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Jinxed
Thommy Hutson
2019 Gold Medal
221 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
Break a mirror
Walk under a ladder
Step on a crack
Innocent childhood superstitions …
But someone at the Trask Academy of Performing Arts is taking things one deadly step further when the campus is rocked with the deaths of some of its star students.
Layna Curtis, a talented, popular senior, soon realizes that the seemingly random, accidental deaths of her friends aren't random—or accidents—at all. Someone has taken the childhood games too far, using the idea of superstitions to dispose of their classmates. As Layna tries to convince people of her theory, she uncovers the terrifying notion that each escalating, gruesome murder leads closer to its final victim: her.
Will Layna's opening night also be her final bow?
Gold Medal Winner for Fiction: Horror—2019 International Book Awards
“... a gore-filled throwback to the classic teen slasher flick genre ... Graphically detailed descriptions make it clear that this work of horror isn't for the faint of heart.”
~Publishers Weekly
"... a Must Read for Classic Horror Fans ... an expertly paced, cinematic slasher in a setting that would make Agatha Christie proud. Inevitable and shocking. Brutal and beautiful. Homage and originality. Comedy and Tragedy. Thommy Hutson could easily take on the mantle as the next Lois Duncan...”
~Waylon Jordan, iHorror.com
“Jinxed is the teen whodunit that Wes Craven and Lois Duncan never made. Hutson has created the best new slasher franchise since Scream.”
~Peter M. Bracke, Author of Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
"A dark, tension-filled thriller that’s wicked to the very end. Bad luck was never so much fun!"
~Jeffrey Reddick, Creator of Final Destination
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Beneath the Lighthouse
Julieanne Lynch
2019 Silver Medal
262 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
Sixteen-year-old Jamie McGuiness’s sister is dead.
Sinking into a deep depression, he frequents the lighthouse where her body was discovered, unaware of the sinister forces surrounding him.
When an angry spirit latches onto Jamie, he’s led down a dark and twisted path, one that uncovers old family secrets, destroying everything Jamie ever believed in.
Caught between the world of the living and the vengeful dead, Jamie fights the pull of the other side. It’s up to Jamie to settle old scores or no one will rest in peace — but, first, he has to survive.
“Beneath the Lighthouse grabs you by the nether regions from the word go. Then it squeezes. Hard. With a nailed glove … A truly scary ghost story … a powerful ‘coming of age’ drama … a young man growing into adulthood against a backdrop of despair and quite shocking abuse … unpredictable and ever building. Blood and bone revenge, retribution and salvation. The strength of friendship, the power of love. You feel the dread and the underlying fear … not your typical tale. And what a tale it is.” —EM Faustus
Finalist—2018 Dragon Awards—Horror
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The Castle
A Bud Hutchins Supernatural Thriller (Bud Hutchins Supernatural Thrillers Book 3)
JB Michaels
2019 Bronze Medal
252 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
No rest for the wicked they say.
Barely catching their breath, Bud, Ivy, and Maeve find themselves pitted against the Chicago police, the FBI, and the world’s most powerful vampire. Will they escape injury-free or will the fangs of doom pierce their jugular veins?
The answers can only be found in The Castle: A Bud Hutchins Thriller.
The three slayers of the supernatural will face their most formidable threats, seek solutions to their most important problems, and be forever changed.
The threats are plenty. The stakes are higher. The tasks nigh impossible.
Time to grab your favorite monster-slaying weapon, raise your torch, and storm the Castle walls.
***FIVE STARS*** The intriguing and complex plot is exciting, the gorgeous prose is delightful, and the reader's satisfaction is complete. The Castle is a great literary achievement, original and unpredictable. - Romuald Dzemo for Readers' Favorite
***FIVE STARS*** "It has an air of classic charm to it and with no shortage of action, horror, monsters and mayhem, it is bound to tickle the fancy of those who enjoy a well-woven tale with a promise of more to come." - KJ Simmill, author of the Forgotten Legacies Series
***FIVE STARS*** "Bud is the consummate noir hero who manages to seem calm and collected no matter what is thrown at him. His ability to wisecrack during the tensest situations works every time. I had a grand time reading this newest installation of Bud Hutchins’ adventures; it’s a well-written and action-packed paranormal thriller that is impossible to put down." - Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
***FIVE STARS*** "Supernatural thriller is definitely JB Michael's forte as he excels in twisting mystical creatures and powers into a tale his readers will devour." - Peggy Jo Wipf for Readers' Favorite
***FIVE STARS*** "The Castle is a solid installment in the Bud Hutchins series. Readers already hooked on the first two books won’t be disappointed." - Sarah Scheele for Readers' Favorite
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King Of The Nine Hells
Dean Klein
2019 Honorable Mention
537 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
Please note: King of the Nine Hells, set in the U.K. and the U.S., is a rich, complex and gripping work of dark fantasy - sorcery - aimed at mature YAs and adults (mature or not). Loosely inspired by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series but in no way intended for children, this high-concept story line is extremely intense in numerous places but largely without gore or adult language. There are vivid to utterly shocking supernatural occurrences.
It is the time of the Dark Ages. A grave digger works in the moor late one night to assemble a grotesque book by the light of a torch. On its papyrus pages are the spells of a demon to be bound in the wood of a Sorcerer's Tree before being covered in the hide of a wolf. Completing his task, the book helps the man become the head of the most powerful - and most feared - family in a land to become known as Scotland.
Fifteen hundred years later, the tome sits on the shelf of a London dealer in fine and rare books. No one knows it is aware of its environment, can see and hear those around it, knows who is in the room and who is speaking, can grant its reader anything he wants if it so chooses no matter how gluttonous or vile the request, no matter who gets hurt or who dies.
It isn't long before an Oxford University theologian, Dr. Peter Ashford, a man that owns a deep knowledge of occult beliefs and practices, comes into possession of the book. Even he, however, has no idea how dangerous is this book until it attempts to kill his wife. Furious and also astonished, he immediately resolves to destroy it, but before he can, it goes missing, taken to the U.S. by someone with no knowledge of the black arts.
In a frantic effort to track it down, Peter must make sense of mysterious clues and codes, solve a baffling cryptogram, avoid a deadly cloud of legend that never moves while trying to escape the control of a strange man with dark green eyes that do not belong to him. Yet from this man Peter learns the book is even more evil - deadlier - than he ever suspected, that its immense power is derived from an archdevil that is not Satan.
To Peter's horror, he hears of dark - scientifically impossible - events taking place in the U.S. He does not know the book's effects have already worried the National Weather Service, frightened even police forensic investigators and have shaken the U.S. military.
Time is running out. Peter is humanity's only hope for rescue. Nearly losing his life several times as he struggles to locate the book that will try to stop him at all costs, the man is drawn into hell itself as he races to prevent a satanic Armageddon.
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The Dhampir Dimension
Stigmata
Viktoria Alukard
2019 Finalist
457 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
The Dhampir Dimension: Stigmata is a high-octane, blood-fueled story of suffering, retribution, and reclaiming long-lost love.
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Monsterland Reanimated
Monsterland Series Volume 2
Michael Okon
2018 Gold Medal
250 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
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Monsterland
Michael Okon
2018 Silver Medal
234 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
Wyatt Baldwin's senior year is not going well. His parents divorce, then his dad mysteriously dies. He’s not exactly comfortable with his new stepfather, Carter White, either. An ongoing debate with his best friends Melvin and Howard Drucker over which monster is superior has gotten stale. He’d much rather spend his days with beautiful and popular Jade. However, she’s dating the brash high-school quarterback Nolan, and Wyatt thinks he doesn’t stand a chance.
But everything changes when Wyatt and his friends are invited to attend the grand opening of Monsterland, a groundbreaking theme park where guests can interact with vampires in Vampire Village, be chased by werewolves on the River Run, and walk among the dead in Zombieville.
With real werewolves, vampires and zombies as the main attractions, what could possibly go wrong?
"Another true gem of dark fantasy action/adventure by a master of the genre, Michael Okon's "Monsterland Reanimated" is unreservedly recommended for community library Contemporary Fantasy Fiction collections." - Midwest Book Review
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Arcadia Falls
Ken Stark
2018 Bronze Medal
377 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
The first boy vanished without a trace and with just as little fanfare. Even the second disappearance amounted to little more than a few passing remarks and another name skipped over in the classroom roll call. As far as Riverside High and the rest of Arcadia Falls were concerned, it seemed, it was as if nothing had happened at all.
Tyler John was no different. He had barely given the matter a second thought, but then a wrong turn sent him on a path straight into the dark heart of the mystery, and the deeper he peered into the shadows, the more he realized that something was looking back.
Now, the hunter has become the hunted and time is running out. With nowhere else to turn, it's up to Tyler and his handful of friends to stop the evil thing that's been preying on Arcadia Falls, and if they fail, they might just be the next ones to vanish.
Yes, something is desperately wrong in Arcadia Falls, and it's like nothing anyone has ever seen before.
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Rise of Howlers
Bob Bannon
2018 Honorable Mention
216 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
Ten years ago, a meteor shower rained down fire from the sky, decimating the population of our planet. A few intrepid survivors have taken refuge on a cruise ship called the Swan of the Seas and have made it their home. Those who lived thought the worst was over, until a strange new breed of bacteria brought down by the meteors began to infect the surviving population, turning them into the horrors that the people aboard the Swan call the Howlers.
Seventeen-year-old Nick Moran grew up in the relative safety of life on board the Swan. When he encounters the beautiful and well-trained Harper Chin, who grew up on land, their differences lead to an immediate attraction. As Nick and Harper grow closer, a distress call is heard over the radio. After years of nothing but static, the residents of the Swan must decide how to respond.
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Dead Scared
The Mortsafeman Trilogy Book One
Ivan Blake
2018 Finalist
290 Pages
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Young Adult - Horror
