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1semdetenebre
Editado: Mar 16, 2012, 3:25 pm

Thought I'd start a thread for small press announcements of titles that may be of interest.

I just saw that for Summer 2012, Subterranean Press will be publishing NO SHARKS IN THE MED AND OTHER STORIES, the third and final volume of Brian Lumley's collected Cthulhu Mythos tales. This one contains some of Lumley's best, including "No Sharks in the Med", "The Pit Yakker" and "Fruiting Bodies".

http://tinyurl.com/8xd7zqs

Centipede Press has announced a Hannes Bok volume:

http://www.centipedepress.com/art/hannesbok.html

2semdetenebre
Editado: Mar 16, 2012, 3:25 pm

Gauntlet Press has announced a Clark Ashton Smith "Averoigne" collection for 2012. It's not listed in their online catalog yet.

www.gauntletpress.com

PS Publishing has announced a collector's edition of Ghoul Warning by Brian Lumley. This poetry volume isn't on their website just yet, either.

http://hellnotes.com/coming-up-from-ps-publishing

3semdetenebre
Editado: Mar 16, 2012, 3:24 pm

Just received this message from Hippocampus Press:

http://www.hippocampuspress.com

Hippocampus Press will receive a Specialty Press Award for 2011 from the Horror Writers Association. The award will be presented during the gala Bram Stoker Awards™ Banquet to be held at World Horror this year in Salt Lake City on March 31. It's a great honor, and we hope to see lots of you the convention!

Look for new titles available for sale soon, including fiction from Wilum Pugmire, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Peter Cannon, Richard Gavin, John Langan, and others... yes, lots of fiction titles in the works.

Also coming in hardcover this year, the Complete Poetry of George Sterling, and the Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.

Lovecraftian literary criticism comes in a collection of essays by Steven J. Mariconda, who is also co-editor with S. T. Joshi of a new poetry anthology, DREAMS OF FEAR, additionally due this year. And we have a few more nonfiction surprises up our sleeve as well.

We'll send another newsletter once some of these titles are available for pre-order, but in the meantime, why not stock up on our current titles, in stock and ready to ship, including our most recent release THE NEMESIS OF NIGHT by Adam Niswander, which appeared halfway through December.

Thank you for your interest in Hippocampus Press!

4semdetenebre
Editado: Mar 16, 2012, 3:24 pm

Just received this email update from Dark Discoveries:

Dark Discoveries #20 - The Weird Fiction & Film Special
We're hard at work on issue #20 now, our Weird Fiction and Film Special and are shooting for an early April release date. So even though I got a bit behind with getting the last of issue #19 out to everyone, we're looking to have the next issue in your hands not long after to make up for it. This one features fiction & poetry by Ramsey Campbell, Clark Ashton Smith, Mark Rainey, Kurt Newton and others. Features on Edgar Allan Poe, Smith, Hammer Studios comeback, the second half of the focus on Italian Giallo and a few other surprises! I'll post a cover of this very soon.


http://darkdiscoveries.com/blog/store/

5semdetenebre
Mar 16, 2012, 3:23 pm

Email alert from Wildside Press:

This is our first email newsletter of 2012. (So much for our monthly schedule!) I just wanted to alert everyone to a major Weird Tales release -- issue #359 (Winter 2012) is just out from Nth Dimension Media. This is the last edited by Ann VanderMeer. Marvin Kaye takes over with #360. We are stocking #359, but we have a VERY limited stock...about 70 copies. If you want one, order it from www.wildsidemagazines.com. Once those are gone, I don't think we'll be able to get more.

I will be subscribing when anthologist and horror writer extraordinaire Marvin Kaye takes over. Think I'll pick up this last one under VanderMeer, too, since it's basically a very limited edition.

6semdetenebre
Editado: Abr 12, 2012, 9:38 am

Night Shade Books is having a 50% off sale from April12 - 19, 2012. You have to buy at least four books. I've taken advantage of this sale in the past. They still have some Manly Wade Wellman and Clark Ashton Smith hardcovers, plus their great "Living Dead" collections and lots more.

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/

7semdetenebre
mayo 7, 2012, 1:28 pm

Publisher/writer/editor John Pelan has been putting out a regular email containing tons of miscellaneous items for sale, a number of which would be of interest to Weird Tradionalists. The current mailer contains a bunch of Clark Ashton Smith goodies, plus random HPL-related items. If you email jpelan13 AT gmail.com I'm sure he'd be glad to put you on the list.

8artturnerjr
mayo 7, 2012, 1:50 pm

Impressive sale at Miskatonic Books on Hippocampus Press titles (including the annotated version of our recently-discussed Supernatural Horror in Literature):

http://www.miskatonicbooks.com/Hippocampus-Press/?objects_per_page=50

Thanks to Nicole Cushing over at S.T. Joshi Enthusiasts for the heads-up. :)

9semdetenebre
Editado: Oct 26, 2012, 1:41 pm

Coming in October from Night Shade Books: THE BOOK OF CTHULHU 2:

http://thebookofcthulhu.com/the-stars-are-right/

Looks like a mix of old and new.

10semdetenebre
Editado: Oct 26, 2012, 1:40 pm

The following was announced in a Hippocampus Press email I received today:

COMING VERY SOON
The Complete Poetry and Translations of Clark Ashton Smith (THREE VOLUMES)
Trade Paperback
Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
1307 pages (three volumes)
***Order the three-volume set now and save 10%***
Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive American poets of the twentieth century. His tremendous output of poetry, totaling nearly 1000 original poems written over a span of more than fifty years, is of the highest craftsmanship and runs the gamut of subject matter from breathtaking "cosmic" verse about the stars and galaxies to plangent love poetry to pungent satire to delicate imitations of Japanese haiku. The Hippocampus Press edition of The Complete Poetry and Translations of Clark Ashton Smith prints, for the first time, Smith's entire poetic work, including hundreds of uncollected and unpublished poems -- some that have been unearthed since the hardcovers were released!

http://tinyurl.com/8j52yw2
http://www.hippocampuspress.com

CAS's translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal sounds intriguing!

11RandyStafford
Oct 1, 2012, 8:14 pm

Grrr. I have these in hardcover.

But new Smith poems may be worth the shelf space for another edition.

12artturnerjr
Oct 1, 2012, 10:41 pm

>10 semdetenebre:

Fantastic news! Smith is pretty much single-handedly responsible for rekindling my interest in poetry, so I'll definitely want to get a look at these.

13semdetenebre
Editado: Oct 26, 2012, 1:40 pm

Just noticed a new Arcane Wisdom volume coming out in December:

THE STUFF OF DREAMS: THE WEIRD STORIES OF EDWARD LUCAS WHITE Edited by S. T. Joshi

http://www.miskatonicbooks.com/THE-STUFF-OF-DREAMS-THE-WEIRD-STORIES-OF-EDWARD-L...

14semdetenebre
Editado: Nov 12, 2012, 4:22 pm

>13 semdetenebre:

Also on the Arcane Wisdom page at Miskatonic Books, I see that THE DEAD VALLEY AND OTHERS: H. P. LOVECRAFT'S FAVORITE HORROR STORIES: VOLUME 2, edited by S. T. Joshi, is due out soon:

http://www.miskatonicbooks.com/THE-DEAD-VALLEY-AND-OTHERS.html

See also:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/135813#3349437

15semdetenebre
Editado: Nov 21, 2012, 12:15 pm

Just received the following note from Wildside Press:

>WEIRD TALES #360 - a special Elder Gods/Ray Bradbury issue -- is available in paper and ebook formats, starting at $2.99 >(ebook) and $6.99 (paper). See www.wildsidemagazines.com for ordering info.

I believe that this is the first issue under the editorial guidance of Marvin Kaye. U.S. subscription is only $20 for four issues. I'm going to try it out.

http://www.wildsidemagazines.com/Weird-Tales-360-Fall-2012_p_184.html

16semdetenebre
Editado: Dic 3, 2012, 7:48 pm

Not only does the new issue of Weird Fiction Review # 3 from Centipede Press boast the cover below, it features fiction from the likes of Michael Cisco and Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., along with essays such as "Charles Beaumont: Lost Tales of the Comet" and "Suffering and Evil in the Fiction of Arthur Machen". Also a look at the Toho classic War of the Gargantuas and the last interview of Karl Edward Wagner. Great stuff and now with more color pages!



http://www.centipedepress.com/anthologies/wfreview3.html

17bookstopshere
Dic 7, 2012, 2:50 pm

I note Joshi's history of supernatural lit is now available for pre-order from PS Pub (I'm thinking a nice Xmas gift)

and you might check the impressive Swan River catalog for some terrific literate horror

19bookstopshere
Dic 8, 2012, 1:03 pm

that be the one - Brian does some wonderful stuff & has another Mark Valentine collection on the way too (he says)

presume away!

20RandyStafford
Editado: Dic 12, 2012, 8:42 pm

Since we've been talking about a fungi menace over on the Deep Ones thread, I'll just mention that Fungi is now on sale from Innsmouth Free Press.

21semdetenebre
Editado: Dic 13, 2012, 12:14 pm

>20 RandyStafford:

Hah! Absolutely apropos, Randy. Here's the link:

http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/?p=18289

22RandyStafford
Dic 13, 2012, 8:07 pm

Got my copy in the mail today.

23semdetenebre
mayo 6, 2013, 11:38 am

PS Publishing has a new Ramsey Campbell novella on the horizon. The Last Revelation of Glaaki. Need I say more?

http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/the-last-revelation-of-glaaki-hc-by-ramsey-campbel...

24semdetenebre
Editado: Jul 25, 2013, 9:39 am

Just noticed Reanimators by Pete Rawlik on the Night Shade Books website. Sounds intriguing.

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/book/reanimators/#.Ucxfz9jhfVg

25semdetenebre
Editado: Jul 25, 2013, 9:48 am

Just received a huge email update from Hippocampus Press. Since a most of these titles will be of interest here, I'll just post the whole thing:

THE ASSAULTS OF CHAOS by S. T. Joshi. This 500 copy limited hardcover is Joshi's first Mythos novel, featuring H. P. Lovecraft as a character teamed up with his literary heroes to battle an evil transdimensonal entity! Advance orders receive a special booklet, SUICIDE IN BROOKLYN by S. T. Joshi, featuring a new case from the files of Joshi's popular detective, Joe Scintilla.

H. P. LOVECRAFT IN THE MERRIMACK VALLEY by David Goudsward explores Lovecraft's travels in this area, his relationships with C. W. "Tryout" Smith and other amateurs, and the undeniable influences the region exerted in the topography of some of Lovecraft's major tales.

H. P. LOVECRAFT: ART, ARTIFACT, AND REALITY collects all of Steven J. Mariconda's best critical essays on Lovecraft in a definitive 308 page edition.

THE ANCIENT TRACK: THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF H. P. LOVECRAFT will be available in time for the convention in a new, revised and updated paperback edition.

LOVECRAFT ANNUAL No. 7 features new scholarship by Tyler L. Wolanin, Donovan K. Loucks, Robert H. Waugh, Kenneth W. Faig, Jr., John D. Haefele, Stephen Walker, S. T. Joshi, David Haden and Juan Luis Pérez de Luque.

NEW ORIGINAL FICTION:
LOVECRAFT'S PILLOW AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES collects the best Lovecraftian fiction of beloved Lovecraft scholar Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. and features a cover by British Fantasy Award winner Daniele Serra.

THIRTEEN CONJURATIONS is the latest short-story horror collection from Providence native Jonathan Thomas, with a striking cover by Jason C. Eckhardt.

THE WIDE, CARNIVOROUS SKY AND OTHER MONSTROUS GEOGRAPHIES by John Langan was released in April, and has been garnering stellar reviews across the board.

SIMULACRUM AND OTHER POSSIBLE REALITIES is a tour-de-force first collection from Seattle native Jason V Brock, featuring the stories, poetry and artwork from this rising dark star in the realm of weird fiction.

NEW IN PAPERBACK:
ESSENTIAL SOLITUDE: THE LETTERS OF H. P. LOVECRAFT AND AUGUST DERLETH is now available in a handsome trade paper edition.

I AM PROVIDENCE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF H. P. LOVECRAFT by S. T. Joshi is also available in trade paperback.

Finally, good news for those who missed out on the slipcased edition of THE COMPLETE POETRY OF GEORGE STERLING! We discovered a few that went unsold. The next five orders for the Sterling set will receive the slipcase.

Thank you for your interest in Hippocampus Press, and we hope to see you in Providence next month!

http://www.hippocampuspress.com

26semdetenebre
Editado: Ago 7, 2013, 5:49 pm

Just realized that I haven't yet received my copy of The Complete John Thunstone limited edition (with extras) from Haffner Press, and that the last time I checked on it was about 8 months ago. I asked again and received the following reply:

No news on the LTD of THUNSTONE, I'm afraid. It CAN"T be too much longer, but tweaking and finishing the next two Edmond Hamilton books and scrounging the pulp world for missing Fred Brown texts has consumed the past months.

Now, I'm very, very patient when it comes to small press pre-orders, but this is approaching Cemetery Dance Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners deep time.

Also, the nearly defunct Night Shade Books just sent out an email pushing some upcoming e-books, so they're still out there somewhere. Which is a good sign, since the publication date for the hardcover copy of Laird Barron's The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All has a new listing of 9/3/13. Maybe it'll stay there this time around.

27HaffnerPress
Ago 18, 2013, 3:56 pm

KentonSem: Would you like a refund?

28semdetenebre
Editado: Ago 18, 2013, 5:05 pm

>27 HaffnerPress:

I'd much rather have the book provided that it will actually arrive one of these days, Do you know anything further on its status?

29HaffnerPress
Ago 18, 2013, 5:35 pm

KentonSem: Your options are to take delivery of the book when it's published ("one of these days," as you say), or accept a refund.

30semdetenebre
Sep 23, 2013, 11:48 am

This announcement from Subterranean Press might be of interest to paradoxosalpha and others here:

Now Taking Preorders for a New Laundry Novella by Charles Stross

Equoid by Charles Stross

Important note: the text of Equoid will be posted at Tor.com for free sometime in the coming weeks, if you're only interested in reading the tale.
***
(preorder-to be published in September 2014)

Dust jacket illustration by Steve Montiglio

We hadn't intended to offer this title for preorder yet, but have received so many requests it seemed crazy not to. Equoid, our first Stross offering since the time travel novella Palimpsest is a long (32,000 words) tale set in his popular Laundry series.

***
For Bob Howard, a working day tends to alternate between desperately trying not to fall asleep in committee meetings and being menaced by tentacular horrors from beyond spacetime. That's because Bob works for the Laundry, the secret British government agency tasked with protecting the realm from occult nightmares. So when his manager Iris sends him off to the countryside to liaise with a veterinary inspector from the Department of the Environment, Fisheries, and rural Affairs, at first he takes it as a pleasant vacation. But why is Edgebaston Farm's livery stable buying a hundred kilos of raw meat per day? Why does his briefing file contain the death-bed confession of that old fraud, H. P. Lovecraft? And why is his contact from DEFRA so deathly afraid of unicorns...?

Head out to the link for pricing (includes signed version):

http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/equoid_a_laundry_novella

31paradoxosalpha
Sep 23, 2013, 12:19 pm

Thanks for the heads-up! I've been reading the Laundry books by checking them out of the public library, so I'll probably just read Equoid online.

32semdetenebre
Sep 27, 2013, 2:13 pm

Some WEIRD news from PS Publishing:

WEIRDER SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH

While we’re all of us waiting for those two, here’s a couple things to take your minds off of it and quit. First off, we just took in 30 copies of Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, the final volume in Stephen Jones’s Fedogan & Bremer trilogy that began with the World Fantasy Award-nominated Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994) and continued with Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth (2005). The new anthology contains stories by Ramsey Campbell, Adrian Cole, John Glasby, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Brian Lumley, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, Angela Slatter, Michael Marshall Smith, Simon Kurt Unsworth and Conrad Williams, along with an Innsmouth poem by H.P. Lovecraft and a “posthumous collaboration” between the author and August Derleth.

Once again taking Lovecraft’s original 1931 novella as inspiration, we are introduced to the Massachusetts seaport and its ichthyoid denizens years before that fateful FBI raid. From there, Dagon’s blasphemous spawn spread out across the globe, while the offspring of that decaying fishing town undergo their own, often bizarre, metamorphoses.

shadows-over-innsmouth-jhc-ed.-by-stephen-jones-1801-pekm200x300ekm.jpgWhile the world changes, so through eldritch rituals and human sacrifices the Deep Ones’ masters—the terrifying Great Old Ones themselves—prepare to escape their prisons when the stars are right, so that they may once again reclaim the Earth as their own.

As the waters continue to rise, mankind begins its ultimate struggle for survival against a pantheon of dark gods and their batrachian foot-soldiers . . . Hey, come on, now—what’s not to like.

It’s good to have another tentacled Lovecraftian volume to share space on the shelves alongside PS stalwarts such as S.T. Joshi’s Black Wings I and II (with the #3 in the series about to hit the design studio here in downtown Hornsea—which, to be honest, is also pretty stygian) and Lois Gresh’s Dark Fusions, with Demonic Darrell Scweitzer’s That Is Not Dead and Innsmouth Nightmares, Lois’s follow-up to Dark Fusions, waiting in the wings for a 2014 pub date.

My, how we do so love this stuff . . . but you already knows that, don’tcha . . .

http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/shadows-over-innsmouth-jhc-ed-by-stephen-jones-180...
http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/weird-shadows-over-innsmouth-jhc-ed-by-stephen-jon...
http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/weider-shadows-over-innsmouth-jhc-ed-by-stephen-jo...

33semdetenebre
Editado: Nov 18, 2013, 3:07 pm

Great news! Arcane Wisdom Press just announced a special edition of Adept's Gambit:

http://miskatonicbooks.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/arcane-wisdom-press-announces-ne...

34RandyStafford
Nov 18, 2013, 7:38 pm

>32 semdetenebre: You can also get the latest volume from here, from the American publisher: http://fedoganandbremer.com/products/weirder-shadows-over-innsmouth

36semdetenebre
Editado: Mar 10, 2014, 9:00 am

This sounds like an interesting volume from Nonstop Press:



THE IDEA behind The Monkey’s Other Paw has never been done before — Have some of the best modern authors of fantastika (including Don Webb, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Di Filippo, Scott Edelman, Damien Broderick, and Steve Rasnic Tem) create new sequels, prequels, hommages and re-imaginings. of classic horror stories. Among the stories selected are: “The Monkey’s Paw,” H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Sandman,” Dylan Thomas’ ghost story “The Followers,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Saki’s “The Open Window,” and Edgar Allan Poe’s ”The Lighthouse”. Edited by the Hugo and Locus Award nominated author Luis Ortiz.

http://nonstoppress.com/

37semdetenebre
Abr 7, 2014, 5:44 pm

I've received my slipcased limited edition of The Complete John Thunstone from Haffner Press. Wow! Not only does this gorgeous volume come with a special dustjacket by Raymond Swanland and an additional sheet with the trade edition cover, but also found in the slipcase is Romance in Black, a paperback collection of Wellman's Judge Pursuivant tales. The Thunstone volume is signed by Ramsey Campbell, illustrator George Evans and Swanland. It also includes a mounted Wellman signature taken from one of his personal checks. What a package! I highly recommend Haffner Press - they have a number of volumes available which should be of interest to WT members.

http://www.haffnerpress.com/

38cosmicdolphin
Abr 27, 2014, 8:44 am

KentonSem

My wife treated me to a copy while we were at Windy City Pulp and Paper. It is indeed an awesome package. I would imagine the limited is going to vanish quickly since there are only 100 copies. The original trade edition is totally sold out now.

I also picked up the PS publishing Hardcover reissue of Inhabitants of the Lake by Ramsey Campbell directly from the books Illustrator Randy Broecker. What a nice guy, he also had added an additional ink sketch on the title page.

From Fedogan And Bremer we picked up Shadows Over Innsmouth, Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, and Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth. Stephen Jones the editor of those volumes was also at the con and he signed these plus a number of his other collections including Dark Detectives. Stephen was very friendly, and a blast to talk to.

Randy Broecker illustrated 3 of these collections he also signed them for us.

Robert T. Garcia who helped package Shadows, Weirder Shadows, and Dark Detectives for Fedogan and Bremer also signed those volumes, so blimey they're triple signed :-)

As a super bonus, Stuart David Schiff of Whispers fame was also attending the convention, and he kindly signed my copies of Whispers Magazine, and the Whispers anthologies.

Phew what a convention. 80 Book and pulp dealers in all.

Other interesting purchases included the Traycased Limited of Horrorstory 4 edited by Karl Edward Wagner signed by 26 of the contributors, a couple of August Derleth paperback collections, Necropolis by Basil Copper in the Arkham House Edition, and a signed copy of Drawing Down the Moon the Charles Vess Art book.

A physically and financially exhausting convention. But well worth the trip if you are into pulps, weird, or vintage paperback.

39semdetenebre
Abr 27, 2014, 9:45 am

>38 cosmicdolphin:

That sounds amazing!. You know, my wife and I have been meaning to visit a friend who lives in Chicago. Maybe a visit right around the time of next year's convention is in order...

40cosmicdolphin
Abr 27, 2014, 5:07 pm

It's worth the trip. Next year the Cons overall theme is H. P. Lovecrafts 125th birthday :-)

Richard

41semdetenebre
Abr 27, 2014, 8:12 pm

>40 cosmicdolphin:

Richard, is the convention always held in April, and is it usually in Lombard?

42cosmicdolphin
Abr 27, 2014, 9:21 pm

Yes, it seems to be always around the same time give or take a week, and has been in Lombard for the last few years. Their website is down right now, but I believe they have next years info up there. They don't have much programming. It's basically a very large dealer's room, a film room showing pulpy stuff, a consuite open after the dealers room closes, and Friday and Saturday night auctions of rare pulps. It really is all about the dealers room. If you are a collector it's heaven.

43paradoxosalpha
Abr 28, 2014, 3:01 pm

Maybe I'll go next year, if I'm not feeling too poor. It's right around the corner from me, after all.

44semdetenebre
Editado: Jul 16, 2014, 12:38 pm

Borderlands Press has announced a second 15-volume set in their "Little Books" series:

http://borderlandspress.com/shop/coming-soon/little-aqua-book-creature-tails-dav...

Authors involved so far are: David J. Schow, Ed Gorman, Jack Ketchum, Dennis Etchison, Rick Hautala, David Morrell, Ray Garton, Ed Lee, Karl Wagner, Chet Williamson, Laird Barron, Poppy Z. Brite, and Joe Hill.

Signed, numbered and 500 copies of each. Schow will be available first, in mid-August.



ETA

Not sure how the late KEW will be signing...

45rtttt01
Jul 18, 2014, 1:12 pm

>44 semdetenebre:

Good question. I guess someone else - artist? editor? publisher? - will sign. Rick Hautala is also no longer with us.

46cosmicdolphin
Jul 18, 2014, 2:47 pm

I guess they could do like Haffner did for the Wellman limited canceled checks for the signatures

47semdetenebre
Jul 18, 2014, 5:50 pm

>45 rtttt01:,>46 cosmicdolphin:

Ah, yes. Forgot about Rick Hautala's passing last year.

Haffner Press was originally going to simply include a canceled personal check signed by Wellman. They ended up cutting out the signature and mounting it in the book. It turned out really nice.

48semdetenebre
Jul 28, 2014, 11:06 am

Some good news from PS Publishing:

". . . the indefatigable Darrell Schweitzer, one of Life’s good guys, as a pre-cursor to his upcoming Lovecraftian anthology, THAT IS NOT DEAD. Darrell, tell us about it.

“The Great Old Ones, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Yog Sothoth, and the rest, so vividly described by H.P. Lovecraft, have lurked in the dim places of the Earth since the beginning of time. That is not dead, wrote the mad poet Abdul Alhazred, which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.

“You may reasonably wonder, then, why no one seemed to notice prior to the events in the Lovecraft stories. Was Cthulhu merely dreaming in sunken R’lyeh all this time, or did the dreams he sent out to mankind subtly influence, or pervert, human history? Were the outbreak of the Dunwich Horror and the resurrection of Charles Dexter Ward’s ancestor Joseph Curwen, both of which occurred in the 1920s, unique events, or have similarly dreadful things happened before? What were the Mi-Go of Yuggoth doing in the centuries before they were discovered in the Vermont hills by Henry Wentworth Akeley, as told in ‘The Whisperer in Darkness’?

“This book proposes that such horrific events did occur down the centuries. They just have not been adequately chronicled until now. Esther Friesner proposes a unique explanation to the explosion of the island of Thera in the 2nd millennium B.C., which gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “big bang.” Keith Taylor illuminates what was up till now merely a sinister allusion, of how Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos appeared as a man in Egypt in the days of the pharaohs. Jay Lake and John Langan tell of very different encounters between ancient Romans and forces vaster and more ancient than any of the world’s empires. Darrell Schweitzer tells how survivors of the disastrous Peasants’ Crusade made an even more hideous pilgrimage to the Plateau of Leng. Don Webb reveals the very circumstances under which the English scholar John Dee translated the dreaded Necronomicon into English in the early 17th century. S.T. Joshi, John R. Fultz, Harry Turtledove, Richard Lupoff, Will Murray. W. H. Pugmire, and Lois Gresh all explore the subtle and insidious ways Lovecraft’s cosmic monsters have touched the lives of all of us. If our species still survives, it may be by sheer chance, and not for long, for the horrors are still there, still waiting for the day when the stars are right and they shall return to reclaim the Earth.' "

http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/forthcoming-titles-26-c.asp

49RandyStafford
Jul 28, 2014, 1:15 pm

It all sounds like a good anthology.

Innsmouth Free Press did something similar with Historical Lovecraft. It looks like Schweitzer got some big names.

50semdetenebre
Sep 18, 2014, 2:32 pm

Hippocampus Press has the 3-volume, 500 copy H. P. Lovecraft's Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition up for pre-order. Any thoughts on this set, WT members? I'm on the fence, but it is quite tempting.

http://www.hippocampuspress.com/h.p-lovecraft/fiction/variorum-lovecraft?zenid=b...

51artturnerjr
Sep 19, 2014, 5:53 pm

Forthcoming from Subterranean Press - The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison:

http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/the_top_of_the_volcano_the_awa...

Great TOC and it sounds like it will be a very handsome volume to boot (thanks to LT member Podras. for the heads-up).

***

>50 semdetenebre:

I'm glad this is gonna be out there but I highly doubt I'll be purchasing a copy.

52artturnerjr
Sep 25, 2014, 10:28 am

New from Hippocampus Press; sounds very interesting.

Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos by Bobby Derie

$20.00

• Cover artwork by Gahan Wilson
• Paperback
• 314 pages
• ISBN 978-1-61498-088-9
• August 2014

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most asexual beings in history—at least by his own admission. Whether we accept this view of his own sexual instincts or not, there is no denying that sexuality—normal and aberrant—underlies a number of significant tales in the Lovecraft oeuvre. The impregnation of a human woman by Yog-Sothoth in “The Dunwich Horror” and the mating of humans with strange creatures from the sea in “The Shadow over Innsmouth” are only two such examples.

In this pioneering study, Bobby Derie has presented an objective and scholarly analysis of the significant uses of love, sex, and gender in the work of H. P. Lovecraft and some of his leading disciples. Along the way, Derie treats such matters as Lovecraft’s relations with his wife, portrayals of women in his work, and the question of homosexuality in his life and work. Many Lovecraft stories are subject to detailed examination for their sexual implications.

Derie then examines the work of such significant writers of the Lovecraft tradition as Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Ramsey Campbell, W. H. Pugmire, and Caitlín R. Kiernan, whose work features far more explicit sexuality than anything Lovecraft could have imagined. Derie goes on to study sexual themes in other venues, such as Lovecraftian occultism, Japanese manga and anime, and even Lovecraftian fan fiction.

The result is a comprehensive and incisive examination of a delicate subject—but one whose significance in Lovecraftian writing can hardly be denied.


http://www.hippocampuspress.com/h.p-lovecraft/about-hp-lovecraft/sex-and-the-cth...

53cosmicdolphin
Sep 25, 2014, 5:57 pm

47 Kentonsem, belated reply: I got the full cancelled check in my copy of the the Wellman Limited :-) Maybe he did that with some of them I don't know. Mine is intact though.

54semdetenebre
Sep 25, 2014, 8:30 pm

>53 cosmicdolphin:

I thought that an email I received from Stephen Haffner offering complete check vs. cut-out signature was taking a general poll of all pre-order customers to see which way was preferred. Maybe he was actually offering each one of us an individual choice. Pretty cool. Now that you've reminded me, I think I'll add the Pursuivant volume to my Halloween reading pile.

55semdetenebre
Sep 30, 2014, 9:14 am

>52 artturnerjr:

Perfect cover.

:-D

56semdetenebre
Editado: Feb 9, 2015, 7:57 pm

News from PS Publishing:

The Starry Wisdom Library

Also just in is a total mindblower put together (edited is perhaps the best phrase though even that’s not wholly accurate) by Nate Pedereson (with a little help from the following academics and bibliophiles:

JOSHI, S. T. – Introduction
ANIOLOWSKI, Scott David – Massa di Requiem per Shuggay
BARRASS, Glynn -- The Book of Azathoth
BERGLUND, Edward P. – Cultus Maleficarum
BIRD, Allyson – The Book of Karnak
BRENTS, Scott – Lewis Carroll / Charles Dodgson Letter
BULLINGTON, Jesse – Il Tomo della Biocca
CAMPBELL, Ramsey – The Revelations of Glaaki
CARDIN, Matt – The Daemonolorum
CHAMBERS, S. J. – Remnants of Lost Empires
CISCO, Michael – Liber Ivonis
CUINN, Carrie – Image du Monde
FILES, Gemma -- The Testament of Carnamagos
GAVIN, Richard – De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis
HANSON, Christopher – The Pnakotic Manuscripts
HARMS, Daniel - The Book of Dzyan
JONES, Stephen Graham– The Ssathaat Scriptures
LANGAN, John– Les Mystères du Ver
LEMAN, Andrew - Practise of Chymicall and Hermetickall Physicke
LLEWELLYN, Livia – Las Reglas de Ruina
MAMATAS, Nick – The Black Book of the Skull
MORENO-GARCIA, Silvia – El Culto de los Muertos
MORRIS, Edward – The Book of Invaders
NICOLAY, Scott – The Ponape Scripture
PRICE, Robert M. – The Book of Iod
PUGMIRE, W. H. – The Sesqua Valley Grimoire
PULVER, Joe – The King in Yellow
RAWLIK, Pete – The Qanoon-e-Islam
SATYAMURTHY, Jayaprakash – The Chhaya Rituals
SCHWADER, Ann K – The Black Rites
SCHWEITZER, Darrell – The Nameless Tome
SPRIGGS, Robin – The Dhol Chants
STRANTZAS, Simon – The Black Tome of Alsophocus
TANZER, Molly – Hieron Aigypton
TAYLOR, Keith – The Book of Thoth
TIDBECK, Karin – The Cultes des Goules
TYSON, Donald – Liber Damnatus
VALENTINE, Genevieve – The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
WALLACE, Kali - The Tablets of Nhing
WARREN, Kaaron – The Book of Climbing Lights
WEBB, Don – The Black Sutra
WELLS, Jeff – Observations on the Several Parts of Africa
WILSON, F. Paul– Unaussprechlichen Kulten
Rare book cataloging for the anthology conducted by Jonathan Kearns of Adrian Harrington Rare Books.

Here’s the lowdown (and, believe me, you shouldn’t expect to see its like again):

“Scholars and book collectors across the country have long pondered the intended fate of the infamous collection of rare occult books left to rot in the Church of Starry Wisdom in Providence, Rhode Island, after the Starry Wisdom cult dispersed to parts unknown in the late 19th century.

“The recent, shocking discovery of a previously unknown book auction catalogue issued in 1877 offers insight into the myriad mysteries of the cult. Entitled “Catalogue of the Occult Library of the Recently Disbanded Church of Starry Wisdom of Providence, Rhode Island,” and issued by the notorious Arkham firm Pent & Serenade, the catalogue reveals the long-suspected fact that the Church intended to sell its library to finance its removal from Providence.

“The sale, of course, never materialized—as later events make obvious—but the book auction catalogue informs us of the cult’s original intent and leaves for us an enormously valuable and fascinating piece of ephemera detailing the infamous collection of rare occult books in all of its dark and foreboding glory.

“Furthermore, the book auction catalogue is unique amongst its contemporaries in that the auction firm Pent & Serenade—recognizing the importance of the exceedingly rare volumes in the cult’s possession—commissioned a wide variety of 19th-century scholars to write essays on the histories of the books offered at auction.

“As such, the catalogue is a uniquely—almost absurdly—valuable item for scholars and collectors around the world, and is presented here in exacting facsimile by PS Publishing.”

Come on . . . how can you resist?!



http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/the-starry-wisdom-library-jhc-edited-by-nate-peder...

57paradoxosalpha
Dic 8, 2014, 11:23 am

>56 semdetenebre:

Whoa. Pure awesome.

58semdetenebre
Ene 1, 2015, 11:01 am

Announced for 2015 from Dark Regions Press:

Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror Illustrated by Daniele Serra featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Nancy Kilpatrick, Lois Gresh and many more. Indiegogo campaign launching in late January/February

A new anthology of Lovecraftian horror and weird fiction from only female authors edited by Lynne Jamneck is coming from Dark Regions Press in 2015. The anthology, titled Dreams from the Witch House, will launch for preorder in late January or early February on Indiegogo.com in a new crowdfunding campaign. The book will feature original wraparound color cover artwork by renowned artist Daniele Serra, and if the crowdfunding campaign is successful each story will feature an original illustration by the artist as well. Including stories from renowned authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Nancy Kilpatrick, Lois Gresh, Storm Constantine and many more, Dreams from the Witch House will only be offered in one signed format: deluxe slipcased hardcover signed by all contributors featuring illustrated end sheets.

Keep a look out in the coming weeks for more news on the upcoming Indiegogo campaign for Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror.

http://www.darkregions.com/

59semdetenebre
Editado: Ene 16, 2015, 11:39 am

From PS Publishing:

Darrell Schweitzer's Lovecraftian inspired anthology THAT IS NOT DEAD. As Darrell says in his intoruction:

"Experienced readers of H. P. Lovecraft will immediately recognize the source of this book’s title. It comes from the “unexplainable couplet” of Abdul Alhazred:

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

"In reality, Abdul Alhazred was a name H. P. Lovecraft either made up or came across as a child, when he’d just discovered The Arabian Nights and liked to play Arab. But as an adult, he put the name to more intriguing, literary use. In “The Nameless City” (1921), he told us that this “mad poet” dreamed of an incredibly ancient, ruined city in the desert the night before he “sang” this couplet."

The Great Old Ones, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Yog Sothoth, and the rest, so vividly described by H. P. Lovecraft, have lurked in the dim places of the Earth since the beginning of time.

You may reasonably wonder, then, why no one seemed to notice prior to the events in the Lovecraft stories. Was Cthulhu merely dreaming in sunken R’lyeh all this time, or did the dreams he sent out to mankind subtly influence, or pervert, human history? Were the outbreak of the Dunwich Horror and the resurrection of Charles Dexter Ward’s ancestor Joseph Curwen, both of which occurred in the 1920s, unique events, or have similarly dreadful things happened before? What were the Mi-Go of Yuggoth doing in the centuries before they were discovered in the Vermont hills by Henry Wentworth Akeley, as told in “The Whisperer in Darkness”?

This book proposes that such horrific events did occur down the centuries. They've just not been adequately chronicled until now. And here is the line up of Lovecraftians who have done just that:

Mesopota Egypt, 1200 BC: Herald of Chaos — Keith Taylor
mia, second millennium BC: What a Girl Needs — Esther Friesner
Judaea, second century AD: The Horn of the World’s Ending — John Langan
Central Asia, second century AD: Monsters in the Mountains at the Edge of the World — Jay Lake
Palestine, Asia Minor, and Central Asia; late eleventh and mid twelfth centuries AD: Come, Follow Me — Darrell Schweitzer
England, 1605: Ophiuchus — Don Webb
Russia, late seventeenth century: Of Queens and Pawns — Lois H. Gresh
Mexico, 1753: Smoking Mirror — Will Murray
France, 1762: Incident at Ferney — S. T. Joshi
Arizona Territory, 1781: Anno Domini Azathoth — John R. Fultz
Massachusetts, USA, early twentieth century. Italy, early nineteenth century: Slowness — Don Webb
Massachusetts, USA, and Spain, late nineteenth century: The Salamanca Encounter — Richard A. Lupoff
Seattle, Washington, USA, 1889: Old Time Entombed — W. H. Pugmire
England, twenty-first century and the Middle Ages: Nine Drowned Churches — Harry Turtledove



http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/that-is-not-dead-hardcover-edited-by-darrell-schwe...

60paradoxosalpha
Ene 16, 2015, 12:01 pm

That looks good.

61semdetenebre
Ene 16, 2015, 12:04 pm

>60 paradoxosalpha:

It really does. PS has been releasing a lot of really good Lovecraftian stuff lately!

62RandyStafford
Ene 16, 2015, 12:33 pm

I may order this one. Harry Turtledove in a Lovecraft anthology? I'm game.

63artturnerjr
Ene 16, 2015, 12:47 pm

>59 semdetenebre:

Looks like Schweitzer recruited a lot of the same talent that he had on board for his excellent Cthulhu's Reign anthology (Don Webb, Will Murray, Richard A. Lupoff, etc.). And it's got an S.T. Joshi story! Yeah, definitely getting ahold of that one at some point. 8)

64semdetenebre
Editado: Feb 9, 2015, 8:02 pm

>56 semdetenebre:, >57 paradoxosalpha:

Just received The Starry Wisdom Library: the Catalogue of the Greatest Occult Book Auction of All Time. What great design! It's laid out to look like a real catalog from 1877. It can just as easily be browsed through randomly a bit at a time as it can be devoured cover to cover. Paradoxosalpha, I think you would especially enjoy this volume.

65housefulofpaper
Feb 10, 2015, 9:24 am

>64 semdetenebre:

I loved it, I think it appealed to the same part of my brain that responds to the fake scholarship and obsessive list-making of Jorge Luis Borges and Peter Greenaway's films. A couple of questions though - do all the volumes refer back to a bit of pre-existing Mythos, either originating with Lovecraft or one of his successors? And how to describe it? I put "literary hoax" as a tag, but I don't think it's quite right (I was thinking that Lovecraft learnt the trick of verisimilitude from Poe's genuine hoaxes, and there's a line from the stories to this volume).

66paradoxosalpha
Feb 10, 2015, 10:27 am

Yeah, I'd love that book I'm sure. But I'm a little inhibited from such indulgence right now.

67semdetenebre
Editado: Feb 20, 2015, 9:12 am

Innsmouth Nightnares edited by Lois Gresh has been announced by PS Publishing for 2015:

INNSMOUTH NIGHTMARES (PS Publishing, 2015) will include stories by the following authors (in no particular order). I had to turn down some wonderful stories for INNSMOUTH NIGHTMARES, and some of the decisions were very difficult. In the end, the book tops 100,000 words and includes some of the finest weird tales I’ve ever read.

Caitlin Kiernan
Laird Barron
John Shirley
Lavie Tidhar
Wilum Pugmire
Steve Rasnic Tem
Paul Kane
Richard Gavin
Lisa Morton
Jonathan Thomas
John Langan
Bill Nolan
Jason Brock
Nancy Kilpatrick
Joe Pulver
Tim Lebbon
Tim Waggoner
Jim Moore
Nancy Holder
Don Tyson
S.T. Joshi

http://www.loisgresh.com/?p=1217
http://horror.org/video-interview-lois-gresh/

68semdetenebre
Mar 25, 2015, 11:36 am

I almost missed this brief note in the latest PS Publishing newsletter:

THE CEREMONIES by T. E. D. Klein

Just a tiny bit of space to mention something I'm really jazzed about and that is our upcoming 30th Anniversary edition of the great T. E. D. Klein’s magnum opus, THE CEREMONIES about which Stephen King said " . . . the most exciting novel in my field to come along since Straub's GHOST STORY" and Publishers Weekly said “Klein has put himself in the first rank of fantasy-horror writers."

Huzzah! I'll finally be able to replace my tattered old paperback.

69semdetenebre
Feb 10, 2016, 12:17 pm

Just pre-ordered a new David J. Schow collection of fiction and non-fiction called DJSturbia from Subterranean Press

http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/djsturbia



Sounds great! I see that they have also just announced a 25th anniversary edition of Summer of Night by Dan Simmons.

70semdetenebre
Feb 20, 2016, 12:28 pm

Here is an unusual new special edition of "The Colour Out of Space" from Shelter Bookworks. Click through the images.

http://www.shelterbookworks.com/the-colour-out-of-space/32xpkydlf181x2uz33zx47mb...

71semdetenebre
Editado: Jun 22, 2016, 2:56 pm

I almost missed this one (again - it's out) - the PS Publishing edition of The Ceremonies!

http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/the-ceremonies-signed-slipcase-edition-ted-klein-3...

72housefulofpaper
Jun 22, 2016, 2:22 pm

Swan River Press has announced an edition of the original shorter version of Our Lady of Darkness, "The Pale Brown Thing".

http://swanriverpress.ie/title_palebrown.html

73bookstopshere
Ago 2, 2016, 3:48 pm

and now swan river has 2 new anthologies from Brian - check 'em out

74semdetenebre
Mar 2, 2018, 11:18 pm

Just up for pre-order is a special edition of The House on the Borderland from Swan River Press. Looking forward to the Alan Moore introduction - and the accompanying CD!

http://www.swanriverpress.ie/title_borderland.html



75semdetenebre
Abr 6, 2018, 9:34 am

Hippocampus Press is doing an inexpensive "Classics of Gothic Horror" paperback series. I like the Aeron Alfrey cover art for the upcoming volume, Lost Ghosts: The Complete Weird Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.



http://tinyurl.com/yd2gzovr

76semdetenebre
Editado: Abr 24, 2018, 9:18 pm

I was nicely surprised when I received the recent Swan River Press edition of The House on the Borderland. The hardcover book itself comes in gorgeous, trippy full-color with a fine-looking dust jacket. It's signed by Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair and John Coulthart. This special edition also contains a signed/numbered "soundtrack CD" by composer Jon Mueller. As an extra surprise, it also came with an envelope containing 3 numbered House on the Borderland/Wm Hope Hodgson postcards, and 2 additional postcards signed by Rosalie Parker and Ray Russell. One of 100 copies. with an embossed Swan River book stamp. Whew! This pic doesn't do it justice, but here it is. Keep an eye on Swan River!



http://www.swanriverpress.ie/

77elenchus
Abr 24, 2018, 8:37 pm

I'm a recent Sinclair fan, curious what he has to say in his afterword.

78semdetenebre
Abr 24, 2018, 9:17 pm

Just noticed that the SR site has a brief yet interesting interview with Coulthart and Mueller. Too bad it doesn't include Sinclair!

http://swanriverpress.ie/interview_borderland.html

79semdetenebre
Editado: Abr 11, 2019, 9:06 am

Interesting signed Ligotti limited up for pre-order at Borderlands Press. Part of their "Little Book" series. This one is all interviews.

https://tinyurl.com/yyzk7yhh



80semdetenebre
Editado: Abr 11, 2019, 9:23 am

Haffner Press has announced a 2-vol The Complete John the Balladeer which collects not only all of the short stories but also the five novels which were published from 1979-1982!!!! Check out the link, which mentions an enticing bonus chapbook. While you're at it, simply poke around on the Haffner Press website and prepare to drool.

http://www.haffnerpress.com/book/the-complete-john-the-balladeer/

81scratchpad
Abr 12, 2019, 5:09 am

I put in an order with Hippocampus Press on 11 March and it was shipped 2 days ago - that’s more than 4 weeks and is yet to be delivered (their stated shipping times are 2-3 weeks). I have bought books from many sellers and have never encountered a delay like this. If there are any HP customers out there what is your experience? Unless a book is a must-have I am unlikely to buy from them again.

82paradoxosalpha
Editado: Abr 12, 2019, 9:30 am

>81 scratchpad:

That's 20th-century fulfillment velocity, i.e. before Amazon put the screws to all their competition. "Allow 6-8 weeks" used to be typical, permitting publishers to batch orders and do shipping once or twice a month.

83semdetenebre
Abr 12, 2019, 10:04 am

>82 paradoxosalpha:

Yep.

>81 scratchpad:

I'd email Hippocampus Press and ask them. Never had any issues with them myself.

84semdetenebre
Editado: Jul 1, 2019, 2:34 pm

Just received a copy of Frozen Hell from Wildside Press. It's a recently discovered, longer version of John W. Campbell's classic "Who Goes There?" With some nice illustrations by Bob Eggleton. You can find it in various formats on Amazon.

85semdetenebre
Jul 1, 2019, 9:51 am

Borderlands Press continues its wonderful Little Books series with A Little Purple Book of Phantasies by Gahan Wilson. I'm really looking forward to it.



https://www.borderlandspress.com/shop/coming-soon/a-little-purple-book-of-phanta...

86ScoLgo
Jul 1, 2019, 2:10 pm

>84 semdetenebre: I contributed to their Kickstarter campaign and received my hardcover a couple of weeks ago. Haven't cracked it open to read yet but will soon. It's a very nicely bound book.

87semdetenebre
Jul 15, 2019, 12:25 pm

>86 ScoLgo:

I Kickstarted, too. Robert Silverberg provides some fascinating background detail in his introduction, such as the story's germination in an earlier tale called "Brain-Stealers of Mars", which had a more standard space-opera bent.

89housefulofpaper
Nov 25, 2019, 7:45 pm


I meant to post this months ago. In fact the Autumn issues of the below journals are now out. These are the spring 2019 editions.

On the left is Ghosts and Scholars - a journal about M. R. James that has been going for 40 years. It does include original fiction as well as features about James and his circle, and sometimes wider ranging ghost or weird fiction matters. Sadly the editor and originator Rosemary Pardoe has had to step down. Guest editors have been announced for the next two years.

It's an old-style A5 stapled fanzine type publication.

On the right is the "house organ" of Tartarus Press, Wormwood. It rarely publishes fiction but has plenty of well-researched but not stuffily academic articles about weird, supernatural, and decadent fiction.

This one is a "perfect bound" (paperback style) softcover.

90RandyStafford
Dic 31, 2019, 2:36 pm

In March 2020, Black Coat Press is releasing an anthology called Weird Fiction in France that looks good: https://www.blackcoatpress.com/forthcoming-weird-fiction-in-france.html

91SolerSystem
Feb 25, 2020, 11:48 am

Does anyone have an opinion of the Beehive Books edition of The Island of Dr. Moreau? I've had my eye on the deluxe Easton Press edition for awhile now, but the cost is a bit prohibitive, and I really dislike the 'Signed Edition' written on the spine. Are there any other fine editions of Moreau out there?

92vicwong
Feb 25, 2020, 11:03 pm

>91 SolerSystem:
Paul Suntup is working on a set of books by Wells; he's announced Time Machine, Invisible Man, and War of the Worlds. People have been asking him to add Moreau and he said he would do it, but it may be at least a year away (https://suntup.press/ is producing some beautiful books.)

93semdetenebre
Editado: mayo 20, 2020, 7:52 am

Hippocampus has a nice half-off deal for their 3-vol Machen set. Looks good!



https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/fiction/arthur-machen-collected-f...

94semdetenebre
Jul 22, 2020, 10:41 am

Ran into this review today for Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women 1890–1940. Sounds interesting, and it might provide some DEEP ONES material.

https://medium.com/@deadreckoningsjournal/unseen-worlds-waiting-to-be-discovered...

95elenchus
Jul 26, 2020, 10:27 am

>94 semdetenebre:, indeed a promising source -- and many of the stories in it could be available online due to lapse of copyright.

96semdetenebre
Ago 19, 2020, 6:04 pm

Just picked up the 2-vol Hippocampus Press paperback edition of Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill from co-editor S.T. Joshi. He was kind enough to inscribe it.



97RandyStafford
Ago 19, 2020, 8:34 pm

Very nice.

98elenchus
Editado: Ago 19, 2020, 9:02 pm

That's deserving of a feature in the Group gallery! -- and in fact, I see that it's already there.

99semdetenebre
Ene 23, 2021, 7:24 am

Hippocampus Press has two new Clark Ashton Smith paperbacks available at a reasonable price. I like the CAS cover of the poetry book.



https://hippocampuspress.com/

100elenchus
Ene 23, 2021, 9:18 pm

Those and the Machen look great, but I really wish for hardbacks.

101semdetenebre
Editado: Ene 25, 2021, 11:19 am

>100 elenchus:
Hippocampus does some limited cloth editions, but not for everything. It looks like The Last Oblivion is a corrected text of the 2002 edition. The Averoigne Chronicles seems to be a paperback edition of the 2016 Centipede Press hc. I'm not sure how they worked that out, but it is one gorgeous book!

102housefulofpaper
Ene 25, 2021, 3:25 pm

> 101

Corrected text - as in, I do need to buy it, after all? :(

103semdetenebre
Ene 25, 2021, 3:56 pm

>102 housefulofpaper:

Hippocampus says, "A few typos have been corrected, and the bibliography bolstered. When the book first came out in 2002, some first appearances of poems had not yet been discovered. The main change is that the book is larger 6 x 9 in. format, with a larger font, improving legibility."

104housefulofpaper
Ene 25, 2021, 8:34 pm

>103 semdetenebre:
Thanks for the info. I think I can survive with the 2002 edition :)

105semdetenebre
Feb 18, 2021, 4:25 pm

106elenchus
Feb 18, 2021, 4:28 pm

999 cents! (snort)

107alaudacorax
Feb 20, 2021, 8:48 am

It's available on my side of the pond, too; but still 999 cents on the cover though. I was hoping for 750 pence ...

108alaudacorax
Feb 20, 2021, 8:52 am

>107 alaudacorax:

Good God! That's one hundred and fifty shillings for a paperback book!!!

109pgmcc
Feb 20, 2021, 9:53 am

>108 alaudacorax: It should only be 2/6. £7 10s 0d is outrageous.

I remember my family complaining when petrol reached 10s a gallon.

110RandyStafford
Abr 7, 2021, 12:40 am

We've read some Jean Ray stories for the Deep Ones. Evidently, there are now several English language translations of his weird fiction with annotations: https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/7079191/posts/7747 (Orrin Grey's blog).

111semdetenebre
Editado: mayo 3, 2021, 7:55 pm

Here are two really well-presented recent releases, especially desirable if you are perhaps missing a solid collection by either author in your library.

First up is the latest in the affordable "Centipede Press Library of Weird Fiction" series, this time featuring Ambrose Bierce. I just received my copy. Like the others in the series to date, it's a beautifully made volume. Editor S.T. Joshi has contributed an excellent selection of tales and provides the introduction.

https://www.centipedepress.com/masters/biercelwf.html



Over at Hippocampus Press, you'll find their more-than-affordable paperback edition of The Harbor-Master: Best Weird Stories of Robert W. Chambers, featuring yet another very cool cover by artist Aeron Alfrey and an intro by the ubiquitous Joshi.

https://www.hippocampuspress.com/classics-of-gothic-horror/the-harbor-master-bes...

112elenchus
mayo 4, 2021, 8:35 pm

>111 semdetenebre: The Harbor-Master: Best Weird Stories of Robert W. Chambers

I know not all the stories originally published in The King In Yellow are universally considered Weird, but still it irks me when they're not all included in collections such as this. The Hippocampus edition is already 300 pages, I get all the practical arguments against adding more pages or losing other stories to fit those in. Still irks.

113TheRingshifter
mayo 5, 2021, 9:23 am

Yeah even though I haven't actually read Robert W. Chambers I feel like they should have either published all the Yellow King stories (+ a couple more if they wanted) or avoided the Yellow King stories and published only other stories.

114housefulofpaper
mayo 5, 2021, 9:42 am

The King in Yellow book - Chambers' original book of that title, as opposed to later collections re-using the title - seems to me carefully constructed to be a thing in its own right, built as a sort of diptych.

The initial horror/fantasy stories move to a more "hearts and flowers" sentimentality that has echoes of silent cinema (but as Chambers wrote for the silents, the influence may well go the other way!) before tracing a sort of return journey from the lives of expatriate Americans in La Belle Epoque Paris to the real-world horrors of war (the Siege of Paris). So of course there's the argument for excising a good half of the book's contents from a collection of weird fiction, but the loss of the book as an organic whole is something to be regretted. It wouldn't be so bad if the original selection of stories were easy to get hold of (I found a 30-year-old paperback in a charity bookshop).

>111 semdetenebre:
Is the table of contents for the Bierce viewable anywhere? This is tempting but I already have two Bierce collections and there's already quite a lot of overlap. And unfortunately Centipede Press purchases have to be carefully considered these days as the international postage is brutal and the exchange rate does a lot less to offset the pain.

115semdetenebre
mayo 5, 2021, 4:23 pm

>114 housefulofpaper:

These are just phone snaps, but you should be able to make out the story titles.

116housefulofpaper
mayo 5, 2021, 9:02 pm

>115 semdetenebre:

That was kind of you, thank you. It looks like there are 14 stories not in either An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories or The Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories (Tartarus Press and the Folio Society, respectively, if Touchstones go awry). Over £2 per story...I could almost convince myself it would be worth it, but add on the postage and each one would cost more than a pint in a London pub! I'll have to pass on this one.

117pgmcc
mayo 6, 2021, 3:58 am

>116 housefulofpaper:
At the moment one cannot get a pint in an Irish pub.

Now there is a real horror story.

118semdetenebre
Editado: Ago 16, 2021, 12:37 pm

Recently came across two very interesting Hippocampus Press editions. The T.E.D. Klein book is a fairly massive non-fiction collection, while the late Michael Shea's novel is a 1981 sequel to HPL's "The Hound".



https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/providence-after-dark-...



https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/fiction/mr.-cannyharme

119TheRingshifter
Ago 21, 2021, 2:06 pm

I've started reading "The Harbour-Master" and I have to say I'm a little disappointed with the quality of the book, editorially speaking. Only read the first story but already a fair few spelling errors and typographical mistakes, as well as what seems like a Wikipedia citation (???) left in the book. Plus, I know it's not an "anotated" edition, but like... a translation of the French at the start would have been nice!

120housefulofpaper
Ago 21, 2021, 8:28 pm

>119 TheRingshifter:

"Do not laugh at the fools; their madness lasts longer than ours ... that's all the difference"

Google translate, not me:)

121semdetenebre
Editado: Oct 8, 2021, 12:34 pm

PS Publishing just put a purty-looking signed edition of T.E.D. Klein's DARK GODS up for pre-order. Seems to be selling fast. Signed HC & also a Trade PB. At the moment, you have to set your cursor in the Quantity field and hit enter to add it to your cart.

https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/dark-gods-signed-slipcased-hardcover-by-ted-klein...



122semdetenebre
Feb 8, 2022, 10:22 am

Not for reading while you are munching down a bowl of Cap'n Crunch. Centipede Press is publishing a "Deluxe" edition of The Haunting of Hill House:

https://www.centipedepress.com/horror/hauntingofhillhousedeluxe.html



Limited to 42 copies, each signed by Matt Mahurin and Caitlín R. Kiernan, with a facsimile signature by Shirley Jackson. Of the 35 copies, only 35 are for sale. The other 7 are for rights holders and contributors.
Oversize at 7¾ × 12¾ inches.
Two- and four-color printing throughout on mouldnade Stonehenge paper.
New introduction by Caitlín R. Kiernan.
Full color wraparound dustjacket by Matt Mahurin.
Six original color interiors by Matt Mahurin, each hand-tipped.
Ten black & white spot illustrations by Matt Mahurin.
Full goatskin leather binding.
Handmade marbled endpapers.
Top-edge stain.
Ribbon marker, head and tail bands.
Essay by Stephen King (excerpted from Danse Macabre).
Essay “Experience and Fiction” by Shirley Jackson.
Afterword by Laurence Hyman, Shirley Jackson’s son.
A suite of drawings of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
An extra hard-case set of illustrations by Matt Mahurin, each signed by Mahurin.
Cloth clamshell with acrylic inset images.
Mylar dustjacket protector, 1.5mil, already applied!
256 pages.
Price includes UPS 2nd Day Air shipping.
Published February 2022.
ISBN 978-1-61347-254-5.

Only about $3200. I'll stick with my CP slipcased hc edition from a couple of years back, thanks.

123paradoxosalpha
Feb 8, 2022, 10:49 am

Jaw dropped.

124AndreasJ
Feb 8, 2022, 12:21 pm

I think the most I’ve ever paid for a single book was about US$150 …

125semdetenebre
Editado: Feb 9, 2022, 10:40 am

It took about two days for Hill House Deluxe to sell out.

126semdetenebre
Mar 15, 2022, 10:53 am

Something new from Swan River Press that is of interest:



http://www.swanriverpress.ie/title_lure.html

127elenchus
Mar 15, 2022, 11:50 am

That Blackwood does look interesting, and not merely re-printing pieces easily found elsewhere.

128semdetenebre
Editado: Abr 7, 2022, 9:37 am

Handheld Press has been publishing some excellent volumes of late nineteenth/early 20th century weird fiction:

https://www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/fantasy-and-science-fiction/strange-relics-...

129elenchus
Abr 7, 2022, 9:45 am

>128 semdetenebre:

The up-sell section has some interesting titles for consideration as DEEP ONES nominations, too.

British Weird: edited by James Machin, this collection of short supernatural fiction from 1981 to 1937 displays an unsettling mastery of Weird preoccupations.

The Villa and The Vortex, by Elinor Mordaunt: we bring this exceptionally good writer of Weird fiction back into print with this new anthology of her best supernatural writing.

The Outcast and The Rite, by the Australian writer Helen De Guerry Simpson, this collects the best of her unsettling supernatural writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric (to be published in May 2022).

From the Abyss, by D K Broster, a spectacularly good collection of the Weird short fiction that this very popular historical novelist wrote alongside her fiction of the eighteenth century (to be published in August 2022).

130semdetenebre
Editado: Jul 1, 2022, 1:12 pm

6/14/22 blog post from S.T. Joshi:

"I am thrilled to note that Black Wings VII: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror has now been completed and sent to the publisher (PS Publishing). I believe it is one of the most notable volumes in the set, with a number of distinctive stories. Here is the table of contents:

Introduction S. T. Joshi
The Resonances Ramsey Campbell
Er Lasst Sich Nicht Lesen Steven Woodworth
How Curwen Got His Hundred Years Jonathan Thomas
The Pit of G’narrh Donald R. Burleson
Open Adoption Ann K. Schwader
The Lime Kiln Geoffrey Reiter
Father Thames David Hambling
Who Killed Augustus Bourbaki? Aditya Dwarkesh
Can We Keep Him? Darrell Schweitzer
The Things We Do Not See Steve Rasnic Tem
Global Warming Katherine Kerestman
A Very Old Song Mark Howard Jones
Deception Island Nancy Kilpatrick
And the Devil Hath Power John Shirley
The Amber Toad Donald Tyson
An Elemental Infestation Mark Samuels
With Eyes Opened Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Notes on Contributors

I hardly need to point out the inclusion of Ramsey Campbell at the head of the volume. I was in fact unaware that he was even working on such a story, but it arrived without warning a few weeks ago—and it is a dandy! All the other contributions are powerful. The story by my fellow Indian Aditya Dwarkesh is to be noted. This is the first of his tales to be accepted for professional publication, and I hope Dwarkesh (a resident of Calcutta, of which his tale provides a striking glimpse) does more good work in the future."

http://stjoshi.org/news2022.html

131RandyStafford
Jul 2, 2022, 3:01 pm

Looks good with my favorites of Hambling, Samuels, and Schwader.

132SolerSystem
Sep 6, 2022, 9:30 am

Conversation Tree Press has announced a series of 20 volumes of fine press weird fiction to be curated by S.T. Joshi: https://conversationtreepress.com/blogs/news/weird-fiction-st-joshi-letterpress?...

133elenchus
Sep 6, 2022, 9:34 am

>132 SolerSystem:

Promising, and the names are tantalizing if expected. For me, it will come down to the specific editions: cost, production value, selection.

134paradoxosalpha
Editado: Sep 6, 2022, 10:28 am

I'd say I'm most interested in the Dunsany, where most of my collection is Ballantine Adult Fantasy mass-market paperbacks nearly as old as I am. (I already have Joshi-edited Machen and Lovecraft, the latter in AH hardcover.) I know that Joshi has been working on Dunsany for years now, but if he's had anything reach print, I've missed it.

135TheRingshifter
Sep 6, 2022, 1:22 pm

>134 paradoxosalpha:

There's this from 2004: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/289607/in-the-land-of-time-by-lord-duns...

That series sounds really nice but will probably be too expensive for me (especially considering it's a US company).

Sounds a little like similar territory to Centipede Press's Masters of the Weird Tale and Library of Weird Fiction series. I guess price/quality-wise it will be more like the former, but more like the latter in terms of choices of authors and S. T. Joshi intros/editing.

136MobyRichard
Editado: Sep 6, 2022, 1:33 pm

Sounds a bit utopian. I can barely think of any letterpress outfit that's managed to get to the 20 book mark...even those that do, it seems like it's 10 or 20 years down the line.

I emphasize the "letterpress" part. While I love Centipede Press, it's not comparable. The labor costs alone will be enormous.

137paradoxosalpha
Sep 6, 2022, 2:00 pm

>135 TheRingshifter:

Ah! Looks pretty good too. Penguin's weird list has really made strides in the 21st century.

138TheSundayNews
Editado: Sep 7, 2022, 12:40 am

>132 SolerSystem:
Gosh, I own so many of them in Omnibus format already.

Oh well, can't wait for more.

139semdetenebre
Editado: Nov 9, 2022, 6:54 pm

Just received the 400-page Weird Fiction Review No. 12 from Centipede Press. It's an especially fine issue for me due to a feature by Darrel Schweitzer on Weirdbook publisher W. Paul Ganley, along with a huge amount of Stephen Fabian artwork. Seeing that B&W Weirdbook-esque cover sure brings back a lot of good memories!

Tons of other great stuff in it, too. Find it here: https://www.centipedepress.com/anthologies/wfreview12.html

140semdetenebre
Editado: Nov 9, 2022, 6:39 pm

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141semdetenebre
Dic 14, 2022, 12:01 pm

I almost passed on the Centipede Press edition of MAYNARD'S HOUSE, Herman Raucher's 1980 haunted cabin novel set in the snowy depths of the Maine wilderness. After all, Raucher was the author of the mega-nostalgic bestseller SUMMER OF '42, so how well could this possibly fly? Luckily, the publisher gave me an "are you sure you don't want this?" nudge and I took him up on it. The novel turns out to be a fine psychological ghost story with unexpected twists and a finish that features one of the ghasliest, Weirdest scenes I've run across in a long time. A winner!

Centipede Press still has copies available. https://www.centipedepress.com/horror/maynardshouse.html

142RandyStafford
Feb 23, 2023, 11:58 pm

Not exactly on topic, but next month Black Coat Press is releasing The Illustrated Shambleau. In 1955, French magazine V published a translation of Moore's story with illustrations by Jean-Claude Forest. He would later go on to create Barbarella.

https://blackcoatpress.com/forthcoming-the-illustrated-shambleau.html

143housefulofpaper
Mar 9, 2023, 8:02 pm

I received the latest publication from Sarob Press this week, The Faces at Your Shoulder. It's a collection of stories by Steve Duffy, including the Deep Ones selection for 29 March, "The Oram County Whoosit". Copies still available, according to the publisher's website.



144housefulofpaper
Mar 15, 2023, 8:44 pm

The H P Lovecraft Historical Society has produced another - the third, I think - scholarly monograph from Miskatonic University. This one records the 1920 discovery of part of Kitab-Al-Azif, with some historical background, a brief account of the dig, and the story of Professor Henry Armitage's identification of the text as the original Arabic version of the Necronomicon.




145semdetenebre
Mar 30, 2023, 10:13 am

Posted the following over on my FB page:

Artist Allen Koszowski's DREAMS FROM THE DARK SIDE is just out in a beautifully designed (and thick!) volume from Centipede Press. I think it's the 5th of their art books in this line. If you have any 80s-on-up small press horror books or magazines in your collection, you no doubt have some of Koszowski's eldritch nasties lurking about in its darker non-Euclydian spaces. Have to mention the chuckle I had at author Ramsey Campbell's use of "How Awesome About Allen" as the TV horror play-on-words title to his introduction. More art in the link.
https://www.centipedepress.com/art/allenkoszowski.html

146SolerSystem
Abr 26, 2023, 6:44 am

A couple upcoming releases from Angel Bomb which I think might interest people here.



147semdetenebre
Editado: Jun 4, 2023, 5:48 pm