box of sf magazines

A box of old SF magazines, Galaxy and Imagination mostly from the 50s, labeled in poor condition on the box, kept getting in the way. Finally brought it upstairs, cleaned up half of them a little bit, and took their covershots.

word from Darkside!

Email rec'd:

The Feaster from Afar

Volume 1 in the Selected Weird Tales

Of

Joseph Payne Brennan

SHIPPING NOW!!!

Joseph Payne Brennan was the last of the great Weird Tales authors as well as an accomplished poet, editor, and publisher. When Weird Tales folded just as Brennan was coming into his own as a master of the supernatural tale Brennan’s main market for his fiction disappeared. Throughout the next few years Brennan launched a one-man crusade to keep the Weird Tales tradition alive in the pages of his small-press magazine Macabre. Published infrequently and run on a shoestring budget, Macabre still did a fine job of carrying the flag for stories of the weird and uncanny. In addition to work by other authors familiar to Arkham House and Weird Tales devotees, much of Brennan’s own poetry and prose appeared in its pages.

In the 1970s and 1980s there was a renewed interest in Brennan’s fiction with a new collection from Arkham House, volumes collecting his Lucius Leffing tales of detection, and even a mass-market paperback with an introduction by no less than Stephen King. However, for over twenty years, most of Brennan’s fiction has been out of print. This is a situation we are pleased to be able to rectify. This is the first of four volumes that will collect all of his supernatural and macabre fiction in a matching set.

word from an author

Email rec'd:
TIME FOR A LAUGH

THE FUNNIEST STORY OF THE YEAR!!

MOBILE TREK (Because In Space No One Can Hear You Dial), A funny, zany, off-the-wall lampoon of Sci-Fi and call centres for anyone who ever worked in a call centre or had to phone one and thought they were connected to some spacecraft in the distant future. USS Cellforce 1 is an intergalactic mobile phone call centre, in which Captain Pilchard battles other networks for communications supremacy. Assisted by Rasta, a comically insane android, an incomprehensible Scottish engineer, and Goanna the ship’s councillor and Groucho Marx impersonator, he dreams of retiring to his ferret farm in Edinburgh.

The first in an intended series.

Available in paperback from bookorder@eloquentbooks.com

ISBN 978-1-60693-356-5

RRP US$9.95

Regards, Douglas Rea, author.

word from Necro

Another big, gaudy email from Necro:

PRE-ORDER NOW!!! COMING IN LATE JANUARY 2009!

FREE LIMITED EDITION EDWARD LEE CHAPBOOK WHEN YOU PRE-ORDER INFERNALLY YOURS FROM NECRO OR EDWARDLEEONLINE.COM CITY OF SIXES IS LIMITED TO ONLY 250 COPIES, SIGNED & NUMBERED AND ONLY AVAILABLE FROM NECRO PUBLICATIONS. "CITY OF SIXES" IS A SECTION OF THE NEW EDWARD LEE SHORT NOVEL, THE SENARY, APPEARING IN INFERNALLY YOURS

An All New Anthology Based on Edward Lee's Vision of Hell Edited and Illustrated by Gak With an all new short novel, THE SENARY, by Edward Lee And featuring all original short fiction from: • John Shirley • John Everson • Brian Keene • Charlee Jacob • Maynard and Sims • Gerard Houarner • Bryan Smith [ Hardcover ] Signed & Numbered Limited to 400 Copies $50 PRE-ORDER [ Deluxe ] Signed & Lettered Limited to 13 Copies Bonus Beastiary Book, Traycase, Color Artwork & More $200 PRE-ORDER

COMING IN LATE JANUARY 2009

Okay, here is the announcement I've been planning on making for a while. Here's what I have coming up for Necro & Bedlam for next couple of months: INFERNALLY YOURS edited and illustrated by Gak An all new anthology based on the vision of Hell created by Edward Lee for his Infernal series. Includes an all new short novel by Edward Lee, THE SENARY. And all original fiction from the best names in modern horror. [click here to pre-order] ••Pre-order now and get a free, extremely limited Edward Lee chapbook •• THE MINOTAURESS Trade Paperback by Edward Lee [click here to pr-order] THE FALLEN by David G. Barnett [click here for more info] GOLEM Hardcover by Edward Lee [info to come] THE 13th Hardcover by John Everson [info to come] GHOULS Hardcover by Edward Lee [info to come] BLOOD OF KILLERS Hardcover & Trade Paperback by Gerard Houarner [info to come] That's the list for now, but there's plenty of other projects I should be announcing in the coming weeks. 2009 is going to be a huge year for Necro/Bedlam as well as Fat Cat Design since I'm planning on doing all this full-time for now.

word from Pyr

Email rec'd:

We released this news today. I have attached the link below and also in text format for your reference:

http://pyrsf.blogspot.com/2008/11/prometheus-books-enters-mass-market.html

Please contact me if you have questions or if you need to order!

Best wishes,
Marcia Rogers

Director of Special Sales

Prometheus Books / Pyr

www.prometheusbooks.com

www.pyrsf.com

word from Gauntlet

Email rec'd:

Gauntlet Press has assembled He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, a spectacular anthology of original, never-before published stories by today's best writers -- stories set in Richard Matheson's own fictional universes, and published with Mr. Matheson's complete cooperation for publication in February 2009.
And, among the many contributions to the book, is the first collaboration ever between Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, the novella "Throttle" -- their take on Matheson's classic "Duel." This is, obviously, a once-in-a-lifetime publishing event, as it's father and son's first collaboration. Both Stephen King and Joe Hill will be signing both the numbered and lettered editions.
Other contributors to this anthology, edited by Christopher Conlon, include F. Paul Wilson, Joe Lansdale, Whitley Strieber, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan, Gary Braunbeck, Thomas Monteleone, John Shirley and an introduction by Ramsey Campbell

And, as an added bonus, He Is Legend features the original full-length screenplay "Conjure Wife" -- over 20,000 never-before published words by Richard Matheson himself, in collaboration with the late Charles Beaumont that was filmed as "Burn, Witch Burn."
Cover art and six interior illustrations by Matheson's favorite artist Harry O. Morris.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Matheson the Master by Ramsey Campbell
Tale Inspired by “Duel”: Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King
Sequel to “The Distributor”: Recalled by F. Paul Wilson
Prequel to I Am Legend: I Am Legend, Too by Mick Garris
Sequel to Somewhere in Time: Two Shots from Fly’s Photo Gallery by John Shirley
Variation on The Shrinking Man: The Diary of Louise Carey by Thomas F. Monteleone
Sequel to “Born of Man and Woman”: She Screech Like Me by Michael A. Arnzen
Sequel to “Button, Button”: Everything of Beauty Taken from You in This Life Remains Forever by Gary

Braunbeck
Sequel to Someone is Bleeding: The Case of Peggy Ann Lister by John Maclay

Sequel to “The Children of Noah”: Zachry Revisited by William F. Nolan
Tale Inspired by “The Finishing Touches”: Comeback by Ed Gorman
Variation on “Disappearing Act”: An Island Unto Himself by Barry Hoffman
Tale Inspired by “Legion of Plotters”: Venturi by Richard Christian Matheson
Sequel to “Prey”: Quarry by Joe R. Lansdale
Prequel to Hell House: Return to Hell House by Nancy A. Collins
Tale Inspired by Collected Stories: Cloud Rider by Whitley Strieber

…And an Original Screenplay: Conjure Wife by Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont

We have a 400-copy unsigned hardcover limited edition of the book available.

aol downsizing

---I don't know what's going on, but I know that AOL is shucking its blog and homepage functions. Someone sent me a link to my old AOL page, which I'd forgotten how to modify or update, three days before the thing went kaput. I tried the link today, four days after it went away. I wouldn't have thought it would still be extant but still I kind of lament its passing without my taking the opportunity to transfer the contents somewhere, if only to my auxiliary hard-drive. Probably all the info is here somewhere but possibly in a form no longer supported by whatever update of software I am now using. How long before AOL gets rid of its email service too? What would be left then of AOL? Maybe nothing. Well at least I've jumped to gmail and google. I wonder how these can be viable business models as well, but I guess time will tell...