A Horror Club For Everyone
Are you a horror fan tired of being surrounded by normies? Do you cringe at the nonsense you see in social media horror groups? Do you run from drama like the neighborhood bully is after you with his demented need to give you an atomic wedgie? Are you looking for a place to just revel in the odd and spooky, the gory and glorious?
Guess what? There’s a place for you. A place I like to call The Hellion’s Den! Nothing but the love of horror. No agendas. No fighting. Just an escape from everyday life into the genre that feeds your dark soul.
The Hellion’s Den is made for every single person who digs horror, from the newbie to the old and crusty (like myself!). We’re here to talk movies, books and more. To suggest hidden and overlooked gems. To do deep dives into monsters real and imagined. To watch movies live and riff away.
Even better, it’s a place where you can win all kinds of horror goodies, from signed books, horror merch and more, every single month.
If this is exactly the type of club you’re looking for, I encourage you to visit my Hellion’s Den Patreon page, take a look around, and give it a try. Entry to the club is, like Mad Magazine in the good old days, cheap! But the content and the interactions you’ll have with like-minded people far from it. Let’s build a community of horror hellions together!
Great Novels Not By King or Koontz – Scott Nicholson’s They Hunger
If you’re not reading Scott Nicholson’s books, go to Amazon, B&N, wherever, and rectify that. You can’t be a fan of modern horror if you don’t have a few Nicholson books under your belt. A good place to start is They Hunger. Set in the Appalachian Mountains, several groups of strangers come face to face along the rapids with unadulterated evil. It’s a very sleek twist on the vampire mythology and must be pretty damn good for me to recommend, because like most grown ups, I’m pretty sick of vampires. 
The vampires in They Hunger, thankfully, are mindless, merciless beasts driven solely by a need to feed. And feed they must! The great turn here is that the “helpless” human prey in their sights may have darker souls than the creatures gobbling them up like popcorn. You have an abortion clinic bomber who thinks he’s a prophet, a failed FBI agent, a drug addicted Native American, a complete A-hole jock and a whole host of fully formed, damaged individuals. It’s up to you, the reader, to decide who is truly evil : the flawed prey who have the ability to choose between right and wrong, or the hell bent hunters who have only one mission in life.
They Hunger is a great read, as are all of Scott Nicholson’s books. Also highly recommended are The Harvest and The Home. You can’t go wrong. Check out his website for a full listing of his work. If you have a Nook or Kindle, you can start reading in minutes!
Hunter Shea 