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Bundle story: “Something After Saturday” by Steve Vernon

Daddy thought that he could just put old Granny out onto the hillside, just because he didn’t want her around the house anymore – only Daddy had another think coming. Something was going to happen. Something bad. Something dark and nasty, sometime after Saturday.

“If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon.” – Bookgasm

“Steve Vernon was born to write. He’s the real deal and we’re lucky to have him.” – Richard Chizmar

“Something After Saturday” is in the Witches’ Brew bundle. You can learn more on BundleRabbit, Goodreads, and the bundle’s Facebook page.
 

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Steve is a writer and an oral tradition storyteller; he learned the storytelling tradition from his grandfather, and regularly tells stories to in-person audiences ranging from 5 to 5,000 spectators. He writes horror, paranormal, dark fantasy, and ghost stories, and specializes in the fine old art of booga-booga.

Think of Steve as that old dude at the campfire spinning out ghost stories and weird adventures and the grand epic saga of how Thud the Second stepped out of his cave with nothing more than a rock in his fist and slew the saber-tooth tiger.

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Bundle story: “Phoenix” by Leslie Claire Walker

A mystery girl appears in the midst of a winter thunderstorm, seeking a witch to break a terrible curse: the girl has accidentally destroyed the Realm of Faery.

Seventeen-year-old Stacy, young to the Craft but growing in power and reputation thanks to her hand in thwarting the last apocalypse, might be able to save both Faery and the girl.

If Stacy refuses to help, both the realm and the girl will die. But helping the girl can only lead to heartbreak—and a choice that will change them both forever.

An impossible problem. A heroine with the courage and heart to take on the challenge against all odds. To enter the magic, read PHOENIX.

PHOENIX is a story in The Faery Chronicles series.

“Phoenix” is in the Fantasy in the City bundle. You can learn more on BundleRabbit, Goodreads, and the bundle’s Facebook page.

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Leslie Claire Walker grew up among the lush bayous of southeast Texas. She lives in the spectacularly green Pacific Northwest with cats, harps, and too many fantasy novels to count. She takes her inspiration from the dark beauty of the city, the power of myth, and music ranging from Celtic harp to heavy metal. Her short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies.

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Bundle story: “All the Retros at the New Cotton Club” by DeAnna Knippling

Bernice had a good life with Bobby. She mighta been the second wife but to him she was number one. Then he died of cancer—something that not even the modern docs who could treat a ninety-year-old man to look like he was twenty-five again could cure.

Most of the money went to his kids. She’d get a house and enough to live really good on if she hosted an illegal copy of his A.I. for three years—his “ghost.”

It was almost like having him back. They could go to underground clubs and hang out with the other A.I.s who were slumming it with the living. She could see him, talk to him, feel his touch—

And hide him from the people who were lookin’ for him. And who mighta just found out where he was hidden…

“All the Retros at the New Cotton Club” is in the Haunted bundle. You can learn more on BundleRabbit, Goodreads, and the bundle’s Facebook page.

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DeAnna Knippling is a writer, a parent, and an overthinker who boldly paranoids where no one has paranoided before. Her superpower is speed reading. She ghostwrites novels for fun and profit. She has an essay in the award-winning Women Destroy Science Fiction! collection. She has had stories published in Penumbra, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Black Static, and more. Her latest novel, Alice’s Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts, comes out of her obsession with all things Alice. She writes books for middle-graders as De Kenyon.

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New Bundle: Haunted

The Haunted bundle is now available!

If you purchase The Haunted Bundle on the BundleRabbit website, you can choose to donate a percentage of the purchase price to either World Vets or Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

The bundle can also be purchased on Kobo, Amazon, iBooks, and Barnes & Noble.

This collection was curated by Jamie Ferguson, and contains stories about ghosts, hauntings, and mysterious things by Alexandra Brandt, Rebecca M. Senese, Dayle A. Dermatis, Leah Cutter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Chuck Heintzelman, Deb Logan, Steve Vernon, Dean Wesley Smith, DeAnna Knippling, Brigid Collins, J. A. Campbell, Mark Leslie, Jaime Lee Moyer, Louisa Swann, Valerie Brook, T. Thorn Coyle, P. D. Cacek, Jamie Ferguson, and J. Daniel Sawyer.

More information on the authors and the stories will be appearing on the bundle’s Facebook page. You can also check out the bundle’s Goodreads page.

 
Have you ever felt as though someone was watching you, but when you turned around no one was there?

How many times have you been unable to find something, then it later turned up in the exact place you’d searched over and over?

Why does your cat act as though it’s staring at something, even though you can’t see anything?

Just because you can’t see anything doesn’t mean there isn’t something there…

But don’t worry. Ghosts aren’t real.

Or are they?

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New Bundle: The Witches’ Brew

The Witches’ Brew bundle is now available on BundleRabbit!

This collection of twenty witchy short stories was curated by Jamie Ferguson, and includes stories by Annie Reed, Bonnie Elizabeth, Brigid Collins, Dayle A. Dermatis, DeAnna Knippling, Debbie Mumford, Eric Kent Edstrom, Jamie Ferguson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Leslie Claire Walker, Lisa Silverthorne, Louisa Swann, Liz Pierce, Rebecca M. Senese, Ron Collins, Sephera Giron, Steve Vernon, T. Thorn Coyle, Thea Hutcheson, and Valerie Brook.

More information on the authors and the stories will be appearing on the bundle’s Facebook page.

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Magic sparks and cauldrons bubble;
Potions bring love, and curses bring trouble.

What if magic could help track down a murderer?

Can a young, untrained witch save her people from a dark wizard – and at what cost to herself?

Does a young woman’s dreams really predict the future? If so, is there any way to change what she foresees?

And what might an independent young witch look for when house hunting?

Witches. Warlocks. Wizards. Familiars…

Enter twenty different worlds of magic and enchantment.

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New Release: Bewitchery


A WITCH BEWITCHED.

Ceana wakes up one summer morning with the realization that she’s in love with Gideon Smith. This makes complete sense to her in spite of the fact that she’s disliked Gideon since the day they met.

All these years she’s been hiding from her true feelings, afraid to admit to herself how much she cares for him.

Or has she?

Finally Ceana realizes she’s under a love spell. But who caused her to fall for someone she doesn’t even like? And why?

Bewitchery, a short novella, is available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Kobo, iBooks, and Barnes & Noble.