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            <title><![CDATA[It Pierces: A Folk Horror]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:55:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/971/1*adO-YK2lh9-7Q4oh_eJm9A.png" /></figure><p><em>For fans of The Ritual and The Only Good Indians</em></p><p>In the frostbitten autumn of 1935, four Marine veterans of the Small Wars in Latin America reunite for a weekend hunt in the remote Adirondacks. Their ritual of brotherhood curdles into terror when they trespass against the forest’s ancient sanctity.</p><p>What begins as a hunt becomes a descent into supernatural horror, as they awaken something older than the mountains and bound to the land itself.</p><p>Atmospheric and unsettling, It Pierces is a chilling tale of guilt, folklore, and the consequences of the violence in men’s hearts.</p><p>No sin goes unpunished.</p><p>RELEASES SEPTEMBER 8, 2026. Preorder Today!</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pierces-Folk-Horror-Jack-Finn-ebook/dp/B0G3CTR5XB">https://www.amazon.com/Pierces-Folk-Horror-Jack-Finn-ebook/dp/B0G3CTR5XB</a></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=6bd0ee96738b" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[WILSON]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:39:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/943/1*Kn-9zj9oEW2od_-SJZyFCg.png" /></figure><p><em>Perfect for fans of </em><strong><em>A Nightmare on Elm Street </em></strong><em>and </em><strong><em>Carnivale.</em></strong></p><p>For years, Wilson has travelled with a carnival of oddities across 1940s America, a serial killer hidden among the workers and attractions. Working the carnival’s photo booth, Wilson possesses a camera with the hidden ability to capture the secret dreams and desires of its subjects on film. However, in doing so, the camera carves a pathway into the person’s mind that Wilson can traverse in their dreams.</p><p>Transforming into a beast of incredible strength, cruelty, and insatiable hunger; Wilson hunts, rends, and devours his victims in their dreams, leaving their corporeal bodies little more than empty husks. He is the perfect serial killer. Undetectable. Untraceable.</p><p>However, Wilson is losing control. He is killing more often and closer to home, incurring the ire of the carnival’s proprietor and arousing the suspicions of the local police department. Despite endeavoring to curb his murderous desires, Wilson encounters Dahlia, a woman so flawless the camera only sees her as she is. Wilson becomes consumed with the thought of preying upon the woman, and defiling this living vision of perfection.</p><p>The desire to kill Dahlia draws Wilson into a web of deception and terror that even the most vicious serial killer cannot escape.</p><p>There is always a more skilled hunter.<br>There is always a more lethal killer.<br>There is always a more terrifying monster.</p><p>RELEASES FEBRUARY 10, 2026. PREORDER TODAY.</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wilson-Jack-Finn-ebook/dp/B0G3BHYS3V">https://www.amazon.com/Wilson-Jack-Finn-ebook/dp/B0G3BHYS3V</a></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=53fdda34481a" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[They Come When You Sleep]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:38:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THEY COME WHEN YOU SLEEP hit #10 in Horror Anthologies on release weekend.</p><p>If you like horror collections… If you like stories with wendigos, possessed dolls, vampires, werewolves, urban legends, angry forest spirits, &amp; a host of creatures to keep to you up at night…</p><p>Order today! <a href="https://t.co/W6YUPJzcjc">https://books2read.com/whenyousleep</a></p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/768/1*ySnA_Hoh4cbX7rijCPXmMw.png" /></figure><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=3aa23e459f25" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Red Queen, Yellow King: The Book of Alice]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:52:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*EmW_NxTNAiqsIpl1T4aPVQ.png" /></figure><p>Wonderland has fallen. And something older than kings has taken its place.</p><p>Alice returns to consciousness in a ruined palace, her body broken, her mind fractured, her sister enslaved by a queen who wears a crown of thorns and a smile of knives. The Looking Glass is shattered. The Hatter has turned. The White Queen is dead.</p><p>But beyond the bloody thrones and broken teacups lies something even stranger — an echo of a play that should never be performed, whispered by a masked god in yellow.</p><p>To save what little remains, Alice must navigate a sea of madness, hunt down a missing monarch, and confront the truth behind her own unraveling story.</p><p>Some fairy tales end in fire. Others in silence.</p><p>Welcome back to Neverland.</p><p>Nothing here survives unchanged.</p><p>RELEASES DECEMBER 28. PREORDER TODAY!</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Yellow-King-Alice-ebook/dp/B0G6ZNWFVK">https://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Yellow-King-Alice-ebook/dp/B0G6ZNWFVK</a></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=8718aaee72eb" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Free on Amazon 17–21 December]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:46:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/671/1*Y7zWVO9h_I6WiubhvAFEgw.png" /></figure><p>I am Jack Finn, a horror author in the Pacific Northwest. In 2023, I wrote an award-winning collection of short stories portraying witches, witchcraft, magick, and indigenous &amp; pagan religions in a positive light called The Legend of the Deer Woman &amp; Other Tales to Warm the Heart.</p><p>I wrote the stories because I felt there was a shortage of fiction families could enjoy that portrayed their beliefs as something other than villains.</p><p>The book has been well received and I am making the ebook version available free to download on Amazon from 17–21 December in celebration of the Winter Solstice.</p><p>If you are looking for something to read on a dark winter’s night, I hope you take a look &amp; let me know what you think!</p><p>All the best,</p><p>Jack Finn</p><p><a href="https://deref-mail.com/mail/client/IFH_LUyqTrw/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLegend-Deer-Woman-Other-Hearth-ebook%2Fdp%2FB0CBQ82HQ8">https://www.amazon.com/Legend-Deer-Woman-Other-Hearth-ebook/dp/B0CBQ82HQ8</a></p><p><strong>Legend of the Deer Woman &amp; Other Tales to Warm the Hearth</strong></p><p><strong>By Jack Finn</strong></p><p><em>2024 Second Place Bookfest Award Winner in the category of Supernatural Fiction — Magic, Legends, &amp; Lore</em></p><p><strong>The mysterious places inhabiting the world’s forests, mountains, and waters are the last vestiges of our ancient past. They echo a time when beings, some hideously dark and others beautifully magical, walked freely among us.</strong></p><p><strong>These tales tell of witches, gods, magick, valiant deeds, heartbreaking loss, and terrifying beasts, venerate our ancestors’ ancient ways and knowledge by interweaving tales remembered only by the oldest of trees into new, original stories for our generation.</strong></p><p><strong>Walk the ancient paths.</strong></p><p><strong>Embrace the old ways.</strong></p><p><strong>Honor your ancestors, for what is remembered, lives.</strong></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=da77c5264f35" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Culling of the House of Boars]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/@TheRealJackFinn/culling-of-the-house-of-boars-60cb516e468d?source=rss-27e058fec534------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1650/1*ozpGOQDWgZaqCHsjsjf6DQ.jpeg" width="1650"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">Strigoi.</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/@TheRealJackFinn/culling-of-the-house-of-boars-60cb516e468d?source=rss-27e058fec534------2">Continue reading on Medium »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:20:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Desolation of Hunters]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:58:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*tIPpAbkQGyCei7bmEFjI0Q.png" /></figure><p>As whispers of the wolf spread across the Russian Empire, Obrechen becomes the hunting ground for men more ruthless than the beast itself.</p><p>The Salamonsky Circus dispatches the cunning Valerian Rostov and his band of Cossacks to capture the wolf as a prized attraction. But they are not alone. The Tsar’s Imperial Huntsman, Arkady Volkov, and his Mongolian tracker are on a darker quest driven by vengeance.</p><p>Facing danger from all sides, Oksana and Leo find them trapped between rival forces. With the hunters closing in, the lines blur between predator and prey as those trapped in Obrechen hurtle toward a final deadly confrontation that will leave only the desolation of hunters.</p><p>The epic conclusion of The Wolves of Kalinin duology!</p><p>Preorder Today!</p><p><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-desolation-of-the-hunters-jack-finn/1147853448?ean=9798998977831">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-desolation-of-the-hunters-jack-finn/1147853448?ean=9798998977831</a></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=1a209e1c7e46" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Prey Upon the Lambs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:06:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>In the tradition of Brotherhood of the Wolf, comes a terrifying werewolf tale set in the final days of Czarist Russia.</em></p><p>As winter looms, a wolf of unusual size and intelligence descends upon the rural nineteenth-century Russian village of Obrechen. Forgoing local livestock, the beast preys upon human victims, confounding the local constabulary and hunters, whose efforts to kill the beast meet with disaster.</p><p>The village priest blames the wolf’s deprivations on the presence of Galina Sekova, mistress of the Countess of Kalinin, secreted away in a cottage outside of Obrechen. Aided by a young village girl in her employ and an outcast boy orphaned by the pogroms of Kalinin, Galina seeks to unravel the wolf’s secret before they become its next victims.</p><p>This is the first of an incredible forthcoming duology. The final book, The Desolation of Hunters will be released September 2025.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/486/1*W_OBm0RJGpHzvG1YYCJpew.png" /></figure><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=817ad4dc4a81" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Shadow Upon the Shore]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/@TheRealJackFinn/a-shadow-upon-the-shore-a5836fae2ded?source=rss-27e058fec534------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*buhqaf6KiqNmaMyg" width="3069"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">Tim Asher stood on the bridge of the Sea Spike and watched the small fleet of fishing boats fan out into a wide semi-circle. His dark eyes&#x2026;</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/@TheRealJackFinn/a-shadow-upon-the-shore-a5836fae2ded?source=rss-27e058fec534------2">Continue reading on Medium »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:24:53 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2023-06-23T14:24:53.974Z</atom:updated>
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            <title><![CDATA[By the Dark of the New Moon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/@TheRealJackFinn/by-the-dark-of-the-new-moon-6a9f6b7f5568?source=rss-27e058fec534------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/680/1*I6fZD4f2FGRkTREDOJmyfA.png" width="680"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">&#x201C;There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.&#x201D;&#x200A;&#x2014;&#x200A;Patrick Rothfuss,</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/@TheRealJackFinn/by-the-dark-of-the-new-moon-6a9f6b7f5568?source=rss-27e058fec534------2">Continue reading on Medium »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 21:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2023-04-27T21:00:19.364Z</atom:updated>
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