John McIlveen

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John M. McIlveen is the author of the bestselling paranormal suspense novel, HANNAHWHERE, winner of the Drunken Druid Award, and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for a first novel. He is also the author of three collections, A VARIABLE DARKNESS, INFLICTIONS, and JERKS.

He works at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and is CEO of Haverhill House Publishing LLC. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Roberta Colasanti.

Please visit him at https://johnmcilveen.com and www.haverhillhouse.com.

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Halloween Nights: Tales of Autumn Fright Sep 21, 2021

by James Moore, Christopher Golden, Hilary Monahan, Brian Keene, Errick Nunnally, Trisha Woolridge, Bracken Macleod, Mary SanGiovanni, Jeff Strand, Dan Brereton

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It's the Season of the Witch!

Goblins roam, ghosts drift through graveyards, children dressed as monsters beg treats and the Reaper collects his dark harvest. Listen carefully and you can hear the screams, or laughter, through the the rush of leaves scattered by the wind.
Halloween Nights gathers some of the brightest stars in the horror Constellation in this all new collection of tales centered around autumnal hauntings guaranteed to add a shiver to the air.
They are tales best whispered, stories of terror, tricks and treats that kids dare not speak aloud, for fear the words might ring too true.

Featuring original tales from Dan Brereton, V. Castro, Billy Chizmar, Richard Chizmar, Christopher Golden, Brian Keene, Bracken Macleod, John McIlveeen, Hilary Monahan, James A. Moore, Errick Nunnally, Mary SanGiovanni, Sheri Sebastian-Gabriel, Jeff Strand, and Trisha J. Wooldridge

“Halloween Nights is a brilliant and disturbing collection of horror tales by some of today’s finest writers. Chilling, unexpected, and unnerving fun!” -Jonthan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of RELENTLESS and V-WARS

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Of Devils & Deviants: An Anthology of Erotic Horror Apr 28, 2014

by Graham Masterton, Cameron Trost, Aaron J. French, Taylor Grant, Maynard Sims, Ralph Robert Moore, C.W LaSart, Mandy DeGeit, Lucy Taylor, Adam Millard

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The French don't call orgasms "the little death" for no reason. La Petite Mort-the post-orgasmic state of unconsciousness that some people have following a sexual experience. But what if that "little death" became more permanent? What if, in the throes of passion, you suddenly realized your lover was not, in fact, human? What if one of the games you played to spice up your love-life went horribly wrong? What if you realized you were having sex with the Devil himself? Between these pages you will find tales of sex-bots, cosmic goddesses, and crazed lovers. Twenty-three authors are waiting to seduce you with tales so hot and erotic, so macabre and chilling, you'll pray you are sleeping alone tonight.

Featuring: Graham Masterton, Taylor Grant, Maynard Sims, Ralph Robert Moore, Claude Lalumiere, Aaron J. French, Adam Howe, John McIlveen, C.W. LaSart, Lucy Taylor, Jeff Gardiner, Christian A. Larsen, Shaun Meeks, Mandy DeGeit, Cameron Trost, J. Daniel Stone, Kenzie Mathews, Eric LaRocca, Stacey Turner, Jenn Loring, Kenneth W. Cain, Ken MacGregor, Bear Weiter.

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The Twisted Book Of Shadows Oct 14, 2019

by Christopher Golden, James Moore, Linda Addison

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Presenting an all-new horror anthology that shatters the mold…

Mainstream publishers want all-star lineups. Small press publishers often can’t afford to pay pro rates…and even when they can, the names in the table of contents can be limited by the editor’s reach or effort. Bestselling horror, fantasy, and thriller authors Christopher Golden and James A. Moore knew there had to be a better way. Inspired by the efforts of legendary anthology Charles L. Grant, who helped move so many new writers in the horror community’s conversation, Golden and Moore teamed up with Haverhill House’s Twisted Publishing imprint to create…

THE TWISTED BOOK OF SHADOWS

Determined to pay pro rates, the editors crowdfunded the project, and then put the word out as far and wide as possible, loudly and repeatedly encouraging submissions by diverse voices, and recruiting a stellar editorial committee to read along with them, including Linda A. Addison, Nadia Bulkin, Rachel Autumn Deering, Lamar Giles, KL Pereira, and Lee Thomas.

Out of seven hundred stories received through a blind submission process—none of the editors had any idea who the authors were—nineteen made the final cut. Within these pages you will find the beautifully weird side-by-side with terrifying nightmares, horrifying folklore, and hellish futures. Nineteen unique and haunting tales that truly earned their place in a book entitled…

THE TWISTED BOOK OF SHADOWS

Discover your new favorite horror stories by:

Melissa Swensen -- M.M. De Voe -- Andrew Bourelle -- Sara Tantlinger -- Jeffrey B. Burton

Eóin Murphy -- Sarah L. Johnson -- Jason A. Wyckoff -- Amanda Helms -- Trisha J. Wooldridge

Liam Hogan -- KT Wagner -- Rohit Sawant -- P.D. Cacek -- John Linwood Grant

George Edwards Murray -- Cindy O’Quinn -- David Surface -- Kristi DeMeester

THE TWISTED BOOK OF SHADOWS

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Borderlands 5 Jun 18, 2014

by Elizabeth Monteleone, Thomas F. Monteleone

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Original, never-before-published short stories by: Gary Braunbeck, John R. Platt, Holly Newstein, Adam Corbin Fusco, Barry Hoffman, Bill Gauthier, Whitt Pond, Jon F. Merz, Michael Canfield, John Farris, Brian Freeman, Dominick Cancilla, Whitley Strieber, Barbara Malenky, Bentley Little, John McIlveen, Darren O. Godfrey, David J. Schow, Brett Alexander Savory, Gene O'Neill, Lon Prater, Tom Piccirilli, L. Lynn Young, and Bev Vincent.

This is a non-themed anthology which carries on the tradition and high standards established by the first four volumes in this series. It is the intention of the editors to publish new, original, short fiction which pushes the limits of what is being done in darkly imaginative fiction. Writers published in Borderlands will be part of the expedition to open the gates to new literary territory, and will help scorch a path through the jagged landscape of the imagination unbound...and all those other neat metaphors. You don't need to read a Borderlands story on a stormy, dark night, with glowing embers banked in the fireplace, and a cruel wind howling across the moors. These stories can be read under the clear light of day and pure reason, and they will still knock you around and put a new rhythm in your head. Which means: you will not find any of the traditional bug-bears and boogeymen. No ghosts or vampires need apply. No zombies, no werewolves, no mummies, succubi, or Hitchcockian spouses with plans to do in their mates.

Contents of this collection include:
Rami Temporalis by Gary Braunbeck
All Hands by John R. Platt
Faith Will Make You Free by Holly Newstein
N0072-JK1 by Adam Corbin Fusco
Time for Me by Barry Hoffman
The Growth of Alan Ashley by Bill Gauthier
The Goat by Whitt Pond
Prison 392 by Jon F. Merz
The Food Processor by Michael Canfield
Story Time with the Bluefield Strangler by John Farris
Answering the Call by Brian Freeman
Smooth Operator by Dominick Cancilla
Father Bob and Bobby by Whitley Strieber
A Thing by Barbara Malenky
The Planting by Bentley Little
Infliction by John McIlveen
Dysfunction by Darren O. Godfrey
The Thing Too Hideous to Describe by David J. Schow
Slipknot by Brett Alexander Savory
Magic Numbers by Gene O’Neill
Head Music by Lon Prater
Around It Still the Sumac Grows by Tom Piccirilli
Annabell by L. Lynn Young
One of Those Weeks by Bev Vincent

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Haunted are These Houses Sep 18, 2018

by Gemma Files, Catherine Cavendish, Christina Sng, John McIlveen, S.L. Edwards, Christi Nogle, Annie Neugebauer, David Busboom, Bruce Boston, Stephanie Wytovich

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Haunted are These Houses explores the gothic sub-genre through poetry and fiction: from castle and lighthouses to suburbia to laundromats. It features 22 poems and 12 short stories sure to rattle bones and send shadows dancing about the walls.

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Lost Souls Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) Dec 15, 2018

by Roger Luckhurst, Sara Dobie Bauer, Sarah L. Byrne, Rachael Cudlitz, C.R. Evans, Geneve Flynn, Adele Gardner, Anne Gresham, Sara M. Harvey, Kurt Hunt, Michael Matheson, J.A.W. McCarthy, John M. McIlveen, Jessica Nickelsen, Michael Penncavage, Lina Rather, Alexandra Renwick, Aeryn Rudel, Lizz-Ayn Shaarawi, Erin Skolney, Lucy A. Snyder, David Tallerman, Damien Angelica Walters

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New Authors and collections. A collection of new tales with brilliant new writers and lost souls from the darkest corners of literature and legend: Morrigan’s ravens in Celtic myth mingle with Dante’s infernal spirits and the work of John Milton. And with the dark fiction of William Hope Hodgson and Arthur Machen this promises to be a haunting, chilling read.

Classic authors include: E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, F. Marion Crawford, Dante, Charles Dickens, Amelia B. Edwards, Sheridan le Fanu, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, W.F. Harvey, William Hope Hodgson, E.T.A Hoffmann, James Hogg, Washington Irving, Henry James, M.R. James, Jerome K. Jerome, Perceval Landon, Friedrich Laun, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Charles Maturin, E. Nesbit, Margaret Oliphant, Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Scott, Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, Edith Wharton, along with a retold tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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Borderlands 6 Aug 18, 2020

by Olivia F. Monteleone, Thomas F. Monteleone

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Welcome to the sixth volume of this anthology of original weird fiction.

This latest volume continues the tradition of publishing fiction that looks for weird tales that go beyond the familiar territory of most genres. If you are looking for storytelling with style and originality, this book is for you.

Stories included in this collection:
"Anton" - M. Louis Dixon
"Eye of the Beholder" - John McIlveen
"Those Rockports Won’t Get You to Heaven" - Jack Ketchum
"The Last Plague Doctor" - Rebecca J. Allred
"Sinkers" - Dan Waters
"Time is a Face on the Water" - Michael Bailey
"Summer Gullet" - John Boden
"Dead Letter Office" - Brian Knight & Trent Zelazny
"Cocoa" - Bob Pastorella
"The Dress" - Peter Salomon
"The Dishes Are Done" - Carol Pierson Holding
"Red Rabbit" - Steve Rasnic Tem
"Miracle Meadows" - Darren O. Godfrey
"Lockjaw" - David Annandale
"Window" - Anya Martin
"Shattered" - G. Daniel Gunn & Paul Tremblay
"Mise en Abyme" - Gordon White
"In God’s Own Image" - Sean M. Davis
"Special Delivery" - Tim Waggoner
"The Palace Garbage Man" - Bradley Michael Zerbe
"Consumers" - Gary A. Braunbeck
"The Architecture of Snow" - David Morrell

Hark! The Herald Angels Scream (Blumhouse Books) Oct 23, 2018

by Christopher Golden

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Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Josh Malerman, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough, and many more.

That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. Marley untying the bandage that holds his jaws together. The hideous children--Want and Ignorance--beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The heavy ledgers Marley drags by his chains. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts.
Bestselling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.

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21st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology Jul 17, 2012

by Christopher Golden

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The Stoker-award winning editor of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead, and an all-new lineup of authors from all corners of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death and resurrection... with ZOMBIES! The stellar stories in this volume includes a tale set in the world of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse, the first published fiction by Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, and a tale of love, family, and resurrection from the legendary Orson Scott Card. This new volume also includes stories also from other award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors, such as: Simon R. Green, Chelsea Cain, Jonathan Maberry, Duane Swiercyznski, Caitlin Kittredge, Brian Keene, Amber Benson, John Skipp, S. G. Browne, Thomas E. Sniegoski, Hollywood screenwriter Stephen Susco, National Book Award nominee Dan Chaon, and more!

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Eulogies II: Tales from the Cellar Aug 2, 2013

by Tom Piccirilli, Gary Braunbeck, Lucy Snyder, James A. Moore, Keith Minnion, Gerard Houarner, Nanci Kalanta, Tony Tremblay, Christopher Jones, Elizabeth Massie

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Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The contributors to Eulogies II seem to be saying, “All the world’s a cellar, and one only need pull open the bulkhead doors to catch a whiff of the stench, or to walk down the damp, crumbling concrete steps to brave an encounter with what creeps, crawls, or festers in the darkness.” In most cultures, hell is known as a place underneath, down below, in the dark where it is either unbearably hot or unbearably cold, where terrible circumstances overwhelm or even destroy those who wander there. Hell is the ultimate cellar. So it’s no wonder the idea of going down stirs up such a sense of dread. And our life experience is filled with cellars.

Cellars of place. Cellars of time. Cellars of circumstance. They can all hold dark, horrifying, and unseemly secrets.

From the Introduction by Elizabeth Massie

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Haunted House Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) Mar 23, 2021

by Rebecca Janicker, Rebecca Buchanan, Ramsey Campbell, H.B. Diaz, Tom English, John Everson, Marina Favila, Shannon Fay, Adele Gardner, Gwendolyn Kiste, Bill Kte'pi, Kurt Newton, M. Regan, Zach Shephard, Morgan Sylvia, Mikal Trimm

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Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy deluxe edition short story compilations, Supernatural Horror, Murder Mayhem, Lost Souls and many others, this latest title takes housebound trapped spirits and creepy gothic mansions as its chilling subject. Contains a potent mix of classic and brand new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Oh, what is that sound within the walls? The creaking floorboards, the children hiding in the mirror, the spirits that rake across the flesh of the mind – all find a home in this anthology of spine-tingling tales.

Classic authors include: E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bernard Capes, Ralph Adams Cram, B.M. Croker, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, O. Henry, William Hope Hodgson, W.W. Jacobs, M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, H.P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Oliphant, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charlotte Riddell, Mark Twain, Hugh Walpole, Edith Wharton.

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Wicked Tales: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers, Volume 3 May 30, 2015

by Christopher Golden, Rick Hautala, Holly Newstein, L. L. Soares, Bracken MacLeod, Trisha J. Wooldridge, Scott T. Goudsward, Daniel G. Keohane, David Price, Chet Williamson

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Welcome back to another journey through the wonders and terrors of New England. Twenty Wicked Tales of fear, madness and horror from the region’s most prolific writers of dark fiction.

Contains stories from Michael J Arruda, Matthew M. Bartlett, E. A. Black, Kristin Dearborn, Peter N. Dudar, Timothy P. Flynn, Sam Gafford, Christopher Golden, John Goodrich, Rick Hautala, Bracken MacLeod, John McIlveen, Paul McMahon, Holly Newstein, David North-Martino, Howard Odentz, Rob Smales, L. L. Soares, Trisha J. Wooldridge, K. H. Vaughan and T. T. Zuma. Introduction by Chet Williamson, and covert art by Ogmios.

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