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Saturday, September 8, 2018

Let's Not Forget My Older Works: Novellas and Anthologies

Nazi Ghouls From Space -- January 1945. The Allies have crossed the German border. In a desperate effort to avoid the inevitable defeat, the Third Reich develops a long-range rocket capable of striking the United States. Three German soldiers pilot the capsule, volunteers who agreed to test fly the craft to ensure victory for the Fatherland. However, a technical malfunction propels them into orbit with no way to bring them home.

July 1947. The capsule plummets back to Earth and crashes in the isolated flats of the New Mexico desert. What returns are not the bodies of the three German soldiers lost in space for over two years, but something far more ghoulish. When an unsuspecting rancher opens the hatch to check inside, he unleashes on America the reanimated bodies of the test pilots who are now living dead creatures that crave human flesh.

"Scott Baker has done it again. Great blend of concepts and a truly spooky tale on all levels! The details Baker includes here will please History buffs and horror fans both." -- Filmfreak


Dead Water -- When the crew of an oil platform off the Virginia coast rescue a survivor from a lifeboat adrift at sea, they inadvertently release a zombie virus aboard their rig. As the crew is rapidly transformed into the living dead, the captain must find a way to stop the infection before it can spread to shore, even if that means sacrificing those on board.

Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology --  An outbreak of the living dead aboard a cruise ship. Cannibalism among the survivors of the rising. Steampunk reanimates. These are some of the nightmarish scenarios that Scott M. Baker has written about. Now most of his zombie-themed short stories have been pulled together in Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology. The stories include:

"Cruise of the Living Dead" - Carissa Banning, a cruise ship's medical officer, finds herself at ground zero of a zombie outbreak when an infected family aboard ship spreads the virus through the passengers and crew.

"Rednecks Shouldn't Play With Dead "Things" - Sam Grodin and his buddies think they stumbled across the ultimate hunting experience when zombies attack their campsite. However, when these zombies fail to behave the way they do in the movies, Sam and the others realize they have bitten off more than they can chew.

"The Hunger" - Janet Simmons has been roaming an apocalyptic wasteland for months avoiding the living dead and trying to find enough food to stay alive. When she stumbles across another survivor, she suddenly finds herself in a human eat human world.

"Last Flight of the Bismarck" - Victorian adventuress Scarlet and her male companion Chappy thought they were taking a trans-Atlantic flight in Germany's latest airship, The Bismarck. When they discover that the Bismarck is actually being used as a delivery device to infect the Northern United States with steampunk-enhanced zombies, they engage in an epic battle with the living dead in the skies above New York City.

"Is Anyone Out There?" - An isolated survivor of a zombie outbreak uses the Internet to contact family and friends before the world comes to an end.

Incident on Ironstone Lane and Other Horror Stories --  A washed up writer comes home to find his wife being raped and seeks revenge. A cuckolded husband leaves his family to die in a blizzard. An Iraqi war veteran picks up his weapon one final time to defend his home from an alien invasion, and faces his most terrifying enemy yet. These are just some of the demented musings of horror writer Scott M. Baker. This collection includes all of his non-zombie themed horror stories, including four that have never been published. So if torture porn, attempted murder, sewer monsters, and alien invasions are what keep you up at night, then read on.

"Incident on Ironstone Lane" – Tom Bowen has gone from one of the most recognized writers in horror to being a washed up loser. The only thing he cares about now is his wife, Brenda. When Tom returns home to find Brenda being raped by Wayne Hoskins, the town thug, something inside of him snaps. Tom develops a demented new interest and Wayne realizes how sick and twisted a horror writer can get.

"Denizens" – After a botched robbery attempt results in the death of the shop owner, Jack Randall and his friends try to evade the police by escaping through the sewers beneath Washington D.C. However, the justice that awaits them underground is much more horrific than anything humans could devise.

"Baby It’s Cold Outside" – Raymond Kim’s manhood has been stripped away by a shrew of a wife and a spoiled son who doesn’t respect him. Every day Raymond prays for death. When the family car goes off an isolated country road during a blizzard, leaving Raymond’s wife immobilized with a broken leg, he sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his family with no one being the wiser.

"The Emblem" – Reptilian-like monsters invade Pennsylvania, quickly overpowering the National Guard and establishing a beachhead. With reinforcements still days away, Iraqi war veteran Steve Preston joins a local militia to repel the invaders. During his first contact with the enemy, Preston discovers the awful truth about the alien’s intentions.

"Entertainment of the Gods" – What if man did not shape his own destiny, but was merely a plaything of the Gods?

“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” – When the Queen realizes that her vengeful stepdaughter Snow White wants to remove her and take over the kingdom, she has Karl the huntsman take Snow White into the forest to place her under a sleeping spell. The Queen’s attempts at keeping peace in the realm unravel when Snow White is befriended by seven unwanted misfits who come to her defense.

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Thanks to Everyone Who Picked Up a Copy of Rotter Nation and Rotter Apoclayse

I want to thank everyone who picked up a free Kindle copy of Rotter Nation and Rotter Apocalypse. I hope you enjoy them. If you do, please leave a review of the books on Amazon so others can enjoy them as well.

If you liked my writing and want more, there are plenty of other books of mine out there. Rotter World, the first book in the trilogy, is still available from Permuted Press. If zombies are your thing, pick up my novellas Dead Water and Nazi Ghouls From Space, or my anthology Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology. Maybe your tastes lie more with the undead rather than the living dead, in which case you will want to read The Vampire Hunters trilogy. And if you like your monsters kaiju style, then check out Yeitso, my homage to the big monster movies of the 1950s. 

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Dead Water Will "Change Your Life for the Better"

This morning my Google Mention led me to a website that gave away pirated e-books, including my novella Dead Water. At first I was considering going all Rick Grimes on their asses, until I read the blurb from Brimidam: "Don't be afraid to change your life for better [sic]. This book will help you."

What better praise can a writer get? When was the last time a horror writer was told their book could change people's lives? If Oprah still had her book club, I'd be pitching her producers to put me on the show an share my inspiration with the world.

So what are you waiting for? Improve your lives starting NOW! Learn the skills needed to survive a zombie apocalypse. Acquire the knowledge to handle hordes of the living dead aboard an oil rig out at sea. Develop the leadership skills to handle those the-world-has-gone-to-hell situations. Learn to write a proper sentence. You owe it to yourself to change your life and be the very best you can be. And all for only $1.99 on Amazon.

After all, if you can't trust a website that pirates e-books, who can you trust?



[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is not an April Fool's joke, although I am putting a humorous spin on the entire incident.]

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Keith Publications, publisher of my novella Dead Water, carried my blog Why Do I Write? Please check it out and all the great books published by Keith Publications.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Dead Water Will Be Free for Halloween

To celebrate Halloween, Keith Publications is giving away several of its horror novellas for free on 31 October, including Dead Water. So give yourself a special treat for Halloween and be sure to fill your Kindle bag with a bunch of free horror e-books. 

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Only Two Days left To Enter the Giveaway; New Prize Added

There are only two days left to enter the contest to win a copy of Machina Mortis: Steampunk's Tales of Terror, Hunger Pangs, or Dead Water.  To enter, just follow my blog and like my author's Facebook page.  You can check out the details of the giveaway here.

Also, Zombie Fans has sweetened the deal.  To help promote the anthology Hunger Pangs, stories about cannibalism during a zombie outbreak, they are offering a twenty-five dollar gift certificate to Applebee's restaurant to enhance the fine dining experience.  One winner of Hunger Pangs will be randomly selected to win the gift certificate.

Good luck to everyone who enters.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Giveaway Contest: Machina Mortis, Hunger Pangs, Dead Water

Are you thinking to yourself, "Wouldn't it be awesome if someone wrote a steampunk story involving zombies?"  Or have you ever prayed for a living dead apocalypse so you could join in the fun and satisfy your curiosity about the taste of human flesh?  Or are you just craving a good, old-fashioned slow-zombie story?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you came to the right place.

In honor of Zombie Awareness Month, and to celebrate the recent publication of my latest zombie-related short stories, I am sponsoring a giveaway of two trade paperback and two e-book versions of the anthologies Hunger Pangs (which contains my short story "The Hunger") and Machina Mortis: Steampunk'd Tales of Terror (which contains my short story "Last Flight of the Bismarck"), as well as two e-book versions of my zombie novella Dead Water. 

The rules are simple.  Follow my blog and like my author's page on Facebook (if you already have done that, then you are half-way there).  Then leave a comment under this posting or on my Facebook posting saying you would like to enter, and please let me know if you have a preference of which anthology/novella you would like.  The contest will stay open until 31 May, at which point I will randomly choose the winners and will contact you for mailing information.  One set of books will be given away on each site, so you double your chances of winning.  This contest is open to everyone.

I know you're all chomping at the flesh, so hurry up and enter.  And good luck.