Release Day for SAVAGE ISLAND

June, 29. 2021

I'm excited to share that today my new horror thriller, SAVAGE ISLAND, is releasing to the world.

Here's the book's description:

 

Terror in tropical paradise 

 

On an isolated island in the Philippines, it patiently waits. A mysterious terror lurks in the shadows, stalking the poor stranded souls who visit the island. When a group of four tourists find their vacation quickly turning into a nightmare, the terror taunts them and comes for them one by one. The sandy beach and crystal waters of the lagoon will run red with blood if they can't find a way off this savage island.

 

This is a horror survival story that deals with some dark, personal themes and comes with a trigger warning of sexual assault. My main characters are two women in their 30s, Amy and Jasmine. They are cruising on a yacht with two men they've just met, and one of them is secretly a disturbed sexual predator. But he's not the only predator on the jungle island they mistakenly thought was uninhabited. For those who have enjoyed my fast-paced novellas like DARKNESS RISING, THE SEEKERS and THE WITCHING HOUSE, I think you'll have a fun time exploring this deadly island. There are plenty of thrills and scary moments. SAVAGE ISLAND is now available at:

Amazon Kindle

Amazon Paperback

Amazon UK

 

Coming June 2021 - SAVAGE ISLAND

 

I'm happy to announce that my latest horror thriller, SAVAGE ISLAND, is releasing on June 29th, 2021 through Silver Shamrock Publishing. I wrote this novella back in 2017. I'm a big fan of stories where people are stranded on an island with some kind of deadly menace. As a kid, I had loved watching movies like The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Island with Michael Cain, and Shock Waves. I also enjoyed horror novels like Richard Laymon's Island and Greg F. Gifune's Savages.

I had always wanted to set one of my books on a tropical island and make it a story about survival. I love the combination of a setting that appears beautiful on the surface but is actually concealing something dark and dangerous. In my latest book, two single women who are best friends, Amy and Jasmine, are enjoying a much-needed girls' getaway vacation in the Philippines. Amy just wants to relax and enjoy hanging out at the resort, but Jasmine, who has been going through a bad divorce, wants to have an adventure. She meets a couple of wealthy single men who offer to take Amy and Jasmine cruising on a yacht and tour some uninhabited islands. Little do they know, the island they choose to explore happens to be inhabited. Here's the book's description:

Terror in tropical paradise

On an isolated island in the Philippines, it patiently waits. A mysterious terror lurks in the shadows, stalking the poor stranded souls who visit the island. When a group of four tourists find their vacation quickly turning into a nightmare, the terror taunts them and comes for them one by one. The sandy beach and crystal waters of the lagoon will run red with blood if they can't find a way off this savage island.

 Savage Island is available for purchase at:

Amazon

Amazon UK

 

Book Release Event Video for TOMB OF GODS and UNTIL SUMMER COMES AROUND

The book release video I did with author Glenn Rolfe for Flame Tree Press is now available to watch. Glenn and I discuss writing our latest books TOMB OF GODS and Glenn's vampire novel UNTIL SUMMER COMES AROUND. Plus other fun topics.

 

New Book Release: TOMB OF GODS

 

After 3 years of researching Egyptian mythology and writing, my TOMB OF GODS is an action-adventure thriller with horror and sci-fi fantasy mixed in for fun. Set in late 1930s London and Egypt, the story follows a team of British archaeologists and soldiers who explore deep into an Egyptian cave tomb full of horrors and wonders. Among them, Egyptologist Imogen Riley is searching for what caused her grandfather's team to vanish in these caves during a previous ill-fated expedition. And why did her grandfather return insane and covered head-to-toe in mysterious scars. Also along for the adventure are archaeologists for the British Museum led by Dr. Nathan Trummel, American journalist and photographer Caleb Beckett, and cast of other characters. Every member of the expedition team will be tested as they face their darkest fears in a seemingly endless maze of caves that may contain one of the greatest secrets of the ancient pharaohs. The explorers discover quickly that they are being stalked in these caves. The horror scenes are scary, so this novel is not for the faint of heart. If you like Egyptian history mixed with tomb raider adventure, horror and sci-fi fantasy, then I think you'll enjoy this book.

TOMB OF GODS is now available in paperback, hardback, and eBook on Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com and through other booksellers.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088JKB1MH/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tomb-of-gods-brian-moreland/1133987897?ean=9781787584129








 

New Short Story Published

I haven't blogged in awhile because I've been writing tons of new fiction that I'll be releasing over the next 2 years. Today my latest short story "Swamp Vengeance" releases on Amazon in a horror anthology MIDNIGHT IN THE GRAVEYARD published by Silver Shamrock Publishing.

"Swamp Vengeance" was a new type of story for me and very fun to write specifically for this anthology. All the stories by some of the best horror writers today are dark and twisted ghost stories in the tradition of EC comic books like Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror and Stephen King's Creepshow. 

When I got the opportunity to write a short story with this comic-book-style ghost-story theme, I was traveling around Florida and staying in many towns up and down the coasts. While driving from Fort Meyers to Miami, I stopped off for a swamp tour at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary and got up close and personal with some interesting swamp life and big alligators. 

 Alligator with my thumb in the shot.

 

Those last 2 gator photos were taken at Alachua Sink near Gainesville. I also drove across the southern tip of Florida through the Everglades, observing gators swimming in the channels along the road. A friend and I went on an airboat tour through the Glades. This inspired the setting for "Swamp Vengeance" and the creation of my lead character Merle Pritchett, a gator hunter who knows these water channels through the high sawgrass better than he knows his own wife. He also foolishly ignores the legends about the ghosts that inhabit the deeper part of the swamps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Miccosukee village and totem pole, nestled on an island in the Everglades, along with a true legend of a lost Seminole city inspired the folklore in my story.

 

Aside from having a heck of a lot fun touring the Florida wetlands and writing this creepy story, it's an honor to see it included among so many great authors, including one of my literary heroes, Robert McCammon, whose paperback horror novels and short stories I devoured during my years of learning to be a writer. You can now read "Swamp Vengeance" and over 20 other spooky ghost stories in MIDNIGHT IN THE GRAVEYARD, available at Amazon.

Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Graveyard-Robert-McCammon-ebook/dp/B07XJZCDMJ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=midnight+in+the+graveyard&qid=1571152654&sr=8-1


 Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Graveyard-Robert-McCammon/dp/1951043022/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=midnight+in+the+graveyard&qid=1571158101&sr=8-2