To celebrate the new year, Brimstone Press has reduced the price of all of our ebooks!

Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears – nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and winner of the Australian Shadows Award – charts the history of Australian horror. Now, it is on sale for just $2.99.

The Last Days of Kali Yuga – the multi-award-winning career retrospective from Paul Haines – is just $2.99.

Rage Against the Night – featuring the likes of King, Straub, Yarbro, Campbell, Wilson, and the masters of horror – is just $2.99.

Shards – a master-class in flash fiction from Shane Jiraiya Cummings – is a bargain at 99c!

The ebook sale ends on January 31.

2012 was a quiet year for Brimstone Press. However, the title we published this year was an important one: the charity anthology Rage Against the Night.

The print edition of Rage Against the Night was published in March, and along with the ebook edition, which was published in late December 2011, the anthology has generated $1000 for HWA President and Aussie author Rocky Wood. This injection of funds has helped Rocky reach his fundraising goal of $25000 to purchase an Eye Gaze machine to help him communicate as his motor neurone disease progresses.

Rage Against the Night brings together the masters of modern horror – including Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Straub, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, F. Paul Wilson, Nancy Holder, Scott Nicholson, Jonathan Maberry and Sarah Langan – with tales of the fight against supernatural evil. The book has been gathering amazing five star reviews on Amazon. The ebook is available at $3.99 and the print edition is $12.99, which represents tremendous value for money. You can buy Rage Against the Night from Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Diesel, Apple, and other online retailers.

2012 was also the year we sadly farewelled Paul Haines, author of The Last Days of Kali Yuga. Paul’s years of fighting cancer are chronicled at his Livejournal. His thoughts on family, writing, and health as he battled his terminal disease are sobering, insightful, and witty.

For those interested in discovering Paul’s work, there is no better testament to his dark side than The Last Days of Kali Yuga. For a different perspective, the book’s lighter companion (if ‘lighter’ is the correct word to use) is Slice of Life, published by The Mayne Press in 2009.

Published by Brimstone Press last year, The Last Days of Kali Yuga features Paul’s most iconic stories: the grim misogynist cautionary tale “Wives”, the unnerving “Her Collection of Intimacy”, the confronting “Father Father”, the brutal titular novella “The Last Days of Kali Yuga”, and his most personal story, drawing on a disturbing fictionalised account of his life, “The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt”.

The Last Days of Kali Yuga is available for $3.99 (ebook) and $9.99 (print) and can be purchased from Amazon, Book Depository, Australian Online Bookshop, and other good retailers.

If Paul was still with us, 2012 would have been a red letter year for him:

• “The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt” won the Australian Shadows Award (Long Fiction), Aurealis Award (Horror short story), Ditmar Award (Novella), and Chronos Award (Short fiction). It was a finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards (Novella).
• The Last Days of Kali Yuga won the fan-voted Ditmar Award (Collected Work) and Chronos Award (Long Fiction) and was a finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards (Collection), Aurealis Awards (Collection), and Sir Julius Vogel Awards (Collection).

Congratulations, Paul, wherever you are. You will be missed, and your work will always be remembered.

Brimstone Press author and one of Australia’s and New Zealand’s most talented dark fiction writers, Paul Haines, sadly passed away on March 5 after a long and gutsy battle with cancer.

In what may be the first of many posthumous honours for a truly extraordinary author, Paul has been nominated for two 2011 Aurealis Awards:

Best collection:

• The Last Days of Kali Yuga

Best horror short story:

• “The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt” (from The Last Days of Kali Yuga).

More information on Paul (including his documented struggle with cancer) can be found at his Livejournal and website. Information about his final, exceptional book, The Last Days of Kali Yuga, can be found on Amazon.

Australia’s publisher of dark fiction is now New Zealand’s newest publishing company following the editors’ recent relocation across the Tasman.

Headquartered in Wellington, Brimstone Press will continue to produce ground-breaking, top quality horror and dark fantasy titles, although the press is currently on hiatus and closed to submissions.

The move has delayed the publication of the print edition of the charity anthology Rage Against the Night, although the anthology is now in the final stages of production and is expect to go on sale in early April (available from all good online retailers). Copies will also be shipped to the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The ebook edition of Rage Against the Night has been available since late December. For more information on this anthology packed full of international horror megastars, visit the book’s Amazon page.