John Palisano

Ava must fight an entity locked in on taking out the crew of the Eden, a moon-sized cemetery in space, as it brings back the souls of the dead buried aboard. One such soul is Ava’s lost love, Roland. The spirits of the interred on the Eden haunt those aboard, including a visiting musician is tasked with writing a new song for the dead. Her Requiem calls a cosmic entity that illuminates their darkest fears and secrets. One by one, they’re driven mad. Ava fights her grief and must rise up before they’re lost and the entity reaches Earth. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to excellent original writing in horror, science fiction and fantasy. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress. Awarded independent publisher of 2024 by the British Fantasy Society.

It's 1928, and something strange is afoot in the desert town of Placerita just north of Los Angeles. When young biologist Alexis Crawford discovers an unidentifiable specimen washed up in the wake of a devastating flood, it begins a journey that will reveal the dark conspiracies at the heart of California and the secret known only to a few: that beneath the City of Angels is an ancient world of tunnels lined in gold, a world that is home to the legendary Lizard People.Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, and prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association's Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror as "consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening." She is a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award(R), the author of four novels and over 150 short stories, and a world-class Halloween and paranormal expert. Her latest releases include Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances and Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural (co-edited with Leslie S. Klinger). Recent short stories appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2020, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, and Classic Monsters Unleashed. Lisa lives in Los Angeles and online at www.lisamorton.com.John Palisano's novels include Dust of the Dead, Ghost Heart, Nerves, and Night of 1,000 Beasts. His novellas include Glass House and Starlight Drive: Four Halloween Tales. His first short fiction collection All that Withers celebrates over a decade of short story highlights.He won the Bram Stoker Award(c) in short fiction for "Happy Joe's Rest Stop" and Colorado's Yog Soggoth award in 2018. More short stories have appeared in anthologies from Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, PS Publishing, Independent Legions, Space & Time, Dim Shores, Kelp Journal, Monstrous Books, DarkFuse, Crystal Lake, Terror Tales, Lovecraft eZine, Horror Library, Bizarro Pulp, Written Backwards, Dark Continents, Big Time Books, McFarland Press, Darkscribe, Dark House, Omnium Gatherum, and many more.Non-fiction pieces have appeared in Blumhouse Online, Fangoria, and Dark Discoveries magazines and he's been quoted in Vanity Fair, The Writer and the Los Angeles Times.You can find out more at: www.johnpalisano.com

Welcome to the Wild West, a time of exploration, independence, and countless opportunities...for death. You've been to Placerita Town often to sell your father's ironworks, but never have you experienced a day like this. Jumpin' John and his gang of outlaws are tearing apart the town, and the Sheriff's doing nothing to stop them. You'll have to steer clear of the gang and brave the dangers of the desert if you're going to survive in this interactive novel. Watch your back, choose wisely, and be careful who you trust. It's wits versus might as you try to stay alive in the Wild West MORE THAN TWO DOZEN WAYS TO DIE.JUST ONE CORRECT PATH.DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SURVIVE? If you grew up reading Goosebumps (R) or Choose Your Own Adventure (R) stories, you'll love this western Find out why fans say, "I had a great time with the different decisions, even though I died a lot "

If you want off this ship, you'll have to be smart.Dodge the deadly illness killing your family members......and avoid the bad guys with guns lurking around every corner.In this action-packed interactive horror story, you are Dylan, a teenager enjoying a cruise with your family. But fate has other plans as an outbreak of Heliovirus hits, docking your vessel in the San Francisco Bay for the duration. The deadly disease spreads onboard and everyone starts to die...Surrounded by suffering, you discover that deadly stowaways somehow snuck onto the ship, but you're not sure why. What will you do - stay and fight them, or make a break for the dock? Every decision you make can kill you, but only one set of choices can save you and those you love. Do you have what it takes to escape with your life?If you live for Dean Koontz or grew up on Goosebumps (R) and Choose Your Own Adventure (R) stories, this terrifying tale is for you Find out why fans say "Have you ever read a book and felt it was predictable? Well, this one is not it; get ready to die " Don't wait - Pick up your copy now

Live fast, die young, and leave a bloodthirsty corpse.That's the saying of a new pack of fiendish predators infesting a New England town. They're infected with the Ghost Heart, a condition that causes them to become irresistible and invincible...as long as they drink the blood of the living. But these vampires don't live forever, and as the Ghost Heart claims them, their skin loses color and their hearts turn pale. When a young mechanic is seduced by the pack's muse, he finds falling in love will break more than his heart."Possessing a firm grasp of tradition but with his vision clearly focused on the future, John Palisano is exactly the type of writer horror needs right now: bold, brave, imaginative and unflinching."-Bentley Little"John Palisano's GHOST HEART is a gritty, action-packed novel with strong characterization and some truly nasty vampires. Highly recommended "-Tim Waggoner, author of Eat the Night and The Way of All Flesh"GHOST HEART is a hauntingly beautiful, equally tragic and terrifying journey through your innermost fears and desires."-Kya Aliana, author of The Vampiress Thrillogy

"THE MOST DEFINITIVE GUIDE INTO THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF BEING A HORROR WRITER SINCE STEPHEN KING'S 'ON WRITING'..."We have assembled some of the very best in the business from whom you can learn so much about the craft of horror writing: Bram Stoker Award(c) winners, bestselling authors, a President of the Horror Writers' Association, and myriad contemporary horror authors of distinction.The Horror Writer covers how to connect with your market and carve out a sustainable niche in the independent horror genre, how to tackle the writer's ever-lurking nemesis of productivity, writing good horror stories with powerful, effective scenes, realistic, flowing dialogue and relatable characters without resorting to clich d jump scares and well-worn gimmicks. Also covered is the delicate subject of handling rejection with good grace, and how to use those inevitable "not quite the right fit for us at this time" letters as an opportunity to hone your craft.Plus... perceptive interviews to provide an intimate peek into the psyche of the horror author and the challenges they work through to bring their nefarious ideas to the page.And, as if that - and so much more - was not enough, we have for your delectation Ramsey Campbell's beautifully insightful analysis of the tales of HP Lovecraft.Featuring: Ramsey Campbell, John Palisano, Chad Lutzke, Lisa Morton, Kenneth W. Cain, Kevin J. Kennedy, Monique Snyman, Scott Nicholson, Lucy A. Snyder, Richard Thomas, Gene O'Neill, Jess Landry, Luke Walker, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Marie O'Regan, Armand Rosamilia, Kevin Lucia, Ben Eads, Kelli Owen, Jasper Bark, and Bret McCormick.And interviews with: Steve Rasnic Tem, Stephen Graham Jones, David Owain Hughes, Tim Waggoner, and Mort Castle.

Five authors, five anthologies, each written to a theme. In book 3 of this groundbreaking series, Strange Tales of the Macabre, this edition's theme is POST-APOCALYPTIC Military factions, monsters, environmental disasters: all speak to the possible grim calamity of what could occur in the not-too-distant future or, perhaps, is occurring today. Dark and foreboding, sometimes hopeful, sometimes anguished, sometimes wondrous: Can we survive the coming apocalypse, or are we and our surrounds doomed to perish in any number of ways? Find out within Lisa Morton. John Palisano. Kate Jonez. Rena Mason. Eric J. Guignard: These are the names of horror, and these are your curators to STRANGE TALES OF THE MACABRE

From beyond the boundaries of the imagination and the universe...An anthology of surrealistic compositions created by some of the finest names in genre fiction. A showcase of international talent undaunted by the conventions of language and common narrative structures. Here is timelessness. Here is Surreal Worlds.

Eighteen peculiar stories, a letter, and a poem about the American Southwest's most enigmatic creature, the jackalope.AuthorsJeff StrandS phera Gir nRick PickmanRachel TownsKristi Petersen SchoonoverBrenda KnutsonMichael BaileyJack HorneDavid J. WestEric S. GrizzleAaron J. FrenchD.T. GriffithErik WilliamsAbbie BernsteinMatt KurtzMisty DahlFawnJezzy WolfeDean M. DrinkelMike D. McCarty