Altar 13 Auctions
I have now sent out 4 ownership certificates for Altar 13 numbers. #5 is now currently up for auction at the following link:
This auction ends Monday the 15th at 9 PM EST.
I have decided NOT to auction off the last 20 numbers after talking with authors. We determined that each author would like some of these titles available to the general public on announcement.
Altar 13 titles will be sold through the Delirium shop at Horror Mall.
Darkside Digital Growth & Guidelines For Publishers And Authors
I’ve just finished posting guidelines for both authors and publishers for getting your work sold through the shop. I’ve received more than two dozen queries in the past few weeks which tells me that digital is growing quicker than most would have imagined.
Sales at Darkside Digital have really spiked in 2010 and I attribute this to having quality control. Darkside Digital isn’t a one-stop shop for all horror e-books. I’ve implemented a standard that is higher than other sellers and have been rather selective about the e-books I sell here. I’ve come to HATE the Amazon model, where anyone who thinks they are an author can submit their work and have it online to sale within a few days. What this ultimately becomes is a fiction sewer where good authors and publishers become lost in the waste. It’s become easier to win the lottery than to casually browse these stores and find a decent read.
Also, I’ve found the new digital age has really led to poor quality in the layouts of new e-books. E-book conversion is an art form in itself and it’s not an easy thing to do. I’ve even known technically savvy people to pull their hair out when tackling the e-book conversion process. This is something we are watching closely. I want to avoid our customers downloading sub-par e-books. A bad layout or conversion can really take the joy out of reading.
I’ve worked extensibly with publishers behind the scenes to help to make some of their offerings of a higher quality and will continue to do so. I truly believe in the digital movement and want to see it done right.
Also, it’s important that our customers realize that we do watch reviews closely. If you download something from Darkside Digital and you get a bad layout from the publisher or other problems, please post your review. Be honest and also provide fair feedback with insight and we’ll take these into consideration for stocking titles by each publisher.
Publishers who want to see their titles listed at Darkside Digital can bookmark the following page:
http://www.horror-mall.com/submissions/view.php?id=3
Author who want to submit their original manuscripts for consideration can find the guidelines and submission form at the following URL:
http://www.horror-mall.com/submissions/view.php?id=4
Also, one last request for those of you who have found Darkside Digital and who have grown to appreciate what we offer: please help spread the word about the store. We’re the little guys fighting to reform the digital movement and are often shadowed by the corporates such as Amazon. Your referrals will be glad they discovered that bigger is, in fact, not better.
The Bag And The Crow Introduction
Hello everyone! I just wanted to write a blog and tell you a little about The Bag And The Crow and what you can expect from me in the future.
First of all, my name is Jassen Bailey and like many of you, I am a huge fan of the horror genre. I enjoy reading horror fiction, as well as watching horror movies. Some of you may know me from the Horror Mall Forums.
As of right now, The Bag And The Crow has many T-shirt designs to browse and choose from. I have taken over the slot which used to be Oddity Cotton at the Horror Mall and added some other designs to the mix.
In the not-so-distant-future, The Bag And The Crow will be producing some T-shirt designs that will be both limited and/or exclusive to the Horror Mall. For more information and updates, please sign up for The Bag And The Crow Newsletter. Please feel free to give me suggestions as to what you would like to see from The Bag And The Crow.
Please note that The Bag And The Crow has a Memorabilia section as well. Right now, there are some very cool items signed by Bill Moseley (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, House of 1000 Corpses, and The Devil’s Rejects). My goal is to get a wide variety of these items in the store for all you folks that couldn’t make a convention or want a cool collectible gift for a loved one.
I just got back from a Joe Hill signing and will be adding a few signed items by him in the upcoming days.
Thanks to Shane for giving me the opportunity to provide you with some of the best horror merchandise out there!
New T-Shirt Design: Stephen King’s Carrie
THEY’RE ALL GOING TO LAUGH AT YOU!
T-Shirt based on the terrifying adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling horror novel and the movie that was directed by shock maestro Brian De Palma.
One of the all-time great horror classics on this one-of-a-kind T-Shirt.
This high quality shirt was silk-screened by hand using the finest inks and is 100% pre-shrunk cotton.
Horror Mall Welcomes The Bag And The Crow
Support Horror Mall's latest shop!
I’m thrilled to welcome Horror Mall’s newest shop, The Bag And The Crow, owned and operated by Jassen Bailey. The Bag And The Crow will pick up where Oddity Cotton left off and go well beyond.
Horror Mall has an amazing community of supporters, ones who know the value of supporting independent entrepreneurs out there. So please help me welcome Jassen and his new business and if you’re in need of some new horror T-shirts, then please check out his store today.
Here’s a little more about the new shop…
The Bag and the Crow was established in 2010 by Jassen Bailey. The focus of this store is to provide fans of the horror genre with quality horror merchandise. There will be a bit of everything at The Bag And The Crow, however the emphasis will be providing customers with great T-shirt designs and collectible memorabilia. In addition, The Bag And The Crow will be producing exclusive limited edition horror T-shirts.
You can visit the shop at: http://www.horror-mall.com/thebagandthecrow/
You can visit the shop blog at: http://horrorgy.com/thebagandthecrow/
And please help support this new business by signing up for the shop newsletter HERE.
Also, for those registered on the Horror Mall forums, you can say hello to Jassen on his own forum that just went live:
http://www.horror-mall.com/forums/index.php?/forum/79-the-bag-and-the-crow/
VINTAGE SOUL PRE-ORDERS IN DRAWING FOR ONE OF A KIND LEATHER BOUND!
http://www.davidniallwilson.com/one-of-a-kind-hand-bound-vintage-soul-edition
When a gorgeous, three hundred year old vampire is kidnapped from her lover’s top floor, high-security suite, the city’s underground community is shaken.
The abduction seems impossible, and when things seem impossible, there is only one man in the dark, underground society of San Valencez, California who can be trusted to unravel them. Donovan DeChance is a collector of ancient manuscripts and books, a practicing mage, and a private investigator.
Called in to investigate, he soon finds that there is much more to the case than a simple abduction. There will be no ransom, and if he doesn’t prevent an ancient, forbidden ritual from reaching its culmination, far more than a single vampire’s undead life will be at stake.
Donovan, his fiery, sometimes lover Amethyst, and a troop of supporting characters follow the ghostly trail of the kidnapper through a winding maze of intrigue, always a step behind, through magical battles, murders, and confrontations with a rogue band of young vampires intent on beating Donovan at his own game.
Vintage Soul is a dark, urban, supernatural mystery. Set in a fictional underground society, a city within a city, it opens portals to the unknown darkness that surrounds us. Fast-paced, strewn with clues, investigation, and magic, this is a book sure to slake the appetites of fans of mystery and the supernatural. Welcome to the darkness; welcome to the world of Donovan DeChance. Vintage Soul is Book I of the DeChance Chronicles.
TAKE A SIP OF SOME VINTAGE SOUL BY DAVID NIALL WILSON!
VINTAGE SOUL by David Niall Wilson (signed limited hardcover edition)
When a gorgeous, three hundred year old vampire is kidnapped from her lover’s top floor, high-security suite, the city’s underground community is shaken.
The abduction seems impossible, and when things seem impossible, there is only one man in the dark, underground society of San Valencez, California who can be trusted to unravel them. Donovan DeChance is a collector of ancient manuscripts and books, a practicing mage, and a private investigator.
Called in to investigate, he soon finds that there is much more to the case than a simple abduction. There will be no ransom, and if he doesn’t prevent an ancient, forbidden ritual from reaching its culmination, far more than a single vampire’s undead life will be at stake.
Donovan, his fiery, sometimes lover Amethyst, and a troop of supporting characters follow the ghostly trail of the kidnapper through a winding maze of intrigue, always a step behind, through magical battles, murders, and confrontations with a rogue band of young vampires intent on beating Donovan at his own game.
Vintage Soul is a dark, urban, supernatural mystery. Set in a fictional underground society, a city within a city, it opens portals to the unknown darkness that surrounds us. Fast-paced, strewn with clues, investigation, and magic, this is a book sure to slake the appetites of fans of mystery and the supernatural. Welcome to the darkness; welcome to the world of Donovan DeChance. Vintage Soul is Book I of the DeChance Chronicles.
***This is book 6 in The Eclipse line.***
NEW DARK ARTS, WHEN THE NIGHT COMES DOWN UP FOR PRE-ORDER
WHEN THE NIGHT COMES DOWN Edited by Bill Breedlove (trade softcover)
TRAPPED WITHIN THE TWILIGHT… Call it what you like: dusk, twilight, sunset. It’s that magical moment between daylight and darkness when anything is possible — the evening ahead promises untold enchantment… or nameless dread.
Within are 16 tales of the oncoming blackness, including more than the usual cast of characters.
There are shapeshifters and gravediggers, but also supernatural private detectives and — perhaps most terrifying of all — beautiful creatures that prey on… horror writers. Murder, death — and things worse than death — are all waiting for you When The Night Comes Down.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Joseph D’Lacey
The Unwrapping of Alastair Perry
Etoile’s Tree
Introscopy
Morag’s Fungus
The Quiet Ones
Bev Vincent
Silvery Moon
Knock ‘Em Dead
Something In Store
Purgatory Noir
Robert E. Weinberg
Elevator Girls
The One Answer That Really Matters
Maze
Nate Kenyon
Breeding The Demons
Gravedigger
One With The Music
The Buzz of a Thousand Wings
New Digital Releases 3/8/10 (Jeffrey Thomas)
Two Jeffrey Thomas collections now released as digitals…
TERROR INCOGNITA by Jeffrey Thomas
13 TERRORS include…
- A deaf woman develops a strange bond with a bizarre lamp.
- A mysterious house in the forest conjures up the amorous dead.
- Another dimension awaits behind a sealed attic window.
- In Hell, once a year the damned are granted a bittersweet respite.
- The ghost of a madwoman creates a new body for herself from whats at hand.
- On a seemingly lifeless planet, a team of explorers discovers a displaced Victorian house.
- A shattered marriage opens the portal to a terrifying dream land.
- In a post-apocalyptic world, mutated infants are banished to an enigmatic island.
- A man on the brink of insanity finds himself tormented by alien beings.
- The grotesque subject matter of a series of T-shirts brings horror home to a callous man.
- The spirits of murdered animals find refuge in the body of a compassionate zoo worker.
- In the future, the notions of beauty become hideously distorted.
- A father murders his own daughter, but there has been a six-legged witness.
HONEY IS SWEETER THAN BLOOD by Jeffrey Thomas
Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood features eight very bizarre tales of erotic horror—including the novelette “Damask.”
In these stories, the author of the critically acclaimed collection Punktown and the Stoker-nominated novel Monstrocity walks the reader along the razor-studded tightrope between titillation and repulsion. Between pleasure and pain. Between sweetness and blood.
JOY, JOY, MACHINERIES OF JOY, BRADBURY AND GAIMAN!
THE MACHINERIES OF JOY by Ray Bradbury (signed limited hardcover traycase edition)
There are authors I remember for their stories, other authors I remember for their people. Ray Bradbury is the only author I remember who sticks in my heart for his times of year and his places. The October Country is a perfect Bradbury title. It gives us a time and it makes it a country. You can go there. It’s waiting.
Places: the green meadows of Green Town Il. in Dandelion Wine; the red sandy expanses broken by crumbling canals that could only be Bradbury’s Mars; the misty Venice Beach of Death is a Lonely Business. All of them, and so many more, locations that linger.
The Machineries of Joy is a book of places as much as it is a book of tales. Priests debate and argue about space travel, and an old woman seals her house from Death, and we ask (as Bradbury made us ask and ask and ask again) Who are the Martians? and we wonder, was the man on the bridge in Dublin really a beggar. . . ?
Ray colonised Hallowe’en, just as the Silver Locusts colonised Mars. He built it, as he built so much, and made it his. So when the wind blows the fallen autumn leaves across the road in a riot of flame and gold, or when I see a green field in summer carpeted by yellow dandelions, or when, in winter, I close myself off from the cold and write in a room with a TV screen as big as a wall, I think of Bradbury. . .
With joy. Always with joy.
Neil Gaiman, from his Introduction
***** THIS EDITION IS SIGNED BY RAY BRADBURY AND NEIL GAIMAN *****
