THE HAUNTING OF KRAKEN MOOR Now Available in Paperback and Kindle Formats

My latest novel, THE HAUNTING OF KRAKEN MOOR is now available for purchase in paperback and Kindle formats.

From the back cover:

“The castle, a massive singular structure of grey, surrounded by high walls that hold three towers, is called Kraken Moor, named by the seafaring captain who made a fortune and lost his mind in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean.” -Beatrice Sharper, 31 December 1864

In 1863, a wealthy girl of the American South runs away from her family’s plantation to chart her own course in life. A tough eighteen months later, 19-year old Beatrice Sharper takes a job at a housekeeper in Kraken Moor, an ancient castle in the east of England. From her first moments in the house’s employ, strange happenings abound, and Beatrice finds herself embroiled in a supernatural plot by an ancient evil to return to Earth and destroy all in its path.

This is the journal of Beatrice Sharper, written as the nightmarish events unfolded for two harrowing months at the beginning of 1865.

KRAKEN MOOR is a horror novel with some adult situations. I (or rather, Beatrice) wrote the novel as a series of journal entries, so we see Beatrice’s descent into the supernatural world of Kraken Moor unfold as it happened, day by day.

Beatrice’s journey takes her from Kraken Moor to London and to Hell and then back again. She comes face to face with the three demons of the estate: Kadul, the goat demon, Kanarl, the wolf demon, and Tchitok, the snake demon. Was force in Heaven or Hell could have the three demons spooked, and why is Beatrice important to their plans of escape?

There are allies, too: Mrs. Cotts, the Head of Staff; Lady Coraline, the sister to Captain Shepherd; Remy and Julie Lafayette, brother and sister vampires, and Charles Francis Poseidon, a demon hunter much older than he appears.

And on top of all this, Beatrice is given the opportunity to reunite with the love of her life, a man she thought she had lost in the American Civil War. All she has to do to spend eternity with him is give Kadul her soul.

THE HAUNTING OF KRAKEN MOOR is now available for purchase in paperback and Kindle formats.

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Mark Bousquet is the author of several novels and collections, including The Haunting of Kraken Moor, Gunfighter Gothic, Stuffed Animals for Hire, Dreamer’s Syndrome, Harpsichord and the Wormhole Witches, and Adventures of the Five. He has also published a review collection entitled Marvel Comics on Film, which covers every cinematic and TV movie based on a superhero from the House of Ideas. A complete listing of all his work can be found at his Amazon author page.

ATOMIC REACTIONS: MARVEL COMICS ON FILM Now Available on Kindle!

The Kindleversion of ATOMIC REACTIONS: MARVEL COMICS ON FILM is now available for purchase at Amazon. I’m really pleased with how it’s turned out.

Here’s the KINDLE link and here’s the PAPERBACK link.

Taken from my reviews here, MARVEL COMICS ON FILM contains every single one of my Marvel reviews, and covers every single instance of Marvel Comics on film that I’m aware of.

Here’s the book’s Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

Fade from Black

Part One: The Marvel Cinematic Universe
1. Iron Man (2008)
2. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
3. Iron Man 2 (2010)
4. Thor (2011)
5. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
6. Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)

The Avengers Reactions
1. The Hawkeye Reaction
2. The Agent Coulson Reaction
3. The Black Widow Reaction
4. The Nick Fury Reaction
5. The Maria Hill Reaction
6. The Captain America Reaction
7. The Chitauri/Thanos Reaction
8. The Hulk Reaction
9. The Thor Reaction
10. The Loki Reaction
11. The Iron Man Reaction

Marvel One-Shots
1. The Consultant, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer, and Item 47

Part Two: Spider-Man
The Sam Raimi Trilogy
1. Spider-Man (2002)
2. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
3. Spider-Man 3 (2007)

The Marc Webb Relaunch
4. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Part Three: The X-Men
1. X-Men (2000)
2. X2: X-Men United (2003)
3. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
4. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
5. X-Men: First Class (2011)

Part Four: Blade
1. Blade (1998)
2. Blade II (2002)
3. Blade: Trinity (2004)

Part Five: The Punisher
1. The Punisher (1989)
2. The Punisher (2004)
3. Punisher: War Zone (2008)

Part Six: The Fantastic Four
1. Fantastic Four (1994)
2. Fantastic Four (2005)
3. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Part Seven: Ghost Rider
1. Ghost Rider (2007)
2. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)

Part Eight: Daredevil & Elektra
1. Daredevil (2003)
2. Elektra (2005)

Part Nine: The Non-MCU Avengers
1. Captain America (1944 serial)
2. Captain America (1990)
3. Hulk (2003)

Part Ten: The Nexus of All Realities
1. Howard the Duck (1986)
2. Man-Thing (2005)

Part Eleven: The TV Movies
1. Captain America (1979)
2. Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
3. Dr. Strange (1978)
4. Generation X (1996)
5. The Incredible Hulk (1977 pilot)
6. The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988)
7. The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)
8. The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990)
9. Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998)
10. Power Pack (1991)
11. Spider-Man (1977 pilot)

Part Twelve: The Marvel Animated Movies
1. The Invincible Iron Man (2007)
2. Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme (2007)
3. Hulk Vs. (2009)
4. Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (2008)
5. Planet Hulk (2010)
6. Thor: Tales of Asgard (2011)
7. Ultimate Avengers (2006)
8. Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006)

GUNFIGHTER GOTHIC: BLOOD OF THE UNIVERSE Now Available in Paperback!

GUNFIGHTER GOTHIC: BLOOD OF THE UNIVERSE is now available in paperback for $6.99 from Amazon! Or on the Kindle for $2.99.

GUNFIGHTER GOTHIC is my umbrella title for the supernatural western adventures of Hanna and Jill. Originally created for PulpWork Press’ HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD, VOLUME 2, Hanna and Jill are now setting off on their own adventures.

Here’s the product description:

It’s 1866 and Jill (a white, merchant’s daughter) and Hanna (a Korean-American servant in the merchant’s house) have fled to the American West to start a new life on their own terms.

They boarded a train in Kansas City, and before the morning was over, they had fought werewolves and vampires, partnered with Bellingham, a time-traveling British secret agent, and made an enemy of Mrs. Lincoln.

And then the train jumped its tracks, crashing violently, and killing Jill.

Hanna is despondent until Bellingham reveals his real reason for being in 1866: the Universe Cutter, a knife with the power to resurrect the dead. All they have to do is find it.

To bring Jill back, Hanna will partner with two time travelers and President Grant’s right-hand man, and battle Confederates, werewolves, lizard men, sun worshipping cultists, and a man from the end of time. All for a chance to bring back the woman she loves … a woman who will never love her back.

GUNFIGHTER GOTHIC VOL. 0: BLOOD OF THE UNIVERSE also features the back-up tale, “Appetite for Appeasement,” starring Bellingham.

And here’s an excerpt from “Blood of the Universe”:

Flames ripped through the caboose. The train car was on its back and tilted at an obscure angle, putting one end ten feet higher than the other. Roof was floor and floor was roof. There had been a crash. The Morgan train had jumped its tracks almost two hours outside of Kansas City, headed west. Five bodies littered the roof-turned-floor, lying in a bed of low fire.

None of them moved for a very long time.

The caboose would have already surrendered itself and its occupants to the flame but for the presence of the heavy-set woman trapped beneath a sofa. Her name was Mary Todd Lincoln, widowed for just over a year, the price paid for an assassin’s bullet in her husband’s brain. The caboose was reinforced against Indian attack and train robbers, and so while the rest of the scattered train burned wildly outside in the plains in the early afternoon light, the caboose stubbornly held together.

The door at the higher end of the car was forced open and the influx of fresh oxygen caused the flames to rage anew. Five men dressed in red coats, black pants, and black bowler hats moved into the car.

“Sir!” one of the Haverton agents yelled in a British accent as he moved down the car, pointing at a man wearing a dark red duster who was lying face down on the floor. “Is he one of us? The pants are the same, but the jacket …?”

Winthrop, the barrel-chested senior officer among this group of private security agents, put his boot to the burning body and rolled the man onto his back, the tilt of the caboose threatening to. Flames had taken half the agent’s face, leaving a grotesque version of a once handsome man. The senior officer grunted roughly. “He’s above your pay grade. Leave the bastard.”

“But-!”

The officer pulled out a six shooter and put a bullet in the young agent’s head. “Did we forget we are not a democracy? Anyone else feel like questioning me today?” he roared to his men inside the burning car.

The remaining three Havertons said nothing else about the melted man in the maroon duster. Likewise, they ignored the Korean woman trapped beneath an overturned chair, an obviously dead white woman with a broken neck, and a small boy with half of his face blown off. Moving professionally and calmly despite the roaring flames, the men in red coats moved to the First Lady and dragged her body less-than-gently from the train, where they loaded her into a track-driven steam transport car. They headed east.

GUNFIGHTER GOTHIC: BLOOD OF THE UNIVERSE is now available in paperback for $6.99 from Amazon! Or on the Kindle for 99 cents.