Book Spotlight: Draakensky

 Here's a new book spotlight for the dark fantasy, Draakensky by Paula Cappa. Enjoy.

Draakensky by Paula Cappa

A murder. A wind sorcerer. A dark spirit. On Draakensky, magick dictates destiny.

The Chief of Police discovers an elderly woman dead in the Mianus River. There is a ghost who resides here and flings its words through the spinning air. River magic too, streams across Draakensky Windmill estate, conjuring a secret in Bedford, New York.

Sketch artist Charlotte Knight arrives on Draakensky to a bright opportunity. She is hired to illustrate the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke under the direction of Jaa Morland, the recluse spinster of Draakensky. Jaa, a believer in ghosts, instructs Charlotte to ‘draw the ghosts.’

From the first night, Charlotte hears the watery voice of Draakensky’s ghost speak to her. Sinister dark eyes watch at the window. Fear mounts when a strange man stalks her through the village cemetery and shops. When a wicked force of nature strikes Charlotte, warning her to flee Draakensky, she is shaken to the bone.

Needing solid ground, Charlotte meets the local restaurant owner, Marc Sexton, who knows the ghostly Otherworld and the magickal practices from his Celtic ancestry; he sports a silver wolf amulet at his neck. Their romance takes Charlotte into a piercing adventure through darkness and doubt, passion and aching love.

As dark magick accelerates on Draakensky, Charlotte is driven into realms of owl magick, witchcraft, and necromancy. She battles her own fear of ghosts and wrestles with how to trust Marc Sexton, a man with hidden realities.

If magick is destiny, then Charlotte must survive the world of ghosts or surrender to a more powerful source in this literary tale of mystery, sorcery, and love.



Fans of ghostly and Gothic fiction like Susan Hill’s Woman in Black, or Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House will find Draakensky goes a step deeper into the powerful Otherworld, magickal realms, and folklore. Paula Cappa is a multi-award-winning author of supernatural tales, Greylock, Night Sea Journey, and The Dazzling Darkness, and many published short stories.

Book Link: https://getbook.at/Draakensky

About the Author

Paula Cappa is a multiple award-winning author of Greylock, The Dazzling Darkness, and Night Sea Journey—A Tale of the Supernatural, print editions published by Crispin Books, Milwaukee WI. She is known for her quiet horror stories, and as an Amazon best-selling author. 

Cappa’s short fiction has appeared in The Lorelei Signal, Scribes, ParABnormal Magazine, Coffin Bell Literary Journal, Unfading Daydream, Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine, Whistling Shade Literary Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sirens Call Ezine, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, Twilight Times Ezine, and in anthologies Journals of Horror: Found Fiction, Mystery Time, and Human Writes Literary Journal. 

She is a freelance copy editor and writes a short story blog, Reading Fiction Blog, at https://paulacappa.wordpress.com. Cappa is Co-Chair of the Pound Ridge Authors Society in Pound Ridge, NY.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulaCappa1  

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/paula.cappa.94 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paula_cappa/  

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Paula-Cappa/e/B009P2HZ7A/ 

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/paulacappa.bsky.social 

Book Spotlight: The Medusa Psalms

 Another book spotlight today for the new horror collection by Kyle Toucher, The Medusa Psalms: Welcome to Walpurgis County. Enjoy.

The Medusa Psalms: Welcome to Walpurgis County by Kyle Toucher

Kyle Toucher invites you on a chilling journey through ten stories and two novellas that unveil the grim history and malevolent folklore of America's most cursed terrain. From haunted mountains to deranged cults, from cosmic horrors to ancestral vendettas, each tale plunges you deeper into a realm where monsters roam freely and secrets fester in the blood-soaked soil.

In this collection, exorcists battle ancient evils, time bends and distorts reality, and the unsuspecting collide with the macabre. Meet a father consumed by grief and vengeance, a woman trapped in a temporal abyss, and a conspiracy theorist facing an occult agenda that threatens humanity's very existence. Encounter witches burning from within, possessed souls seeking revenge, and hybrids born of unholy alliances.

The Medusa Psalms: Welcome to Walpurgis County is a symphony of horror, suspense, and the supernatural, weaving together tales of haunted houses, demonic possessions, and cosmic conspiracies. With echoes of alternative history and the looming specter of a new world order, Toucher's dark imagination transforms everyday landscapes into battlegrounds of madness and despair.

Embrace the terror that lurks beneath the surface of Walpurgis County. Dare to cross the county line and immerse yourself in a world where nightmares are reality and survival means confronting the darkest corners of the human soul.

Book Link: https://getbook.at/Walpurgis1

About the Author

Kyle Toucher (rhymes with voucher) is the author of the novel Live Wire, from Crystal Lake Publishing, the novella Life Returns, and the Black Hare Press Short Read, Southpaw.

He recently appeared in the anthologies Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror and To Hell and Back, from Crystal Lake and Hellbound Books respectively.

Through his twenties, he fronted the influential Nardcore crossover band Dr. Know, made records and hit the road. Later, he moved into the Visual Effects field, where he bagged eight Emmy nominations and two awards for Firefly and Battlestar: Galactica.  

He lives with a lovely woman, five cats, two dogs, and several guitars in house built when Nosferatu first ran in theatres.

Website: kyletoucher.com

X: @kyletoucher

Instagram: @kyletoucher

Book Spotlight: The Exorcist’s House: Genesis

 Another book spotlight today on Nick Robert's new book, The Exorcist’s House: Genesis. Enjoy.

 

The Exorcist’s House: Genesis by Nick Roberts

In chasing devils, all roads lead to Hell.

1967: A brutal murder occurs at the Weston State Hospital in West Virginia. To amateur exorcist, Merle Blatty, this shocking story rings of the occult. Fueled by a desire to avenge the deaths of his wife and son, Merle investigates the case, unknowingly stepping into a sinister web spanning decades.

1997: It’s been three years since the Hill family left the nightmares of the farm behind them. Alice is off to college while Daniel and Nora are closer than ever, living in Ohio and raising their three-year-old daughter, Maren. Their high hopes for the future are quickly extinguished when they receive a call, learning of a plan by Adam, Daniel’s brother, to purchase the exorcist's former property and stage an Amityville-inspired haunting to profit from the story.

By alternating past and present narratives, The Exorcist’s House: Genesis is a multi-generational odyssey through Hell, giving birth to a new breed of horror.

Book Link: https://getbook.at/NickGenesis

About the Author

Nick Roberts is the author of Anathema, The Exorcist's House, It Haunts the Mind & Other Stories, and Mean Spirited. He is a native West Virginian, a doctoral graduate of Marshall University, and an active member of the Horror Writers Association.

Website: www.nickrobertsauthor.com

Book Spotlight: Missing in Miskatonic

Today I have another horror book spotlight from Crystal Lake Entertainment, Missing in Miskatonic by JP Behrens. Enjoy. 

Missing in Miskatonic by JP Behrens

Step into the shadowed streets of 1928 Arkham, where Miskatonic University holds secrets darker than the night.

In this supernatural thriller reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and H.P. Lovecraft, Private Detective Travis Daniels is thrust into a harrowing investigation when a young woman disappears without a trace. As Daniels delves deeper into the labyrinthine mysteries of the storied New England city, he uncovers a web of sinister cults, ancient rituals, and eldritch horrors that threaten not only his own sanity but the fabric of reality itself.
Set against a city steeped in occult lore and clandestine experiments, Missing in Miskatonic blends elements of hard-boiled detective fiction with chilling supernatural encounters. Daniels navigates treacherous alliances and confronts malevolent entities lurking in the shadows, all while racing against time to unravel the truth behind the girl's disappearance.
With a narrative that grips from the first page, this novel combines suspense, mystery, and cosmic terror in a gripping tale where every clue leads deeper into the abyss. From the enigmatic corridors of Miskatonic to the eerie gatherings of the Silver Twilight Lodge, Daniels must confront his own demons as he battles forces beyond human comprehension.

Book Link: https://getbook.at/Miskatonic

About the Author

JP Behrens is the author of Portrait of a Nuclear Family and We Don’t Talk Anymore and Other Dark Fictions. A graduate of the Yale Writers’ Workshop, he spends his days writing, reading, and practicing Kung Fu. All his other time is spent with family. He looks forward to revisiting sleep one day.

Website: JPBehrensauthor.com

Facebook: Facebook.com/JPBehrensauthor

Instagram: Instagram.com/JPBehrensauthor

Threads: @JPBehrens

Bluesky: @JPBehrens

Book Spotlight: Creatures of the Night (Dark Tide 17)

 Another book spotlight for the new release from Crystal lake Entertainment, Creatures of the Night (Dark Tide 17). Enjoy.

Creatures of the Night (Dark Tide 17)

Immerse yourself in a world of terror and darkness with three vampire horror novellas.

Return of the Blood-Feeders by Simon Clark: Viking vampires, and their latest vicious recruits, swarm through tunnels beneath the present-day town of Leppington. The Norse gods have created a Vampyrrhic army to wreak vengeance on people that turned their backs on Odin.  Just two fragile humans stand in their way – a down-at-heel drifter who is struggling to recover from a severe head injury, and a dreamer with a drink problem. Together, they must become extraordinary. Together, they must defeat something that is much, much worse than vampires.

Return of the Blood-Feeders is set in the world of Simon’s Vampyrrhic series of novels.

Perspective by Kevin J. Kennedy: "This is a story of my re-awakening, and vampires." A couple's lives are thrown into turmoil when a body is dumped at their door. The vampires are catapulted into a blood-drenched journey to the gates of hell. Fortunately, they have some werewolf friends that want to come along for the ride.

Beneath Still Waters by Gord Rollo: On May 16, 2020, disaster struck the small Canadian mining town of Beckley, Nova Scotia. An explosion deep in Shaft 3 unleased a massive torrent of water from an underground stream, quickly flooding the lower levels and dooming the workers below. Sixty-five people lost their lives that night, the tragedy one of the worst mining disasters in the province’s history. The Red Spruce Gypsum Mine would never reopen. 

The town tried to turn the heartbreak into something positive, converting the flooded quarry into a natural swimming hole for people to cool off in during the hot summer months. But something has awakened from within the abandoned mine shafts and staked its territory in the deepest part of the lake. Something ancient. Something savage. Something hungry… 

Book Link: https://getbook.at/DarkTide17

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About the Authors

Simon Clark

Simon Clark’s novels, include Blood Crazy (now an entire series of books), Vampyrrhic, Darkness Demands, Stranger, Whitby Vampyrrhic, Secrets of the Dead, and the British Fantasy award-winning The Night of the Triffids, which was broadcast as a five-part drama series by BBC radio.

Weird House Press have recently issued Simon’s new collection, Sherlock Holmes: A Casebook of Nightmares and Monsters, and the novels, Sherlock Holmes: Lord of Damnation and Callisto: Blood Mission.

He has also scripted audio dramas for Big Finish, including for their reboot of the apocalyptic drama, Survivors and their multi-platform Doom’s Day.

The Cannes Film Festival 2024 saw the premiere of Protos, a dystopian Sci-Fi/Horror feature film, which he co-scripted with Brian Avenet-Bradley.

Simon lives in Yorkshire, England, where he can be seen roaming this legend-haunted landscape with a black and white Border Collie by the name of Mylo.

Gord Rollo

GORD ROLLO was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, but now lives in Ontario, Canada. His short stories and novella-length work have appeared in many professional publications throughout the genre. His novels include: The Jigsaw Man, Crimson, Strange Magic, Valley Of The Scarecrow, The Translators, The Crucifixion Experiments, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and The Dark Side of Heaven.

Two other novels: Beasts of Copan, a time travel fantasy/horror, and Voodoo Cowboys: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a weird western/horror/adventure novel, were co-written with the legendary Gene O’Neill. 

Besides novels, Gord has edited the acclaimed evolutionary horror anthology, Unnatural Selection: A Collection of Darwinian Nightmares and co-edited Dreaming of Angels, a horror/fantasy anthology.

 

Kevin J. Kennedy

Kevin J. Kennedy is a horror author, editor, and anthologist. He is also the owner of KJK Publishing and he runs the best-selling 'The Horror Collection' series. 

He lives in the heart of Scotland with his beautiful wife, three cats, Carlito, Ariel, and Luna, and a Pomchi called Orko. He can be found on Facebook if you want to chat with him.