Beth was recently interviewed by Dreadful Tales's Meli Hooker, as part of Women in Horror Month, 2012. More info.

Beth's controversial short story, "Abed," has completed filming and is now in post-production. It promises to be the most disturbing zombie film of 2012, which could well be true. Here is the official trailer for the film:

Sundown, Beth's newest collection is now available! This e-collection contains 13 chilling tales and 2 poems.

Available from Necon E-Books.

Beth's e-novella, Playback: Light and Shadow, a prequel to Playback, a soon-to-be-released film starring Christian Slater and Toby Hemingway (Bennett-Robbins Productions) is now available from Random House. The RH website writes:

In this terrifying original novella, Bram Stoker Award–winning author Elizabeth Massie provides a chilling prequel to the forthcoming horror movie Playback, starring Christian Slater, Alessandra Torresani, and Toby Hemingway, in which a group of high-school students accidentally awakens an evil that possesses its victims through video. But the dark curse dates back to turn-of-the-century New York, and begins with a grudge surrounding the birth of film itself. While fooling around with the movie camera invented by his murdered grandfather, a rich young playboy is overcome with bloodlust—and sets out to kill one of history's most beloved figures. In Playback: Light and Shadow, heads snap and cameras roll, giving a whole new meaning to the term "slasher film."

Wire Mesh Mothers, Beth's 2000 novel of psychological horror (Leisure), is now available as an e-book from Crossroad Press. Wire Mesh Mothers is the story of a road trip from and into hell, and poses the questions: What of the generations damaged by self-absorbed parents? What is family?

Elizabeth's new mainstream, coming-of-age novel, Homegrown, is now available as both a trade paperback and an e-book through Crossroad Press. Homegrown tells the story of three teens — Cooter, Mark, and Howard — living in a children's home in the 1980s, and the changes that throw their lives into turmoil. Told primarily as a flashback from 1994, Homegrown opens as Cooter prepares to take on the most agonizing personal challenge of his life. Yet it is while facing his past failures and his fear of the present that he discovers one true and most important fact about his life, a fact filled with hope and redemption.

Legends of the Mountain State 4 features Massie's tale, "Someone Came and Took Them Away," a ghost story based on a spectral West Virginia legend. From Woodland Press.

Beth's tale of regret, fear, and redemption, "Something You Need to Know," is one of 15 ghostly coal mine tales set in Appalachian in Woodland Press' Specters in Coal Dust

Afraid is Beth's newest collection, now out as an e-book from Crossroad Press. Afraid offers up a collection of some of her more obscure horror shorts, a sampling spanning nearly the entire length of her 27-year career thus far. It opens with a new poem, "Afraid," which plays with the question, "Why do we read horror?" The 13 stories that follow include darkly light-hearted tales such as "Donald Meets Arnold," "Sweet Kitty," and "Sink or Swim," the graphically terrifying "Pit Boy" and "Lost Penitentes," the darkly sinister "Brazen Bull," "Flip Flap," "Triptych of Terror," "Bargain Basement," "Now I'm With the Invalids," "Next Door Collector," and "Thundersylum," and the other-worldly, introspective "Beggars at Dawn."

Beth's Bram Stoker-winning novel, Sineater, is once again available in print! It is a coming-of-age story set in the mountains of western Virginia, a novel of fear, religion, courage, and hope. It is the tale of the dark, mysterious, and terrifying sineater and the sineater's son, Joel, who — with the help of a new-comer to the mountain — decides to challenge the superstitions of his community and discover the truth about his father...and about himself.

Well-known horror author Rick Hautala said of Sineater: "I gotta tell you ... Sineater is one of the best, most touching, most intense 'horror' novels I ever read. I actually cried at the end...real tears streaming down my face. It is S-O-O-O-O good! Read it! Now!" This Dark House Press trade paperback edition, with a gorgeous wrap-around cover by Cortney Skinner, is priced at $16.50. Currently, it can be ordered here and soon will be available on Amazon.

Sineater, Elizabeth's Bram Stoker-winning novel, is now available as an e-book from Crossroad Press. I'm thrilled to have this book available again. Previously published by Pan, LTD, Carroll & Graf, Leisure, and then Simon & Schuster/iBooks, Sineater can now be purchased for MOBI (Kindle) EPUB (Sony / Nook) PDF (Adobe) or PRC (Mobipocket).

Elizabeth is thrilled to announce that her novelization of the third season of Showtime's television series, The Tudors: Thy Will Be Done, received the Scribe Award for Best Adaptation, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers at the awards ceremony held on Friday, July 24, at ComicCon in San Diego, CA. The award was accepted on Beth's behalf (with the help of a cartoon drawing of Beth) by author Nancy Holder.