They rescued him from the streets and with their help he has become the world's greatest assassin. So much death, so much blood, but it all ends after this one final job. Just one more death and Mal will finally get what was promised him so many, many years ago.

Jonas White is a powerful man, an empire builder. He commands adoration and respect from everyone who meets him. He is a good man, does good things. But now he's also a marked man. He knows destiny is banging on the door. What will happen when he opens it?

Two men fated to meet each other on one cataclysmic evening. An evening when secrets will be revealed, loyalties will be tested, old grudges settled and new ones made. This is just one stop along a long road. A road that leads back to where it ALL began so very long ago.

TALES OF THE FALLEN has a forward by Barnett's buddy, Edward Lee (Book: THE TERATOLOGIST [w/Wrath James White], Movie: HEADER) and Illustrations by Travis Anthony Soumis.

For fans of JA Konrath's Jack Daniels mystery series, this collection includes a Harry McGlade novella, "The Necro Files." (McGlade also appears in the just-announced SUCKERS novelette from Delirium Books, co-written with Jeff Strand).

Last week, we signed off on printer proofs for LIKE A CHINESE TATTOO, and it looks great! There are really some twisted stories in this collection: In addition to the hysterical "Necro Files," the book offers Rick R. Reed's dark revenge tale "Moving Toward the Light," David Thomas Lord's deceptively creepy "The White Room" and Cullen Bunn's darkly horrifying "Tomorrow, When The Demons Come" (as well as one of Cullen's insanely twisted WHC Gross-Out stories!) And those are just a few of the 12 offerings.

JOHNNY SUNSHINE : MAXIMUM VIOLENCE

Maxim Media International has Licensed the film for international distribution. Johnny Sunshine will go to market in Hong Kong, March, 2008 in advance of appearances at Berlin, The Cannes Film Festival, AFM, and more.

Domestic release, under the Brain Damage Films distributorship, is set for mid-Summer, 2008.

Synopsis
The Year : 2012, three years after the rising of the zombies.

The Sprawl : a seedy underworld of exploitation, violence, and zombies. In this maze of alleyways and speakeasies outside the city walls, where life is cheap, drugs are cheaper, and surviving to a ripe old age is an urban myth.
At the center of it all is Johnny Sunshine, a porn-snuff star and killer for hire. She stalks the night like a tempest of sex and violence, much to the pleasure and profit of her producer, Max, and his entertainment empire. As the body count rises, Johnny becomes a victim of her own success. In secret a plot is hatched to orchestrate her downfall, and capture it all on camera to create the greatest snuff film ever made.

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The magazine was known for erotic and violent storylines and images, and introduced the work of American artists and writers - including Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison and H.R. Giger.

Continued at AWN.

Set in the near future, the actioner concerns mercenary forces whose soldiers wear Cyclops-like cameras in their helmets and broadcast in real time to both central command and living rooms.

Continued at Variety.

More commentary at FirstShowings.

E.C.McMullen Jr.

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1. THE MYSTERY METHOD: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed - by Mystery, Lovedrop, and Neil Strauss (unchanged from February)
2. THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2007 (The Best American Series) - by Carl Hiaasen and Otto Penzler (unchanged from February)
3. ON WHAT GROUNDS (Coffeehouse Mysteries) - by Cleo Coyle (unchanged from February)
4. THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK (Portfolio Edition) - by Chris Van Allsburg (up from #6 in February)
5. THE MYSTERY OF CAPITAL - by Hernando De Soto (unchanged from February)
6. MYSTERY OF 2012: PREDICTIONS, PROPHECIES, AND POSSIBILITIES - by Gregg Braden, Peter Russell, and Daniel Pinchbeck (down from #4 in February)
7. MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES - by Thomas Cahill (new to the Top 10)
8. THE WHITE WOLF - by Ron Roy and John Steven Gurney (new to the Top 10)
9. MYSTERY OF HISTORY VOL. 1 - by Linda Lacour Hobar (new to the Top 10)
10. POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON - by Inc. Pokemon USA (new to the Top 10)

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1. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy (returns to the top ten)
2. THE REDBREAST - by Jo Nesbo (unchanged from February)
3. LA OUTLAWS - by T. Jefferson Parker (unchanged from February)
4. HARDCORE HARDBOILED - by Todd Robinson (unchanged from February)
5. THE APPEAL - by John Grisham (up from #6 in February)
6. 7th HEAVEN - by James Patterson (returns to the top ten)
7. WHERE ARE YOU NOW? - by Mary Higgins Clark (unchanged from February)
8. THE SILVER SWAN - by Benjamin Black (new to the top ten)
9. COMPULSION - by Jonathon Kellerman (new to the top ten)
10. THE FIRST PATIENT - by Michael Palmer (new to the top ten)

To see this painting, and many more by RS Connett, visit his website, THE VOMITUS MAXIMUS MUSEUM.

"Loss of Hope" was written by Jennifer Baltusis, Paul Kratka and Scott Goldberg. Filmmaker Scott Goldberg talks about the collaboration: "It started off as just being an idea for a scene with Paul talking about his memories of the past and how much he missed his wife ... It eventually evolved into a much more deeper story with deeper meaning. Everyone brought something different to the story."

Kratka plays a man who witnesses a nuclear attack on the United States and hides out with his daughter in an abandoned basement while the world around him comes to an end. Also featured in the film is actress Gail Merzer Behrens. The film is scheduled to be realased in Fall 2008.

For information on "Loss of Hope", you can check out:
MySpace.com/ Loss of Hope Film.
Scott Goldberg Films.

Television -
MONSTER HUNTERS - From the Learning Channel comes this 2002 documentary about cryptozoologists.

Collections -
AFTER DARK HORRORFEST - All 8 movies.

HIGH DEFINITION -
BLU-RAY -
I AM LEGEND

These are the movies -

AMOK TRAIN - From 1989 comes this flick about a agroup of students and their professor (Bo Svenson: KILL BILL: Vol. 2) who go to Yugoslavia to witness a pagan rite. But guess whose on the sacrificial menu?

THE BLOOD GRINDER - A Horror Comedy that has its directors actually getting on amazon.com to tell eveyone else how great it is? World keeps turning.

I AM LEGEND: 2 DISC - Please read our review.

IN THE PLACE OF THE DEAD - Man vs. nature in a terrifying tale based on a true story. Ahem.

THE LOST - Please read our review,

THE SICKHOUSE - An archeologist excavating in a 350 year old hospital, releases the evil spirit of the plague doctor responsible for a series of gruesom murders. Might be good.

THE WORST HORROR MOVIE EVER MADE: THE RE-MAKE - THis style of truth in advertising could apply to a lot of Horror movies released last year.

High beams scythe the night. It has been almost an hour since she glimpsed house lights or even another car, and isolation makes the night seem chillier. Yet she cracks the window to let freezing air whistle in. Above the windshield, skeletal trees vault, endlessly frigid and unsullied. The road twines through the pressing tangle, widening again, as woods fall away. Then the road humps downward, and suddenly the sea spreads before her ...
~ from the opening of THE SHORE by Robert Dunbar

Also, according to The History Channel.com, today in 1818, what is considered to be the story that birthed both Horror and Science Fiction was published. Mary Shelley's MODERN PROMETHEUS or FRANKENSTEIN was born into the world. Mary was only 21 at the time. Let's hear it for early achievers!

E.C.McMullen Jr.

THRILLER
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