The Denver Sex and Romance Examiners are currently hosting the Oysters & Chocolate “Vampire Lust” erotic fiction contest, sponsored by EdenFantasys sex toys! According to the article: “The three sexiest and most seductive vampiric tales will win a $25 gift certificate fromEdenFantasys sex toys, as well as our $10 thank-you payment. Our number one editors’ [...]

Award-winning novelist, Public Radio commentator and cultural critic Michael Marano will be reading from his novelette “Shibboleth”, an original work from his upcoming collection Stories from the Plague Years, this MONDAY, JUNE 8th, 8PM at Boston’s Grub Street, Inc., a non-profit creative writing center located at 160 Boylston Street in Boston (near the Park Street [...]

When the snows fell hard this past year, the entire Northeast buckled down for a long, cold winter. Among the states affected most was Massachusetts, and one of the places hit worst was a town located in its northeast region – a small hamlet named Miskatonic Falls. Situated inside the Miskatonic Valley Region, there’s only [...]

**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** CONTACT: Publicity & Marketing Department DarkScribePress@aol.com www.DarkScribePress.com NEW THOMAS COLLECTION FINDS HOME AT DARK SCRIBE PRESS LONG ISLAND, NY, April 1, 2009 — Dark Scribe Press announced today that it has acquired award-winning author Lee Thomas’ short story collection, IN THE CLOSET, UNDER THE BED. Slated for publication during the fourth quarter [...]

**This list was originally compiled by Angelyne Bosch for the HWA newsletter.** The end of 2008 saw the release of two stories for Joel Jacobs. “Crazy Bones” appeared in Chimeraworld #5, The Rejects Issue, published by Chimericana Books, and “Night Scares” can be found in the hardcover Northern Haunts: 100 Terrifying New England Tales from [...]

Introducing three short stories & three novellas by Nicholas Grabowsky: While on vacation, a young man’s fiancé becomes a heart-collecting Yuletide Thing on Christmas Eve. Get stuck in traffic when The Freeway Reaper claims another soul. A suburban family is plagued by a horde of were-rats. Special Agent Sam Cross, mortally wounded by a Jamaican [...]

A veteran dark scribe and an unlikely literary fiction favorite have taken top honors in the 2nd Annual Black Quill Awards, as winners were announced today by DARK SCRIBE MAGAZINE, the virtual magazine “dedicated to the books that keep readers up at night.” WE DISAPPEAR by Boston-based scribe Scott Heim, largely seen as the dark [...]

VINTAGE VIGILANCE No. 1: JOHN POLIDORI’S “THE VAMPYRE” By L. P. Van Ness SOMETHING VAMPIRIC in nature has been draining away the energy and resources of contemporary America. Fortunately for us, our leaders are time travelers. In the closing words of his inaugural address, our new president offered us encouragement by taking us back with [...]