returns home, Anna shares a recently discovered letter from their absent father, revealing the existence of a real Celine, a third sibling who died in the womb. Their father performed a Vodou ceremony and believes that Celine’s soul lives on in Yvette. Yvette is relieved to know Celine is real, while Anna has mixed emotions. Anna feels she’s spent her life competing with Celine, so is relieved that she’s gone.
As Yvette recovers Celine returns, causing Anna to fear for Yvette’s stability and Max’s safety. Anna uses an old family journal of Vodou spells to launch a desperate scheme to “rescue” Max from his mother. Celine warns Yvette that everything she holds dear is at risk. Who will Yvette believe—Anna, the sister she can see and touch, or Celine, the sister who has never steered her wrong?
Julian Cato and the Four Immortals
(Release date – 11/12/2024)
An immortal diviner must navigate the multi-verse, as she joins forces with a Time Guardian to save her siblings from the clutches of a diabolical warlock wanted for crimes against spacetime in forty-two dimensions.
Rainey El-Sullivan is a card-reader known as the Seer of Blandytown. She lives in an antique farmhouse in Monotheiston, DM-1, where technology is outlawed and superstition reigns. She is immortal, due to a vaccine given to her at birth by her father—the notorious doctor and Time Commander Carron Sullivan. Although she has been alive for 126 years, Rainey’s body has been genetically programmed to cease the aging process at age twenty-five. She agreed to be the caretaker of the family home, but after spending a hundred years in a territory deprived of modern advancements and forward-thinking, she has grown lonely and yearns for a more adventurous existence.
Julian Cato is a Time Guardian in the employ of Commander Sullivan. Time Guardians are immortal, highly trained specialty soldiers capable of navigating all 55 dimensions in the MDV (Multi-Dimension-Verse). They are the keepers of time and technology for humanity, but are mostly hidden and incognito. On some dimensions, they are believed to be mythical.
When Julian unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep with amnesia, Rainey has no choice but to return him to her father on the Outer-Dimensional Station. The Commander sends her on a mission to babysit Julian as he apprehends an escaped Gilladragon, and Rainey tries to resist her growing attraction to the handsome Time Guardian. Before they can complete the mission, they inadvertently rouse the enmity of Tony Molinaro—a fugitive warlock who wants to capture the dinosaur-like creature and use its godly powers for his own nefarious purposes. Tony kidnaps Rainey and her three siblings, threatening to kill them if the Commander does not give in to his demands.
Can Rainey survive a deadly chase through spacetime and the fifty-five dimensions, while attempting to help Julian repair his fragmented psyche? Or will the warlock’s diabolical magic destroy her family and everything she holds dear?