Saturday, September 20, 2008

word from Hippocampus

One of these days I will take steps to get on top of some orders I know I need to be sending out. To whit:
Here are our four most recent releases! Two collections of new fiction from Ramsey Campbell and Jonathan Thomas, a second printing of The Place Called Dagon with new cover art sure to attract attention, plus the latest issue of Lovecraft Annual. Please advise quantities desired.
 
INCONSEQUENTIAL TALES
By Ramsey Campbell
Paperback: ISBN 978-0-9793806-6-2: $15.00: 248 pp
Ramsey Campbell is the most distinguished and highly acclaimed writer of horror and supernatural fiction of our time. In more than a score of novels and hundreds of stories, Campbell has demonstrated mastery in every facet of the weird tale. This volume gathers tales, written over a period of more tha n thirty years, that have not yet been included in any of Campbell’s dozen or more short story collections. Among them are such dark jewels of the supernatural as “The Reshaping of Rossiter,” an early version of the celebrated tale “The Scar”; “Broadcast,” which invests terror in a microphone; “Writer’s Curse,” in which horror writing itself is made a subject of terror; “Murders,” a bizarre mix of horror and science fiction; “Snakes and Ladders,” a powerfully cosmic vignette that served as an early version of “Playing the Game.” Also included are two previously unpublished tales, “The Precognitive Trip” and “Pet.” Campbell’s distinctive vision, fecund imagination, and meticulous prose shine through every sentence, making the slightest of these tales a literary treasure.
  
MIDNIGHT CALL AND OTHER STORIES
By Jonathan Thomas
Foreword by S. T. Joshi
Paperback: ISBN 0979380693: $15.00: 260 pp
An artist is summoned to paint the portrait of sinister Mr. Finster in a decaying mansion . . . A suburban couple is vexed by the inveterate lawn-mowing of a ghost . . . In ice-bound Vermont, one farmer’s crop is suspiciously bountiful . . . A miniature nymph is found swimming in an office water cooler . . . These are the bizarre conceptions of Jonathan Thomas, a powerful new writer of weird, horrific, and supernatural fiction who introduces himself to the reading public with this rich and varied short story collection. Thomas is, however, a practiced hand at terror-weaving, and his work spans the spectrum from comic fantasy to psychological suspense to science fiction. Unifying all his tales is a prose style of singular fluency and grace, enlivened by keen observation and mordant satire.
  
THE PLACE CALLED DAGON
by Herbert Gorman
Lovecraft’s Library series – second printing
Paperback: ISBN 9780972164436: $15.00: 188 pp
Featuring fantastic new cover art and interior illustratons by Allen Koszowski!  H. P. Lovecraft spoke highly of The Place Called Dagon (1927) in Supernatural Horror in Literature, and for good reason. It uncannily reflects many of the themes in Lovecraft’s own fiction, and probably influenced his "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "The Dreams in the Witch House." This novel, whose very title is Lovecraftian, has waited too long to find a new generation of readers, but is now reprinted here uncut and unabridged, with an introduction by leading Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi and Gorman expert Larry Creasy.
 
LOVECRAFT ANNUAL No. 2 (2008)
Edi ted by S. T. Joshi
ISSN 1935-6102
Paperback: ISBN 978-0-9814888-6-8: $15.00: 215 pp
This latest issue of new scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft features a lengthy article on astronomical motifs in Lovecraft’s horror fiction, as well as an examination of “The Rats in the walls” by Robert Waugh, author of the critical anthology The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft. Other fascinating research on Lovecraft and his works is included along with reviews of relevant new publications from all sources, and notices of upcoming events in the Lovecraft community. **Please note that in addition to its overall ISSN, each issue of Lovecraft Annual will now have an ISBN, which will change from year to year.

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