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The Dewey Decimal System
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Bad Moon Books has made Nathan Larson’s debut novel, Dewey Decimal System, available for pre-order. Larson is best known as an award-winning film music composer, having created the scores for over thirty movies, such as Boys Don’t Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, and The Messenger.
Description: After a flu pandemic, a large-scale terrorist attack, and the total collapse of Wall Street, New York City is reduced to a shadow of its former self. As the city struggles to dig itself out of the wreckage, a nameless, obsessive-compulsive veteran with a spotty memory, a love for literature, and a strong if complex moral code (that doesn’t preclude acts of extreme violence) has taken up residence at the main branch of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street.
Dubbed “Dewey Decimal” for his desire to reorganize the library’s stock, our protagonist (who will reappear in the next novel in this series) gets by as bagman and muscle for the New York City’s unscrupulous district attorney. Decimal takes no pleasure in this kind of civic dirty work. He’d be perfectly content alone amongst his books. But this is not in the cards, as the DA calls on Dewey for a seemingly straightforward union-busting job.
What unfolds throws Dewey into a bloody tangle of violence, shifting allegiances, and old vendettas, forcing him to face the darkness of his own past, and the question of his buried identity.
With its high body count and snarky dialogue, The Dewey Decimal System pays respects to Chandler, Hammett, and Jim Thompson. Healthy amounts of black humor and speculative tendencies will appeal to fans of Charlie Huston, Nick Tosches, Duane Swierczynski, Victor Gischler, Robert Ferrigno, and early Jonathan Lethem.
Please note that the cover image pictured above is different from the final hardcover edition, which will consist of a simple design of silver foil text on black cloth.
You can keep up with other Bad Moon Books titles here: Bad Moon Books Blog
Ronald Kelly Titles Up For Pre-Order
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Bad Moon Books has announced two Ronald Kelly titles are now available for pre-order.
First up is the trade paperback edition of Timber Gray – After his family is killed by a pack of rabid wolves, Jefferson Gray survives the horrid disease himself, with the aid of a Cherokee medicine man. But, unfortunately, he can not banish the hatred that dwells within him. An animosity toward dangerous game, particularly timber wolves.
Fifteen years have passed. Timber Gray is known throughout the western territories as a seasoned tracker and hunter: a man who can conquer any threat for the right price, be it grizzly, mountain lion, or, his specialty, wolves. But can Timber tackle his greatest challenge… a pack of fifty wolves led by the legendary Cripplefoot? Such insurmountable odds, combined with an approaching blizzard and a band of renegade bounty hunters, would seem to be certain death to most men. But, to Timber Gray, it is only another reason for staying alive…
The second title is the trade paperback edition of Kelly’s collection, Cumberland Furnace & Other Fear-Forged Fables. From the Master of Southern-Fried Horror comes a collection of stories that could only beat in the dark, diseased heart of Dixie…
- An abandoned furnace, choked with shadow and haunted by tormented ghosts, stands as a grim testament to a time when cruelty and the abuse of human flesh was woefully commonplace…
- A man’s obsession with mysterious roadkill on a lonesome country avenue awakens a horrifying hunger that can not be satisfied…
- Two boys let curiosity get the better of them and discover that a collector of monster movie memorabilia is something more than a retired master of greasepaint and latex…
- A dimwitted projectionist at a small-town drive-in theatre upsets a Saturday night crowd when he unwilling releases a dark secret from a dusty and forgotten film can…
- A grandfather’s Christmas Eve story of a unfinished journey by a drunken peddler captivates a young boy and brings about the delivery of a yuletide gift once thought to be forever lost…
- It started out as nothing more than a shortcut home… a detour through a shadowy stretch of forest known as Tanglewood. But what awaited an unsuspecting driver, amid the brush and bramble, made a simple flat tire seem like a horrifying journey into madness…
22 terrifying tales of Southern darkness and depravity from Ronald Kelly, the acclaimed author of Fear, Blood Kin, Hell Hollow, and Midnight Grinding & Other Twilight Terrors.
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Bad Moon Books Releases The Bone Tree
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Bad Moon Books has released The Bone Tree, a novella by Christopher Fulbright, in trade paperback and all e-reader formats.
About the book: Above a Civil War graveyard in the backwoods of Texas, Kevin and Bobby’s treehouse was their haven against the world. But the day Tom Plecker came screaming through the creek below, terrified of a shadow man, that all changed.
Walking Tom home they see it – the Bone Tree, its branches twisted like the pain-wracked frame of a fleshless corpse.
Later, Tom sees the tree glowing through the forest in the dead of night, and shadowy figures creep from the woods, faceless and hovering at his window. When a family near the woods turns up dead and a local kid goes missing, the boys know right where to look.
The Bone Tree is more than a stark, twisted visage – it’s alive, and it’s gaining power. When the shadow men come to call on the boys, they must fight a supernatural force they barely understand, or fall victim to the apparitions and learn what it means to disappear…
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Bad Moon Books Announces A View From The Lake
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Bad Moon Books is now accepting pre-orders for the Eclipse signed limited hardcover edition of Greg F. Gifune’s A View From The Lake.
Description: Hell freezes over…
The modest lakeside resort in the small town of Blissful Point, Massachusetts once offered an alternative to the crowded beaches of Cape Cod. Tourists rented cabins, swam, relaxed, and enjoyed the miles of surrounding forest in a peaceful and safe environment. Katherine lived there for years with her husband James, a poet, and their cat Barney. They ran the small resort during the hectic spring and summer months, then hunkered down and endured the often brutal and desolate winters in relative isolation. Their lives were uncomplicated, happy and quiet – or so Katherine thought – until one summer morning when the dead body of a young boy is found floating in the lake. From the moment the child accidentally drowns, Katherine watches as her husband slowly begins to lose his grip on reality, spiraling down helplessly into insanity. And then he’s gone, vanished from their home without a trace. The authorities drag the lake and search parties comb the woods, but to no avail. James is gone.
Months later, as a blizzard descends over Blissful Point, Katherine, alone at the resort, faces her final winter on the lake. But things are no longer what they seem. Perhaps they never were. Are there others out there, in the woods, in the snow, in the lake, waiting and watching and luring her toward the same madness that claimed James? Is there a lingering and primordial evil haunting the lake, bringing with it the truth behind its existence, the answer to the mystery surrounding her husband’s disappearance, and the life she thought she knew, or is her own grip on reality beginning to loosen?
The Introduction is by T.M. Wright.
You can pre-order through Horror Mall here: A View From The Lake
Blood Spring – Book Review
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Blood Spring
Erik Williams
Bad Moon Books
Trade Paper, 114 pages, $18.95
Review by Sheila M. Merritt
Good intentions; it is said that the road to hell is paved with them. In Blood Spring, by Erik Williams, an act of human kindness leads to inhumane horrors. This very compact and linear narrative savages the sanctity of civilized behavior. The complacency of cultural comfort is raped by rural brutality. This is territory covered in Deliverance, and in the films of director Sam Peckinpah. To his credit, author Williams takes the well trod path and infuses it with a visceral vitality.
The book’s de rigueur mild mannered protagonist, Henry Jacobs, is acquiescent and quietly seething. His wife Claire has nursed back to health a deer she found injured from an accident. During the six months of its healing, Henry has suffered internally. He allows the garage to be appropriated as a hospital/nursery for the recovering animal; he shovels its excrement. What taxes his emotional endurance to the max, though, is Claire’s affection for the beast. Although comprehending her sublimation of maternal instincts (she is incapable of having children) Henry is jealous. And he recognizes it. This only gives his spouse more leverage for manipulation. When the time comes to return the creature to the wild, Claire makes the call about the site’s location: It must be deep into the forest; away from roads and people. The area that suits her purpose in their region of Florida is the stuff of modern myth. Local legends abound, but a choice is made.
The freed animal scampers off, in its element. The couple, however, possesses the survival skills of metaphorical babes in the woods. They are disoriented, lacking sustainable food and water, and unable to locate their vehicle. Claire is seemingly unconcerned, but does off-handedly blame Henry for his inability to change the situation. Henry is angry: Angry at being lost; angry at the damn deer; and angry at his wife for causing the problem. These latent hostilities get vented when he is confronted with primitive atrocities.
Author Williams does an excellent job conveying the undercurrents and tensions in the marriage. The frustrations of the union are dealt with precision and a dash of humor. He also handles the predictable shift of character with a flourish. The violent landscape, of course, alters Henry. His metamorphosis from milquetoast accountant into blood-thirsty barbarian is finely depicted. No bad deed goes unpunished.
Blood Spring is a rapid read. The suspense is streamlined and flows easily; a taut tale. Erik Williams delivers a merciless meditation on a benevolent act that mutates to its monstrously malevolent closure.
Changes At Bad Moon Books
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Roy Robbins of Bad Moon Books has reported that they’ll be making some changes to their sales system. Recently, the publisher moved their sales process to Horror Mall. However, as of January 1st, 2011, Horror Mall will no longer be accepting pre-orders for titles. This decision has required Bad Moon Books to re-establish their pre-order system. At the same, they’ll also be maintaining an inventory of in-stock titles so they can fulfill orders directly.
“Liz and I are busy getting the site back up to speed, and moving a lot of our inventory over to the site,” says Robbins. “While this is and will be a lot of work, we are excited about the freedom this once again affords us in regards to selling. Our sincere hope is that all of our loyal BMB and HM customers will continue to purchase pre-orders and in stock books, in addition to our fine, award winning line of quality fiction.”
Those with any questions or concerns are encouraged to contact Robbins by email at: Roy Robbins. Bad Moon Books also maintains a presence on message boards such as Horror Drive In, The Crypt, and Horror World.
Deathflash By Gene O’Neill
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Bad Moon Books has announced the release of the new Gene O’Neill novel, Deathflash. It’s being offered as a 100 copy signed/limited edition under the Bad Moon Eclipse imprint. Art by Steve Gilberts. And for those looking for a gift idea, the book will be delivered around Christmas.
Description: The Shepherd of a religious cult can see the soul depart the body at the moment of death, and leads the mourners in prayer. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that it’s a highly addictive experience. Soon after fleeing his flock, the Shepherd finds himself in San Francisco, dispatching members of the underclass … and coming to the attention of the Green Hornet and Cato.
You can order hereL Deathflash
