Aaron Saylor

Aaron Saylor's acclaimed first novel Sewerville introduced the world to Seward County. Now, Adventures in Terror: Mostly the 1980s takes a nostalgic journey into the shadowy corners at the other end of the county - the magical end. The end where the real monsters live. The Whistle Mill end, where young Grady Claremont and Jasper Bohanon forge a lifelong friendship while battling the ghosts and demons that haunt the woods around their tiny home town. Chock full of Reagan-era pop culture and already hailed as "pure joy for those who grew up with the likes of Stephen King, Fangoria magazine, and VHS video stores," Adventures in Terror: Mostly the 1980s will delight horror fans with its Southern Gothic twist on genre touchstones, as Grady and Jasper battle elements both real and the fantastic around their hometown. Witches, zombies, werewolves, even an Irish banshee pose as much threat to the boys as their overzealous middle school librarian or the creaking machinery of the carnival. Adventures in Terror: Mostly the 1980s is the first volume in a saga that spans ages and universes. Climb on board

LOST CHANGE AND LOOSE COUSINS, the new book by Aaron Saylor & Strother Kevin Hall, is exactly what its title implies: an eclectic collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces that combine into a wholly satisfying journey across genres. Aaron Saylor (author of the acclaimed Southern gangster novel SEWERVILLE) contributes most of the fiction here, ranging from amusing ("The Autobiography of Nobody", "Sewerville: the Lay of the Land") to melancholy ("The Sweet Smell of Pine Needles") to outright horror ("The Dead on Black River","Apep, the Darkness"). Hall provides all of the nonfiction with a series of essays, some inspired from his childhood, some from just a few days ago. He also contributes some fiction, including the emotional "Nonsense," which weaves five interconnecting short stories into one larger tale. Note: the paperback version of LOST CHANGE AND LOOSE COUSINS includes the additional work "Philosopher Dog: Issue One", a fantasy comic-book script about a time-travelling yorkshire terrier.