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From here on out you'll be able to keep up with news on my next Permuted release, The Harvest Cycle, at

facebook.com/theharvestcycle

Catch the first full trailer there now!

THE HARVEST CYCLE

A Lovecraftian sci-fi/horror novel, coming in print from Permuted Press and in audio from Audible.com.


harvestcycle.blogspot.com


It has been fifty years since the first Harvest. Hideous creatures, lethal and lightning-fast, were sown into the beds of Earth's oceans eons ago. Now every year, in service to a mad god, they rise from the depths and hunt humans.

Man hides underground in fear of the Harvesters. But he is also sought by other predators: the robots that for years were his companions are now driven to exterminate him in a warped mission of mercy.

In a race against time, a group of humans cross the United States in a desperate plot to destroy the Harvesters before the next cycle. As if psychotic robots, lobotomized cops and flesh-eating nomads weren't enough of a challenge, they may just invoke the wrath of the ancient god itself...

2012 Pre-Apocalyptic Spotlight: Grinning Samuel

What (and who) to expect in the inevitable zompocalypse

Artist extraordinaire Lee "Goatboy" Hartnup just worked up a killer new portrait of featured Empire-universe rotter Grinning Samuel (get the lowdown on the clockwork zombie in Samuel's epitaph).


Samuel's stories - let's call 'em the Gearhead Cycle - appear in the following books:

His debut, "Grinning Samuel" is featured in Empire's End and The Undead.

His origin is revealed in "Lost Souls" in The Undead: Headshot Quartet.

Since Twisted Library's Dr. Pus is a big Samuel fan, I picked the original Zombology as the venue for "Clockwork" and Samuel's duel with Death.

Thanks to Lee!

Free Fiction

Links to some free stories from over the years. A couple of Empire-related tales in the mix.

• Read "The Elevator" at Short n Scary Stories
• Read "The Children" at Brave Blue Mice
• Read "The Ambrosia Supper Club" at Dark Regions Press
• Read "Untitled" at Louise Bohmer's blog
• Read "Major Tom's Ashes" at Flashes in the Dark
• Hear "The Whole Animal" on Mr. Rogers' Zombie Neighborhood
• Hear "Peelin' Ernie" from Unbound & Other Tales on Library of the Living Dead
• Read "Childhood" at my blog
• Read "Pandora the Pious" at Liquid Imagination
• Hear "Voice" from Unbound & Other Tales on Library of Horror
• Read "Ministry" from Unbound & Other Tales at Bewildering Stories
• Read "The Old Boy" in Blood From the Underground, at Infernal Dreams (PDF, 4 MB)
• Hear "Grinning Samuel" on ZomPod
• Read "MetaDead" under "Free Fiction" at daviddunwoody.com
• Read "Minotaur" at Every Day Fiction