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A new collection of horror stories by Angeline Hawkes is shipping from Dark Regions Press. The book is available in three signed limited editions: 13 deluxe leatherbound hardcovers with slipcases, 100 jacketed hardcovers, and now trade paperback.
In Shades of Blood and Shadow, the palette of history and horror mingle in the hues of crimson blood and blackest death. The ghosts of the past mourn for lives unfinished, vengeance unfulfilled, and loves lost. The heart beats in a cacophony of anticipation and fear, echoing with the memory of those that once were, once danced, once believed.
Hues of fear, of woe and dying. Shades of death, of blood and shadow. Fallen women, queens, and angels. Angry men, ghosts, and devils. Life is woven in a tapestry of joy and sorrow; painted in the colors of pain, and triumph, and love. What artistry is found within the soul of every man -- some perfection, some wretched -- painted words and pictures of things glorious and of things unspeakable.
Hellnotes says: "Shades of Blood and Shadow is intelligent horror, which doesn’t mean it sacrifices emotional punch. Angeline Hawkes knows when to go for the gut, the jugular, or the heart; she does it with restraint and timing. There is a sense of place and purpose in her writing. She strikes the right balance between the blood and the shadow."
More praise for Shades of Blood and Shadow:
"Angeline Hawkes writes with the fatalistic poetry of unstoppable history gone disturbingly wrong." -- John Everson, Bram Stoker Award winning author
“Angeline Hawkes's … imagination seems to tend toward a Lovecraftian-meets-George Romero-in-a-dark-alley sensibility.” -- Robert Butterfield, Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction
“…Angeline Hawkes conducts an orchestra of creatures that are both bloody and sexy. You won’t forget this tour through historical horror; it’s a sumptuous smorgasbord for beasts craving variety.” --Gregory Lamberson, author of Johnny Gruesome and Personal Demons
“…every story is unique, and every story works. Angeline Hawkes's writing is sharp, elegant and satisfying in the most deliciously dark way.” -- Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Zombie CSU and Patient Zero
Symphony for the Forgotten, a collection of horror stories by Angeline Hawkes, is still available from Amazon.com. From ancient goddesses and Philistines to Mary Queen of Scots and the French Revolution ... from country roads to different worlds, Symphony for the Forgotten takes you on a journey through time and places feared with fourteen stories of torment and terror. Introduction by award winning author, Michael Largo.
Praise for Symphony for the Forgotten:
"Symphony for the Forgotten conjures dark and dangerous experiences, satisfyingly 'horrorific' stories seasoned with sly humor...historical epics slipstreaming into alternate realities mixed with tales modern as an internet killer...hellishly inspiring, fantastically inventive." -- C. Dean Andersson, Bram Stoker Award finalist, author of I Am Dracula, Raw Pain Max, and the Bloodsong Saga
"...a sweeping set of tales that radiate Angeline's pulse in every story...her grasp of what lurks in the heart is clear, and quite dark at times. Truly, a fine read." -- Steven L. Shrewsbury, author of Hawg and Godforsaken
The historic horror tale "In Waters Black the Lost Ones Sleep" by Angeline Hawkes appears in Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu anthology, Frontier Cthulhu. It's now available through bookstores and the usual online retailers such as Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble online.
As explorers conquered the frontiers of North America, they disturbed sleeping terrors and things long forgotten by humanity. Journey into the undiscovered country where fierce Vikings struggle against monstrous abominations. Travel with explorers as they learn of buried secrets and the creatures guarding ancient knowledge. Go west across the plains, into the territories were sorcerers dwell in demon-haunted lands, and cowboys confront cosmic horrors. To order direct from the Chaosium site, click here.
“The Fantastical Acquisition of the Sword of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna” by Angeline Hawkes appears in Spicy Slipstream Stories edited by Jay Lake and Nick Mamatas, now available from Lethe Press.
Spicy stories that defy genre! Alluring tales that will astound readers! Slipstream stories are that weird combination of eloquent fancy and conventional literary form. Here the adventure and bosoms of the old pulps are blended with the stylistic innovations and reader affect of that non-genre genre, slipstream.
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“A Lesson In Therapy” by Angeline Hawkes was published in Bound For Evil a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthology from Dead Letter Press. This hardcover collection includes tales by Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Thomas, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, and Christopher Fulbright, among many others.
The book itself is a fine piece of work; it is leather bound, gold foil stamped, smythe sewn, and a staggering 800 pages with two dozen interior illustrations by Allen Koszowski.
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Upcoming Publications & Other News:
Coming from Bloodletting Press in late 2010, the latest Fulbright & Hawkes collaboration, Black Mercy Falls. Keep an eye on the Fulbright & Hawkes website for details!
Coming from Dark Regions Press in Winter 2010, Inferno: Tales of Hell and Horror, a novel-length themed collection of a journey through hell!
Also coming from Dark Regions Press, the 2006 Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection The Commandments will be re-issued, possibly with new material added.
Coming from Bad Moon Books in 2011, Out of the Garden and other Tales of the Barbarian Kabar of El Hazzar, a novel-length collection of the adventures of Kabar, including five reprints and the rest all new material, including two new novellas!
“Skin Deep” will appear in Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry from Dark Hart Press.
“What Goes Around” will appear in Things Are Not What They Seem: Tales of Mimicry and Deception from Daverana Enterprises.
Angeline released the electronic rights for several of her stories, collections, and novellas to Fictionwise. Be sure to check out what’s available [including the 2006 Bram Stoker Award nominated collection, The Commandments]: Click here!