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NEEDLES & SINS
My 3rd short story collection, Needles & Sins, was released in late 2007 by Necro Publications.
It includes 19 of my best short horror and dark fantasy tales, including "Letting Go," a 2007 Bram Stoker Award nominee.
>>READ MORE in BOOKS...
SACRIFICE
The sequel to Covenant was released in a limited edition hardcover in early 2007, and is still available via The Horror Mall, Amazon.com and a number of other horror-friendly stores. The paperback edition will be released from Leisure Books in June 2009.
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CANDY IN THE DUMPSTER
The four-author collection featuring 3 of my stories (including the perrenial favorite, "Pumpkin Head") was intended as a convention keepsake for WHC 2006... but Candy in the Dumpster ended up launching Dark Arts Books.
>>READ MORE in BOOKS...
Upcoming Appearances:
COVENANT TOUR SCHEDULE:
Oct. 1 - LaGrange, IL
Oct. 2 - Champaign, IL
Oct. 4 - Matteson, IL
Oct. 5 - The Writers Chatroom
Oct. 6 - Chicago
Oct. 9 - Chicago
Oct. 10 - Brentwood, MO
Oct. 11 - St. Louis
Oct. 16 - Naperville, IL
Oct. 17 - Orland Park, IL
Oct. 18 - Naperville, IL
Oct. 23 - Schaumburg, IL
Oct. 24 - Racine, WI
>> View Full List of Dates & Locations
>> View my list of Past Appearances
- Horror Fiction Review wrote that "COVENANT won a Bram Stoker Award in 2004 and it’s easy to see why: Everson’s writing is fast paced, the several characters are very believable (which in itself is a rarity), plus wall-to-wall chills and some moments that will haunt any sufferer of claustrophobia."
>> Read the full review.
- Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review called COVENANT "an ideal commuter book... filled with chills and horror" and said "It’s basically a tale of what people will do to fulfill a deal with the devil and how they live with this afterwards..."
>> Read the full review.
- BookReview.com says "This exciting suspense thriller has the audience hooked with a need to know why once Joe begins questioning what the dispatcher meant by “another one“. John Everson has written a powerful tale as readers wonder whether it is a coincidence, the supernatural or a serial killer behind the suicides.
>> Read the full review.
- New Voices in Fiction interviewed me this spring about Covenant and other projects.
>> Read the interview - Read about the "making of" Covenant at Leisure Books.
Interviews and Reviews
- New Voices in Fiction has reprinted my tale "Preserve," one of my very first published stories (from Eulogy in 1994).
>> Read "Preserve" - See all recent magazine and anthology appearances.
Grandma Gets a New Life
Covenant Now in paperback!
Covenant
(Leisure Books)
$7.99 (mass market paperback)
y first novel, Covenant was released as one of the September 2008 Featured Horror paperback titles from Leisure Books!
A mix of mystery, the occult and horror, Covenant was first issued in November 2004 from Delirium Books in a signed & numbered, hardcover format, and on June 25, 2005 the Horror Writers Association presented Covenant with a Bram Stoker Award in the "First Novel" category in a ceremony in Burbank, California. You can see articles, photos, and watch a video of my award acceptance here.
The novel follows Joe Kieran, an investigative reporter who discovers a web of mysterious teen suicides that somehow connect five women in a small coastal town. Is there really a malevolent presence inside Terrel Cliff that holds all of the town in thrall? Or is there a murderous covenant between five women to sacrifice their first-born?
Beneath the remains of a long-demolished lighthouse, Joe discovers Terrel's secret history and salvation and puts his own soul in deadly danger.
- Read sample chapters of Covenant at Horrorworld.org
- Read reviews of Covenant here.
- Read about the "making of" Covenant at Leisure Books.
- Order a copy now at The Horror Mall or Amazon.com or pick one up at your favorite brick and mortar bookstore like Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc....
Coming Up...
ext May, Sacrifice will hit the shelves from Leisure Books, and I've just finished a draft of my 3rd novel, unrelated to the first two books, currently titled The 13th. For most of the fall 2008, I'll be doing a variety of interviews and appearances to celebrate the release of Covenant. Click the Appearances link for info.
I haven't been able to write as many short stories this year as I've done in the past, but I do have a couple things coming up in magazines and anthologies.
I've just finished collaborating on a three-way story with Gary Braunbeck and J.F. Gonzalez for the Halloween 2008 issue of Doorways Magazine, and I've got short stories due out sometime in 2008-2009 in the anthologies Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry from Dark Hart Press and The Horror Library Vol. 3 from Cutting Block Press. I'll post more about these once I have firm release dates.
Web site History & Credits
launched this website back in 1996, originally hosted in a folder on AOL(!), and coded by hand using Windows Notepad as the editor (after teaching myself basic html by "reading" the page source of other websites!). The web has changed a bit in the past 12 years, and I've redesigned the site a handful of times. The current version, launched on August 15, 2008, makes the leap from 800 pixel width to 1024, since most people have upped their screen resolutions. For the true web geeks in the audience, it's also completely CSS-driven, using no table structures. The swirl chains in the banner and the ghosted blue-purple swirl behind this paragraph provide the "bridge" from the last iteration. This time around I have to thank Travis Anthony Soumis for letting me adapt his dark angel image from the cover of my Needles & Sins collection as my banner, Matt Sloggett for helping me decode a couple tangles and Alina Ciejka for her help in roughing out the initial graphical layout.