Are you a horror fan? (I certainly hope so, given the site you’re currently visiting!) Well, over at the Pandora Zwieback blog—you know, the site for our resident teenaged Goth monster fighter who stars in novels I write—there are a couple of posts you might want to check out.
“Too Old to be a Horror Fan?” has some thoughts about the genre, prompted by an encounter I had while buying a couple of horror movies at a Walmart a week ago. That, in turn, led to “Vincent Price Defends Horror Movies,” where I posted an essay written by the legendary actor back in the early 1960s in which he tried to reason with critics who had no love for his fright films.
Go give ’em a read!
How amazing is this? It was in 1989, thirty years ago this very month, that StarWarp Concepts’ first leading lady of horror—the soul-stealing succubus, Lorelei—made her comic book debut in the pages of the digest-sized Lorelei One-Shot Special. To celebrate the occasion, we’ve got some exciting releases and events coming this year that you Lori fans are sure to enjoy:
Then in September comes 
Vampires of the Void
He picked a magazine off the coverlet which showed an incredibly endowed young woman in a skintight costume who was sucking the blood of a young man…. The name of the magazine—and of the young woman, apparently—was Vampirella.—Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot
So why are we so excited about this momentous occasion? Well, if you read yesterday’s post about our publishing plans this year, you know it’s because we have a project in the works that ties directly into Vampi’s anniversary. (What, you thought I was just gonna plug some other publisher’s character for no reason? You should know me better than that by now!)
Lorelei Halloween Special #1 by Steven A. Roman, Eliseu Gouveia, and Steve Geiger: 2019 is also Lorelei’s 30th anniversary, and to celebrate the occasion the creative team behind the critically acclaimed graphic novel 
Tales to Sorta Tremble By, edited by Steven A. Roman: During the 1950s, comic book publishers were required to include text pages in their releases if they wanted their publications to meet U.S. postal requirements as magazines. They solved this problem by running mini prose stories, one to two pages in length, in the comics—including the horror ones. Tales to Sorta Tremble By collects 13 of those stories, with subjects ranging from vampires and werewolves to evil killer plants and mean-tempered zombies.
I’m takin’ care of business
Chasing Danger: The Case Files of Theron Chase by Richard C. White: The popular author of Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination, Harbinger of Darkness, and For a Few Gold Pieces More takes a walk on the noirish side of dark urban fantasy with this collection of stories starring a private eye whose clientele are of the supernatural kind—werewolves, mer-folk, and the like. Think Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe meets Lev Grossman’s The Magicians—with all the strangeness that goes with it!
Blood & Iron: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 3 by Steven A. Roman: The conclusion to Pan’s first epic literary adventure brings to a head all the action from the previous novels, Blood Feud and Blood Reign. Trapped on an island of monsters and fallen angels, what can she, her maybe-kinda new boyfriend (they’re still working on the details) Javier, and their immortal-shape-shifting, monster-hunting mentor, Annie, do to prevent a horrorpocalypse? Is that even a word? Will Pan live long enough to consult a dictionary? Do they have dictionaries on monster isle? Guess we’ll all find out!
Rejoice, comic fans! The fourth issue of 
Then welcome aboard! In case you’re wondering who we are, StarWarp Concepts is a publisher of dark-fantasy and fantasy novels, comic books, and graphic novels that are available for sale in brick-and-mortar stores and through select online booksellers and distributors (as well as our own webstore, of course).
Dark urban fantasy: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback is a young adult, dark-urban-fantasy novel series written by Steven A. Roman. It stars a 16-year-old Goth girl who’s spent the last decade being treated for mental health problems because she can see monsters. It’s only after she meets a shape-shifting monster hunter named Sebastienne “Annie” Mazarin, in the first novel, 
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Classic literature: Know a reader with a passion for genre literature? They might be interested in our line of illustrated classics. 
2018: Well, there was a year that could have gone better for us. Just ask Goth Eeyore over there.
That’s right: Although SWC officially launched as a publishing house in 1993, Lori made her comics debut in SWC’s first-ever release in 1989, in the pages of the Lorelei One-Shot Special. A digest-size, b&w small-press comic written and drawn by yours truly, it was my first attempt at doing my own comic book, with all the mistakes and lessons learned that come with being a first-time self-publisher. Sure, the final result was kinda rough, with my hand lettering and an art style that fell somewhere between Archie comics and Frank Thorne’s Red Sonja (are you familiar with the story of the 
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