Tales of Wonder and Dread Publishing To Mark Anniversary With 2 Books
"Spooky Stories" and "Relics, Remnants and Artifacts" Coming September 4th
August 12th, 2021 Poplar Grove, Illinois – September 4th, 2021 is the third anniversary of the first books released from Poplar Grove, Illinois based Tales of Wonder and Dread Publishing. To commemorate that milestone, T.O.W.D. will be publishing two new books on that date. The two books are "Spooky Stories: Creepy Fiction and Non-Fiction Tales and Poetry" and "Remnants, Relics and Artifacts: More Collected Works of Gary Hill."
In his blurb for the book, Mike Korn (aka Dr. Abner Mality) of Wormwood Chronicles said of "Spooky Stories," "Prepare yourself for a veritable feast of eeriness, with prolific author Gary Hill as your guide into ghostly realms. “Spooky Stories” is an eclectic dive into the strange and chilling, featuring all-time classics of weird fiction from Poe, Lovecraft and other hallowed names and brand-new fictional tales including works by Heath Alberts, Elizabeth Lynn Blackson, Frank Coffman, Stephan Osborne and Gary Hill himself. Amid the pages of these stories you will encounter zombies on the prowl, a vampire on a transatlantic voyage, evil books of cursed sorcery, a ghost hunt gone terribly wrong and wicker furniture turned into weapons of murder. It’s a true buffet of the bizarre and brutal!...There’s also a generous sampling of macabre poetry from masters of verse such as Longfellow, Robert Burns, John Donne and newer voices such as Ernie Fuhr and Frank Coffman. And finally, author Hill takes us on a tour haunted breweries and other spooky locations from across the United States and beyond. There’s enough weird entrees here to satisfy the appetite of even the most ghoulish gourmet. Enter the pages of “Spooky Stories” and lose yourself in a world of the gruesome and spectral!"
"Remnants, Relics and Artifacts" gathers up all the short fiction Gary Hill has written since his last collection and combines that with Halloween and Christmas based music articles, film and music reviews, tales of haunted locations and even some poetry in a new collection. Half of the six fiction stories have never been published before. The book is the first printing for nine of the paranormal location stories, as well. While the other works have all been previously published, this is the first time they are gathered together in one place.
Founded in 2018, Poplar Grove based Tales of Wonder and Dread Publishing has released 21 books to date. All the T.O.W.D. books have a focus on science fiction, horror or generally macabre type subject matter. The most recent releases from T.O.W.D. have been "Wizard Song," a short science fiction novel from Gary Hill, "The Homestead," a horro novella also from hill and "Spooky Houses," a collection of fiction and non-fiction tales about creepy houses. Like "Spooky Stories," that book includes modern tales from a number of writers along with classic tales from some of horror's legends., Previously T.O.W.D. has published such titles as "Interstellar Journeys: A Collection of Space Travel Stories," "Life Blood: A Collection of Vampire Stories," " Spectral Stories: A Collection of Ghost Tales," " Speculative Stories: A Collection of Science Fiction Tales," " Spirited Classics: A Collection of Timeless Ghost Stories" and " Temporal Journeys: A Collection of Time Travel Stories." They have also published a series of four photo heavy books on Rockford, cemeteries titled "Rockford's Final Resting Places," with another due later.
Gary Hill has been publishing "Music Street Journal" since 1998. In August of 2006 his first book "The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft" was published. Since then several other books have been released. Hill launched Spooky Ventures in 2019. In 2019 Hill began a series of books under the Music Street Journal banner focused on the Rockford, Illinois music scene titled, "Music Street Journal Local: Rockford Area Music Makers."
The books will be available in paperback and hardcover at lulu.com/spotlight/strangesound and GaryHillAuthor.com.
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