With Zombicide: Black Plague: City Of The Undead (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer C.L. Werner is concluding his series of medieval fantasy novels inspired by the zombie board game Zombicide: Black Plague.
In the following email interview, Werner discusses what inspired and influenced this supernaturally scary story, as well as why it’s the end of this saga.
As a Dungeons & Dragons fan who was playing the game religiously during the infamous “satanic panic” of the 1980s, I still have a soft spot for my fellow dice throwers, especially when other people think badly of them.
It’s one of the reasons why I wanted to interview writer Stephen S. Schreffler about his sci-fi seasoned horror novel The Bleed (paperback, digital), in which a pair of D&D fans go on the run after some of their mates go M.I.A.
In the following email interview, Schreffler discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why this singer and guitar player didn’t write it as a rock opera.
With First Light (hardcover, Kindle), writer Liz Kerin is concluding the vampiric duology she started earlier this year with her horror / family drama novel Night’s Edge.
In the following email, Kerin discusses what inspired and influenced this second half, how it differs from Night’s, as well as her plans for more stories about blood suckers.
We’ve all had experience with our “fight or flight” response. Like when a fly cruises past our ear and we panic run for the front door of our house yelling, “BEE!! BEE!!”
Or is that just me?
It’s this instinct that — in the following email interview — writer Catherine McCarthy says was the inspiration for her psychological horror novella The House At The End Of Lacelean Street (paperback, Kindle).
Well, that and the dentist.
They always tell writers that they should write what they know…something that always puts me on edge when what they’ve written is a horror story.
Which is not to say you should be worried about writer A.G.A. Wilmot. While there are a lot of real and personal connections between them and the main character in their new horror novel Withered (paperback, Kindle), as they explain in the following email interview, it’s those personal connections that make this haunted house story, “…a different sort of haunting.”
In space-based science fiction stories, the main character is usually the leader; like, say, the captain of the ship. The commander of the military. It’s one of many reasons why Alien was such a revelation when it came out in 1979; its main character was an officer, just not the one in charge.
It’s something author S.A. Barnes is doing as well in her psychological space horror novel Ghost Station (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), in which the main character is not the one leading an expedition, she’s a psychologist in the crew.
In the following email interview, Barnes discusses what inspired and influenced this scary sci-fi story.
Some people like to take walks in the wood to clear their heads.
But you probably shouldn’t ask writer Elliott Gish to take a stroll among the trees if relaxation is your objective. At least not if what she says about her haunted forest horror novel Grey Dog (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) in the following email interview is any indication.
Back before everyone had the Internet in their pocket, some kids used to hang out, listen to music, and skate or die.
It is in this before time that we find David Agranoff’s new horror novel, People’s Park (paperback, Kindle), a story that — as he says in the following email interview — has a lot of connections to his real life in that long lost era.
You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about some company doing something terrible, and getting away with it.
And by “these days” I mean the last fifty years (and maybe more, I’ve only been paying attention for my whole life).
But while there’s corporate malfeasance at play in writer L.M. Sagas’ new sci-fi space opera novel Cascade Failure (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — which is the first of two in her series, Ambit’s Run — in the following email interview about Failure, she says she’s also “…trying to inject a little, I don’t know, optimism back into it.”