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Celebrating All Things Spooky 2020

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Oct 022020
 

October is here, and so it’s time to begin our annual celebration of all things spooky, creepy, and otherwise fitting for the month of Halloween.

Celebrating All Things Spooky returns this year with a month of sales, contest opportunities, and horror game reviews!

Sales

First up, for the entire month of October, ebook copies of my horror stories The Book at Dernier and It Came Back will be on sale for $0.99 each at Amazon.

The Book at Dernier follows a scholar as his obsessive research leads him into a world of dark rituals, eldritch knowledge, and growing madness. It Came Back sees a young woman return to her childhood home, where she discovers a series of letters that recount her family’s dark secret as a demon begins to stalk her nightmares.

My other stories and my zombie comedy The Zombie Mishap are not on sale, but you can check them all out here.

Next, last October I wrote the script for a horror visual novel called Not It, set on Halloween in a small town where it is said that a serial killer’s spirit returns each Halloween to exact revenge. It’s available for free, so be sure to check it out!

I’ve worked on a handful of other horror games as well, and you can find them all here.

Contest

Moving on, it’s time for our Celebrating All Things Spooky 2020 contest!

This year, the available prizes are:

  • Two Till Midnight (gift sent through Steam)
  • Alien: Isolation (gift sent through Steam)
  • Those Who Remain (gift sent through Steam)
  • Dead Age (Steam code)
  • Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location (Steam code)
  • Lakeview Cabin Collection (Steam code)
  • eBook copy of The Book at Dernier
  • eBook copy of It Came Back
  • $15 sent through PayPal
  • You pick a game for me to review!

If you choose the review option, your chosen game must be something either I already own or is easily obtainable, which you can discuss with me beforehand. It must be a single game, not a collection (although the chosen game can be part of a collection). I will start playing it in November.

Rules:

  • No purchase is necessary.
  • Only comments made between October 2, 2020 at 12:01 AM EST and October 31, 2020 at 11:59 PM EST will be counted.
  • 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on any blog post here = 1 point.
  • 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on a Celebrating All Things Spooky blog post = 2 points.
  • You must use an email address or website URL (or include another way of contacting you) in your comment so I can contact you if you win.
  • You must have at least 10 points at the end of the month to win.
  • The person with the most points will get their first pick of the prizes. The person with the second most points will pick second, and so on, until all prizes have been given out.
  • The winner will be contacted by November 2, 2020.

Remember, you have between now and Halloween to earn enough points to win a free horror game or one of the other prizes.

Reviews

And as usual, this October will be filled with horror game reviews, so check back throughout the week for 2020’s celebration of horror!

Celebrating All Things Spooky 2019

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Oct 022019
 

Yes, it’s that time of year again! Welcome to the 2019 run of Celebrating All Things Spooky!

Special Events

Let’s start off with a sale. From October 5 – October 31, eBook copies of my horror novella The Book at Dernier and horror novelette It Came Back will be on sale for $0.99 at Amazon.

Of course, my zombie comedy The Zombie Mishap and my short stories, all of which are listed here, are available as well.

Prefer physical copies? I’ll be signing copies of The Book at Dernier, The Zombie Mishap, and the pulp fiction collection Domino Lady Volume 3 at Wellsboro’s BookFest on October 19.

And if you’re here for video games, don’t forget that this year I also worked on Two Till Midnight, a horror game available now from Steam.

Here on the site, October will once again be filled with horror game reviews and news… and of course, a contest!

2019’s Celebrating All Things Spooky Contest

This year, the available prizes are:

  • Two Till Midnight (gift sent through Steam)
  • Yomawari: Night Alone (gift sent through Steam)
  • Yomawari: Midnight Shadows (gift sent through Steam)
  • Detention (gift sent through Steam)
  • Dead Age (Steam code)
  • Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location (Steam code)
  • Lakeview Cabin Collection (Steam code)
  • eBook copy of The Book at Dernier
  • $15 sent through PayPal
  • You pick a game for me to review!

If you choose the review option, your chosen game must be something I either own or is easily obtainable, which you can discuss with me beforehand. It must be a single game, not a collection (although the chosen game can be part of a collection). I will start playing it in November.

Rules and Scoring

  • No purchase is necessary.
  • Only comments made between October 2, 2019 at 1:00 PM EST and October 31, 2019 at 11:59 PM EST will be counted.
  • 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on any blog post here = 1 point.
  • 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on a Celebrating All Things Spooky blog post = 2 points.
  • You must use an email address or website URL (or include another way of contacting you) in your comment so I can contact you if you win.
  • You must have at least 10 points at the end of the month to win.
  • The person with the most points will get their first pick of the prizes. The person with the second most points will pick second, and so on, until all prizes have been given out.
  • The winner will be contacted by November 2, 2019.

If you participated last year, this probably looks pretty similar. Any questions? Let me know in the comments.

Let the celebration begin!

Celebrating All Things Spooky 2018

 Celebrating All Things Spooky, My Stories, Video games, Writing  5 Responses »  Tagged with: , , , , , ,
Oct 012018
 

Welcome to the sixth year of Celebrating All Things Spooky! Last year’s celebration went well, so let’s continue the tradition with more horror game reviews and another video game giveaway.

But first…

If you enjoy horror stories inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, be sure to check out my novella The Book at Dernier, which follows a scholar digging into dark secrets that should have remained hidden, and my novelette It Came Back, which is about a young woman who uncovers a deadly secret in her family’s past.

But if you like your spookiness to be a bit more lighthearted, my novella The Zombie Mishap is a comedy about the misadventures of two scientists after they accidentally create a zombie.

In addition to these, I also have a few short horror stories available as well: “Rokurokubi” in Wicked Words Quarterly, “Sand” (another Lovecraftian one) in The Mad Scientist Journal, and “The Artist” in Final Masquerade.

While I’ve included the Amazon links here, information on all the ways to read my fiction can be found here.

And now let’s move on to the free games.

Another Horror Game Contest

After taking a look at the way things worked out last year, I’ve increased the range of potential prizes:

  • Yomawari: Night Alone
  • Detention
  • Dead Age
  • Lakeview Cabin Collection
  • Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location
  • $15 sent through PayPal
  • You pick a game for me to review!

These copies will all be Steam codes.

If you choose the review option, your chosen game must be something I either own or is easily obtainable, which you can discuss with me beforehand. I will start playing it in November.

Now, as with the previous two contests, your participation in discussions on my blog posts throughout the month of October will determine your score.

Rules

  • No purchase is necessary.
  • Only comments made between October 1, 2018 at 12:00 PM EST and October 31, 2018 at 11:59 PM EST will be counted.
  • 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on any blog post here = 1 point.
  • 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on a Celebrating All Things Spooky blog post = 2 points.
  • You must use an email address or website URL (or include another way of contacting you) in your comment so I can contact you if you win.
  • You must have at least 10 points at the end of the month to win.
  • The person with the most points will get their first pick of the prizes. The person with the second most points will pick second, and so on, until all prizes have been given out.
  • The winner will be contacted on November 2, 2018.

If you have any questions, please let me know. And now, let the celebration begin!

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