John Salonia

Alfred Hitchcock once described his work by saying, "My pictures aren't slices of life. They're pieces of cake." That's exactly the way I feel about my books.

JUST PUBLISHED:

The first three volumes of LACE & LASH: NIGHT WARRIORS–The thrilling and horrific adventures of occult investigators Lace Chabray and Victoria Lash. Lace is the scholar and intellectual of the team, gifted with eidetic memory and a deep intuition regarding the monstrous perils they face. While Lash is nobody’s fool, she prefers action to discussing options. A crack shot and an expert in every sort of whip, quirt and flail, she wields these weapons with lethal accuracy.

Using all their skill and verve, the Night Warriors challenge the horrors that threaten us.

Yet courage and ability are not always enough when faced with the ghastly spawn that

slither and creep over the rim of the world...

LACE & LASH–NIGHT WARRIORS #1: DOUBLE JEOPARDY

When people in the centuries-old city of Fenwood start turning into barbaric cannibals,

Lace and Lash are drawn into investigating these revolting transformations. Did it all

begin in colonial days, when the man-eating Qilpennuoc tribe fathered offspring on

female colonists? Is this modern outbreak of cannibalism a case of primitive reversion

to the ancestral type? Or is the true explanation far more sinister?

Hints of that truth are found when things are glimpsed roaming the streets at night–

slinking monstrous creatures, the vanguard of an unthinkable invasion from a world more

distant than the farthest stars and yet closer than your own skin. Lash and Lace must

discover where the invaders came from–and how to stop more from arriving. If they fail,

more than a single city is at stake, for the demonic invaders want far more. For them, the

world itself is not enough.

The answer awaits Lace and Lash in the echoing vaults of the long-abandoned mansion lost

in the menacing woods–along with the ultimate horror …

LACE & LASH–NIGHT WARRIORS #2: THE PIT AND THE PYRAMID

Mysterious disappearances and the sighting of a sinister entity bring Lace and Lash to a ruined Mayan city brooding in the steamy Yucatán jungle. Eleven men have vanished without a trace. And the mystery of how they disappeared may be less important than the reason why they vanished.

Lash's old lover Jack Rutherford is the archeologist excavating the ruins. Lace's new lover Séneca Chicmul-Xuluc, a Mayan cultural attaché, goes with the Night Warriors to the ruined city of his ancestors. Séneca has a pressing reason to escape from the authorities–and a city full of valuable antiquities he can sell on the black market seems like the perfect hideout.

Tensions mount as evidence of a fiendish invasion is unearthed–an invasion that will ultimately doom the earth itself just as it doomed the Mayan city thousands of years ago. For an ancient evil is hidden in the sacred well of sacrifice, waiting to be released. And an ancient summons is about to be answered, spelling that release...

LACE & LASH–NIGHT WARRIORS #3: PENNY DREADFUL

What possible connection could exist between a series of eerie killings in California and the monstrous mangling of a teenager outside a deserted convent in Italy?

When Lace & Lash unearth sinister links between these two very different cases, Lace suspects that one common manifestation underlies them both. But what that connecting factor might be puzzles her.

Is it the medieval French sorcerer who offered up the blood of his descendents in exchange for a dark pact with demonic powers? Or can it be the tormented woman whose vivid dreams of the grisly California killings contain more details than were made public in the newspaper and TV reports?

Whatever it is, the Night Warriors must discover it quickly, before the fulfillment of an ancient plan restores the dominion of the Powers of Darkness...forever.

WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS: These icy, elegant and terrifying stories explore the dark worlds that impinge on our reality, twisting minds, distorting destinies and mocking human hopes and dreams. In these stories you will hear the horrifyingly seductive voices of the night.

THE CROW-KING AND THE GOBLIN-QUEEN: While walking in the park with my daughter, we saw a large flock of crows. It suggested this story to me, which I made up on the spot to amuse her. Now I'm sharing it with you as well. i hope you enjoy it as much as she did.

LIFE SUCKS, DEATH SWALLOWS: A ROMANTIC BLACK COMEDY. The title tells it all. This is a rom-com with TEETH, folks.

SHADOWS FROM R'LYEH: LOVECRAFTIAN TALES. Stories written in honor of HPL, using only his original conceptions without the later accretions of the conglomerate Cthulhu Mythos. The EXPANDED EDITION also contains two papers that originally appeared in THE LOVECRAFT ANNUAL, published now in their corrected form, with some unfortunate editorial tampering removed.

HELLBUSTERS: A comic mashup of GHOSTBUSTERS and James Bond 007.

THE TWO MASKS (EXPANDED EDITION): With additional tales to shiver your spine.

CAIN IN THE ARRAS: Hardboiled psychic detective Richard Cain's first novel-length adventure! A terrible curse drags Cain into an ancient Oriental carpet to face the Earth's original masters.

KROMAR'S KREWE: THE COMPLETE SERIES. All the adventures, from the initial single-page strip to "Shadow of the Vampire". Includes never-before-published art.

Why do I write? The reason is simple - it's to make the impossible come alive. Just like Dr. Frankenstein . . .

I admit I'm not one for metafiction. If you like that sort of thing, fine - but it leaves me cold. I prefer a good solid story, which is what I always seek to deliver. If you crave the fantastic, the fearsome, the lyrical, the romantic, then I'm your fellow.

From the dark mists of twisted psychology, explored in IMPALER or THE BOGEYMAN FILES, to the lighthearted comedy-thriller, such as CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FALCON; from the dark unearthly horrors of STRIGOI and the Lovecraftian nightmare of BONES to the epic saga of the WIZARD OF EARTH'S END and the frenzied screwball comedy of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE THING and OBJECTS OF DESIRE, I write the sort of books that I love to read. And because of that, I love writing them.

I've been at it since I was a small child, writing and laboriously "binding" my stories into booklets. Now (hopefully a bit better at it!), via Kindle and CreateSpace, I can share those stories with you.

I can only hope you have as much fun reading them as I did writing 'em . . .

ALREADY PUBLISHED:

IMPALER

STRIGOI

BONES

NIGHT SPAWN

NIGHT SPAWN 2: GARGOYLES

NIGHT SPAWN 3: D-DAY OF THE DEAD

NIGHT SPAWN 4: RISE OF THE STARBORN

THE BOGEYMAN FILES: DARK APOTHEOSIS

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE THING, OR, FULL SPEED AHEAD AND DAMN THE PHOTON TORPEDOES: (NEWLY REVISED AND SUBSTANTIALLY EXPANDED FROM THE SOLD-OUT PRINT FIRST EDITION)

THE TWO MASKS: TALES OF HORROR AND HUMOR

THE STAFF AND THE STONE (WIZARD OF EARTH'S END VOL. 1)

QUEST FOR THE HYDRA (WIZARD OF EARTH'S END VOL. 2)

MADMAN OF GHAVIER (WIZARD OF EARTH'S END VOL. 3)

THE HOUNDS OF CHAOS (WIZARD OF EARTH'S END VOL. 4)

THE SHORES OF SARGOTHROND (WIZARD OF EARTH'S END VOL.5)

THE CHAMPION OF NIGHT (WIZARD OF EARTH'S END VOL. 6)

THE SILK MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER (WIZARD OF EARTH'S END VOL. 7)

APPARITIONS AND OTHER DARK DOINGS (WIZARD OF EARTH'S END VOL. 8)

THE SPHINX OF THE FANG

OBJECTS OF DESIRE

CAVIAR & POPCORN: TALES FOR EVERY TASTE

MORE CAVIAR & LESS POPCORN: MORE TALES WITH LESS TASTE

SKULL FUNGI: 7 TALES OF TERROR

WILL SUTTON AND THE WIZARD'S CURSE

WILL SUTTON AND THE DEADLY SCARECROWS

WILL SUTTON AND THE GHOST COAST

WILL SUTTON AND THE VAMPIRE'S LAIR

WILL SUTTON AND THE GOLEMS OF DOOM

WILL SUTTON AND THE INFERNAL MACHINE

WILL SUTTON AND THE GHOUL MASTER

CUTLASSES AND CONJURING: PIRATICAL TALES OF LARCENY AND LAUGHTER

CUTLASSES AND CONJURING 2: THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FALCON

SUPERMONSTER SMACKDOWN!

THE AMAZINGLY IMPROBABLE YET INCONTROVERTIBLY FACTUAL ADVENTURES OF SHEMLARD SHOREDITCH AND PICKLES THE WONDER PIG

SONNETS FROM THE SARCOPHAGUS

WIZARD'S VISIONS: AN ASTRAL ODYSSEY

PHASES OF THE NIGHT

KROMAR'S KREWE

CAIN IN THE ARRAS

SPELLS & KNICKERS (THE STRANGELOVE CHRONICLES)

SOURCE & SOURCERY (THE STRANGELOVE CHRONICLES)

THE CHARMS OF CLEAVAGE (THE STRANGELOVE CHRONICLES)

THE STRANGE LOVES OF DR. STRANGELOVE (THE STRANGELOVE CHRONICLES)