[Letters From the Labyrinth] Official Brian Keene Newsletter

I'm Brian Keene, and this is the 145th issue of Letters From the Labyrinth -- a weekly newsletter for fans of my work. Previous issues are archived here.

Night Worms has partnered with Thunderstorm Books for exclusive paperback editions of A LITTLE SORROWED TALK by me and TALES FROM THE SHADOW SIDE by Jonathan Janz.

In addition to these exclusive paperback editions, there is a signed limited hardcover edition of A LITTLE SORROWED TALK available from Thunderstorm Books. It costs $50. As of this writing it is 80% sold out. If you want a hardcover, CLICK HERE AND GET A COPY WHILE THEY LAST.

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The paperback editions will only be sold exclusively through Nightworms. The paperback editions will also be signed by the respective authors and limited. Night Worms subscribers are guaranteed this package The remaining quantity is sold first-come, first-serve starting July 15th, 2019 at 8 am PST.

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Here is a little about each book:

A LITTLE SORROWED TALK: Grandmaster Award-winner Brian Keene’s newest short story collection examines happiness and grief, love and hate, youth and age, and the darkness thriving in the gulf between them. A criminal decides to kill himself by getting healthy. The survivors of the zombie apocalypse find out there’s something worse than being dead or living dead. An author’s meta-fictional story brings disastrous results. A father discovers that the space between him and his child may be otherworldly. An antediluvian barbarian and a modern-day ex-Amish occultist face off against the same enemy. Your dreams. Your fears. Your hopes. Your regrets. In the hands of Brian Keene, all of them are just… A LITTLE SORROWED TALK.

TALES FROM THE SHADOW SIDE: A meek man enters a spooky theater for all-night horror movie triple bill. An unscrupulous contractor messes with the wrong family. A single mother discovers a bizarre link between her son and an unspeakable Lovecraftian horror. A con artist posing as an outcast from an Amish church gets more than he bargained for in the Indiana forest. And a college professor eager to make money by solving a decades-old cannibal atrocity learns the true meaning of terror in the Great Smoky Mountains. In this collection of rarely-collected nightmares, you’ll find tales of suspense, dread, and madness. It’s time to take a journey to Jonathan Janz’s Shadow Side.

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If you’re a regular listener to THE HORROR SHOW WITH BRIAN KEENE, then you know about co-host and engineer Dave Thomas’s medical crisis, and how we had to cancel this year’s telethon as a result.

Now, Sheri Sebastian-Gabriel and the good folks at NECON have put together several fundraisers to help Dave with his mounting expenses, including this GoFundMe.

Click here to donate.

Ever wonder just how much mail I receive on an average day, or why it takes me so long to respond to people sometimes? Find out in this exclusive behind the scenes video.

I am happy to announce that myself, Mary SanGiovanni, Damien Angleica Walters, and Gwendolyn Kiste will be teaching a four week online horror writing course at LitReactor. The class runs from August 20th to September 17th. Click here for complete details.

This week I finished what may very well be one the most challenging thing I’ve ever written — a book-length, blue collar academic treatise on belief, faith, religion, spirituality, and the supernatural called THE TRIANGLE OF BELIEF.

It was inspired by several things — a conversation with Maurice Broaddus, Geoff Cooper, Wrath James White and Michael T. Huyck Jr on my 50th birthday (and thus the book is dedicated to them), as well as the UFOs Mary and I saw last year (if you've never heard that story, click here to listen to it).

This week, I'll be very, very deep into writing episode 6 of THOR: METAL GODS (yes, I know it was called something different when Marvel and Serial Box first announced it, but now they want to call it this, and as long as I'm getting paid, they can call it HAPPY KITTEN FUN TIME for all I care). My inclusion of Howard the Duck, Pip the Troll, the Elf With a Gun, and the armor of Rom in episode 3 has made it past everyone so far, which viciously delights me. (It also occurs to me that non-Marvel Comics fans or younger Marvel Comics fans probably have no idea who half of those characters are). For episode 6, I get to write Valkyrie, so that's pretty cool.

But I'll be very busy with that next week, as well as this collaboration with bev Vincent (on the home stretch now), and this new Levi novella, and two short stories (one with J.F. Gonzalez) both of which are due by month's end.

Also, during the second half of next week, I'll be out of town on a personal family matter.

Basically, I'll be offline all next week. And there will be no newsletter next week, either.

This Week's Blog Essays:

A Tom Piccirilli Primer

This Week's Podcasts:

DAHMER'S NOT DEAD - The Horror Show with Brian Keene - Episode 227

Edward Lee and Brian Keene discuss the origin and behind the scenes details of Lee’s novel DAHMER’S NOT DEAD (co-written with Elizabeth Steffan). Then, Mary SanGiovanni and Matt Wildasin review the book and its impact on the horror genre. Plus Marilyn Manson and Shooter Jennings team-up, and a fundraiser for Dave Thomas.

Listen for free on YouTube – iTunes – Spotify – Project Entertainment– iHeartRadio – Stitcher


THE CHAMPIONS - Defenders Dialogue - Episode 71

Ghost Rider! Black Widow! Hercules! Iceman! Angel! Christopher Golden and Brian Keene discuss the most power-packed premiere of all in the Mighty Marvel Renaissance as THE CHAMPIONS make their debut!

Listen for free on iTunes – YouTube – Project Entertainment – iHeartRadio – Stitcher

Currently Reading: STEVE GERBER: CONVERSATIONS, edited and compiled by Jason Sacks, Eric Hoffman, and Dr. Dominick Grace

Currently Watching: MIDSOMMAR

Currently Listening: Xander Harris's entire discography

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MIDSOMMAR is a masterpiece. very disturbing film that plays with the genre and your expectations. Florence Pugh delivers an evocative, staggering performance. A really remarkable, unsettling film that ranks alongside THE ENDLESS as one of the new classics of folk horror/cosmic horror cinema.

That's it for this week. As always:

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Remember, no newsletter next Sunday. I'll see you back here in two weeks!