05/31/06 WED:
---A half-month late another batch (bringing the alphabet through Tarr) added to my biblio listings. Next month will go through ‘Thompson’. Of course, if you are interested in seeing my entire inventory, check it out on the CD-Rs I stick in with order shipments--or ask for me to send you one separately. As always, the CD-R also contains a goodly number of JPEG covershots of new arrivals and recently catalogued as well as to-be-catalogued books.

05/25/06 THU:
---Here today from Tartarus:

Shiel, M.P. THE PALE APE and Other Pulses, Tartarus '06, (orig: 1911; first republication; sheer Decadent luxuriance; Stableford intro), new in dj $55

WORMWOOD #6, spr/06, Tartarus, (articles on the literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent; on Bradbury, M.R. James, Le Fanu, Robert E. Howard, Hodgson, Britton, Przybyszewski; The Decadent World-View by Brian Stableford; other reviews; Mark Valentine [ed]), new 19.00

05/24/06 WED:
---A couple of books from Tachyon signed by the authors:

Aldiss, Brian CULTURAL BREAKS: A Collection of Short Fictions, Tachyon '05, 1st edn, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, (special anniversary collection to coincide with aurthor's 80th birthday; mostly recent, three originals), as new in dj 25.00

Kelly, James Patrick BURN, Tachyon '05, 1st edn, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, (great stuff; a powerful cocktail of the strange and the hauntingly familiar; 178 pages), as new in dj 20.00

---Unsigned copies of these are also still available at $24.95 and $19.95 respectively (30% discount). “As new” books (as well as used books) are 10% off, as usual.

05/22/06 MON:
---Here today from TTA:

INTERZONE #204, 6/06, (ultra-slick UK magazine; news, films, books, stories, interviews, audio; Mercurio D. Rivera’s “Longing for Langalana” & six brand new SF stories; regular columnists Nick Lowe, David Langford, John Clute; World Fantasy Award winning artist John Picacio exclusive art & interview), new 7.00

---Haven’t received #203 yet, though. Obedient to the law that the better the publisher the worse the shipping department, I guess.

05/20/06 SAT:
---It occurred to me that maybe the latest book from Ash-Tree should have been here by now. Sure enough on their website it said the book was out Jan 28. So I inquired. Rec'd this reply:

Hi, Chris:
We had some delays with Annual Macabre (production issues), and I still have a few boxes to sort out. I'll make sure it ships to you early next week.

05/15/06 MON:
---Here today from PS Publishing:

Stableford, Brian STREAKING, PS, 4/06, 1st edn, one of 700 SIGNED copies, (intellectual thriller where luck plays a role; author’s finest work since The Empire of Fear; Storm Constantine intro; 326 pages), new in dj 45.00

05/12/06 FRI:
---Sure enough, here today--and only two days Media Mail from San Francisco--from Tachyon Direct (as distinct from their bookstore distributor Independent Press Group):

Bisson, Terry NUMBERS DON'T LIE, Tachyon '05, Special Preview Edition, one of 26 SIGNED & lettered copies, (three tales of Wilson Wu and his “Watson,” Irving, originally published in Asimov’s; collected previously in e-Book format by ElectricStory), new 25.00
---another copy of the preceding, '05, trade edn, SIGNED, as new 15.00

Powers, Tim STRANGE ITINERARIES, Tachyon '05, 1st edn, one of 100 SIGNED Special Preview Edition copies, (comprehensive short fiction collection), new 25.00
---also still have copies of the regular edition available for $15.95.

05/10/06 WED:
---Heard from Jacob at Tachyon that, while Numbers Don’t Lie (Terry Bisson) might be sold out, there are a few copies still laying around the office there. So, I’m expecting to at least have some of those here eventually--as well as a few more of the Special Preview Edition of that book as well as of Strange Itineraries (Tim Powers).
Also, there was mention of signed advance-reading copies of their Burn by James Patrick Kelly and Cultural Breaks by Brian Aldiss becoming available. Anyone interested let me know so I can relay my interest.

05/09/06 TUE:
---Here today from Stark House:

Packer, Vin WHISPER HIS SIN / THE EVIL FRIENDSHIP, Stark House Suspense Classics, 4/06, (two Fawcett Gold Medal pb originals from 50s; gay themed; new intros by author; Jon L. Breen afterword: "The Novels of Vin Packer"), new 19.95

05/08/06 MON:
---Here today from Hippocampus:

Schultz, David E. & S.T. Joshi (eds) THE SHADOW OF THE UNATTAINED: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith, Hippocampus ('05), 1st edn, (fifteen year correspondence between two poetic titans; appendix adds all of each author's writings about the other; 342 pages), new 20.00

---Back in stock:

Dunsany, Lord THE PLEASURES OF A FUTUROSCOPE, Hippocampus ('03), 1st edn, (author's last, prevously unpublished, work; edited by S.T. Joshi), {trade pb still available @ $15}, new in dj 32.95

Joshi, S.T. PRIMAL SOURCES: Essays on H.P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus ('03), 1st edn, (first major selection of author's Lovecraftian essays; penetrating insight), new 15.00

Lovecraft, H.P. FROM THE PEST ZONE: The New York Stories, Hippocampus ('03), 1st edn, (lengthy biographical intro & story notes; Joshi & Schultz [eds]), new 15.00

---THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME: The Corrected Text, Hippocampus ('01), new 15.00

---Although no one (except me) noticed my paltry allotment had sold out, now back in stock from Haffner Press:

Williamson, Jack THE CRUCIBLE OF POWER: The Collected Stories of..., Volume Five, Haffner '06, 1st edn, (less than thee-part serials from 1938-1940; blend of classics reprinted for the umpteenth time and rarities debuting in book form here; Frank M. Robinson intro; 523 pages), new in dj 40.00

05/05/06 FRI:
---Here today from Night Shade:

Drake, David THE COMPLETE HAMMER'S SLAMMERS: Volume One, Night Shade ('06), 1st edn, one of 250 copies SIGNED by author as well as by the introducer and cover artist (John Berkey), (Gene Wolfe intro), new in dj 60.00
---There is also a trade edn but I haven’t received it yet. (I must have forgot to order it.)

Haldeman, Joe WAR STORIES, Night Shade ('05), 1st edn, one of 175 SIGNED copies, (collects novels War Year and 1968; plus stories and introductions; 406 pages), new in dj 49.00
---Again, there is also a trade edn but I haven’t received it yet. (I must have forgot to order it.)

Harrison, M. John THE COURSE OF THE HEART, Night Shade ('06), (an extraordinary novel of weird metaphysical exploration and dark convulsive beauty; first published in 1992), new 13.95

Hughes, Matthew THE GIST HUNTER & Other Stories, Night Shade ('05), 1st edn, one of 125 SIGNED copies, (Dying Earth-esque Archonite stories), {ltd edn still available @ $49}, new in dj 27.00

Reed, Kit BRONZE, Night Shade ('05), 1st edn, one of 125 SIGNED copies, (A Tale of Terror), {trade edn still avail. @ 24.95}, new in dj 49.00

Saunders, Charles IMARO, Night Shade ('06), 1st edn thus, (significantly different from previously published edn; innovative heroic fantasy; Charles de Lint intro), new 14.95

Shepard, Lucius TRUJILLO, Night Shade ('05), 1st edn thus, (a novel; set in small town in Honduras), {175-copy signed ltd edn with added CD home video avail. @ $49}, new in dj 24.95

Williams, Liz SNAKE AGENT, Night Shade ('05), 1st edn, one of 125 SIGNED copies, (a Detective Inspector Chen novel), {trade edn avail. @ 24.95}, new in dj 49.00

---Back in stock:

Banks, Iain M. THE ALGEBRAIST, Night Shade ('05), 1st US edn, one of 250 SIGNED copies, (space opera of truly epic scale; Hugo nominee), new in dj 49.00
---The trade edn, which I never managed to get, is sold out.

Hodgson, William Hope THE NIGHT LAND and Other Perilous Romances, Night Shade '05, 1st edn thus, (The Collected Fiction Vol 4; Jeremy Lassen [ed & intro]; 487 pages), new no dj as issued (decorative boards) 35.00

05/02/06 TUE:
---Updated catalog data for CD-R burning to include with shipments going out.

04/29/06 SAT:
---Ran my first road race in some years, the 8K at the Drake Relays. My conditioning leaves a lot to be desired, but I was glad to be able to finish about in the middle of the pack for my age group. A big race, even my personal photos have been posted on-line.

04/26/06 WED:
---Here today from Hippocampus:

Lovecraft, H.P. COLLECTED ESSAYS Volume 3: Science, Hippocampus ('05), 1st edn, (third volume of complete nonfiction; as a whole, this volume displays Lovecraft’s devotion to science as the ultimate arbiter of truth and as the source of his unique cosmic vision; edited by S.T. Joshi), {hc in dj available @ $40}, new 20.00
---COLLECTED ESSAYS Volume 4: Travel, Hippocampus ('05), 1st edn, (fourth volume of complete nonfiction; some of author’s most heartwarming pieces; edited by S.T. Joshi), {hc in dj available @ $40}, new 20.00

Waugh, Robert H. THE MONSTER IN THE MIRROR: Looking for H.P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus ('06), 1st edn, (essays by leading Lovecraft scholar; in all, the essays demonstrate that Lovecraft’s multifaceted work is a virtually inexhaustible treasure-trove for the scholar and analyst), new 20.00

---I notice now that I neglected to order a somewhat earlier Hippocampus title:

THE SHADOW OF THE UNATTAINED
THE LETTERS OF GEORGE STERLING AND CLARK ASHTON SMITH
Edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi
December 2005: 342 pp: ISBN 0974878936: Paperback: $20.00

Now I do have this on order, as well as a couple other titles I noticed I had run out of.

04/25/06 TUE:
---Word from Golden Gryphon:

Greetings from the Gryphon:

SLEEPING POLICEMEN, by Dale Bailey and Jack Slay Jr. is now available!

High in the Smoky Mountains, in an instant of gut-wrenching horror,
five lives are about to change forever.
For Nick Laymon, that night begins like any other evening during his
four years at Ransom College—with cold beer in the company of his closest
friends, Finney Durant and Reed Tucker, followed by the sweet midnight
promise of the girl he’s always dreamed of, Sue Thompson. It will end nine
hours later, when Nick and his friends run down a lone pedestrian on a stretch
of deserted mountain highway.
In the folds of the dead man's coat, Nick finds two items: a sheaf of
hundred dollar bills and a mysterious key. The cash ignites ambitions Nick has
barely dared admit before this moment. The key will lead him to a bus station
locker and the homemade video tape that waits inside it.
And the video tape, with its graphic depiction of the rape and murder
of a missing teenage girl, will plunge them all into a nightmare.
In the hours that follow, Nick Laymon and his friends will find
themselves under pressure from all quarters. From the private detective who
claims to represent the father of the missing girl. From the state trooper who
knows about the man they left for dead along that stretch of fog-shrouded
pavement. And from a shadowy underworld figure known as the Pachyderm,
who wants his money and his video back--and who is willing to go to any
length to get them.
Most of all, however, these hours will bring Nick and his companions
face to face with the limits of friendship. As his life unravels around him, Nick
Laymon will be forced to reckon with his own dark potential. And in the
explosive climax, he will face the most crucial choices of his life:
What kind of man does he want to be? And what kind of price is he
willing to pay?

Tell your librarian that they'll like this one; the college student that likes libraries is
still alive on the last page! Maybe they should order two?

SLEEPING POLICEMEN, by Dale Bailey and Jack Slay Jr.
Cover art by John Picacio
ISBN 1-930846-40-1 / $24.95 (Trade hardcover)
198 pages
Golden Gryphon Press

---I do have my pre-order in for this, I know, but am unsure if it is enough to trigger an actual shipment (fulfilling minimum invoice requirement).

---Word from Borderlands:

Many moons ago Charlie and Tom co-wrote a novelette entitled "When Dark Descends." They sent a copy of the manuscript to their agent at the time (Kirby McCauley) who lost the manuscript. It was never published, and both Charlie and Tom could not find any copies of the original—which had been written on typewriters. (remember those???)

In cleaning out some old files, Tom found the only remaining CARBON of the manuscript.

Tom assures me that "the people they gonna love-a this tale" so Borderlands Press will publish a limited edition in hardcover signed by both authors.

$35.00 Retail
$75.00 Lettered

When Dark Descends
by Charles L. Grant & Thomas F. Monteleone

An intriguing tale of mystery and apocalyptic vision.
Pub date: June 10, 2006

04/24/06 MON:
---Here today from PS Publishing:

Calder, Richard BABYLON, PS, 3/06, 1st edn, one of 700 SIGNED copies, (dark love story set in 1888 Whitechapel, London; K.J. Bishop intro), new in dj 45.00

Esslemont, Ian Cameron NIGHT OF KNIVES: A Novel of Malaz, PS, 5/06, 1st trade edn, (Steven Erikson intro), {hc in dj still available @ $50}, new 25.00

Etchison, Dennis FINE CUTS, PS, 3/06, 1st edn, (new collection of tales about Hollywood; Peter Atkins intro), new in dj 45.00

Morris, Mark (ed) CINEMA MACABRE, PS, 3/06, 1st edn, (fifty genre practitioners asked to pick their favourite horror movie and asked to wax lyrical about it; Jonathan Ross intro), new in dj 45.00

POSTSCRIPTS #6, spr/06, PS, (The A to Z of Fantastic Fiction; Juliet McKenna cover story; fiction by Matthew Hughes, Rhys Hughes, Zoran Zivkovic, Stephen Baxter, Garry Kilworth and Conrad Williams; Steven Erikson editorial; Elizabeth Hand interview; Mike Ashley on Houdini), as new 10.00

Samuels, Mark THE FACE OF TWILIGHT, PS, 2/06, 1st edn, (may be author’s most bizarre tale yet; Mark Morris intro; 133 pages), new 18.00

Wolfe, Gene CHRISTMAS INN, PS Chapbook #1, 1/06, (a special publication for Postscripts subscribers; 28 pages), new no dj as issued (illustrated boards) 35.00

Zivkovic, Zoran IMPOSSIBLE STORIES, PS, 3/06, 1st edn, (assembles for the first time between a single set of covers five of the author’s distinguished story-cycles, as well as the standalone “The Telephone: twenty-nine stories in all; di Filippo intro; 391 pages), new in dj 45.00

---Also available, but which I do not generally carry in inventory, are the slipcased and more limited editions of the above hardcovers (mostly signed, but less limited), and hardcover editions of the softcovers (Postscripts and The Face of Twilight).

---Also here today:

TALEBONES #32, spr/06, (Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy; Charles Coleman Finlay; Louise Marley interview; more; 108 pages), new 7.00

04/20/06 THU:
---Here today from Independent Press Group (Golden Gryphon, Tachyon--and Aio):

Ford, Jeffrey THE EMPIRE OF ICE CREAM, Golden Gryphon '06, 1st edn, (author's second short story collection; a neopolitan blend of the fantastic, the mythical, and the surreal; Jonathan Carroll intro), new in dj 24.95

Fowler, Karen Joy, Pat Murpy, Debbie Notkin & Jeffrey D. Smith (eds) THE JAMES TIPTREE AWARD ANTHOLOGY 2, Tachyon '06, 1st edn, (stories for men, women, and the rest of us; honors stories that expore and expand our notion of gender; Le Guin, Lethem, Haldeman, etc.), new 14.95

Neuce, Jus NOCTURNE, Aio ('05), (Bang!…a sudden act of violence shocks a planet; subtle speculation), new 14.00

Kelly, James Patrick BURN, Tachyon '05, 1st edn, (great stuff; a powerful cocktail of the strange and the hauntingly familiar; 178 pages), new in dj 19.95

Shepard, Lucius THE GOLDEN, Golden Gryphon '06, 1st softcover edn, (multiflavoured feast of rich emotions), new 14.95

Zebrowski, George BLACK POCKETS and Other Dark Thoughts, Golden Gryphon '06, 1st trade edn (Easton Press is doing a signed/leather edn), (author's first collection of horror stories; Howard Waldrop intro), new in dj 24.95

---Back in stock:

Reed, Robert THE DRAGONS OF SPRINGPLACE, Golden Gryphon '99, 1st edn, (stories; midcareer retrospective of author's finest achievements), new in dj 23.95

Tiptree, James, Jr. HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER, Tachyon '04, 1st edn thus, (stories; updated edn contains revisions from author’s notes), new 15.95

---The Zebrowski and Ford are GG titles #45 and #44 respectively, if you are keeping track (or collecting). Of course, they look to be excellent reading--as do all Golden Gryphon titles. There were also some copies of Bisson’s NUMBERS DON’T LIE from Tachyon in my invoice, but not in the box. I don’t think I ever even got the regular published edition of that--just the special preview edition. Guess I still don’t have it now. Well, maybe next time, I guess.

04/17/06 MON:
---Finally got another batch uploaded to my biblio listings, bringing alphabet to Strie- (from Mic-). Next up will be through Tarr (including Sturgeon and Swanwick, I noticed.) Orders through biblio seem to be coming along at a fairly consistent pace, making for a nice subsidiary cashflow stream--nothing too tough to keep up with--but enough to keep at bay the sending of printed-paper catalogs.

---Finally got order to Hippocampus sent. Since it sounded like the hardcovers of the latest volumes of Lovecraft essays would be coming later, and I knew I needed some of those, I took my time--not entirely because I meant to, though. Anyway, I hope I will have the latest three of their publications in hand soon. I did have a standing order, but when they went to print-on-demand technology and somewhat more expensive (though larger) books, I was queried first. Getting caught in the current flow of my emails is not always the best for responsiveness, in spite of all my best of intentions.

04/12/06 WED:
---Here today from Haffner Press:

Williamson, Jack THE CRUCIBLE OF POWER: The Collected Stories of..., Volume Five, Haffner '06, 1st edn, (less than thee-part serials from 1938-1940; blend of classics reprinted for the umpteenth time and rarities debuting in book form here; Frank M. Robinson intro; 523 pages), new in dj 40.00

---Back in stock:

Hamilton, Edmond & Leigh Brackett STARK AND THE STAR KINGS, Haffner '05, 1st edn, (648-page collection of classic adventures, including previously unpublshed title story; Jakes intro; Alex Ebel illus), new in dj 45.00

04/11/06 TUE:
---Word from Golden Gryphon:

Greetings from the Gryphon:

BLACK POCKETS AND OTHER DARK THOUGHTS, by George Zebrowski, is now
available!

George Zebrowski’s first collection of horror stories includes the title novella
written especially for this volume. Gathered from his entire career, these nineteen
tales divide into Personal, Political, and Metaphysical terrors—to scare you
individually, societally, and when you ask “What’s it all about?”
“Part of the beauty of this book,” writes Howard Waldrop in his introduction,
“is that Zebrowski can write about people who are not like him (or you and me).
Many are not as intelligent, nice, thoughtful, or as sensitive as their author. What is
really hard is writing about someone just a little less, or a little more intelligent,
sensitive, caring, etc. than you. His deft use of character is such that you forget that
most horror stories just fill time before the protagonist is eaten or impaled or gets
their comeuppance somehow.” Zebrowski pulls horrifying situations out of the flaws
in his people, not from ancient evils or from the cliché of inexplicable serial killers.
“Zebrowski is writing a new kind of horror story,” Waldrop concludes, “—as new as
Fritz Leiber’s ‘Smoke Ghost’ was in its time,” in the legendary magazine Unknown
Worlds.
George Zebrowski’s forty books include novels, short fiction collections, a
book of essays, and various anthologies. He has been a finalist for the Theodore
Sturgeon Award and a multiple Nebula Award nominee. Stranger Suns was a New
York Times Notable Book in its year, and Brute Orbits, an uncompromising novel
about future prisons, was honored with the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for
Best Novel of its year. His classic Macrolife, praised by Arthur C. Clarke and many
others, has been reissued in a 25th Anniversary edition by Pyr Books, with an
introduction by Ian Watson.

No ax murderers, no little girls spitting pea soup, no werewolves--this is horror of the
psychological and philosophical nature, perfect for libraries.

Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts, by George Zebrowski
Cover art by Bob Eggleton
ISBN 1-930846-40-1 / $24.95 (Trade hardcover)
275 pages
Golden Gryphon Press

---I have an order sent out now for the above-announced book, and the previous couple GG titles I have fallen behind in getting--as well as titles from other publishers also distributed by Independent Press Group.