Kraken Press

31/01/2020

White’s grisly, tantalizing debut story collection is a love letter to the horror genre. The powerful “Hairy Shirt Drag” tells the story of a gender-fluid witch who subverts and reclaims a violent rit

24/04/2019

Matt E. Lewis interviews author Keith McCleary about his debut novel, “Circus + The Skin.”

24/03/2019

Set in the 1950s, these spine-tingling tales are filled with nightmare-laced nostalgia. Featuring blood-soaked Little League games, twisted small towns, and other horrors.

12/09/2018

Soft release today for Keith McCleary's CIRCUS + THE SKIN, while we wait for the paperback to go through on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FJ66JCR/

When a circus caravan is torn apart by a destructive summer storm, the show's tattooed man and his fellow performers are scattered across the wheat fields of a nameless hamlet. The tempest's survivors convene at a local boarding house, but a series of violent attacks and strange deaths sabotage their attempts to regroup.

The show's tattooed man is Sue, a middle-aged, world-weary war veteran whose days are haunted by dark memories. At night his inks call to him, seemingly alive. As the circus strains to stay the course, Sue's sense of reality begins to fragment -- and something reaches for him from the recesses of his past.

19/06/2018

We announce a new novel, by Keith McCleary.

When a circus caravan is torn apart by a destructive summer storm, the show's tattooed man and his fellow performers are scattered across the wheat fields of a nameless hamlet. The tempest's survivors convene at a local boarding house, but a series of violent attacks and strange deaths sabotage their attempts to regroup.

The show's tattooed man is Sue, a middle-aged, world-weary war veteran whose days are haunted by dark memories. At night his inks call to him, seemingly alive. As the circus strains to stay the course, Sue's sense of reality begins to fragment -- and something reaches for him from the recesses of his past.

When a circus caravan is torn apart by a destructive summer storm, the show's tattooed man and his fellow performers are scattered across the wheat fields of a nameless hamlet.  The tempest's survivors convene at a local boarding house, but a series of violent attacks and strange d

24/04/2018

New Markets with Deadlines Nowhereville ｜2c/word｜Deadline: May 1st. ｜Christmas Horror  Baby, It’s Cold Outside  ｜$150｜Deadline: July 1st. ｜Winter Holiday Crime Midnight Before Christmas  ｜2c/word｜Deadline: May 1st. ｜Christmas Horror Midnight Ho

17/10/2017

New short fiction markets and submission calls. http://www.cotronis.com/blog/octobersubmissioncalls

01/05/2017

https://newdeadfamilies.com/links/current/current-2/coney-island-an-excerpt-from-circus-the-skin-by-keith-mccleary/

Five years later, I woke with my bed on fire. Serry shouted through my door. “Sue! Sue!” she called. “Get the hell out of bed!” The sheets licked up from the floor to the mattress, and the wall nex…

21/03/2017

We have a new book coming out! If you like Lovecraftian fiction, if you loved Shadows Over Innsmouth, or if you love us, you should check it out.

Pre-order now and you get a free eBook of our back catalogue.

It is not often acknowledged in Lovecraft's histories of the North Shore of Massachusetts that the influx of certain clandestine immigrant communities in the town of Innsmouth, around the year 1846, led to greatly expanded opportunities for women and minorities in the region. What was it l

18/03/2017

We have a new book out!

14/02/2017

This is your year. Get published.

14/12/2016

Some book and film suggestions for the special witch in your life this holiday season.

24/11/2016

In the first episode of Horizon Line, we tell the harrowing story of a man who tried to sail across the Arctic in a hot air balloon.

19/11/2016

Boston-born, London-based painter Phil Hale crafts distressed, dynamic works in which figures are conveyed in action and anguish. His nighttime...

19/11/2016

Megan Buccere, an artist and teacher who lives in Baton Rouge, La., uses soft pastels and oils to tell stories. Her surreal works move between...

19/11/2016

The nuclear power of Fallout's wartime kitsch.

15/11/2016

I had a discussion with Benoît Lelièvre at Dead End Follies. We covered Lovecraft, Alaska, my new collection, and a lot of ground between.

14/11/2016

Starting in 2012, Eric Szyszka, one of the co-founders of the hilarious WE HATE MOVIES podcast premiered a podcast project that would take him to...

11/11/2016

October is the month of both spooks and scares in equal measure and many people celebrate the spooky season in different way. Some people party, go...

09/11/2016

The elevator pitch for Will McIntosh’s Faller is pretty spectacular: a man with no memory wakes up after an apparent apocalypse. The world has...

08/11/2016

SKYLD/SKULD/GUILT 1961. Andrea (Sofía Nolsøe) works as a nurse for a dying woman (Rúna á Heygum) on a remote island in the Faroe Islands.…

08/11/2016

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

08/11/2016

Barbara Newhall Follett was poised to be a force in 20th century letters. What happened?

24/10/2016

Mike Mignola recently wrapped up Hellboy’s main comic book saga, but the character still has plenty of stories left to tell. Writer Christopher...

22/10/2016

The concept of magic dates back nearly as far as humanity itself. The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic: An Illustrated History takes you on a guided...

22/10/2016

Man alive, I love Dave Kendall’s depiction of a pivotal scene in my story, “Blackwood’s Baby.” Mr. Kendall is wizard.

22/10/2016

Reanimatrix Pete Rawlik Night Shade Books October 2016 Reviewed by David Goudsward It is safe to say that at this point, Pete Rawlik knows the...

21/10/2016

Horror movies have been around for over a hundred years, from the silent days of Phantom of the Opera, Nosferatu or The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, to...

17/10/2016

I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of all the new books coming out this fall. It's so overwhelming, I'm just going to hide. Join me?Inbox...

17/10/2016

The New Pulp Era: Ghostwriting, Ebooks, and the Economics of Now http://ow.ly/dQva505bPWw

A lot of writers and readers are saying we have entered a new pulp era, a repeat of those days when hardworking writers pumped out exciting fiction...

15/10/2016

From One Novel To A Universe Of Books. Writing A Series That Sells With David Wood http://ow.ly/Gf6L505bPWt

From One Novel To A Universe Of Books. Writing A Series That Sells With David Wood

13/10/2016

So, you’ve successfully managed to avoid your social commitments to sit down and write something. After combing through it to check the grammar and...