New Releases- September 13, 2011 Day by Day Armageddon:
Origin to Exile Permuted Press
Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.
Her opponents painted her as a bloodthirsty škrata—a witch—a portrayal that would expand to grotesque proportions through the centuries.
a job in security. Jack’s family wants to stay. But Jack slowly comes to realize that there’s something else going on at Paterville Family Camp... and when he makes a gruesome discovery, he will be forced to get his family out, no matter who... or what... stands in his way.
Blood Lite II: Overbite Pocket Books
From the Horror Writers Associa- tion comes a brand-new collection of darkly humorous tales! The Big Questions of Life (and Death) Can a killer’s basement blood-feast be a tax write-off (under Entertain- ment)? Not if Vlad the IRS agent nails him first in Heather Graham’s “Death and Taxes.” What does a pack of hungry she-wolves do to solve their man troubles? Ladies Night Out takes a wicked turn in “Dog Tired (of the Drama!)” by L. A. Banks. How far will an elite call girl go to beat a murder rap? Stuck with a dead client in a luxury L.A. hotel room, she might strike a costly bargain with a woman of unearthly powers in Allison Brennan’s “Her Lucky Day.” Who actually writes those tabloid stories about Bigfoot? Meet a journalist of the unexplained (she’s 50 percent demon) and her boyfriend (he’s 100 percent thief), as they heat up a museum exhibi- tion that’s also a soul-snatching battleground
Vacation St. Martin’s Press
The Countess: A Novel of
Elizabeth Bathory Crown Publishing Group
Was the “Blood Countess” histo- ry’s first and perhaps worst female serial killer? Or did her accusers create a violent fiction in order to remove this beautiful, intelligent, ambitious foe from the male-domi- nated world of Hungarian politics? In 1611, Countess Erzsébet Bátho- ry, a powerful Hungarian noble- woman, stood helpless as masons walled her inside her castle tower, dooming her to spend her final years in solitary confinement. Her crime—the gruesome murders of dozens of female servants, mostly young girls tortured to death for displeasing their ruthless mistress.
After a global crisis causes crops to fail and species to disappear, something even more deadly hap- pens. Masses around the world suddenly became predators, feed- ing off their own kind. These ‘Can Heads’ grow to such a threat that fences, gated compounds, and SWAT-style police protection be- come absolutely necessary to live. And after one attack leaves NYPD cop Jack Murphy wounded and his partner dead, Jack takes his wife and kids on a vacation. Far up north, to the Paterville Family Camp, a fortress-like compound in the mountains, where families can still swim and take boats out on a lake. At first, it’s idyllic. There’s plenty of food, fun stuff for their children, and another nice young couple with kids of their own. And when the camp suffers a Can Head at- tack, Jack even helps defend it. He’s immediately offers Jack
Lucifer’s Lottery Cemetery Dance Publications
Just before he’s about to enter a seminary, a young man learns he’s the winner of Lucifer’s Lottery, a lottery held every 666 years, in which the winner receives eternal youth and wealth and a personal tour of Hell.
Steel: And Other Stories Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Imagine a future in which the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. Hu- man boxers have been replaced by massive humanoid robots. And former champions of flesh-and- blood are obsolete . . . . Richard Matheson’s classic short story is now the basis for Real Steel, a gritty, white-knuckle film star- ring Hugh Jackman. But “Steel,” which was previously filmed as a powerful episode of the original Twilight Zone television series, is
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