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About Kristopher Triana
Kristopher Triana is an author of horror and crime fiction.
His novels include "Full Brutal" (Winner of the 2019 Splatterpunk Award for Best Horror Novel), "Gone to See The River Man", "Shepherd of the Black Sheep", "The Thirteenth Koyote" and many more. He has authored two short story collections, "Blood Relations" and "Growing Dark", the latter of which was called "a must read" by Rue Morgue Magazine. His books have been translated into multiple languages, and his short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Chiral Mad 4, Cemetery Dance, and The Year's Best Hardcore Horror, to name a few.
His work has drawn praise from Publisher's Weekly, Scream Magazine, Rue Morgue Magazine, Cemetery Dance, The Horror Fiction Review and The Ginger Nuts of Horror.
He lives in Connecticut.
Follow him at: kristophertriana.com
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Have you seen A Serbian Film?
How about Salo?
Martyrs?
You ain’t seen nothing yet!
After six years and more than fifty authors, Blood Bound Books completes the Unholy Trinity D.O.A. III, featuring stories from Bentley Little, John Skipp, Kristopher Triana, Shane McKenzie, John McNee, Wrath James White, Jack Ketchum, Ed Lee, and more
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll vomit
Experience a new type of extreme horror—blood, guts, and a story
These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actors or authors. Or even serial killers.
Lori is just such a fanatic. Her obsession is with Edmund Cox, a man of sadistic cruelty who butchered more than twenty women. She’s gone so far as to forge a relationship with him, visiting him in prison and sending him letters on a regular basis. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she eagerly accepts it.
She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.
Edmund tells her she must go to his cabin in the woods of Killen and retrieve a key to deliver to a mysterious figure known only as The River Man.
In her quest, she brings along her handicapped sister, and they journey through the deep, dark valley, beginning their trip upriver. The trip quickly becomes a surreal nightmare, one that digs up Lori’s personal demons, the ones she feels bonds her to Edmund. The river runs with flesh, the cabin is a vault of horrors, and ghostly blues music echoes through the mountains. Soon they will learn that The River Man is not quite fact or folklore, and definitely not human -- at least, not anymore. And the key is just the beginning of what is required of Lori to prove she’s worthy of a madman’s love.
“Having already proved himself a master of extreme horror with Full Brutal, in Gone To See The River Man, Triana shows he is able to paint his uniquely disturbing visions with a much broader palette. This gloomily atmospheric novel is an excellent and unnerving exercise in steadily mounting dread and an inexorable rendezvous with doom. It fuses family tragedy with phantasmagoric horror in a way that will linger long in memory. In short, this Triana guy is a serious contender.”
—Bryan Smith, author of Depraved
“Kristopher Triana pens the most violent, depraved tales with the craft and care of a poet describing a sunset, only the sunset has been eviscerated, and dismembered, and it is screaming.”
—Wrath James White, author of The Resurrectionist
Author Bio:
Kristopher Triana is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Full Brutal, Gone to See the River Man, Blood Relations, The Long Shadows of October and many other terrifying books. He is also the author of the crime thrillers The Ruin Season and Shepherd of the Black Sheep. His work has been published in multiple languages and has drawn praise from the likes of Publishers Weekly, Rue Morgue Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Scream Magazine, The Horror Fiction Review, and many more.
He lives in a cold, dark place somewhere in New England.
It’s called The Scream...
Once you get it, you simply cannot stop screaming.
You can’t eat or sleep. It drives you more and more insane until you can’t stand to be alive a second longer.
When the phenomenon hits Chuck's city, the chronically unemployed pervert joins a band of misfits to make his final stand.
Can Chuck, a bitter bartender, a dockside prostitute, a conspiracy theorist, and a homeless man find a way out of the apocalypse…
Or will they all die screaming?
They All Died Screaming is a plague novel by Splatterpunk Award-Winning author Kristopher Triana. It is a pitch black book about the lowly and downtrodden being the last people on earth.
Praise for Triana’s Work:
“Kristopher Triana is without question one of the very best of the new breed of horror writers.”
- Bryan Smith, author of Depraved
“Kristopher Triana pens the most violent, depraved tales with the craft and care of a poet describing a sunset, only the sunset has been eviscerated, and dismembered, and it is screaming.”
- Wrath James White, author of The Resurrectionist
"Jesus! And I thought I was sick!"
- Edward Lee, author of Header
"Whatever style or mode Triana is writing in, the voice matches it unfailingly... it's a safe bet we'll be seeing his name a lot in the years to come."
- Cemetery Dance
From the author of international horror sensation Gone to See the River Man comes a new tale of terror that will drag you to the darkest corners of the soul.
Some girls are fearful, others are brave. One girl’s a princess, the next one, a slave. But all girls are equal, when they’re down in this cave, until just one is left standing—The Prettiest Girl in the Grave.
It was only supposed to be a game.
When Bella, Celeste, and Rose meet with new friends at a graveyard in the woods, they soon realize they’re unprepared for what’s planned. At twenty, Aubrey is older than the high schoolers, and she knows of a secret game that’s been played by local girls for decades.
It starts with personal questions, but quickly moves on to a test of courage as Aubrey guides them into an underground crypt. But even Aubrey doesn’t know what they’re really getting into. Bella’s mother, Holly, may be the only one who does.
As a teen, Holly and her friends also played the game, and Holly barely survived. When she discovers her daughter has gone to the graveyard, she fears Bella will get lost in the mysterious catacombs just as she had… and face the same sinister forces.
As the girls search for a way out, Holly must return to the dreadful crypt she swore she’d never come back to, and finally face her own dark secrets.
"Triana's masterful, gripping storytelling will not let go." — Scream Magazine
Ma Kim non vuole farlo come le altre ragazze.
Così dopo aver sedotto uno dei suoi insegnanti, capisce di non averne abbastanza e spera di rovinargli la vita. Kim salta così su un treno fatto di sadismo. Ma quando una semplice pugnalata alle spalle non è più sufficiente a eccitarla, decide di saltare sul vagone intriso di violenza e omicidio.
E quando pensa che nulla possa ostacolarla, scopre di essere incinta e c'è solo una cosa che può soddisfare la fame del suo bambino...
Living in the rural south, Jake spends his days breaking horses and his nights training dogs in solitude. His 19-year-old girlfriend, Nikki, is the daughter of the local sheriff, and she’s just getting worse with drugs and alcohol. Jake does his best to persuade her to ease up on them, but things go from bad to worse when Nikki has a breakdown and gets involved in heroin and low-budget porn.
After a friend’s funeral, Jake reconnects with his ex-wife Michelle. He’s never stopped loving her, but she’s remarried with a young daughter.
Soon, chaos unfolds like a pocketknife, and as Jake’s dark history is revealed, he finds himself spinning toward the inner demons he’s worked so hard to escape.
“The Ruin Season bristles and lurches powerfully… but make no mistake, it’s a runaway train whose engine is pure heart.” – Jeridiah Ayres, author of Peckerwood
Joe wants to help Nicole, but when he comes across the man pursuing her, he's told Nicole is delusional. The man says he isn't Nicole's kidnapper—he’s her husband. As a snowstorm bares down, Joe finds himself in a deadly triangle with a mysterious man and a panicked woman, not knowing who to trust.
If he makes the wrong choice, it might just cost him his life.
A Cold Place for Dying is a dark thriller by multiple award-winning author Kristopher Triana, the man who brought us Gone to See the River Man and Full Brutal. It is a taut and terrifying tale that tests the morality of its reader, leaving you breathless as you try to stay warm.
“Kristopher Triana’s work is a volatile mixture of visceral noir and twistedly disturbing passion play that invades the reader’s psyche and exposes the raw and throbbing nerve hidden within. His prose is unapologetic and totally without restraint or mercy. There’s no denying it. Triana is the Master of Extreme Horror!” – Ronald Kelly, author of Fear, The Saga of Dead-Eye, and Southern Fried & Horrified.
"Triana's masterful, gripping storytelling will not let go." - Scream Magazine
As Nicky Hector—the unstoppable slasher from the Lunatic horror movie franchise—Jonathan Zain reached levels of fame once unimaginable to a young actor. On top of headlining fifteen films, he appeared on MTV, had his own 976 number, and became one of the most recognizable faces of the 1980s.
But that was thirty years ago.
Now it’s 2010, and Zain is a has-been celebrity making his living signing autographs at fan conventions, a relic of the bygone slasher movie boom. He’s broke, separated from his wife and children, lives in a crummy apartment, and hasn’t landed a role in years.
When he learns the studio is remaking Lunatic, he thinks it’s his chance for a comeback. But Redmax Studios isn’t interested in resurrecting Zain’s fame. They want the reboot to have a new face, to escape the campiness that plagued the latter films in the Lunatic series. For the studio, this is a brand-new start.
For Jonathan Zain, it's the last straw.
Discovering the remake is being filmed at the same rafting center as the original, and his former “final girl” co-star Lola Lang is involved, Zain begins a descent into insanity. He slips into his old costume, sharpens his meat cleaver, and brings the Nicky Hector character back from the dead for one last bloodbath.
“Kristopher Triana’s latest is a chillingly convincing portrait of an aged horror icon driven to the brink of madness as he fights tooth and nail against an inexorable slide into irrelevance. Loaded with fun references to the glory days of the slasher genre, Ex-Boogeyman is a bloody and thrilling feast for horror fans.”
–Bryan Smith, author of Merciless
On a date with a younger man, the two park at an abandoned warehouse for some intimate privacy, unaware of the criminals using the abandoned building as a hideout.
Max and Bastian have just pulled a big heist. Now they’re running from vengeful gangsters, dirty cops, and demented ex-cons.
When things go wrong, the criminals take Heather hostage, forcing her to drive them across state lines on a snowy night. What began as a night of fun quickly becomes a nightmare—not only for Heather, but for Max and Bastian as well. If she’s ever going to get home to her child, Heather must fight to survive, even if it means fighting alongside the men who abducted her.
A Fine Evening in Hell is a taut, gripping thriller from Kristopher Triana, the award-winning author of Gone to See the River Man and Shepherd of the Black Sheep. It is a novel about new starts and last chances, facing up to consequences, and the courage that comes with motherhood.
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