March 2008

Burning Effigy Press is pleased to announce its first horror chapbook title of 2008:

A revised and updated edition of Steve Vernon's untraditional and irreverent superhero collection Nothing to Lose.

More about Nothing to Lose:
So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes. Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl.
You don't know nothing.
Join Steve Vernon, Nova Scotia's hardest working horror writer, as he takes you into the world of Captain Nothing. It's a world without hope, a world that is as cold and dark as a landlord's heart, three days after the rent is due. It's a world that could give the Batman a case of the squirming night fears. NOTHING TO LOSE is a collection of stories that will show you the darker side of courage. It will show you the shadows in a hero's heart. Go on. I dare you to take a closer look.
You've got nothing to lose.

More about Steve Vernon:
Steve Vernon has been writing dark fiction for a lot of years. You'll find his work in the pages of Cemetery Dance, Tor's Year's Best Horror, The Horror Show, Flesh & Blood, Hot Blood, Horror Garage and many other tastefully titled markets and magazines. Steve's ghost story collections Wicked Woods and Haunted Harbours (Nimbus) are available in many Maritime bookstores. Steve's first full length novel, Gypsy Blood, will be released in the Summer of 2008 from Five Star Press. Steve was born and raised in the woods of Northern Ontario and has lived most of his grown life in Halifax, Nova Scotia. If you enjoy this work hunt up Steve's novellas Plague Monkey Spam (Bad Moon Books) and Long Horn, Big Shaggy: a tale of wild west terror and reanimated buffalo.

January 2008
In recent news...

Burning Effigy Press gets love from horror ezine Fearzone.com who are not only featuring an interview with Burning Effigy Editor-in-Chief Monica S. Kuebler, but also voted Nicholas Kaufmann's General Slocum's Gold the Best Short Story of 2007. Thanks Fearzone, and congratulations Nick!

Stoker Award-winning author Brian Keene also voted Nicholas Kaufmann's General Slocum's Gold one of his ten ten books of the year. Visit Brian's blog and scroll to the entry for Dec. 6, 2007.