My new bizarro novella, Hamsterdamned!, is now available from the magnificent Strangehouse Books. You can read a brand new interview with the publisher here, in which I discuss writing, SyFy movies, and why I look so damn cool.
Amsterdam. The sex and drugs capital of the world. Where weed is legal and smoked alongside coffee in one of the city’s many koffiehuises. It’s Mike’s stag-do; one final weekend of debauchery before marrying – and along with four of his friends, he intends to paint the town red. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones eager to paint the town red; six evil hamsters escape the delivery-truck and stumble upon a contaminated batch of space-cake. With the euphoria they experience comes a side-effect none of them could have anticipated. The hamsters start to grow. Hamsterdamned! is the action-packed and comical tale of gigantic rodents and sex-midgets; of one-legged prostitutes and inept Dutch policemen; of camaraderie and one man’s fight to stay alive so he can marry the woman of his dreams.
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The twenty third issue of the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine features Adam's Lovecraftian story, Equilibrioception Revoked. Also featuring: The Body Bank By Charlotte Johnson Illustrated By Joe Young, Double Ganger By E.B. Hoight, The Passenger By Edward A. Taylor, Angus By Alexander Williamson Illustrated By R. J. Smuin, Ancestral Sins By Scathe meic Beorh, Squatters By Todd Outcalt Illustrated By Candra Hope, The Dink, the Donk, and the Pool Pile By Douglas J. Ogurek, And Then There Was Only Us By Kenneth Buff, I Know You By Shaun AJ Hamilton. Read the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark". www.morpheustales.com Free Preview of Issue 23 Buy from Smashwords Digest Size Print A4 Collector's Edition Issue #23 will shortly be available from Amazon. He stumbles maniacally across the rooftops on the eve of the joyous day, being careful not to topple to his death. The sack slung across his shoulder is heavy – much heavier than it was at the start of the night – and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to breathe, for fat men do struggle with such simple things, even when not dancing clumsily through the night. A slip almost sends him over the edge, and he drops to his knees, clawing optimistically at a nearby chimneybreast. Cursing, he realises it’s of no use, and before he knows what’s happening he’s sliding down the rooftop, pushing snow aside. The crammed sack follows the fat man down as if loath to desert him, not after all they had been through that night. “Ho, ho, holy shit!” the man grunts as the rooftop disappears beneath him, replaced by air. He has time – mere seconds, but long enough – to picture what they would say when they opened his sack, how people would recoil, turn aside and vomit in the fresh snow. They would gasp, and sob, and cover their children’s eyes with tremulous gloved hands, and he would be dead before them, the anti-Santa, his unwrapped gifts strewn across the snow, soaking into the fleeting whiteness. As he folds up with a nauseating crunch on the silent street below, the lips beneath his silvery beard curl into a perpetual smile. Every year, without fail, Bobby ate baubles. His parents refused to keep them in the house, but at Christmastime, their son would find a way to satiate his incongruous hunger. “I’m going to Jerry’s,” he called from the front door. Dan, Bobby’s father, leapt up from the sofa. “If I find out you’ve been eating baubles,” he said, “you’re grounded for a fortnight.” But he knew that such threats were pointless; Bobby was an addict, as dependent on glittery decorations as an alcoholic was on cheap booze. When Bobby returned that night, with sparkling lips and a sorrowful expression, neither parent reproached him. In time, they hoped he would seek help, but for now their support was superfluous. “We should be thankful,” Dan told his wife,“that Christmas comes but once a year.” And yet Abigail – Mom – was far from grateful, for it was she that cleaned the blood from the toilet bowl, watching the fleshy shards intently as they flushed away. And the oddest thing about it was: Bobby didn’t bother with Easter, said the chocolate eggs tasted funny. The Marionnettiste of Versailles and Other Oddities, Adam's new collection of short stories, will be released in March 2014 as both a paperback and digital book. Featuring 25 stories, 7 of which are previously unpublished, The Marionnettiste of Versailles is a must-own for fans of the weird. To pre-order the trade paperback now, click on the Paypal button below. Not only will you receive this collection of bizarre and horrific stories before anyone else, but Adam will also sign and personalise your book for you before despatch. Just include your personalisation message in the Paypal message box upon checkout. Bizarro Pulp Press, the awesome guys behind my novella, Skinners, have a great offer on this week. By purchasing one of their tees from Skurvy Ink, you will also get a free book of your choice. Click here to purchase, and once your purchase has been verified, send a message to Pat at Bizarro Pulp Press instructing him which book to send. There are great titles from Chris Kelso, David Bernstein, Vincenzo Bilof, Grant Wamack, myself, and many more to choose from. This offer is open for one week only, ending on September 22. Electricity can be a killer. If you're not careful you could find yourself singed to a crisp, or worse. This brand new article from Professor Swick offers advice on how not to die whilst wiring a plug. The Mad Scientist Journal publishes great articles from some of the most brilliant minds. Read Adam's (Professor Swick's) article, and many more, here. 5 authors, including Adam Millard, Jay Wilburn, Max Booth III and Derek Deremer, are featured on a summer 2014 tour across the United States followed by a documentary crew. The tour promotes for the authors and publishers while serving as a stage for exploring the worlds of small authors, small publishers, and small bookstores. The tour would cover approximately 30 days from the beginning of June through possibly mid July of 2014. The tour would cover 8-10 cities including 4-5 horror, sci fi, and general fandom conventions. The tour would include events at local, independent bookstores in the convention cities and in cities in between conventions. There would be 5 featured authors traveling for the entire tour with guest authors included for short stints or single events. The documentary, Dark and Bookish, will focus on struggling/ rising authors in the horror and speculative fiction genre, the work and struggles of small presses within these genre, and the experiences and struggles of independent bookstores within the current age of publishing. This campaign will be phase one of multiple phases to fund the tour and the documentary. This is going to be an amazing project, and with your help we can make it a reality. There are loads of perks on offer for those willing to donate. Check out the campaign right HERE, and thank you in advance. We hope you can help us on this incredible journey. Horrific History: An Anthology of Historical Horror, edited by the wonderful Robert Helmbrecht, is now available in paperback and coming soon for Kindle. Featuring my story, Lucan. What really sank the Titanic? Why do we really celebrate Thanksgiving? Did someone really raise the dead 2,000 years ago? Evil has lurked behind the scenes since the dawn of time. Read the story behind the stories, and you’ll never look at history the same way again. Featuring stories by Brent Abell, Pete Aldin, Jason Andrew, Monette Bebow-Reinhard, Rose Blackthorn, Rebecca L. Brown, Deborah Drake, T. Fox Dunham, Gwendolyn Edward, Aaron J. French, Tara Fox Hall, Christian A. Larsen, Ken MacGregor, Lynne MacLean, Adam Millard, Douglas J. Moore, Doug Murano, Christopher S. Nelson, Brent Nichols, Emerian Rich, Stephen D. Rogers, Julianne Snow, Cameron Suey, Jenny Twist, D. Alexander Ward, Jay Wilburn, David Williamson and Lee Clark Zumpe. Cover art by Luke Spooner. US Paperback UK Paperback US Kindle UK Kindle I am thrilled to announce that my short story, Savage Rise, will feature in Angelic Knight's upcoming anthology, UF: Manifesto. Edited by the wonderful Tim Marquitz and Tyson Mauermann, and featuring William Meikle, Zachary Jernigan, Jeff Salyards and Betsy Dornbusch, with many more to be announced, I am once again humbled and honoured to appear alongside such fantastic writers. Cover artwork by Carter Reid. |
Adam MillardWriter of bestselling "The Dead" Series. Author of paranormal novels, The Susceptibles and Deathdealers, and bizarro novellas Larry, Hamsterdamned!, Vinyl Destination, and The Human Santapede. Archives
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