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A Dark and Deadly Valley
edited by Mike Heffernan

Introduction by John Skipp
Cover art by Darren Whalen
Illustrated by Alex McVey
Publisher: Silverthought Press
ISBN-10: 0-9774110-8-7
~400 pages
Limited edition: 600 copies

A DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY will be released in January 2007 in a limited edition of 500 copies. For a limited time, Silverthought is offering pre-order sales of DDV for $34.99 with free shipping. Orders will ship to pre-release customers in January 2007.

Table of Contents:

  • “When Killing Each Other Isn’t Quite Enough” an Introduction by John Skipp
  • "After Dunkirk" by T.M Wright
  • "The Coventry Boy" by Graham Joyce
  • "The Honor Guard" by Paul Finch
  • "In the Dark and the Deep" by Steve Vernon
  • "Simple Equations" by Jeremy Robert Johnson
  • "The Night is an Ally" by Scott Nicholson
  • "Come Unto Me" by Elizabeth Massie
  • "And the Worm Shall Feed" by Harry Shannon
  • "At Angels Sixteen" by Larry Santoro
  • "The Black Wave" by Brian Keene
  • "And They Will Come in the Hour of Our Greatest Need" by Brian Hodge
  • "The Devil's Platoon" by John Everson
  • "Sturm und Drang" by Bev Vincent
  • "Hiroshima Falling" by Weston Ochse
  • "Doorway to the Sky" by Cody Goodfellow
  • "A Judgment Call for Judgment Day" by Scott Edelman
  • "Blossoms in the Wind" by Rick Hautala
  • "The Gypsy Camp" by Mort Castle
  • "Warbirds" by David J. Schow
  • "But Somewhere I Shall Wake" by Gary A. Braunbeck

"A magical reading experience that stays with you long after you move on to other books. A truly great horror anthology and one of the best examples of the great fiction that the horror genre has to offer."
-- Horror World

"In a world that is literally crawling with war-little ones, big ones, all of them devastating-there are insights here that I wish everyone on Earth would spend a minute or two contemplating. At the very least, the heaping helpings of empathy and stark articulation and-dare I say it-brilliance contained herein are resonant examples of why I still love the human race. With all of its extraordinary flaws."
— John Skipp, NY TIMES Best-selling author of Light at the End, The Cleanup and Long Last Call.

"Most theme anthologies go flat quicker than a six-buck bottle of champagne. The bad ones veer off into self-parody long before the reader hits the last page, and even some of the good ones wear out their welcome before the final tale is spun. But I'm happy to report that isn't the case with A DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY. This collection of weird World War II tales delivers both the heat of battle and the bitter cold of its aftermath. It's front-loaded (for Nazi swine), tough in the ranks, with a B-24 Liberator (and a real live warbird) coming in strong at the end. If you're looking for stories with the power to both wound and thrill, and writers who'll give you at various turns action, drama, and a straight, unflinching look at the human animal... well, look no further. This one's for you."
— Norman Partridge, Bram Stoker award winning author of Dark Harvest




"An impressive array of talent"
— Brian Keene, author of The Rising and City of the Dead.

 

Aim For the Head
edited by Mike Heffernan

Release date TBA
Foreword by Max Brooks
Introduction by Simon Clark

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword: "Invasion" by Max Brooks
  • "Dead Men Walking" An Introduction by Simon Clark
  • "The Human Race" by Scott Edelman
  • "Aftertaste" by John Shirley
  • "Bad Day" by John Everson
  • "Zombie Dreams" by Tim Waggoner
  • "Eulogy of the Straw-Witch" by Tim Curran
  • "Wind Shadows" by Larry Santoro
  • "Family Life" by Christine Morgan
  • "Dust Devils" by Gary Brandner
  • "Darkness Comprehended" by Harry Shannon and Gord Rollo
  • "I Smile for You, My Love" by Yvonne Navarro
  • "Campbell’s Pond" by Brian Knight
  • "Later" by Michael Marshall Smith
  • "Rot ‘n’ Roll" by Robert E. Vardeman
  • "Pieces of Mom" by Steve Niles
  • "Walk Like a Zombie" by David Dvorkin
  • "Night of the Living Ed" by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin
  • "Mind Over Matter" by P.D. Cacek
  • "Abed" by Elizabeth Massie
  • 'The Summer Place" by B.H. Fingerman
  • "We Will Rebuild" by Cody Goodfellow
  • "Lemon Knives ‘n’ Cockroaches" by Carlton Mellick III
  • "Aftermath" by Michael Laimo
  • "One Night Only" by Gary A. Braunbeck



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Exposed!
by Mike Heffernan

Introduction by John Everson
Cover art by Darren Whalen
Publisher: Silverthought Press
ISBN-10: 0-9774110-9-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-9774110-9-2
~220 pages

expose, v.t. (F. exposer) To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice.

Hope and promise are drowned in the black flood-waters of New Orleans and the churning concrete of expansion. The underclass is force-fed to the grinding machines of progress. Youth are slashed to ribbons by poverty.

Autocratic governments sell addiction to the masses to numb them into complacency. Shopping sprees and material excess are the new cults. Reality television microwave brains into plastic-left-on-the-heater mush.

Liberation is a price only a few are willing to pay.

Here, in these pages, the smog had cleared just a bit, we’re cut wide open like a vivisection and our dirty insides are on display.

Table of Contents:

  • "Horror at the Oppressive Heart of Liberation" An Introduction by John Everson
  • Exposed
  • Hard as Rock
  • Home is Where the Heart Is
  • Cold Deck
  • Stains of Life
  • Beneath Ground
  • Open 24/7
  • Starved to Death
  • Dancers in the Dark
  • The Last Highwayman
"EXPOSED! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, EXPOSED! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down."
— Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of EXTINCTION JOURNALS and ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE.

"With EXPOSED!, Mike Heffernan delivers a heady mélange of Swiftian satire blended with the outré oddness of Caro and Jeunet’s cinematic outings. EXPOSED! imagines a world where even Z-grade celebrities are hunted down for crimes of narcissism, the elderly and insane are processed like psychedelic chattel, and labor conflicts are worse than ever. Must-read stuff for the post-apocalyptic set."
— B.H. Fingerman, author of RECESS PIECES and BOTTOMFEEDER


“Among the ‘writers to watch’ in the realm of strange storytelling. Interrogates the hazy borderland between the human and the inhumane… A crafty form of social commentary.”
— Michael A. Arnzen, author of PLAY DEAD and GRAVE MARKINGS.