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Cemetery Dance Publications will publish The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman in hardcover this fall, but for a limited time only we're giving the book away for free as an eBook and as a streaming audiobook to anyone who wants to check it out early!

And before you ask the obvious question we'd be asking if someone offered us a free book like this:

YES, we're really giving this book away for FREE. No strings attached.

By FREE, we mean FREE. Not "with a purchase" or "but you have to do something" or "you have to sign-up for something" or "please don't look at the small print because there's a huge catch!"

Free = free.

Just click on the links above and you could be reading or listening to the book in seconds!

(That PDF file has been formatted to work with the screen size on most Kindles, Nooks, Sony, and Apple devices.)

The free eBook also includes some great bonus features that won't appear in the hardcover:

* An exclusive new interview with Ray Bradbury: "We Have Too Many Inventions!"

* Comments from bestselling authors such as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, William Peter Blatty, Jodi Picoult, Carolyn Parkhurst, Anne Perry, Jane Green, M.J. Rose, Douglas Clegg, J.A. Konrath, Seth Godin, Michael Marshall Smith, Scott Adams, and many others about eBooks and the future of publishing.

* Author's Afterword: "Did I Really Commit 'Career Suicide' by Giving The Painted Darkness Away for Free?"

* Norman Prentiss interviews Brian James Freeman

* $5.00 discount coupon valid on an order for the trade hardcover edition of The Painted Darkness for a limited time only

About The Painted Darkness:

When Henry was a child, something terrible happened in the woods behind his home, something so shocking he could only express his terror by drawing pictures of what he had witnessed. Eventually, Henry's mind blocked out the bad memories, but he continued to draw, often at night by the light of the moon.

Twenty years later, Henry makes his living by painting his disturbing works of art. He loves his wife and his son, and life couldn't be better... except there's something not quite right about the old stone farmhouse his family now calls home. There's something strange living in the cramped cellar, in the maze of pipes that feed the ancient steam boiler.

A winter storm is brewing, and soon Henry will learn the true nature of the monster waiting for him down in the darkness. He will battle this demon and, in the process, he may discover what really happened when he was a child — and why, in times of trouble, he thinks: I paint against the darkness.

But will Henry learn the truth in time to avoid the terrible fate awaiting him... or will the thing in the cellar get him and his family first?

Written as both a meditation on the art of creation and as an examination of the secret fears we all share, The Painted Darkness is a terrifying look at the true cost we pay when we run from our grief — and what happens when we're finally forced to confront the monsters we know all too well.

Features in the Hardcover Editions That Aren't in the eBook:

The hardcover editions include an exclusive introduction by Brian Keene and over a half-dozen interior illustrations by Jill Bauman that you won't find anywhere else!

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