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AVAILABLE NOW!!!BREAKING THE DEVIL'S BREAD: DARK WORDS AND SHADOW TALES, a short horror story collection by Satyros Phil...
11/21/2025

AVAILABLE NOW!!!

BREAKING THE DEVIL'S BREAD: DARK WORDS AND SHADOW TALES, a short horror story collection by Satyros Phil Brucato, is now available from Nightmare Press!!!

For Kindle, Amazon, B&N, and Kobo, click here: https://mybook.to/BDBDWST

For all other available platforms, click here: https://books2read.com/u/bPrdEj

For more Nightmare Press titles, visit our website: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

SYNOPSIS

Our lives are made of stories.

Some of those tales get pretty damn dark.

In the following "13 stories and an Oops," award-winning dark fantasist Satyros Phil Brucato (Red Shoes, Mage, Valhalla with a Twist of Lethe) explores shadows, cries, and silence.

Careless haunters, elite collectors, secretive enforcers, lip-synching goths, hapless custodians, strange children, subterranean exiles, tortured fiends, harried jesters, haggard coulrophobes, ragged batterers, joyous hikers, carnal mystics, and exploding cosmos tell their tales as sardonic darkness swallows all.

If mortal dread is the Devil's bread, then we're all welcome at the feast.

For the sake of absolute transparency, I have updated the Submissions Information page of the website to include not onl...
11/20/2025

For the sake of absolute transparency, I have updated the Submissions Information page of the website to include not only what we accept and how to submit, but what we offer and what our publishing process looks like. I believe letting the author know what they can expect is crucial.

Though we have many projects slated for release over the next couple of years, Nightmare Press is always open for submissions. Here’s what we will consider at this time:FANTASY: We are especi…

Check out these new releases from Nightmare Press!!!NO ONE CAN SAVE US - a superhero/Lovecraftian cosmic horror novel fr...
11/20/2025

Check out these new releases from Nightmare Press!!!

NO ONE CAN SAVE US - a superhero/Lovecraftian cosmic horror novel from Kendall Phillips: https://mybook.to/NoOne

SARA CORBIN'S BLOODY REVENGE - a weird west/western horror novel from Coyote Wallace: https://mybook.to/SCBR

BELINDA'S KEYBOARD: PART ONE: DED'S LINE - a suspense thriller from Dedham Pond: https://mybook.to/Belinda1

THE HURDY GURDY MAN - a psychedelic horror novel by David Turnbull: https://mybook.to/HGM

For more Nightmare Press titles, visit our website: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

NIGHTMARE TUESDAY PRESENTS:THE HURDY GURDY MAN, by David TurnbullThis week on Nightmare Tuesday, Sye Cole of Some Idiot ...
11/18/2025

NIGHTMARE TUESDAY PRESENTS:

THE HURDY GURDY MAN, by David Turnbull

This week on Nightmare Tuesday, Sye Cole of Some Idiot Reads will read from this horror novel forthcoming from Nightmare Press!!!

To listen to the reading, click here and give the video a like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKnHKTToLZw

To preorder your Kindle copy, click here: https://mybook.to/HGM

View the Nightmare Tuesdays playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLWcsE_iwLMKJA0lJolaSOWxV95QytOPp

Subscribe to Sye's channel, SOME IDIOT, and see more of his content, here: https://www.youtube.com/

For more Nightmare Press titles, visit our website: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

COVER REVEAL!!!Presenting the covert art for the first science fiction title from Nightmare Press: OCCULTATION, by Eric ...
11/18/2025

COVER REVEAL!!!

Presenting the covert art for the first science fiction title from Nightmare Press: OCCULTATION, by Eric Lahti!!!

Artwork by Eric Lahti.

Coming soon!

To check out all current Nightmare Press titles, visit our website: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!!!BREAKING THE DEVIL'S BREAD: DARK WORDS AND SHADOW TALES, a collection of short horror stori...
11/17/2025

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!!!

BREAKING THE DEVIL'S BREAD: DARK WORDS AND SHADOW TALES, a collection of short horror stories by Satyros Phil Brucato, is now available for preorder from Nightmare Press!!!

To preorder through Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Amazon Kindle, click here: https://mybook.to/BDBDWST

For Apple Books, Smashwords, Angus & Robertson, Fable, Tolino, and Vivlio, click here: https://books2read.com/u/bPrdEj

For more Nightmare Press titles, click here: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

This title will release on November 21st!!!

BOOK RELEASE DAY!!!THE HURDY GURDY MAN, by David Turnbull!!!This title actually released yesterday, so we are a day behi...
11/15/2025

BOOK RELEASE DAY!!!

THE HURDY GURDY MAN, by David Turnbull!!!

This title actually released yesterday, so we are a day behind. To pick up this horror title, click here: https://mybook.to/HGM

For more Nightmare Press titles, visit our website: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

SYNOPSIS

Set in London in the summer of 1969, THE HURDY GURDY MAN follows Kath Dunn, who has left her home near the seaside town Berwick on Tweed, and finds herself homeless on the streets of Piccadilly. Here she encounters the eccentric Gordon Urquhart-Scott, who persuades Kath to accompany him to his large crumbling home on the edge of Hampstead Heath, where he claims to run a hostel for homeless women.

Kath finds herself inducted as one of twelve formerly homeless women who reside free of charge in the house in exchange for obeying the Hurdy Gurdy Man’s strange rules, including nightly musical performances on the hand cranked hurdy-gurdy from which his nickname derives.

Kath befriends Ruth. Together they secretly unravel terrible truths linked to the British Class system, the establishment, and the gruesome Scottish borders legends of the Redcaps. After witnessing how deep the horror within the decaying home truly runs, the two women decide to confront the evil at its source. Enlisting the help of other women, they engineer a terrifying conflict they hope will send the evil back to whatever foul region of darkness from whence it came.

COVER REVEAL!!!Here is the front cover art for the upcoming paranormal nonfiction book, KENTUCKY'S HAUNTED GRAVEYARDS, b...
11/13/2025

COVER REVEAL!!!

Here is the front cover art for the upcoming paranormal nonfiction book, KENTUCKY'S HAUNTED GRAVEYARDS, by The Frightening Floyds, from Nightmare Press!!!

Art and design by Christy Aldridge of Grim Poppy Design.

To see more of her work, click here: https://grimpoppydesign.carrd.co

To visit our site, click here: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

COMING THIS FRIDAY!!! PREORDER ON KINDLE NOW!!!This Friday, November 14th, is the release of THE HURDY GURDY MAN, a horr...
11/12/2025

COMING THIS FRIDAY!!! PREORDER ON KINDLE NOW!!!

This Friday, November 14th, is the release of THE HURDY GURDY MAN, a horror novel by David Turnbull, from Nightmare Press!!!

To preorder your Kindle copy now, click here: https://mybook.to/HGM

For more Nightmare Press titles, click here: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

SYNOPSIS

Set in London in the summer of 1969, THE HURDY GURDY MAN follows Kath Dunn, who has left her home near the seaside town Berwick on Tweed, and finds herself homeless on the streets of Piccadilly. Here she encounters the eccentric Gordon Urquhart-Scott, who persuades Kath to accompany him to his large crumbling home on the edge of Hampstead Heath, where he claims to run a hostel for homeless women.

Kath finds herself inducted as one of twelve formerly homeless women who reside free of charge in the house in exchange for obeying the Hurdy Gurdy Man’s strange rules, including nightly musical performances on the hand cranked hurdy-gurdy from which his nickname derives.

Kath befriends Ruth. Together they secretly unravel terrible truths linked to the British Class system, the establishment, and the gruesome Scottish borders legends of the Redcaps. After witnessing how deep the horror within the decaying home truly runs, the two women decide to confront the evil at its source. Enlisting the help of other women, they engineer a terrifying conflict they hope will send the evil back to whatever foul region of darkness from whence it came.

NIGHTMARE TUESDAY PRESENTS:BREAKING THE DEVIL'S BREAD: DARK WORDS AND SHADOW TALES, by Satyros Phil BrucatoThis week on ...
11/11/2025

NIGHTMARE TUESDAY PRESENTS:

BREAKING THE DEVIL'S BREAD: DARK WORDS AND SHADOW TALES, by Satyros Phil Brucato

This week on Nightmare Tuesday, Sye Cole of Some Idiot Reads will read from this collection of short horror stories forthcoming from Nightmare Press!!!

To listen to the reading, click here and give the video a like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaOas9YSR3k

To preorder your copy, click these links: https://mybook.to/BDBDWST
https://books2read.com/u/bPrdEj

View the Nightmare Tuesdays playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLWcsE_iwLMKJA0lJolaSOWxV95QytOPp

Subscribe to Sye's channel, SOME IDIOT, and see more of his content, here: https://www.youtube.com/

For more Nightmare Press titles, visit our website: https://nightmarepress5.wordpress.com

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Nightmare Press is the Frightening Floyds’ horror imprint. Our mission is to bring fans of dark fiction a variety of no-holds-barred horror. We want to bring to you the kind of nightmares that you don’t wake up from, that stay embedded in your brain even when you reopen your eyes. No limits, no quarter - bring us your fears and we’ll spread them to our readers.

If you are a horror author and are interested in submitting to us, send a query in the body of the email, then attach a brief synopsis telling us the beginning, middle, and end of your book, and a sample page from anywhere in the book (like in the old days when books used to have that one page at the front of a book) to [email protected]. In the subject line, include the book title and your name. We will respond to every submission, but you must give us some time. If we are interested, we’ll ask for the first three chapters of your manuscript. If we like what we read, we’ll ask for the entire manuscript. Send everything as word doc.

For an idea of what kind of horror Nightmare Press is into, think of authors such as Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, James Herbert, Poppy Z. Brite, Anne Rice, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Jack Ketchum, and Gary Braunbeck, just to name a few. We are open to all styles, so don’t be afraid--or, maybe you should be.

Welcome to the Nightmare.