Doesn't matter from which horror publisher.  Doesn't matter which horror author. Just take five minutes to visit a site, find a novel or anthology you like and order your copy. If you can't decide on anything, $20 will get you a magazine subscription. Then you'll have a large variety of writers for a full year. One book. One subscription. You will help out a publisher more than you can imagine.

Say you simply can't afford $20. Got a birthday this year? Most of us do. Maybe your favorite aunt can skip the socks and assorted chocolates. Which book would you like? Your work buddies can switch that gift card to Denny's for a horror gift certificate. Many publishers offer them, and the great fiction will last far longer than a burger and coke.

We've posted on choateroad.com the publishers who have agreed to participate in the HORROR BAIL OUT and we've provided direct links to their sites to make shopping easier. You won't find a better collection of fiction...Apex, Graveside Tales, Shroud, Skullvines Press, Necrotic Tissue, Withersin Magazine and Permuted Press. Every one of them offers incredible horror for under $20.

The Choate Road Forum houses a section dedicated to those who help out called the $20 CLUB. Pros and fans alike are free to list what they purchased and make book and magazine suggestions to those who aren't sure what to select.

Then on June 1st, we will close out our HORROR BAIL OUT by randomly picking several lucky members of the $20 Club. These folks will win special 'Gift Baskets from Hell' courtesy of the publishers you helped bail out! The winners will be announced on The Funky Werepig show on Sunday, June 7th.

We are a finite number. We don't cross over into romance or children's books and we don't get onto Oprah's Book Club. Until someone cracks the code that lets horror spill into all other demographics, we are alone. But even if only 1000 loyal horror lit fans participate, we would inject $20,000 into our industry.

Let's start today. For $20, we all win.

~ Gregory L Hall

Owner/ choateroad.com 

















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Greetings my fellow horror peeps and peers,

It's no secret that these are tough times and money is tight for everyone. Huge corporations are lining up for DC pork and we all know who gets stuck with the bill for $800 billion and counting.

But nowhere in this vast plan do I see any help coming to the Horror Fiction industry.

Our publishers are struggling. Books aren't selling. Magazines are barely scraping by. We're seeing paying markets close doors every month. Even horror conventions are pushing to the back third of the year hoping things get better.

Well, Choate Road has launched a grass roots HORROR BAIL OUT plan to help shake some things up. It's very simple. It also relies on all of us, because if we lose our publishers, we're all looking at a dead end.

The HORROR BAIL OUT is this: When you go to toss the government that $800 billion, keep $20 out. Don't give it to DC. Pocket it. Whistle and stare into the sky so no one notices. Run home and shove that $20 in your desk or cookie jar or underwear drawer next to your leopard skin thong.

Then go buy a book.