Stokers, Flashes and Black Ink
Later this month, at this year’s Bram Stoker Awards™ banquet, to be held at the World Horror Convention in Utah, Mercedes and I do battle. To the death! Okay, maybe not to the death. And maybe it’s not...
View ArticleShock Totem Gets Wicked
Shock Totem Publications is pleased to announce our first non-magazine release. On May 1, 2012, we will re-release in paperback James Newman’s second novel and ode to 1980s horror, The Wicked....
View ArticleAvailable Now—The Wicked
Shock Totem Publications is pleased to announce that our first non-magazine release, James Newman’s fantastic ode to 1980s horror, The Wicked, is now available for purchase. As previously noted, The...
View ArticleGoodreads Giveaway for The Wicked
We’re giving away a copy of our latest release, The Wicked, by James Newman. If you have an account on Goodreads, throw your name into the hat. Goodreads Book Giveaway The Wicked by James Newman...
View ArticleAnnouncing Shock Totem #5…
Shock Totem is proud to announce that we will finally be unleashing another great issue of darkly weird fiction! Our fifth issue was originally scheduled to come out in January, but for reasons which...
View ArticleAnnouncing Beautiful Sorrows…
Shock Totem Publications is proud to announce the upcoming release of Beautiful Sorrows, a collection of 27 short stories by Mercedes M. Yardley. There is a place where sorrows pile up like snow and...
View ArticlePsychos and the Appalachian Undead
Some staff news, ya’ll! Cue banjo! This coming October, if not sooner, Apex Publications is set to release Appalachian Undead, a new anthology dedicated to the walking dead. I contributed a quirky tale...
View ArticleShock Totem Invades Killercon
This coming weekend, at the fourth annual Killercon convention in Las Vegas, joining the likes of F. Paul Wilson, Wrath James White, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, Adam Cesare, and more, the Shock Totem...
View ArticleBeautiful Sorrows Now Available for Preorder
As previously mentioned, we will be offering to those attending this weekend’s Killercon convention a special paperback pre-release of Beautiful Sorrows, by Mercedes M. Yardley. But for those unable to...
View ArticleBeautiful Sorrows—Selling Fast!
A special paperback pre-release of Beautiful Sorrows was available this past weekend in Las Vegas, at the fourth annual Killercon convention. The entire Shock Totem team was on hand for this event and...
View ArticleBeautiful Sorrows Hardcover—SOLD OUT!
The limited edition hardcover of Beautiful Sorrows is officially SOLD OUT! Mini-tribal! Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who bought a copy. None of us expected our very first hardcover to...
View ArticleBeautiful Sorrows—Now Available!
“Beautiful Sorrows… delicate prose with devastating impact. Mercedes Yardley is a female Joe Hill, and I fear her ‘Broken’ will haunt me to my grave.” —F. Paul Wilson Shock Totem Publications is proud...
View ArticleShock Totem #5—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is very happy to announce that our long-awaited fifth issue is available for purchase! This issue of Shock Totem is yet another eclectic mix of horror fiction and nonfiction,...
View ArticleAnnouncing Shock Totem #6…
Right on the heels of our fashionably-late fifth issue, we are proud to announce that our sixth issue is primed and almost ready to go. I am doing the layout this time, so I’m making sure everything is...
View ArticleShock Totem #6—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is very happy to announce that our sixth issue is available for purchase! Don’t listen to this guy. Tell everyone! Shock Totem returns with its sixth issue, featuring stories...
View ArticleAnnouncing Shock Totem #7…
Ready for more? We are proud to announce our seventh issue, to be released this coming July. Once again the cover art was created by the brilliant Mikio Murakami, who has done all our magazine artwork...
View ArticleSunday Reads: On Saying No, Joe Hill’s Beard, and Creepy Films
Here are a handful of links from around the Internet that we found interesting this past week. If you’ve got an hour, check out Booktalk Nation’s entertaining video chat between authors Joe Hill and...
View ArticleWarm Bodies In the Flesh
Isaac Marion’s debut novel, Warm Bodies, was a breakthrough in 2011, a beautifully written genre-bending horror romance about an undead named “R” who falls in love with a living girl, Julie, after he...
View ArticleWarm Bodies In the Flesh
Isaac Marion’s debut novel, Warm Bodies, was a breakthrough in 2011, a beautifully written genre-bending horror romance about an undead named “R” who falls in love with a living girl, Julie, after he...
View ArticleShock Totem #7—Now Available!
Shock Totem Publications is very happy to announce that our seventh issue is available for purchase! “I see the bad moon rising. I see trouble on the way.” Shock Totem steamrolls ahead with its seventh...
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