The Nightmare Club Takes Aim at Younger Readers

*Release Source: Howard Hopkins

Maine author Howard Hopkins Aims to Scare Younger Readers into New Horror Series and Old Fashioned Fun with Publication of The Nightmare Club #1 The Headless Paperboy

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, ME—FEBRUARY 19, 2007— Howard Hopkins is hoping to introduce a new generation of young readers (ages 8 & up) to a good old-fashioned scare in the tradition of the kids' series of yesteryear, such as The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew with a dash of Stephen King thrown in for good measure.

The Nightmare Club #1: The Headless Paperboy introduces a misfit band of kids seeking to solve supernatural mysteries in the ghost- and goblin-haunted town of New Salem, Maine. Along the way they face issues real and important to today's middle-school and YA audiences, such as dealing with prejudice and fitting in.

Howard Hopkins wrote The Nightmare Club to provide parents and young readers a viable choice to video games and television, while providing an entertaining, fast-paced read without the graphic violence and darker overtones of adult horror fiction. The Nightmare Club is available for purchase at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com)

“I want to bring the 'fun' back to reading for children and young adults,” said Howard Hopkins. “And I want parents to feel safe giving their children a book that will have them looking forward to reading. I grew up reading Doc Savage and Alvin Fernald and I think kids today are missing out on a lot by not getting the chance to read these types of series.”

The book is published independently by Golden Perils Press: http://www.lulu.com/goldenperils

ABOUT AUTHOR
Howard Hopkins lives in a small Maine seacoast town and writes westerns under the pseudonym Lance Howard and horror novels under his own name. He is a longtime fan of pulp series such as Doc Savage and The Shadow and has edited and published forty issues of the pulp journal Golden Perils, and has written more than fifty articles for various publications. His pulp short story for The Spider Chronicles, an anthology based on the 1930s character that includes others authors such as John Jakes, has just been published and his most recent Lance Howard western, Nightmare Pass, saw print in December, 2007. His personal website is www.howardhopkins.com

ABOUT GOLDEN PERILS PRESS
Founded in 1985, Golden Perils Press published forty issues of the pulp journal Golden Perils as well as many independent pulp-related and fiction projects.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Howard Hopkins, yingko2@aol.com, 207-934-3074.