The Castle of Los Angeles is now available from either Gray Friar Press or, for U.S. customers, from Horror Mall. The book includes an introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck.Chizine.com calls Castle "...great storytelling...", and Dennis Etchison says "...she deserves my special thanks for digesting our particular world and giving it back to me in another form, colored by an intelligence that is, whether she knows it or not, as unique as a fingerprint."
Here are some excerpts from the latest review at Dark Scribe Magazine: "With the precision of master dark scribes boasting far more titles in their back catalogs, Morton deftly crafts a genuinely spine-tingling spooker, an homage to the haunted house tale that shrewdly never falls prey to the clichéd trappings of this familiar sub-genre...easily stands out as one of the best new books of the year."
My novella The Lucid Dreaming is now available from Horror Mall, as a trade paperback limited to 150 copies. Stoker Award winner Hank Schwaeble has this: "Morton delivers apocalyptic mayhem at its best. Crisp and harrowing, "The Lucid Dreaming" is nightmarish fun!" News: The Lucid Dreaming won the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
The Lucid Dreaming has been named one of the best books of 2009 by Dead Lines
The original, never-before-published short story that provided the basis for The Lucid Dreaming is now on view at scribd.com.
Midnight Walk, my first foray into anthology editing, is now available from or from the publisher Darkhouse. Famous Monsters of Filmland raved "If you love well written, spine tingling short stories, Midnight Walk is a must for your collection," and Hellnotes said, "Midnight Walk is a cornucopia of wonderful works." Read more great reviews and snag your own copy at Darkhouse Publishing.News: Midnight Walk was nominated for the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology, and it won the Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Anthology. It was also chosen by Famous Monsters as one of the Top 10 Horror Books of 2009.
Read Jodi Kaplan Lester's Midnight Walk story "The Guixi Sisters" at scribd.com
My book Savage Detours: The Life and Work of Ann Savage (co-written with Kent Adamson) is now available (stay tuned for news of signings). You can find out more about the book and the fabulous star of Detour by visiting the Savage Detours website.
