Who doesn’t want to dive into a good,
creepy book this time of the year? With Halloween around the corner, we’re
giving away ten books, written by the contributors of Strange Blood: 71
Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies edited by Vanessa Morgan
(released April 2019).
From vampires and werewolves to ghosts and
serial killers, these terrifyingly brilliant books will have you enjoy the
creepy season that much more.
You can win all of them by filling in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of the page. The giveaway is open worldwide, and ends October 31st, 2019. Good luck!
Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and
Underrated Vampire Movies by Vanessa Morgan (ebook)
This is an overview of the most offbeat and
underrated vampire movies spanning nine decades and 23 countries.
Strange Blood encompasses well-known hits as well as obscurities that differ from
your standard fang fare by turning genre conventions on their head. Here,
vampires come in the form of cars, pets, aliens, mechanical objects, gorillas,
or floating heads. And when they do look like a demonic monster or an
aristocratic Count or Countess, they break the mold in terms of imagery, style,
or setting. Leading horror writers, filmmakers, actors, distributors, academics,
and programmers present their favorite vampire films through in-depth essays,
providing background information, analysis, and trivia regarding the various
films. Some of these stories are hilarious, some are terrifying, some are
touching, and some are just plain weird. Not all of these movies line up with
the critical consensus, yet they have one thing in common: they are unlike
anything you’ve ever seen in the world of vampires. Just when you thought that
the children of the night had become a tired trope, it turns out they have
quite a diverse inventory after all.
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Discover The Horror: One Man’s 50-Year
Quest for Monsters, Maniacs, and the Meaning of it All by Jon Kitley (paperback)
For over five decades, Jon Kitley has been
on a never-ending quest to explore as much of the horror film genre as
possible, from the early days of terror television to movie theaters and
drive-ins, from the video explosion to the creation of his long-running
website. Now, for the first time, fans of Kitley’s Krypt can read how it
all started (and continues to this day) as Jon shares his personal “tales
from the road” experiences, having attended over a hundred horror movie
conventions from coast-to-coast, as well as thoughts on different sub-genres,
critics, reference books, and so much more. Plus, discover plenty of tips on
how YOU can get the most out of your own journey into Monsters, Maniacs, and
the Meaning of it All!
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Wholesale Theft and the Least of One’s
Problems by Chris Hewson (ebook)
Focusing on sexism, B-movies, and the Golden Age of Hollywood, Wholesale
Theft is about the adventures of Edith Donnegan, a young woman who
invariably finds herself up against killer robots, mad scientists, and
lizardmen. All the while, she has to deal with incessant chauvinism for the
most absurd of reasons, but she strives to succeed.
The Key in the Grave: A haunting in a feared old mansion catches the
attention of Edith, who decides to play amateur ghost-hunter to discover what
happened in the past, and what’s happening now.
Empire of the Future: While on holiday to Luxembourg, Edith witnesses
the world change into a bizarre hybrid of past and future technology. If she
wants any chance of getting back home, she’ll have to stop a power-mad ruler
before the changes are permanent.
Undead Teenagers of the Lost Island: On an uncharted island, mysterious
and dastardly experiments threaten a group of visiting teenagers. Can Edith
rescue them in time from the clutches of a villainous mad scientist?
And more!…
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Corporate Wolf by Stuart R. West (ebook)
It was supposed to be a corporate retreat
and a series of morale-boosting exercises. It was a weekend Shawn Biltmore
nearly didn’t survive.
There was something else playing in the woods that night, something other than
a bunch of corporate drones with paintball guns.
And it had chosen Shawn as its new chew toy.
…rip ’em to shreds.
The local authorities chalked it up to a bear attack.
So did the doctors.
Shawn knew the truth, however, as much as he wanted to deny it.
But when one of his coworkers is viciously killed, Shawn must face the truth…
He’s a killer who needs to be put down.
Or is he?
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Bill the Vampire by Rick Gualtieri
(ebook)
There are reasons we fear the night. He’s
NOT one of them.
Bill Ryder was a dateless geek, but then he
met a girl to die for. So he did. Sadly, that was just the beginning of his
troubles. He awoke as a vampire but, fangs or not, he was still at the bottom
of the food chain.
Now he finds himself surrounded by creatures stronger, deadlier, and a hell of
a lot cooler than he is … and they all want to kick his ass.
Bill isn’t exactly average, though. A vamp like him hasn’t been seen in
centuries. He’s got a few tricks up his sleeve, unlikely allies, and an
attitude that makes him too damned obnoxious to quit.
Join him in this hilarious tale of bloodthirsty monsters and the unlikely hero
who’s not afraid to flip them all off, even if it gets him killed – again.
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Dragon of the Stars by Alex J. Cavanaugh
(ebook)
The future is set for Lt. Commander Aden
Pendar, son of a Hyrathian Duke. He’s poised to secure his own command and
marriage to the queen’s daughter. He’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
But when the Alliance denies Hyrath’s claim
on the planet of Kavil and declares war on their world, Aden finds his plans in
disarray. Entrenched in battle and told he won’t make captain, Aden’s world
begins to collapse. How will he salvage his career and future during Hyrath’s
darkest hour?
One chance remains – the Dragon. Lost many
years prior, the legendary ship’s unique weapon is Hyrath’s only hope. Can Aden
find the Dragon, save his people, and prove he’s capable of commanding his own
ship?
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Suckers by Anne Billson (ebook)
Everywhere you looked, there would be women
dressed in black – white faces, black hair, mouths painted scarlet. It was The
Look. You saw it on the street. You saw it on the covers of magazines. You saw
it presenting arts programmes on TV.
And some of us saw it in our nightmares…
Anne Billson’s debut novel, described by Christopher Fowler in Time Out
as ‘dark, sharp, chic and very funny’, is set at the end of the ‘greed is good’
era, and features a gothic love triangle between a man, a woman and the
300-year-old vampire they chopped into pieces a decade earlier.
But now she’s back, and this time she’s building a bloodsucking empire…
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Saucy Jacky: The Whitechapel Murders as
Told by Jack the Ripper’ by Doug Lamoureux (audio book)
Come into the East End of London, England,
1888.
Walk the streets of Whitechapel and slums
of Spitalfields, side by side with history’s most notorious serial killer.
Overhear his plans, and listen – or try not
to – to his secret thoughts as he waits in the shadows. Keep pace, if you have
the nerve, as he stalks his victims.
Watch, if you have the stomach, as he
commits his outrages. And run with him, if you’re still upright, as he escapes
the swarming forces of police desperate for his hide and head.
Imagining the unimaginable in this
unabashed novel of terror, award-winning author Doug Lamoreux takes you inside
the mind of the infamous killer who was never caught.
Discover the Whitechapel murders…as told
by Jack the Ripper himself.
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Blood Bar by Daph Nobody (ebook – French
edition)
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Peripheral Visions: The Complete Ghost
Stories 1988-2015 by Robert Hood (ebook)
Peripheral Visions is a unique reference collection that includes all of Robert Hood’s
44 ghost stories to date, three of them especially written for this volume.
These memorable tales display Hood’s uncanny ability to make the fantastic
real, to embrace weirdness and create human characters whose lives – both inner
and outer – haunted by mortality, are laid bare and revealed to be our own
worst nightmares. Ranging from melancholy reflection on life and death, through
disquieting tales of dark humour and vengeance, to chilling visions of ghostly
apocalypse. Hood’s stories are sure to draw you into a terrifying world that in
the end is revealed to be irrefutably our own. Though many of these stories
draw on the traditions of the past, they are far from traditional in approach.
As you turn each page remember this: not everything here is as it seems.
There’s always something more, barely glimpsed, out there on the periphery.
Each section has an evocative, disturbing illustration by noted artist, Nick
Stathopoulos.
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