A Mixed Bag of Blood

Goblins

Goblins
"The stuff nightmares are made of" --Cemetery Dance Online

Skinner

Skinner
"A brutal horror story that will keep surprising you over and over" -- Horror Underground

Toxic Behemoth

Toxic Behemoth
Is the world ready for TOXIC BEHEMOTH?

The Unhinged

The Unhinged
EXTREME HORROR

Surrogate

Surrogate
“Surrogate is another fine example of just how powerful a horror story can be." --Examiner.com

Apartment 7C

Apartment 7C
Sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands.

Relic of Death

Relic of Death
"A fascinating, unpredictable, ever-shifting tale of greed and desperation. Highly recommended!" —Jeff Strand, author of Pressure

Witch Island

Witch Island
Reminiscent of 80s slasher flicks!!!!!

The Tree Man

The Tree Man
"Warlocks, witches, spiderlike familiars, and the ghosts of the evil dead... pit them all against a kid with a stolen shotgun and you've got a helluva dark ride! Creepy as Hell! Bernstein has crafted a Grimm's Fairy Tale for the modern age." -John Everson, author of NightWhere and Violet Eyes

Damaged Souls

Damaged Souls
"David Berstein's Damaged Souls is a hard-hitting mix of gut-churning horror, strikingly dark imagery, and prose as sharp as a cultist's sacrificial dagger. Don't miss it!" -- Tim Waggoner, author of The Way of All Flesh.

Fecal Terror

Fecal Terror
The Shittiest Book Available!!!!

Amongst the Dead

Amongst the Dead
"David Bernstein is a real craftsman, and one of the most thrilling voices to come along in a decade. He's who you should be reading now." —Joe McKinney, author of Flesh Eaters and Apocalypse of the Dead “David Bernstein is a rare kind of writer who really delivers the goods when it comes to horror. He'll be burning up the best seller lists soon. Count on it.” —Eric S Brown, author of A Pack of Wolves "David Bernstein's work resonates off the page, unforgettable in its elegant delivery, a ripple effect no doubt translating to ever bigger and vaster audiences as he continues to terrify -- and impress!" —Gregory L. Norris, author of The Q Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Tears of No Return

Tears of No Return
“Tears of No Return begins with a gripping chaos of mind-readers, secret government agencies and vampires and never lets up. It demands to be read for all its intensity. David Bernstein plants a central idea in a minefield and just sits back and watches the explosions domino on each other. Thoroughly entertaining and highly recommended!” —Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Bram Stoker Award- winning author of Black & Orange and Dungeon Brain

Sunday, January 19, 2014

“Small Town Secrets” by Brian Moreland





             I’ve always loved horror stories about small towns that harbor dark secrets.
             My latest novel, The Devil’s Woods, centers around Hagen’s Cove, an isolated logging town set deep in the Canadian wilderness of British Columbia. Nestled between mountains and an emerald green lake, the town is a beautiful place to take a vacation, relax and breathe in the clean, pine air. Log-and-rock buildings line the main street with shops that cater to tourism. At the center of Hagen’s Cove, an ancient white church with a high steeple towers above the other buildings. At the lake’s edge, you’ll find a rustic hunting and fishing lodge, a marina filled with boats and a seaplane, and a tavern where all the loggers who work for Thorpe Timber Mill and Logging Company go to drink. The mill’s wealthy owner, Jensen Thorpe, is also the mayor.
             The inhabitants of Hagen’s Cove are mostly Danish, descendents of the original Danes who migrated from Denmark to Canada back in the late 1800s. Today, they are a quiet people and speak mostly to themselves in Danish. They are highly superstitious and know there are places in the surrounding woods where man is considered prey.
              For over a century the loggers have tolerated the Cree people who live on a reservation a few miles down the road, but the townspeople know that the woods the Crees call “Macâya Forest” are haunted and anyone who goes past the warning trees will vanish. Respecting the borders of the forbidden woods, the Danes and Cree people have maintained a peaceful existence.
              That peace is violently disrupted when one of the Cree descendents, Professor Jon Elkheart, leads an expedition team into Macâya Forest to expose its secrets. When the expedition team also vanishes, Elkheart’s three estranged children, Kyle, Eric and Shawna, travel from Seattle to Hagen’s Cove to search for their missing father.
               Kyle, the oldest at age 30, was the closest to his father and used to visit the reservation to going camping and hunting with Elkheart and Grandfather Two Hawks. Kyle has always been cursed with a strange gift--he can see and hear ghosts. He also glimpses visions of where a murder had taken place. When he arrives at the Cree village, it’s not long before Kyle discovers the woods are filled with restless spirits. One of them, the ghost of an Indian girl who had been mysteriously murdered twenty years ago, seems to be trying to warn Kyle. The search for his missing father will take Kyle and his siblings to the border of Macâya Forest.
              When they discover what lies beyond the Devil’s Woods, a terrifying nightmare of survival begins.
               Some small town secrets should never be told.
               And some woods should never be entered.

              THE DEVIL'S WOODS is now available in paperback and eBook at Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com, iBooks, iTunes, and wherever books are sold. 

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                Author Bio: Brian Moreland writes novels and short stories of horror and supernatural suspense. His books include Dead of Winter, Shadows in the Mist, The Girl from the Blood Coven, The Witching House, and The Devil’s Woods. His next book, The Vagrants, will release in June 2014. Brian lives in Dallas, Texas where he is diligently writing his next horror novel. You can join his mailing list at http://www.brianmoreland.com/

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