Novels/Novellas
To his martial arts students, Vance Palladian is more than just a teacher; he is the Paladin, a man of warrior virtue. Now a widower, and with his finances in disarray, Vance feels disillusioned with his once noble life.
After thwarting a seemingly random robbery, and the kidnapping attempt of a wealthy future heiress, Vance finds himself employed as her bodyguard by the young woman’s father, a mysterious businessman who holds the lineage of the last remaining esoteric school of ancient Japanese fighting arts.
Vance is taught the deadly techniques of Japan’s invisible assassins, and finds the mythology behind these dark teachings is just as real, pulling him into a world of crime, deception, seduction, and vice, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Now, he must battle tengu and oni, along with the forces of organized crime and police corruption, to survive the…
YEAR OF THE DEMON
After her father’s assassination, Lady Miki rebukes Lord Makatomi’s call to relinquish her father’s kingdom, for he is now the rightful wielder of, Tentetsutou, The Heaven Sword, the sword that rules. Going against tradition, Lady Miki sets off with her Koro-Pok-Guru, dwarf companion, to become a vagabond. She meets a wandering warrior, a young man as handsome as he is disgraced. With his help, and through a tengu bird demon alliance, Lady Miki mounts a desperate battle to reclaim her kingdom.
WOLVES OF VENGEANCE
Jack Amon had been a bully in high school. Michael, a victim of his abuse, put a curse on Jack and his friends. Nothing happened. They all laughed. Curses were silly. Curses were stupid. Now with school far behind them, Jack has turned his life around. He’s off the booze, living a productive life, and has moved far away from his hometown. Then his old friends begin dying of wild animal attacks, and he remembers the curse cast so long ago. But why now? Why after so many years? Falling off the wagon and in a panic, Jack returns to his hometown to find, against all hope, a way to stop the curse. He has no choice. If the booze doesn’t kill him this time, something ancient and evil will. The accursed creatures Michael called the… WOLVES OF VENGEANCE
Short Stories
The Midnight Club – The Horror Zine’s Book of Werewolf Stories: March 15, 2022 (HellBound Books) “The Midnight Club” by David North-Martino – a serial killer who lives for the thrill of the hunt gets what’s coming to him when his prey turns to predator– Heather Miller
Shattered – The Horror Zine: July 2020 Featured Writer.
https://www.thehorrorzine.com/Fiction/July2020/DavidNorth-Martino/David.html
Sat Down Inside Her – Wicked Tales: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers Vol. 3 (NEHW Press) “David North Martino’s ‘Sat Down Inside Her’ finds a female alien abductee learning she has become a breeder for future humans. This scifi/horror hybrid really gets the creeps going.” –Nick Cato, The Horror Fiction Review
Staring at Me – Nightmare Illustrated Picto-Fiction Magazine (Horrified Press)
The Interloper – Anthology: Year Two: Inner Demons Out (Four Horsemen Press)
Anthology: Year Two: Inner Demons Out
Stone Butterfly – Cellar Door anthology (James Ward Kirk Press)
Graven Image – Dark Dreams Podcast (Read by E.S Wynn)
Phantom Chasers – From Beyond the Grave anthology (Grinning Skull Press)
The Hours of Sleep – You can’t Kill Me, I’m Already Dead: A Vampire Anthology (Zombie Works Publications)
You Can’t Kill Me I’m Already Dead
The Mesomorphic Woman – Daughters of Icarus (Pink Narcissus Press)
Malfeasance – Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers (Shroud Publishing)
Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers
The Language of Ice – Extinct Doesn’t Mean Forever (Dare to Dream Press/Steel Magnolia Press)
https://davidnorthmartino.com/2019/04/07/the-language-of-ice-by-david-north-martino/
Graven Image – Afterburn SF webzine
https://davidnorthmartino.com/2019/03/10/graven-image-by-david-north-martino/
Despair – Dark Recesses Press web & PDF magazine (DRP)
https://davidnorthmartino.com/2019/02/12/despair-by-david-north-martino/
Graven Image – The Swamp webzine
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