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

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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!"

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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 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!
Revised and reset.
From Barnes & Noble: Buy
From Golden Perils Press: Buy

Watch the NIGHT DEMONS Video Book Trailer here

"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*

Available from: From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Preils Press: Buy

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?

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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…

GRIMM, NIGHT DEMONS, DARK HARBORS, THE DARK RIDERS, PISTOLERO and THE NIGHTMARE CLUB now available in print...Coming up: The Avenger Chronicles, The Spider graphic novels and comics from Moonstone...The Chloe Files #2: Sliver of Darkness, The Nightmare Club #2 & #3--The Deadly Dragon and The Willow Witch...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...

Click link for Howard's Horror books page 

 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.

Click link for Howard's Children's Horror books page

Renegade Salem witches seek to resurrect a demon... Now in trade paperback! Revised and reset. From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Perils Press: Buy From Amazon:Grimm	In the darkest depths of the soul the Night Demons dwell...and devour... Now in trade paperback! Revised and reset. From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Perils Press: Buy From Amazon: NIGHT DEMONS Night Demons Book Trailer	29 stories of terror, dark love and fantasy. *Includes 3 bonus stories not in the ebook edition. Now in trade paperback! Revised and reset. From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Perils Press: Buy From Amazon: Dark Harbors
Vampire outlaws terrorize the Wild West... Now in trade paperback ! Revised and reset. From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Perils Press: Buy From Amazon: The Dark Riders	A ripper stalks the Wild West... Now in trade paperback ! Revised and reset.   From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Perils Press: Buy From Amazon: Pistolero	A band of misfit kids solve supernatural mysteries (ages 8+) Now in trade paperback! Revised and reset. From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Perils Press: Buy From Amazon: The Nightmare Club: #1 The Headless Paperboy (The Nightmare Club)

Read excerpts on Howard's Horror Books Page

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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 the gallery today.

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

Golden Perils Press
Amazon.com  
Amazon UK
Barnes & Noble
Ulverscroft
Bookzone
The Bookplace
Blackwell's Online

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Chapter 1 of MOON GIRLS...

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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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