Newt's Update #75
Newt's Update provides subscribers with news on the author's latest work, upcoming releases, and events. This week, he announces The Horror at Hargrave Hall is available as an eBook or Paperback.
Newt's Update
NEWS
THE BLACK FOG has been awarded 5 stars by READERS’ FAVOURITE and will feature in their latest publication.
A few dates for everyone
15th February - The Doting Wife is released as a free horror short story.
1st March - The Heretical Birth is released (name subject to change).
15th March - The Black Widow is released as a free horror short story.
5th April - Tales of the Macabre. A collected works of sixteen tales of spine tingling terror is released on Amazon. The debut collection of Newton Webb.
OUT THIS WEEK
THE HORROR AT HARGRAVE HALL by Newton Webb, available for preorder:
A devastating secret. A sinister entity. A race against time to survive.
This is the longest novella that I’ve published so far, but I really connected with it and am very happy with how it worked out.
WHAT AM I WORKING ON NOW?
Second draft of THE HERETICAL BIRTH
Editing TALES OF THE MACABRE.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The debut novel of Newton Webb, NESTOR LYNCH.
The Horror at Hargrave Hall by Newton Webb
A devastating secret. A sinister entity. A race against time to survive.
Deep in the Yorkshire countryside, the ancestral hall of the Hargrave family hides a dark secret.
When Jonathan, a lonely child growing up in the shadow of his father Reginald, leaves the estate, he discovers a forgotten grove that awakens a sinister entity.
Death haunts the corridors of the ancient house. Will the Hargrave family discover the truth about the entity or will it consume them?
Free Story Compilations
ALL THINGS CREEPY. Featuring 63 horror stories. Including: THE SINFUL CHILD, TERROR FROM THE TRASH, ROCK BOTTOM, THE IRON DOOR, THE TOKOLOSHE, THE COCONUT KILLER, THE ILLUSIVE PASSENGER.
SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON. Featuring 54 horror stories. Including: THE SINFUL CHILD.
TALES OF THE MACABRE. Featuring 14 horror stories, free to those with Kindle Unlimited. Including: FESTIVAL OF THE DAMNED, SMOKE IN THE SEWERS, THE BALLAD OF BARNACLE BILL, THE BLACK FOG, THE HEIR APPARENT, THE HORROR AT HARGRAVE HALL, THE MORRÍGAN, THE PLATINUM SERVICE.
TERRIFYING ADVENTURES. Featuring 14 horror stories. Including: THE COCONUT KILLER, THE IRON DOOR, THE SINFUL CHILD, THE TOKOLOSHE.
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TRIBE OF DAUGHTERS, by Kate L. Mary, FREE on Kindle Unlimited, otherwise available for purchase.
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SLICED AND DICED, by Joan De La Haye, FREE on Kindle Unlimited, otherwise available for purchase.
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THE EDGE OF INSANITY, by James Flynn, available for purchase.
Ten terrifying, disturbing short stories written with the cold hand of insanity.
Mixing horror with science fiction, this short story collection contains an eclectic mix of tales ranging from the weird, all the way to the downright creepy.
Within these tainted pages you will find an entire town ravaged by an organic growth hungry for blood, a twisted cult living on a tropical island, a sinister video game arcade with a shady secret, and many more peculiar oddities too gruesome to even mention.
ALL THE LITTLE HEDGEHOGS, by Leigh Kimmel, FREE on Kindle Unlimited, otherwise available for purchase.
Yona wondered why everyone kept steering him toward a military career, until one of his teachers noticed his aptitude for genetics. Now he's the personal student of Academician Voronsky, working in a secret genetic engineering facility in a closed town.
However, Yona keeps having to spend as much time babysitting the Academician's adopted son Kolya as actually doing genetics. When this extra assignment becomes a frustration, Yona learns just how quickly privileges can be retracted.
And then he starts learning just how deep the secrets of the Soviet human genetics program really goes.
A WORLD FALLEN, by Nicholas Carter, FREE on Kindle Unlimited, otherwise available for purchase.
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BELLADONA, by Sian B. Claven, FREE on Kindle Unlimited, otherwise available for purchase.
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Awards Scoreboard
Newton Webb: 1
Charles X Cross: 0