The Official Website of Howard Hopkins/Lance Howard
Best-Selling Horror Book and Western Novel Author

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Welcome to the official web presence of Fictionwise #1 Best-Selling and Eppie nominated Maine author Howard Hopkins. Howard writes horror stories and children's 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 giveaways, story downloads 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 captures readers' imaginations from page one and never lets go.

Discover the writer Knowbetter.com calls "the classic Horror writer to watch out for!" and All About Murder calls "the Master of Westerns!"

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Night Demons Horrr book "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 ghosts converge 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.
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From Golden Perils Press: Buy

"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*

Supernatural - Paranormal mystery in the tradition of Sookie Stackhouse & Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Chloe files #1 Horror book cover

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From Golden Preils Press: Buy
From Amazon: The Chloe Files #1: Ashes to Ashes

NEW! In Trade Paperback:

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?

"Like Ghost Whisperer  steroids..."
--Margaret Marr
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From Amazon: The Chloe Files #2: Sliver of Darkness

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The Chloe Files #2: Sliver of Darkness

Who knows what crimes cripple the minds of the guilty?

Brant Lamont’s 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 who’d become his mistress. It was as if they’d both walked off the face of the earth.

Until Chloe Everson’s world flashes to a bizarre black and white and the specter of one of Lamont’s characters, the Sliver of Darkness, visits her in the dead of the night.

But ghostly visitations aren’t Chloe’s 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



My Name is Chloe Everson. I was just a girl trying to make a living and in my spare time search for my lost sister. But I stumbled onto something...horrifying, something unearthly. Now I have no choice but to fight . Evil wants me. But I wont let it win. I'll kick its ass...one demon at a time...

Read the entire raw unedited Chloe novel free!
The Chloe Files

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Howard's Dark Bits Blog: Thoughts and humor on writing, life, books, monkeys and Pop Tarts, oh, my!
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Howard Hopkins/Lance Howard Westerns

The Avenger Chronicles now available, The Spider graphic novels and comics from Moonstone coming soon...The Chloe Files #2: Sliver of Darkness, The Nightmare Club #2 & #3--The Deadly Dragon and The Willow Witch now available...Hell Pass and Poison Pass by Lance Howard now in trade paperback from Amazon...The Devil's Rider by Lance Howard in hardcover from AmazonUK...

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 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.

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Renegade Salem witches seek to resurrect a demon...

Now in trade paperback!
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From Golden Perils Press: Buy
From Amazon:Grimm

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In the darkest depths of the soul the Night Demons dwell...and devour...

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Noble: Buy
From Golden Perils
Press: Buy
From Amazon: NIGHT DEMONS

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29 stories of terror, dark love and
fantasy. *Includes 3 bonus stories not in the ebook edition.

Now in trade paperback!
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From Barnes & Noble: Buy
From Golden Perils Press: Buy
From Amazon: Dark Harbors
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Vampire outlaws terrorize the Wild West...

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From Golden Perils Press: Buy
From Amazon: The Dark Riders

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A ripper stalks the Wild West...

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& Noble: Buy
From Golden Perils
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From Amazon: Pistolero

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A band of misfit kids solve
supernatural mysteries (ages 8+)

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From Golden Perils Press: Buy
From Amazon: The Nightmare Club: #1 The Headless Paperboy (The Nightmare Club)

The ghost of the Dragon Boy haunts New Salem...

New in trade paperback !
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From Barnes & Noble: Buy
From Amazon: The Nightmare Club #2: The Deadly Dragon

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The Willow Witch terrorizes the the children of New Salem...

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From Golden Perils Press: Buy
From Barnes & Noble: Buy
From Amazon: The Nightmare Club #3: The Willow Witch

Children's Horror books

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Chole's a gal in trouble--the supernatural kind...

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From Golden Preils Press: Buy
From Amazon: The Chloe Files #1: Ashes to Ashes

Read excerpts on Howard's Horror Books Page

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* * *Order Howard Hopkins & Lance Howard novels at the following online stores* * *

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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.

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