2010-07-25 — New Hautala short story, Occasional Demons review Rick Hautala will have a short story in a new literary mash-ups anthology, Classics Mutilated, to be published by IDW in October 2010. You can read more about the collection on the IDW website. Rick's story is entitled "Little Women in Black." Shroud Magazine posted a review of Rick Hautala's newly-published Occasional Demons. You can buy Occasional Demons in hardcover from Cemetery Dance and Amazon, or as an ebook from Smashwords.

2010-06-16 — Scared Crows chapbook now available! The Penny Dreadful Company has released a new Rick Hautala chapbook, Scared Crows! The story is set in the world of Hellboy. And here's a special offer from the Penny Dreadful Company: the first 25 purchasers of Scared Crows will receive the Chrysalis chapbook free! Visit The Penny Dreadful Company to purchase Scared Crows. Rick's next ebook offering, Nightstone, is coming soon.

2010-05-22 — Brief interview with Rick Hautala about Occasional Demons Cemetery Dance has posted a brief interview with Rick Hautala about his new short story collection, Occasional Demons.

2010-05-12 — Rick Hautala eBook: Occasional Demons is now available! Rick Hautala's short story collection Occasional Demons is now shipping from Cemetery Dance. The hardcover edition features twenty-nine stories and is illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. Buy Occasional Demons from Cemetery Dance Occasional Demons is also available as an eBook. See the entry below for details on the eBook.

2010-05-10 — Rick Hautala eBook: Occasional Demons is now available! The second eBook release from acclaimed Master of Dark Fiction, Rick Hautala, is now available. Occasional Demons consists of twenty-nine tales with some being straight genre entries spinkled with some from the realm of psychological terror and finally a few shorts that include science fiction elements. Within, there are tales where the mere jangle of a presumably nonexistent piano in "The Nephews" has the lobstermen at a Maine bar advising immediate flight. An insomniac, possibly a murderer, is unable to sleep without a newly committed act of horror in "Nightmare Transcript ." A fussy bookstore employee who foolishly ordered a mysterious leather-covered book finds that it possesses vampirish tendencies that gradually consume a small rug, her cat, her lover and herself in "Non-returnable." The middle section contains eight "Untcigahunk Stories and Myths of the Little Brothers" that derive from the author's novel Little Brothers (recently epublished as Untcigahunk); and finally three collaborations with a great Hellboy tale to round it out. A gem. Available NOW at Smashwords...with Amazon listing as soon as they can get the paperwork sorted.

2010-04-23 — Rick Hautala chapbook: Chrysalis is now available! The Penny Dreadful Company has released a new Rick Hautala chapbook entitled Chrysalis. It can be ordered now from Ghostwriter Publications. To the right, you can see the cover for Chrysalis. Just outside of the sleepy town of Thornton, road crews have begun blasting the area to prepare for the straighten of Route 25. Young Stan Walters finds the caves that have been opened up by the crews just too much of a temptation...and explores. Once inside the labyrinth, he comes upon something about the size of football—cold and almost certainly dead. But what he and his brother, Chet, soon discover is something far from dead...something very much at the beginning of it's life-cycle. An untcigahunk... Chrysalis is the first in a series of Little Brothers chapbooks that will be released over the coming weeks. And it is also the perfect companion to Rick Hautala's best-selling novel Untcigahunk, which is now available as an eBook for the Kindle and all good eReaders at SmashWords.

2010-04-16 — Untcigahunk available now as an eBook! Rick Hautala's Untcigahunk: The Complete Little Brothers is now available for the Kindle on Amazon and in a variety of formats from Smashwords. You can also read a sample from the book at Smashwords. Purchase Untcigahunk for the Kindle from Amazon.com Purchase Untcigahunk from Smashwords Untcigahunk: The Complete Little Brothers It has been five years since Kip Howard saw his mother killed horribly by a blur of little brown things. Five years of nightmares and a terror of dark places. Five years of struggling to overcome what must have been just his imagination... But the untcigahunk—the Indian word for little brothers—are no one's imagination. Hideous forest creatures who feed every five years on human flesh, the little brothers are about to emerge from underground once again. Only this time, there will be no escape for the young boy who witnessed their last feast.

2010-03-25 — Rick Hautala ebooks coming soon! Several Rick Hautala novels will soon be available in ebook format. To the right, you can see the new cover for Untcigahunk: The Complete Little Brothers. More details will be posted soon! Here is a statement issued by Neil Jackson of Ghostwriter Publications: It's been a few weeks in coming, but I'm proud to announce that GWP is releasing, in conjunction with Scott Nicholson's Haunted Computer Books, a number of titles, for the Kindle and all good eReaders, from a recognised master of dark fiction, RICK HAUTALA. The first of these titles is UNTCIGAHUNK: The Complete Little Brothers—and we hope to have this available as of Monday 29th March. And here's the new cover art. Not content with digital releases, there will be a number of chapbooks becoming available over the coming months. Full details of this exciting development will be available on the Rick Hautala and Ghostwriter websites very soon.

2010-03-17 — Multimedia page created A new Multimedia page has been created. It currently includes book trailers and short films based on Rick Hautala screenplays.

2010-02-17 — New Hautala story in The New Dead Rick Hautala has a short story in the just-released The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology. The book was edited by Christopher Golden and also includes stories by John Connolly, Brian Keene, Joe Lansdale, and Joe Hill, among others. Here are a couple of recent reviews of The New Dead: Chiller TV reviews The New Dead. Though more genre-obvious, I particularly savored the slow-fuse sea-turn atmospherics of Rick Hautala's "Ghost Trap." Fantasy Book Critic reviews The New Dead. "Ghost Trap" by Rick Hautala. Rick Hautala's contribution about a U.S. Coast Guard discovering a corpse while diving for ghost traps—lost lobster traps"has an old-school horror feel to it, but nevertheless is one of The New Dead's spookier stories.... Dread Central reviews The New Dead. The seriously creepy "Ghost Trap" by Rick Hautala, which examines why sometimes things should just be left alone. Especially when found deep in the briny sea off the coast of Maine. Tales from the Black Abyss review "Ghost Trap" by Rick Hautala is a more traditional story but great characters and action coupled with a claustrophobic diving sequence lift it above the norm. Purchase The New Dead from Amazon.com. (A limited edition hardcover from Subterranean Press is long sold-out.)

2010-01-26 — Movie news Rick Hautala and Mark Steensland (director of the award-winning short films Peekers and The Ugly File) have sold a script based on Robert E. Howard's short story "Pigeons from Hell" to Paradox Productions. Pigeons from Hell on IMDb

Rick Hautala's Reunion Order from PS Publishing 2010-01-11 — Rick Hautala's Reunion Rick Hautala's new novella Reunion is available now from PS Publishing. The book features an Afterword by F. Paul Wilson and cover art by Tomislav Tikulin. A Night of Summer Magic It's the end of August. Summer's almost over, and the carefree time of a young boy's summer vacation is rapidly and inexorably slipping away from him. With his first day of junior high school looming ever closer, thirteen-year-old Jackie Stone and his best friend, Chris Hooper, want to make the most of their freedom. They have one last Saturday night to camp out in the tent in Jackie's backyard one last night to goof off in ways only two thirteen-year-old boys can. But as much as Jackie wants to go along with his friend's idea of what would be "fun," he is filled with unaccountable apprehension. He senses that something is wrong. He has a uncanny feeling this may be the last night-ever-that he and Chris will fool around like this. A high school class is having its fortieth class reunion at the local country club. Chris pressures Jackie to sneak out of the tent with him and go across town to "spy" on the party. He wants to get as close as they can close enough so they can steal some of the food and, if they're lucky, maybe even grab a bottle or two of beer. But as the boys are creeping around in the woods, confident that no one at the reunion knows they're lurking out there in the darkness, someone does know they're there. A man chases after them and in the simple act of confronting Jackie will change Jackie's life-and his own-in ways neither of them can begin to comprehend. Because, unlike any other night of the year, this summer night is imbued with mystery and magic and danger, and it is fraught with implications that no thirteen-year-old can possibly begin to understand. Tonight, this reunion will mark Jackie Stone and change him forever. Click here to read Chapter 1 from Rick Hautala's Reunion! Reviews RisingShadow.net's review of Reunion Andrew Monge's review of Reunion for Horror Drive-In Yvette Tan reviews Reunion Shroud reviews Reunion Horror World reviews Reunion

2010-01-10 — Relaunching RickHautala.com Welcome to RickHautala.com, the website for bestselling horror author Rick Hautala. Since his first novel, Moon Death, was published in 1981, Rick has seen more than 30 books published, as well as more than 60 short stories. His latest, Reunion, is available from PS Publishing. If you have any questions or suggestions for the site, please send email to Webmaster@RickHautala.com.