"I want my place, my own place, my true place in the world, my proper
sphere, my thing which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me
thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my life-time."
N. Hawthorne
2012-01-09 — Rick Hautala receives HWA Lifetime Achievement Award!
The Horror Writers Association has announced that their 2012 Lifetime
Achievement Award recipients will be Rick Hautala and Joe Lansdale! The awards
will be given out during the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet in Salt Lake City on
March 31, 2012. For more information, visit the 2012 Stokers website.
2011-12-29 — New blog about what's coming in 2012!
Rick has updated his blog to describe what's coming
in 2012 and beyond!
2011-12-28 — Moondeath is now available!
For the first time in over twenty years, New York Times Bestseller Rick
Hautala's first novel is available.
"One of the best horror novels I've read in the last two years!" — Stephen King
(1980)
"Rick Hautala's writing shines with dedication, hard-earned craft, and
devotion." — Peter Straub
Release date: January 2, 2012
Evil Jester Press
Trade paperback and eBook
2011-10-21 — Cemetery Dance releases The Mountain King as an ebook
The Mountain King by Rick Hautala
There are many legends and ancient tales concerning Mount Agiochook, the second
tallest mountain in Maine. Some of these tales speak of a demon that resides on
the rocky slopes near the mountain's snow-crested summit. Legend has it
that a force of supernatural evil periodically emerges from the mists that
shroud the mountain and comes down to the valley, looking to claim a life.
Sometimes the life it claims is an animal — perhaps a stray dog or a
farmer's cow or a horse. At other times, it claims a human life, a straying
hiker or a lost camper.
Mark Newman has hiked the numerous trails to the summit of Mount Agiochook many
times. He has heard the stories and Indian legend, but he doesn't believe
them.
Not until one September afternoon, when an early snow storm sweeps through the
mountains, and he witnesses something he knows can't possibly be real.
But it is all too real!
Convinced that there is something lurking near the summit of the mountain...
something terrible... something that won't be satisfied with claiming just
one human life, Mark vows to hunt it down and destroy it.
What he doesn't know is that he, too, is being hunted. Under suspicion for
the murders of his best friend and his wife's lover, Mark is being pursued
by the local police, an angry mob, and something else... something he can't
begin to comprehend until he confronts it, face to face.
From international best-selling author Rick Hautala comes this terrifying
adventure story of horror and suspense that will thrill you and haunt you long
after you've finished reading it.
2011-10-14 — Rick's guest blog on Kealan Patrick Burke's website!
Rick Hautala is the Guest Blogger on author
Kealan Patrick Burke's website today! Check out what Rick has to say (and
yes, he acknowledges his out-of-date blog here, too!).
2011-09-21 — New book announcement!
Today's book sales news item:
Matthew Costello & Rick Hautala's Star Road, the epic story of a
rebel and outlaw on a secret mission, who leads an unsuspecting group of
adventurers across the vastness of space—on an ancient intergalactic
highway—where death, mystery, and an amazing discovery await them at the
far reaches of the known universe, to Brendan Deneen at Thomas Dunne Books.
2011-09-09 — Required Reading Remixed cover
From Rick:
Volume 3 of IDW's new series Required Reading Remixed features
my story "Little Women in Black" on the cover ... and what
a cover it is!
Click on the image to view a large version.
2011-08-31 — The Wait Is Over for Waiting
Rick Hautala's novel Waiting has been purchased by Cemetery Dance
Publications. This makes a total of three Hautala books in the CD pipeline:
Indian Summer (a "Little Brothers" novella),
Chills (based on my original screenplay of the same name),
and now Waiting (which was going to be the next AJ Matthews novel,
but now will be under Rick Hautala).
Rick is currently finishing a new novel called The Demon's Wife.
2011-08-30 — Cold Whisper draft on Amazon Studios
Cold Whisper, Rick's Original Draft, has been successfully submitted.
It is now live on Amazon Studios,
and movie fans from around the world can offer feedback.
2011-05-27 — The Introduction to the upcoming ebook release of Nightstone
Nightstone, Rick Hautala's third novel and probably most well-known,
will be released as an ebook next week. Rick has written a new introduction
for the release, which you can read here.
The ebook version of Nightstone should be available any day now. The
artwork has been released; click on the image to view a larger version of it.
2011-04-19 — Press coverage for Mark Steensland and Rick Hautala
Rick Hautala is working on several projects with filmmaker Mark Steensland.
Here are some recent articles covering these projects and other Steensland
projects:
2011-04-01 — Peekers, with a Hautala script, is mentioned on AICN!
Ain't It Cool News has included Peekers in a
post today. Peekers
was directed by Mark Steensland from a script by Rick Hautala and based on a
short story by Kealan Patrick Burke. You can view the film on the AICN site or
on the Multimedia Page here.
Rick Hautala's The Call, a lightly Lovecraftian story about an ancient
darkness that claims the rights to a father's heritage, is now available for
Kindle here.
Neal Jackson recently completed nineteen covers for a barrage of digital
releases from Rick Hautala. The artwork is from a true master of art...Glenn Chadbourne.
These new titles will also be available in very limited print versions
in April...signed and available only from the author...so start saving ya
pennies.
The first of these, The Nephews, is available for Kindle now here.
The second, Nightmare Transcripts, is available for Kindle
here.
The third, Non-Returnable, is available for Kindle
here.
The fourth, Dead Legends, is available for Kindle
here.
2011-01-13 — Get your name in a Rick Hautala story!
To whet your appetite for a new year of digital, audio and print releases,
I am releasing a number of short stories in print and eBook formats but
with one major difference: YOU can become the main character in one of
them.
Your name will adorn the digital, audio and print chapbook versions of one
of the following short stories:
The Voodoo Queen / A Little Bit of Divine Justice / Crying Wolf / Cousins
Curse / Rubies & Pearls / Karen's Eyes / Master Tape / Breakfast At Earls
/ Worst Fears / Late Summer Shadows / Hitman
Not only that, you will receive three copies of the chapbook—dedicated to
you—a copy of the Lettered Edition collection Glimpses and an
MP3 file of the audio version of the story of which you are a part—and
will remain part of the Hautala mythos—for life.
All of this for $75.00 on a first-come/first-served basis.
Drop me an email with the title you'd like to be attached to and I'll send
you full details.
Rick Hautala's short story "Goblin
Boy", originally published in Cemetery Dance #63, has been
nominated for a Black Quill Award! You can vote for Rick's story as "Best
Dark Scribble" by clicking here.
Glenn Chadbourne's artwork for the upcoming Cemetery Dance publication of
Rick's Indian Summer, a Little Brothers novella set in 1961, can be seen
on GlennChadbourne.com.
2010-10-01 — First blog and the Featured Author at TheNovelBlog.com!
Rick Hautala is the October Featured Author at The Novel Blog. The site featured an
interview with Rick, which you can read by clicking
here.
2010-09-16 — Big news for Monday, September 20!
Monday, September 20, sees the start of the new Rick
Hautala blog that will
include an opportunity to become part of the Hautala canon in a brand new
competition and auction...plus new digital releases and the beginning of a
FREE daily serial...Nightstone...the million-selling book
that started the career of a critically acclaimed Master of Dark Fiction.
2010-09-09 — New digital download: "Schoolhouse"
From one of the genuine Masters of Dark Fiction, Rick Hautala, comes
SCHOOLHOUSE, the story of Petey Garvey returns to his home town in Maine...and
a visit to the Pingree School awakens thoughts...feelings and emotions that he
thought were long buried. He forgot that the feelings of guilt can hold you in
its vice-like grip. On a visit to the empty halls of his old school the voices
from the past ask him, "Why didn't you help?"
Available at Smashwords
with the Kindle version to follow very soon.
2010-09-02 — New digital download
Rick Hautala's The Back of My Hands is available for digital download at
Smashwords
and Amazon.com,
with a print version in the very near future.
For those who are new to his work, Rick is a genuine master of dark
fiction...and this is a perfect introduction.
When we touch something, when we hold it in our hands and caress it, we have
no doubt whatsoever that it truly exists. When I look at my own hands now,
though, I cant help but be filled with revulsion and horror. Yes, horror!
These
hands, my hands have done things so terrible, so hideous that I can truly
say
they are no longer mine....
2010-08-03 — Necon Ebooks: Rick Hautala's Winter Wake
Necon Ebooks is run by Bob Booth,
founder of Necon, the infamous convention. He just launched Necon Ebooks to
make available classic horror novels that have been out-of-print for way too
long. The first book they contracted for was Rick Hautala's Winter
Wake.
The book was scheduled to be available on August 1, 2010, but at the last
minute, author Gary Braunbeck offered to write an introduction for the novel.
Consequently, the ebook has been delayed for a bit. However, it can still be
pre-ordered now.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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:
"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....
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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
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