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Bradbury’s Where Everything Ends
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Subterranean Press is shipping Ray Bradbury’s Where Everything Ends, but they still have some trade hardcovers available.
Description: In 1949, a struggling writer – a man very much like the young Ray Bradbury – boards a late night trolley in Venice, California and hears a disembodied voice murmur the words: “Death is a lonely business.” Shortly afterward, that same young man discovers a body trapped in a cage beneath the waters of the local canal. Convinced of a connection between these events, the narrator/hero – together with a wonderfully characterized detective named Elmo Crumley (named in a nod to noted mystery novelist James Crumley) – begins to investigate a series of suspicious deaths among the disenfranchised population of Venice.
Death is a Lonely Business was Ray Bradbury’s first book-length foray into classical detective fiction. Two others followed: A Graveyard for Lunatics, in which Crumley and our hero (now a gainfully employed scriptwriter) join forces with special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, and Let’s All Kill Constance, a tale of mystery and suspense set against the faded backdrop of Hollywood’s Golden Age. All three, together with “Where Everything Ends,” the never-before-published title story that preceded and inspired them, are now gathered together in a single generous volume that should prove indispensable to Bradbury’s large and loyal readership.
Freely acknowledging the influence of the genre’s masters (Hammett, Chandler, MacDonald, and Cain), all of these stories successfully transcend those influences, filtering them through their author’s wholly unique sensibility. The result is a powerfully nostalgic evocation of time and place, and an unforgettable portrait of a writer in love with language, with movies, and with the transformative power of stories themselves.
To learn more and/or purchase: Where Everything Ends
Next King Book: Full Dark, No Stars
Posted by: | CommentsScribner has scheduled a November release of Stephen King’s next book, Full Dark, No Stars.
The trade hardcover is a collection of four previously unpublished novellas, all linked by the theme of retribution. A press release out of the UK, where Hodder & Stoughton will be publishing the British edition, describes it as “visceral, immediate and featuring just a few characters, this is the other side of King’s writing; contrasting intimate portraits after the huge canvas that was Under the Dome. One of the novellas is reportedly about Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which fans of The Stand know as the home of Mother Abagail.”
There’s no cover art available for the 352 page book.
We’ll tell you more as it becomes available.
Damnation Books March Releases
Posted by: | CommentsDamnation Books, a start up e-publishing company specializing in paranormal and dark fiction has released the following new titles. Each title will be available in Kindle and print format.
Careless Book 2 Alyce Kerr
Faith Healer Trilogy
Yolanda Sfetsos
Description: Alyce Kerr used to be a celebrity Faith Healer. Now all she wants to do is to stay out of the limelight. Her short career of healing the sick publicly has left her with a gaping hole in her soul and a binding to a demon that makes her vulnerable. With Ross by her side and the help of a recluse demonologist, Alyce may be able to reclaim her soul… but at what price?
Can the demonologist be trusted with Alyce’s life, or will her curiosity with all-that-is-demonic work against them?
Price: $4.50 ebook
Genre: Erotica
Sub Genre: Paranormal
Edited by Andrea Heacock-Reyes
Cover Artwork by Jessica Lucero
Caribbean Caracole
Patricia MacEwen
Description: What does any woman want? To love, and be loved in return. That’s all Marguerite is asking for when she flees her drunken husband, running into the darkness in her bare feet. Knowing almost nothing of the tiny Caribbean island that shelters her, she knows even less of the spirit world surrounding her. She doesn’t understand that spirits too can be twisted by loss and by loneliness, that transformation comes at a terrible price.
Price: $2.50 ebook only
Genre: Horror
Sub Genre: Erotica
Edited by April Duncan
Cover Artwork by Marge Simon
Futures-Past Editions
Posted by: | CommentsPageTurner Editions and its parent company, Renaissance E Books, Inc., are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their science fiction imprint, Futures-Past Editions, with its own dedicated URL.
As a sub-imprint of PageTurner Editions, Futures-Past Editions has been one of the leading ebook sources of contemporary and classic science fiction, fantasy, and horror since 2001.
Currently Futures-Past Editions are available in a wide variety of formats at all major ebookstores, including the brand stores for Kindle, Sony, Palm, and B&N, as well as Fictionwise, eBooks.com, eBookmall, and others.
Futures-Past Editions issues new science fiction, fantasy and horror ebooks by bestselling authors such as Joe Vadalma (the Morgaine series about a modern day Sorceress), Ardath Mayhar (Balrog winner, Nebula nominee, and a slew of other awards and nominations), Stuart J. Byrne (veteran 50s pulpster whose newest novel, Star Quest was the number one sf ebook bestseller at fictionwise.com for five weeks running), J. D. Crayne (the Captain Spycer books), Jac Eddins (the Minstrel’s Song series) plus Matt Kirkby, Michael Swanson (the Evil Heights Quartet), Octavio Ramos Jr. (Startling Science Stories Best Original Fiction Award), and others.
Futures-Past also issues ebook reprints of classics by Golden Age masters like Nebula nominees Raymond Z. Gallun and Ross Rocklynne, Hugo nominee Rog Phillips, Hugo winners Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, plus Harry Bates (The Day the Earth Stood Still), Larry Maddock (Agent of T.E.R.R.A.), Edmond Hamilton (The Star Kings), A. Merritt, Sam Merwin Jr., H. P. Lovecraft, Francis Stevens, Philip Jose Farmer, Philip Francis Nowlan (Buck Rogers), Don Wilcox, Arthur K. Barnes (The Interplanetary Huntress), John Taine, Cleve Cartmill, and other celebrated authors.
Futures-Past also presents a unique series of Bargain Omnibus Editions of science fiction and fantasy classics, each ebook contains three or more complete novels, usually by a single author, including the Tarzan and Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, plus William Morris, Lord Dunsany, Garrett P. Serviss, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, Murray Leinster, Sax Rohmer, and H. G. Wells.
“To celebrate the launch of the new URL and its Tenth Anniversary,” says Associate Editor Jean Marie Stine, “we are publishing twelve new books by Joe Vadalma, M. Christian’s collection, Love Without Gun Control, and the never reprinted concluding volume in Harry Bates’ classic pulp space opera saga, The Hidden World [The Interplanetary Adventures of Space Hawk #5] from the pages of the golden age Amazing Stories (1942).
Future publications include a new Captain Spycer novel by J.D.Crayne and the classic pulp saga Johnny Mayhem: The Man Who Saved the Universe by C. H, Thames, plus several of the legendary lead novels from the pages of the 1940s Planet Stories.
It’s all happening here: Futures-Past Editions
PS Publishing New Releases – March 2010
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PS Publishing has plenty going on as they prepare for the World Horror Convention in Brighton. They’ve got a whole slew of titles to check out. We’ve included a list below of what’s coming out this month … and remind you to take a look at the forthcoming titles section at the PS Webstore to see what’s coming down the pike.
First, the two late-comers:
- Postscripts # 20/21: Edison’s Frankenstein
- The Night Cache by Andy Duncan
And the rest of the new stuff:
- A Web of Black Widows by Scott Carter
- One For The Road by Stephen King
- Darkness on the Edge by Harrison Howe (ed.)
- Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury
- Escher’s Loops by Zoran Zivkovic
- Black Wings by S. T. Joshi (ed.)
- What Will Come After by Scott Edelman
- Pelican Cay by David Case
- Darkness, Mist & Shadow Vol. 1 by Basil Copper
- Darkness, Mist & Shadow Vol. 2 by Basil Copper
- Literary Remains by R. B. Russell
- The Sorcerer’s House by Gene Wolfe
Gene O’Neill’s Jade
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Bad Moon Books has announced the upcoming publication of Gene O’Neill’s Jade.
Description: Jade, with her beautiful eyes is a wasteland defective, a quasimodo.
An advocate for other Cal Wild defectives, she soon runs afoul of the mysterious and ominous Aryan Colonists.
Soon after she experiences the high of first love and the low of gruesome death, eventually spiritually soaring above the sleaze, bigotry, and violence of the San D Ruins.
Introduction by Michael McBride.
Author: Gene O’Neill
Publisher: Bad Moon Books
Edition: Signed Limited Softcover
Page Count: 130
Print Run: 150
Artist: Steve Gilberts
Price: $19.95
You can pre-order the book from Horror Mall here: Jade
Uninvited Books
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Uninvited Books is a new, independent small press with an exciting vision for the future … and some very definite ideas.
All serious fiction deals (to some extent) with dark themes, and many great works of literature have employed supernatural, surreal or existentialist elements. These books have power. They endure, because they appeal to serious readers and provide thoughtful entertainment.
On the current publishing scene, however, dark novels of distinction often find themselves unwelcome … and uninvited. At Uninvited Books, they believe that readers will choose quality, if works of quality are made available.
From their web site: “Uninvited Books is on a mission. Think of us as a flame in the darkness, growing slowly to reveal treasures … as well as nightmares. Our goal is to restore the mantle of visionary artistry, skilled craftsmanship and psychological sophistication to dark literature. Maintaining an unrelenting focus on artistic integrity, we hope to publish books that will transcend genre classifications. Is this a radical approach to publishing? Perhaps. Is it subversive? Even revolutionary? Lovers of dark fiction have been waiting for exactly this revolution.”
While they haven’t announced their line up yet, Uninvited Books has plans to release information about their initial releases in the weeks to come. In the meantime, if you’d like to keep up with the new publisher, you’re invited to visit their web site and sign up for their mailing list: Uninvited Books
