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Hellbender is now available for Kindle. We'll be releasing the paperback edition in March. We're so excited to be working with Jason Jack Miller on his Murder Ballads and Whiskey series.

Just got some postcards for GO LOVE. They look pretty nice!

The first ever AnthoCon was a smashing good time. John Edward Lawson and Dustin LaValley debuted their collaboration Lawson vs. LaValley. They particpated in several panels (Psychedelic Fiction, Martial Arts, Minorities in Fiction). Their faux demonstration on fighting zombies was the talk of the weekend. And to cap it all off LaValley received the Hiram…

LAWSON VS. LAVALLEY is now available for Kindle. Apparently the joint reading between John Edward Lawson and Dustin LaValley really rocked AnthoCon and they are likely to have more joint projects together.

Now available for Kindle: “Michael Gills’ vivid, headstrong characters brim with desire, blame,and—most of all—rich storytelling at its heartiest. Gills writes thesaga of the Stepwells with such breadth and depth that their lives seemboth historic and intimate. Go Love is a murderous, tender,swaggering tale that, in the end, is an unwavering argument in favor oflove—the…

1. RDSP was include in the Huffington Post’s Top 15 Fiesty Presses 2. Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award 3. Bizarro Day at Backlist Books with D. Harlan Wilson, John Edward Lawson, Andersen Prunty & Michael Arnzen 4. RDSP signed a deal with Chengdou Rights for representation of…

"Shipp offers readers a tightly written story of suspense and occult horror…Using Nicholas’s idiosyncratic voice and fondness for lists, Shipp effectively conveys the claustrophobic world of people caught up in events beyond their control." Publisher’s Weekly, (Nov.)

The final issue of Bare Bone, #11, is now available. You can buy it over at Amazon or at our web site. Over the years Bare Bone really grew as a series and has some of the best short horror fiction around, especially from newcomers. Unfortunately between the high number of contributors and the increase…

A Rhapsody for the Eternal (Lettered Edition) The lettered edition of Darren Speegle’s new story collection will be limited to 26 copies (A-Z). An original painting by Steven Archer will be on the cover of each book. No two cover paintings will have the same image but they will all be in the same style…

I was recently asked to comment on the economy and how it’s affected our press for a blog: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/the_education_of_oronte_churm/small_press_month I was interested to see that many of the respondents had similar perspectives about the small press and most were really positive.

I was on a hot streak there for awhile where I was posting something almost every weekday. But posting recently has been feeling like a chore. So instead of posting anything RDSP related here’s something I recently learned from the internet: If you have a jacket zipper that comes undone from the bottom you don’t…

Here’s what Jesse Gordon had to say about Sheep and Wolves: “For the most part, the stories are abstract, disjointed, surreal—absurd. It’s part of Raw Dog Screaming’s sinister plot for world domination, one unsuspecting reader at a time. This is not your typical horror, nor is it your typical dark fiction. This is serious mental…

It turns out there were two honorable mentions for stories for Text:Ur in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror “Bluecoat Jack” by Sarah Totton and “Strangers on a Train” by Tamar Yellin Thanks to who suggested using Amazon’s search inside feature to find the info!

Three stories from Bare Bone #10 received honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 21: “Watching” by Jeremy C. Shipp, “Questionnaire” by Paul Finch and “Red Soil” by Robert Dunbar. Another Shipp story, “Those Below”, which will be part of the forthcoming collection Sheep and Wolves received an Honorable Mention as well. Congrats…

The Baltimore Book Festival this year was fun but the weather was pretty bad. I’d say the attendance was maybe half of last year’s event but our sales were better than last year. I’m not really sure how that happened. It’s always interesting doing events where RDSP is out in front of the general public….

ForeWord Magazine has an awesome review of Blankety Blank in this month’s edition. It’s our first review in ForeWord so we’re very pleased. Take an existential dive into the near-future’s “irreality” before the author sells out to Hollywood over a seemingly inevitable Gamehater movie. Read the full review

Mike Arnzen was interviewed over at Zombie Mall and had some pretty interesting things to say about why people write and read horror and how to deal with ‘normal’ people who don’t understand. Read the interview here: http://zombiemall.com/zblog/?p=52 Jeremy Shipp was also recently interviewed by Jennifer Prado and you can read the interview here: http://jenniferprado.blogspot.com/

And now the video you’ve all been waiting for! This one’s in two parts. If you want skip straight to the shocking “parts” just watch this one:

Icons of Fright will be running a very detailed review of Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades (John’s collection that was put out by Afterbirth Books.) It’s a really cool piece because Scott Lefebvre is the reviewer who best understands where John’s work is coming from. The review isn’t up yet but I’ll post a link…

Our children’s imprint, Imaginary Books, now has a home on the web: http://www.imaginarybooks.net. I threw the site together pretty quickly. I’m happy with the look but, as always, the navigation/organization could be better. Right now there’s not too much content and it’s hard to build a site that can grow.

Ramsey Campbell has blurbed Worse Than Myself! “Adam Golaski has an enviable talent for the insidiously weird. His images creep into the imagination and stay in the mind like nightmares you didn’t know you had. He’s a writer of real originality, subtlety, and eloquent suggestiveness.” Ramsey Campbell, The Grin of the Dark Also, American Book…

Steven Archer, illustrator and author of Luna Maris is doing an awesome online exhibit – 365 Days of Blasphemous Horror. The first installment will go live today! If you want to keep up with the project go here http://syndicated.livejournal.com/weirdtales_mag/profile and add it to your friends.

I recently had to write a little description about RDSP and was surprised at how much there was to say about our press. I guess I don’t normally think about how far we’ve come, just how much further there is to go. The Dog’s Pedigree Raw Dog Screaming Press was founded in 2003 by John…

“Lyrical, unsettling, and deeply evocative, Adam Golaski’s stories lure readers through deceptively familiar portals: rural roadside diners, uninhabited river islands, shadowed woods. But inside are worlds fresh and strange, haunted as much by loneliness as fear, where the living and the less-than-dead alternately terrify and cling to each other.” —Glen Hirshberg, American Morons

Just got the first blurb in for Worse Than Myself: “A strong collection with enough variation to keep readers riveted from the first story to the last. Worse Than Myself has the impulses of traditional horror but keeps things a little more open, inflecting the forms we’re familiar with and making them startlingly fresh again.”…