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Join the release party for Darling Girls, the latest novel of vampiric debauchery from Thorne & Cross. Hosted by Q.L. Pearce, author of The Land Before Time, Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs, and Titan AE. Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alis...

Reading Join us for the release party for THE WITCHES OF RAVENCREST, book two in THE RAVENCREST SAGA. The cover for the new book is shown in the gallery below. Listen in and when we begin taking calls, the first three callers will receive a free ebook copy of THE WITCHES OF RAVENCREST. We'll also be doing a Q & A where we'll answer your questions about writing, Ravencrest, and all things Thorne &...

Tamara Thorne is the internationally bestselling author such titles as Haunted, Moonfall, and Candle Bay. Alistair Cross' debut novel, The Crimson Corset, was an immediate bestseller, earning praise from such authors as vampire-lit veteran, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. As Thorne & Cross, they are the authors of The Cliffhouse Haunting, The Ghosts of Ravencrest, and thier latest release, a psychological t...

Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! kicks off October with guest host Briar Lee Mitchell grilling Tamara Thorne and Alistair Cross over hot coals until they scream for mercy. They'll be talking about books, ghosts, Halloween, and anything else Briar stirs into the cauldron. Briar Lee Mitchell is an author, illustrator, and host of the Doctor Briar Lee Mitchell show. As well, Briar teaches college...

Joe Teeples has been investigating paranormal events for over thirty years, and his travels have taken him to some of the strangest places in the world. He was an officer of one of Seattle’s largest and most professional ghost hunting organizations that allowed him to research many locations that have been restricted to a select few. He has seen some pretty strange things involving both the living...

Troy Taylor is a researcher of history, crime, and the supernatural and the author of 115 books on ghosts, hauntings, history, crime and the unexplained in America. He is also the founder and owner of American Hauntings (with current tours in Alton, Chicago, Decatur, Jacksonville & Carlinville, Illinois and the American Hauntings Tours, which travel all over the country in search of haunted places...

Karen E. Taylor is a horror/paranormal author, with eight published novels to date and an eclectic assortment of short fiction which ranges from vampires to ghosts to telepathic, romantic dinosaurs. Her most recent offering is a re-issue of an out of print novel, Twelve Steps from Darkness, which (newly revised and with the new title of CELLAR) will be available from Amazon Kindle on March 16, 201...

ELIEZER J. STERNBERG, MD is a resident neurologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. With a background in neuroscience and philosophy, he studies how brain research can shed light on the mysteries of consciousness and decision-making. He is the author of Are You a Machine? and My Brain Made Me Do It. Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on...

Sylvia Shults is the author of 44 Years in Darkness, Hunting Demons, Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, and Ghosts of the Illinois River. She has spent the past nineteen years working in a library, slowly smuggling words out in her pockets day by day to build a book of her own. She sits in dark, spooky, haunted places so you don't have to. She lives a short, ten-minute moto...

Sylvia Shults, author of Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, presents the chilling true story of a woman who steps over the line into the darkest corners of the paranormal. Examining the history of diabolical folklore, possession, the spirit world, and fallen angels, she then reveals one woman's battle against demonic oppression, human frailty, and Linda's all-encompassing t...

Sylvia Shults has been a paranormal investigator for several years. She began her career as a ghost hunter as a result of doing the research for her nonfiction book, Ghosts of the Illinois River (Quixote Press, 2010). Her fascination with ghosts dates back to her childhood. She is an avid reader who was raised on Grimm’s Fairy Tales. A few years ago, Shults was inspired to write a collection of pe...

Sylvia Shults has been a paranormal investigator for several years. She began her career as a ghost hunter as a result of doing the research for her nonfiction book, Ghosts of the Illinois River (Quixote Press, 2010). Her fascination with ghosts dates back to her childhood. She is an avid reader who was raised on Grimm’s Fairy Tales. A few years ago, Shults was inspired to write a collection of pe...

Harold Schechter is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He attended the State University of New York in Buffalo where his PhD director was Leslie Fiedler. He is professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College of the City University of New York. Schechter is married to poet Kimiko Hahn. He has two daughters from a previous marriage: the writer Lau...

At the tender age of nine, Marie Lavender began writing stories. She majored in Creative Writing in college because that was all she ever wanted - to be a writer. While there, she published two works in a university publication, and was a copy editor on the staff of an online student journal. After graduating from college, she sought out her dream to publish a book. Since 2010, Marie has published...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes new personality and best-selling award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan to the show to discuss TRUST ME, her latest novel. About my guest: Hank Phillippi Ryan is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV. She's won 34 EMMYs and dozens more journalism honors. The nationally bestselling author of 10 mysteries, Ryan's also an award-winner in h...

MICHAEL SCOTT is the New York Times bestselling author of more than one hundred books for both adults and young adults. He has written both fiction and nonfiction, his fiction being primarily of the fantasy, science fiction, and folklore genres. His work has been published in thirty-seven countries and translated into twenty languages. Visit him online at http://www.dillonscott.com/. MELANIE RUTH...

By the age of 30, Christopher Rice published four New York Times bestselling thrillers and was named one of People Magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive. He’s a Lambda Literary Award winner and has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel twice. He is also the co-host and executive producer of The dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice & Eric Shaw Quinn, a streaming Int...

Katherine Ramsland is a professor of forensic psychology at DeSales University in Pennsylvania, where she also teaches criminal justice. She holds a master's in forensic psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a master's in clinical psychology from Duquesne University, a master's in criminal justice from DeSales University, and a Ph. D. in philosophy from Rutgers. She has been a...

Douglas Preston has published a number of solo novels, including Tyrannosaur Canyon, Blasphemy, and Impact. His recent novel with Lincoln Child, Cold Vengeance, hit #1 on both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Lincoln Child is the author of multiple techno-thriller and horror novels, including the Jeremy Logan series. Many of the collaborative novels have become bestsell...

Continuing the Halloween celebration with a special El Dia de los Muertos show! We'll be telling ghost stories to celebrate our ONE-YEAR anniversary with the first guest who ever joined us, author QL Pearce! QL Pearce has written more than 150 Books for children, including Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs! Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming...

Before his thrillers landed him on The New York TimesBestseller list, Kevin O’Brien was a railroad inspector who worked all the live long day and wrote novels at night. His job took him all over the Pacific Northwest, and he wrote most of his first novel in Best Westerns and Red Lions. The result, ACTORS was translated into three languages. Kevin’s second book, ONLY SON was optioned for film right...

Before his thrillers landed him on the New York Times Bestseller list, Kevin O’Brien was a railroad inspector. The author of 16 internationally-published thrillers, he won the Spotted Owl Award for Best Pacific Northwest Mystery, and is a core member of Seattle 7 Writers. In a review of Kevin’s last thriller, TELL ME YOU’RE SORRY, Press & Guide said: “If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today and writi...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes Steve Alten to the show. Steve writes horror/science fiction and his book series MEG releases as a movie on August 11, 2018. See the movie trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udm5jUA-2bs. About my guest: Steve Alten grew up in Philadelphia, earning his Bachelors degree in Physical Education at Penn State University, a Masters Degree in Sports Me...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes award-winning author STEVE HAMILTON who is in the studio to discuss his new book DEAD MAN RUNNING. About the book: On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right--the room is bright, when he's certain he'd left the curtains closed. Rewin...