Halloween Horror Sale

With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the stock market plummeting, rising, and plummeting again some people might say that they've already had enough horror this Halloween season. What? Not enough horror, you say?

Well, then click your way on over to the Pulpwork Press website and pick up some of Joshua Reynolds' horror tales, which are, in honor of Halloween, and for this month only, marked down 5 bucks off the cover price. If you're not familiar with Reynold's horror work, let me just describe him as follows: He's the Stephen King of South Carolina.

Now Stephen King, like any author from Shakespeare to Spillane, is not to everyone's taste, but if you like Stephen King's stories (and millions of people do) I think you're going to like Joshua Reynolds stories. The stories of both authors have the same twisted esthetics and while King often draws upon the state of Maine to provide color and background, just as H.P. Lovecraft drew upon Essex Massachusetts, Reynolds draws upon the kudzu-grown territory of South Carolina to provide color for the terror.

Because of its pulpy flavor and horror-soaked action esthetic my personal favorite of Reynolds' books is the Baxter Sarlowe tale, Wake the Dead. And I quote the back cover, because it's one of the greatest cover blurbs I've ever encountered--

Two men are eaten alive by insects.

A plane carrying Egyptian antiquities goes down in flames.

Yellow dogs and dead men prowl the streets.

Shadowy figures prepare to pay off a centuries old debt while the dead crawl out of their graves to greet an evil as old as time.

An evil that spreads from the burning sands of Egypt to the kudzu soaked streets of Columbia, South Carolina in an attempt to claw its way back into the light.

Evil never dies. It just sleeps...and dreams...and waits...

Note to readers, be forewarned that because of subject content, gore, and language many of the Reynolds tales earn themselves a solid R rating.