AS Promotions is a small PR company out of Eugene Oregon. We recently picked up a novel titled Verland: The Transformation. We’ve
been running the normal, routine promotional campaign… until recently.
It started with one fan and a story about a hawk. In her email, she told us about...
In the world of horror, there is a new subgenre that seems to thoroughly throw people for a loop. Dark fiction has become the new term for literary horror- books and movies that just don’t fit into the splatter and gore mold but are too creepy for science-fiction or fantasy. What defines dark fiction? Why is one book fantasy and another this new, mysterious dark fiction? To this avid horror reader, it’s dark fiction if it gives you the creeps. Eyes of The Bersai: The Relic by J.D Phillips is, for...
I sat staring at the cover for Lisa McCourt Hollar’s story Carnival much longer than I wanted. A clown glared back at me. I’m man enough to admit that I’m seriously afraid of clowns. They’ve frightened me ever since I was a very little child. Now I was looking at a very sinister one. From page one until the end; Hollar’s story never lets up on the tension and fear. Then there are those clowns. A picture-perfect town thinks it finds justice. Town officials think they restore peace, tranquility and...
I’ve been a fan of horror for as long as I can remember. I started on reruns of Buffy and moved into the blood, splatter and gore as I got older. But last October, after a terrible accident, my life changed radically; suddenly the blood and guts didn’t have quite the same appeal. I had to relearn everything about my life, and I started going to dark, intense places that I had never been before. As I battled to get my life back, books filled the hours. Most of them came and went, but one reached...
