by Joe Mynhardt | Dec 4, 2025 | Updates
Crystal Lake welcomes author Sam M. Phillips! Sam’s dark cyberpunk vampire novel CRYPTO BLOOD will be released in 2027 through Crystal Lake’s Torrid Waters imprint with editor Kenneth W. Cain. About the story: In Halo City, vampires prey on users of...
by Joe Mynhardt | Dec 3, 2025 | Updates
Tell us a bit more about you and where you’re from. Armand: Born and raised in New Jersey but moved to Florida in 2001. Married to a wonderful, supportive woman who keeps me grounded and lets me bounce ideas off of her, and tells me when they’re awful. Sometimes she...
by Joe Mynhardt | Dec 3, 2025 | Updates
Crystal Lake welcomes author Jay Bechtol! Jay’s book Quimmering Springs will be released in 2026. Jay Bechtol writes horror and speculative fiction. His short stories can be found in multiple places including Penumbric, Uncharted, The No Sleep Podcast, and at...
by Joe Mynhardt | Dec 3, 2025 | blog, For the Authors
I’ve been taking in a lot lately—creatively, mentally, spiritually. Reading, listening, learning, interviewing people far smarter than me. And somewhere in the middle of all that, I realized something about myself… and about what actually makes people happy. For me,...
by Joe Mynhardt | Dec 2, 2025 | New Releases
A terrifying new take on the most famous ghost story of all time. From award-winning author Luciano Marano comes Humbug—a gruesome, noir-infused reimagining of A Christmas Carol that blends supernatural horror, crime thriller, and psychological suspense into one...
