Archive for Tim Lebbon
The Dark Places We’ll Go – An Interview with Tim Lebbon
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books@torontoist is currently running an excellent interview with author Tim Lebbon. Here’s a peek:
“For me, all horror fiction is about death—our dealing with it, fear of it, contemplation of it.” So says Tim Lebbon, horror and dark fantasy writer, and author of The Thief of Broken Toys. Lebbon isn’t afraid to confront the most emotionally and spiritually painful of human experiences. “I’ve written lots of stories about grief and loss, but only experienced true grief four years ago when my mother died,” he says. “Since then I’ve felt I can write about it with a clearer understanding of what it entails, and the complex forms grief can sometimes take. The most powerful stories I’ve written, I think, are about loss.”
Catch the entire interview here: Tim Lebbon
CZP Book Contest
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ChiZine Publications’ is running a book contest for Tim Lebbon’s The Thief of Broken Toys. Purchase a copy of the book from Amazon on June 1st, 2010 and you could win a two-year book subscription from ChiZine Publications. That’s every book they publish for the next two years!
All you have to do is purchase a copy of The Thief of Broken Toys on June 1st, 2010 from Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, or Amazon.co.uk, and forward CZP your electronic receipt showing the date of purchase. You will then be entered into a random draw to win a two-year subscription to our trade paperback line (roughly a $450 value!). There will be one subscription available to each of the three Amazon sites.
However, if The Thief of Broken Toys makes it into the top 100 on any of the three Amazon sites, an additional two-year trade paperback subscription will be given away.
And if The Thief of Broken Toys makes it into the top 10 on any of the three Amazon sites, a one-year signed limited edition hardcover subscription to ChiZine Publications will be given away for each site (roughly a $650 value).
The drawing will be held on June 3rd, 2010.
From the May edition of Publishers Weekly: “A father’s inconsolable grief over his son’s untimely death opens a door to a potentially redemptive supernatural experience in this poignant but meandering novella. Since young Toby died in his sleep, Ray has wandered the streets of the little Cornish fishing village of Skentipple in a fog of misery, watching his ex-wife rebuild her life. A chance encounter with an enigmatic old man seems to hold out the prospect of Ray’s own emotional healing—though, as becomes apparent, at a very dear price. Lebbon (Bar None) superbly captures the thoughts and feelings of a man whose misery so unhinges him that an encounter with the uncanny is unavoidable, but too often Ray’s self-pity comes across as artlessly repetitive and padded. An idea that might have made a haunting short story seems underdeveloped at this greater length.”
Last Exit For The Lost – Tim Lebbon
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Cemetery Dance has announced the publication of Last Exit For The Lost, a huge collection of the very best of his short fiction by multi award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer Tim Lebbon.
His first short fiction collection As the Sun Goes Down (Night Shade Book), attracted rave reviews. Now, Last Exit for the Lost collects the best of Lebbon’s output from 2000 to the present day. Weighing in at over 560 pages and containing 150,000 words of fiction, it also features two brand new, never-before-published stories: the novelette The Evolutionary, and the novella Nothing Heavenly.
- In Kissing at Shadows, a man makes a yearly journey through an apocalyptic landscape to visit the memory of his wife…
- In The Stuff of the Stars, Leaking, a dead sea creature washed up on a remote beach proves to be more mysterious than it first appears…
- A man loses his son… and he will do anything to get him back In Perpetuity…
- In The Horror of the Many Faces, Watson witnesses his friend Sherlock Holmes committing horrendous crimes that the great man himself would have trouble solving…
- A boy meets a mysterious stranger who can heal dead animals in The Evolutionary… but is there some fearful design to their meeting…?
- And captured by angels or demons, a prisoner can find Nothing Heavenly in either…
If you’re brave enough to step through this Last Exit, you’ll see why Lebbon is one of the very few genuinely talented British writers of thought-provoking horror and dark fantasy.
Available in two states:
Limited Edition of 1,500 signed copies ($40)
Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather, with a satin ribbon page marker and additional full-color artwork ($175)
Check it out: Last Exit of The Lost
Chizine Publications Releases Final Two Spring Titles
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ChiZine Publications (CZP) is now taking orders for limited edition hardcovers of their new titles Cities of Night by Philip Nutman and The Thief of Broken Toys by Tim Lebbon.
A collection of 13 short stories, Cities of Night tells stories set in cities around the world, all gripped in the darkness of night. In the novella The Thief of Broken Toys, a man grieving his dead son finds his life changed forever after meeting the titular character.
These two titles cap off CZP’s run of six books it will launch at the World Horror Convention in March, 2010, which also include Chasing the Dragon (Nicholas Kaufmann), Chimerascope (Douglas Smith), A Book of Tongues: Book One of the Hexslinger Series (Gemma Files) and Katja from the Punk Band (Simon Logan).
In addition, these six books represent a shift in CZP’s publishing schedule — all will be released simultaneously in hardcover, trade paperback, and eBooks formats, whereas previously trade paperbacks and eBooks had followed the hardcover release by several months. Also, all of the hardcovers (except Chasing the Dragon) will contain exclusive content not found in the trade paperbacks or eBooks versions — something CZP has made permanent.
“In the past, some of the hardcovers had exclusive content, but others were the same as the trades,” explains Co-Publisher Brett Alexander Savory. “But the plan has always been for the hardcovers to be limited edition collectors’ items. While beautiful, high-quality and signed, (Co-Publisher) Sandra (Kasturi) and I realized to make them truly worth the money they needed something more. So, starting with Chimerascope, every hardcover we produce will have something unique.”
The exclusive content for the five spring books will be:
- Chimerascope – Short story “Murphy’s Law” (March 2010)
- A Book of Tongues – Excerpt from Gemma File’s second Hexslinger novel (April 2010)
- Katja from the Punk Band – Short story—title to be announced (April 2010)
- Cities of Night – Three extra illustrations by Mark Maddox (May 2010)
- The Thief of Broken Toys – Brand new short story “Ollie’s Oswald” (May 2010)
