It Exists! It Exists!
I got my author copies of THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR yesterday--well, not all of them. This was the special Earthling Publications "Maintain Our Authors' Sanity By Flinging A Few Copies Into The Mail ASAP" package. It's one niiiiiiiice lookin' book. I've already said how great the interior illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne are, but people who said "Whoa! What a cool cover!" should also know that the book has a full-color Chadbourne painting on the back cover as well.
If you take off the dustjacket, the cover is brown, and the endpapers are dark green, giving the whole book a nice "foresty" feel.
It's really an outstanding presentation--almost TOO outstanding for a novel that Publishers Weekly said was just a gorefest! Although Horror World had this to say:
"Moore and Strand heap scares upon plot twists in one of the freshest and most entertaining novels in recent years...Moore and Strand seem to play into each other’s strengths. Moore’s rich characterization is present throughout. There’s not a throwaway stereotype in this novel’s large cast. Each character is treated as a living breathing person, with a fully realized back story and distinctive personality. Jeff Strand’s brand of black comedy is abundant, along with Strand’s sure hand on the rudder of the story. The authors offer a frightening and high-octane tale, presented as an apocalyptic disaster movie. Sort of The Exorcist meets The Towering Inferno meets Dante’s Inferno."
You can read the rest of the review right here: http://www.horrorworld.org/reviews.htm
Meanwhile, GoreZone magazine will be saying:
"[An] absolute gem of a read...What comes next is over two hundred pages of non stop, in your face, gore drenched action...You will be exhausted by the time you reach the satisfying last page...Think Jurassic Park with bloodthirsty demons on an adrenaline rush and you have THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR."
GoreZone is a UK magazine with a 50,000 copy worldwide distribution. The review itself is actually way better than that excerpt, but I didn't want you to say "No way! The review can't be THAT good! You're making stuff up, Strand! Enough with your deception!" But once that issue hits the newsstands next month, you'll want to have already secured your own copy of this limited-to-500-copies collector's edition of THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR, unless you want to pay some kid named "BookHoarder777" big bucks on eBay.
Here is a trio of ordering options for your clicking convenience:
www.earthlingpub.com/jmjs_forest.htm
www.bloodlettingbooks.com/hafotobyjaam.html
www.deliriumbooks.com/catalog/product.php?productid=54&cat=11&page=1
If you take off the dustjacket, the cover is brown, and the endpapers are dark green, giving the whole book a nice "foresty" feel.
It's really an outstanding presentation--almost TOO outstanding for a novel that Publishers Weekly said was just a gorefest! Although Horror World had this to say:
"Moore and Strand heap scares upon plot twists in one of the freshest and most entertaining novels in recent years...Moore and Strand seem to play into each other’s strengths. Moore’s rich characterization is present throughout. There’s not a throwaway stereotype in this novel’s large cast. Each character is treated as a living breathing person, with a fully realized back story and distinctive personality. Jeff Strand’s brand of black comedy is abundant, along with Strand’s sure hand on the rudder of the story. The authors offer a frightening and high-octane tale, presented as an apocalyptic disaster movie. Sort of The Exorcist meets The Towering Inferno meets Dante’s Inferno."
You can read the rest of the review right here: http://www.horrorworld.org/reviews.htm
Meanwhile, GoreZone magazine will be saying:
"[An] absolute gem of a read...What comes next is over two hundred pages of non stop, in your face, gore drenched action...You will be exhausted by the time you reach the satisfying last page...Think Jurassic Park with bloodthirsty demons on an adrenaline rush and you have THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR."
GoreZone is a UK magazine with a 50,000 copy worldwide distribution. The review itself is actually way better than that excerpt, but I didn't want you to say "No way! The review can't be THAT good! You're making stuff up, Strand! Enough with your deception!" But once that issue hits the newsstands next month, you'll want to have already secured your own copy of this limited-to-500-copies collector's edition of THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR, unless you want to pay some kid named "BookHoarder777" big bucks on eBay.
Here is a trio of ordering options for your clicking convenience:
www.earthlingpub.com/jmjs_forest.htm
www.bloodlettingbooks.com/hafotobyjaam.html
www.deliriumbooks.com/catalog/product.php?productid=54&cat=11&page=1
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