THE LOST MACHINE BY RICHARD A. KIRK UP FOR PRE-ORDER!
THE LOST MACHINE by Richard A. Kirk (signed trade paperback edition)
In a wasteland ravaged by plague, Lumsden Moss steps out of a decaying prison. Armed with a satchel of yellowed notebooks containing the fragile memories of five murdered children, he is determined to track down and confront their killer. Lumsden, accompanied by a stranger, begins a long journey to the vast City of Steps where he is forced to confront the horrors of the past and present.
“A crow, chased by smaller birds, rose from a wind sculpted tree. Twisted strands of grass emerged from the snow and rattled against the crust, but it was a person standing in the yard that caught his attention and set his heart racing. Moss looked over his shoulder. Going back inside was unthinkable. Seeing that the gates were loose, the locking mechanism brutalized, he shoved them outward. The dry hinges juddered, showering the bricks with rust that looked like flakes of dried blood.”
“What Richard has succeeded in doing here is to draw a dark,strangely beautiful world—a world uniquely his own (which I would love to see more of by the way)… He has made his places real and his people breathe”. Mike Mignola, creator/writer/artist of Hellboy
DELUXE SHERLOCK IMPOSSIBLE CASES IN STOCK! ONLY 13 COPIES DONE!
SHERLOCK HOLMES THE IMPOSSIBLE CASES by Daniel McGachey (signed limited deluxe hardcover)
In these recently discovered accounts, sealed and hidden from prying eyes for almost eighty years, Dr. John H. Watson puts pen to paper once more, as he accompanies his friend, that most rational of detectives, Mr. Sherlock Holmes in the utterly irrational realm of the otherworldly, the uncanny, and the supernatural.
What was it about the loathsome contents of a match-box that sent an apparently fearless man stark staring mad?
How can Sherlock Holmes be called upon to investigate a murder where the victim is his client, and where the murder has already taken place?
What is it that lies in the darkness of an ancient burial mound, and can it really bring about death to any who would disturb its resting place?
Can mere words in a stolen manuscript really open men’s minds to maddeningly terrifying visions of a world beyond our own?
In order to find the solutions to these problems, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson may yet discover that sometimes it is not so easy to eliminate the impossible!
GORD ROLLO VALLEY OF THE SCARECROW!
VALLEY OF THE SCARECROW by Gord Rollo (Limited edition hardcover)
During the great depression, a small backwoods community in Iowa face even more difficult times than most, having to endure the slowly fading sanity of their leader, Reverend Joshua Miller. When it is clear the man has slipped beyond the edge of reason and perhaps signed a deal with the devil, the citizens unite to stop him any way they can, breaking into the church to lash the reverend to his wooden alter cross then boarding up the windows and doors to leave him to fate and God’s judgment. The people of Oak Valley then abandoned their town to the cornfields and woods; ending the madness for what they hoped was forever.
They were wrong!
Seventy-four years later, the corn and trees have taken back the area and not much is left of the once thriving little community but Joshua Miller’s desecrated church still stands, and within it’s boarded up and sun-baked walls something that used to be a holy man waits for whoever is unfortunate enough to release him from his cross…
TWO GRAY FRIAR TITLES COMING TO THE MALL!
THE CASTLE OF LOS ANGELES by Lisa Morton (trade paperback edition)
Theatre director Beth Ortiz is the newest resident of The Castle, an exclusive Los Angeles artists’ community. Anxious actors aren’t all Beth has to worry about in her new space, however, for The Castle has a secret history of madness and murder, and a celebrity artist who develops a strange fixation on Beth.
And The Castle also happens to be haunted. By some particularly uneasy spirits.
WHERE THE HEART IS edited by Gary Fry (trade paperback edition)
Take an alternative tour of Great Britain . . .
Writers are often told to write about what they know best . . . and what do they know better than their own homes? In this anthology, 19 fine authors of dark fiction reveal some of the less palatable elements of their native environments.
There’s blood where the heart is. Much blood.
Stephen Volk
Rhys Hughes
Gary McMahon
Joel Lane
Simon Bestwick
Paul Finch
Gary Fry
D F Lewis
Andrew Hook
Allen Ashley
Stuart Young
Simon Kurt Unsworth
Carole Johnstone
Michelle James
Stephen Bacon
John Travis
Mark Patrick Lynch
Mark West
Mike O’Driscoll
NEW DANIEL MCGACHEY & SOME EXTRA COPIES OF SIDESHOW AND QUILL AND CANDLE!
SHERLOCK HOLMES THE IMPOSSIBLE CASES by Daniel McGachey (signed limited edition hardcover)
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
In these recently discovered accounts, sealed and hidden from prying eyes for almost eighty years, Dr. John H. Watson puts pen to paper once more, as he accompanies his friend, that most rational of detectives, Mr. Sherlock Holmes in the utterly irrational realm of the otherworldly, the uncanny, and the supernatural.
Enter the gaslit world of Holmes and Watson – a world caught halfway between the bright glare of science and logic and the darker clutches of superstition and fear – a world of unknown creatures, secret seances, ancient curses, and forbidden knowledge – where the enquiring mind of the world’s first consulting detective must search for the answer to some new and challenging questions… What was it about the loathsome contents of a match-box that sent an apparently fearless man stark staring mad? How can Sherlock Holmes be called upon to investigate a murder where the victim is his client, and where the murder has already taken place? What is it that lies in the darkness of an ancient burial mound, and can it really bring about death to any who would disturb its resting place? Can mere words in a stolen manuscript really open men’s minds to maddeningly terrifying visions of a world beyond our own? In order to find the solutions to these problems, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson may yet discover that sometimes it is not so easy to eliminate the impossible!
“Daniel McGachey deserves praise for honoring Holmes and respecting Watson’s writing. In Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases, he enables the reader to be privy to a fascinating and entertaining archive. There have been other speculations about Holmes’ encounters with the occult; but in this volume, the voice of Watson loudly and clearly sets the record straight.” – Sheila Merritt, Hellnotes.com.
SIDESHOW by William Ollie (signed limited hardcover)
OUT OF PRINT AT THE PUBLISHER!
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.
QUILL AND CANDLE by Scott Thomas (signed limited hardcover edition)
In “Quill and Candle” Scott Thomas invites the reader back to an earlier, quieter time, when travelers relied on horses, when cooking was done over a hearth, and frost nights were illuminated by tapers. It was, perhaps, a more haunted time…
Here you will find the corpse of a child which can foretell the future, and a stately Massachusetts house where the painting of a mourning gown haunts a bedchamber wall. Something terrible inhabits a wintry woodlot and something worse menaces a war-bound frigate. The seventeen stories within are steeped in autumn leaves, chilled in wintry wind and haunted by New England ghosts.
NEW PRESS MHB DEBUTS WITH EDWARD LEE AND GRAHAM MASTERTON!
THE CHOSEN by Edward Lee (Deluxe hardcover edition)
This will be the World First Hardback Edition and First British Edition of this title, originally published in the USA as a paperback original by Pinnacle books.
For the first time Edward Lee‘s classic novel of erotic horror will be available to collector’s and fans in a quality, signed hardback edition.
Printed on matte coated Vancouver 90gsm paper. This edition to be hand bound by British craftsmen using traditional binding techniques to produce a book to cherish for a lifetime. Designed to appeal to not only fans of Lee’s writing but also collectors of finely bound limited editions this will be quarter bound in the finest red goat skin leather with black cloth covered boards, headbands, vermillion embossed endpapers and bound in ribbon bookmark. With additional color artwork (not in the Collector’s edition) and housed in a quality cloth covered slipcase this edition oozes quality!
“Edward Lee …. blends nail-biting terror, suspense and eroticism like a dark magician and the results are always staggering!” – Cemetery Dance Magazine
Synopsis: Restaurant manager Vera Abott seems to have been given the job of her dreams. With a huge salary, company car and accommodation thrown in she moves to The Inn – a new restaurant / hotel being developed at the secluded Wroxton Hall by the mysterious Mr. Feldspar. But from the day she arrives she realises something is seriously wrong. She hears strange noises and sees shadowy figures prowling the corridors late at night and in her dreams is seduced by a hideous stranger who uses her body to satisfy his depraved lusts. The Inn hides a terrible secret and Vera is about to be initiated into a secret world of diabolical sex and horror.
WARNING – the content and illustrations mean this one is Strictly Adults Only!!
THE SPHINX BY Graham Masterton (Collector hardcover edition)
Originally published in 1978 as a Star paperback original and by W.H. Allen in hardback. Out of print for many years, Graham Masterton’s classic horror novel is now available to collectors and fans in a quality signed hardback edition.
300 numbered copies signed by the author. Printed on matte coated Vancouver 115gsm paper. Sewn block, bound in Colorado cloth with headbands, colored endpapers and bound in ribbon bookmark with DJ.
“A mesmerizing storyteller whose fascination with the fine points of human weakness and deft touch for the total gross out keep the pages turning.” – Publishers Weekly
Synopsis:
For up and coming politician Gene Keiller an attraction to a beautiful woman is no strange thing. But Lorie Semple is no ordinary woman . . . she has a secret . . . she has history . . . and when attraction becomes obsession he takes his first steps on a perilous journey where myth and reality collide with devastating consequences. A savage beast is unleashed and by the time he discovers the truth about the mysterious beauty who has so captivated his soul it is far too late to run. “That people,” they are called, for no man can bring himself to speak their name out loud . . . and their obscene secret is about to be revealed.
TASMANIAC AND BRETT MCBEAN A SURE FIRE COMBINATION!
CONCRETE JUNGLE by Brett McBean (signed limited edition paperback)
It’s late. A few remaining shoppers head for the multi-story car park after attacking the sales at an adjacent shopping center.
However, they become trapped in the underground bunker when, incredibly, trees start to sprout from beneath the car park, transforming the concrete structure into a ruined, maze-like cavern.
Unable to find a way out it becomes a struggle for survival, for not only does the car park continue to transform back into a jungle, wild animals have begun to appear, governed by hunger under the foliage canopy. Now the humans must fight to survive – not only Mother Nature, but a foe just as deadly…each other.
With bonus Jungle stories from Nate Kenyon and Tim Kroenert.
Cover art by Steve Crisp. Internal illustrations by Keith Minnion.
TWO HOT TITLES IN STOCK AND SHIPPING!!
SIDESHOW by William Ollie (signed limited hardcover)
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
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE by Thomas Ligotti (limited hardcover edition)
“The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to the intellectual blackmail that would oblige us to be eternally grateful for a ‘gift’ we never invited.” –From the Foreword by Ray Brassier
“The Conspiracy against the Human Race is renowned horror writer Thomas Ligotti‘s first work of nonfiction. Through impressively wide-ranging discussions of and reflections on literary and philosophical works of a pessimistic bent, he shows that the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination. The worst and most plentiful horrors are instead to be found in reality. Mr. Ligotti’s calm, but often bloodcurdling turns of phrase, evoke the dreadfulness of the human condition. Those who cannot bear the truth will pretend this is another work of fiction, but in doing so they perpetuate the conspiracy of the book’s title.”
–David Benatar,author of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence; Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Thomas Ligotti is one of the foremost authors of supernatural horror literature. In this genre, he has been classed with Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. His works include Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, My Work Is Not Yet Done, and Teatro Grottesco. Ligotti lives in Florida.
Ray Brassier is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Palgrave Macmillan 2007).
CRAZY EIGHT’S SKULLVINES SALE! ALL TITLES $8.00 EACH!!
THE SKULLVINES CRAZY EIGHTS SALE!!
In our ongoing effort to bring you some good summer reading, we have lowered our entire SKULLVINES PRESS catalog to $8.00 per title. So, grab up on as many as you can carry!
STEPHEN KING & JOE HILL FANS REJOICE!
STEPHEN KING’S N by Marc Guggenheim (trade hardcover)
There is something unearthly and mysterious deep in Ackerman’s Field in rural Maine. There is a Stonehenge-like arrangement of seven stones with a horrifying EYE in the center. And whatever dwells there in that strange, windswept setting may have brought about the suicide of one man…and harbor death for the OCD afflicted “N.”, whose visits to the field have passed beyond compulsion into the realm of obsession. Based on the chilling short story from the recent Stephen King collection, JUST AFTER SUNSET, this adaptation will provide nightmares aplenty. Just keep counting the stones…keep counting…counting… Collecting STEPHEN KING‘S N. #1-4.
A young man is betrayed, and finds himself in a desperate battle of man versus beast. Is the love of a maiden enough to keep him alive? Co-writers Joe Hill and Jason Ciaramella, along with artist Nat Jones, weave a special tale filled with flame, fur, and ferocity in the upcoming one-shot, Kodiak.
DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME by Peter David & Robin Furth (trade paperback)
The gunslinger is born – into a harsh world of mystery and violence. Susan Delgado is dead. Clay Reynolds and the vestiges of the Big Coffin Hunters are in pursuit. The ka-tet fragments as evil abounds. It will be a long road home. With Roland seemingly lost inside the haunted world of Maerlyn’s Grapefruit, and the dark forces therein tugging at his soul, it will take all the courage of his ka-tet to get him out of Hambry and back home. But as the Dogan stirs, portending an evil of which Roland and his ka-tet have no ken, it may very well be that the gunslinger born walks a long road home to death. Collecting DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME #1-5.