Red Wet Dirt

The legendary collection in a NEW edition ON SALE NOW!

Three short stories & three novellas: While on vacation, a young man's fiance becomes a heart-collecting Yuletide Thing on Christmas Eve. Get stuck in traffic when The Freeway Reaper claims another soul. A suburban family is plagued by a horde of were-rats. Special Agent Sam Cross, mortally wounded by a Jamaican specter, journeys into a psychedelic Festival of Fallen Souls in search of a supernatural healer whose lover's touch brings in contrast instant death. A legendary flesh eater arrives on the shores of an ancient Minoan city, infecting its population, beginning with a teenage boy's father who's summoned by the pompous king to become an undead garbage disposal. In Red Afterworld, an ex juvenile preacher gets his childhood wish of becoming a vampire when he's recruited into a male-only biker fraternity and finds himself one of the few survivors of global nuclear war, discovers a time portal in the Arizona desert with the hope of saving the world, and finds true love. Including extra minor works from the author's youth and the short screenplay Cutting Edges, the basis for an upcoming film and the author's directorial debut, Red Wet Dirt is to die for and is destined to become a classic way beyond its genre.

(6X9 paperback, 340 pages)

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The Everborn

The Everborn are the offspring of fallen angels that have lived among us since the dawn of man. Throughout the ages, they live life after life in normal society until each one falls in love and fathers his own child. Before that child is born, they undergo a rapid degeneration into a fetal state before they disappear entirely and become reborn into a new life, essentially becoming their own fathers.
All of them male, they live out their commonplace lives under the covert protection of Watchmaids, inter-dimensional female beings whose purpose is to ensure no harm comes to them under penalty of banishment into a state of eternal loneliness.
When an Everborn is reborn as a set of twins, one a soulless serial killer on a quest to be born again into a sinless life and the other a kind-hearted ghostwriter for a world-famous rock-and-roll horror novelist, a banished Watchmaid claims her role in an ancient prophecy to use the soulless twin as a means to re-enter our world and bring about its destruction.

Praise concerning The Everborn and its author:
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“THE EVERBORN is a terrifying collision of genetics-gone-wrong science fiction and they-are-already-here UFO thriller. This is a nail biter!”
--Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD OF NIGHT and ASSASSIN’S CODE

“Grabowsky has melded Horror with Science Fiction with such expertise that I am left speechless. This is a novel of epic proportions and told in such a unique way that it defies explanation. By utilizing ideas from religious history, the reader is given a totally surreal reason for what UFOs really are and you will start to believe it’s true.”
---Garry Charles, Gorezone Magazine

"Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.P. Lovecraft..........(a) unique and often terrifying world that Sacramento novelist Nicholas Grabowsky launches us into......(it) has the feel of an "X-Files" episode, at other very twisted turns it delves into the psychedelic. For those of us looking for something new in the alien horror genre, look not to the stars, but look to Nicholas Grabowsky's "The Everborn."
-----Tahoe Daily Tribune

“Nicholas Grabowsky has succeeded in creating an entire world that is situated over our own, shading our every move with darkness and its ghostly alien presence....leaving the reader in utter astonishment as to the amazing detail that Grabowsky’s world has been created with. The detailed mythology that he creates with his alien forces ties together more than one earthly superstition, weaving a web that connects the world of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial.........the reader will be unable to get the terrifying and original visions out of their head!”
------Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television, Pretty/Scary.net

***** 5 stars (highest rating) "ALL HAIL GRABOWSKY! .....a captivating plot completely unique...with a story so imaginative and profound, even I was astounded....satisfying a reader's interest in alternative science fiction, classic horror, suspense and yes, folks, even gore. The atmosphere is complex, murky and entraps you. The style of writing is blunt, audacious and head-on.....this book rises above the average horror/science fiction novel!"
------Horror-web.com

Golden Award winner! Best Science Fiction Novel of 2004…..
--American Author's Association, Northern California

"Grabowsky exploits (the story) to explore concepts such as being, death & immortality in a fabulist world where more than a half-dozen major characters shift identities with Cronenberg-like regularity....a solid storyline, fresh ideas on everything from relationships to religion and blood-chilling violence makes Grabowsky's latest offering a compelling read!"
----Sacramento News & Review

"Grabowsky has imagination to spare!"

--Sacramento Bee
(from their June 14, 2004 exclusive feature)

Diverse Tales

A young boy on a grocery errand returns with a bag of soil from the Garden of Eden. A Wanting Seed determines to crawl back into its mother's womb. A bloodletting grandmother. An enchanted rose hole. Demons protecting a church from pranksters.
This is the first collection of previously lost works of a bestselling master of offbeat and macabre fiction.

"Very entertaining!" --Dee Wallace Stone (E.T., The Howling).

"Grabowsky succeeds in making the whole world creepy!" Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television

Diverse Arcanum

“Countless people here on Earth keep wild journals. But keeping journals is good, is therapeutic, and is beneficial (almost crucial) to preserving enough history of yourself to reflect upon in the future and learn from all the mistakes you made, as well as your triumphs, as well as details of your past you’d likely otherwise completely forget, as well as leaving behind that personal history for others long after you die.” -Nicholas Grabowsky (The Everborn, Halloween IV, Red Wet Dirt), from the introduction. Diverse Arcanum is a journal filled with personal history both unremarkable and remarkable, grossly amateur drawings and inspiration spawned by various hallucinogens and experiences. It was started by the author in the mid-1980s just before his horror writing career took flight, and set aside by the mid-2000s but was mostly used between 1987 to 1996. Not a word written sober, it was shared over the years with his friends, girlfriends, family, strangers at wild parties and horror celebrities, all of which made contributions large and small. We hope you are amused.
---Nicholas Grabowsky
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Contributors (autographs, art, thoughts) include Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tony Todd, Bruce Campbell, Tony Timpone, Don Shanks, Wayne Knight, David Lynch, Conrad Brooks, David Schow, more!

Looks Like a Rat to Me

The first comic book adaptation from the Grabowsky story collection "Red Wet Dirt"

A bloody entertaining tale about wererats.

For more about this and other Grabowsky comics, visit the COMICS PAGE

Halloween IV: The Ultimate Edition

The novelization of the fourth film in the Halloween series like never before!

Includes THE FALLING, the short story inspired by the Halloween 25 Years of Terror convention, and the original essay for Shroud Magazine, HALLOWEENED BE THY NAME. With additional material including the never-before-published original epilogue.

Based on the screenplay by Alan B. McElroy, from an original story by Danny Lipsius (as Dhani Lipsius), Larry Rattner, Benjamin Ruffner and Alan B. McElroy for the 1988 motion picture from producers Moustapha Akkad and Paul Freeman. Published by arrangement and authority of the copyright holder, it is re-edited and includes an epilogue omitted in previous versions and extra related material, and this edition marks Halloween IV’s debut in ebook form (as well as its new print book counterpart)!

Halloween IV: The Ultimate edition is the ultimate ADDition to any Halloween fan collection!

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" "Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.P. LOVECRAFT......."

--Tahoe Daily Tribune

Pray, Serpent's Prey

Grabowsky's first published novel (1988) as well as under the pen name of Nicholas Randers, which was at first what Grabowsky wanted to be known as until his Halloween IV novelization came along under his real name. An ancient predecessor of modern-day vampires casts its evil upon the peaceful Montana town of Bloomgarden circa 1980s, where high-schooler Chris Barrett, his friends, a mysterious old man and a self-righteous preacher must learn to deal with these formidable demons while wrestling with their inner ones. Celebrated as the author's first published work, this was also the first in a succession of early Nicholas Grabowsky horror-fantasies penned under the Randers name circa 1980s horror mass market paperbacks in the US and beyond.
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The 1988 mass market paperback revised and re-released in 2026 in its original look and structure!

THE RAGMAN

Originally a 1989 Critic's Choice Paperbacks release, the original is so rare that not even the author has seen it. Grabowsky enlisted the talents of TERRY HORNS (Chophouse 1 & 2) to take the original manuscript and re-visualize it. Now, we present to you a terrifying reinvention!

Five friends are given mysterious valentine's presents. An anonymous gifter(s) has given each of them an unique, large-size hand-crafted rag doll-elegantly made stuffed cloth effigies, rich in designs and details; each rag doll perfectly capturing its receiver's likeness. As strange-nearly magical-occurrences take place, curiosities, wonders and desires build to wild consequences for them all....
The dolls are real...and alive!
A horrifying vision over 30 years in the making....based on Nicholas Grabowsky's 1989 mass market paperback and re-imagined by acclaimed thriller/slasher author Terry Horns comes a terrifying tale entirely fresh and unique, presenting the sort of new contemporary iconic villain horror fans have long been thirsty for, and a deep dark abyss to plunge into....

This new adaptation presents a unique vision that was 25 years in the making and recaptures Grabowsky's vision in a whole new way....not that it needed a new vision, but Grabowsky was originally unsatisfied with his 1989 paperback and sought author Terry Horns to see what his take on it would be and the final result is something no horror reader can miss!

The Wicked Haze

Special Edition Paperback ON SALE everywhere books are sold!

Nicholas Grabowsky presents three previously unfinished, unreleased tales written during his days as Nicholas Randers, the name he once used penning bestselling paperback horror. Here, fused together to make a psychedelic fantasy tale both nightmarish and brashly idiotic, are a series of parables and visions brought about by two strangers on a chance meeting on the street one foggy night under the influence of hallucinogen-laced sugar cubes.

(Paperback is 6X9, 142 pages)

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Red Afterworld

A stand-alone version of the novella from Grabowsky's RED WET DIRT collection!

All Dayton Monday wanted was to make a difference in this world. But the world isn’t what it used to be. Global nuclear war has already begun. The world is in chaos. The water supply of major amusement parks has been tainted with LSD by terrorists. But Dayton’s neighbor, Toad, promises that if he joins his male biker fraternity, the Brotherhood of the Black Heroes, he can help make the world a better place. Through his laborious initiation, he discovers the frightening truth about the Black Heroes: they represent all male vampires, and he is about to become one of them. Vampires are reckless and don’t know sex or love, are addicted to household cleaners and endless supplies of red meat and blood, and despise females of their kind. Just before the world ends, the Second Coming happens, but the returning savior is not what everyone expected: it is Sam Hall, a man hung for murder in the Old West, who died for the world’s sins. That said, crosses no longer protect against them. Now, any image of the Sam Hall hanging tree will do. And then the nukes arrive. What a way to end the world. After the nukes hit, Dayton finds himself one of the few survivors, wandering the wasteland of the Arizona desert where survival seems to be the only meaning of life under an endless red-tainted sky….. until he discovers a strange portal that leads to the barrel pond in the backyard patio of his home at a time just before his initiation, a new hope of saving the world, and true love.

Read Us or Die

The first official publisher's anthology showcasing the exemplary talents of the authors of BLACK BED SHEET BOOKS
"Black Bed Sheet is not only a publisher of fantasticallycreative horror books but knows the meaning of heart
and integrity....Grabowsky has taken BBS to
heights that few could have imagined with his drive,
determination and talent, along with the talent in his stable.
If you haven't read anything from BBS, it's past time
you did but it's never too late!
"--- Gene Tipton, A SHOT IN THE DARK COMICS

Fred Wiehe - Cinsearae Santiago - Brandon Ford
Jessica Lynne Gardner - Lincoln Crisler - Jason Gehlert
William Cook - Reyna Young - Tom Sawyer - K.K.
Rey Otis - Shannon Lee - B.L. Morgan - Tammy Gehlert
S.C. Hayden - Franchisca Weatherman - Jake Istre
Patrick James Ryan - Horns - Jason M. Tucker
Amity Green - Adam Aresty - Jennifer Caress
and Nicholas Grabowsky

(Paperback is 6X9, 426 pages)

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"“Grabowsky has melded Horror with Science Fiction with such expertise that I am left speechless!"

--Garry Charles
GOREZONE MAGAZINE

SHOCKER II

1992: Four years after my first novel was published, and after a few conversations with Wes Craven's assistant at the time, I was invited and challenged to write a sequel of my own being that no one else was. Wes gave praise to my efforts afterwards, but ultimately decided not to pursue a sequel in favor of another project that was to become Scream. After all these years, I managed to dig up the treatment I wrote for him, and, for your reading pleasure, here it is.
---Nicholas Grabowsky
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"I think this would be a great story. To revisit shocker and tie up the loose ends and to bring back a very underrated horror villain back into modern culture. It seems very interesting. I'd love to see this in stores or on the big screen." ---fan

Note: With respect to the copyright holders of the characters & situations in the Wes Craven film SHOCKER, this work is given without charge or profit and shared as free fan fiction.

ANTHOLOGIES and SUCH

There are many anthologies, magazines, collections and contributions included in publications throughout the years. Some are out of print, some you can still buy. Click on any of the links below where you can find these and purchase, or just peruse, worldwide.

Songs I Wrote in the '80s

Presented within this book is a collection of songs written and composed by horror writer Nicholas Grabowsky (The Everborn, Halloween IV, Red Wet Dirt, The Downwardens), resurrected from the 1980s when he was pursuing a musical career, acting career, and writing career. Although the writing career won out, and the acting fell by the wayside, his musical side remained but just under the surface. Now, it's coming back to the surface, beginning with the publication of all his important compositions from a bygone era. From rock to country to gospel to parody, each selection is laced with self-reflection and a deep meaning perhaps we all can relate to. The selections in this book are piano and vocal sheet music, and any reader musically inclined is encouraged to give it a whirl with their favorite musical instrument. For Mr. Grabowsky, the publication of this book serves as a preservation of this material, and a step forward in a new direction of musical pursuits.

MARSENA SHANE

Nicholas wrote under the pen name of Marsena Shane for work-for-hire romance, self-help books and biographies from 1988-1992. He briefly released a 2005 edition of 1988's Sweet Dreams, Lady Moon, then a definitive paperback release of it in 2025. Some of those works were lost and in published form became extremely rare. Nevertheless, in 2026, we've revived Marsena and restored/updated/re-invented most of those early works and even released some new ones, such as the Romantic Planets series. Watch her page for re-issues and new releases, and check out Marsena Shane's page at Amazon (links below).

(Photo is a stock photo I purchased online as well as a few others depicting the same model/subject. Kind of like what Stephen King did when he was Richard Bachman (only he used a photo of a friend). I also use that image for her bios I created in the back pages of each book. Depicted in the photo to the left are examples of original Marsena Shane releases from decades ago. --NG)

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