HWA CO Member Catalog

Novels

As Those Above Fall by Catlyn Ladd	In the Hills Above the Gristmill by Kalvin Ellis	In the Grave Where the Bones Are Still Wet by Kalvin Ellis
Zorah has always been special. The immense power that flows in her veins, the power she calls witchcraft, can seduce or destroy anyone. But when she loses Alex, the love of her life, she finds herself powerless to bring him back. Spiraling into overwhelming grief, Zorah’s pursuit of her own death wish brings her to Zeke, a vampire with his own seductive power. When Zorah realizes the key to unlocking the doors of the dead may lie in Zeke’s veins, her desire for death transforms into lust for power. But her journey to bring Alex back will threaten her sanity, Zeke’s immortal life, and the fate of the world itself.	A paranormal investigator travels to a small mining town in Appalachia with her paranormal investigation YouTube channel to follow up on a series of murders that the locals believe were committed by a beast sent by a higher power.	In the sequel to In the Hills Above the Gristmill, Paisley Mott finds herself faced with another case. This time chasing down the disembodied voice of a little girl, just to find that the circumstances surrounding her disappearance are tied to a much deeper and darker evil.
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Don’t Turn Around (FrightVision Series) by Kalvin Ellis	Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem	Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem
In this Middle Grade Horror story, young Sam wants nothing more than to play his video game, but when bad things start happening, Sam is worried that he is no longer playing the game, but that the game is playing him.	A dark Southern Gothic vision of ghosts, witchcraft, secret powers, snake-handling, kudzu, Melungeons, and the Great Depression. Michael Gibson has returned to the quiet home of his forebears and now takes care of his grandmother Sadie – old and sickly, but with an important story to tell about growing up poor and Melungeon (a mixed race group of mysterious origins) in the 1930s, while bedeviled by a snake-handling uncle and empathic powers she barely understands.	Recently widowed and unemployed, Richard Carter finds a new job, and a new life for him and his daughter Serena, as manager of the mysterious Deadfall Hotel. Jacob Ascher, the caretaker, is there to show Richard the ropes, and to tell him the many rules and traditions, but from the beginning, their new world haunts and transforms them. It’s a terrible place. As the seasons pass, the supernatural and the sublime become a part of life, as routine as a morning cup of coffee, but it’s not safe, by any means. Deadfall Hotel is where Richard and Serena will rebuild the life that was taken from them…if it doesn’t kill them first.
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UBO by Steve Rasnic Tem	Queneau’s Alphabet by Steve Rasnic Tem	Frost Bite By Angela Sylvaine
Daniel is trapped in Ubo. He has no idea how long he has been imprisoned there by the roaches. Every resident has a similar memory of the journey to Ubo: a dream of dry, chitinous wings crossing the moon, the gigantic insects dropping swiftly over the houses of the neighborhood, passing through walls and windows as if by magic, or science. The creatures, like a deck of baroquely ornamented cards, fanning themselves from one hidden world into the next. And now each day they force Daniel to play a different figure from humanity’s violent history, from a frenzied Jack the Ripper to a stumbling and confused Stalin to a self-proclaimed god executing survivors atop the ruins of the world. The scenarios mutate day after day in this camp somewhere beyond the rules of time. As skies burn and prisoners go mad, identities dissolve as the experiments evolve, and no one can foretell their mysterious end.	Arnie’s mother oversees Queneau’s Library at the end of their street, quite a grand structure if you omit those rotting, flooded lower levels. Still, it’s an interesting place to hang out with his three best friends. This boy’s dark adventure introduces us to Queneau’s neighborhood, where the pre-WWII bungalows are lettered rather than numbered, originally meant to help young children learn their alphabet. But these quaint-looking facades hide a history of sinister events. There’s a story for each house, each letter of the alphabet, 26 tales in all plus a coda. Over the course of Queneau’s Alphabet a variety of horror themes, characters, and motifs are explored: folk horror, killer clowns, drunken Santas, Halloween terrors, ghosts, possessions, nightmares, nameless creatures, dark crimes, and one ancient, infamous vampire.
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Red Walls by Christina Bergling	The Waning by Christina Bergling	Savages by Christina Bergling
When Talia’s parents go after the monsters who hurt her, they never expected real monsters.	Locked in a cage, Beatrix must survive to escape or be broken completely.	Two survivors search the ruins for the last strain of humanity. Until the discovery of a baby changes everything.
https://geni.us/red-walls	Amazon	Amazon

The Rest Will Come by Christina Bergling	Screechers by Christina Bergling & Kevin J. Kennedy	Followers by Christina Bergling
Online dating would drive anyone to murder, especially Emma.	Mutant monsters and humans collide in the apocalyptic fallout of a burned world. Co-authored with Kevin J. Kennedy.	You never know who is on the other side of the screen. Followers is a mystery and thriller that blends women’s fiction with horror.
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Idle Hands by Cassondra Windwalker	Ghost Girls and Rabbits by Cassondra Windwalker
Brimming with enlightened observations and brilliant voice, Idle Hands is a haunting examination of grief, resilience, and what we’d give to spend another moment with the ones we love. You can call me Ella. You generally assign me a whole host of other preposterous monikers. I think the least imaginative name I’ve heard is “the devil”, but I’ll answer to it if I must. After making the courageous decision to leave her abusive husband, Perdie and her three young children start over and finally find the safety and love they deserve. But years later, when tragedy strikes, Perdie is left wondering if the choice she made to leave has led them to this moment. If she were given the opportunity to take it all back and stay, would she? In a frantic bid to protect her family, Perdie makes a deal to do just that. But in a world where the devil pulls the strings, can Perdie really change the past?	A chilling psychological horror novel excoriating the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in North America, Ghost Girls and Rabbits is an unforgettable read perfect for fans of Scandinavian noir and literary horror, told by two fractured minds in the trappings of myths truer than mirrors.
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Short Story Collections

Thanatrauma: Stories by Steve Rasnic Tem	The Night Doctor and Other Tales by Steve Rasnic Tem	Figures Unseen: Selected Stories by Steve Rasnic Tem
“All my life I’ve dreamed of the dead. Thanatrauma: the dread of it erodes you, the shadows waiting at the end, the impending conclusion, the troubling dream from which you will not wake.”	In The Night Doctor And Other Tales, you will encounter the most haunting figures ever to cross Tem’s imagination: a man obsessed with his own breath and the breathing he hears that is not his own; a husband waiting for his wife as new bodies appear at the bottom of his yard; a weekend fisherman and the unseen man sharing his fishing hut; a loyal husband dealing with the latest changes in his wife’s physical appearance; a strange widower in his house by the sea; a devoted mother trying to protect her son from the nightmares of the past; a son returning to a dreaded summer vacation spot; a grandfather protecting his grandchildren from a legacy of dark transformations; and, in the title story, an elderly man awaits the visit of a mysterious family physician.	In the worlds of Steve Rasnic Tem a father takes his son “fishing” in the deepest part of downtown, flayed rabbits visit a suburban back yard, a man is haunted by a surrealistic nightmare of crutches, a father is unable to rescue his son from a nightmare of trees, a bereaved man transforms memories of his wife into performance art, great moving cliffs of detritus randomly prowl the world, a seemingly pointless life finds final expression in bits of folded paper, a nuclear holocaust brings about a new mythology, an isolated man discovers he’s part of a terrifying community, a photographer discovers the unexpected in the faces of dead children, and a couple’s aging dismantles reality.
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Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art and Practice of Writing (nonfiction) by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem	Everyday Horrors by Steve Rasnic Tem	Bury My Body Somewhere Nice: A Collection of Dark Stories by Kalvin Ellis
Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem are no strangers to the writing business. Between the two of them, they have published more than 600 short stories, 20 novels, and 10 short story collections. Not to mention numerous articles, essays, poems, and plays. They’ve won the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and Bram Stoker Award. In this book they go over everything from the mechanics of writing, to how to find the time to write, to dealing with all the paper writers tend to collect. They discuss plot, point of view, setting, characterization, and more, all in an informal tone that invites you to become part of their conversation. Learn how to find your stories because they are Yours to Tell.	Everyday horrors, the unexpected twists encountered during an otherwise normal day. The skewed perspectives, those moments of transformative paranoia when everything appears as it might through a funhouse lens. The dreamlike narratives and rhythms which fracture consensual reality into genre-bending rides. When life becomes unmoored and the prosaic becomes surreal. These are the worlds portrayed in this new collection of 20 stories by Steve Rasnic Tem, winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and the Horror Writer Association’s Lifetime Achievement awards.	A collection of short fiction to explore some of the stranger sides of storytelling. Fables, food, and felonies await in this collection that proves that trying to dispose of a body can be a real drag.
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Authors in Anthologies

A Chronicle of Horrors featuring George Woodruff	Latin American Shared Stories (Beyond and Within) featuring A.E. Santana	Crawling featuring A.E. Santana
A Chronicle of Horrors invites readers on a chilling journey through time—each story an echo from a different decade, where fear evolves but never dies. From crumbling manors and gaslit streets to neon nightmares and haunted futures, this anthology traces the dark pulse of humanity across the ages. Every era has its monsters. Every age leaves its scars.	From pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, via the powerful figure of Santa Muerte, to racism in the Bronx, this anthology of speculative stories and essays by Latin American writers, about Latin American life and beyond, is an engrossing and important read.	Crawling brings together an exceptional lineup of gifted authors, each with their unique perspectives and twisted imaginations. They will transport you to the darkest recesses of the human psyche, where unspeakable horrors await. Brace yourself as you confront the terrors lurking within, and prepare for a collection of tales that will leave an indelible mark on your soul.
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