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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-79584882896127067502010-09-07T14:02:00.000-07:002011-01-30T12:07:16.438-08:00Buried with Engelbrecht!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrARkQBWIbXLekceXCdhxPVVUQs7IC-wD6HSpHOBDQ-eHcZUwaL9cDj6XK5XOTwnFMjYXuKmQ3tBnpIOjxTtNZR9MAZ1ZJgfomef7pf2pqhKvIvhLXzbzCG1b5Ae1DxOSM8QRWN-hrwY/s1600/ea!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrARkQBWIbXLekceXCdhxPVVUQs7IC-wD6HSpHOBDQ-eHcZUwaL9cDj6XK5XOTwnFMjYXuKmQ3tBnpIOjxTtNZR9MAZ1ZJgfomef7pf2pqhKvIvhLXzbzCG1b5Ae1DxOSM8QRWN-hrwY/s200/ea!.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Check out Rhys Hughes' guest blog about <em><a href="http://www.horrorreanimated.com/2010/09/06/rhys-hughes-the-book-i-would-like-to-be-buried-with/"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>The Exploits of Engelbrecht</strong></span></a></em>, the book that inspired his wonderful sequel, <em><strong>Engelbrecht Again!</strong></em></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-5512884888260312132010-06-30T18:16:00.000-07:002010-06-30T18:33:46.387-07:00More Praise for Dead Letter Press books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnE7M8NnRM481INHQuc4mzjDc1X7DXaxFHMHnxPf_pSN9DkPrSDXe7_VXYvz4zgcaTfCcmbeSTjVuOMc0w4XURXpVLIVByarZyn2QxwPijweByNOvlQFWFV_Dk5y9hcoilWjNGTiDx6Mo/s1600/blaque+reach+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnE7M8NnRM481INHQuc4mzjDc1X7DXaxFHMHnxPf_pSN9DkPrSDXe7_VXYvz4zgcaTfCcmbeSTjVuOMc0w4XURXpVLIVByarZyn2QxwPijweByNOvlQFWFV_Dk5y9hcoilWjNGTiDx6Mo/s400/blaque+reach+cover.jpg" width="260" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here's a quote from a recent email sent by another satisfied customer:</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>I received the package Tuesday. Wow! What a wonderful book</em></strong> <strong><a href="http://departmentofdeadletters.blogspot.com/2009/11/bound-for-evil-11-honorable-mentions.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bound For Evil</span></a></strong> <strong><em>is. </em></strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>The overall presentation is very impressive. Very nice!</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>I have over some time, acquired a fairly large collection ... and typically, I avoided chapbooks ... mostly because the price didn't justify 2-10 pages of content, (and my being a bohemian musician, well, there's not too much money to throw at books). </strong></em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>But, after reading <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcec58_50-I3B4N6Hy45rhxsExVZg5NbNcVQy_PnB5W3uao7HBnw324o097b8jLx0OWXT8oVkqViN1jZygNAD9XW2WiK6cwZ6A8YaPhIZuKOdxB3tfkI18hOl84ATVidIElpV65yapSs/s1600-h/blaque+reach+cover.jpg"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Collective of Blaque Reach</span></a>, (along with the wonderful packaging of it), this is an area that I am going to delve into with more enthusiasm.</strong></em></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks for the kind words, ST!</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-86274658603473692392009-12-14T13:02:00.000-08:002010-08-07T20:24:12.267-07:00The Flame has gone out (of print, that is) but it continues to burn bright!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7HFAywTlkC_E6r-8cnjNMyg7l3Ar3UizldaWlgP-J_mTodkNc_bwgTyqzZp_mBbvr80vjfXzgfjc0tN20k4qZaOzwFrPbPsdpxTb500cAPEvyBU3x5p1TgsGNdqktrlwU2wHcAluLCwY/s1600-h/mysterious+flame+100.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415205085607458354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7HFAywTlkC_E6r-8cnjNMyg7l3Ar3UizldaWlgP-J_mTodkNc_bwgTyqzZp_mBbvr80vjfXzgfjc0tN20k4qZaOzwFrPbPsdpxTb500cAPEvyBU3x5p1TgsGNdqktrlwU2wHcAluLCwY/s200/mysterious+flame+100.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 128px;" /></a>Orrin Grey's gothic novella <em><strong>The Mysterious Flame</strong></em> is now <strong>out of print.</strong> If you missed getting a copy you may still be able to find it at one of the fine booksellers that stock DLP books. Don't miss out on this wonderful debut novella by a rising voice in horror fiction!<br />
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<div>Here's yet another great review (at <strong><a href="http://speculativefictionjunkie.blogspot.com/2009/11/review-mysterious-flame.html">Speculative Fiction Junkie</a></strong>) proving that <em>The Mysterious Flame </em>continues to burn bright!</div><div></div><br />
<div><span style="font-size: 85%;"><em>"<strong>Despite its brevity, The Mysterious Flame manages to include an awful lot of action and disparate elements</strong>. Whether it's Narthos being awakened from the Spanish tower, Barnabus and his friend taking up residence in an abandoned movie theater, Barnabus hanging out in an isolated diner just to be around others for a bit, the raising of an army of reanimated corpses, or countless other things, this short book packs as much into its forty-four pages as is humanly possible without in any way feeling like it is overreaching or attempting to force too many disparate elements together. Additionally, <strong>for a book with such a potentially heavy subject matter, The Mysterious Flame manages to maintain a surprisingly light tone for the most part. Mr. Grey makes some welcome serious points</strong> about the nature of the mysterious flame by, among other things, contrasting the relationship between Barnabas and Daniel with the relationship between Narthos and Joy, <strong>but the book simultaneously remains a whole lot of fun.</strong></em></span></div><br />
<div><span style="font-size: 85%;"><em></em></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 85%;"><em><strong>Mr. Grey is a capable writer with occasional flashes of brilliant description. I haven't seen any other works from him but I will be keeping my eye open for him in the future.</strong></em></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-24755923013253820072009-11-08T09:35:00.000-08:002010-08-07T20:24:32.628-07:00BOUND FOR EVIL: 11 Honorable Mentions for Best Horror<a href="https://www.nightshadebooks.com/secure/images/products/147_large.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.nightshadebooks.com/secure/images/products/147_large.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 250px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 167px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, serif; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This year the list of Honorable Mentions in Ellen Datlow’s annual </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Best Horror of the Year</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> anthology (published by Night Shade, 2009) was pared down to only the top 50. However, Ellen has posted the remainder of her list on the </span><a href="http://nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/233/31565.html?1254590964"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">publisher’s website</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Included on this list of the top stories of 2008 are 11 tales from </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bound For Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. The 11 stories cited for honorable mentions are:</span></span> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, serif; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Mechanix” by Christopher Fulbright</span></span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The Reading Room” by Orrin Grey </span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Letters Home” by Erin MacKay</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Guidance” by Gary McMahon </span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Recipe for Disaster” by John Llewellyn Probert</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Association Copy” by Barbara Roden</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The Dark and the Young” by Ian Rogers</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Leather, Dark and Cold” by Simon Strantzas</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Cormac’s Mirror” by Ben Thomas</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The Book of Cain” by Michael D. Winkle</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpLast"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The Alzheimer’s Book Club” by Jill Zeller</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpFirst"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Congratulations to these fine writers!</span></span></div></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-20727440358530772152009-07-14T20:29:00.000-07:002010-08-07T20:25:02.490-07:00Engelbrecht Triumphant!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTA5kmluhUMV9GzJB6c3-PX_s7sDKYVw2vx-lZnhkoOTXSJJ7XYw2v7Z3QPE_92iKAHmLucnh4bLC2pZnuRqI_y3MTtXR-VXooB5uYahm8ZRLnl3CBol8VUmF1kWkeClt_w2uRuCLHTXc/s1600-h/Engelbrecht+small.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358526867185477058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTA5kmluhUMV9GzJB6c3-PX_s7sDKYVw2vx-lZnhkoOTXSJJ7XYw2v7Z3QPE_92iKAHmLucnh4bLC2pZnuRqI_y3MTtXR-VXooB5uYahm8ZRLnl3CBol8VUmF1kWkeClt_w2uRuCLHTXc/s320/Engelbrecht+small.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><a href="http://www.bscreview.com/2009/06/the-electric-mayhem-richie-daggers-crime/">A new review of <em><strong>Engelbrecht Again!</strong></em> at BookSpotCentral</a> has this to say about the Rhys Hughes novel: <br />
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<div>"<em>Engelbrecht Again!</em> is one of the funniest, funnest, original and highly imaginative books that I’ve read in a while. The exploits of the dwarf surrealist boxer are so downright whacky at times that you just shake your head and wonder how in the hell did Hughes come up with this scenario because he’s one of those writers that is popping with ideas. His throwaway ideas would be other, lesser writers' centerpiece ideas."</div><div></div><div>Read the entire review <a href="http://www.bscreview.com/2009/06/the-electric-mayhem-richie-daggers-crime/">here</a>. Then grab your copy before the dwarf grabs you!</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-68093052233795560172009-07-03T11:55:00.000-07:002010-08-07T20:25:16.955-07:00More Fame for Mysterious Flame<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ZISAKltg4_xfbU40nXEBSzwpzOBee5yOZ6CjWJMJBxfPFLOUHsg13lwvfnC30fk9i6Iy3yI6p8v2n1e0dB-Vo9vSa06WXlOdNqMDUN9ES7BbNyoZhuuzXHp7X-2vbw7N5BPzCGVxdIs/s1600-h/mysterious+flame.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354405174895517762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ZISAKltg4_xfbU40nXEBSzwpzOBee5yOZ6CjWJMJBxfPFLOUHsg13lwvfnC30fk9i6Iy3yI6p8v2n1e0dB-Vo9vSa06WXlOdNqMDUN9ES7BbNyoZhuuzXHp7X-2vbw7N5BPzCGVxdIs/s200/mysterious+flame.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 128px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Matt Cowan has posted a short review praising Orrin Grey's first novella, </span><em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Mysterious Flame</span></strong></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, over at </span><a href="http://www.vintagehorror.com/node/123"><strong><span style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">VintageHorror.com</span></span></strong></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.<br />
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Orrin and I will be attending Readercon 20 (The Conference on Imaginative Literature) the weekend of July 10 - 12th. I'll be bringing the last few copies of </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Mysterious Flame,</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> so if you're in or near Burlington, MA, stop in and see us. Orrin will be happy to inscribe a copy of his novella for you. Chances are good you can catch us at the Dark Hollow Books section of the Dealers Room. Bill Morrison of DHB will be selling copies of my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthology </span><em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bound for Evil</span></strong></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (the awards ceremony is Sunday the 12th at 11 am) and we'll be stopping by Bill's tables frequently to talk to readers and sign copies of BfE. Joining us there will be two more BfE contributors, Simon Strantzas and Ian Rogers. So stop by and get your copy si</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz894XV5can-oYgnMWa6EJX3HsBr3p4fss3y9wbJniGICghZKlQBLmc8rt3rfWlAnkFrnyFYnSr3ramC8WIVYDYd2xjjcg_CeR1_EqW_ZpmATbMQ4fCkSD12R0mZrkFNSUS0ZtyQdtaVM/s1600-h/logo.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354405439630458098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz894XV5can-oYgnMWa6EJX3HsBr3p4fss3y9wbJniGICghZKlQBLmc8rt3rfWlAnkFrnyFYnSr3ramC8WIVYDYd2xjjcg_CeR1_EqW_ZpmATbMQ4fCkSD12R0mZrkFNSUS0ZtyQdtaVM/s200/logo.gif" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 45px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">gned by four of the contributors. (And possibly by a fifth contributor we hope will able to attend.)</span></div><br />
<div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-45451251818420251102009-04-17T16:23:00.000-07:002010-08-07T20:25:30.582-07:00BOUND FOR EVIL Nominated for SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWZILTxEbMCXNu7sLQEOeSaHxLsHfXi4gwdmmJ-0V4rZAH6QfGbNEy_IU-cSGz4ngoPdmpOSqlFJLvyg89SdvTPH6oYS6jhBDX1XO2HMzsMR2gQRy5ZBDofUNJbivZMjDR3S_qkAtMok/s1600-h/P2283925.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325815274331377234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWZILTxEbMCXNu7sLQEOeSaHxLsHfXi4gwdmmJ-0V4rZAH6QfGbNEy_IU-cSGz4ngoPdmpOSqlFJLvyg89SdvTPH6oYS6jhBDX1XO2HMzsMR2gQRy5ZBDofUNJbivZMjDR3S_qkAtMok/s320/P2283925.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 310px;" /></a>I'm extremely proud to announce that <em><a href="http://departmentofdeadletters.blogspot.com/2008/01/bound-for-evil-update-more-pages-more.html"><strong><span style="color: #cc9933;">Bound for Evil</span></strong></a></em> has been nominated for the prestigious <a href="http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/sja_2008_ballot.php"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Shirley Jackson Award</strong></span></a> in the Anthology category. The winners of this juried award will be announced on July 12, 2009, at <a href="http://www.readercon.org/"><span style="color: #009900;"><strong>ReaderCon 20</strong></span></a> in Burlington, MA.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">About the awards:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> and <em>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</em>, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, "The Lottery." Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem has called Jackson “one of this century’s most luminous and strange American writers,” and multiple generations of authors would agree.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">The Shirley Jackson Award will be voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics, with input from a Board of Advisors. The awards will be given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-80443491904808172922009-03-23T05:50:00.000-07:002009-04-13T08:25:15.598-07:00Gone in 60 seconds! (or something like that)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4w7b7H_Uo2tCI6MAFmelDik-6Ujpgji5waUm3SOLdnGUgvpxMMDOHt4i1BJAeCjruZ33nmNfQynqHHqE818uK1hkgdmTJXTcHehccYXDsmEDYdQH2SK2-fF9hSE_jicc5QocPWtg-z1o/s320/kiss+of+judas[1].JPG"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 206px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4w7b7H_Uo2tCI6MAFmelDik-6Ujpgji5waUm3SOLdnGUgvpxMMDOHt4i1BJAeCjruZ33nmNfQynqHHqE818uK1hkgdmTJXTcHehccYXDsmEDYdQH2SK2-fF9hSE_jicc5QocPWtg-z1o/s320/kiss+of+judas%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Kiss of Judas & The Death of Halpin Frayser</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, 23rd volume in the Literary Vampire series, is sold out</span></span>. Actually, the book was sold out before publication. Who knew?</span> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Here's the description from the envelope:<br />In 1893, while Bram Stoker was immersed in research for his novel Dracula, several other creative minds were also busy at work making significant contributions to the Literary Vampire genre.<br /><br />Presented here are those curious and classic contributions: the Ambrose Bierce short story “The Death of Halpin Frayser”; Dr. Thomson Jay Hudson’s article “Origins of Vampires”; Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s composition Love and Pain; and the strange, rarely reprinted title novella, “The Kiss of Judas,” by Julian Osgood Field writing as the enigmatic “X.L.” Also included is the informative Intro, “Children of Judas,” by Series Editor Tom English. Not to mention all the usual snippets of fascinating background info. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Softcover chapbook limited to 26 copies only.</span></span> Cover Illustration by World Fantasy Award-winner Dave Carson<br /><br />“Limited but highly affordable, Tom English’s lovingly (and ghoulishly) handcrafted ‘Classic Vampires Revisited’ chapbook series should delight both horror fans and discriminating aficionados alike. Resurrecting classic and unde-servedly overlooked vampire tales published before and after Stoker’s Dracula, it is fast becoming the indispensable ongoing literary ‘history’ of Nosferatu and his heirs. As such, it’s not to be missed!”<br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">— Joseph Wrzos, editor of August Derleth’s In Lovecraft’s Shadow and co-editor</span><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><span style="font-size:85%;">of Night Creatures, a collection of Seabury Quinn’s classic weird tales.<br /></span></div></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-53807255061676165542009-02-01T14:05:00.000-08:002009-04-19T19:40:08.954-07:00THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME Burns Bright!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrU-dXp5lX1oquX2rbANf49ZHhaerBcLWywwsJIUkcFNWzf2IqWOIkeJONhE752iRoIY2oyTmUCVQg9bhyKhDGNr_r3T3UjcIG01GdqZznniuuJF745W83U1d238L9rsXrivBk2Ib6yZc/s1600-h/mysterious+flame+100.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297964943220120530" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 206px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrU-dXp5lX1oquX2rbANf49ZHhaerBcLWywwsJIUkcFNWzf2IqWOIkeJONhE752iRoIY2oyTmUCVQg9bhyKhDGNr_r3T3UjcIG01GdqZznniuuJF745W83U1d238L9rsXrivBk2Ib6yZc/s320/mysterious+flame+100.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc0000;">Orrin Grey pays homage to the classic Gothic pulps, in a poignant but chilling novella that features a haunted monastery and a rundown movie palace; a vampiric monk and an army of animated skeletons; arcane magic and the search for a long lost secret; and caught in the middle of it all, a bewitched young woman and a reluctant hero made of clay!</span><br /></span><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc0000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>The Mysterious Flame</em> is being released as a softcover chapbook limited to 100 signed copies only. Cover art by World Fantasy Award-winner Allen Koszowski.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#6633ff;">UPDATE (4/19/2009):</span></strong> MonsterLibrarian.com recently posted the following review as part of its </span><a href="http://www.monsterlibrarian.com/ghosts.htm#The_Mysterious_Flame_by_Orrin_Grey_"><span style="font-size:85%;">"Spring into Terror" horror fiction review project</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">:<br /><br />"In <em><strong>The Mysterious Flame</strong></em>, the undead necromancer Narthos is hunting a golem, Barnabus, in an attempt to determine the secret of his existence and his soul. The plot summary suggests that the story is high fantasy, but it is actually set in the present day, and <strong>has a very elegant gothic feel.</strong> <strong>Grey does a great job of balancing storytelling, action, and character development in 44 pages</strong>. The Mysterious Flame is a chapbook, with a quality in writing and production similar to that of the high-quality chapbooks produced by White Noise Press. The cover art is by renowned horror artist Allen Koszowski, and is an excellent complement to the story.... Recommended for fans of horror and gothic tales."</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-86935551367442456232009-01-11T09:54:00.000-08:002009-01-11T10:36:36.536-08:00Dead Letter Press featured in The Washington Post<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLDXDtK-3zbbyUqdU2VUS-ZfRW8983UzUX9mdD-rjrkkXkdQjIjLDxzxErIpDSDWsLRt03D7vZ_qn4apzjyioFD8k_8S7TgkOp1w2fGeyivr2wePI0DVxRF01PPB8GPgFtjFuFCs-6LY/s400/P2283930.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 342px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLDXDtK-3zbbyUqdU2VUS-ZfRW8983UzUX9mdD-rjrkkXkdQjIjLDxzxErIpDSDWsLRt03D7vZ_qn4apzjyioFD8k_8S7TgkOp1w2fGeyivr2wePI0DVxRF01PPB8GPgFtjFuFCs-6LY/s400/P2283930.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Dead Letter Press was recently featured in the Washington Post article <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121901592.html"><span style="color:#33cc00;"><strong>"Michael Dirda on Unearthing Ghostly Tales of Today"</strong></span></a> (Sunday, 12-21-2008, Book World section, page 10). In his article, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dirda"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#33cc00;">Dirda</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and former editor of Book World, mentions Dead Letter Press as being one of several fine independent publishers, and recommends two books we recently published:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad</em> and the Rhys Hughes novel <em>Engelbrecht Again!.</em> Click on the link above to read the archived article at the Washigton Post website.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-_QRq5fEkSe6JHI-UOQ0vCXJyuo729L2JqD3mFWY8jUmQuoBJGUoJox8wPI-SpmEhXiodDaAjlX3BYJ2puXbaBEbZ0AgBXpzT22jDV3vuTkrW-upD1PJcJItGmIPGgFtMrlQXirCrZRU/s320/PB235623.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-_QRq5fEkSe6JHI-UOQ0vCXJyuo729L2JqD3mFWY8jUmQuoBJGUoJox8wPI-SpmEhXiodDaAjlX3BYJ2puXbaBEbZ0AgBXpzT22jDV3vuTkrW-upD1PJcJItGmIPGgFtMrlQXirCrZRU/s320/PB235623.jpg" border="0" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-34352817495643122062008-12-28T12:18:00.001-08:002008-12-28T12:33:13.375-08:00ROYAL REVIEW: The King of Deadtown<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zD0XF6gNEoIWC6IrO1YsBB6krC1Qf7hoSHPVD1v7abwcPeFsDE1yW6MhlDNeOu9OSkCgMpCi2q6aFkVVsD99JDrikaasahWalwmtztiC7BQ2K1xm0YtXCa8mH8Q_E3Q365clU92MHnY/s400/deadtown.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zD0XF6gNEoIWC6IrO1YsBB6krC1Qf7hoSHPVD1v7abwcPeFsDE1yW6MhlDNeOu9OSkCgMpCi2q6aFkVVsD99JDrikaasahWalwmtztiC7BQ2K1xm0YtXCa8mH8Q_E3Q365clU92MHnY/s400/deadtown.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Atlantean Publishing magazine "The Supplement" recently reviewed The King of Deadtown. Below is an excerpt of the printed review:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style:italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The story opens with an outbreak of disease in Iraq. Given the title, it will not be too great a surprise to learn that it is the sort of disease which doesn’t keep you down for long. People transform into cannibalistic ‘virums’, the term adopted by a society scared of using a word so blatantly apocalyptic as ‘zombie’. Now, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">telling you that this is a zombie story in the mould of Romero that includes a brief visit to a shopping mall in homage, you will be thinking “ah, a Dawn of the Dead rip-off”. It’s the obvious comparison and is an error. Glynn makes no apologies for the genre nor does he try to disguise it and pretend he is doing something different – he embraces the genre but also writes something different.</span> I’d like to tell you more, but it would spoil the surprise.<br /> Suffice to say, this is not a slavish retread of the zombie apocalypse genre. Glynn takes the familiar tropes and gives them a twist. Well worth reading.<br />– The Supplement, Issue 42, September 2008 (DJ Tyrer)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">The softcover chapbook novella </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The King of Deadtown</span> </span>is now available in an edition limited to 150 signed copies (in an illustrated envelope).<br />Cover illustration by World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator Allen Koszowski.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-37224351760777022372008-11-23T09:47:00.000-08:002008-11-23T10:18:29.513-08:00Handsome is Engelbrecht Again!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiovivqeUh6nJtI7eRG33ZXolGOnk4Tv-Ns0djuMHpj7MAEV4tH8mfNokFfGnhpnHFTLK_ma8KAnIz9XzGMH4_dPXO9XBN6Rauq0K5eBihFnUF73Q8g9Z7b0-FpQthWnB_V6J9e2dHpjrY/s1600-h/PB235619.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271918456189627522" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiovivqeUh6nJtI7eRG33ZXolGOnk4Tv-Ns0djuMHpj7MAEV4tH8mfNokFfGnhpnHFTLK_ma8KAnIz9XzGMH4_dPXO9XBN6Rauq0K5eBihFnUF73Q8g9Z7b0-FpQthWnB_V6J9e2dHpjrY/s320/PB235619.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-_QRq5fEkSe6JHI-UOQ0vCXJyuo729L2JqD3mFWY8jUmQuoBJGUoJox8wPI-SpmEhXiodDaAjlX3BYJ2puXbaBEbZ0AgBXpzT22jDV3vuTkrW-upD1PJcJItGmIPGgFtMrlQXirCrZRU/s1600-h/PB235623.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271918223618763314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-_QRq5fEkSe6JHI-UOQ0vCXJyuo729L2JqD3mFWY8jUmQuoBJGUoJox8wPI-SpmEhXiodDaAjlX3BYJ2puXbaBEbZ0AgBXpzT22jDV3vuTkrW-upD1PJcJItGmIPGgFtMrlQXirCrZRU/s320/PB235623.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Here are some glamour shots of Rhys Hughes' new novel, <em>Engelbrecht Again!</em> (limited to 300 hardcover copies).<br /><br /><div><div><div>The book can be purchased at select specialty booksellers, or order directly from Dead Letter Press by selecting one of the pay options to the right of these photos.</div></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-51601827471071410372008-11-08T18:49:00.001-08:002008-11-08T18:53:56.162-08:00Engelbrecht has arrived!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrARkQBWIbXLekceXCdhxPVVUQs7IC-wD6HSpHOBDQ-eHcZUwaL9cDj6XK5XOTwnFMjYXuKmQ3tBnpIOjxTtNZR9MAZ1ZJgfomef7pf2pqhKvIvhLXzbzCG1b5Ae1DxOSM8QRWN-hrwY/s1600-h/ea!.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266484492743623842" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 211px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrARkQBWIbXLekceXCdhxPVVUQs7IC-wD6HSpHOBDQ-eHcZUwaL9cDj6XK5XOTwnFMjYXuKmQ3tBnpIOjxTtNZR9MAZ1ZJgfomef7pf2pqhKvIvhLXzbzCG1b5Ae1DxOSM8QRWN-hrwY/s320/ea!.jpg" border="0" /></a>I'll post photos of the book soon, but until then this scan allows readers to see the beautiful gold design stamped on the cover of <em>Engelbrecht Again!</em>, Rhys Hughes' most ingenious book yet.<br /><br />Read about the book at the <a href="http://engelbrechtagain.blogspot.com/"><strong><span style="color:#ffcc33;">official Engelbrecht weblog!</span></strong></a><br /><br />Books have begun to ship as follows: first, to all those who pre-ordered; then dealer orders will be filled; followed by review copies. Order <em>Engelbrecht Again!</em> today, before the lil' guy gets away.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-57471211534182852912008-05-16T07:32:00.000-07:002008-12-13T14:47:17.921-08:00The Triumphant Return of Engelbrecht<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Engelbrecht Again!</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> by Rhys Hughes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Art by Keith Minnion</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">288-page, smythe sewn hardcover limited to 300 copies</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ISBN-13: 9780979633546</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Published October 2008</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Engelbrecht is a dwarf surrealist boxer who does most of his fighting against clocks. His exploits were first chronicled by Maurice Richardson back in the 1940s in the pages of the esteemed </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lilliput</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> magazine. Engelbrecht is the most famous member of the Surrealist Sportsman’s Club, a very dubious society that spends the time it has left between the collapse of the moon and the end of the universe taking the concept of the 'game' to its logical limit, for instance arranging a rugby match between Mars and the entire human race, or playing chess with boy scouts and nuclear bombs as pieces.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sixty or so years after his first appearance Engelbrecht has returned for another set of exploits that will take him on a voyage around the world, into space, down to Hell, into a labyrinth of plots and counter-plots that could mean the destruction of the entire membership of the Surrealist Sportsman’s Club. Running the gauntlet with gorgons, competing in the mesmeric tour-de-trance bicycle race, climbing the north face of the largest ego in existence, playing tug-o’-war with entire continents and even indulging in a round of lipograms with the monstrous Père Ubu – all these are in a day’s work for the plucky Engelbrecht!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffff;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffff;"><strong>Check out the <a href="http://engelbrechtagain.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#ffcc00;">Official Engelbrecht blog site!</span></a></strong></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-66162174515805971682008-02-28T16:15:00.000-08:002008-02-28T16:34:32.896-08:00Got Books? I SURE Do!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEGrwDMnTqCAVQFJ80oX7KYhLo63PePmtCku1JCUaxf_SLTbwY_5rBLg-93n-4Aq12d3hZDQYYc6OY9mJt22KWlBfClgKmXNQq2ofLzwe0n53k1l12U2wlXDoAs4pu5egsMT_W51IJLM/s1600-h/P2283925.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172193205833670514" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEGrwDMnTqCAVQFJ80oX7KYhLo63PePmtCku1JCUaxf_SLTbwY_5rBLg-93n-4Aq12d3hZDQYYc6OY9mJt22KWlBfClgKmXNQq2ofLzwe0n53k1l12U2wlXDoAs4pu5egsMT_W51IJLM/s400/P2283925.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLDXDtK-3zbbyUqdU2VUS-ZfRW8983UzUX9mdD-rjrkkXkdQjIjLDxzxErIpDSDWsLRt03D7vZ_qn4apzjyioFD8k_8S7TgkOp1w2fGeyivr2wePI0DVxRF01PPB8GPgFtjFuFCs-6LY/s1600-h/P2283930.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172193064099749730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLDXDtK-3zbbyUqdU2VUS-ZfRW8983UzUX9mdD-rjrkkXkdQjIjLDxzxErIpDSDWsLRt03D7vZ_qn4apzjyioFD8k_8S7TgkOp1w2fGeyivr2wePI0DVxRF01PPB8GPgFtjFuFCs-6LY/s400/P2283930.jpg" border="0" /></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-89026118881148151212008-02-23T12:20:00.000-08:002008-12-13T14:46:42.248-08:00BOUND FOR EVIL Arrives Monday, February 25th, All 1340 Pounds of It.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcec58_50-I3B4N6Hy45rhxsExVZg5NbNcVQy_PnB5W3uao7HBnw324o097b8jLx0OWXT8oVkqViN1jZygNAD9XW2WiK6cwZ6A8YaPhIZuKOdxB3tfkI18hOl84ATVidIElpV65yapSs/s1600-h/blaque+reach+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcec58_50-I3B4N6Hy45rhxsExVZg5NbNcVQy_PnB5W3uao7HBnw324o097b8jLx0OWXT8oVkqViN1jZygNAD9XW2WiK6cwZ6A8YaPhIZuKOdxB3tfkI18hOl84ATVidIElpV65yapSs/s320/blaque+reach+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170283633309097490" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BOUND FOR EVIL: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> arrives from the printer on Monday, February 25th. This is actually about a week ahead of schedule. And what can I say, the book is beautiful! I'll start shipping copies on Tuesday, along with the free promotional chapbook, </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Collective of Blaque Reach</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (by Matt Cowan, cover by Allen Koszowski). If you haven't yet ordered your copy, please see the links at the right.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So how much do 500 copies of an 800-page hardcover weigh? 1340 pounds, roughly half a ton of paper and ink and imagination. Shipping all these books should be a great boost to our flagging U.S. economy. (The USPS has even started sending me love letters.)<br /></span><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-53037391434726426812008-02-16T12:50:00.000-08:002008-12-13T14:46:16.663-08:00PHANTASMAPEDIA Makes the 2007 Stoker Awards Ballot<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5CgcZRihjpPrILdyp7wVm0HlN5-aPoHOGqa0HP4XvII4YKp7LhfsgRhgms4uBiXFvqwk1FEqF0LPoSmYjMyTMJpoXSuQ4aW_a7Cmijz_Bl4CMAMBMYt1fihv_i3s0ng1sqN_Bmpb_9uc/s1600-h/PHANTASMAPEDIA+Cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5CgcZRihjpPrILdyp7wVm0HlN5-aPoHOGqa0HP4XvII4YKp7LhfsgRhgms4uBiXFvqwk1FEqF0LPoSmYjMyTMJpoXSuQ4aW_a7Cmijz_Bl4CMAMBMYt1fihv_i3s0ng1sqN_Bmpb_9uc/s320/PHANTASMAPEDIA+Cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170287193836985906" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Congratulations to author Mark McLaughlin for making the official ballot for the 2007 Stoker Awards! Mark's wonderfully witty c</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ollection of verse, </span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Phantasmapedia</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, has been nominated for Superior Achievement in Poetry. This limited-edition Dead Letter Press chapbook is still available from select booksellers including </span><a href="http://www.camelotbooks.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22_516&products_id=2779"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Camelot Books</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="http://www.wrigleycrossbooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=7634&keyword=phantasmapedia&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1782=1203356806178220224cd1eb4e73efe6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wrigley-Cross Books</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and </span><a href="http://store.realmsoffantasybooks.com/phmamc1stchs.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Realms of Fantasy</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-45494215871208199262008-01-30T17:18:00.000-08:002008-12-13T14:40:58.344-08:00ENGELBRECHT Gets The Last Word !!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFwflFniKvgrBuy_WoanRYWOPuzrIJ3XKps4-v3dvOfwS_6cRqf972UG3vTIwib2em5130GuyAWcnMp1C45GUn9DMiucrAhwsveQ3-Y_FJNYj2PcEnFG0KrWTLFK2y_tGrB_HRgS4YC3s/s1600/engelbrecht+photo.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFwflFniKvgrBuy_WoanRYWOPuzrIJ3XKps4-v3dvOfwS_6cRqf972UG3vTIwib2em5130GuyAWcnMp1C45GUn9DMiucrAhwsveQ3-Y_FJNYj2PcEnFG0KrWTLFK2y_tGrB_HRgS4YC3s/s1600/engelbrecht+photo.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dead Letter Press is excited to announce the June publication of Rhys Hughes' humorous novel </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Engelbrecht Again! </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">as a limited-edition hardcover. The book continues the outrageous adventures of the dwarf surrealist boxer created by Maurice Richardson in the late 1940's, but I must say, Rhys has seriously (a strange word to use in regards to Engelbrecht) ratcheted up the absurdity a healthy notch or two. Indeed, Rhys has outdone himself.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's taken Engelbrecht a few years to get this far, but it just goes to prove you can't keep the little fellow down! More details on EA! coming soon.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-40965939852906503712008-01-24T15:47:00.000-08:002008-12-13T14:39:30.246-08:00Phantasmapedia and Blood Coven Make the Preliminary Ballot for the Stoker Awards<span style="color:#ffffff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Two Dead Letter Press books have made the Preliminary Ballot for the </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">HWA Stoker Awards</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Phantasmapedia</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> by Mark McLaughlin</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (for Superior Achievement in Poetry), and </span><strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Blood Coven</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> by Christopher Fulbright and Angeline Hawkes</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction). In addition, Chris' story collection </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When it Rains and Other Wreckage</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Doorways Publication) also made the list. Congratulations to Mark, Chris and Angeline!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-29094571316894269102008-01-23T17:23:00.001-08:002008-12-17T15:58:31.007-08:00Bound for Evil UPDATE: More Pages, More Stories, More Books Gone Bad<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://fitz42.net/writer/images/covers/cover-boundforevil.gif"><span style="font-size:78%;"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 222px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 260px" alt="" src="http://fitz42.net/writer/images/covers/cover-boundforevil.gif" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><em>Bound for Evil</em> is now at the printers. The book is currently ahead of schedule for its early March debut. Before sending it to the printers, I did several things to enhance the book:</span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1. I added another 32-page "signature" making </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bound for Evil</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">now 800 pages.</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2. I moved </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">R. E. Hartman</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">'s creepy little tale </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"The Book of Faces"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> from the free promo chapbook, into </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bound for Evil</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, bringing the number of stories to 64.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">3. Unable to resist having a total of </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">66 stories (split up into 6 sections)</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, I then added the classic Alfred Noyes weird tale "Midnight Express" and Eugene Field's humorous poem "Dibdin's Ghost."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">4. I then sprinkled in well </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">over 2 dozen illustrations</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> by World Fantasy Award-winner </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Allen Koszowski</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">5. Finally, I've placed yet </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">another bookish story,</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">hidden somewhere in the pages of </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bound for Evil</span></em></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. I'll leave it to the reader to find it.</span></span><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">Upon publication, I may need to slightly increase the price of <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bound for Evil</span></em> in order to cover the additional printing costs. For now, I'll leave the pre-order price at $80. Pre-orders still receive a free promotional chapbook featuring an extra bookish story.</span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"></span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here's the Table of Contents:</span></span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"></span><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >introduction: the secret lives & evil times of diabolical books <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tom English</span></em>.....xiii<br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>bound for evil:<br />in the beginning</strong><br />genesis for dummies <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Patrick LoBrutto</span></em>.....3<br /><br /><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">scratch paper</span></strong><br />the devil’s manuscript S<em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. Levett Yeats</span></em>.....7<br />the book <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Margaret Irwin</span></em>.....22<br />the devil & nathaniel hawthorne <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Skadi meic Beorh</span></em>.....36<br />the devil in manuscript <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Nathaniel Hawthorne</span></em>.....41<br />the grimoire <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Montague Summers</span></em>.....48<br />the book of cain <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Michael D. Winkle</span></em>.....66<br />canon alberic’s scrap-book <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">M. R. James</span></em>.....85<br />flames in the night <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">John R. Platt</span></em>.....96<br />fine print <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mark McLaughlin</span></em>.....102<br />damek <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">T. A. C. Amaral</span></em>.....111<br />fahrenheit clark ashton <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Glynn Barrass</span></em>.....127<br />boek van namen <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lorne Dixon</span></em>.....135<br />pact anthology <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">John Teehan</span></em>.....145<br /><br /></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>a not-too-gentle madness<br /></strong>the bibliomaniac’s prayer <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Eugene Field</span></em>.....153<br />book worm <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Jeffrey Thomas</span></em>.....154<br />leather, dark and cold <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Simon Strantzas</span></em>.....162<br />limited edition <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Andrew J. Wilson</span></em>.....173<br />windows to the soul <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">JG Faherty</span></em>.....182<br />if i had a hundred tongues <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Barry Baldwin</span></em>.....190<br />a collection of true evils <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Barry Napier</span></em>.....197<br />the incomplete works of william shakespeare <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rick Moore</span></em>.....215<br />the strange bequest of simon bray <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tom English</span></em>.....228<br />the story of edward hardiman <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Michael Lovell</span></em>.....243<br />the door, the lock, the key <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">R. Michael Burns</span></em>.....252<br />happiness <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ian Shoebridge</span></em>.....269<br />dibdin’s ghost <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Eugene Field</span></em>.....288<br /><br /></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>the romance of certain old books<br /></strong>the dunwich horror <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">H. P. Lovecraft</span></em>.....291<br />the adder <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Fred Chappell</span></em>.....329<br />finding the book of sand <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rhys Hughes</span></em>.....347<br />worse than bones <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ramsey Campbell</span></em>.....354<br />letters home <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Erin MacKay</span></em>.....367<br />prosecuted, banished, and shot <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Jeff Ryan</span></em>.....387<br />the reading room <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Orrin Grey</span></em>.....389<br />midnight express <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Alfred Noyes</span></em>.....398<br />the book in the earth <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lavie Tidhar</span></em>.....403<br />the yellow sign <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Robert W. Chambers</span></em>.....416<br />the book <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">H. P. Lovecraft</span></em>.....432<br />weird chronicle <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rui Cruz</span></em>.....435<br />the narconomicon <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">David M. Fitzpatrick</span></em>.....449<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><strong>reference work<br /></strong>guidance <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Gary McMahon</span></em>.....467<br />the almanack <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Saki</span></em>.....477<br />practical time travel <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vincent L. Scarsella</span></em>.....482<br />a lesson in therapy <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Angeline Hawkes</span></em>.....499<br />cormac’s mirror <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ben Thomas</span></em>.....513<br />recipe for disaster <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">John Llewellyn Probert</span></em>.....526<br />the guest book <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Gary Fry</span></em>.....539<br />mechanix <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Christopher Fulbright</span></em>.....557<br />an antique land <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">John Shire</span></em>.....565<br />the reference book <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Louise Norlie</span></em>.....577<br />the book of faces <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">R. E. Hartman</span></em>.....591<br />the dark and the young <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ian Rogers</span></em>.....595<br />the book of revelation <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mark Tullius</span></em>.....620<br /><br /><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">misadventures in reading</span></strong><br />association copy <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Barbara Roden</span></em>.....634<br />a fatal distraction <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">J. Michael Shell</span></em>.....665<br />one copy only <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ramsey Campbell</span></em>.....671<br />the thief with two deaths <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Chris Willrich</span></em>.....685<br />the alzheimer’s book club <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Jill Zeller</span></em>.....706<br />readers digested <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Jeff Ryan</span></em>.....714<br />the truth inside the lie <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Terri Nixon</span></em>.....716<br />browsers <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mark Leslie</span></em>.....732<br />don’t read them after midnight <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Josh Vogt</span></em>.....739<br />trunk story <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Kurt Newton</span></em>.....749<br />lem’s last book <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rhys Hughes</span></em>.....754<br />the new words <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Jeffrey A. Rice</span></em>.....766</span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">literature abuse </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Michael McGrorty</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.....777</span></span><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-87417466879224769192007-12-28T21:34:00.000-08:002008-12-17T15:52:07.492-08:00BOUND FOR EVIL arrives early March 2008<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">BOUND FOR EVIL: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad will ship in early March</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"> 2008.</span><br /></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">Limited to 500 copies, of which only 375 will be offered for sale. Deluxe smythe sewn hardcover, bound in black imitation leather, and stamped in gold leaf with an original cover design by World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator Allen Koszowski. You may order using PayPal, by clicking the button to the right. Or avail yourself of more traditional technology, by mailing your personal check or money order made payable to<br /><br />Tom English<br />PO Box 134<br />New Kent, VA 23124-0134<br />USA<br /><br />What is </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">BOUND FOR EVIL?</span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">66 ingenious tales of lost knowledge and restless ghosts, secret libraries and forbidden texts, alternate worlds and ancient gods—written by 61 internationally-acclaimed writers, including Ramsey Campbell, Rhys Hughes, H. P. Lovecraft, Fred Chappell and Jeffrey Thomas!</span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">BOUND FOR EVIL is a</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"> mammoth volume gathering together for the first time the very best stories of diabolical books: in which a disillusioned journalist searches for a missing girl in a midnight world of illegal coffee dens and black market books; an insomniac haunted by the death of his wife volunteers to take part in a bizarre research experiment; a wealthy bibliophile hires a thi</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">ef to recover a book that has the power to change literary history; a bestselling writer confronts a menacing character from his past—the protagonist of his forgotten first novel; a shortsighted engineer stumbles across a book that’s not supposed to actually exist—a book that will forever alter the face of the earth. Just a few of the tales that await you in… BOUND FOR EVIL: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad.</span><br /></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-83992333061035191902007-11-27T14:18:00.000-08:002008-12-17T15:51:49.404-08:00Both the living and the dead rest uneasy in new volume of classic vampire stories<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtR0ys6PX1u_sa7NlWq9GRBdD9vnL5dNSDp733U-o9ZFCCzkYSirKrWnvfewzTuWL1kOkEq14VZotvxl70O3Wm-fW89jvM_oc_2EMT6s638ZLh0Qgu0pDlMU8YXR96HN0BJmILd_ctUfY/s1600-h/AN+UNEASY+REPOSE.jpg"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170292236128591442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtR0ys6PX1u_sa7NlWq9GRBdD9vnL5dNSDp733U-o9ZFCCzkYSirKrWnvfewzTuWL1kOkEq14VZotvxl70O3Wm-fW89jvM_oc_2EMT6s638ZLh0Qgu0pDlMU8YXR96HN0BJmILd_ctUfY/s320/AN+UNEASY+REPOSE.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Classic Vampires Revisited: AN UNEASY REPOSE</em></strong> is now on sale at </span></span><a href="https://www.horror-mall.com/store/product.php?productid=16983&cat=0&page=1"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Horror-Mall.com</span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > & </span><a href="http://www.wrigleycrossbooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=7633&keyword=uneasy+repose&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1782=119620220617823820b19f7a7c4462a3"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >WrigleyCrossBooks.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana;" > (ZiesingBooks.com and DarkHollowBooks.com either are sold out or have not listed their copies).</span> </span><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Verdana;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><em></em></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><em></em></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><strong><em>.</em></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>AN UNEASY REPOSE</em> is the 22nd volume in the Literary Vampire series, and is limited to 26 Lettered chapbooks.</span></strong></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><strong>.</strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Both the living and the dead rest uneasy in four tales of vampirism that ushered in the dawn of the twentieth century:</strong><br />Following the appearance of Dracula in 1897, four writers continued to explore the vampire theme in these late nineteenth-century tales of bad news from beyond the grave. In <strong>H. B. Marriott-Watson’s classic novella “The Stone Chamber,”</strong> young Warrington has it all: a beautiful and devoted fiancée, wealth and good looks—and an ancient decaying abbey he’s recently purchased. So why isn’t he resting easy these nights? Just what in Hell is eating the poor guy, anyway?<br /><br />Plus: <strong>F. Marion Crawford’s chilling novella “The Dead Smile”; “Will” by Vincent O’Sullivan; and “The Old Portrait” by Hume Nisbet.</strong> Plus all the usual, fascinating background info.<br /><br /><strong>Cover by ALLEN KOSZOWSKI</strong></span></span></span></div><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><div align="left"><br /></div></span></span><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >“Limited but highly affordable, Tom English’s lovingly (and ghoulishly) handcrafted ‘Classic Vampires Revisited’ chapbook series should delight both horror fans and discriminating aficionados alike. Resurrecting classic and undeservedly overlooked vampire tales published before and after Stoker’s Dracula, it is fast becoming the indispensable ongoing literary ‘history’ of Nosferatu and his heirs. As such, it’s not to be missed!”</span></div><div align="left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">— Joseph Wrzos, editor of August Derleth’s In Lovecraft’s Shadow and co-editor of Night Creatures, a collection of Seabury</span> Quinn’s classic weird tales.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312381668931310164.post-60319203301319146202007-11-04T13:34:00.000-08:002008-12-17T15:51:23.520-08:00Mark McLaughlin's Phantasmapedia now on sale<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:85%;">Discover the ultimate destiny of life on Earth. Mark McLaughlin's <em>Phantasmapedia</em> is now on sale. The book sold out at Horror-Mall.com during preorders, but you can still purchase one of the few remaining copies of this ultra-limited edition (only 78 signed and lettered copies were done) at </span><a href="http://www.wrigleycrossbooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=7634&keyword=phantasmapedia&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_1782=119620220617823820b19f7a7c4462a3"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;">CamelotBooks.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> or </span><a href="http://www.camelotbooks.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2779&PHPSESSID=d0099b708d9f4a4b1081d281d2966f35"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc0000;">WrigleyCrossBooks.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><br /><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">What's a Phantasmapedia?<br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><em>Phantasmapedia</em> is a chapbook collection of poems about 32 little-known creatures – demons, entities, mutants, and pseudo-biological aberrations. Even though you may not have heard of these beings, there is a good chance one or more of them could be influencing your life. Are you having difficulty losing weight? You could be the victim of Adipossums, or maybe Glucozoth, Lord of Candy. Having memory problems? Brown Creepers could be to blame. Is your computer acting strangely? Internet Witches may have sent a special virus your way. Are you hopelessly insane or terminally ill? Perhaps you’ve crossed paths with the Yellow-Tailed Satanus or the Oncoloscarabaeus. Phantasmapedia also reveals the ultimate destiny of life on Earth, as well as a variety of other arcane secrets.</span> </span><a href="http://myspace.com/Phantasmapedia"><span style="font-size:85%;">Visit the Phantasmapedia MySpace page.</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:85%;">This one-of-a-kind chapbook is being released in a signed, lettered limited edition of only 78 copies.</span></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530185844937060842noreply@blogger.com2