Steve Niles | Horror Writer

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Treats for Freaks! Halloween Freebies!

A whole bunch of Halloween treats for you!

Man, what a great month this was!! From LBCC to seeing the Damned tonight, this might be the best Halloween ever!!

A lot of cool FREE stuff is available for you, my treats to you for being such amazing monsters, so I thought I'd get them all on one page!

FREE HORROR COMIC! Click here for a FREE PDF of the zombie comic PIECES FOR MOM! http://bit.ly/nawC2k

And click here for the NEW FREE app for 30 DAYS OF NIGHT comics! The 30 Days of Night comic app is available FREE on the itunes app store! http://bit.ly/nYHCQQ

FREE for iPhone: Aleister Arcane #1, a horror comic illustrated by Breehn Burns! http://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/aleister-arcane-issue-1/id294060987?mt=8

I hope everybody has a safe and Happy Halloween!

-Steve

 

Happy Halloween, Freaks and Pirates!

A message and a Halloween gift!

Some of you know I’ve been fairly vocal about piracy. I’m not going to preach here, but I would like to present you with some basic facts before we get on to the fun stuff.

Years back I did a one-shot comic called PIECES FOR MOM with artist Andrew Ritchie. Rob Mattison helped adapt the prose story and old message board buddy Jason Hanley lettered. Image Comics published.

I don’t remember the numbers we got back, maybe 5k issues ordered, definitely under 10k. We sold enough to pay for the book, but not enough to justify doing more. I was always bummed because I thought Andrew Ritchie’s art was the creepiest shit I’d seen since Ben Templesmith. But with low orders, and no money made we couldn’t afford to do anymore.

Last week my girlfriend showed me one RapidShare site where they had PIECES FOR MOM available for free, illegal download.

It had been downloaded almost 20 thousand times.

And that was just one site. I didn’t look at the other four or five she found.

So, the book HAD been successful. Unfortunately for Andrew and I though, we saw nothing for it.

This has been my biggest fear and now I know for certain the same theft that obliterated the music industry will affect comics. Heard any good bands lately? Yeah, me neither. I hope thieves enjoy nothing but corporate music, comics and films because that is the road they are paving. Or put more simply, I hope you like the few deciding what all of us will read, watch and listen to.

Aaaaaand, I totally lied. Sorry for preaching there a bit.

Now, the reason for all of this…

Here is a FREE Bloody Pulp PDF download of PIECES FOR MOM. It’s one little self-contained story. It’s a TAD violent. Be warned.

Download PiecesForMom-SteveNiles.pdf (13927.1K)

I’ve also added a DONATE button below. Pay a penny, pay nothing. These are tough times and I’d like you to read the comic. If you do donate, ALL money will be divided evenly among the creators…except the letterer. Fuck him. 

 Most of all…just enjoy the comic and have a safe and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

-Steve

Read THE THING for Free!

All three episodes now available from Dark Horse Digital!

After months of no shipments from settlements in Greenland, a band of Vikings set off for answers only to find themselves pitted against monsters lurking in the icy depths and amongst one another.

DOWNLOAD PART 3 HERE: https://digital.darkhorse.com/profile/1208.the-thing-3/#.TpN1h13W1hY.facebook

And check out the ENTIRE SERIES here: https://digital.darkhorse.com/browse/131/

I hope you have as much fun reading The Thing as I did writing it. I'm a big fan of the original story "Who Goes there" as well as the Hawks version of the film. John Carpenter's version of the Thing was huge for me as a kid. I think it's influence on me is fairly obvious, so getting to play in that sandbox was an honor. 

Big thanks to Scott and Dan at Dark Horse and of course Patric and Dave for being so freakin' talented.

Happy October!

-Steve

Frankenstein, Wrightson and me.

Working on Frankenstein Alive, Alive!

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday/Monday.

It's slow going for so many reasons; getting caught up in the art, constantly realizing how lucky I am. You're not supposed to grow up and meet your heroes, let alone grow up, meet them and work with them. And if by some miracle all of that does happen, your heroes aren't suppose to become one of your closest friends. And, then, even if all that can happen, you're still not supposed to grow up and work on the very thing with your hero that made them your hero. I fully expect to wake up at any moment, 13 years old and late for school because I was up all night staring at Wrightson's frankenstein again.

Our Dog Sonny...

Please help with your donations. Every little bit helps!

Sonny is our 8-year-old greyhound mix, currently battling lymphoma... He has an auto-immune disorder that he was able to survive three years ago. Now he's battling cancer and any help we can get with his hospital bills can go a long way. His chances are good, we seem to have caught it very early, but he has a long road to travel.

We are currently talking to some amazing artists to do artwork for him, which we plan to sell as limited edition print sets as well as auction the originals. So far we have art from Mike Mignola, Greg Ruth, Ming Doyle, Andrew Mangum and 

Below, Sonny is pretty impressed with the Mignola original we just received. The auction for this piece is HERE

Some amazing artwork of Sonny we've already received, top left clockwise: Ming Doyle, Bill Sienkiewicz, Menton3 and Greg Ruth:

 Meanwhile, if you are able, please donate any amount you can!  Just click this link for the donation site. 

http://www.steveniles.com/sonny.html

Thanks & Love,

Steve & Monica & Sonny