Tales From the Lake Horror Writing competition winners join Graham Masterton and other horror greats in newest anthology

Dive into fourteen tales of non-themed horror, with short stories and dark poems by some of the best horror writers in the world, including a story by the master himself, Graham Masterton.

Allow the very first instalment of Tales From the Lake to transport you to lakeside terror inLover, Come Back to Me, Lady of Lost Lake, and Game On; journey to the basement of your local pet store in Dead Pull and your neighbourhood pub in O’Halloran’s; visit the apocalypse inDevil’s Night; travel to Africa in Witch-Compass and The Reunion; spend time with talking dolls in Don’t Look at Me; experience the horrors of drug addiction from close up in Junksick; and climb a ladder to the heavens in Perrollo’s Ladder.

Tales From the Lake Vol.1 includes the winning stories from the 2013 Tales From the Lake Horror Writing Competition: a nautical tale in Jenn Loring’s The Art of Wrecking; a bizarre story of strange addictions in J. Daniel Stone’s Alternative Muses; and a cult horror story in the jungles of South America in William Ritchey’s Las Maquinas.

Introduction by Rocky Wood – president of the HWA.

Artwork by award winning artist Ben Baldwin.

Edited by Joe Mynhardt.

Book info:

Tales From the Lake Vol.1

Release Date: Friday, 30 May.

Theme: Non-themed, but with a touch of lake-side terror and camp stories.

Fourteen horror short stories and two poems
Published by Crystal Lake Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9922272-8-9 (paperback); 978-0-9922272-7-2 (Kindle)
288 pages
The paperback will sell at $12.99 and the eBook at $4.99

APPEARANCES and EVENTS:

Eight radio ads will be played on Nightwatch Radio, JackalopeRadio.com and several other online radio stations.

Various stories from the collection will be read on the Tales to Terrify Podcast.

Various online media outlets will promote the release, including This Is Horror, Hellnotes, The Horrifically Horrifying Horror Blog, and Promote Horror.

Events will also take place on several online forums: FB, Twitter, Google+, MyWritersCircle.com, Goodreads, Shocklines, HWA Forum, and Permuted Press.  

A Goodreads giveaway will take place 2 weeks before the launch.

Guest blogs and interviews will be posted almost daily on the Crystal Lake Publishing blog.