[The following is an updated reprint of a column which originally appeared in the August 25, 2005, issue of Hellnotes.] M.P. Shiel is probably best known for his masterpiece, The Purple Cloud. This last-man-on-earth novel, which H.G. Wells called...
We always have some exciting horror auctions going, twenty-four hours a day, every day of the week here. The menu is on the left, a little more than half-way down this page. At the time of this post, you can find great Horror Magazine auctions for Horror Monsters #4...
[The following is an updated reprint of a column which originally appeared in the May 19, 2005, issue of Hellnotes.] Best known for “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson wrote non-genre fiction in addition to gothic horror. Some of...
[The following is an updated reprint of a column which originally appeared in the April 28, 2005, issue of Hellnotes.] E. Hoffmann Price was a noted pulp writer, who, along with H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, dominated the magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. He...
We came across three signed and slipcased copies of The Definitive Best of The Horror Show recently. Published by Cemetery Dance Publications, the anthology contains forty short stories by such popular horror writers as Dean Koontz, Joe R. Lansdale, Graham Masterton,...
As one of the publishers of Lyrical Press, it’s my job to stay on top of book trends. Obviously, one cannot ignore the success of Twilight. I may have been slow to the series, but its impact caused a ripple effect throughout the industry. Suddenly, Young Adult...
