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The website for author Rick Hautala
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Rick Hautala News: Updated July 25, 2010
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"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
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2010-07-25 — New Hautala short story, Occasional Demons review
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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!
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2010-01-10 — Relaunching RickHautala.com
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