Howard Hopkins & Link Hullar Put the Grimm Back into Horror

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, ME—FEBRUARY 2007—With the trade paperback release of their horror novel, Grimm, Maine author Howard Hopkins and Texas scribe Link Hullar aim to return horror to a time when witches, demons and things that go bump in the night made readers perspire as they turned the pages.

Grimm is a pulse-pounding romp that fires on all pistons and never lets the reader sit still for very long. It is the story of retired detective Arlo Grimm, who after losing his youngest son to a botched drug bust, retreats into a world of grief and grey. But in that world he soon discovers he's not alone. A coven of evil witches who escaped the Salem Witch Trials have returned to the small seacoast town of New Salem, Maine, to wreak havoc and return a horrifying demon to life.

Hopkins and Hullar wrote Grimm to return horror to its roots—monsters, heart-racing action and pressure-cooker suspense. Grimm is available for purchase through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble online.

“We wanted to put some good old-fashioned fun back into horror,” said Howard Hopkins. “This book is a nod to the pulp horror days of yore, but with a modern edge that we hope will have folks leaving the lights on all night and checking the door locks.”

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

ABOUT AUTHORS

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

Link Hullar lives with his wife and son in a small Texas town and is the history division head at King College. He writes westerns under his own and various pennames and is a multi-published journalist for numerous pulp, western and religious journals. He is currently studying for the Episcopal priesthood.

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.