A Serialized Novella: In Seeing

This month Gary A. Braunbeck, an Ohio based horror writer, teams up with Horrorworld to make a special limited time presentation just for you. The novella called In Seeing: A Story of Cedar Hill will be serialized in three installments this month.



In Seeing: A Story of Cedar Hill
Click here to read it at Horrorworld

• Part One runs from July 1-11.


• Part Two runs from July 11-21.


• Part Three runs from July 21-31.

As the next part is published on the website, the last part is archived if you're a johnny-come-lately, you can still read the entire story between the 21st and August 1st when it disappears.

Yes, that's right, after July 31, it all goes away, possibly for good! At this moment there is no word about future publication of this story. That decision seems to rest with Horrorworld owner and manager Nanci Kalanta. I'm sure a strong showing on the website (i.e., a lot of people drop by and read it) will improve its chances to see print publication.

What is Cedar Hill?

Cedar Hill is Gary Braunbeck's the fictionalized Ohio town based loosely on Newark, Ohio and a few other places where he lived. It is a town where the economy is depressed, industries are failing and "getting out" is almost an impossibility.

It's also a town where the supernaturally weird happens . . . a lot. Some people live their lives surrounded by the weird. Others find themselves catastrophically touched by it only once -- but once is enough. Many people fall between the extremes.

Gary has over a hundred short stories and novellas as well as four novels set in Cedar Hill. His novel Keepers introduces you to the mysterious bowler hat wearing people (are they people?) called the Keepers, which you meet in the first installment of In Seeing.

The latest novel Coffin County is the story about how the supernatural came to Cedar Hill. The next novel, slated for publication in 2009, promises to be the story of the final fate Cedar Hill and the supernatural forces that inhabit it.

In the meantime, read and enjoy In Seeing and pop over to the Cedar Hill Story Cycle List on the sister-website ... With Intent to Commit Horror for a list of the books that chronicle Gary's beleaguered town.

(Cross-posted on . . . With Intent to Commit Horror and OhioWriters.net and The Lair of the Undead Rat)

Sample The Taken for Free

This week on DearReader.com's Horror Club, we are getting the first section of a book called The Taken by Sarah Pinborough.



The Taken
Author: Pinborough, Sarah
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 323pp.
Pub. Date: April 3, 2007
Publisher: Leisure/Dorchester
Links: Sarah Pinborough: Author of Supernatural and Horror Fiction
Book List for Sarah Pinborough

She's a beautiful little girl, only ten years old with pretty blond curls. Why, then, does she strike such terror into all who see her? Because she died thirty years ago -- a horrible, agonizing death in the middle of a raging thunderstorm. Tonight the storm has returned . . . and so has she.

She has returned from a shadowy realm unseen by the living to exact revenge on those responsible for her death. One by one she will make them pay. There is nowhere to hide, no way to escape. It is only a matter of time before her ghastly vengeance is complete . . .

Interested in The Taken?

It's not too late to sign up for the DearReader.com's Horror Club, and get this week's e-mails with the first section of The Taken. Read the beginning for free and decide for yourself if you like it. And if you're joining in the middle of the week, you can click on this link to get the first e-mails you missed or look at the top of your very first e-mail for instructions.

If you find you want to read more of The Taken, you can check with your local bookstore, library or purchase it on-line by clicking on the book cover.

(Originally posted in . . . With Intent to Commit Horror)