Ring in the holidays with this dark, chilling collection of twelve stories that will surely make you guzzle that rum-filled eggnog. Not everyone loves Christmas and all the “quality” time we get to share with those we love. And once you dig into this yule-timed anthology you will truly see the dark side of the Holiday season.
Inside Christmas in Hell you will discover zombies, ravenous reindeer, satanic Santas, psychotic spouses and much more macabre shenanigans that will make the twelve days of Christmas fly by like a reindeer hopped up on a keg of Red Bull.
Table of Contents:
“One Hell of a Christmas” by Joseph Mulak
“Reindeer Feed” by Darren Gallagher
“The Christmas Goblin” by Dean Harrison
“Shop ‘Till You Drop” by Nick Cato
“Merry Christmas Bitch” by Skip Novak
“I, Claus-A Poem” by Ignatius O’Brien
“Lane Feeds the Multitude” by Lincoln Crisler
“Hung With Care” by Ty Schwamberger
“To Grandmother’s House We Go” by Gregory Hall
“Christmas Town” by Charles Day
“The Dollhouse” by Alex Katrin
“Christmastime in Zombietown” by Michael Boatman
Click here to download this jolly anthology to your Kindle.
“Spare Rib Soup” is this month’s ’12 for 12′ short story Kindle release by T Allen Press.
Description:
Spare Rib Soup is a 6,000 word short story about a husband and wife that take a trip to Taiwan before their bundle of joy is born.
Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned, when the wife goes into labor during the flight.
It definitely isn’t the happy ending they both had dreamed about.
You can download this sick little tale to your Kindle for only .99 cents! However, I’d suggest not reading this before your Thanksgiving meal. This is a book you CAN judge by its cover.
Relics & Remains. Edited by Ty SchwambergerSynopsis
People have always been fascinated about the past. Some even going to great lengths to uncover what’s taken place long ago. But sometimes when people venture into locations that aren’t suitable for the living, bad things can happen.
That’s when these self-proclaimed explorers start to unearth strange looking, ancient artifacts and the cursed remains of the once-living. They think they’re going to be rich and famous. But, that might just be the furthest from the truth. To them, taking that risk is what it’s all about…until things start to go wrong.
So, for those of you into ‘finding’ strange things, here are some words of advice…
Proceed with caution when digging up someone else’s Relics & Remains.
Table of Contents
“Good For What Ails Ya” by Mike Oliveri
“Many Faces” by Wrath James White
“Centuries of Torment” by Adam P. Lewis
“The Black Diamond” by Michael Laimo
“Caroline’s Playhouse” by Dean Harrison
“The Painter” by Deborah LeBlanc
“Rachel Alhazred’s Tablet” by Steven L. Shrewsbury
“Adrift” by Dora Machado
“Monkey Paw 2.0” by Tim Deal
“Pickin’ & Grinnin’” by Thomas A. Erb
“Whispers at the End of Creation” by Maurice Broaddus
“Nailed” by John Everson
“’Chomp’ A Cautionary Tale” by Jeff Strand
Click here to check out the book trailer. Then go download this anthology to your Kindle or Nook.
The Trade Paperback will be available for purchase next week.
DININ’ is now available to Pre-Order in Signed Limited Hardcover from Bad Moon Books.
Synopsis:
On their way to Las Vegas for a weekend of debauchery; Dawn, Cindy and Morgan decide to stop at a greasy spoon to get some grub. Mel’s Diner looks like a decent enough place and their advertised ‘best burgers this side of Vegas’ entice the girls to give it a try. While at the diner; they eat, make fun of the restaurant’s patrons and finish the meal off by doing the most sacrilegious thing a customer can do – skip out on their bill.
What ensues is a large truck with its headlights off following them along a deserted stretch of road, a blinding light that causes them to almost wreck, a few shotgun blasts, a long walk down a dark road and some horrific events that unfold inside a cabin deep in the woods. Is it the diner’s owner coming to collect on girl’s tab or someone with more than just money on their mind? What do they want? What is the driver of the truck willing to do once they come to an abrupt stop on the side of the road?
The three college friends will find out soon enough.
Praise:
“Gruesome revenge tale with seriously icky moments! Like a written version of “I Spit On Your Grave”, but with a weird edge to it!”
— Morpheus Tales Magazine
“Ty Schwamberger’s new novella DININ’ is a truly terrifying tale of three college girls who make a stop at a roadside diner for a quick bite, and make the mistake of skipping out on their bill. What follows is an original take on those tales told in Road Rage and Joyride, with the terror multiplied by ten. Add in some very fine writing, and you have a horror story that even the most seasoned horror readers will have trouble clearing from their minds. DININ’ is one great story from a new, talented voice in the world of horror fiction.”
— Michael Laimo, author of Sleepwalker and Return to Darkness
“Ty Schwamberger never fails to serve up the shocks and DININ’ is no exception. In it he pits an array of well-drawn characters against an action-packed buffet of butchery, savageness, and graphic mishap. Readers beware, DININ’ is not the safest menu choice for the timid-hearted.”
— Shroud Magazine
“Ty Schwamberger effectively conjures a fun Richard Laymon-esque atmosphere in DININ’. The terror starts early in this one and rarely lets up.”
— Bryan Smith, author of The Killing Kind, Depraved and Highways To Hell
“The Halloween Hero” is this month’s ’12 for 12′ short story Kindle release by T Allen Press.
Description:
The Halloween Hero is a 5,200 word story centering around a little boy named Billy. Billy’s parents aren’t the best to be around, so he spends most of his time staring out his bedroom window and dreaming of a better life. His favorite time to look out on the world are during the hours he’s supposed to be in bed.
It’s during one of these late night watching sessions, Billy sees “something” lurking in the shadows. After much trepidation, he decides to go outside and investigate.
Where his worst nightmare comes to life.
You can download this creepy little tale to your Kindle for only .99 cents!
The audio book edition of my atypical werewolf novella Grave Intentions is now available to download (mp3) on Audible.com and Amazon. It was produced by Cup O’ Tea Productions and narrated by Randy Capes. You can also listen to a free sample via the links.
The Trade Paperback and Kindle editions can still be purchased on Amazon. Click here if you’ve never checked out the book trailer.
House Call now has an IMDb page. You can also check out everything related to the forthcoming film (movie trailer, synopsis, cast & crew, production photos, etc) by typing “House Call” in the search bar located in the top right hand corner of this page.
Make sure to visit IMDb often for additional updates.
From New York Times bestselling author, Rick Hautala, comes a taut suspense thriller set in the dark woods of Maine.
Jeff Cameron is going back to Camp Tapiola on Lake Onwego to meet several old friends and reminisce about their childhood experiences at camp. But not all of their childhood memories are good. For thirty-five years lingering images of their friend Jimmy Foster’s lifeless body being pulled from the lake has disturbed Jeff’s peace of mind. Was Jimmy Foster’s death an accident or murder? The authorities had said Jimmy’s death was an accidental drowning, but Jeff had always believed there was more to the story. Why after all these years did his old friend arrange this reunion? And why can’t Jeff escape the feeling that his friend has a hidden agenda. What is this reunion is really about? And another question remains… who is The Wildman?
I announced here about T Allen Press publishing a short story via Kindle each of the next 12 months. “Gnomus” & “The 7th House” is the first installment. As an added bonus, the first release contains two stories.
Description:
“Gnomus” is a 2,200 word short story. The tale centers around Steven whom is newly retired and is becoming increasingly annoyed by his wife’s “to do” list. Little does Steven know Deborah has an unique way to make sure he completes everything on her list.
The follow-up to the previous story is 6,600 words and entitled “The 7th House”. This tale takes place at a haunted house attraction where Steven exacts his revenge on Deborah’s nasty little way of making him do what she wants.
Visit Amazon to download over 8,500 words of terror-filled fun for less than a buck!
Wag The Fox posted this today about my atypical zombie novella, The Fields. You can still purchase the Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio Book editions on Amazon.
“It turns out that one way to go forward with the zombie genre is to go backwards–in time, anyway. Ty Schwamberger’s novella, The Fields, offers up the story set in the days following the American Civil War of Billy Fletcher, a young plantation owner in dire need of help to keep the farm going before the tobacco crop dies. He inherited it after his father passed away, a cruel slave-owner who didn’t just exploit those indentured on his farm, but tortured them as well, even burying slaves behind his expansive tobacco fields. Even his son wound up the receiving end of more than a few beatings for showing sympathy for the slaves and other deeds considered sins in his father’s eyes.
But despite vowing to run the plantation differently from his father, to work the land himself rather than resort to slave labor, the young man is failing. Enter a man named Abraham who knocks on Billy’s door one day and offers him a solution. There’s no real telling where Abraham came from, but he sure seems to know a lot about Billy and his father, and assures Billy that what he needs to do is follow in his father’s footsteps. And that’s something that Billy is adamant about avoiding, because he doesn’t want to be a slave-owner like his father. But what if the slaves are already dead?
This was a tremendously creepy zombie story, due mainly because of the racial current running through it. The idea that a person would only be enslaved during when they’re alive, but when they’re dead as well, is an unsettling one to say the least. One thing I had trouble envisioning as I read the book was the farm. Billy, Abraham, and the zombies jumped off the page, but the plantation itself felt very much like a stage-dressing when I was expecting something much more vivid. But, maybe tobacco fields just aren’t that much to look at.
Apex seems to have a knack for showcasing books in the zombie genre that stray from the road most traveled, though it’s sad to here the Zombie Feed imprint is no more. Ty is an emerging talent in the horror genre, to be sure. I’d only read some of his short fiction prior to this, so it was nice to sit down with a longer work and see how he brings a story to life when there’s a little more room to breathe. I’ve got a couple more of his novellas on my to-be-read pile, and I’m definitely looking forward to checking them out, too.”
Ty Schwamberger 
