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*Complete Bookstore of SNM Published Novels*
Below is the complete library of SNM Published books, which include 3 author novels and 4 individual titles from SNM. The authors are paid royalties for each sale, so please support them. Since the mag is free, our books are our only source of income. We only publish professional, top quality horror & dark fiction.
Algorithm of Nightmares - Jeff Parsons 70k words: $9.95 *New!
Suspentia - Brett Matthew Graham, 70k words: $9.95 *New!
The Trespassers – Brett Matthew Graham, 88k words: $12.95
Soul Stealers - Steven Nicholas Marshall 30k words: $9.95 New
Gently Bleeding – Steven Nicholas Marshall, 50k words: $12.95
Occultica – Steven Marshall/Brett Graham, 55k words: $12.95
The Banished – Steven Nicholas Marshall, 71k words: $12.95
*All Steven N. Marshall novels: 4 for $45.00 - FREE S&H!
(All single purchased copies do require standard shiping fees.)
Jeff Parsons - Algorithm of Nightmares
*Also on Amazon December 1st 2012*
“When your life becomes a dream from which you cannot wake, your nightmares slowly take shape within your own darkness, forming shadows of helpless fear, anxiety and horror. The end of sanity is near and, even though you can sense it, it is not yet defined, and is quite inescapable.” ~Jeff Parsons
Experience the dangers of knowledge without wisdom and the need to acquire magical power without the restraint to wield it, as a shaman encounters a corrupt secret agent…The desperation of a woman about to die may override the price required to stay alive from a greedy doctor…The sadistic need to hurt the one she once loved leads to the ultimate act of selfishness by a woman too jaded by her marriage to care…In a last effort to cure a disease, the government requires a few human guinea pigs for their new experiment…A conscious awakening occurs in an inanimate object that only wants to cure people’s pain…The best of intentions lead to the deadliest of consequences as a man is possessed by a demon who must do good to be spared from Hell…Hope flourishes as a devastating plague strikes down mankind in a post apocalyptic world of grim uncertainty...
Some legends are made from the evil that men inflict upon others, just like in the Salem witch trial days…Mining operations go too deep when a team of explorers uncover an ancient myth from yesteryears past…A boy’s personal Hell is discovered when a tragedy occurs where only a strange man can show him just how the truth will set him free…Some hidden memories should be best left buried underneath the surface, where an old abandoned science lab created more than they bargained for…A rich traveler learns a valuable truth from the simple servants he employs and discovers it in a mountain of buried secrets at the Temple of Reflection. A man discovers his haunted past from the very house he inherited from his family where evil atrocities occurred -- and learns the truth of how his parents were really murdered….An archeological expedition uncovers a dark, ancient awakening as the last surviving team member reflects about it in retrospect to an ambitious journalist...
This book features 7 SNM Mag published stories and 7 new tales of fantasy.
“Parsons has a Dean Koontz story telling style with a Clive Barker imagination.”
~Wendy Brewer, Copy Editor for Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee
“Jeff Parsons combines historical to modern-day horror with dark fantasy, which you rarely see these days -- let alone ever!”
~Kerry Morgan, Pandora’s Imagination
“A New SNM Mag Legend is born with incredible imagination and a wide variety of engaging stories. Astonishing originality for a first-time new author novel.”
~John Arthur Miller, Liquid Imagination
The book is divided into two parts, Part I: "Souls For Keepsake" and Part II "Fantastica Nostalgia." Parsons kicks off with, "Coming Into Power." It seems to me that in "Coming Into Power" Parsons veered and left the reader wondering where the power went. This story needs a touch more of his wizardly pen as it left me hanging in too much suspense. However, the faithful reader will forgive Parsons faltering with next story, my favorite, "At Any Cost." Parsons redeems himself and from there on out he reaches out and grabs the reader, pulling you deeper. "I Need You" is a tale of a wife bored in her marriage and seeking thrills, she gets more than thrills in this chilling tale. "Astral Explorer" reminded this reviewer of Stephen King's, "Firestarter" with an experiment gone wrong and in this nightmare the ending is far from what one expects! In, "Conscious Awakening" Parsons looses his grip a little leaving his reader to plod onward to, "The Road to Hell!" Watch out for those inner demons they can be a little over dramatic when left to entertain their own nightmares. "Eternal Spring" concludes "Souls For Keepsakes" with a twist. This story is a must read!
Moving onward through nightmareland, the reader comes to Part II, "Fantastica Nostalgia." Get ready to take a step back in time where the reader really feels Parson's nostalgia for nightmares of yore. Each story builds from the previous one hedging closer to the gripping climax. Parsons drives a heart-gripping finale with the remaining stories leaving the reader to question and then face their inner most fears. At just $9.99 you can't go wrong with this collection that will have you clutching your heart in fear and looking in the mirror in the morning wondering if that's a pimple or a maggot on your face. One thing I can say for sure is Parson's stories and backgrounds are well researched.
Suspentia By Brett Matthew Graham
From the 2009 SNM Horror Author of the Year, Brett Matthew Graham, SNM Publications proudly presents his 3rd print novel featuring his 6 SNM Mag published stories, 4 new ones, and a collection of his dark poetry in this collection called Suspentia.
"Brett Matthew Graham is a master of suspense, and he..."
Suspentia by Brett Matthew Graham on sale at Amazon.com: $9.99
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A burn victim in a convalescent home eagerly awaits to see the mysterious Dr. Spindle…A claustrophobic man falls prey to the wondrous powers of a magic hypnotist…A butcher vents his growing frustration of his boss and his recent breakup…A man tries to protect his friend and exact revenge on the town jerk… A hemophiliac clown faces his worst fear of bleeding to death in costume.
A shape-shifting mother and daughter conspire to take over the body of a celebrity actress to steal her identity and fame…A strange man owns parasites that can recreate people from their photographs…A young pop star gets more than he bargained for after he signs a contract…A room of strangers reveal their darkest secrets to a dangerous entity…A clockmaker pushes his skill to the very limits of reality and beyond.
It’s brilliantly intertwined in this masterpiece where suspense and dementia come together as one seamless nightmare...
“Not too many authors can pull off first-person present-tense stories like Graham. His words breathe as you read them. His stories are layered with sub-plots within stories. His characters are diverse and unique, as well as memorable. Graham is the modern-day thinking man’s horror. File this book between Poe and Lovecraft, where it belongs.”
--John Arthur Miller
Liquid Imagination
The ghastly, grayish pasty-face on the front cover beckons you to take a closer look, to enter into the black darkness. Upon cracking open the book, one can hear Graham's terrifying invite, "Welcome to the Soiree!" The first stop is at Dr. Spindle's House where pudding shots are served up in his creepy dungeon of a basement in this 213 page suspense filled thriller aptly named, Suspentia. Fans will be taken aback to have a drink at the Good Times Pub in Cannon's Mouth, Ohio with dear Heather from, Trespassers serving up drinks in the story. Then with a few drinks for fortification fasten your seatbelt as you finish the hair-rising ride in, "Jalopy!" Along the way, "A Letter to Arthur Fisk" is found, which will leave you wanting to go next to, "Ring Finger Blues." Only Graham can play such a haunting version of the blues! On que here come the clowns in, "Bleeder!" The bloody antics are certain to leave you feeling spent.
Graham is to be commended on the publication of his collection of short stories. Short stories have fallen by the wayside, overlooked by many writers in pursuit of the novel or novella. Rich Fale opens up his interview with Stephen King on the publication of King's most recent short story collection, Just After Sunset with a discussion on short stories. The jest of the discussion surrounded Fale's noting that not a lot of writer's tackle short stories anymore and as a result loose touch. King concurs with Fale. I'll get on with the conclusion of my review and not keep you in a state of, suspense regarding Suspentia. I felt it important to mention the significance of the demise of the short story first before I turn out the lights and plunge in the knife.
~Morgana Phenix
*Presenting Our Premiere SNM Published Novel*
From the 2009 SNM Author of the Year Brett Matthew Graham, SNM is proud to present his debut novel, The Trespassers. Not only has Brett co-authored a novella with the Senior Editor, he has been published at SNM 6 times, including 3 Stories of the Month. Graham continues to haunt us with stories to this day.
By Jeani Rector - The Horror Zine
This review is for: The Trespassers (Paperback)
The very first two sentences in the book The Trespassers reads:
"No one in the airport terminal could see Raymond Shepard's skin crawling. They couldn't see it twisting like a bed sheet thrown over a swarm of eels."
It begins with a crawling sensation on the arm or face. Slapping at a non-existent insect does no good as the sensation vibrates through the body...and changes the person.
Alex and her brother Eric live in a big house on top of a big hill, all inherited. Their property overlooks the small town of Cannon's Mouth. Alex has fainting spells and Eric is a drunk, much like the rest of the town's inhabitants. In fact, the young people in Cannon's Mouth are mostly drunks and losers that hang out at the Good Times Pub.
Alex and Eric witness the town changing into something different... something very violent as the residents of Cannon's Mouth morph en mass into murderers who kill in a frenzy of savage, crimson rage. This has happened once before, a long time ago. What is it and why is it happening again?
The Trespassers by Brett Matthew Graham begins with action and reads fluidly all throughout. The book has a polished feel as though written by a professional. It has been carefully edited by Steven Marshall of SNM Magazine fame, so you won't see any of the typos or grammatical errors too often found in other books these days.
In fact, The Trespassers has been published by SNM Book Publishing. The 6 x 9 book has a hefty feel, weighing in at 350 pages, and sold for the amazingly low retail price of $12.99. With crisp, white pages and an eye-catching cover, this is a nice book.
About the plotline: the character development goes on a bit too long in The Trespassers and there are an awful lot of characters to keep track of; but these things can easily be forgiven by the excitement Graham's writing can generate. The descriptive prose pulls in the reader. Brett Matthew Graham has the ability and the talent to keep the reader absorbed with the fear and the violence that befalls Cannon's Mouth.
Graham creates such unique events as a woman who leaks water from her feet, a "morning after the basement party" filled with amnesia-sufferers that has nothing to do with alcohol-induced blackouts, and a morphed woman pushing herself through the rusted bars of a jail cell, deliberately breaking her own bones in order to fit better.
The Trespassers contains a lot of twists and turns. The ending is very satisfying and throws yet another surprise at the reader. All in all, despite the violence and mayhem, the reader relates to the characters and feels sorry for most of them. Although all of us have known losers who never amount to much after high school, we still would never wish the events from The Trespassers to happen to any of them. Or would we?
New Novel by Editor Steven N. Marshall
Complete theme novella. 30k words, 160 pages. $9.95
The lost souls of the dead have found a way to enter the minds of the living. Like patient fisherman, they cast their proverbial rods into the abyss and hook the living through their dreams when they are most vulnerable. They can reach you in a coma or a deep REM sleep. They can access you through extreme inebriation via alcohol or hallucinogenic drugs. They can take over your personality and evict you from your body and assume control. To others, everything else appears to be normal, but you’re merely a ghost of your former self. Everything about you remains the same…except your personality. Everything that was once yours now belongs to them. They own your very flesh. Now you must become a fisherman if you want to regain your body…
Alex Diamond faces a new dilemma within his skipping dream from which he cannot wake. Malicious lost souls of the dead are trapped in Purgatory and have found a new home in his body. A new host of multiple personalities have taken over his mind after he wakes from a coma and he can only look on from afar unless he, too, becomes a Soul Stealer.
Alex is only one of many unreported cases that have fallen victim to one of the greatest secrets of the human and inhuman mind, which neither science nor religion has the capacity to understand, let alone solve. What will it take and require of him to gain back his body and live his life back again? What infernal wisdom and secret arcane knowledge will he gain along the way?
Absolutely mind blowing! Soul Stealers is in a league of it's own and it's a masterpiece! It's brilliant, compelling, and sensationally riveting! Gripping and suspenseful! Marshall weaves his web of terror at night while you sleep, inside your mind using the very fiber of your fears. Written in a very unique and different dialog, the point of view is omniscient, first it's first person, then switches to second, then third and even fourth? It's sheer genius and takes the reader into the darkest recesses of one's mind where they must face their worst fears! The writing style mirrors the voices, but whose voice?
I happened on this gem just after finishing the last story in Occultica, The Soul Bearer, a short story also by Steven Marshall. So for me my experience was enhanced already, I took the midnight train you might say from Soul Bearer and arrived in Soul Stealer before morning in someone else's head. Imagine going to sleep and waking up in what feels like a living nightmare but it's playing out in your own head.
You may just be the only one that knows, but first you have to know and ask your inner, "I." Meet Nate, the main character in this mental menagerie of characters. Nate may really be someone else, Alex, so the voices in his head volley back and forth between their own voices. Yet there is more than just talking going on inside Nate's, or was that Alex, wait, maybe Alan's head? See, there are rules to soul stealing and no two souls can occupy the same body at the same time unless there is a genuine real bona fide case of multiple personalities/alter egos.
Imagine being too afraid to sleep because you could loose your own identity, gone, stolen! What could possibly be more terrifying than a nightmare? One in which you loose control of yourself to your worst fears. Then those worst fears take over and control your very thoughts and emotions, stealing...stealing, well, one's very soul perhaps. Not even Vivarin washed down with Red Bull and endless cups of Timmy Horton's finest are going to prevent sleep. Oh no, for these nightmares happen when you are wide awake! After reading this book you may need something to keep you awake.
It's a battle for the soul of I, who is perhaps Nate, but wait......Alex wrote the notes and then stuck them in a book at the library. Will Nate find the book in time? What lurks at a place called the, "Cesspool?" When it's all said and done and you close this book, who remains, but you the reader?
Soul Stealers will leave you wondering who stole a part of yourself! It's a definite page turner and don't let the 160 pages fool you! You'll be left wondering just who is in your head and bed! Sleep with one eye open!
Occultica - A Horror Thrillogy Novella
*Buy Occultica for $14.00 (6x9) glossy paperback.
When the otherworldly, "Avon Lady" or "Traveling Salesman" calls it's merely to deliver that which was already purchased and paid for. What exactly would someone in the throes of a psychotic split or worse, possession look like? I believe the cover of Steven Marshall and Brett Matthew Graham's thriller, Occultica resembles closest the being within. What we see is merely the outwardly shell for inside lies the true apparition.
Like fine wine, my dear horror aficionados, open this book and let it breathe, tantalizing your senses with the pungent mossy stench of rotting flesh. This short 150 paged book is a mere nightcap before you settle into slumberland as told by Steven Marshall and Brett Matthew Graham. I guarantee that you will never think the same way about someone talking in their sleep after reading the first delight, "Whispers in the Dark," The longest story in this 3 story series. You will embark into another dimension. Amalgam metal fillings are the reason behind a little boy hearing voices in his head with some antenna signal, or are they? Perhaps the, "Boogey Man" really does live in the closet!
I give this horrific page turning psycho thriller a 5-star rating!
*New Short Story Collaborations Novel By SNM*
Presenting the new short story collaboration novel from Senior Editor Steven Nicholas Marshall called: "Gently Bleeding." This new novel features the works of SNM and select SNM Authors of stories they wrote together, including the Gently series found in Bonded By Blood I, II & IV. 6 stories, 215 pages, 50k words.
Jason Keene
Joel Peterson
John Arthur Miller
Indy McDaniel
Gina Lombardi
Steven N. Marshall
Also on sale at Amazon.com for $12.95
Short Story Author Collaborations with SNM.
This themed collaboration consists of six stories that will leave you breathless and bloodless after reading, "As My Pen Gently Weeps." The metaphor story draws the first drops of blood with Jason Keene assisting Marshall in the festivities. We meet a character that lament on his life as he awaits death, yet again. His pen gently weeps. Marshall and Keene gently spin a tale that would cause even fans of Nora Roberts' trilogy, "Blood Brothers" to take notice. Next comes, "As My Love Gently Bleeds: A Romance in Red" with Joel Peterson. The blood starts seeping as the reader is taken into the depths of the mind of a proper eloquent doctorly type gentleman who has a passion for gently bleeding his prey! Think, "Jack The Ripper" amplified with a degree. This story seems to peak in climax after climax until all the blood is spent. "Wow" was all I could say after reading this chilling thriller. By the time one gets to "As My Soul Gently Seeps," the gentle bleeding starts to stain. With John Arthur Miller's helping hand the avid reader will never think about marriage the same again. In this story it's more the blood of the soul and soft tearing of the heart with true heartbreak. The first 3 stories make up the Gently series Marshall had envisioned.
The Banished - By Steven Nicholas Marshall
Or you can Order Directly from Amazon.com
Complete theme novel. 70k words, 216 pages
Marshall serves it up raw and sinewy in this short, but oh so sweet, story. The gore and blood ooze like honey, sticky and sweet. The purveyor of fine horror will be hooked from the explosive beginning. The Marshall reels you in slowly, carefully, as he takes you on a journey, an adventure, into another world inhabited by those which live in the shadows and crave flesh. This was Marshall's first complete novel following his 350 page short story novel, "Rituals of Terror."!
Yvonne serves a purpose, getting lost and encountering the creatures is no accident! There is something special about her and a reason those creatures are attracted to her. There is something inside of Yvonne that they want. Will Yvonne surrender it over?
You'll find yourself cheering on the human like flesh eating creatures of, "The Banished" even up to the very end. The plot is deep and the climax of the story will leave you shaking in your heels! I rate, "The Banished" five stars! It's thrilling, chilling, exciting, and horror at its very finest; that is to say...darkest. It really drives the plot and is more of an action horror novel with a touch of eloquence, which is a bit of a departure from Marshall's speculative works of horror & dark fiction. This is one I can see playing out in my head as a full motion picture. It's a roller coaster ride, a story of overcoming odds in survival mode and it keeps your interest all throughout 'til the very unexpected end.
