The Official Horror Page of Maine Author Howard
Hopkins
Welcome to the official horror website of
horror, western,
pulp and comic book author Howard Hopkins. Stories
and novels of horror, dark fantasy and suspense, mystery and vampires, ghosts,
witches and werewolves in the classic tradition of Stephen King and Dean
Koontz. Let Maine author Howard Hopkins transport you into the dark realms
of the supernatural...explore the blackest areas of the soul...journey into
the heart of darkness...
In the tradition of Sookie Stackhouse &
Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Chloe's a gal usually in trouble--the supernatural
kind...
Or read the unedited novel free
at Chloe's own journal page: The Chloe Files
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.
NEW!In Trade Paperback:
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 a bonus Chloe story: The Trouble with
Flappers...
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DEMONS
"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...
When retired Detective Sergeant Arlo Grimm refuses
to accept the death of his youngest son in a botched drug bust, his investigation
plunges him into a world of the supernatural, deep-buried conspiracies and
horrors he never believed existed. Teamed with a wayward exotic dancer named
Chloe, Arlo finds himself forced to accept truths he has spent his entire
life denying and struggling to survive against a coven of ageless witches
determined to resurrect a demon.
"In the 'vein' of Kolchak: The Night Stalker
and Buffy the Vampire Slayer..."
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Harbors
DARK HARBORS
At the shores of Evil...lies Dark Harbor, Maine,
a strange, cursed town long haunted by the ghosts of the past and the spirits
of the present. A town where the boundaries between good and evil, reality
and the fantastical, the past, present and future merge. A ghostly black
train emerges out of the early morning mist; a mother strives to find the
child she lost years earlier to a vengeful water entity, a beautiful witch
seeks to corrupt a a young newlywed; the skeletons of children on a pirate
slave ship crawl from their watery graves...Journey deep into realms of the
paranormal and terror with 29 stories of horror and dark fantasy. Horror/Dark
Fantasy/Suspense
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Nightmare Club #1
THE NIGHTMARE CLUB #1:
The Headless Paperboy
When October Williams moved to the small seaside
town of New Salem, Maine, he hardly expected to be chased by the ghost of
the Headless Paperboy. But New Salem is a town gripped by the supernatural
where anything can happen...
October soon learns a strange and terrifying tale.
Every Halloween three children vanish as the ghost begins searching for his
head. Riding a twenty-year-old bicycle and hurling flaming newspapers, the
spook needs one more victim before disappearing for another year.
Together with a band of misfit kids who call themselves
the Nightmare Club, a strange girl named Alliecat who wants to shove her
way into the group, and a pot-bellied pig named Barnabas, he must find the
Paperboy's head and put it back with the body before it's too late and he
loses his own!Children's Horror
Series, Ages 8-adult
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The
Dark
Riders
THE DARK RIDERS
Years ago a young orphan killed a vicious outlaw
who raped his sister, but when Chris Durrin thought nightmares and grief
would be the only things stalking him for the rest of his life, he was wrong.
Dead wrong. Because Milus Clint, the outlaw Chris shot down on that fateful
day in the past, has returned from the grave, a creature neither alive nor
dead, a thing of the night and bloodthirsty craving. Dead-Walkers, the Apaches
called them, but the white man had another name: Vampire.
Horror/Western/Vampire
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Pistolero
PISTOLERO
The parched dusty streets of the Old West carried
many a threat for an unwary traveler but none more dangerous than the evil
that stalked the night-darkened alleys of Mascarada, New Mexico. Hiding in
shadow, slashing and ripping the flesh of young women and leaving behind
their mutilated bodies, the Mascarada Ripper vanishes into the night like
a ghost. But when a young outlaw is offered a pardon to bring the killer
to justice dead or alive, he finds himself confronted with the horrors of
his own past and the loss of the very thing he sought to protect by running
from Mascarada years before.
Horror/Western/Suspense
"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
Moondancer
Beneath the barren sands of the moon lurks
terror...
*EPPIE Award Finalist
*EPPIE
Award Finalist
