The Official Website of Howard Hopkins/Lance Howard
Horror Book and Western Novel Author
Escape from Reality...
Welcome to the official web presence of Maine author Howard Hopkins,
who writes horror stories and horror novels
under his own name in the tradition of Stephen King and Dean Koontz and
western books under the pseudonym Lance Howard.
If you enjoy horror fiction, westerns, as well as
pulp fiction, comic books and graphic novels, check
back often for the latest news in Howard's writing, as well as free horror
book and western novel giveaways, free horror, western and pulp
short stories downloaads and more. Please visit Howard's
Horror and
Western pages for updates, excerpts and
more.
From the dusty streets of the Frontier to the fog-shrouded alleys
of Dark Harbor, Maine, Howard's riveting prose and true-life characters capture
readers' imaginations from page one and never let go.
Discover the writer Knowbetter.com calls "the classic Horror writer to watch
out for!" and All About Murder calls "the Master of Westerns!"
Coming soon... Chances to win Howard's Horror novels and Western books...
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"If you like Salem's Lot & Dark Shadows--you'll love Night
Demons!"
With this classic horror novel in the tradition of Stephen King and Shirley
Jackson, old flames and old ghostsconverge in the supernaturally
cursed seaside town of Dark Harbor, Maine. A century of small town secrets
and hidden pasts, long-buried demons and desires, bizarre rites and
a timeless lust for power and passion rage up when former teacher Paul
Stanford returns to the place of his birth to confront a lifetime of nightmares
and blood-soaked memories...
NIGHT DEMONS by Howard
Hopkins. Now in trade paperback!
Revised and reset. From Barnes & Noble:
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"With King announcing his retirement, don't be surprised if Hopkins takes
over his reign at the top of the New York Times Bestseller List."--knowbetter.com
*EPPIE nominated * * Fictionwise
#1 Bestseller*
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The Chloe Files #1: Ashes to Ashes
A silver locket said to have belonged to Joan of Arc and a children's
nursery rhyme...
A 600-year-old monkey with an attitude and a mysterious supernatural symbol
on a Caller ID box...
A deadly plague reemerging in the seaside town of New Salem, Maine, and the
manifestation of a little girl's ghost...
How do these tie in with the sudden disappearance of Chloe's fiancé,
Detective Sergeant Arlo Grimm, while on a routine search for a lead to her
twin sister, who vanished thirty years earlier?
When the answer points to an Evil she'd thought vanquished Chloe knows
she's in over her pretty blonde head and this time she'll have nothing to
rely on except her own wits and courage. But will that be enough to save
her and the life of the man she loves?
Who knows what crimes cripple the minds of the guilty?
Brant Lamonts acting career was on a downhill slide, then one night
after a performance he vanished. Was he dead? Alive? Forty years later still
no one knows what became of the mercurial actor or the rising starlet
whod become his mistress. It was as if theyd both walked off
the face of the earth.
Until Chloe Eversons world flashes to a bizarre black and white
and the specter of one of Lamonts characters, the Sliver of Darkness,
visits her in the dead of the night.
But ghostly visitations arent Chloes only dilemma, because
the New Salem Ripper is stalking the waterfront, butchering prostitutes and
young strippers, moving ever closer to an encounter with the object of his
obsession
Chloe herself
Includes the bonus Chloe story: The Trouble with Flappers
What's Chloe been up to since Grimm?
Keep up with Chloe's supernatural encounters in The Chloe
Files Read the entire unedited Chloe novelfree!
Howard's Dark Bits Blog: Thoughts and humor
on writing, life, books, monkeys and Pop Tarts, oh, my! Dark Bits
Updated weekly
In the tradition of Stephen King and
Dean Koontz, these horror stories and horror books, dark fantasy
and suspense, mystery and terror, vampires and ghosts, witches and werewolves,
transport readers into the dark realms of the supernatural.
Please stop by Howard's Art Gallery and take a look around.
Howard is available to create designer ebook covers, bookmarks, promo
cards and more at a price to meet your budget. Visit thegallerytoday.
* * *Order your Howard Hopkins & Lance Howard
novels at the following online stores* * *
Howard finished
in the top ten in the prestigious Preditors and Editors poll for 2001 in
the following categories: Best author, Best horror
novel (Night Demons), Best zine art, Best zine editor, Best
non-fiction zine (Golden Perils). He also finsihed
top ten in numerous categories in the 2002 poll, inlcuding #1 for sci-fi
short story.