Analogue of Horror

1. Shadows Are Falling (Coming Winter 2025)
2. The Dominant One (Audiobook Sample)
3. Break My Bones (Revision) Rerelease & Coming soon to Audio
4. Horror Movie Highlights 1980's:
5. THE THING
6. EVIL DEAD II
7. CREEPSHOW
8. PUMPKIN HEAD
9. FUNHOUSE
10. SLEEPAWAY CAMP
11. MY BLOODY VALENTINE
12. TERROR TRAIN
13. Morbid History: The Heresy Fork
14. Novel Highlights 1980's:
15. PET SEMATARY
16. NATHANIEL
17. For Every Writer
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Late in the evening on November 18th, 1982, in the quiet town of Fishbone, Montana, a ten-year-ola boy is slaughtered in his bedroom. Just down the hall, his older sister moves through the house, unaware of the horror unfolding only feet away.

The nature of his death defies explanation-neither entirely human nor animal.

Hundreds of miles away in New England, Dr. Robert Qiu, a brilliant but haunted medical examiner, wears the dead like a second skin. Witness, to a brutal double homicide years earlier, the memory shadows him still.

After the boy's gruesome murder plunges Fishbone into panic, Sheriff Peter Stubbe severs ties with the local coroner and calls in Dr. Qiu, believing only he can uncover the truth.

As Robert arrives in the frozen, neon-lit streets of this remote town, he finds himself drawn into something far darker than he imagined. At the heart of Fishbone, a malevolent force is stirring. Some ghosts, he learns, refuse to stay buried.

What waits in the shadows-man, beast, or something far worse?

Will Dr. Qiu solve the mystery before another victim is taken? Or will he become just another casualty in this chilling tale of terror?

Benji shot upright, blinking into black. The air felt thick, like held breath. The silence buzzed. Not a dream. Not awake, either. For a second, he thought he’d gone blind. Then the dark shifted. His heart jolted into a sprint. Something felt… wrong. The door was shut, just as he left it. The stereo dead. The blinds drawn. Had he done that?

Molly… Had to be. Her lame payback for the boots. Another shift in the dark.

“Molly, you better get out of here or I’m telling Mom and Dad! You can kiss your precious Walkman goodbye!”

Gabriel Connolly struggles with what’s right. Then, when he’s faced with pure evil, and realizes he has no choice, he tries to drown his soul-less friend in a river. But evil doesn't die.

And that’s just the start of Gabriel's new nightmare. You can’t cheat death, that’s the catch. Even worse, Gabriel realizes he may have passed on supernatural gifts to a heartless killer.

As fiendish plans and unspeakable atrocities are set in motion, Gabriel learns that he alone may hold the key to a series of terrifying events: a secret cabin in the woods, a hidden tomb housing a trail of dismembered corpses, the young killer who lingers in a coma intent on cheating death. And at last, a depraved madman hellbent on saving his only son’s life. Can Gabriel take back the gifts given and triumph over the wicked? And most importantly, will death lay claim in the end?

Re-Releasing Break My Bones: COMING SOON!!! — (FALL) Now with Extra Bite (and an Audiobook!)

A chilling psychological thriller where buried sins claw their way to the surface…

Michael Kerrigan should be living the dream. With bestselling suspense novels and a loyal following of readers, the once-troubled author has finally escaped the shadows of his past. But when a long-forgotten friend — a man he thought was dead — resurfaces, Michael’s success crumbles into a waking nightmare.

What begins as a sinister encounter escalates into a deadly game of vengeance. Hunted by a figure who knows his deepest secrets, Michael must unravel the truth behind years of guilt and betrayal. Every step closer draws him deeper into madness — and closer to losing everyone he loves.

As the line between fiction and reality blurs, Michael faces a devastating choice: confront the sins that haunt him, or watch his world burn at the hands of a relentless enemy.

Fans of Alex Michaelides, Karin Slaughter, and Riley Sager will devour this tense and haunting thriller that asks: Can you ever truly bury the past?

The young man awoke in total darkness. He lay exposed, struggling to lift his head from the cold, damp cement.

I’m dreaming…

He was dreaming—if only for a moment. A black corridor stretched endlessly ahead, calling him deeper into the abyss. He blinked, and the world crawled into focus. A small generator hummed, its vibration seeping into the walls and his bones. He instructed his limbs to move, but an invisible weight held them in place. Awareness crept in —a tendril, sharp and invasive blossoming from his mind’s eye.

Please, God, don’t let anything be broken.

📼 [TRAILER VOICE: booming, over-the-top, every word echoing like it’s on an old drive-in speaker]

🎶 [Cue a pulsing synth beat… lightning cracks across the screen]

🔪 “From the frozen wastes of Antarctica… John Carpenter’s The Thing!”
“It’s not the cold that’ll kill you—it’s your best friend splitting open!”

🪓 “Chainsaws rev, blood sprays, and the dead don’t stay down… Evil Dead II!”
“Groovy never sounded so glorious and gory.”

💀 “From master of the undead George Romero comes… Creepshow!”
“Where comic books don’t just rot your brain—they eat it!”

🎃 “He’s tall, he’s mean, and he’s harvesting revenge… Pumpkinhead!”
“This fall, this pumpkin’s carving you.”

🎠 “The midway’s open… but once you’re inside The Funhouse, you’ll never get out!”
“Step right up—your ticket buys you a scream!”

🏕️ “Welcome to Sleepaway Camp…”
“Where the killer’s the last person you’d ever suspect!”

❤️ “Roses are red, violets are blue, pickaxes hurt—and Harry's coming for you… My Bloody Valentine!”

🚂 “All aboard the Terror Train! No masks required… except the killer’s.”
“Next stop: carnage!”

🐈 “Stephen King’s Pet Sematary!”
“Sometimes dead is better—especially when the cat’s already out of the grave.”

👶 “From John Saul… Nathaniel.”
“Evil wears a child’s smile—and buries you with it.”

The Heresy Fork was a medieval torture device used during the Inquisition to punish those accused of heresy.

This simple yet brutal instrument consisted of a metal fork with two prongs at each end, attached to a leather strap or collar.

One prong was pressed under the chin, while the other pierced the victim's chest, forcing the victim to hold their head upright.

If the victim moved or fell asleep, the prongs would be driven into their flesh. Rather than causing immediate death, the instrument was designed to cause long-term discomfort and instill a sense of fear and control in the accused.

When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved pets. Then there are the warnings to Louis both real and from the depths of his nightmares that he should not venture beyond the borders of this little graveyard where another burial ground lures with seductive promises and ungodly temptations. A blood-chilling truth is hidden there-one more terrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful. As Louis is about to discover for himself sometimes, dead is better...

For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered Nathaniel's name in wonder and fear. Some say he is a folktale, created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some swear he is a terrifying spirit retumed to avenge the past. But soon... very soon... some will learn that Nathaniel lives still--that he is darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel--he is the voice that calls to young Michael Hall across the prairie night... the voice that draws the boy into the shadowy depths of the old, crumbling, forbidden barn ... that chanting, compelling voice he will follow faithfully beyond the edge of terror.

"MONSTERS ARE REAL. GHOSTS ARE REAL, TOO.

THEY LIVE INSIDE US, AND SOMETIMES.. THEY WIN"

Hope you all have enjoyed my newsletter.

Until next time...

STEPHEN KING: PET SEMATARY & QUOTE: MONSTER ARE REAL...

JOHN SAUL: NATHANIEL

HERESY FORK: ANCIENT WORLD IN NEW YORK