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Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology in which Southeast Asian authors explore what it’s like to feel otherness, took the literary horror communities and readers by storm in 2020 when it was first released. Now, Raw Dog Screaming Press is proud to have signed Black Cranes for…

Writing Poetry in the Dark is a craft book for speculative poets, by speculative poets, with a foreword by one of the genre’s most celebrated authors and creator of the Writing in the Dark brand, Tim Waggoner. This book meditates on craft, genre, style, and form as acclaimed SF/F/H poets come together to talk about…

Cover Reveal for Bram Stoker Nominated Author and Poet Cynthia Pelayo’s Crime Scene Raw Dog Screaming Press is thrilled to reveal the cover for a new dark poetry collection, Crime Scene, by Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo, an International Latino Book Award-winning and two-time Bram Stoker Awards® nominated poet and author. The ethereal, beautiful cover is by…

Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is thrilled to release the cover for award-winning and highly nominated writer and author Eugen Bacon’s Afro-Irrealist Black speculative fiction collection Chasing Whispers, publishing September of this year. The stunning cover art was created by artist and book cover designer Lynne Hansen. “It’s so important to me that my art…

RDSP at StokerCon This year Raw Dog Screaming Press is a sponsor of StokerCon, authors Michael A. Arnzen, Matt Betts, James Chambers, J.L. Gribble, EV Knight, Daniel Kraus, Jessica McHugh, Lee Murray and Cynthia Pelayo and Brenda S. Tolian will all be on hand while Eugen Bacon and Jezzy Wolfe will participate virtually. Jennifer Barnes…

Raw Dog Screaming Press is proud to be sponsoring the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference this year. AnnRadCon is held annually in conjunction with the Horror Writer’s Association’s largest gathering, StokerCon. This year’s conference will be a hybrid event and anyone with a ticket for StokerCon can attend AnnRadCon. If you haven’t signed up for StokerCon…

Today we’re launching the preorder for WRITING IN THE DARK: THE WORKBOOK! This volume is a follow up to 2020’s Bram Stoker Award winning guidebook WRITING IN THE DARK. Now Tim Waggoner has put together a book filled with exercises to inspire and elevate your horror writing skills. He’s taken the concepts from WRITING IN…

Preorder Girls From the County Raw Dog Screaming Press is excited to reveal the cover for Girls from the County by Donna Lynch, which will be released August 2022. It is available for preorder now and all copies will come with a bookplate signed by the author. The cover art was created by acclaimed artist Steven Archer and Donna Lynch with…

Blood Mountain Cover Art by Daniele Serra Raw Dog Screaming Press is excited to reveal the cover for Blood Mountain by Brenda S. Tolian, which will be released summer 2022. It is available for preorder now and all copies will come with a bookplate signed by the author and limited edition swag. The cover art was created by…

Girls From the County Coming Later This Year Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is happy to announce a book deal with Bram Stoker Award-nominated author and poet Donna Lynch for her poetry collection, Girls from the County. It’s set to release in 2022. Small towns, farms, open fields, and dark forests—they are all settings of…

RDSP to Publish Writing Poetry in the Dark Handbook for SF/F/H Poets Edited by Stephanie Wytovich Raw Dog Screaming Press is thrilled to announce a book deal for Writing Poetry in the Dark, a craft book for speculative poets, by speculative poets. Edited by Bram Stoker award-winning author Stephanie M. Wytovich, with a foreword by…

Raw Dog Screaming Press invites you to ride shotgun on a weird journey into the dark night. To rev the engine just take a look at the cover revealed below. The journey begins October 14th but you can preorder now. The book is available in hardcover and paperback. All copies ordered from us will come…

Raw Dog Screaming Press and Anti-Oedipus to publish Eugen Bacon We are excited to announce that RDSP and its imprint Anti-Oedipus Press have each signed a book from Eugen Bacon to be released in 2022. Chasing Whispers is a stunning and unique collection of short stories to be published by Raw Dog Screaming Press. “In…

Exposed Nerves is the forthcoming Poetry Collection by Award-Winning author Lucy A. Snyder Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is pleased to reveal the cover for Exposed Nerves by Lucy A. Snyder, which will be released in late September 2021. It is available for preorder now. and all copies will come with a bookplate signed by…

Raw Dog Screaming Press to Publish Hardcover Attack from the ‘80s Anthology Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) has signed to publish the hardcover edition of the anthology Attack from the ‘80s, edited by Bram Stoker Award® winning editor Eugene Johnson and featuring over twenty Bram Stoker Award® winning and best-selling authors! Cover and internal illustrations…

Set in an alternate near future, Steel Justice is the sixth book in the Steel Empires series and the first time that part of the story is told from the perspective of warrior-mage Kane Nalamas. The world of Steel Empires is one where elves, vampires and shapeshifters co-exist openly with humans and where magic is…

Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is honored and thrilled to announce that author and co-founder of RDSP, John Edward Lawson, has been selected as a guest of honor for StokerCon 2022, which will take place in Denver, CO, May 12 to 15 at The Curtis Hotel. Through RDSP John regularly helps authors find their audience, earn…

An amazing thing happened last night: RDSP books took home 3 Bram Stoker awards proving that even after a year of “unprecedented” we still have the capability of being stunned. It was an exciting kick off to see Christina Sng win a second Stoker for poetry with A Collection of Dreamscapes at the very beginning…

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…