New Horror Novella By Poplar Grove Author Released

POPLAR GROVE, Ill. - Sept. 4, 2020 - PRLog -- In the new novella "The Homestead," a group of criminals break into a mansion hoping for a haul of epic proportions. What they get is something very different, and they find themselves struggling to just get out alive before it's over. Coming from Rockford, Illinois area author Gary Hill's "The Homestead" was published by Tales of Wonder and Dread Publishing on September 4th.  .

"The Homestead," on the other hand, is much darker and grittier than Hill's previous novel "Wizard Song." If it were a film it would be rated "R" for violence and language. There are some silver linings to the story, but it is dark, and the setting is somewhat claustrophobic, particularly when compared to the space-faring setting of his previous novel. The new tale has elements of a heist adventure, but rapidly turns darker and more horror-based.

Gary Hill has been publishing "Music Street Journal" (musicstreetjournal.com) since 1998. In August of 2006 his first book "The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft" was published. Since then several other books in  addition to his most recent "Wizard Song" ("The Concert Photography of Gary Hill," "Strange Realities: Collected Short Stories and More by Gary Hill Expanded and Revised Edition," "Poetry of the Air: A Collection of Love Letters from Musicians to Music" and "The Suite Music World of Gary Hill" and a series of three books "The Dark Starr Files") have been released. He launched Tales of Wonder and Dread Publishing to release science fiction and horror books in 2018, but published a collection of those types of stories in 2017 titled "Dark Dreams and Worlds." Under the Tales of Wonder and Dread nameplate, Hill has published more than a dozen books including a series on Rockford Illinois cemeteries ("Rockford's Final Resting Places"), "Spooky Rockford" and "Spooky Rockford Two" and "Spooky Berwyn." Hill launched Spooky Ventures in 2019 and has been doing video interviews, Spooky News segments and more for the Spooky Ventures YouTube Channel since then. Since 2018 Hill has published Music Street Journal simultaneously on-line and in book form. He also published all the article archives as a collection of books. In 2019 Hill began a series of books under the Music Street Journal banner focused on the Rockford, Illinois music scene titled, "Music Street Journal Local: Rockford Area Music Makers."

"The Homestead" is available in paperback and hardcover at lulu.com/spotlight/strangesound. A paperback distribution edition will be at Amazon and other book retailers soon.