Stairway to Hell

This cover was inspired by Hack’s cover artist Jonny M.’s experiences when his home of Los Angeles was facing the scourge of Tropical Storm Hillary. It began when Jonny texted the cover art for The Bunker to a friend the day before, who responded “You’re going to hell.”

A little later when it was pouring rain from Tropical Storm Hilary, Jonny had a vision of an earthquake and having to evacuate his government-assisted housing outside. Shortly afterward, there was an earthquake (no evacuation necessary, though). When he told the same friend about it, they replied “so the earthquake is YOUR fault.”

Jonny made the cover and Hack dashed out a novel around it.

Imaginary Lover

Hack’s back and Agnes has got him!

This was inspired by an incident when a famous actress was depicted as a character on the cover art of one of Hack’s novels. A reader was furious because he considered the actress to be his personal masturbatorial intellectual property and threatened Hack with violence if he so much as thought about her again.

The reader was apprehended by authorities and is now safely confined to Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane.