VOICES FROM PUNKTOWN by Jeffrey Thomas (signed limited lettered hardcover edition)

In these eleven searing stories, Jeffrey Thomas (Blue War, Deadstock) takes us on another tour of the infamous far-future colony known as Punktown, its streets raging with violence and danger, its alleys stalked by aliens and mutants, its citizens struggling to retain their humanity, dignity, and sanity in the oppressive shadows of its soaring cold towers. Mixing mind-bending science fiction with bone-chilling horror, Thomas again demonstrates why his initial collection Punktown was met with wide acclaim.

“Punktown is one of the best examples of SF horror currently out there.” — Ellen Datlow, in Locus

“Punktown is searing and alien and anxious and rich, and it is humane, and it is moving. Jeffrey Thomas has done something wonderful.” — China Mieville

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JADE by Gene O’Neill (signed limited trade softcover edition)

Jade, with her beautiful eyes is a wasteland defective, a quasimodo.

An advocate for other Cal Wild defectives, she soon runs afoul of the mysterious and ominous Aryan Colonists.

Soon after she experiences the high of first love and the low of gruesome death, eventually spiritually soaring above the sleaze, bigotry, and violence of the San D Ruins.

Introduction by Michael McBride.

LITTLE THINGS by John R. Little (trade paperback edition)

John R. Little has been publishing his unique brand of short stories for almost 30 years. Little Things is a retrospective of his career, containing his best work. The stories in this collection will make you feel a sense of wonder. Some will shock you, make you sad, bring laughter, scare you, and they will sear into your memory. The author is the winner of the Bram Stoker award and the Black Quill award for his book Miranda.

John R. Little is blessed with both amazing talent and a fantastic imagination. Always a treat to read. If you miss him, you’re missing something good. — Brian Keene, Bram Stoker-winning author of A Gathering of Crows.

John Little is one of those writers who the rest of us envy—he’s a visionary, with personal obsessions (time, love, even cruelty) that define his work while continually refreshing it. His stories are disturbing, uplifting, thought-provoking, exciting, melancholy, horrifying, and sweet… all at once. John’s one of the great magicians of modern genre literature, and we’re lucky to share this time frame with him. — Lisa Morton, Bram Stoker-winning author of The Lucid Dreaming

DRAGONFLY by John Farris (signed limited hardcover)

According to John Farris himself, there is not a better-written book in his entire, extensive catalog than Dragonfly, his riveting southern Gothic suspense novel, complete with mysterious anti-heros, sinister doctors, heroic women in wheelchairs, and raging tropical storms.

With a perceptive introduction by Thomas Monteleone, an amazing cover by Swiss artist Gwabryel, and a bonus short story, this is a book that shows a master at the top of his form.

Limited to 200 copies, the book is bound in cloth with a printed front panel. The book also contains a bonus short story by Farris. Each copy is signed by John Farris.

THE NINTH CONFIGURATION by William Peter Blatty (signed limited hardcover)

Published in 1967, and then extensively revised and published again in 1978, The Ninth Configuration is a fascinating look at madness, philosophy, and the nature of religious belief, the second part of William Peter Blatty’s ‘Trilogy of Faith,’ which also comprises The Exorcist and Legion. Both Twinkle, Twinkle ‘Killer’ Kane and The Ninth Configuration have been out of print for decades, but now they see new light in a handsome edition which combines both novels, with an introduction by Mark Kermode and a brief afterword by Blatty. Heavily illustrated, with two photographs of the author and a gallery of old paperback and hardcover editions.

The hardcover edition is limited to just 200 copies and each one is signed by William Peter Blatty. Bound in cloth with a printed front panel by artist Elixio Flores. This is the definitive edition of this novel.

SIDESHOW by William Ollie (trade softcover edition)

The smoke ring rose, higher and higher, changing shape as it went, until it disappeared into a cloud that moments ago had looked like the caboose of a train, a cloud that now began to change, to mold and meld, to twist and turn and take on the shape of the thing that had entered it. This thing, this dark entity, hung frozen in the sky, calling those chosen few out from their houses, their bars and their factories, calling them forth to face what waited in that dark and foreboding night.

Justin Henry didn’t believe his friend had seen a Ferris wheel rise up from the ground like a runaway vine. But he followed Mickey Reardon out to the overgrown field at the edge of their little country community anyway.

Now two thirteen-year-old boys have seen something they shouldn’t have, witnessed something they couldn’t have, and neither of their lives will ever be the same again.

The carnival is in town, a very different kind of carnival this year.

One no one will be coming home from.

“With his second effort, William Ollie has made a quantum leap beyond the promise of his excellent debut novel The Damned, revealing to his readers a mysterious Ferris wheel and carnival recreating ominous feelings once produced by the classic Something Wicked This Way Comes; and a handling of viewpoints of two young boys every bit as deftly as the best of Stephen King. Chills and thrills abound in Hannibal Cobb’s Kansas City Carnival, a place of magic and mystery you won’t soon forget. Sideshow has my highest recommendation.”
- Gene O’Neil,
Author of Doc Good’s Traveling Show

FESTIVE FEAR- GLOBAL EDITION (limited edition paperback)

The fear returns and this time it’s worldwide!

Anthology of original dark stories set around the Christmas period. Tales that will encourage you to check and recheck doors and windows are securely locked, that you know exactly what ingredients went into the punch before taking a sip, and evokes a heart murmur every time you hear Merry Christmas!

Christopher Conlon, Steve Cameron, Paul Kane, Tim Curran, B. Michael Radburn, Ellen Shaw & Wayne C Rogers, Scott Tyson, GNBraun, Matthew R. Davis, Adrian Chamberlin, Daniel I Russell, Alison J Littlewood, Lee Thompson, and Tom Piccirilli.

THE BAD MOON BOOKS ALL THREES SALE!

Hey, we here at Bad Moon Books love THREES! One of our favorite of course is the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Here are some others: my three beautiful granddaughters, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, 3 of a kind in poker, well, you get the idea. So we thought it would be fun to have an ALL THREE’S SALE! The sale begins today on the 23rd, ends on August 13th (Friday), that’s THREE weeks, and YOU GET 30% OFF ANY IN STOCK BAD MOON BOOK TITLE! Why not grab a bunch right now. If you do, we promise to put you in our Top 3 customers……….. :0)

JOHNNY HALLOWEEN: TALES OF THE DARK SEASON by Norman Partridge (signed limited hardcover)

Norman Partridge’s Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s 100 Best Books of 2006. A Bram Stoker Award winner and World Fantasy nominee, Partridge’s rapid-fire tale of a small town trapped by its own shadows welcomed a wholly original creation, the October Boy, earning the author comparisons to Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson.

Now Partridge revisits Halloween with a collection featuring a half-dozen stories celebrating frights both past and present. In “The Jack o’ Lantern,” a brand new Dark Harvest novelette, the October Boy races against a remorseless döppelganger bent on carving a deadly path through the town’s annual ritual of death and rebirth. “Johnny Halloween” features a sheriff battling both a walking ghost and his own haunted conscience. In “Three Doors,” a scarred war hero hunts his past with the help of a magic prosthetic hand, while “Satan’s Army” is a real Partridge rarity previously available only in a long sold-out lettered edition from another press.

But there’s more to this holiday celebration besides fiction. “The Man Who Killed Halloween” is an extensive essay about growing up during the late sixties in the town where the Zodiac Killer began his murderous spree. In an introduction that explores monsters both fictional and real, Partridge recalls what it was like to live in a community menaced by a serial killer and examines how the Zodiac’s reign of terror shaped him as a writer.

Halloween night awaits. Join a master storyteller as he explores the layers of darkness that separate all-too-human evil from the supernatural. Let Norman Partridge lead you on seven journeys through the most dangerous night of the year, where no one is safe…and everyone is suspect.

SOURDOUGH AND OTHER STORIES by Angela Slatter (limited edition hardcover)

Welcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter’s impeccably imagined tales.

In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other. Love, loss and life are elegantly dissected in Slatter’s earthy yet poetic prose.

As Rob Shearman says in his Introduction: ‘Sourdough and Other Stories manages to be grand and ambitious and worldbuilding-but also as intimate and focused as all good short fiction should be . . . The joy of Angela Slatter’s book is that she’s given us a set of fairy tales that are at once both new and fresh, and yet feel as old as storytelling itself.’

Contains: ‘Introduction’ by Robert Shearman, ‘The Shadow Tree’, ‘Gallowberries’, ‘Little Radish’, ‘Dibblespin’, ‘The Navigator’, ‘The Angel Wood’, ‘Ash’, ‘The Story of Ink’, ‘Lost Things’, ‘A Good Husband’, ‘A Porcelain Soul’, ‘The Bones Remember Everything’, ‘Sourdough’, ‘Sister, Sister’, ‘Lavender and Lychgates’, ‘Under the Mountain, ‘Afterword’ by Jeff VanderMeer.

THE BLACK SUN SET by Lee Thomas (chapbook)

Past and Future. Life and death. The pieces of the Black Sun are rumoured to act as bridges between extremes, erasing boundaries and offering their holders the ability to move freely from one state to the next. Time is fluid, and the dead won’t stay dead.

Buster is a simple man who works as muscle for a small-time syndicate. He’s getting too old to bust limbs and collect debts, and he thinks it might be time to put away his criminal past. One of the few jobs he still enjoys is watching his boss’s house. The work is easy. The threat is minimal, and it allows him to spend time with his boss’s beautiful wife. What Buster doesn’t know is that his boss has been collecting pieces of an ancient amulet, an amulet with tremendous power, and there are people who will do anything to possess it.

Deception, seduction, torture and murder are only the beginning of the atrocities performed in the name of The Black Sun. People have killed for a single piece of it. They have died for one. Now, the pieces are coming together and no act is too brutal, too bloody if it means completing The Black Sun Set.