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THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR Out for Halloween! E-book Pre-Release Today Through Godless.com!

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On Sunday, October 31—a.k.a. Halloween—THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR, Denver Horror Collective’s third anthology offering you twenty-two dark tales about the culture, history, and folklore of the Jewish people, will be unleashed upon the world!

Due to popular demand, we’re doing an October 28 pre-release of the e-book through Godless, an independent distributor of horror fiction.

Then on Halloween we’ll have the official release of the print and e-book through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, multiple other online book purveyors (including Target for some reason!) and your local bookstore (find if it’s in stock through Indiebound.org, and if not, ask them to order it).

Reviewer Calls THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR “the best anthology I’ve read all year”

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THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR won’t be released until Halloween (pre-release of e-book on Oct. 28 through Godless.com), but the great reviews are already coming in!

This one from “One-Sentence Reviews” which calls it “the best anthology I’ve read all year…”

Publishers Weekly on THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR

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Here’s what Publishers Weekly has to say about THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR, due out Halloween 2021:

“Schlossberg brings together a superior anthology with a fascinating origin story…[that] ably demonstrates the compatibility of Jewish tradition, history, and folklore with the horror genre…This is sure to please fans of folklore-infused horror.”

Read the full review at Publishers Weekly.

DHC Book Cult + Author Q&A: CHOPPING SPREE by Angela Sylvaine | Nov. 7

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In the third of our Colorado horror authors ONLY book club, we’ll be reading and virtually discussing dark scribe Angela’s Sylvaine’s CHOPPING SPREE, followed by a live, virtual Q&A with the author!

RSVP by emailing submissions at denverhorror dot com

DHC Book Cult meetings are held via Zoom every 3 months, and attendees will vote on which Colorado horror author to read next!

CHOPPING SPREE by Angela Sylvaine:

Eden Hills, Minnesota is famous for one thing—its ’80s inspired Fashion Mall. When high school junior, Penny, lands a job at one of its trendy stores, she notices her teen coworkers all wear a strange symbol they won’t explain.

Suspicious but wanting to belong, she agrees to stay after closing for a party in the closed store. Her fun turns to terror when Penny discovers a mortally wounded boy and learns there is a killer loose in the mall. Soon the teens are running for their lives.

Will Penny discover the truth behind the mall cabal and survive to slay another day, or will she fall victim to the galleria of gore?”

Cover Reveal: THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR

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Horror is part of the human condition, but few peoples across the ages know it quite like the Jews.

From slavery to pogroms to the Holocaust to antisemitism, the “Chosen People” have not only endured hell on Earth, they’ve risen above it to share their stories with the world.

Whether it’s pirate rabbis or demon-slaying Bible queens, concentration camp vampires or beloved, fearless bubbies, THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR offers you twenty-two dark tales about the culture, history, and folklore of the Jewish people.

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Josh’s Worst Nightmare #11: The Answer is Cancer (with Hollie & Henry Snider)

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On episode #11 of Josh’s Worst Nightmare, host Josh Schlossberg gets out the literary scalpel with DHC steering committee members, Hollie & Henry Snider, editors of CONSUMED: TALES INSPIRED BY THE WENDIGO, to biopsy cancer.

Stream or download HERE.

Josh’s Worst Nightmare #5: The Autism Spectrum (with Gary Robbe)

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On episode #5 of Josh’s Worst Nightmare, host Josh Schlossberg looks at things through another perspective with Gary Robbe, educator and author of “Scrape,” to find out the right–and wrong–ways to write about autism in horror fiction. 

Stream or download here.

The 4th Circle: Interview with Josh Schlossberg

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Interview by Desi D

  1. Name one author you admire and explain how they helped you become a better writer.

I know I should probably say someone like Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, or Shirley Jackson, but the author who influenced my writing the most is definitely John Steinbeck. (What’s funny is it’s recently been revealed that Steinbeck wrote a werewolf novel that’s never been published, and people are calling on his estate to release it!)

Steinbeck’s writing comes across as so simple it’s almost like spoken word, but it’s deceptive in that it’s no easy feat. And not only are his stories deeply meaningful, they’re timeless—as is his prose style which avoids the flowery, clunky sentence structure that dates so many “classic” authors. If a literate alien picked up Steinbeck’s work today, I bet it wouldn’t be able to tell if it had just been written or published centuries ago.

Of course, I’m not saying I’ve achieved close to any of this in my writing. But I think he’s been rubbing off on me and I hope I’m making some progress.

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