---Word from Gauntlet:

Gauntlet Press is pleased to announce that Jack Ketchum's classic novel HIDE & SEEK is now going to press for a November release.. This will be an affordable trade paperback editions. All other editions are long sold out. Ketchum adds a unique afterword to the book. Rather than a "How-I-decided-to-write-the-book" approach, Ketchum penned a story of the girl who helped inspire the book. Publishers Weekly praised the book when it was first published as follows . . .

" In the early 1980s, Ketchum (the pseudonym of Dallas Mayr) published in paperback as gruesome and taut a horror novel as anyone had seen: Off Season. Perhaps because of the outrage the book engendered, Ketchum's second novel, Hide and Seek, received little support from its publisher when it appeared in mass market in 1984. That's a shame, not only because Mayr's career nose-dived commercially after that (though he's still writing and publishing), but because Hide and Seek is a good novel, strong and true, scary yet uplifting in the classic horror manner. Set during summer in the Maine coastal town of Dead River, the book divides into two parts. In the first, the narrator, local young man Dan, meets visiting college kids Casey, Kim and Steven; engages in some drinking and daring with them; falls for beautiful, wild Casey (they have sex in a graveyard) and learns what impels her to take risks: years ago, she was sexually abused by her fatherAabuse that led to the death of her younger brother. The book's second part provides the payoff to that meandering but tantalizing setup. In it, the quartet agrees to play hide-and-seek in a local haunted house. The game soon turns frightening, then deadly, as the four encounter the house's horrid inhabitants, not all human - a challenge that prompts Dan and others to grow up quickly. As in Off Season, the action is ultraviolent and shocking, but the point here, as there, isn't the grue but the spirit of those who must deal with it. Here, too, Ketchum writes with economy and power, in sentences that tighten like noose wire. Anyone who enjoys fine, hard horror will appreciate this novel."

There is one trade paperback edition ($16.95). Because this is a trade paperback we should be shipping sometime in November.

Sincerely,

Lamont Ingram

Gauntlet Press Dealer Rep

---Wangled a ride to Planned Parenthood Book Sale opening day. Picked up these titles (more details and actual covershots available by request):

abyss
affliction
after the plague
alien planet
best of off off broadway
best sf- 1970
cosmopolis
damnation alley
dawn powell at her best
day of the drones
devil & the good lord
embryo
encyclopedia of mystery and detection
everybody's autobiography
five-odd
floating dragon
gods themselves
goshawk
great science fiction by scientists
guy de maupassant 17-volume set (complete)
hearts and lives of men
hill of devi
hollywood
iliad
iliad of homer
immortals
in america
in the hand of dante
in the problem pit
invaders on the moon
invasion of the body snatchers
iron dream
jacob's room & the waves
jazz
king solomon's mines / she / allan quatermain
l'amour
last night
man in the high castle
martians, go home
midas world
miss wyoming
mister da v.
more soviet science fiction
night magic
night train
odyssey
other voices, other rooms
peter kropotkin's memoirs of a revolutionist
phase iv
plutarch's lives
prince
resurrectionist
riven rock
robert lowell - collected prose
sar
selected letters of john keats
shades of travis mcgee
silverleaf syndrome
space visitor
specter is haunting texas
starship
stones of summer
story of a shipwrecked sailor
tactics of conquest
three from the 87th
three negro classics
time and tomorrow
tin drum
transmigration of timothy archer
unteleported man
vintage bradbury
volcano lover
voyage to arcturus
war of the end of the world
we
wheel of love
where angels fear to tread

---Word from PS:

Welcome to the September 2007
E-Bulletin from PS Publishing

In this month's e-bulletin:

• A warm welcome from our publisher, Pete Crowther
• News of or major schedule update
• Introducing our new PS Showcase short fiction mini-collections
• A round-up of recent news from the PS Publishing News Room

Scroll on down!

A warm welcome from Pete Crowther

Hi everyone!

Another Monday morning and, just as the leaves are starting to fall from the trees, it looks as though Summer has finally come to the Yorkshire coast. But there's definitely a sense of autumn in the air, not least with the fact that in less than two weeks we'll be enjoying another FantasyCon, a regular late September feature on our calendar.

We always look forward to FantasyCon but this time we're even more excited than usual because I'll be handling the Master of Ceremonies duties. We're busy working to get Gary Fry's mini-collection - and the first title in our new PS Showcase series, hi-lighting newer authors whom we consider to be worthy of wider attention (see-below for more info) - ready for a launch on the Saturday night. And, of course, PS and some of its titles are up for the highly coveted British Fantasy Society Awards so we'll be keeping our fingers crossed.

See you at the con!

Major schedule update

We've just updated our current website with all the forthcoming titles that we hope to publish before the end of 2008. We've added 32 new titles to the 20-odd that we'd previously announced, so now there are over four dozen brand new books by some of the top names - and up-and-coming new talents - in genre fiction for your to look forward to and be tempted by.

The full list of additions is available over at the PS Publishing News Room, or you could just head straight on over to the forthcoming titles page of the website and have a browse through the new titles there.

Introducing our new PS Showcase mini-collections

This month, September 2007, sees a brand new PS initiative hit the racks: PS Showcase.

The idea is to put out a series of mini story-collections - priced as per our novellas at £10 / $20 approx. for the hardcover and £25 / $50 approx. for the signed, jacketed hardcover - from writers whom we believe are deserving of more attention.

The first volume in the series is by Gary Fry and we're aiming to have his Sanity and Other Delusions available for a launch at FantasyCon.

See the PS Publishing News Room for more information from Pete on the PS Showcase concept.

PS Publishing News-Room round-up

Here's a selection of recent news items from the PS Publishing News Room.

• Out Now: The Collected Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, hardcover edition
• Out Now: Postscripts magazine, issue #11
• Novella Acquisition: 'The Fiery Angels' by David Herter
• Acquisitions round-up: nine new titles, publication dates to be confirmed
• Eric Brown's 'Starship Summer': 26-copy slipcased edition added to range
• Collection acquisition: Ramsey Campbell’s 'Just Behind You'
• Postscripts: new short story acceptances, August '07
• Novella Acquisition: 'Reunion' by Rick Hautala
• Stephen King's 'The Colorado Kid' to be stocked by Waterstone's
• PS Publishing scoops five BFS Award 2007 shortlist nominations
• New chapbook acquisition: 'The Situation' by Jeff Vandermeer
• PS back-list price rationalisation

Visit the News Room for even more PS News, or subscribe to our RSS feed to be automatically updated whenever new PS News is posted.

---Word from Hippocampus:

Dear Bookseller,

We've gotten a bit behind in announcing our latest releases, so please be advised the following four titles are now available. Full blurbs are posted at our website. If you would, please indicate quantities desired of each. Thanks!

Best wishes,
Derrick Hussey

http://www.hippocampuspress.com

====================

WARNINGS TO THE CURIOUS: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James

Edited by S. T. Joshi and Rosemary Pardoe

ISBN-13: 978-0-9771734-8-8

2007: 340 pp: $20.00

LAIR OF THE DREAMER: A Cthulhu Mythos Omnibus

By Franklyn Searight

With an Introduction by Robert M. Price, and Illustrations by Robert H. Knox

ISBN-13: 978-0-9793806-0-0

2007: 306 pp: $20.00

W. PAUL COOK: The Wandering Life of a Yankee Printer (With Selected Writings)

Edited By Sean Donnelly

ISBN-13: 978-0-9771734-6-4

2007: pp: $15.00

DEAD RECKONINGS: A Review Magazine for the Horror Field

Edited by S. T. Joshi and Jack Madison Haringa

No. 1 (Spring 2007): 100 pp

Single Issue Price: $7.50

---Word from Necro:

PRE-ORDER NOW!!!

[Hardcover] 400 copies. Signed & Numbered ISBN: 1-889186-76-7 $50.00 [Deluxe Hardcover] 52 copies. Signed & lettered $125.00

!!! ATTENTION !!! If you already oredered THE HORN-CRANKER you DO NOT need to order this book. It is the same thing. It contains THE HORN-CRANKER novella along with the new full-length prequel novel THE MINOTAURESS. THE MINOTAURESS W/ THE HORN-CRANKER By Edward Lee HELL’S BITCH IN HEAT... Seething, slavering, and insane, it cringes, not wanting to slip forth from the noxious, bloated belly of its abyssal mother until the most hideous sexual atrocities beckon it from Hell’s hot bowels: the dread monstrosity of unfathomable beauty and the most vile horror--revulsion and desire incarnated into one... ...PREGNANT TO BURSTING WITH ABOMINATIONS UNTOLD... Atop the moon-drenched hillock sits the leaning manse, surrounded by ancient graves rich with the bones of witches, and amid the dense cricket-choruses of these ghastly twilight deeps, it stalks, thrashes and prowls, its nipples gorged with evil, its loins a frenzy of Luciferic lust... RITES OF REDNECK PASSAGE... Behold Balls and Dicky (of THE BIGHEAD fame) as they embark on their first sociopathic epiphany teeming with down and dirty redneck whores, occult science, corpse-sex, and scatological gross-out the likes of which would make the BTK Killer faint. These boys think they’re bad...but are they bad enough to face-- THE MINOTAURESS Edward Lee’s latest novel of irredeemable harder-than-hardcore horror... THE HORNCRANKER Dean Logan is a man with problems. The main one being his wife, a raging bitch. But she will soon be the least of his problems. Dean learns that his father has died and he must return to the ranch and come face-to-face with the life he left behind--a life full of sex, violence, drugs and cattle, lots of cattle. With the help of his do-nothing friend, Ajax, Dean will return to his old ways and quickly learn the secrets of his family and the evil that they've spawned. Time to test his old skills, skills that made him a legend--skills that may save his family and friends' lives

Necro Publications and Bedlam Press www.necropublications.com

---Word from Sarob:

News Update

MONSTER BEHIND THE WHEEL by Michael McCarty & Mark McLaughlin will not now
be published by Sarob Press.

But, according to Mike & Mark, the monster still lives. The novel will now
appear, in 2008, from Corrosion Press (an imprint of Delirium books –
www.deliriumbooks.com) in both hardcover and paperback. Check out details at
http://www.myspace.com/monsterbook

Robert
SAROB PRESS

---Haven't heard yet about my attempt to order some of Sarob's sale books, mentioned in earlier blog entry.

09/10/07 MON:
---Here today:

TALEBONES: Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy #35, 8/07, (William F. Nolan; James C. Glass, Jack Skillingstead, Darrell Schweitzer, G.O. Clark, Patricia Russo; more), new 7.00

---Word from Ash-Tree:

We are pleased to attach information on the new Ash-Tree Press title, Francis Brett Young's COLD HARBOUR. Praised by both H. P. Lovecraft and E. F. Bleiler this highly atmospheric macabre novel is guaranteed to provide a chill on the cold autumn evenings which are almost upon us.

Francis Brett Young (1884–1954) is one of Britain's underrated and neglected regional novelists, and, in his introduction to this new edition, John Howard discusses Young's life and the themes that dominate his novels. We're sure this is one you will enjoy.

NEWS OF WHAT IS FORTHCOMING:

We have a busy few months ahead. Currently at print is PASSING OF A GOD AND OTHER STORIES, the first of a three volume series which will collect all of the known short fiction of Henry S. Whitehead.

Almost ready for press is EXOTIC GOTHIC: FORBIDDEN TALES FROM OUR GOTHIC WORLD edited by Danel Olson of North Harris College, Houston, Texas. Danel teaches a course on Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Fiction, and, finding himself in need of suitable texts, decided to approach a number of authors whose stories would provide what he needed. So in this new collection, you'll find stories of the Gothic from well-known names: Nicholas Royle, Thomas Tessier, Terry Dowling, Peter Crowther, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Ligotti, Steve Rasnic Tem, Brian Hodge, Nancy A. Collins, Joyce Carol Oates, and Barbara Roden amongst others. Twenty-three chilling pieces (Early November).

In final proofing stages is the stunning new collection by Reggie Oliver, his first with Ash-Tree Press, entitled MASQUES OF SATAN: Twelve Tales and a Novella. The reptuation that Reggie has acquired is sure to make this collection much sought after. Make sure we have your reservation well in advance of publication (late November).

And to round off our plans for 2007, we shall be reprinting J. S. Leatherbarrow's A NATURAL BODY AND A SPIRITUAL BODY, adding one fugitive tale to the original collection.

All best wishes,

Christopher and Barbara

09/05/07 WED:
---Updated catalog data files for CD-R burning. See if I can’t get them uploaded to MediaFire file-sharing site--but it would still be better to get them on Google Base, so they could be searchable from the Internets.

---Word from Gauntlet (where I may yet get an order out to):

The newest title from Gauntlet Press, VISIONS OF DEATH: RICHARD MATHESON'S EDGAR ALLAN POE SCRIPTS, Vol. 1 is now at the print and we are taking orders for this SIGNED limited edition. Edited by Lawrence French, volume 1 contains Matheson's screenplays for "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." French details numerous differences between the Matheson script and the version filmed by acclaimed director Roger Corman. Numerous photos accompany each script.

Matheson has signed both the numbered and lettered editions of the book. Roger Corman and Joe Dante have signed the lettered edition.

The book comes in 2 states:

500 copy numbered edition, signed by Matheson. The cover price is $55.

52 copy bonded leather traycased lettered edition, signed by Matheson, Roger Corman and Joe Dante is $150.

If interested, please place your order. Please provide the following information:

(1) How many of the numbered edition you desire

(2) How many of the lettered edition you desire, if any

Sincerely,

Lamont Ingram

Gauntlet Press Dealer Rep

09/04/07 TUE:
---Here today from TOTU Ink:

TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED #28, sum/07, (Heroes Issue), new 10.00

---Word from Centipede:

Monday, 3 September, 2007

FORTHCOMING BOOKS FROM MILLIPEDE PRESS AND CENTIPEDE PRESS

Dear Dealers:

Here are some forthcoming books from Centipede Press and
Millipede Press. You can put your orders in now, but you
will only be invoiced when the books actually ship.

Deliver Me From Eva
Paul Baily
introduction by Forrest J Ackerman
300 numbered copies
$45 cloth
AVAILABLE NOW

The Search for Joseph Tully
William H. Hallahan
introduction by T.M. Wright
300 signed and numbered copies
$60 cloth
IN BINDERY

The Nightwalker
Thomas Tessier
introduction by Jack Ketchum
300 signed and numbered copies
$60 cloth
IN BINDERY

Dracula
Bram Stoker
introduction by Patrick McGrath
illustrations by Greg Hildebrandt
available October
$250 cloth, in slicpase
500 numbered copies
$1,500 leather, in traycase
22 signed and numbered copies
IN BINDERY

The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
illustrations by Alexander Preuss
available October / November
$225 cloth, in slipcase
100 signed and numbered copies
$1,500 leather, in traycase
12 signed and numbered copies
BEING PRINTED

H.P. Lovecraft
Masters of the Weird Tale
with photographs of H.P. Lovecraft and
Providence photographs by J.K. Potter
available most likely in December
$350 cloth, in slipcase
300 numbered copies
$1,500 leather, in traycase
22 signed and numbered copies
IN PROOFREADING

Don Brautigam
Artists Portfolio
10 x 14 inch full page paintings by Don Brautigam
introduction by Dean Koontz
SPECIAL ORDER
$300 cloth, in slipcase
200 numbered copies
$750 leather, in traycase
22 signed and numbered copies
BOUND TO ORDER

The Auctioneer
Joan Samson
introduction by Ed Gorman
$60 cloth
300 signed and numbered copies
IN BINDERY

STIGMATA
An Anthology of Writing and Art
$150 cloth
300 copies
$250 cloth
signed by Susan Sontag, FJA, and many other contributors
AVAILABLE NOW

CHIMERA I
with Helmut Wenske, John Stewart, Stuart Schiff, Arkham
House, James Turner, Henri Fuseli, Sigmund Freud, E.T.A.
Hoffmann, Max Ernst, Donald Barthelme, Mark Tansey, German
Expressionism, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Mildred Pierce,
Double Indemnity, James M. Cain, Robert Bloch, Edgar G.
Ulmer¹s Detour, J.K. Potter and more
$250 cloth
200 numbered copies
$1,000 leather
22 signed and numbered copies
AVAILABLE NOW

CHIMERA II
Don Punchatz, David Lynch¹s Mulholland Drive, Octavio Paz,
Simone de Beauvoir, Ramsey Campbell, Borges, Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Schnitzler, Arthur Moore,
John D. MacDonald, Herman Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Gustav
Meyrink, Han Nguyen, John Bonath, and more.
$250 cloth
200 numbered copies
$1,250 leather
22 signed and numbered copies
BOUND TO ORDER

ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Masters of the Weird Tale
$250 cloth, in slipcase
300 numbered copies
$1,000 leather, in traycase
22 numbered copies
IN BINDERY

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
introduction by Patrick McGrath
illustrations by Lynd Ward
$225 cloth, in slicpase
500 numbered copies
$1,000 leather, in traycase
22 signed and numbered copies
AVAILABLE NOW

Two-Handed Engine
Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore
frontispiece by Richard Powers
$225 cloth
300 numbered copies
AVAILABLE NOW

Nosferatu
various authors
$250 cloth
400 numbered copies
$1,000 leather
22 signed and numbered copies
AVAILABLE NOW

Some of Your Blood
Theodore Sturgeon
introduction by Steve Tem
cover by Harry O. Morris
$12 paperback
$50 signed hardcover
$225 leather edition
AVAILABLE NOW

The Face That Must Die
Ramsey Campbell
introduction by Poppy Z. Brite
photographs by J.K. Potter
$14 paperback
$60 signed hardcover
$225 leather edition
AVAILABLE NOW

Here Comes a Candle
Fredric Brown
introduction by Pronzini
$14 paperback
$50 signed hardcover
$225 leather edition
AVAILABLE NOW

The Tenant
Roland Topor
introduction by Thomas Ligotti
with art by Roland Topor
$13 paperback
$45 signed hardcover
$225 leather edition
AVAILABLE NOW

Falling Angel
William Hjortsberg
introduction by James Crumley
foreword by Ridley Scott
$14 paperback
$65 signed hardcover
$250 leather edition
AVAILABLE NOW

The Deadly Percheron
John Franklin Bardin
introduction by Jonathan Lethem
$15 paperback
$65 signed hardcover
$225 leather edition
AVAILABLE NOW

Nightfall
David Goodis
introduction by Pronzini
$14 paperback
$40 signed hardcover
AVAILABLE NOW

Street of No Return
David Goodis
introduction by Robert Polito
$14 paperback
$40 signed hardcover
AVAILABLE NOW

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
introduction by Patrick McGrath
with essays and film stills
frontispiece by Berni Wrightson
$16 paperback
$50 signed hardcover
AVAILABLE NOW

Thank you all for your patronage. Let me know if you could
use any jpeg images of the books!

Best Regards,

Jerad Walters
Centipede Press

---Let me know if anyone wants me to get them any of these. Generally, I can give 15% discounts on the deluxe editions and 30% on trade editions.

---Email rec'd:

Hi Chris

My name is James Beach and I publish Dark Discoveries magazine. I have been
doing it for about 4 years now and I recently put out issue #10. (The
website is: www.darkdiscoveries.com) if you want to see a few examples of
issues we have done). I bought a couple of things from you a number of years
ago, but I wasn't aware you were still around honestly or I would have
dropped you a line sooner. Patrick, who does Talebones is a friend and had
mentioned you have carried some of his publications so I thought I might
drop you a line as well.

I didn't remember if you carried magazines in your catalogue or not, but if
you do and are interested in carrying Dark Discoveries please let me know. I
give the standard 40% discount off the cover price ($5.99). I still have a
number of the back issues in stock as well.

I'm also publishing a book next month, which features the debut story
collection of a regular for DD, Bill Gauthier. It's going to be a signed,
numbered trade paperback that features cover art and book design by Alan M.
Clark and an introduction by Thomas F. Monteleone. I'm just doing 250 copies
of it and already 170 have been reserved now so I don't think it will last
for long. The signature sheets are done and it should be going to press in
the next week or two. Please let me know if you wish any copies of this as
well. The cover price will be $13.99. All I'm doing at this point is putting people
down for reserve and not charging any money until it comes out.

Thanks - James

---A few of my catalog-data files that could be downloaded:

hardcovers (text):
http://www.mediafire.com/?00g1x1yn9ll

misc soft (text):
http://www.mediafire.com/?6dhmxzctjrt

new arrivals & catalog intro (text):
http://www.mediafire.com/?6mjefejwjoc

pbs by publisher (text):
http://www.mediafire.com/?fzmozgkmzm4

pbs by author (PDF):
http://www.mediafire.com/?7zhs2g1omdy

new arrivals etc. (PDF):
http://www.mediafire.com/?cdfryndxe0b

misc soft (PDF):
http://www.mediafire.com/?2w1idx0egd9

---Never made it down to the office today. Foreboding weather this morning kept me upstairs, but it only rained hard for a few minutes. In the cellar all hell can break loose and I remain blissfully unaware. That's not the way to be with windows open on the front porch and sun room, however. I got started re-alphabeticizing my compact discs, so that was a way to squander a day. The past few days most of the big downpours have been to the north of here, although a hefty system passed by to the south this evening. Other places have had it worse than here, but there is that special feeling of disquiet being at the mercy of the elements.

----Word from Golden Gryphon:

Greetings from the Gryphon:

THE GIRL WHO LOVED ANIMALS AND OTHER STORIES, by Bruce McAllister, is now
available!

These seventeen stories showcase the author’s five decades of writing, including
his first professional sale, “The Faces Outside”—written at the ripe old age of sixteen—to
editor Frederik Pohl for the July 1963 issue of Worlds of if magazine.
In the near-future title story, a young woman offers her love—and her body—to
ensure the continuation of an animal species; and in a related story, “The Ark,” a little
girl’s life is psychically linked to the survival of two pandas, and her father does what he
must to ensure that all three will live.
Also included is McAllister’s best-known work, novelette “Dream Baby,” a finalist
for both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the basis for his acclaimed novel of the same
name. In this dark and foreboding first-person narrative of the Vietnam War, a young
army nurse who dreams the deaths of her patients but cannot save them, finally
transcends the pain and violence of war and at last is able to save her fellow comrades
in arms who, in turn, save her.
Whether it be an elderly woman who uses her vast wealth to create genetically
her perfect son (“Angels”), or a young man who, having saved his 1950s-horror-movie
town from a horde of invading locusts, can no longer find meaning in his life until he
meets an invasion of a different kind (“Hero, The Movie”), or a young boy who learns the
rituals of an alien culture in order to obtain an assassin’s help for his unborn sister
(“Kin”), Bruce McAllister’s stories resonate with a childhood’s sense of wonder coming
face to face with the realities of the human condition in a science-fictional world.

THE GIRL WHO LOVED ANIMALS AND OTHER STORIES, by Bruce McAllister
Cover art by John Picacio
ISBN 978-1-930846-49-4 / $24.95 (Trade hardcover)
306 pages

---where I still need to get that order placed. (Bruce McAllister being a favorite back in the day.) Well, the thunder and lightning are coming closer together again now, so I better cut this session short...

---Word from Centipede:

Hello everyone,

Just to keep you informed on the status of the Artists
Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft book. This book is still waiting
for several key essays on artists, as well as the Harlan
Ellison introduction. We hope to have the book in the hands
of the printer by the first week of September, and then back
to the States by the end of February, after which copies
will be shipping.

Please let us know if this presents any difficulties with
those of you who have pre-ordered. We sincerely apologize
for any inconvenience that this delay is causing. On the
other hand, because of the delay, we have managed to secure
another work by Bob Eggleton, and a previously unpublished
work by Michael Whelan, as well as one by Lee Brown Coye,
and some other goodies as well.

The edition information is now set to:
850 copies in slipcase, $395
150 copies with extra prints in traycase, numbered, $395
50 copies with extra prints in traycase, leatherbound,
signed by most living contributors, $2,000

Thank you again for your patience and support.

Best Regards,

Jerad Walters
Centipede Press

---If anyone wants to get this through me, let me know. I can let you know what discount I might be able to swing. Pretty good deal the 150-copy edition same price as the 850--maybe a misprint. I'm sure the Harlan Ellison intro will be in their hands, well, one of these days--only a matter of time.

08/15/07 WED:
---Tried uploading my Ace Doubles file to a place called MediaFire. You can access it at http://www.mediafire.com/?2ttngvztlhb, I hope.
---Now I have uploaded the text file “pbs by author” -- find at
http://www.mediafire.com/?dmvps0i1btm
---Also, “pbs by publisher”:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fzmozgkmzm4

---Word from Earthling:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Earthling Publications Newsletter August 14, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NEW CLIVE BARKER BOOK! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm thrilled to announce a new forthcoming book by Clive Barker: THE PAINTER, THE CREATURE, AND THE FATHER OF LIES. Edited by Phil and Sarah Stokes, who operate the official Clive Barker website at www.clivebarker.info, this is the definitive collection of Barker's nonfiction work over the past 25 years, including previously unpublished material, such as an unused self-penned introduction to Volume 1 of the BOOKS OF BLOOD from 1983 written from the point of view of a demon interviewing Barker. Approximately 100 separate nonfiction pieces are collected, and Barker has provided new interior illustrations. This landmark collection will be released early next year in signed lettered, signed numbered, and unsigned trade hardcover states. Like THE HELLBOUND HEART, I expect the signed copies to go quickly, so if you're interested, please reserve (without prepayment) now. For more details, please visit the Earthling site: Link to THE PAINTER... Michael Marshall Smith's THE SERVANTS is published ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Published last week, and copies look beautiful. All individual orders have now shipped; specialty bookseller orders are currently shipping; orders to chain stores, libraries, Amazon etc will be fulfilled last. "THE SERVANTS is an absolute delight of a book... mysterious, poignant, and tender. Highly recommended." -Charles DeLint, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction "This moving parable delivers strong psychological insights into a child's powerlessness and anger. B+" -Entertainment Weekly Link to THE SERVANTS THE HELLBOUND HEART cover art now posted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The stunning new painting by Clive Barker that graces the front cover of THE HELLBOUND HEART: 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. The book is still on track for a late fall release. Link to THE HELLBOUND HEART THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN SERIES BOOK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James A. Moore and Jeff Strand's THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR, with illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, is selling very well. The book is due to go to the printer in the next few days for an early October release. Former Shocklines and Clarkesworld customers -- please remember I would be happy to match your number for last year's Halloween Series book. Link to THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR

Thanks and all best, Paul Miller Earthling Publications Link to Earthling's Site

08/11/07 SAT:
---Not many books coming in of late, but four titles (two each from Ash-Tree and Tartarus) here today:

Cavaliero, Glen THE JUSTICE OF THE NIGHT, Tartarus ‘07, 1st, (author’s sixth collection of poems; formally adroit, various in tone, this collection is quite unconcerned with the skin-deep), new in dj $26

Hamilton, Alex THE ATTIC EXPRESS and Other Macabre Stories, Ash-Tree '07, 1st, (collects many and varied unpleasant chills from author’s collections Beams of Malice, Flies on the Wall, and others, including a new tale, ‘Night Mare’), new in dj 47.50

Machen, Arthur THE SECRET OF THE SANGRAAL & Other Writings, Tartarus, 2nd edn('07), (non-fiction; this second edition adds his Dog and Duck essays from 1924; reprints five collections plus a number of fugitive pieces; indispensable for both the Machen reader and also for those interested in the mysteries of the Sangraal), new in dj $65

Roden, Barbara & Christopher Roden (eds) AT EASE WITH THE DEAD, Ash-Tree '07, 1st, (new tales of the supernatural and macabre), new in dj 48.50

---A box of books in the fresh air long enough to make this list:

alternate kennedys
alternative detective
asf 72-04
asf 73-02
autumn thunder
biological time bomb
charlotte armstrong reader
empire of fear
faye dunaway
films of cary grant
galaxy 52-05
galaxy 68-02
general was a spy
harjunpaa and the stone murders
imaginary worlds
international sf 67-01
international sf 68-06
iron sun
jerry todd and the talking frog
krushchevites
life against death
lincoln mckeever
making of a counter culture
matzohball
mindfogger
omni 78-10
omni 80-05
omnibus of continental mysteries 1
omnibus of continental mysteries 2
reflections on the middle east
ria
robots from asimov's
strange case of james earl ray
under cover
way the future was

---Word from Sarob:

SAROB PRESS DEALER NEWSLETTER – AUGUST 2007

*FORTHCOMING SEPTEMBER 2007

MONSTER BEHIND THE WHEEL by MICHAEL McCARTY & MARK McLAUGHLIN
Limited Edition ~ £27.50 / $50
Deluxe Signed Slipcased Edition ~ £65 / $115

***WOULD YOU PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ORDER NOW***

Full details at http://home.freeuk.net/sarobpress

*OUT NOW

DEFINING MOMENTS by DAVID NIALL WILSON
Limited Edition ~ £27.50 / $50 ~ JUST A FEW COPIES LEFT
Deluxe Signed Slipcased Edition ~ £65 / $115 ~ SOLD OUT
Full details at http://home.freeuk.net/sarobpress

*SAROB PRESS IS CLOSING

Monster Behind The Wheel will be our very last title. Robert & Sara are
retiring (very early) to a smallholding (small farm) in northern France.
Robert thought long and hard about continuing the press from France but,
after some discussion and all things considered, we felt closing down the
press was the best option. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all our
customers (private and dealer), authors, artists, editors and friends –
you’ve all helped make ten years of publishing very enjoyable.

*DEALER OFFER

We have a few titles still IN PRINT. To clear this stock we are offering you
all a special one off deal. Any of the following – whilst stocks last – can
be had per copy for just £5 / $10 + shipping at cost. I'll need orders by
mid-September.

TONY RICHARDS
+Ghost Dance
+Postcards from Terri
PAUL FINCH
+Darker Ages
E.C. TUBB
+Mirror of the Night
RHYS HUGHES
+Journeys Beyond Advice
LISA TUTTLE
+Ghosts & Other Lovers
BRIAN STABLEFORD
+Year Zero
KEITH BROOKE & ERIC BROWN
+Parallax View

Thanks for all your support over ten very enjoyable years of publishing.

Very best wishes, Robert.

---Anyone wanting me to get any of the above special-deal titles, how does $20 sound? -- hoping the mark-up will at least cover the UK shipping. (Sorry to see Sarob closing.)

---Word from Temporary Culture:

Forthcoming from Temporary Culture, publication date: November 2007

What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?
James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-first Century
by
MICHAEL SWANWICK

with a preface, Jurgen Down Under, by BARRY HUMPHRIES

Critical monograph examining the writings of American fantasist
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), author of Jurgen.
6 x 9 inches, 64 pp.

Subscribers issue, 17 numbered copies hand bound, signed by Michael
Swanwick and Barry Humphries, each copy with a leaf signed by James
Branch Cabell.
Please inquire for subscription price, which includes shipping within
the USA and a copy of the trade issue.
The book is in press now.

Trade issue, 200 copies in paper covers, cover image at:
http://www.avramdavidson.org/wreckage.html
ISBN : 0-9764660-3-1 / ISBN-13 : 978-0-9764660-3-1
$15.

MICHAEL SWANWICK is author of a monograph on the fantastical literature
of Hope Mirrlees. His novels include Bones of the Earth and In The
Drift, and his short story collections include Gravity's Angels and The
Dog Said Bow-Wow. The front cover, Storisende: collage for Michael
Swanwick, forms part of the Catalogue of Unique Works in the Library
and Private Collections of Michael Swanwick (forthcoming).

BARRY HUMPHRIES is an Australian National Treasure, known worldwide for
creating the role of Dame Edna.

“It is hard to imagine today the magnitude of James Branch Cabell’s
fame in the early part of the last century. Cabell’s books were Mark
Twain’s chief reading in the great humorist’s declining years. Theodore
Roosevelt received him at the White House. The occultist Aleister
Crowley harried him with fan letters. H. L. Mencken was his advocate.
Sinclair Lewis, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930,
mentioned him as one of a number of writers who might reasonably have
won it.
“Yet he died as good as forgotten.”

from What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage? by Michael Swanwick

Henry Wessells

---Word from Darkside/Midnight House:

NOTES FROM THE DARKSIDE

WELCOME to our first update in quite some time. There's a good deal of news. As many of you know, we moved from Seattle to Albuquerque in April. The move itself cost over $10K, and put us woefully behind on our schedule. However, we haven't been idle, in the last two months we've landed some major deals (which I'll cover in more detail later on).

Web site: www.Darksidepress.com

Joseph Payne Brennan!!! At long last we have come to terms with the Brennan estate and will be doing a four-volume set of all his non-Lucius Leffing weird tales under the editorship of Stefan Dziemianowicz and myself. The books will be in a matching format (like our Clifford D. Simak set) and will retail at $45.00 each.

COMING SOON:
The Broken Fang - Uel Key (Midnight House)
The Big Front Yard & Other Stories - Clifford D. Simak (Darkside Press)
The Feaster from Afar - Joseph Payne Brennan (Midnight House)
The Childless Ones - Daniel F. Galouye (Darkside Press)
Devils' Drums - Vivian Meik (Midnight House)
A Niche in Time - William F. Temple (Darkside Press)
The Lurkers in the Abyss - David A. Riley (Midnight House)

Books still available
H.B. Gregory - Dark Sanctuary - Midnight House
Eric Frank Russell - Darker Tides - Midnight House
R.R. Ryan - Echo of a Curse - Midnight House
Clifford D. Simak - Eternity Lost - Darkside Press
J.U. Nicolson - Fingers of Fear - Midnight House
Harvey Jacobs - My Rose & My Glove - Darkside Press
John Wyndham - No Place Like Earth - Darkside Press
Clifford D. Simak - Physician to the Universe (Volume ll) Darkside Press
Cleve Cartmill - Prelude to Armageddon - Darkside Press
Clark Ashton Smith - Star Changes - Darkside Press
Mark Hansom - The Beasts of Brahm - Midnight House
Bob Leman - The Feesters in the Lake - Midnight House
Edgar Jepson - The Garden at 19 - Midnight House
Charles Birkin - The Harlem Horror - Midnight House
Robert Hichens - The Return of the Soul - Midnight House
G. Ranger Wormse - The Scarecrow and Other Stories - Midnight House
Dick Donovan - The Shining Hand - Midnight House
G.G. Pendarves - Thing of Darkness - Midnight House
Steve Rasnic Tem – HC & PB City Fishing - Silver Salamander
Brian Hodge – HC & PC Falling Idols - Silver Salamander
Adam-Troy Castro – HC & PB Lost in Booth Nine - Silver Salamander
Stephen Laws - HC Midnight Man - Silver Salamander
Simon Clark – PB Salt Snake & Other Bloody Cuts - Silver Salamander

The Feaster from Afar - Joseph Payne Brennan (Midnight House)
This is now in production and will be the next book.

---Pyr still keeping in touch:

Just passing along.....

The Blade Itself (forthcoming, September 2007)

Came in at #8 on the 2007 Locus Poll for Best First Novel, July 2007

Keeping It Real

Came in at #18 on the 2007 Locus Poll for Best Sci Fi Novel, July 2007

---Word from Ash-Tree:

Hi, Chris:

Please find attached a couple of invoices covering books on their way to you.

all best,

Christopher

---Those would be, no doubt, Attic Express and At Ease With the Dead.

---And now from Pyr:

BRASYL is HOT:

978-1-59102-543-6

• Boing Boing: "...his finest novel to date"
• Salon.com's Summer Reading Recommendation
• B+ in Entertainment Weekly
• Salon.com: "...you will delight in Brasyl."
• Amazon's Bookstore Blog: "McDonald deserves to be going up against most of the world’s top fiction writers, period."
• A grade in SciFi Weekly: "...hot and tropical and full of music."
• Starred Review in PW: "Chaotic, heartbreaking and joyous, ... must-read"
• Starred Review in Booklist
• Locus: "...without doubt one of the major SF books of 2007."
• Ranked # 5 on the bestselling hardcover list at San Francisco-based independent genre bookstore Borderlands Books for May 2007
  

Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Marcia Rogers

Director of Special Sales

Prometheus Books

www.prometheusbooks.com

---I probably ought to order this one, it sounds like -- and I know there are a whole slew of other Pyr books that might be worth getting...

---This from Pyr:

Hi everyone! I wanted to pass this along because Pyr is thanked here (with the Pyr logo!) as an advertiser who supported their Quill finalist - very exciting for us!

I hope you'll log on and vote for BRASYL (Ian McDonald; 978-1-59102-543-6)!

How many different ways can the future be imagined?

Reviewed by Jeff VanderMeer
Sunday, July 22, 2007; BW11

BRASYL

By Ian McDonald

Py . 357 pp. $25

Ian McDonald's Brasyl, with its three storylines, is as close to perfect as any novel in recent memory. It works because of great characterization, but also because McDonald envisions Brazil as a dynamic, living place that is part postmodern trash pile, part trashy reality-TV-driven ethical abyss . . . and yet also somehow spiritual. Whether it's Jesuit priest Luis Quinn's journey up the Amazon with a French spy in 1732, TV producer Marcelina Hoffman's search for a reviled former soccer player in 2006, or the exploits of the thief Edson Jesus Oliveira de Freitas in 2032 (and the mind-blowing scene in which he steals a futuristic purse), McDonald's novel is always in motion. This movement extends through time and alternate realities in ways both wonderful and wise, as the three storylines interlock for a satisfying and often stunning conclusion. McDonald has found new myths for old places; in doing so, he has cemented his reputation as an amazing storyteller.

Sincerely,

Marcia Rogers

Director of Special Sales

Prometheus Books

www.prometheusbooks.com

---Email from Spectre Library:

HELLO !

Announcement: FALL 2007 Book Release

On the heels of last Fall's successful near-sellout of "The Surgeon of Souls" by Victor Rousseau under the

imprint of The Spectre Library, now is offered Rousseau's completely lost works of weird supernatural

stories "The Tracer of Egos." These stories have never been viewed by a single pulp fiction collector, and

are now available for the first time, recovered from bygone newspapers. This is Rousseau's second-ever

venture into the realm of the psychic detective genre.

The The Spectre Library collects rare literature in limited edition jacketed hardcovers.

Further, there are limited copies of the first book still available: Victor Rousseau "The Surgeon of Souls"

Less than 30 copies are in stock of this 200-run edition, introduction by Mike Ashley.

Below are the list details. Cordially~~Morgan A. Wallace, The Spectre Library

Author: Victor Rousseau

Title: The Tracer of Egos

Publisher: The Spectre Library

Retail: $40

Jacketed, smythe-sewn hardcover

Limited edition: 200 copies

Introduction by: Morgan A. Wallace

Available: Fall 2007

Collected for the first time ever, these 12 weird and occult tales feature Dr. Phileas Immanuel, soul-specialist. Advocating that problems of the abnormal psychic state could be remedied with treatment upon the basic

theory of reincarnation, the great neurological psychic physician must exorcise discarnate thieves, murderers, religious madmen, combatants....

---My discount would probably be 20%--less if added postage costs cut into margins too greatly.

---A list of the used books picked up at Polk City Library sale:

50 short science fiction tales
50 strange stories of the supernatural
abigail adams
agatha christie's detectives
all the flowers are dying
animosity
anthem
bad boy brawly brown
beggars and choosers
beyond the dark
blowback
body language
bohr maker
bone parade
casseroles by candlelight
change of command
chronicles vol 1
cobweb
convergence
crusade
deepsix
demolition angel
doomsday book
drawing of the three
eighth day
ellery queen's masters of mystery
every dead thing
from the dust returned
generation warriors
girl who loved tom gordon
good times
hard way
harvest the fire
history of modern germany- the reformation
i, robot
imperial stars
infinite concept of cosmic creation
inheritance
innamorati
insurrection
karl barth - letters 1961-1968
lake wobegon days
laughing policeman
legends 1
legends 2
legends 3
marco's millions
mind hunter
moonstar odyssey
mr. midshipman hornblower
nightmares & dreamscapes
partners in necessity
pegasus descending (sold)
pirate
planet of judgment
pleading guilty
pocket world in figures 1998
rag bag clan
red dragon
robots and murder
secret diary of adrian mole
separate peace
speaker for the dead
stagecoach
stainless steel rat joins the circus (sold)
star trek 1
stones for ibarra
sunset limited
talking to myself
terrarium
thread of grace
witness to a century
wrong case

07/25/07 WED:
---Here today from Sarob:

Wilson, David Niall DEFINITIVE MOMENTS, Sarob '07, 1st edn, (stories), new no dj as issued (pictorial cloth) 50.00

---this is the “limited edition” (less than the “deluxe edition)--15% discount.

---Word from PS Publishing:

Welcome to the July 2007
E-Bulletin from PS Publishing

Hi everyone!

We've got some particularly exciting news to tell you about in this e-bulletin, not least of which is the launch of our new blog! This is, of course, all part of major re-vamp of the PS website... coming very soon indeed. I've seen various pages as Ariel has been putting the whole thing together and it looks great. Okay, just a quick one then before I hand you over to Ariel to tell you about the blog.

The Colorado Kid has Shipped!

The wait is over! Yes, copies of Stephen King's The Colorado Kid -- in all editions -- have been winging their way around the world to all of our very patient customers, many of whom have been waiting for more than a whole year. The end result is, I think, remarkable and early reactions suggest that PS folks hold the books (particularly the traycased edition) in similarly high regard. All credit must go to our printers, Biddles for pulling out all the stops.

You can see them all in the picture below -- please note that the slipcased and traycased editions are sold out. We have a few copies left of the artist-signed edition and a few of the three-book slipcased sets. But they're not going to last forever so place an order as soon as you can so as to avoid disappointment.

Postscripts Subscribers' Bonus Chapbook 2007

Here in England, particularly on the east coast (the sea is at the end of our street . . . sometimes a little nearer than we'd ideally like!), the summer so far has been a washout. And already we drift towards Christmas.

This year, our Postscripts chapbook (which will be sent out, completely free, to everyone who holds a current and fully paid-up Postscripts subscription at the end of the year) will be a special edition of Joe Hill's 'Saved' from the special slipcased edition of his groundbreaking collection 20th Century Ghosts.

Joe felt that he'd like to do something for all the fans who weren't able to get a hold of the slipcased edition containing the extra story - and please note that 'Saved' will not be appearing in the trade editions of the book put out in the UK and the USA.

The chapbook will be published in two states as usual: a signed hardcover, which will be sent out to all Postscripts hardcover subscribers, and an unsigned paperback sent out to all our paperback subscribers.

Right then, that's all from me. Ariel, on with the show!

Pete

Cheers Pete, and a warm 'hello' to all our e-bulletin subscribers. I'll be brief: as Pete says, we've just launched the first phase of our long-mooted website re-design - the PS Publishing News Room.

It's a blog-based section of the site (running on Wordpress, for those in the audience who like to know these things) which means that in future all our future updates and news items will be available via your favourite RSS reader (you can subscribe to the feed via the orange icon on the site, or point your reader at news.pspublishing.co.uk/feed/) as well as on the site itself.

The plan is to update the News Room as and when we have anything interesting to tell you about - new book acquisitions, brand new cover art, interviews with our authors, links to stories of interest elsewhere on the Web, award nominations and (hopefully!) award wins... you name it . There's already a couple of months' worth of posts on there if you'd like to see what we've been up to recently (there's been so much going on at PS in the last few weeks that we thought we'd better post it as it happened).

And of course, we'd definitely welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions. Either leave a comment against a particular news item, or get in touch via the contact page of the main website. We promise to read every email and will respond as seems best. The rather gorgeous artwork at the top of the page is by the one and only Les Edwards, by the way. Or possibly Edward Miller (it gets hard to tell them apart, sometimes...)

Right, that's all from me. And hey, how come you're still reading this e-bulletin, anyhow? Shouldn't you be over at the PS News Room by now? ;)

Ariel, PS Webguy

---if I can ever get my PS business straight! The above at least gives you a chance to link over to them direct if you wish--and possibly let me know what I can try to get for you...

---Word from Golden Gryphon:

Greetings from the Gryphon:

THE GUILD OF XENOLINGUISTS, by Sheila Finch, is now available!

In essentially all science fiction, the problems of actually talking to and
understanding a new alien race is usually glossed over, by resorting to the “universal
translator” or by totally ignoring any difference in language. Our own human history
shows that understanding a new human race is fraught with pitfalls; how much more
problematic would be meeting and greeting, let alone trading complex thoughts such as
peace and war with, a totally different species? Would this in itself be a story well worth
telling? Sheila Finch has addressed this issue, in a series of stories that range from the
first contact with an advanced alien species on Earth to the development of a galaxy-
wide Guild of Xenolinguists that handles all cross-culture communication, and indeed
helps ascertain if a species is sentient or not. Novices are trained for years, and then
sent out to learn the alien languages and program the translation computers, so those
that follow may communicate with relative ease. Of course, with a totally new culture, and
culture being a large part of language, interacting with the alien species is far from
routine, or even safe. Moral questions also arise; although supposedly neutral in all
matters politic, lingsters may find themselves involved in local politics, and forced to
make decisions that are not based on their language skills. For example, in Finch’s
Nebula Award-winning story, “Reading the Bones,” the hapless, alcoholic linguist, whose
duties had mainly been translating during his employers’ shopping trips, faces a native
upheaval, a trek with two young children across a largely unknown jungle, and the
opportunity to see a written language born. Alien parasites, alien viruses, a mysterious
star-faring race that seems randomly violent, large tyrant moles, dolphin instructors and
surrogate mothers, all this and more face the prepared and not-so-prepared linguists in
these eleven stories.

English-major heroes in outer space—a nice change of pace after Potter.

THE GUILD OF XENOLINGUISTS by Sheila Finch
Cover art by Bob Eggleton
ISBN 978-1-930846-48-7 / $24.95 (Trade hardcover)
281 pages

---Reminds me that I have some ordering to do!