Issue #13 available at Amazon & other Kindle/Nook updates

24 05 2012

Here are important updates on the Kindle and Nook stuff:

  • Issue #13 of The Lovecraft eZine is now available at Amazon — here are the links: US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT
  • And if you missed it, issue #14 is available at Amazon as well: US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT
  • The $5 Kindle/Nook deal for the first 13 issues deal ends May 31.  Click here to learn more and to buy — this is a great deal and is going away soon.
  • A lot of people have asked if the epub versions will still be available (for Nook, iPad, etc.).  The answer is YES — tomorrow I will hopefully have some time to put up links for the epub versions of issues #13 and #14.
  • Over the next few days, issues #12, #11, and #10 will be added to Amazon.  Then, I’ll add the epub versions for those issues to this website.  Stay tuned!
  • Issues #1 through #9 (the 2011 issues) will be available as a bundle on Amazon, most likely at the low price of $2.99.  Which is a hell of a deal when you consider that if you bought them all at the normal 99 cent price, it would cost you almost 9 dollars.
  • Issues #1 through #9 will also be available for Nook — you’ll buy those directly through this website.

I could use more Amazon reviews for issue #14, and I need your reviews for issue #13 — please help the magazine out!  If you enjoy the issues, please say so — every review helps.

Which brings me to… author Kenneth W. Cain.  We all owe him our thanks — he has worked hard to convert The Lovecraft eZine issues to Kindle and Nook formats.  When you buy an issue at Amazon, that’s his fine work.

So if you’re looking for something new to read at a great price, try his short story collection: These Old Tales – The Complete Collection (A Collection of Dark Fiction).  It’s available for Kindle at only $3.49.  It’s also available in paperback.

These Old Tales – The Complete Collection is a compilation of all 4 volumes previously released. It contains 22 dark fiction short stories, 16 chilling flash fiction tales, and 16 jarring poems. This collection of dark fiction includes stories of zombies, werewolves, the devil, the grim reaper, psychotic killers, abnormal artifacts, gunfights, ghosts, and all around everyday people.

Brief synopsis of a few of the most popular longer pieces:

“Molt” is the unique tale of a man on a business trip where things are not going as planned. He is tempted by fate, and also by infidelity, as the woman of his dreams comes into play. The question remains whether his lust is blindly leading him along.

“Nocturnal” is a story of darkness. When George and his pal, Frank go exploring, they come across a strange room. Within its walls, George will discover terror and strange happenings.

“The Patrol” visits the loneliness of war in-between the times when the fighting is taking place. It searches the dark recesses of the human mind for the horrid truths about war. It is within these folds the story takes a unique paranormal twist.

“Branded” focuses on a gunfight, and the reader is thrown into the battle and the struggle to discern what crimes have led to this end. Can Jake unravel this mess before time is up?

“Harvest” is a unique chiller about a strange Amish man and how he forever changes the lives of our young characters.

Buy it at this link… and thanks, Ken.


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$5 deal ends May 31

23 05 2012

This has been a very popular promotion, but I’m ending it on May 31.  (By then, I should have all past Kindle issues available at Amazon, and new links for Nook users.)  Until May 31, you can buy the Kindle and Nook versions of the first 13 issues of Lovecraft eZine for only $5.  Normally each issue costs 99 cents.  Buying all past issues at the usual price would cost you almost $13, so this is a nice deal.

Click here to buy the first 13 issues for only $5.

Click here to buy the Kindle version of issue #14 at Amazon.

After you pay for the issues,  I will email you with the download links as soon as possible — usually within 30 minutes.  Please remember all the hard work that goes into this eZine, and do not share your download links with anyone else. Any problems or questions, please email me at michaeldaviswriter@gmail.com . Enjoy.


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Cthulhu and Thomas Kinkade

22 05 2012

Will Hart sent me the following higher resolution Cthulhu / Thomas Kinkade pics to share with you guys.  Click to enlarge.


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Issue #15 preview!

22 05 2012

Issue #15 will be published sometime in mid-June and will feature seven tales!  Here’s a preview:

Starry Wisdom, by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.  No one writes like Pulver… he’s one of a kind, and I’m honored to publish another one of his tales in the June issue.

Invitation, by Siobhan Gallagher.  It’s the waiting game that haunts me. Half-past midnight under a lone street lamp and, nothing. Empty streets and sleeping buildings. So unlike the roaring noise of day, with cars honking and engines starting, people yakking in voices louder than they need be on their phones. All headache inducing. It’s why I’ve escaped into the night, a personally pain reliever, and in my hand an invitation…

In Memoriam, by W.H. Pugmire.  Written for Robert Nelson, one of H.P. Lovecraft’s correspondents.  W.H. Pugmire says, I have been quite moved, the more I learn about this young suicidal poet, Robert Nelson. I like to pay homage to young doom’d souls, & thus I have writ this wee prose-poem, enclos’d, which I hope you will be able to use in ye Lovecraft eZine.

Station Waiting Room, by Simon Kurt Unsworth.  Gaskin turned to go and caught movement from the corner of his eye. He glanced around expecting to see a mouse of rat or even bird, but there was nothing. The sounds of the train were louder now, its rattle an insistent message for Gaskin telling him to move, to go now, but he ignored it. In the far corner, what he had taken to be the remains of a fire was opening, tendril arms fluttering apart like some night-blooming flower…

Pickman’s Marble, by Peter and Mandy Rawlik.  An enjoyable flash fiction story by Peter, writing with his wife.  It was the work of another artist, both a sculptor and painter that drew me into a strange little shop off the main thoroughfare on a dark little side street, almost an alley. Unlike the other galleries, which took to displaying pieces in front windows to entice potential patrons to enter, the Gallery Giallo seemed to be trying to hide its displays, for the curtains were heavy, moth-eaten and an utterly distasteful shade of pale yellow…

Bus Stop, by Jerod Brennen.  Michael’s dread deepened on the ride to school. Each time he dared to peek outside the window, he saw the same thing: more nothingness. Every street was empty, every business closed…

A Stranger at the Door, by Bradly Shelby.  A very enjoyable read by a promising new writer.  Sometimes I honestly don’t know which is worse- the tense silence during the days or listening to the door creak and moan as whatever the hell that thing is pushes on it all night long while endlessly, wordlessly screaming at me…


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THEMED ISSUE: “A Night in the Lonesome October”

21 05 2012

I’m very excited about this: As you all know, I occasionally do themed issues.  In addition to the other themes I’m doing this year, I want to do an issue based on Roger Zelazny‘s novel, A Night in the Lonesome October.  I have Trent Zelazny‘s blessing for this project.

During a dank and damp autumn in the late 19th century, good dog Snuff loyally accompanies a mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight rounds through the murky streets of London – collecting the grisly ingredients needed for unearthly rite that will take place not long after the death of the moon. But Snuff and his master are not alone. All manner of participants, both human and undead, are gathering from Soho to Whitehall with their ancient tools and their animal familiars, in preparation of the dread night when black magic will summon the Elder Gods back to the world. Some have come to open the gates…and some to close them. It is brave, devoted Snuff who must calculate the patterns of the Game and keep track of the Players – the witch, the mad monk, the vengeful vicar, the Count who sleeps by day, the Good Doctor and the hulking Experiment Man he fashioned from body parts…and a wild-card American shapeshifter named Larry Talbot – all the while keeping ogres at bay, and staying a dog-leap ahead of the Great Detective, who knows quite a bit more than he lets on.

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I recently blogged about Neil Gaiman’s short story sequel/tribute to aNitLO, Only the End of the World Again.  Neil Gaiman’s story is set in the same universe and it’s a tribute to Roger Zelazny’s awesome book.  I want this themed issue to be in that spirit.

The writer Trent Zelazny is Roger Zelazny’s son (by the way, you should definitely read Trent’s books).  I asked for, and received, his blessing for this, with a caveat: We can’t violate copyright.  Roger Zelazny used a lot of public domain characters for A Night in the Lonesome October: Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein, etc, and you can do the same and create a tribute story with them or with your own characters.

But let me be VERY clear: This is to be a tribute without violating copyright.  Neil Gaiman’s story does not violate copyright because his protagonist is Larry Talbot.  If his protagonist had been Snuff the dog, that would be a copyright violation.  Understand?

A Night in the Lonesome October is a very unique Lovecraftian book, and my desire is to honor the book and pay tribute to it.  I guess it’s my way of saying “thank you” to Trent’s Dad for helping me to get through a terrible childhood.  His books (and of course many others) made my life more bearable.

I’d like to have at least 4 or 5 stories for that issue; please send your submission to michaeldaviswriter@gmail.com , with the subject “A Night in the Lonesome October theme”.  And maybe this goes without saying, but if you haven’t read the book or Neil Gaiman’s story, please do not bother sending me a submission.

Finally, here’s part of the email from Trent.  It made my day, and I hope it does the same for you:

…you have my blessing :) …And thank you, I’m thrilled the work means enough to you to inspire this. My father would be smiling.

I know I am.

P.S.  Did you know there’s a SONG tribute to A Night in the Lonesome October?!!?  Listen to it for free here!


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DRUM ROLL… Lovecraft eZine is now available on Amazon!

16 05 2012

Well, I’m very excited: Issue #14 is available at Amazon!  And tomorrow, I’ll add issues #1 through #13.  Here are the links for USA, UK, and other areas of the world:

Amazon USA: Lovecraft eZine, issue #14, May 2012

Amazon UK: Lovecraft eZine, issue #14, May 2012

Amazon DE: Lovecraft eZine, issue #14, May 2012

Amazon FR: Lovecraft eZine, issue #14, May 2012

Amazon ES: Lovecraft eZine, issue #14, May 2012

Amazon IT: Lovecraft eZine, issue #14, May 2012

Please share by clicking the LIKE, Twitter, and Google Plus buttons below.  And if some of you fine people would rate the magazine with the star system, as well as post some reviews, it would be VERY much appreciated.

Thank you!
Mike Davis


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PLEASE READ if you are a Kindle subscriber!

15 05 2012

Hi, everyone.  I’ve had numerous requests to make the Kindle version of The Lovecraft eZine available on Amazon.com, and this process is just about complete.  I have uploaded issue #14 to Amazon and their staff is reviewing it; I’m told it should become available tomorrow.

In the meantime: If you are a current Kindle subscriber, you need to do the following:

  • Email me at michaeldaviswriter@gmail.com and let me know that you’re a subscriber and that you need issue #14 sent to you.  I will reply with the mobi file so you can upload it to your Kindle.
  • Go into Paypal and cancel your current recurring 99 cent subscription to me.  (Tomorrow, I will post again with details on how to sign up for the Kindle subscription via Amazon.com.)

Of course, feel free to NOT cancel your Paypal 99 cents payment, if you feel like supporting the ezine at a low monthly cost… up to you! :) )

The advantage of using Amazon’s service is that the Kindle version of The Lovecraft eZine will be automatically delivered to your Kindle once a month… won’t that be cool?  The disadvantage is that I’ll make less money per issue… but I’d rather make things easier on you all.  I thought about raising the price to $1.50, but I’m not going to.  At least, not now.  So your cost remains the same, but delivery will be far easier on you.

BY THE WAY… I’m still offering issues #1 through #13 for only $5, but this promotion will be over soon.  Click here to buy the first 13 issues, and save almost eight dollars!

Questions?  Please comment below.  I’m muddling my way through this, but we’ll get there.  :)

Mike


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