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Masque, Quill & Crow Publishing House, July 2027
Dark Alt-Historical, Adult
Beauty in deformity and compassion in quarantine…
The disfiguring Red Plague has endured for thirty-five years but no longer runs rampant in the city. Instead, it has been contained within the Trevous Colony, where the unafflicted can visit to purchase trinkets and strange fashions from carefully covered vendors. Especially prized are masks from Della Vita, made by renowned maskmaker Miranda Bellamy.
Plague doctor Rahul Tamerlane applies his compassionate surgical practice to the colony, draining and excising dangerous tumorous reservoirs on behalf of the Crown to alleviate the worst symptoms for those afflicted. He encounters Miranda to purchase a mask on behalf of his fiancée but acquaints himself with her more through her work advocating for other afflicted during the medical emergencies he services.
Miranda is fierce, tireless, with talented hands and an even more talented voice, which has her stolen from the colony to regularly perform for an unafflicted opera house. But there’s a murderer brutally killing afflicted on both sides of the quarantine wall, and Rahul’s attraction to her art puts her even more at risk.
In the Dollhouse We All Wait, Crystal Lake Entertainment imprint Torrid Waters, April 2026 (tentative)
Horror, Adult (Extreme)
Abandoning the struggles of her own life, Samantha Frain agrees to become the well-paid live-in nanny to Annie, who turns out to be not a child but an adult stuck as a little girl since her mother’s death.
Before Sam can change her mind or adjust her expectations, Annie’s father leaves them alone in the giant family mansion, where Annie slowly introduces Sam to her extensive doll collection, with every porcelain face, poseable figure, and stuffed animal money can buy.
Then Annie shows Sam the Repair Room for broken dolls, which is filled with drugged people hobbled by dislocated joints—revealing the other side of the sweet little grown-up girl with the curl on her forehead and the rest of her collection.
Criminals Minds meets The Island of Dr. Moreau, In the Dollhouse We All Wait promises to disturb at every turn.
May Cooler Heads Prevail, self-published, January 2026
Supernatural, Adult (appropriate for teens)
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Question Not My Salt, Crystal Lake Entertainment imprint Torrid Waters, February 16, 2024
Horror, Adult (Extreme)
Cover Art: Kenneth W. Cain
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Come for Thanksgiving Dinner. Stay for the Feast.
Sierra’s first American Thanksgiving promises to be unforgettable when her college roommate, Zoe, invites her to the Samuels family feast. But as the ten-hour banquet unfolds, it becomes clear this is no ordinary holiday gathering.
With everyone bound by a chilling rule—eat and drink exactly as served, and enjoy it, or face dire consequences—the traditional celebration quickly takes a dark and macabre turn. Will Sierra survive the Samuels’ sinister hospitality or become part of a feast far more horrifying than she could have ever imagined?
Question Not My Salt is a gripping tale blending the terror of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the culinary horror of Hannibal and The Menu.
“Blake invites us to a feast so tantalizing you won’t be able to look away, even as your stomach does flips. It’s as delicious as it is depraved. Bon appetit.”—Lor Gislason, Inside Out
“Deliciously macabre and astoundingly fresh, Question Not My Salt is a richly prepared buffet of weirdness and depravity. Blake has crafted a truly grim offering about tradition that will disturb and shock even the most discriminating connoisseurs of body horror.” —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
“This is an absolutely terrific book, and I highly recommend it. … If you’re one of those folks who likes extreme horror, you really need to take a look. Just an awesome story from cover to cover.” —John R. Little, author of Miranda
“At first, from those [content] warnings I thought perhaps this book would be too much for me. But once I started reading I was hooked, so I held on tight through this horrible/repulsive holiday dinner, and I’m glad I did!” —Char’s Horror Corner
Out of Curiosity and Hunger, self-published June 13, 2023
Horror, Adult
Cover Art: Rooster Republic Press
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Languishing in a dying urban landscape, photographer Willa Dearborn struggles to find something that excites her the same way that capturing images of animals in their wilder natural habitat did for years.
Then she stumbles upon a strange creature that she’s never seen before and can’t identify, roaming an abandoned industrial park.
Without hesitation, she seizes the opportunity to finally achieve something amazing right there in the city she hates by thoroughly documenting the life and growth of this unknown creature—and its prodigious appetite.
Drift, self-published August 2020
Fantasy, Older Young Adult/New Adult
Cover Art: Covers by Combs
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After her mother’s funeral, Dani nearly drowns at the lake where she’s lived her entire life. She learned to swim before she could walk, but the water tingles and prickles over her skin, drawing her under.
She’s saved by a stranger who claims that the rains follow him, who sees when her father treats her the way a father shouldn’t.
Her mother left behind more than just memories and an empty lake house. And if Dani can’t find it, she’ll never break free from the shackles that her mother couldn’t escape.
“I have so much to tell you, my love. I can only hope that you heard me.”
Deep Down, self-published April 2020
Horror, Adult
Cover Art: Rocking Book Covers
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The world is ending. His family is dead. And it’s all the man’s fault.
There’s no reason for him to go on.
But he promised his eldest son that they’d explore the mountain cave near their home. They never got around to it, never enough time, always something in the way—work, school, other responsibilities, things that don’t matter anymore. Now the man has all the time in the world, because everyone’s out of time.
Of all the broken promises, this is the one he is determined to keep.
Along with the family dog, who he can’t bear to leave behind, the man ventures into the cave.
Though he doesn’t expect or plan for either of them to live very long, the man still struggles to keep himself and the dog alive, struggles to survive one more day, just one more day. Yet the deeper into the mountain they go, the stranger and more dangerous the cave becomes.
But that’s the only thing left to do—go deeper.
Nocturne, self-published October 31, 2017
Horror/Supernatural, Young Adult
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Every dream a nightmare.
And every nightmare…real.
It’s been eight years since the car accident that stole Callie’s voice and plagued her with terrifying nightmares every night. Four years since her family wrote her off as a lost cause and abandoned her at a boarding school for troubled teens. Despite friction with some of the other residents, seventeen-year-old Callie has nevertheless thrived in a place where they don’t expect her to be normal, but she’s not sure she’s able to thrive anywhere else.
Then one night, a man who calls himself the Guardian pulls her into a subterranean world filled with all the monsters from her dreams and ruled by the Night Mare herself. Down in the darklands, Callie’s nightmarish creations worship her. Down in the darklands, she isn’t tired or sick or hungry.
Down in the darklands, she can speak.
As her waking life deteriorates under the weight of exhaustion and other complications, Callie’s nightly forays into the nightmare world also begin to take their toll. And it’s getting harder to tell which world is really the nightmare.
Amanda M. Blake 