Ogres of the Hickory Cottage Press Release

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The Hickory Cottage Book Exchange has begun revising their policy in the hiring of Ogres Boris and Lon. Since the two Ogres started working at the Ponchatoula used bookstore, three children and ten cats have been reported missing. Manager, Charley is caught in a maze of books, murder and betrayal. To stay one step ahead of the law, she must betray two friends in order to protect her employees. Char’s story is based on her experiences at her family’s used bookstore The Hickory Cottage Book Exchange located in a small town in Louisiana.

The inspiration for her story came from a tale she told children who misbehaved in her bookstore. In this book the “tale” comes to life in the two main characters of two eight foot tall Ogres who live in the attic of the bookstore. The characters in her story are based on her imagination and past customers who supported her book store through the years. Certain names have been changed to protect the innocent. Fans of Char’s blog and radio show Charred Remains will recognize certain names as the story unfolds.

Ogres of the Hickory Cottage is the first in a planned serial from the author. Char has been an indie horror reviewer for the past four years. Her passion for the genre horror and all things indie led to her being published in the 2012 anthology Dark Light published by Crushing Hearts and Black Butterflies and again in the 2013 follow-up Dark Light 2 anthology. Her series can be categorized as urban fantasy with hints of mystery and horror. In her world, humans co-exist with ogres, witches, ghosts, demons, tree spirits and other things that go bump in the night and blend in the daytime. June 30, 2014 Ogres of the Hickory Cottage will launch on Amazon.com.

For more information about Ogres of the Hickory Cottage and future releases and book launch party event, please visit and sign up for her newsletter at her author’s Facebook Page or her Charred Remains (Podcast) Facebook Page!

Gary Cecil - Buried Secrets - Book For Under a Buck!

Gary Cecil's Buried Secrets - Max and his wife, Megan, just moved into their new home. It's a charming Victorian, that did not come with the typical Victorian price tag. Sure, it needs some paint thrown on here and there, but soon--with a baby on the way--it will be the perfect home for their family.

Things quickly begin to change, though. They hear noises at night, and even feel things crawling in their sheets. But that's not the worst of it. There's a foul smell in the air sometimes, and something even fouler in the basement.

When the power goes out, Max goes into the basement to find the breaker, and what he finds, is something much worse.

Can the young couple survive this horrible fate?   Or... are some secrets just too damned evil to be kept buried.
 
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Read H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror Online Free!

Dagon Bytes offers the entire text of H.P. Lovecraft's classic horror story, The Dunwich Horror, which was also adapted into a movie much later (1970).  You can read The Dunwich Horror here for free! 

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