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“Timothy Roderick’s haunting book Dark the Halls bridges the gap between old Hollywood and Dickens’s supernatural fable of holiday regret, with a dastardly dash of Citizen Kane thrown in for good measure. But this is not some fond, faint-hearted recasting—with whip-smart dialogue and mordant humor, Roderick paints a vivid picture of early cinematic ambition and sly cruelty. It’s all here: the glitz, the glamour, the goats and the ghosts, but Roderick brings a mad screwball energy to this surefooted, surprisingly terrifying tale. Dark the Halls is for everyone who feels like the holidays need a bit more … blood.”
~~ Polly Schattel, author of Shadowdays

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Coming October 2025!
Dark the Halls

Bramwell Finch, once the toast of 1930s Hollywood, is now a desperate man. His empire of lights-camera-action, and the glittering nights of champagne toasts and Laurel Awards slip further from reach. But on Christmas Eve, an invitation arrives, summoning him to a forgotten corner of his own studio lot and to a screening room that should not exist.What unfolds there is a nightmare.Reels spin by unseen hands, but they do not flicker out old Hollywood glamor. The departed have waited in the wings far too long. And here in this spectral late-night feature, Finch finds himself imprisoned in a nightmare of his own making. Blood. Betrayals. Dark secrets he thought safe in shadow. Every one of them a sin upon which he built his celluloid kingdom.The house is full tonight. And every tormented soul demands the price of admission.

“Dark the Halls casts a spell as eerie as it is unforgettable…. Gothic storytelling at its finest—haunting and stylish.”
~~ Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird: A Memoir“…A richly textured tale of deceit, greed, and betrayal that weaves together the glamorous and the foul, the living and the dead, brittle illusion and harsh reality…. Read on if you dare.”
~~ Laura Perry, author of The Bed and The Last Priestess of Malia“Gripping, gritty, and deeply haunting. Roderick takes us on a journey through time in this novel about the consequences of ambition and silence…. A deeply moving and intimate portrayal….”
~~ Benjamin Stimpson, author of Ancestral Whispers and Of Doves and Ravens

Cornbones

If you take from it, it will take from you...Henry Rustin’s luck has run out, perhaps for the last time. Little does he know his troubles have only begun. When a last-chance horse bet goes awry, he skips town to outpace the mob, heading to yet another easy-money opportunity. It’s in a place where they’ll never find him—a tiny Pennsylvania farming town named Harveston. But the longer he stays, the more he realizes the townsfolk, with their strange customs and superstitions, live in fear of something hidden and deadly—a vengeful presence that hunts for blood amid the lonely, dried-up cornfields. “If you take from it, it will take from you,” the townsfolk warn. When Henry tries to sell an inherited farmhouse to pay off the mob and start his life over, he learns that there’s no going back. No one has ever left the forgotten little town without paying the ultimate price.
December 2024: Best of Horror, Malevolent Dark Magazine

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Nine Zero One Three

They're dead. They're gone. How far would you go to bring them back?After witnessing her parents' death, nothing is the same for Rachel. Her sister abandons her to the lonely halls of Saint Cyprian's Psychiatric Hospital, never suspecting what might come of this desperate act. It was for the child's own good, after all. But lurking in those isolated passages came spirits of the damned, bearing gifts to forsaken children: a book of prayer summoning unimaginable evil, whispering unspeakable promises.Nearly two decades on, terror grips the sleepy island community of Catalina when its residents go missing one by one. But Rachel knows the secrets behind those who find themselves vanished. She knows the past can never be forgotten; it can only be appeased.If you enjoyed the heart pounding thrillers by Dean Koontz and Leslie Wolfe, or the twists and turns found in works by Kiersten White, you'll love this chilling novel of secrets, lies, and diabolical revelations.

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One Crooked Thing

What you don't know can kill you.Something sinister has followed Ren Larson home through the dark winding roads of Los Angeles. Since he began investigating a series of murders, it has made its presence known. It murmurs in shadowed hallways. It watches from mirrors and whispers to his six-year-old child. It waits. His doctor says he's got a case of war nerves. His housekeeper warns of a malevolent spirit, maybe only folklore from her Caribbean childhood. But no one can stop the foul thing, she says, until it devours the soul for which it hungers--a soul that has ripened with a secret sin.

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Briar Blackwood's Grimmest of Fairytales

Briar Blackwood can't fit in anywhere. She’s living a not-so-fairytale life with a drunkard foster mother and her two detestable daughters. Meanwhile, the kids at school laugh her off as a crack-pot wanna-be ghoul. When an old iron key that she wears unexpectedly opens a secret doorway, she’s drawn into a hidden and bloodthirsty world of curses, dark magic and twisted tales-within-tales. Now she must find her way back and save her friends along the way before she vanishes forever in those lost Realms. But a dark and unstoppable power growing within Briar just might help her go toe to toe with dragons, voracious elves, big-bad-wolves, and a wicked queen bent on her destruction.

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