{"id":1113,"date":"2019-09-13T00:26:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2021-02-25T00:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T00:40:55","slug":"on-the-night-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/on-the-night-border\/","title":{"rendered":"ON THE NIGHT BORDER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is publication day for my new horror collection, On the Night Border, published by Raw Dog Screaming Press, with an introduction by Linda Addison. Thrilled to have this in print! I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dark things stir in the night. When the world sleeps and quiet settles in, shadows assume sinister shapes, guilt and regret well up from the mind\u2019s deepest recesses, and the lonely face their greatest fears. Darkness bares the secret truths whispered on the lips of the lost and the desperate. At night, terrors come alive. For those who journey too far into the dark, no escape remains\u2014but there is a place from which to view these nightmares, a place\u2026on the night border. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/On-the-Night-Border-by-James-Chambers-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1114\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/On-the-Night-Border-by-James-Chambers.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/On-the-Night-Border-by-James-Chambers-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For sale<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07TSFT83V\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rawdogscreaming.com\/books\/on-the-night-border\/\">Raw Dog Screaming Press<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/on-the-night-border-james-chambers\/1132051596\">Barnes and Noble<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifteen stories collected here come from the last edge of the light and deliver glimpses into the dreadful, the mysterious, and the strange. These stories offer readers unsettling and weird visions from across the border, visions out of history and from the world around us, visions of cosmic horror, personal madness, and agonizing heartbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A literary legend confronts the reality of a chaotic, uncaring universe. A young girl grows up in the shadow of a ferocious monster. A man seeks to kill his memories. Love defeats death in an odd world not unlike our own. An artist\u2019s drawings unlock a terrifying truth of his adopted city. A mask burns. The mother of plagues offers a deadly future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers will find here all of these and many other visions of what lies on the far side of the line, including, by special arrangement, stories of Lin Carter\u2019s Anton Zarnak and Kolchak, the Night Stalker. Walk up to the edge. Listen to the whispers on the wind. Peer across at the terrors beyond from your vantage point\u2026<em>on the night border!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What They\u2019re Saying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLeave the comfort of what you think you know behind and journey through the dark imaginings of James Chambers, an author with the talent to turn ordinary places and familiar people into our worst nightmares in this latest collection. Get this book now!\u201d \u2014Rena Mason, Bram Stoker Award\u00ae winning author of&nbsp;<em>The Evolutionist<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>East End Girls<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn his new collection&nbsp;<em>On the Night Border<\/em>, James Chambers tells stories with the uneasy familiarity of urban legends or tales told around a campfire on a chilly fall evening. Some of the stories you may have read, others leap out at you for the first time. \u201cKolchak The Night Stalker: The Lost Boy\u201d fluidly takes you back to that \u201970s television show, while the closer, \u201cRed Mami,\u201d is a stunner.&nbsp; Highly recommended!\u201d \u2014Multi Bram Stoker Award-Nominated John F.D. Taff, Author of&nbsp;<em>Little Black Spots<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Fearing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201c<em>On the Night Border<\/em>&nbsp;is an assemblage of wonderfully-horrific tales by a writer madly in love with language. The fictions within are chambers of storytelling madness that, once fully explored, each and every one, infect the reader into wanting more, more, more.\u201d \u2014Michael Bailey, author of&nbsp;<em>Psychotropic Dragon<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Seven Minutes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is publication day for my new horror collection, On the Night Border, published by Raw Dog Screaming Press, with an introduction by Linda Addison. Thrilled to have this in print! I hope you enjoy it! Dark things stir in the night. When the world sleeps and quiet settles in, shadows assume sinister shapes, guilt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/on-the-night-border\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ON THE NIGHT BORDER&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[134,126,125],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-linda-d-addison","tag-on-the-night-border","tag-raw-dog-screaming-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}