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10/27/2025

Vampires. Zombies. Ghosts. Haints . . . and so much more! Celebrate Halloween and Black Speculative Fiction Month with these spooky titles from MVmedia, Mocha Memoirs Press, Second Sight Publishing, and Triple Threat Comics! Link in the comments.

10/14/2025

So you want the funk, the whole funk, nothing but the funk? Here it is! Steamfunk!, Dieselfunk!, Spyfunk!, Cyberfunk!, and Spacefunk! together in one volume. Dozens of authors of African Descent and hours of reading too big for print, available as an eBook at a special price. Get yours today and share! Link in the comments.

10/13/2025

By Aries Jordan

10/10/2025

MVmedia Weekend Special: The Long Walk!
Patience de Verteuil left her home in Trinidad with her father for what she thought would be a short journey to America. Instead she finds herself embroiled in a struggle between powerful supernatural forces, in which an object in her possession means the difference between defeat or victory. The Long Walk is a Steamfunk tale that will stay with you long after the final words are read.

'The Long Walk delivers a heartfelt action adventure story of Patience as she takes a long walk to find Harriet Tubman. It is a robust action adventure, filled with battles, demons, and magic.'
- Nicole Givens Kurtz, Mocha Memoirs Press, LLC
Link in the comments.

10/06/2025

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Based on the Playing The Odds cyberfunk novella by Milton J. Davis. A night out turns into a precarious situation for security cyborg Carlos Mejia.Visit our ...

10/03/2025

09/23/2025

Another MVmedia Popup at Challenges Games and Comics spotlight: Black Rose Manga Teaser! See y'all on the 27th!

Get a glimpse of the upcoming Black Rose manga based on the incredible novel by Milton J. Davis. Twenty-eight pages of action that will leave you anticipating what comes next!
Milton Davis's first historical fiction novel takes us back to the Swahili Coast and to the shores of Nippon. Merchant Kesi Masanja (Black Rose), defies the traditions of her society as a merchant sailing the monsoons to Asia from her home city of Pemba. She becomes the guardian of sheltered princess Danuja Tanaka after her father, Daimyo Tanaka, and her family are killed by rival warlords. Together they navigate the challenges of their societies while struggling with the legacies of their families.

09/15/2025

Skerry Tales is now available for preorder! Official release date: October 1, 2025.
Skerry Tales is a collection of eight creepy stories by award-winning author Milton J. Davis. Prepare yourself for a macabre journey filled with thrills, chills, and more!

Milton Davis is renowned for his award-winning sword and soul fantasy works. Yet, a great storyteller transcends genres, and Milton is, if nothing else, a fantastic storyteller. Fear exists in every aspect of our lives, and as such, horror infiltrates genres. When you combine the talents of a world-class storyteller and the insidiousness of terror and fear, you get a collection like Milton’s Skerry Tales.
- Nicole Givens Kurtz, author/owner Mocha Memoirs Press

“Milton really shows us his writing depth by stepping out of his comfort zone to deliver some truly scary stories.”
- Marcus H. Roberts, Owner/Publisher, Second Sight Publishing
Link in the comments.

09/02/2025

On a quiet street off River Road, near two schools sharing the name Cedar Grove, be a house that was once red, white, and blue, with a haunting tale I might share with you. The house unobtrusively sits painted now with its colors demure and its non-sneering mouth. But I know all its secrets those hidden about behind shuttered windows and door facing south.
A shudder still consumes me whether walking or driving past, I know it still watches behind the masked window glass.
“Shh don’t tell. I leave the ones here be.”
“Then why are you still taunting and ever haunting me?”
“You should have returned when the sign first called.”
Yet self-preservation overrode my downfall. “What is it that you feel I must always see.”
“Ask yourself that. You’re here visiting me.”
The house was right as it tended to be.
Why am I here. Why do I care as I exit my car and turn to stare. The music still plays though the records are old. The jukebox cord now sits in a roll. No plug for power or electricity but from the be-yond came energy.
“I know you hear it. You’ll never forget.”
Dang-it its right. That’s what I get. Shut it out. Go on your way. It isn’t my visitor on this sunny day.
“You cannot ignore me. I’ll always be here. The music will continue; a worm in your ear.”
I ignore the taunting and go on my way; I refuse to allow the past to ruin my day. My visit is pleasant my old neighbors are well. Not much has changed though my memory swells.
The night rushes back to the dark in the garage where the board speaks to others and ignites the bard. The crash of an object we’re all now on guard and youngling take off running their breath coming hard.
A joke of the olders. Or dismissed as so. Except the creep of an-other power slithers across my toes. The game packed away their night coming to a close they retreat into the house as if no one knows.
I slip from my spot and creep to the door for the silence is broken with music once more. “Make it stop! Just go away!”
Not even my pleading will keep it at bay.
The radio. The song. Just change the tune. Hop in the car lest ye meet your doom. Speeding away eases the hell, the further the distance, the weaker the spell.
“You’ll never escape. You can be sure of that. Till you know why I’m here and what I want back.”
- River Ghost by Aziza Sphinx. From Terminus 3. Preorder you book today! Official release date: September 13, 2025. Link in the comments.

07/06/2025

The Phantom Beat by Verry Wong

07/01/2025

Priestess of nKu: Chapter Five

Nandi held her breath as the antelope walked under her. It stopped, looking side to side as if it sensed her presence. She watched it, waiting for the right moment. After a few more minutes the beast relaxed. It lowered its head and grazed on the grass at the base of the tree in which Nandi perched....

06/24/2025

The Turning of the Bones is available for preorder from MVmedia and anywhere books are sold! Official release date: July 7, 2025. Links in the comments.

Ki Khanga Griot Balogun Ojetade spins another terrifying Gnaw Maws tale! Etse, a young noble of the nation of Asanteman, is carefree and careless but he is forced to change when death – in the form of Gnaw Maws – begin to plague his country and take friend, family and foe. He must rise to become a leader, a savior, against the armies of infected or fall with the rest.
Add to this a hard-as-iron father and a sister who hates him and what he stands for and you have the turning of the bones. But will they ultimately turn towards life or death? Freedom or subjugation?