VIGILANTES OF LOVE, John Everson's second book-length collection of short horror and dark fantasy fiction, was originally issued in 2003 by Chicago-based Twilight Tales, the year before a limited edition of his first Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, COVENANT, was released by Delirium Books. VIGILANTES OF LOVE focuses more on dark fantasy than the more extreme erotic horror of his first short fiction collection, CAGE OF BONES & OTHER DEADLY OBSESSIONS. It includes 15 dark fantasy and horror tales, including the voodoo-zombie oriented title story, written especially for the collection, "Calling of the Moon," which received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology, and "Lovesong" a 5th Place winner in the 2000 World Horror Convention Fiction Contest. It also includes two light fantasy Christmas tales ("Frost" and "Christmas The Hard Way") and tales reprinted from the anthologies TRANSVERSIONS and FREAKS, GEEKS & SIDESHOW FLOOZIES, and the magazines SIRIUS VISIONS, CROSSROADS, EULOGY and PLOT.
Author
John Everson is a former newspaper reporter who writes thrillers filled with erotic horror and supernatural suspense. He is the author of the Bram Stoker Award winner Covenant, and finalist NightWhere, which reviewers called "50 Shades Meets Hellraiser!" He is also the creator of the characters Danika and Mila Dubov, seen in the Netflix series V-Wars, based on the books created by Jonathan Maberry. Booklist said his recent New Orleans novel, Voodoo Heart, "is a solid blend of supernatural horror and hard-boiled detective fiction, and should appeal to horror devotees as well as mystery buffs” while Living Dead Magazine called him "the master of dark and sexy." Follow John on the BookBub: John Everson page for information on book sales and new releases as well as on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at www.johneverson.com.
