Shift your fear into top gear.

Set your pulse racing with this collection of automotive horror that fires on all cylinders. This bad boy comes fully-optioned with fifteen tales of classic cars and motorcycles behaving badly; and the star-studded lineup is sure to provide all the nightmare fuel you can handle.

So strap in and hold on, because we’re going pedal to the metal. It’s blood-soaked horror or bust, and we aren’t stopping for anything. You’re in for a ride.

See immediately below for the author lineup and purchasing links.

Buckle up... it's coming. 

It's taken us 18 months to produce, between writing, editing, and negotiating all the necessary rights, but now, our most ambitious project to date will be unveiled May 31, 2019.

Allow us to introduce It Came From The Garage! This unique anthology of automotive horror features fifteen panic inducing stories about cars, and their owners, behaving badly. The book is a gearhead's dream - or nightmare - come true, featuring true star power in terms of authorship and the vehicles represented. 

You can pre-order this book today for the May 31 release.

See further below for a listing of contributing authors, their stories, and the vehicles. 

Deal yourself in for another round of horror as only Antonio Simon, Jr. can write. In the follow-up to 2017's inaugural title (which you can get here), Simon delves into new horror territory. The book's eight stories explore the depths of human perversion and plunge readers into paranormal nightmares. See below for a taste of what you'll find between these blood-soaked pages.

M.A.D. Mobile
—Paul inherits his father’s classic car and a warning that he rid himself of it before it drives him to perdition.

The Confession of Pompeius Postumus
—A Roman living in the first century AD writes a chilling account of his housemate’s perversions, and the just as twisted means he employed to put him down for good.

It Happened At Stratosphere Heights
—The Stratosphere Heights amusement park stood for seventy years; plenty of time to form heartfelt memories… and to garner insidious secrets.

Where Did You Go, Craig Sheehan?
—Craig, an antiquities plunderer, sets off to find the Ark of the Covenant. His mysterious disappearance has left the world wondering: where did you go, Craig Sheehan?

La Dauphine
—A nineteenth-cenutry theatre producer in Paris uncovers an Italian play that has been lost for four hundred years; he is none the wiser of the horror and blood that will follow in the wake of the performance.

The Sea-Goer
—A rich widow invests in a haunted bed and breakfast on Miami Beach and soon learns that the paranormal is not to be trifled with.

Doors
—A two-bit crook sets his aim on bigger heists after he masters the ability to bend time and space to his will.

The Wondrous Warehouse of Federico Fermín
—A down-on-his-luck single father lands a job as a night watchman for a warehouse where nightmares are made and loosed into the world.

Hot on the heels of his latest novel, Alma Mutters, Julio Varela has announced that he will be hosting an author event at Books & Books in Coral Gables.

Come See Julio Varela, Author of Alma Mutters
When: June 30, 2019 @ 6:30 p.m.
Where: 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Alma Mutters is a hilarious and scathing satire of the private school system. After twenty years teaching in the frying pan of higher education, philosophy professor Xavier Mas Penoso (“Most Bashful”) leaps from the skillet and straight into the forest fire of his alma mater. Back in the 80s, Bellarmine Jesuit Preparatory School had taught him to analyze and synthesize in a school with little patience for slackers. However, in the intervening thirty years, Bellarmine’s old school Jesuits have been supplanted by a new breed of media savvy priest, long on ambition, short on integrity. In a school where volitional acts have no consequences, Xavier resolves to dispense wisdom, even if it takes rocket-propelled grenades, a Kevlar helmet, and more holy water than The Exorcist.

​Julio Varela teaches undergraduate literature, humanities, film, and philosophy courses in South Florida, where he began teaching in 1993. Dr. Varela’s writing credits include Vortex to Virus, Myth to Meme: The Literary Evolution of Nihilism and Chaos in Modernism and Postmodernism, published in 2009 by VDM Verlag, as well as a number of book reviews for Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. He received his doctoral degree in humanities from Florida State University in 2004. Dr. Varela lives in Miami, Florida. This is his first novel.

The executive board of Darkwater Syndicate has announced that the company will be taking a new direction. After much deliberation, and a few drunken fistfights in the boardroom, the company has decided to publish cookbooks exclusively. Beginning  April 1st, 2019, it will publish cookbooks in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, comedy, and thrillers.

"It wasn't an easy decision, but we think it's the best way forward," said Antonio Simon, Jr., Darkwater's Head of Business Development. "The market for cookbooks - sci-fi cookbooks in particular - is up 537% since 1988's Julia Childs's Cookbook for the Modern Martian Household. And let's not forget Edgar Allan Poe's horror cookbook classic: Quoth the Raven, Feed Me More!"

Not everyone was on board with the decision to shift into the cookbook market. The company's Head Acquisitions Editor, Ramiro Perez, was markedly irate. A longtime fan of hack-and-slash fiction in the vein of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories, Perez joined the company in 2014 for the stated reason of wanting to read more contemporary fiction. When asked for his opinion on the changes in the company, Mr. Perez stated: "Get these ****ing reporters out of my ****ing office!" The seventy-seven year old then flipped a desk and threw an empty rum bottle at the reporters. The cantankerous Cuban was not available for further comment.

"I sure don't like it," said Apara Moreiya, the company's resident dragon and unofficial mascot, when asked about the change. "I didn't sign up to edit cookbooks; they're sooo boring! What's more, they've replaced me as company mascot!"

The company's beloved fire-breather was informed on the morning of April 1st that he would no longer serve as the company's mascot. The change of mascot is scheduled to coincide with a company logo and name change. To better suit their shift into the cookbook market, "Darkwater Syndicate, Inc." will henceforth be known instead as "Rosewater Syrup Cake, Inc." The new mascot will be the company's namesake, a lovely rosewater syrup cake. New logos and corporate images have been devised in accordance with the re-branding. See below.

The fourth and final member of the former Darkwater team, Douglas Fairbanks, could not be reached for comment. In much the same way salmon return to the rivers in which they were spawned, Mr. Fairbanks is believed to have absconded to the South American oil platform off the coast of Belize where he was conceived.

Look to Rosewater Syrup Cake, Inc. for the very best in new and exciting genre cookbooks.

Alma Mutters is the comedy from Miami that will have you saying: "¡Se Formó el Ballú!"

Xavier Mas Penoso is in over his head. He's returned to Bellarmine Jesuit Prep to teach Philosophy to the entitled teenage offspring of Miami's wealthiest families. Only, the hallowed halls of his alma mater aren't quite as gilded as when he was a student. Textbooks and notepads have been replaced with more laptops and i-Gadgets than the NSA Headquarters. The clergy running the school are P.T. Barnum’s spiritual successors: media-savvy priests who know that suckers are born every minute, and that they need a top-dollar education, too. Under their tutelage, the leaders of tomorrow develop skill sets in private and public sector corruption, depending on the boy’s appetites.

Xavier soon realizes he’s trapped in a job he hates. Academics has taken a distant backseat to Bellarmine’s Holy Trinity: the Hype, Spectacle, and Buzz that justify its raking in tuition fees twice the size of J-Lo’s biker shorts.  But Xavier is not one to give up on his principles so quickly. With empty-headed teens keyed up on Ecstasy on one hand, and a corrupt administration on the other, he plots his glorious revenge that could cost him his teaching career.