Halloween Stories: The Earthling Halloween Series

Mr. Dark’s Carnival (Earthling’s Halloween Series #0)

Author: Hirshberg, Glen
Artist: Deena Warner
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: October 2004
Publisher: Earthling Publication

The Two Sams: Ghost Stories

Author: Hirshberg, Glen
Artist: Deena Warner
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 224pp.
Pub. Date: August 25, 2003
Publisher: Carroll and Graf

Summary for Mr. Dark’s Carnival:
This book is an ultra-limited hardcover edition of Glen Hirshberg’s haunted house novella Mr. Dark’s Carnival, featuring an introduction by Glen, original art by Deena Warner featured on the front board of each book, fine leather and Japanese cloth binding, French endsheets (black and orange), and slipcased. Entirely handmade.

Signed by Glen in orange ink!

Only 15 copies were produced at $175 each. This book sold out within 3 hours of being announced.

Summary for The Two Sams: Ghost Stories:
With this unique collection, acclaimed author Glen Hirshberg breathes new life into an age-old literary tradition.

In the title story a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night.

“Dancing Men” depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory when a boy visits his deranged grandfather in the New Mexico desert.

“Struwwelpeter” introduces us to a brilliant, treacherous adolescent whose violent tendencies and reckless mischief reach a sinister pinnacle as Halloween descends on a rundown Pacific Northwest fishing village.

Tormented by his guilty conscience, a young man plumbs the depths of atonement as he and his favorite cousin commune with the almighty Hawaiian surf in “Shipwreck Beach.”

In “Mr. Dark’s Carnival,” a college professor confronts his own dark places in the form of a mysterious haunted house steeped in the folklore of grisly badlands justice.

Table of Contents for The Two Sams:

• Introduction by Ramsey Campbell
• Struwwelpeter
• Shipwreck Beach
• Mr. Dark’s Carnival
• Dancing Men
• The Two Sams

Blood Red (Earthling’s Halloween Series #1)

Author: Moore, James A.
Cover Art: Edward Miller
Introduction: Simon Clark
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: October 2005
Publisher: Earthling Publication

Blood Red

Author: Moore, James A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 416pp.
Pub. Date: September 4, 2007
Publisher: Berkley

The land along the shore of Black Stone Bay is filled with sharp, dark granite teeth for which the area gets its name.

From its cliff walk along the black sand to the mansions and manors that date back hundreds of years, the town has all the charm anyone could hope for and all the wealth anyone could ever need. For the most part, the people of Black Stone Bay are happy with their lots in life.

Halloween in Black Stone Bay is usually a celebration.

This Halloween, however, there’s a chill in the air that has nothing to do with the coming of autumn and the death of the year. This year, the children dressed as monsters, clowns, and cowboys will be fighting for their lives and hiding wherever they can.

This year, the beaches of Black Stone Bay will be washed in the blood of its people and the streets will be strewn with their mortal remains.

Night after night, the people of Black Stone Bay will learn the meaning of fear, and grow to dread the setting sun . . .

The Unblemished (Earthling’s Halloween Series #2)

Author: Williams, Conrad
Cover Art: Chris Nurse
Introduction: Jeff VanderMeer
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 367pp.
Pub. Date: August 30, 2006
Publisher: Earthling Publication

The Unblemished

Author: Williams, Conrad
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 288pp.
Pub. Date: June 4, 2010
Publisher: Virgin Books

From British Fantasy Award-winner Conrad Williams, whose last book from Earthling was called “a ferocious adventure” (Cemetery Dance) and “a blistering tale that reminds us of the genre’s continued transgressive power” (The Alien Online), comes The Unblemished . . .

A blood-crazed lover of amputee victims.

A mother determined to protect her only daughter no matter the cost.

A serial killer who believes he is the rightful son and heir to a horrific, ancient dynasty.

And one dying man who must make a stand against a horde of vengeful monsters who knew the shadows of London before the city even had a name.

This Halloween, if they catch you, you will beg for death . . .

The Unblemished is an original novel by Conrad Williams and the second book in Earthling’s popular Halloween Series.

Summary for the Virgin Books Edition:
Enter the mind of a serial killer who believes he is the rightful son and heir to an ancient dynasty of flesh-eating monsters.

Follow the frantic journey of a mother whose daughter is infected with the stuff of nightmare, and look through the eyes of Bo Mulvey, a man upon whom the fate and survival of the entire human race depends.

This apocalyptic novel set in London is an epic tale of history and destiny, desperation and desire, and atrocity and atonement.

The Haunted Forest Tour (Earthling’s Halloween Series #3)

Author: Moore, James A. and Jeff Strand
Artist: Glenn Chadbourne
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 277pp.
Pub. Date: October 2007
Publisher: Earthling Publication

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour!

Sit back and enjoy a smooth ride in air-conditioned comfort as your heavily armored tram takes you through nature’s most astonishing creation.

The forest is packed to capacity with dangerous and terrifying creatures of all shapes, sizes, and hunger levels, and you’ll get to observe these wonders in complete safety.

Howl with a werewolf! Gaze into the glowing eyes of a giant spider! Look right through a spooky ghost! See horrific monsters you couldn’t even imagine, only inches away from you! Things with fangs, things with claws, things with dripping red jaws — you’ll see them all!

Not thrilling enough? Well, it’s Halloween, and so we’re offering a very special tour through the Haunted Forest. The new route goes deeper into the woods than any civilians have ventured before, and you’re guaranteed to get a good scare!

Rest assured that every possible security precaution has been taken. The Haunted Forest Tour has a 100% safety record, and technical difficulties are unheard of. You will be in no danger whatsoever.

We promise.

Bram Stoker Award-nominated authors James A. Moore (Bloodstained Oz) and Jeff Strand (Pressure) have teamed up for Book #3 in Earthling’s Halloween Series. The Haunted Forest Tour is an action-packed, monster-laden adventure that will make you laugh, scream, and think twice before going near ghastly oversized beasts that want to devour you.

Moontown (Earthling’s Halloween Series #4)

Author: Atkins, Peter
Artist: Alan M. Clark
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 221pp.
Pub. Date: October 15, 2008
Publisher: Earthling Publication

Shelley Campbell only meant to help people.

Recruited by her professor into working with a group-study program investigating phobias, Shelley has been using her ability as an empath to enter the minds of troubled patients. Within the dreamscape of their memories, Shelley uncovers their repressed childhood fears in order to help heal them.

But some fears are buried for a reason. Now, more than lost dreams are resurfacing. . .

Something else is waking too, something dark and long forgotten, something hungry for the taste of our terror . . .

Shelley Campbell has gone too deep, has found the place where the darkness waits. A place ruled by the moon, a place where midnight lives, a place where every night is Halloween.

A place called Moontown.

October Dark (Earthling’s Halloween Series #5)

Author: Herter, David
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 542pp.
Pub. Date: February 28, 2010
Publisher: Earthling Publication

From acclaimed author David Herter, a new novel in the tradition of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and Tim Powers’s Last Call. . . .

Halloween, 1931. The metropolis of Grenton. On the ruined canals, a clock tolls midnight. Willis H. O’Brien, the father of stop motion animation, seeks the base elements of a new animation.

And Henri Mordaunt, the undying Phantasmagoria magician, will soon provide them. An uncanny bargain is struck, leading to betrayal and dire retribution, and an act of cinematic alchemy that echoes down the history of fantastic film.

Halloween, 1977. For thirteen-year-old Will and his best friend Jim — amateur animators and Famous Monsters of Filmland fanatics — summer darkens into mysterious autumn, with a black balloon prowling the skies of their suburban neighborhood, and supernatural images haunting the frames of their latest 8 mm epic, heralding doom.

Everything leads to the edge of Grenton’s ruined canals, and the faded cinema palace where Star Wars has been showing non-stop since late May, a gateway into the mysteries of Grenton’s past, and to a secret history playing out on either side of the silver screen. . . .

By Wizard Oak (Earthling’s Halloween Series #6)

Author: Crowther, Peter
Introduction: Rick Hautala
Format: Signed Limited Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 207pp.
Pub. Date: March 2011
Publisher: Earthling Publications

It’s just a book that the folks of the small town of Magellan Bend recall reading. A little gruesome, perhaps . . . and, in more than one instance, not the reader’s usual fare.

But it’s just a book.

Nothing more.

But when the town’s resident sleeper awakes from an eight-year nap, his memories are much more than mere words and phrases in a cheap and gaudy horror novel.

And as he becomes more and more aware of the shocking truth, the knowledge spreads like graveyard mist sending a clarion call far and wide . . . but not only to the townsfolk.

No, indeed.

There are other things out there, things that ride the night winds on All Hallows Eve . . . and they know a lot more about the events recorded in the fabled By Wizard Oak And Fairy Stream.

Clearly, there is unfinished business in Magellan Bend this October and, as the night turns smoky and the world settles down for the onset of winter, the visitors arrive. Again.

And no, it’s not just a book.

No way.

Blood Harvest (Earthling’s Halloween Series #7)

Author: Moore, James A.
Artist: Edward Miller
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 340pp.
Pub. Date: October 31st 2011
Publisher: Earthling Publication

For the 7th book in Earthling’s Halloween Series, join James A. Moore as he returns to Black Stone Bay, in this sequel to Blood Red. . . .

Some projects take time.

Five years ago, Jason Soulis experimented on the town of Black Stone Bay, creating an army of vampires for the sole purpose of seeing which ones would survive and if the creatures could evolve.

Five years later, his experiments are bearing dark, bloody fruit. A new breed of monster has come from the ashes of the old, a deadlier predator with a far greater ability to kill and destroy whatever it touches.

Black Stone Bay was wounded before, but the infection left behind has festered and the darkness is spreading faster than anyone has noticed, because this time the evil is better at hiding.

Maggie Preston was one of Soulis’s victims, a college-aged girl who has become something far darker. She’s fed her urges and kept her secrets with the aid of her lover and protector, but that relationship is fraying, and the hungers she’s suppressed are growing stronger and the family she has protected in the past has fallen victim to the new evil that Soul is unwittingly unleashed.

Five years have passed, and the town of Black Stone Bay has recovered from the horrors of the past, just in time to get caught in the crossfire of the undead and a new, virulent darkness.

Sometimes the devil you know is your only hope of salvation.