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June 2002 Catalog - Horror
* LADY STANHOPE'S MANUSCRIPT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL TALES edited by Barbara Roden - Ash Tree Tpb. This slim tradepaperback reprints the first publication ever produced by Ash-Tree press, in 1994. Then described as "a booklet of supernatural tales...ideal reading for those long winter nights", it contains 5 stories from Ghost Story Society members. The first printing of 150 quickly sold out and the title became one of the most sought after by Ash-Tree Press collectors. At last, it has been reprinted - and while some collector's won't be happy if they can't get a first edition (good luck!) - for those of us who want to read and enjoy the stories, this will be a fine addition to any library. 76 pages. ... $14.00
* AMAZING DREAMS OF ANDREW LATTER by Harold Begbie - Ash-Tree Press HC. Harold Begbie was much feared and respected as a hot tempered journalist in the early decades of the 20th century. Less well known were the six short stories he wrote for London Magazine about Andrew Latter, a person with the ability to travel to - and through - a dreamland where he is able to view the chain of events leading up to otherwise inexplicable occurances. Part mystery, part fantasy, part horror, this slim volume is the fourth in the Ash-Tree Press Occult Detectives series. 66 pages, limited to 500 copies. ... $30.00
* DARK INHERITANCE by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear - Warner pb. Jim is one of several scientists chosen to raise apes bred by the pharmeceutical giant SAC, and Umber has been part of his family for 13 years. She speaks in sign language, types, reads, and even contemplates god. But Umber is too intelligent to be pure bonobos - she is an "augmented" ape, similar to early hominids. So when SAC suddenly demands her return, Jim needs to find out why this new species was created... even if it takes him and his family to Africa, where the struggle to uncover secrets becomes a fight for survival. ... $8.00
also available: DARK INHERITANCE, HC ... $25.95
* THE OBJECT-LESSON by Edward Gorey - Harcourt HC. (1958) One of the most discontinuous of Gorey's short works, with intrigiung phrases and drawings that, from page to page, don't seem to connect together at all, and yet still draw us along. ... $12.00
* WOUNDS by Jemiah Jefferson - Leisure pb. Vampire, Daniel Blum, imagines himself the most ruthless, savage creature in New York City, if not the world. He once feasted on blood, and has left a string of shattered lovers behind him. But now the usual thrill of seduction and murder has begun to wear off. Until he meets Sybil, the strange former stripper whose mind is the first he's ever found that he cannot read or manipulate. ... $6.00
* NECROSCOPE AVENGERS by Brian Lumley - Tor pb. Conclusion to the War Against the Three. E-Branch has more on their plates than they can handle: the Lord and Lady of the Wamphyri have staked out a packed cruise ship as their hide-out and food source, the spore garder planted under London by the third Wamphyri brings a mysterious sleeping sickness to the population of Great Britain, and terrorists threaten the world with nuclear homicide. Meanwhile, Jake Cutter is going to need their help to rid himself of Korath, the vampire who's an intrusive passenger in his mind, and they're going to want to kill him to solve the problem. ... $8.00
* SHADOW DREAMS by Elizabeth Massie - Leisure pb. (1996) Meet the folks in Elizabeth Massie's world. They're normal, everday people, living mostly in small towns, growing up or growing old and handling all life's problems just like you and me. Except for one thing - these people are about to be touched by the cold shadow of fear, enveloped by a dark nightmare laced with dread. This chilling collection contains her best stories from the last ten years. ... $6.00
* RED CHURCH by Scott Nicholson - Pinnacle pb. The church was built in the 1860s by Reverend Wendell McFall. He declared the existence of God's Second Son-whose mission is to undo all of Jesus' works-and painted the church red to summon the First Son to defeat the Second. But when he sacrificed a child to support his rantind, his congregation hung him from the rafters of his own sanctuary. Decades passed, and the church has stood empty, crumbling to ruin. Now, Archer McFall has purchased the church to house his Temple of the Two Sons-whose zealous worshippers will stop at nothing to see the Second Son return to his rightful glory. ... $6.00
* THE DARKER SIDE: GENERATIONS OF HORROR edited by John Pelan - Roc pb. 27 original stories including "Ten Bucks Says You Won't" by Richard Laymon, "Pull" by Brain Hodge, "Mamishka and the Sorcerer" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, "Demon Me"by Simon Clark, "The Ocean" by Poppy Z. Brite, "The Plague Species" by Charlee Jacob, "Hell Came Down" by Tim Lebbon and work by Shikhar Dixit, Peter Crowther, Randy D. Ashburn, Brian Keene, Ann K. Schwader, Caitlin R. Kiernan and others. ... $7.00
* CABINET OF CURIOSITIES by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - Warner HC. In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery is made: an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozens of murder victims. Research reveals that a serial killer in the 1880's was bent on prolonging his lifespan by any means. When the news appears to ignite a new series of killings, New York City panics, and FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces. ... $25.95
* ALL THAT LIVES by Melissa Sander-Self - Warner HC. Based on one of the most famous supernatural legends in American History: the Bell Witch of Tennessee. For young Betsy Bell, coming of age in the early 1800s, life is a time of innocence. Prosperous and dedicatedly religious, her family seems a bulwark of society... until the night Betsy hears something tapping at her window. Disembodied voices and mysterious lights convince everyone that an unearthly force is haunting the Bell family, especially Betsy and her stern, hardworking father, John. As the spirit's assaults escalate into a nightmare, Betsy must confront the Bell Witch and uncover the deep, terrifying truths that her family members dare not face. ... $23.95
* MANHATTAN HUNT CLUB by John Saul - Ballantine pb. Jeff Converse is convicted of a brutal crime, and his life disappears. But he finds himself beneath the streets of Manhatten in a world full of the lost and forgotten. Except even here, there is a killer loose and Jeff must stop the killer to regain his life. ... $8.00
* COME TWILIGHT by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Tor Tpb. For the first time, Yarbro uses a novel to cover more than five hundred years of the Count Saint Germain's life, giving us an unparalleled view of his tempestuous relationship with his vampire get Csimenae, and her predatory policies towards the humans she sees as mere food. He watches in dismay as her short-sighted attitudes endanger not just her and her offspring, but all of vampirekind. ... $17.95
THE DEAD INN edited by Shane Ryan Stanley - Delirium Books HC. Delirium's first anthology features an Inn of contributors sharing three floors -- 1st floor: Gross Oddities; 2nd floor: Erotic Perversities; 3rd floor: Supernatural Entities. "Price for One Night's Stay : 1 story told by candlelight, chilled by the autumn air, if you can move the innkeeper tonight, a room he will surely spare!" - But when we first listed it in April, we had MOST incorrectly listed the price as $45.00, when the correct price is ... $25.00
*** "There were several new publishers that I met at the World Horror Convention, so along with their most recent publications I picked up a few copies each of some of their backlist. We're a little tight for space here, so I'm only listing some of the contents of the older stuff - but if you have internet access, you can read a slightly longer version at www.sfbooks.com (June catalog)."
* DARK REALMS VOL. 1 #6 - Articles about the ancient artifact The Crystal Skull, on the television show The Twilight Zone, on the signs of the Zodiac and on vampire killers through the ages. Artists' spotlight on Amy Brown, an interview with the band Die My Darling and short story "Share" by Andrew Cohen along with tons of book, music and movie reviews. ... $6.00
also available:
DARK REALMS VOL. 1 #5 ... $6.00
DARK REALMS VOL. 1 #4 ... $6.00
DARK REALMS VOL. 1 #3 ... $6.00
DARK REALMS VOL 1 #2 ... $6.00
* MORBID CURIOSITY ISSUE #6 2002 - Dark, macabre and disturbing non-fiction articles on a tremendous variety of subjects. This issue includes Medical Experiments, Hallucinating Naturally, Suicidal Boyfriends, Getting Mugged, Buying a Gun, Occult Shops, Ghosts, Skinning Roadkill, Racism in the Family, Haunted Houses and much more. ... $6.00
also available:
MORBID CURIOSITY #5 2001 ... $6.00
MORBID CURIOSITY #4 2000 ... $5.50
MORBID CURIOSITY #3 1999 ... $5.50
"Quixote Press is a small publisher that's focused on collecting the ghost story related folk tales of several specific areas in the American Mid-West. Their most recent publication is a straight-forward ghost story novel, which still draws very heavily on the actual places and occurances of the region."
* KEEPERS OF THE RIVER by Keith Schulz - Quixote Press Tpb. Bruders Landing seemed to be a quaint river town in the bluffs of the Upper Mississippi, until five people stumble across the town's dark secret, kept for 50 years by two aging residents. It's up to an ex-Chicago policeman, an undertaker, two cousins and a steamboat passenger to face the danger of the past. 510 pgs. ... $19.95
* GHOSTS OF DOOR COUNTY WISCONSIN by Geri Rider - Quixote Press Tpb. Geri Rider put her close and personal knowledge of her home county to use in this collection of tales of strange sightings, odd happenings and spiritual mysteries gather from all over the county. 186 pgs. ... $9.95
* GHOSTS OF THE IOWA GREAT LAKES by Bruce Carlson - Quixote Press Tpb. These stories of ghosts in the Great Lakes region of Iowa cover the period from 1893 to 1942, gathered from the people that live there, many of whom personally experienced these events. Names have been changed in a few cases where it would cause embarassment to living people. 174 pgs. ... $9.95
* GHOSTLY TALES OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA by Ruth D. Hein - Quixote Press Tpb. 26 stories of ghosts, frights and oddities gathered from the Southwest Minnesota area, ranging from the pioneer days to the here-and-now, from cemeteries, abandoned buildings and ghost towns to thriving cities. 173 pgs. ... $9.95
* BEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER GHOSTS by Bruce Carlson - Quixote Press Tpb. Tales from all up and down the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, some as early as the 1880s, some as late as 1985, wiht the common theme of strange happenings, odd observations and the repeated conviction that there's more to this world than we see in our day-to-day lives. 182 pgs. ... $9.95
* GHOSTS OF THE AMANA COLONIES by Lori Erickson - Quixote Press Tpb. The Amana colonies in the Iowa river valley were first settled by a group from the Ebenezar settlement near Buffalo New York, and initially continued their communal way of life. Gradually moving to being a profit-sharing corporation in the mid 1930's, this community retained a unique sense of shared purpose which colors their experiences and their ghost stories. 151 pgs. ... $9.95
* GHOSTS OF POLK COUNTY by Tom
Welch - Quixote Press Tpb. Polk County, Iowa is just the sort of community
that might accumulate ghost stories. A mix of rustic and developing, with
a history that reaches back before the formation of this nation. Tom Welch
has collected up these tales, changing names only when requested by the
people telling their stories. 166 pgs. ...$9.95
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