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May 2002 Catalog - Horror ( and Horror Anthologies)
* SINISTER ROMANCE by Mary Hanson Vorse - Ash-Tree Press HC. Mary Hanson Vorse (1874-1966) was an important voice arguing for the rights of women and the workers of America, as well as an admired writer of short fiction. Editor Jessica Amanda Salmonson has gathered here all of her supernatural works, tales that tell of "the quiet horrors of the heart" as Jane Yolen says in her introduction. ... $40.00
* FINGERS OF FEAR by J. U. Nicolson - Midnight House HC. A tale of madness, hauntings, murder and possible lycanthropy in what might well be the last of the great Gothic supernatural novels. First published in 1937, this edition includes a bibliography of Nicolson's work, an introduction from editor Douglas A. Anderson, and is limited to 450 numbered copies. ...$40.00
* CRIMSON NIGHT by Trisha Baker - Pinnacle pb. Meghann O'Neill thought she had more than enough strength to defy the monster that had turned her into a vampire more than 40 years ago - after all, she'd been living on her own in the human world for decades. But she finds that old relationships are far more complex than expected, and now that she's pregnant maternal protectiveness joins with personal horror to bring her a whole new outlook on life. ... $6.00
CRIMSON KISS by Trisha Baker - Pinnacle pb. (2001) Meghann O'Neill is a psychologist who treats victims of abusive relationships. She is also a vampire - and had for many years suffered the cruelty of the man who had turned her. Over 30 years ago she left him staked on a roof with dawn approaching. He survived and has now returned, but he'll find the servant has changed a lot. ... $6.00
* HIS FATHER'S SON: KEEPER OF THE KING #2 by Nigel Bennett & P. N. Elrod - Baen pb. An intricate tale of the adventures of Richard d'Orleans, an immortal vampire who has learned to live in (relative) peace with his human neighbors and friends. Now he is confronted with enemies of a strange and unusual origin. Interspersed throughout the novel are historical vignettes from Richard's past, including one of his being Sir Lancelot to King Arthur himself. ... $7.00
also available: KEEPER OF THE KING, pb ... $7.00
* COLLECTED GHOST STORIES OF E. F. BENSON by E. F. Benson - Carroll & Graf Tpb. Edited by Richard Darby, this collections of over 50 classics of the macabre brings together all of E. F. Benson's frightening literary ghost stories. 672 pages. ... $14.00
* MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO by Janet Berliner & George Guthridge - Meisha Merlin Tpb. An omnibus collection of CHILD OF THE LIGHT, CHILD OF THE JOURNEY and the Bram Stoker Award winner (for Superior Achievment in a Novel) CHILD OF THE DUSK. ... $20.00
also available: MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO, HC ... $40.00
* BURYING THE SHADOW by Storm Constantine - Meisha Merlin Tpb. Humans and the artistic, immortal eloim have contentedly cohabitated for eons. But as a phenomenon known as the Fear begins to infect the eloim, causing despair and death, the search begins for a Tappish soulscaper proficient enough to enter the radical soulscape of the eloim, to track down the cause of the fear and eradicate it. ... $16.00
* MORE THAN MORTAL: FEASTING #3 by Mick Farren - Tor pb. Victor Renquist, centuries-old master of a Los Angeles colony of nosferatu, has been drawn to England by an old flame, Columbine. Near her home a group of archeologists are excavating an old burial mound and are about to uncover not some long-dead warrior, but a dangerous being from the nosferatu past - once known as the Merlin. Now Renquist and his allies must decide whether to kill the Merlin before he comes to full power - with enormous implications for both the nosferatu and all humankind. ... $7.00
A WALKING TOUR OF THE SHAMBLES by Gene Wolfe and Neil Gaiman - American Fantasy Tpb. In the vein of Charles Addams and Edward Gorey, the authors take us on a tour through a neighborhood in Chicago, The Shambles...and well, The Shambles is not quite the normal Chicago neighborhood. It's a place filled with magic and maniacs, and our authors are the perfect Tour Guides. 64 pages long, with illustrations by Randy Broecker and Earl Geier.... $15.00
* MATERNAL INSTINCT by J. F. Gonzalez - Delirium Tpb. A romantic getaway turns into a nightmare on the open highway. A normal woman is held captive, torn from her husband and deposited into the seedy underworld of illegal pornography and snuff films, a world she never knew existed. Now she is a the fight for two lives: hers and the child she and her husband had been trying so desperately to conceive. ... $15.95
* MATERNAL INSTINCT by J. F. Gonzalez - Delirium HC. Limited to 150 numbered copies, and Signed by the Author and illustrator Matt Lombard. ...$45.00
* ONCE by James Herbert - Tor HC. Chronicles a stroke victim, Thom Kindred. Kindred travels to the land he spent his childhood in while waiting for his own demise. While there, Kindred discovers an evil presence that reminds him of his childhood friend. Kindred's last days are spent trying to figure out the seperation between real and imaginary, dreams and nightmares, and danger mixed with norm. ... $26.95
* THE BLUES AIN'T NOTHIN' by Tina L. Jens - Design Image Tpb. Ramble on up to the Chicago North Side, where you'll feel the twelve-bar blues beat vibrating right through you. Welcome to the Lonesome Blues Pub where the sign on the door says it all: "This club is haunted. If you're afraid of ghosts, go away." Grab a stool by the bar, toss back a cool one and join Miss Mustang, the Lonesome Blues proprietor, and a colorfully quirky cast of neighborhood regulars and the ghosts of blues legends both real and imagined. ... $15.95
* TALES OF PAIN AND WONDER by Caitlin R. Kiernan - Meisha Merlin Tpb. At last! An available, affordable edition of an extremely popular short story collection. Stories range from truely horrific to hauntingly thought-provoking. Includes "Anamorphosis", "A Story for Edward Gorey" and 19 other stories, with an introduction by Douglas E, Winter, interior illustrations by Richard Kirk and a cover by Naoto Hattori. And, thanks to WHC2002, Signed by the Author! ...$16.00
* IN THE GARDEN OF POISONOUS FLOWERS by Caitlín R. Kiernan - Subterranean Press HC. Late one night, on a lonely south Georgia highway, a very strange car picks up an even stranger hitchhiker. Meet Dancy Flammarion, an orphaned albino girl who talks to angels and is intent on ridding the world of monsters. But what happens when one of the monsters decides to use her for his own dark ends? Signed by the Author (until we run out of the copies from WHC2002). ... $20.00
AS THE SUN GOES DOWN by Tim Lebbon - Night Shade Books HC. (2001) This spine-tingling collection of Tim Lebbon's short stories is the first US release for the acclaimed British author. His stories range from pure psychological suspense and terror, to overtly supernatural thrillers, to science fiction and fantasy. A must read for fans of quality short fiction, and now our copies are Signed by the Author! ... $25.00
* CITY INFERNAL by Edward Lee - Leisure pb. Separated from her friends,torn from her life in the city's underground, and now facing her sister's suicide, Cassie needs an escape. And when she arrives in an old, southern antebellum house she finds a door straight into Lucifer's domain. But, as human civilization has progressed in the last 5000 years, so has Hell. No longer pits of fire and sulphur, Hell is a burgeoning metropolis full of systemized evil, atrocity as the status quo, and a most diabolical government. ... $6.00
also available: CITY INFERNAL, HC Limited Edition ... $40.00 No Discount
* SEX, DRUGS AND POWER TOOLS by Edward Lee - Necro Publications HC. A collection of three novellas from an author who puts the "X" in extreme horror. HEADER (1995) and THE PIG (1997) have both been very hard to find since their initial small press printings. THE HORN-CRANKER is new for this collection. Limited to 300 copies and Signed by the Author. ... $45.00
* YEAR ZERO by Jeff Long - Pocket HC. Plague, the end of mankind, the cloning of humans from 2000 years ago (courtesy of a wealth of bone fragments from that time), and the strife of a dedicated archeologist facing the fine line between research and descecration - an over-the-top plot line that sheer storytelling skill makes plausible. ... $25.00
* WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED by Kim Newman - Alchemy Press HC. Gathers together and reprints the four short works from Dark Voices 5 & 6 and Dark terrors 1 & 2. Illustrated by Sylvia Starshine and our own Randy Broecker, with a introduction by Peter Atkins. Limited to 500 copies and signed by all four contributors. Just a couple of copies available. ... $30.00
* DARK DEMONS by Kurt Newton - Delirium Tpb. Contains 16 short stories of obession, possesion and unatural desire, with an introduction by Michael Arnzen. ... $15.95
* DARK DEMONS by Kurt Newton - Delirium HC. Limited to 150 numbered copies, and Signed by Newton, Arnzen and illustrator Duncan Long. ... $45.00
* DIARY OF ELLEN RIMBAUER: MY LIFE AT ROSE RED by Joyce Readrdon - Hyperion pb. At the turn of the century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. Her experiences at Rose Red later lead Joyce Reardon to head a study on parapsychic phenomena, as seen in Stephen King's Rose Red. ... $7.00
* IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE by Wendy Corsi Staub - Pinnacle pb. In the town of Lily Dale, NY, an unspeakable evil resides in Ten Summer Street, the house where her best friend Kristin has witnessed a horrifying event that changed her life forever. When Kristin's blind six-year-old daughter comes to live there, Julie takes the little girl under her wing and becomes determined to expose the secrets that lurk within the house. ... $7.00
* SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT by Melanie Tem - Leisure pb. Leila, a woman who is only able to see the world in colors and shapes due to her near blindness, is plunged into a world of terror when she is kidnapped by Russell, a man who believes that her blindness is caused by the evil that lurks within her heart - and will stop at nothing to cleanse her soul. ... $6.00
* BAD THINGS by Tamara Thorne - Pinnacle pb. When Rick Piper returns home to start a new life after the death of his wife, he discovers that the "greenjacks," the tiny demons who had tormented him throughout his childhood, really do exist now they are after his children, plunging them all into a world of terror. ... $6.00
* GARDENS OF LUCULLUS by Richard L. Tierney & Glenn Rahman - Sidecar Preservation Society Tpb. Simon of Gitta has long fought against the mad emperors of Rome, but when the sorcerer is at last brought to bay, Rome discovers to its dismay that it faces such eldritch horrors that only Simon's power in league with Rome might stem the tide. ...$15.95
* A TASTE OF BLOOD WINE by Freda Warrington - Meisha Merlin Tpb. Vampire Karl von Wultendorf is completely under the power of his maker, Kristian, who demands total servitude. But when Karl meets and falls in love with Charlotte, a wall flower of British society and the daughter of a Cambridge professor, he must find a way to kill Kristian before Kirstian kills Charlotte. ... $16.00
* BOOK OF EIBON edited by Robert M. Price - Chaosium Tpb. A fat (400 pg) collection of Cthulhu Mythos source material, with articles and stories from Lin Carter, Clark Ashton Smith, Laurence J. Cornford, Richard L. Tierney and many more - the Contents listing alone runs for four pages. Divided into five Parts: Histories of the Elder Magi, Episodes of Eibon of Mhu Thulan, Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom, Psalms of the Silent and the Eibonic Rituals, with an introduction by editor Robert M. Price. An invaluable addition to any Lovecraftian collection. ... $17.95
* CRYPT OF CTHULHU #105 - This issue includes the short story "Night of Samhain" by Carlos Orsi Martinho - translated from Portugese, as well as articles from many of our Lovecraftian favorites, R.E. Howard & C.J. Henderson, John Shire, J.G.W. Russell, and more! ... $4.50
HORROR ANTHOLOGIES
"Ok, normally I don't pull these out into their own section, but the sheer volume of new collections this month encouraged me to highlight them." - Alice
* MEDDLING WITH GHOSTS edited by Ramsey Campbell - British Library HC. M. R. James masterfully established the traditon of the ghost story almost 100 years ago. His subtle depiction of ghostly menace in everyday surroundings, often ambiguous until a swift and terrible climax, created a style both admired and emulated by other writers of supernatural fiction. This ghostly collection ranges from authors who had an influence on James, with stories like "The Familiar" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu and "Glámer" by Sabine Baring-Gould, through his contemporaries, such as Perceval Landon and T. G. Jackson, to his successors, including "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber, "Petey" by T. E. D. Klein and "Two Returns" by Terry Lamsley. With an especially nice bibliography by Rosemary Pardoe. ... $29.95
* BOOK OF ALL FLESH edited by James Lowder - Eden Studios Tpb. Contains more than two dozen original tales of zombie horror, including works from such renowned chroniclers of fantastic terror as C. Dean Andersson, Ed Greenwood, Robert E. Vardeman, Scott Edelman, Robin D. Laws, and Matt Forbeck. ... $15.95
* DEAD CATS BOUNCING edited by Gerard Houarner & GAK - Bedlam Press Tpb. All new antholgy based on the 2000 Stoker Finalist chapbook written by Gerald Houarner and Illustrated by GAK. All orginal fiction based on the adventures of Dead Cat. Each story is fully illustrated. Stories by: Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Gerald Houarner, Tom Piccirlli, Linda Addison, John Skipp, Yvonne Navarro, Terry McGarry, Paul Di Filippo, Chalee Jacob, David Niall Wilson, Gene O'Neil, Brian Keene, and Mick Farren. Numbered, limited edition signed by all authors. ... $13.95
* EXCITABLE BOYS edited by Kelly Laymon - Freak Press Tpb. A compilation of short stories gathered from or inspired by the World Horror Convention Gross-Out Contest, where writers pick out their most objectionable, most extreme examples of horror writing and perform them in front of an appreciative (sometimes inebriated) audience. Includes "Good Care" by Rain Graves, "The Constipated Cannibal" by Michael McCarty, "The McCrath Model SS40-C series S" by Ed Lee, "Full of It" by Brian Keene as well as stories by Mark McLaughlin, Gavin Williams, Ryan Harding and Geoff Cooper. Copies are signed by six of the authors. ... $12.00
* TALES FROM THE DARK TOWER
edited by Joseph Vargo and Christine Filipak - Monolith Graphics
HC. Using the paintings of Joseph Vargo as inspiration, this
collection of 13 tales include stories by Eric Muss-Barnes, James
Pipik, Russell Norotny, Robert Michaels, Jalone J. Haessig and
others as well as fiction by Joseph Vargo and Christine Filipak
themselves. ... $24.95
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