Newt's Nightmares #103

Newt's Nightmares provide subscribers with news on the author's latest work, upcoming releases, and events.

Sep 04, 2024

Newt's Nightmares

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Greetings, my wicked darlings!

The lineup for Tales of the Macabre Vol. 3 has been completed (as always subject to change) and is off to my copy editor. At the moment, we are looking at eighteen frightful fables, although I really want to make it nineteen… Either way, I’m really excited to be unveiling the concluding part of the trilogy. What’s your favourite story from Tales of the Macabre?

Where do I go next? Well, we’ll be releasing an enormous book, a special edition combining all the stories from Tales of the Macabre in a chunky hardback with all kinds of premium features, but that is more of a job for my editors and beta readers, really. What do I do? I could wander around listlessly for a bit. We have a splendid 11th-century Norman church just five minutes’ walk away that could use a haunting. Or I could take up a new vice… could I? I thought that, like Pokémon, I’d caught them all. Maybe I should return to my roots and write another novel?

Whatever I do, and no matter how many ales I’m plied with, I absolutely should not sign up to produce another trilogy of short stories. Next newsletter, I’ll let you know what the Newt will get up to in his next literary adventure (if we are realistic, it’s definitely going to be another trilogy of short stories, isn’t it?).

Last month, I released two free eBooks, The Winter Wraiths and The Catfish Killer, for download or to read online. I released five audiobooks, The Croydon Ripper, Lassitude, The Black Shuck. I also promised two versions of Mind Games. One version of Mind Games to be narrated by myself for Newton’s Tales of the Macabre, the other by ElevenLabs for Phantom Frequencies. I really want to know how they compare? Which do you prefer? Let me know.

This month, I’ve been taking a journey into 1962—bell bottoms and go-go boots are the order of the day and you’d better believe the girls’ hair is bouffant! The working title is The Blighted Child, but I’m likely to change that. I’m also hoping to finish The Butcher of Bath.

The installation team will set up the new kitchen on the 18th, so I'm excited to start cooking up a storm. Though it is a relatively big job as it’ll be a large kitchen (by UK standards where, like Harry Potter, we all live in closets).

Wait. Just to be clear, I might live in a closet, but I am not trapped in the closet.

Phew, well, that went on longer than anticipated. Anyway, over to you. I hope you are all doing wonderfully and are reading some wondrously terrifying tomes.

Sweet screams,

Newt

PS: Many thanks to Readers Favourite for their 5* review for TotM 1!

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New Releases

Coming up this month, I have some horrific treats in store for you with four free audiobooks. I am also hoping to release two eBooks, but with the work on TotM v3, they might get pushed to October.

6th September 2024 - The Diadem of Kings (Audiobook)
Betrayed and disinherited, José leads a doomed expedition into the heart of the jungle in search of an ancient treasure.

13th September 2024 - The Winter Wraiths (Audiobook)
Trapped in a crumbling manor during a harsh winter, a governess and her young charge must uncover its dark secrets before time runs out, or risk being consumed by its curse.

20th September 2024 - A Portrait of Sin (Audiobook)
The sunlit alleys of sixteenth-century Florence hide a dark and tragic struggle as a brilliant painter battles a devastating creative block.

27th September 2024 - The Catfish Killer (Audiobook)
In the chilling depths of online dating, Jedd's predatory pursuit of vulnerable women traps him in a nightmare when he matches with more than he expected.

In case you missed them, last month, we released the following:

9th August 2024 - The Black Shuck (Audiobook)
Confronted by her own demons, Tina embarks on a harrowing journey, navigating through guilt, fear, and the restless spirits of the wronged.

16th August 2024 - Lassitude (Audiobook)
Mystery, peril, insanity intertwine. In the depths of writer's block and personal despair, Alfie encounters a mysterious stranger in a Soho bar.

21th August 2024 - The Catfish Killer (eBook)
Jedd's careless catfishing triggers a catastrophic chain of events, plunges him into a nightmarish battle for survival.

23st August 2024 - The Croydon Ripper (Audiobook)
The Croydon Ripper's reign of terror casts a shadow over Sheila's life, transforming her daily walk home from the library into a journey fraught with suspicion.

28rd August 2024 - The Winter Wraiths (eBook)
Trapped in a crumbling manor during a harsh winter, a governess and her young charge must uncover its dark secrets before time runs out, or risk being consumed by its curse.

30th August 2024 - The Two Leg Brother (Audiobook)
Greyhair, the last of his pack, is hunted by bloodthirsty men through an unforgiving forest. When he crosses paths with a lone two-leg, they form an uneasy truce.

Horror Story Compilations

Hair Raising Reads: 75 FREE horror stories, including ‘A Portrait of Sin’, ‘Lassitude’, ‘Mind Games’, ‘The Winter Wraiths,’ ‘The Catfish Killer.’

Chilling Reads: 103 horror stories, including ‘Tales of the Macabre, Vol. 1’, ‘Tales of the Macabre, Vol. 2’, ‘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 Blood Eagle.’

What I’ve Been Watching

I watched and made video reviews for several movies as part of Cinema Society Saturday:

If you enjoyed this email, then please consider Tales of the Macabre, Vol. 1. My first collected works on Amazon containing sixteen short stories and novellas by Newton Webb.