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 | Nov 27, 2025 | Updates
Crystal Lake welcomes M.L. Rayner! Born and bred in the county of Staffordshire. Matt is a keen reader of classical, horror and fantasy literature and enjoys writing in the style of traditional ghost stories. During his working life, Matt joined the ambulance service...
by Joe Mynhardt | Nov 14, 2025 | Updates
Doors are open. Lights are off. The Exorcist’s House Kindle sale ends Nov 20—get it before the darkness does. Grab it here! Continue the nightmare with the full Exorcist’s House Universe trilogy. Three books. One haunting. Endless...
