Looking for chilling tales of the supernatural to enjoy during the Spooky Season, as you anxiously await the arrival of Halloween? Then look no further than StarWarp Concepts’ backlist of titles that are perfect for horror and dark fantasy fans!
From the Stars…a Vampiress: An Unauthorized Guide to Vampirella’s Classic Horror Adventures by Steven A. Roman (that’s me!) is a nonfiction history of the queen of the comic book bad girls. In its pages you’ll find a breakdown of every Vampirella story that appeared during her Warren Publishing days from July 1969 to December 1982 (plus a list of the modern-day books that reprinted them); a checklist of every Warren Era appearance she made; a look at the six-book novelization series written by sci-fi and pulp-adventure author Ron Goulart and published by Warner Books in the 1970s; an examination of the awful 1996 movie that starred Talisa Soto of the Mortal Kombat movies as Vampi and featured a scenery-gulping performance from rock-god Roger Daltrey of the Who as Dracula; and a pretty extensive look at the history of Hammer Films’ Vampirella movie, announced in 1975 with model/actress Barbara Leigh and Hammer legend Peter Cushing as its stars, but which was never produced. Plus little-seen photos and other material pulled straight from the vaults of the Ackermonster by the Official Vampirella Historian, Sean Fernald, who also wrote the foreword. If you’re a Vampi fan, this will definitely be a book you need to pick up!
The Saga of Pandora Zwieback is a young adult, dark-urban-fantasy novel series also written by yours truly. It stars a 16-year-old Goth girl who’s spent the last decade being treated for mental health problems because she can see monsters. It’s only after she meets a shape-shifting monster hunter named Sebastienne “Annie” Mazarin, in the first novel, Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1, that Pan discovers she’s never been ill—her so-called “monstervision” is actually a supernatural gift that allows her to see into Gothopolis, the not-so-mythical shadow world that exists right alongside the human world. But before Pan can learn more about what she can do, she and her parents are drawn into a conflict among warring vampire clans that leads into Blood Reign: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 2, in which Pan must deal with even greater threats.
And Chasing Danger: The Case Files of Theron Chase is Richard C. White’s collection of fantasy-noir, pulp-detective tales starring a private eye working the supernatural beat in the city of Calasia, and whose clientele is of a definitely paranormal persuasion. Think The Maltese Falcon crossed with Constantine and you’ve got a pretty good idea of Theron Chase’s workload. From a sexy chanteuse who literally turns into a beast when the moon is full to a string of pearls that kills its owners, and from the ghost of a dead woman seeking justice to the Grim Reaper’s little girl seeking her stolen chicken, Chase certainly has his hands full—of danger, death, and dames!
From the Stars…a Vampiress: An Unauthorized Guide to Vampirella’s Classic Horror Adventures, Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1, Blood Reign: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 2, and Chasing Danger: The Case Files of Theron Chase are all available in print and digital formats, so visit their respective product pages for ordering information.
