New Indie Releases
Compositions For The Young And Old: Creative Commons Release
A jar that holds your deepest secrets and fears.
A fireman confronts his past while trying to save a group of children who have fallen through thin ice.
A preacher's daughter goes to fantastic and desperate lengths to write a book like Mark Twain.
A man who cures people's pain and sadness through laughter finds his greatest challenge in a little boy.
Phantom
No ax murderers hunting sexy teens . . . no brutal torture for torture's sake . . . because PHANTOM goes beyond the scare: Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace have collected fourteen stories by today's most thoughtful writers of horror, each asking the questions beyond "what is frightening"?
This is just the beginning, however, with stories from Steve Rasnic Tem, Lavie Tidhar, F. Brett Cox, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Berman, Nick Mamatas, Michael Cisco, among other fresh voices in horror. From paranoid gold prospectors to lonely curators, Satan-worshipping Long Island teens, metaphysics-obsessed television reporters, and to Peter and Olivia and their devastating final choices detailed in the last pages of this anthology, the fourteen stories of Phantom present their horrors differently, but they all ask: How does anyone live through this?
Purchase information coming soon.
The Harlequin and the Train
The first release heralding the return of Jeffrey Thomas's Necropolitan Press, this is an experimental fiction narrative that requires you to interact with it using a simple yellow highlighter. The Harlequin & the Train is a novella about paranoia, choice, and the horror of individual and collective consequence.
Rudy has only been on the job as a train engineer for a few months. While at the helm of a commuter train headed to Boston, Massachusetts, it hits a harlequin clown, and in the chaotic aftermath, he witnesses the horrific and inexplicable actions of a group of people who were seemingly laying in wait for the accident. There are other accidents and as the group infiltrates his life (present and past), and as random global acts of violence and suffering seem to be connected, what Rudy believes about others and himself will be forever warped as he makes his final choice.
Praise for The Harlequin and the Train:
"Tremblay is an expert when it comes to piercing the veil of prosaic suburban life to reveal its dark heart. Cryptic, elliptical, and profoundly eerie, The Harlequin & the Train unfolds inexorably as a nightmare." - Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence
"With The Harlequin and the Train, Paul Tremblay accomplishes what veteran authors of the new genre still strive toward: the perfect balance between smart, innovative plot, and true characters who break your heart. I loved it." - Sarah Langan, author of The Keeper and The Missing
"Tremblay is the most literate of genre writers, cutting the language to pieces and reassembling it in new and startling ways. This daring entry into the creepy-doll oeuvre dances the fine line between madness and genius." - Scott Nicholson, author of The Skull Ring and They Hunger