Arachnophobia for Call of Cthulhu now available

The M Presents Publications, in association with Chaosium as part of the Miskatonic Repository, has released Arachnophobia

THE SOURCE now available

The Source by Michael Bertolini is now available from the fine retailers (click the link on the right) or directly from the author. Pick up your copy today!

The Source

Bertolini, Michael J

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Available for Pre-order!

 The Source by Michael Bertolini, with commentary by Alan Dark, is available for PRE-ORDER right now from Smashwords, link below. It is a Horror Thriller with some clear nods to H.P. Lovecraft and the wider Cthulhu Mythos while maintaining its own feel. Be sure to check it out, the E-Book will be available on July 1st, 2026 while the Print book will be available for purchase July 4th, 2026. 

Also, if you pre-order the e-book RIGHT NOW from Smashwords the price is only $2.99, but if you wait, the price will increase to $3.99 in June and $4.99 once it releases in July.

👉  Pre-Order THE SOURCE on Smashwords 👈

M.O.T.H.E.R. now available through Ingram Spark

 Great News! M.O.T.H.E.R. is the first M Presents Publishing book available through Ingram Spark book distribution. This means that it will be easier to find print books of this title online and, if you choose to see it on shelves, your local bookstore will be easily able to order copies. It is a longer process on my end to get the book ready this way but I hope this expanded distribution will be beneficial to all M Presents authors!

You can order your own print copy directly from Ingram Spark at the link I've included.

M.O.T.H.E.R.

Bertolini, Michael

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All Roads Point South is officially on Electrum Tier

 "All Roads Point South" is a couple of years old at this point and has been officially awarded the 'Electrum' rank at DriveThruRPG.  Thanks to everyone who bought the game and those who'll buy it next.

Appearance

 I'm going to be on a panel with a few members of the HWA-NE this Saturday (September 27) from 1-4 at the Barnes & Noble in Meriden Connecticut. Stop by, hear what us horror writers think about the genre in general, and buy some of our awesome books.  I hope to see everyone there!

Barnes & Noble Meriden 

533 S Broad St, Meriden, Connecticut 06450

Smashwords Summer Sale

 Through July, many M Presents Publishing books are on sale. Just go to smashwords.com, you can search M Presents, Michael Bertolini, or Alan Dark to see what's available. Titles, such as the entirety of the Enter Madness anthology series, is on sale.

Dark Descent 2025

 My very short story "The Cold One" will be appearing in Dark Holme Publishing's Dark Descent 2025 Anthology.

Darkholmepublishing.uk

EDITOR SERVICE

Michael, owner and operator of M Presents Publishing, is offering editorial services to those writers who aren't being published by M Presents.

Happy Holidays

 It's that time of the year where Santa is coming to all of the good children of the world. Santa is that overweight white guy with a beard that wears a red suit and enters your home through the chimney, he works with hundreds of elves to produce every toy and electronic device imaginable...

So why not add something from MPresents authors to one of those definitely elf-built electronic devices? 

Horrorscope from Michael Bertolini on Audible.

M.O.T.H.E.R. by Michael Bertolini, wherever books are sold.

Back And Forth and Back by Alan Dark, wherever books are sold.

Madness By Firelight Anthology, wherever books are sold.

Or, if you're interested, click on the link to DriveThruRPG in the menu and buy a PDF of your favorite roleplaying game.

Blast from the past

 Common wisdom says that you should never Google yourself, and so I usually don't. However, I did just that to see WHAT would come up (good or bad)when someone Googles me. To my surprise I stumbled upon this old (ok, it's less than 10 years old) video I did at my alma mater.

https://mediaspace.ccsu.edu/media/Auth+1101+Michael+Bertolini/1_1b87svqu/100204881

The crazy thing is how young I look.

Appearance

 Michael will be appearing at another Fright Night on June 29, 2024 from 6-8pm in Torrington, CT.

Appearance

 I'll be on a panel presented by the Connecticut Chapter of the Horror Writers Association, on May 17 from 6-8pm at Barnes & Nobles in Meriden, CT. Come check out all of the authors! 

Support local independent authors!

New Coupon

 From now until June 30, 2024, get 25% off of the retail price for the ebook 'Scary Stories' from Smashwords.com.  Use the code TC58X and redeem your discount today!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1540250

Available in Print and on the Kindle

Edward Malone, a young reporter for the Daily Gazette, asks his editor for a dangerous assignment to impress the woman he loves. His task is to approach the notorious Professor Challenger, who reveals he has discovered living dinosaurs in South America. Malone volunteers for an expedition to verify the discoveries.

*The Kindle version is illustrated by AI due to Amazon requirements

Print: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2SQ21HC.

Illustrated: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHK3H1XN

Available in Print (Paperback & Hardcover), Kindle, and on DriveThruFiction

 Enter Madness is a collection of short horror stories by contemporary and past authors. Prepare to enter a world of darkness where you need to question everything you think you know and come to terms with the shattering of your own sanity. Imagine a werewolf willingly in prison, light that hides a deeper secret, a mysterious door in the forest, something dark promising destruction, a false burial, and a church that has more secrets than it is keen to reveal.

Includes stories written by Michael Bertolini, River Barcid, Alan Dark, Thomas Stewart, Edgar Alan Poe*, and HP Lovecracft*. Edited by Michael Bertolini for M Presents.

*Not in Kindle Version due to Amazon requirements

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHLD1D43

DriveThruFiction: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/427120/Enter-Madness

 

Now available as an E-Book

 

"All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards—are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. These must be handled with unsparing realism, but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown we must remember to leave our humanity and terrestrialism at the threshold."

-H.P. Lovecraft

What follows is a collection of select stories by H.P. Lovecraft with an introduction by Michael Bertolini.

Included:

• The Tomb
• Dagon
• Memory
• Old Bugs
• The Street
• The Terrible Old Man
• The Temple
• Nyarlathotep
• The Nameless City
• The Moon Bog
• Herbert West: Reanimator
• The Hound
• The Unnameable
• The Festival
• In The Vault
• Cool Air
• The Call of Cthulhu
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• At The Mountains of Madness
• The Haunter of the Dark

... and many more (over 40 stories to keep you up at night)

https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/425330/The-Macabre-Horror-of-HP-Lovecraft