Despite their horrible nature, there's something about scary stories that captures readers. And the scariest stories are usually ones that someone is speaking. Read these audio books for the ultimate spine-tingling, spooky, horrific stories. If you're brave enough… Just click the titles below to get your scares on with an audio book. If you're not brave enough to listen, you can also get them in ebook and paperback. THE RED SON by Mark … [Read more...]
10 Horrifying Novels That Will Actually Terrify You
Love a good scare? The following novels are sure to creep you out and are perfect for this spooky season! Just click the titles below to get your scares on with an ebook, paperback, or audio book. (Audio book not available for all titles.) THE RED SON by Mark Anzalone The Family Man stumbles across a kill list containing the names of other monstrous killers, some even more infamous than he. They have been drawn into the Shepard's Game … [Read more...]
MJ Preston’s Highwayman Horror Series Continues With FOUR
Having abstained from killing for almost a year, the Highwayman is coming unglued. Unsure if the FBI is watching, Lance Belanger spends his days and nights in a paranoid malaise, longing to kill again. Meanwhile, in Bucharest, Romania, an Interpol raid leads to clues and a witness who can identify the Highwayman. Armed with new evidence, newly promoted SAC FBI Agent, Dave Maxwell heads for Bucharest, as his team of investigators redeploys … [Read more...]
MJ Preston On How Researching True Crime Inspired The Highwayman: Part 1
PART I – THE MONSTERS WHO WALK AMONG US I have always had an interest in true-crime and the enigma of serial murder. In writing, I often find myself drawn to the serial killer as the definitive monster. Mostly, because they’re real, which makes them more terrifying than DRACULA or the zombies of THE WALKING DEAD. The difference is, that those creatures aren’t real. They can be explained away by a parent’s soothing words or extinguished by a … [Read more...]
MJ Preston Discusses The Journey That Led To ACADIA EVENT
Being a writer often means having to hold down a day job. This is nothing new. When Stephen King was writing his breakout novel, CARRIE, he was holding down a job as a substitute teacher and working in an industrial laundry. I’m no different, for years I have worked a day job, first as a soldier in the Canadian military and as a truck driver. If you asked me 20 years ago if driving a truck would lead to the writing of my second novel, ACADIA … [Read more...]
Horror Author MJ Preston On “Building The Perfect Beast”
My first novel, THE EQUINOX, garnered a lot of love. People love monsters, and I believed, when I wrote it, that they were worn out on vampires and zombies. So, I wanted to write something beyond the usual trends. In retrospect, I might have to rethink that, considering that the vampires and zombies are still around. Walking Dead, What We Do in the Shadows, and so on… In the case of THE EQUINOX, our protagonist Daniel Blackbird has been … [Read more...]
THE RED SON: Book One In The Red Family Trilogy
A Finalist in the Horror Category of the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards! In a world terribly altered by a mysterious, year-long phenomenon dubbed the Great Darkness by some, the Dark Rapture by others, Vincent Alexander, a serial killer possessed of strange abilities, wanders the nightmarish new landscape searching for answers to his past, the Red Dream and the weaponized bones of his family his only company. Vincent stumbles across … [Read more...]
Mark Anzalone
Welcome to my Wildblue Press Author Page! My name is Mark Anzalone, and I’m the author of Book One of the Shepherd of Wolves trilogy: The Family Man. I’ve been a huge fan of horror since I was a kid—from books and comics to movies and TV. I’ve been writing and drawing horror from a young age as well. I’ve always had a few notebooks and a sketchbook on me, constantly jotting down story ideas, drawing new monsters, and formulating new RPG … [Read more...]
Can The Monster Walking Among Us Be Stopped? Find Out In MJ Preston’s Horror THE EQUINOX
It has existed for centuries. A dark curse held captive by an ancient ritual, a creature of insatiable hunger possessing the ability to change shape at will. During the spring and fall equinox it would break through the walls, separating our worlds to feed. Now it walks among us, unrestrained, and very hungry. Daniel Blackbird has been chasing the murderous shapeshifter known as The Walker across North America for over a decade. From North of the … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin on the Gothic Roots of Horror
There is much that is Gothic in The Pure And The Hated, my novel about the past, about revenge and lawlessness. In many ways revenge may be seen as lawless justice. As I examine what horror fiction means to us and how it relates to crime fiction, I want to trace its roots. I want to show that the two genres are not that distinct. In the latter part of the eighteenth century there was flowering of Gothic literature in England that ran … [Read more...]
