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Rick R. Reed has been described as the "Stephen King of gay horror" by Unzipped Magazine.

Latest news: March 2009 -- Rick's novel, Orientation was awarded the EPPIE Award for Best GLBT Novel of the Year in ceremonies at EPICon in Las Vegas, NV March 8. The Eppies are presented annually to honor the finest work published electronically for the year.

INCUBUS: Coming August 2009!

Incubus is the haunting—and haunted—tale of Oliver and Ryan, a young couple who have traveled to Montreal from Chicago to get married. It’s late and they’re on their way home from their honeymoon…and their trip on Chicago’s el trains and subways is fraught with strange characters, one a biker-jacket clad man who urges them to “Get close to Lucifer!” But the oddest stranger they encounter is a man in a zippered leather mask who waits for them in an underground parking garage with a knife. Only one of the couple will emerge from this encounter alive.

Oliver’s depression overwhelms him, having seen his hope for a new life with his new husband squashed in an instant. He feels so alone. Or is he? When Ryan begins to appear to him again in the dark, and to make love to him, Oliver is happy…and in denial. He ignores this new Ryan’s cold touch, his strange eyes, and the odd burns Ryan’s touch leaves on his skin.

Has Oliver’s despair and desire for his lost love opened a door to something dark and terrifying? Is the Ryan who returns to him really the Ryan he loves…or a demonic imposter? And when love is brutally ripped away, will Oliver decide it doesn’t matter?

Released June 2009: M4M

Two great stories. One great love. Get between the covers with Ethan and Brian, the men whose hearts connected online and offline in the best-selling VGL Male Seeks Same. Follow them on their continuing journey in NEG UB2, where a shocking health diagnosis derails the couple’s blissful romance and teaches them both a lot about acceptance, forgiveness, and faith...especially when it comes to love.

Previously available only in electronic format, these twin novellas of gay erotic romance have now been combined for a paperback edition!

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Read excerpts and reviews of VGL Male Seeks Same.

Read excerpts and reviews of NEG UB2.

Released March 2009: Bashed

Three haters. Two lovers. And a collision course with tragedy.

When Donald and Mark left the Brig that October night, they had no idea their lives and love were about to be shattered by fag bashers, intent on pain, and armed with ridicule, fists, and an aluminum baseball bat.

The cowardly hate crime leaves one half of a couple alone and haunted--literally and figuratively--by the memories and denied promise of new love.

Bashed charts the course of a journey from grief to hope, from death to life, and from hate to redemption. Come along on a trip that encompasses suspense, horror, and--ultimately--romance.

Read an excerpt here.

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View the trailer here.

Released May 2008: Orientation

Christmas, 1983: A young man, Robert, tends to his soul mate, Keith, who is dying from AIDS. Robert tries valiantly to make this a special Christmas for his lover, but loses the fight late Christmas night.

Christmas, 2007: Robert ventures out late Christmas night and finds a young girl about to fling herself into the unforgiving waters of Lake Michigan. He rescues her, and the two form a bond forged from an odd feeling they share of familiarity, and even love. Neither understands it, since Jess is a lesbian and Robert has never been attracted to women. But there's more...Jess begins having strange dreams, reliving key moments she couldn't know about in Keith and Robert's life and courtship. Robert and Jess begin to wonder if their inexplicable feelings might be rooted in something much more mystical than a savior/victim relationship.

As the two move toward and pull away from each other, Ethan, Robert's younger lover, plots the unthinkable. His crystal meth-addled mind becomes convinced there's only one way to save himself, and that is through Robert's destruction. Christmas 2007 spirals downward to a shattering climax in which both love and lives hang in the balance.

There's a murder attempt...salvation...redemption...

And a new love is born.

Read an excerpt HERE.

View the trailer HERE.

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Released in January 2008: Deadly Vision

Deadly Vision is the story of a small-town single mother who becomes a reluctant psychic after a head injury and begins having gruesome insight into the fates of some teenage girls who have fallen into the hands of some cult-like serial killers. NY Times bestselling true-crime author Gregg Olsen called the book both "smart and twisted," the kind of book that makes readers want to "double check the locks and windows." Victor J. Banis, author of Longhorns, said, "Reed moves to the head of the graveyard with this bone-chilling story of a reluctant psychic, a pair of maniacal killers, and the slaughter of innocence. Be warned: it will have you listening for footsteps on the stairs. Fiendishly good!"

Read an excerpt here

View the trailer here

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Released in May 2007: IM

IM is the chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines story of a serial killing using preying on gay men using internet hookup sites. Reviewers have called the book "a fast-paced page-turner"; "a story any fan of mystery or crime fiction will enjoy"; a "deliciously nasty psychological thriller" and "ripe with genuine suspense and an escalating momentum that doesn't let up." IM has topped Amazon's gay men's mystery and thriller bestseller list several times and has been optioned for film by Panic Productions in Hollywood.