This blurb just came in for Meat Puppet Cabaret from Michael Moorcock: “I’ve been reading Beard for some time and enjoying his brand of fiction along with other discerning readers with a taste for the visionary. My guess is that Meat Puppet Cabaret is going to be his big breakthrough novel, which will reach the…

Book Signing & Discussion with Matthew Warner & John Edward Lawson Friday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. The Bookstack 1 East Beverley Street Staunton, VA 24401 bookstck@cfw.com ph. 540-885-2665 I’m looking forward to this event at The Bookstack on Friday. I’ll be taking along the video camera so maybe some part of the event will…

Getting some good blurbs in for this one. "There’s a place past all reason, most possibility, and all the jokes I can think of. A place shaped kind of like the human heart. Bradley Sands doesn’t write about this place, but he writes from it, pushing farther into the unguessable with each word, each scene."—Stephen…

We need your help! We are launching a Reader’s Choice Award for RDSP titles first published in 2013 (excludes reprints) but we need to narrow down the field. Help us by choosing up to 3 books that you think should be consider for the award. This round of voting will narrow the field down to…

Congratulations to Mike Arnzen and Darren Speegle, both of their collections have made it on to the preliminary ballot for Best Fiction Collection of 2004. Here’s the ballot http://www.horror.org/stokerballots.htm Also, congrats to steve_vernon whose collection Nightmare Dreams and a story from it are on the ballot. Usually it’s the novel categories that have the toughest…

Where to find our authors and editors during StokerCon Michael A. ArnzenLIVE: Horror After COVID (Friday 11:30 AM)The HWA Archive at the University of Pittsburgh (Saturday 4:00 PM)RECORDED: Steel City HorrorDifferent Publishing Models author reading in Expo and Authors Jennifer BarnesWhat Makes a Good Book Cover (Saturday, 5 PM)Pitches (Saturday beginning at 10 AM) James…