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Good news for everyone who has been waiting for In the Shadow of the Axe to come out in paperback: The day is finally upon us! Thanks to the good folks at Crossroad Press, Axe can now be read by e-book hating Luddites across the world! You can buy print copies from:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Powell’s

IndieBound

Or buy it from your favorite bookseller! If it’s not on the shelf at your local bookstore, ask them to special order a copy for you. And of course the e-book is still available at all your favorite e-book outlets. Get your copy today!

The May issue of Locus Magazine contains a rave review by Bram Stoker Award-winning author John Langan of my novel In the Shadow of the Axe! It’s a remarkably in-depth analysis in just four paragraphs of the novel’s storyline as well as themes that run through my body of work as a whole, but I can’t reprint it all, so here are the highlights:

As Laird Barron writes in his introduction, Nicholas Kaufmann’s In the Shadow of the Axe could have appeared as a Hammer film during the heyday of the studio’s horror productions….Kaufmann’s affection for the material is obvious, and it lends a richness to his conception….[He] skillfully builds his narrative’s momentum…It is Nicholas Kaufmann’s finest work.

Wow, my finest work! If you’d like to read it and decide for yourself if that’s true, here’s a handy ordering link. The link goes to Amazon, but the novel is available wherever e-books are sold. Right now, In the Shadow of the Axe is only available as an e-book, but hopefully the print edition will happen soon. Keep watching this space.

The e-book of In the Shadow of the Axe is 50% off at Smashwords for a limited time! Use the code RAE50 at checkout.

Yay! Horror book blog Wag the Fox named In the Shadow of the Axe one of its top 13 books of 2016, calling it “a treat to read!” You can see the entire list here.

And if you haven’t read it yet, why not pick up a copy today?