Author Archive for Larry Roberts
Bloodletting Press is based in Modesto, California and is run by Larry Roberts and his wife, Debra Roberts. They have been publishing fine limited edition books since 2002. Their titles are all highly prized by both collectors and readers alike and in 2008 were the recipients of the Bram Stoker award for Excellence in Specialty Press Publishing. Recently, Bloodletting has formed a several new imprints including, Morning Star Books, Infernal House, Arcane Wisdom and Cargo Cult Press.
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Only a few more days left to order these two ChiZine titles.
These two titles will be coming off the site soon and the limitation will be set, so if you’ve been on the fence, now is the time to reserve your copy before it’s to late.
IN THE MEAN TIME by Paul Tremblay (Limited Edition)
A history teacher begins his unorthodox senior course with clips from an ominous surveillance video, causing a student’s home life to deteriorate along with the lessons.
A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while figuring out how to handle Mom and the book club.
A blog documents society’s slow, unexplained, but inexorable end, or is it only a collection of pixel-sized paranoia?
A once-awkward teen holes up in a kiddie-themed amusement park after the end of the world, and schemes to take Cinderella’s Castle by force.
This collection by Paul G. Tremblay (author of The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland) features fifteen stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, and stories of longing and coping.
“In the Mean Time is a miscellany of voices—witty, wise, weird, assured. These stories push at boundaries, not just within genre; they play alongside the uneasy undercurrents of lives we’d usually call ordinary. Stories to read and read again.”
—Helen Oyeyemi, author of The Opposite House and White is for Witching
“In the Mean Time is a formidable collection, as disquieting as it is beautiful. They shock and they gleam, these stories, and the moods they provoke linger powerfully in the imagination: the dread of those who see the trouble coming and the strange relief of those upon whom it has already fallen.”
—Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
“Rumor has it that the world will end in fire and ice, but then again, if Paul Tremblay is to be believed, it may conclude in preternaturally active plants, amusement parks, sudden brain aneurisms, and silence. In Mean Time, end of the world scenarios brush up against the traumas of more personal apocalypses. The resulting stories are as stressful and quietly traumatic as they are fluidly and lucidly written.”
—Brian Evenson, author of Last Days and Fugue State
HC-only material:
. original untitled story to be printed on the front and back covers
. original short story “Chance the Dick” (an experimental story that
re-imagines the first chapter of The Little Sleep)
. short story “The Dilky Never Landed” (weirdboiled short story that takes
place in Jeffrey Thomas‘s Punktown universe)
– short story “King Bee” (Tremblay’s first published short story,
originally published ten years ago)
PEOPLE LIVE STILL IN CASHTOWN CORNERS by Tony Burgess (Limited Edition)
“It is what it is. That’s her car out there and, well, that’s her right there.”
Jeremy looks at the woman again. There’s a few flies dipping in and out of the back of her skull.
“What happened to her?”
I feel a little uncomfortable. I wasn’t really planning to lay it all out like this.
“Well, I hate to say this but I killed her.”
Jeremy nods slowly. He’s starting to take this in and I’m relieved.
“Don’t ask me why. Anything I say is just gonna sound ridiculous.”
I rub my hand in my hair. I want to appear frustrated.
“Things just got out of control.”
Bob Clark owns the Self Serve at Cashtown Corners. It’s the only business there and Bob is the only resident. He’s never been comfortable around other people. Until he starts to kill them. And murder, Bob soon discovers, is magic.
People Live Still at Cashtown Corners is Bob’s account of a tragedy we all thought was senseless.
Cargo Cult Press Teams Up With MODERNCINÉ Studio!
Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door: Movie Omnibus (limited Edition)
Many horror genre collectors hold The Girl Next Door as a literary classic and with the release of the movie in 2007 the rest of the world learned just how powerful and moving this story truly is.
Cargo Cult Press in conjunction with MODERNCINÉ studio is proud to be releasing Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door Movie Omnibus.
This book will include:
- The original Screenplay written by Daniel Farrands & Philip Nutman
- Introduction by Jack Ketchum
- Essays written by the following
- Blanch Baker (Actress Playing Ruth Chandler)
- Blythe Auffarth (Actress Playing Meg Loughlin)
- Producer Andrew van den Houten
- Director Gregory Wilson
- Score: Ryan Shore
- Producer & Cinematographer: William M. Miller
- Interview with Jack Ketchum, Daniel Farrands & Philip Nutman
- Many behind the scene’s photos
- DVD and Music Score will be included and housed in the binding of the book.
- Color and black and white behind the scenes photos
Signed by all contributors!
Synopsis:
Inspired by true events, this thriller set in 1958 follows the harrowing story of two adolescent girls (Blythe Auffarth, Madeline Taylor), who upon losing their parents in an accident are sent to live with their Aunt Ruth (Blanche Baker), a sadistic psychopath. Unbeknownst to the residents of the small New Jersey suburb, the girls endure unthinkable punishment at the hands of their aunt and three cousins.
Michigan Shies Away From Jack Ketchum’s THE WOMAN Plus New Cover Art by Caniglia
Everyone in the horror genre knows that Jack Ketchum’s fiction doesn’t hold back and neither does Andrew van den Houten the producer of the acclaimed Jack Ketchum’s THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, OFFSPRING and the soon to be released THE WOMAN. The State of Michigan felt that THE WOMAN was too dark and disturbing to be funded. Here is the link for the full story STATE BACKING FILMS SAYS CANNIBAL IS DEAL-BREAKER
We’ll be publishing the novel version of this soon to be classic in late August and we just got in the cover art and color interior illustrations by genre favorite Caniglia.
Here is a look at the new cover art.
THE WOMAN by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee (Limited Edition)
Infernal House is proud to announce THE WOMAN by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee. This blood pumping new novel by the best selling author of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, OFF SEASON and RIGHT TO LIFE has created another masterpiece that shines a light on the darkness that is within us all and lets us examine the macabre nature of human desire.
Infernal House has quickly become known as the creator of some of the most beautiful and exotic books published in the horror genre and THE WOMAN by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKeewill only reaffirm Infernal House’s prestige and significance within the genre.
This edition will be strictly limited to:
- Only 174 signed and numbered copies.
- Each copy will be signed the the author and the illustrator
- Each edition will be hand sewn and bound in only the highest quality materials.
- The paper used will be specially milled acid neutral paper specifically for this edition.
- Illustrated by the celebrated artist Caniglia
- Book will be housed in a custom made traycase
- Sewn in silk ribbon marker
Do to the time it takes to create these hand crafted works of art and the exotic materials used we can only accept layaway and full payment.
Description
The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from Maine into Canada for years now. Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea. Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral — and unstable — country lawyer who, out hunting one day, sees her bathing in a stream. Fascinated, he follows her to her cave. Cleek has many dark secrets and to these he’ll add another. He will capture her, lock in his fruit cellar, and tame her, civilize her. To this end he’ll enlist his long-suffering wife Belle, his teenage son and daughter Brian and Peg, and even his little girl Darlin’, to aid him. So the question becomes, who is more savage? The hunter or the game?
New Tony Burgess Title Announced By ChiZine Publications
What if you woke up and began your morning by devoting the rest of your life to a murderous rampage, a never-ending cannibalistic spree? And what if you were only one of thousands who shared the same compulsion? This novel depicts just such an epidemic. It’s the compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus. You catch it through conversation, and once it has you, it leads you on a strange journey—into another world where the undead chase you down the streets of the smallest towns and largest cities.
Now a major motion picture by Hard Core Logo director Bruce McDonald.
“Buy all his books.”
—Now Magazine
“It may be one of the most important novels published this year.”
—Toronto Star
“Pontypool Changes Everything is, quite literally, a hell of a read, enough to satisfy the most jaded appetite.”
—eye Weekly
BONUS: Original CBC radio play script, featuring a different ending than the film!
Three Cargo Cult Press Titles Now In Stock and Almost Sold Out!
Three brand new Cargo Cult Titles are now in stock and in very low supply!
Here is the guide you’ve been waiting for. The definitive Delirium Books bibliography and price guide is complete. Yet it is more than a price guide; much more. Two longtime collector’s collaborate on this volume that all small press collectors will cherish. Their combined knowledge and experience of over 50 years collecting books is evident.
For Delirium Books fans as well as collectors, this is it. The History of Delirium Books, Shane Ryan Staley: The Man Behind Delirium, The Value of Collecting Delirium Books, a bibliography and price guide, quick lists, and a peek at the Top 7 Delirium Book Collectors in the World are some of the gems found here. Included quick lists are designed for the collector and reader. They’ll help you find specific information. For example, all the cover art by Mike Bohatch, a list of all the books in the Exclusives Series, or all books authored by Greg F. Gifune can be easily discovered.
However, more than that is found between these covers. Information for the collector is provided including purpose, collecting trends and rules, investing in books, grading books, glossary of terms, protecting your investment, and how to care for your books.
Ever since her new neighbor moved in, Sara Lincoln has been having terrible nightmares. Last night she dreamt that her husband were brutally murdered in their beds. This morning she woke to find clean spots on the carpet as if it had been scrubbed with bleach, bloody sheets in the laundry, and bloodstains on her mattress. Night after night the dream is the same. With no one prepared to take her wild fears seriously, Sarah will have to piece together the grisly clues in time to save herself from being murdered. Again.
Hardcover edition will contain a short story not found in the paperback edition and a critical introduction to Wrath James White‘s work by Dr. D. Harlan Wilson
Charlie Stanlon is a serial killer. A ghastly, vicious sociopath who chains women to a table in his basement and tortures them to death. He has no friends. He has no family. He despises his co-workers. His only pleasure in life is to cause pain and terror.
Until the day he finds an adorable Boston Terrier and takes it home…
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Sarah Court. Meet the residents . . .
The haunted father of a washed-up stuntman. A disgraced surgeon and his son, a broken-down boxer. A father set on permanent self-destruct, and his daughter, a reluctant powerlifter. A fireworks-maker and his daughter. A very peculiar boy and his equally peculiar adopted family.
Five houses. Five families. One block.
Ask yourself: How well do you know your neighbours? How well do you know your own family? Ultimately, how well do you know yourself? How deeply do the threads of your own life entwine with those around you? Do you ever really know how tightly those threads are knotted? Do you want to know?
I know, and can show you. Please, let me show you.
Welcome to Sarah Court: make yourself at home.
The hardcover will have bonus material not in the paperback!
“Davidson smudges the line between comedy and horror, cruelty and mercy. His remarkable stories are challenging and upsetting. Don’t look for comfort here.”
—Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club
“There is a strikingly original tone to Mr. Davidson’s stories. The prose is spare yet elegant, the insights are fresh and real, and best of all there is a boundless humanity in Mr. Davidson’s writing: a love of life that is beautifully woven with an acute sense of its darkness.”
—Clive Barker
“A writer of immense power and surprising, accurate insights.”
—Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter
These strange stories gather and weave themselves together into a wreath of memories, rife with an atmospheric and ominous creep redolent of Shirley Jackson. This eerie collection illustrates the disconnect amongst people and the places they inhabit—the gap that allows the supernatural to flourish.
The hardcover will include bonus material not available in the paperback
“A touch of magical realism, a whiff of the dark. Great emotional intensity is wrought in only a few pages. Domestic skirmishes, open ended mysteries and always—in the midst of life—the delicate scent of corruption. Villegas’s fresh voice promises a great future in speculative literature.
—Ellen Datlow, Editor
“Slippery, evocative, tasty. Elegantly and eloquently unsettling.”
—Ursula Pflug, author of After the Fires and Green Music
DREAMS IN BLACK AND WHITE by John R. Little Digital Edition!
Now available for immediate download in PDF, MOBI and EPUB
Charlie Parkinson is one of the best photographers in New York. And now, he’s even better. Each night he dreams, and his dreams tell him where to go to find the best possible photo opportunity. His dreams predict the future, showing him tragedy and death. And his fame grows with every snapshot.
Somehow, the dream predictions are close to reality, but not perfect. That’s a good thing, when one night Charlie dreams that he’s going to kill his beloved wife.
A new short novel by the Stoker nominated author of MIRANDA.
In Stock and Shipping Plus Two Awesome Auctions!
We just received THE CORPORATION by J. F. Gonzalez from our binder and we are shipping out all orders now. If you haven’t reserved your copy of THE CORPORATION by J. F. Gonzalez order soon as these are going very quickly and with only 150 being produced we don’t expect these to last long.
This book is a hand bound limited edition hardcover in a hand made custom slipcase. Books will be on heavy stock paper, customer endpapers, No more than 150 copies will be published.
Michelle Dowling found her dream job. The offer on her desk from Corporate Financial Consultants included a high five figure salary, generous benefits and cushy perks. Finally, after a escaping the psychological abuse of an emotionally cold mother and a series of dead-end jobs she could start planning a future with her fiancé, Donald.
However, Michelle forgot the cardinal rule for any job offer; always read the fine print. She really should have gotten more detail about her overtime hours,company policies, and exactly what they meant when they said “Welcome to the Corporate Financial family”.
Michelle isn’t afraid of hard work. She’s a dedicated employee,the kind any manager would want for his firm. But this Corporation requires much more than just dedication…
A couple of killer new auctions up at the Horror Mall Auction site.
THE EVERLASTING by Tim Lebbon (signed limited letter hardcover edition)
Publisher: Necessary Evil Press, 2010
Metal traycase. Each lettered copy will contain a Giclee print from Caniglia. Only the lettered edition will have these prints. No more will ever be made.
Sixteen-year-old Scott sees his first ghost.
Where is the Chord of Souls? it demands, then abruptly flees, leaving the horror of that fateful day indelibly tattooed on his Scott’s young mind.
He will never forget that day. Because the ghost was his grandfather’s friend . . . and his grandfather had murdered his friend just ten days before.
Now…
Thirty years after his grandfather’s suicide, Scott is stunned to suddenly receive a letter from the old man which talks of an ancient book of apocalyptic power: The Chord of Souls.
The letter’s arrival quickly heralds a deluge of supernatural events that has Scott teetering on the precipice of sanity and salvation: his wife is kidnapped, ghosts besiege his home and his mind, and immortality dons the guise of a beautiful woman. . .
Scott embarks upon a perilous journey to save his wife, one fraught with horrific danger and soul-shattering temptation. After all, who would not be tempted by the promise of powers beyond understanding . . . knowledge beyond comprehension . . . and life everlasting?
Metal traycase. Each lettered copy will contain a Giclee print from Caniglia. Only the lettered edition will have these prints. No more will ever be made.
Publisher: Cargo Cult Press, 2009
Limited to 26 lettered copies bound in ship sail material with a sewn in satin ribbon marker with a pewter cross attached in and a custom traycase.
Published at $300 but we are starting the bidding at only $175!!!!
Book is in new unread condition.
For God spared not the angels that sinned…
On May 21st, 2007, seven graduate students in Religious Studies set out from the University of Colorado in search of God. Armed with only their faith and the scriptures, they rented a small cluster of cabins on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
None of them were ever heard from again.
…but cast them down to hell…
On October 29th, 2009, a disarticulated femur is discovered in a mountain lion’s den. Forensic testing confirms that the bone belongs to one of the missing seven, triggering a massive search of the surrounding wilderness.
No other evidence is found.
…and delivered them into chains of darkness…
On November 13th, the families of the missing students rent the same cabins and attempt to recreate the final days of their loved ones in hopes of divining their fate. Only this time, thanks to an unusual bacterium isolated from the femur, they know where to look.
Nothing can prepare them for the truth.
…to be reserved unto judgment.
This is their story. The story of what they found, what they lost…and what Remains.
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NEXUS: ASCENSION by Robert Boyczuk (Limited Edition)
After returning from a thirty-year trade mission, the crew of the Ea wake from cryonic suspension to find that their home world, Bh’Haret, is dead. “Screamer” satellites have been strung around their planet warning of a plague. A scan of the surface of Bh’Haret reveals no trace of human life—only crumbling cities. Their fuel and other supplies nearly exhausted, the crew has little choice but to make planet fall on Bh’Haret, infected with a virulent and deadly disease. In a desperate scramble to save themselves, the crew members of the Ea must each, in his or her own way, come to terms with the death of their world—and try to rekindle a belief in the possibility of life.
No more than 150 signed and numbered hardcover copies will be published.
It has been 20 years since The War, and Major John Karnage has finally settled into retirement: locked up in an insane asylum, with an explosive device embedded in the back of his neck to curb his violent tendencies.
Karnage and his troopers have been deemed unfit to live in normal society. Like a bit of old chewing gum stuck under a coffee table, the world has left The War and its scarred, unstable veterans behind. The military has been disbanded and World Peace has descended upon the Earth. Its inhabitants live happy, profitable lives under the global rule of the benevolent Dabney Corporation. All is tea and roses in this new, sanitized world . . .
Until a terrifying threat from beyond the stars rears its squiggly head! An invading armada of aliens threatens to destroy the Earth, and it’s up to Major Karnage to stop them—as long as he doesn’t accidentally blow his own head off first.
Only 150 signed limited edition hardcover copies will be published.
Two New ChiZine Publication Titles Announced!
A history teacher begins his unorthodox senior course with clips from an ominous surveillance video, causing a student’s home life to deteriorate along with the lessons.
A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while figuring out how to handle Mom and the book club.
A blog documents society’s slow, unexplained, but inexorable end, or is it only a collection of pixel-sized paranoia?
A once-awkward teen holes up in a kiddie-themed amusement park after the end of the world, and schemes to take Cinderella’s Castle by force.
This collection by Paul G. Tremblay (author of The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland) features fifteen stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, and stories of longing and coping.
“In the Mean Time is a miscellany of voices—witty, wise, weird, assured. These stories push at boundaries, not just within genre; they play alongside the uneasy undercurrents of lives we’d usually call ordinary. Stories to read and read again.”
—Helen Oyeyemi, author of The Opposite House and White is for Witching
“In the Mean Time is a formidable collection, as disquieting as it is beautiful. They shock and they gleam, these stories, and the moods they provoke linger powerfully in the imagination: the dread of those who see the trouble coming and the strange relief of those upon whom it has already fallen.”
—Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
“Rumor has it that the world will end in fire and ice, but then again, if Paul Tremblay is to be believed, it may conclude in preternaturally active plants, amusement parks, sudden brain aneurisms, and silence. In Mean Time, end of the world scenarios brush up against the traumas of more personal apocalypses. The resulting stories are as stressful and quietly traumatic as they are fluidly and lucidly written.”
—Brian Evenson, author of Last Days and Fugue State
• HC-only material: • untitled story to be printed on the front and back covers
• short story “Chance the Dick” (story set in the world of the The Little Sleep)
• weirdboiled short story “The Dilky Never Landed”
(a total of 12K extra fiction!)
“It is what it is. That’s her car out there and, well, that’s her right there.”Jeremy looks at the woman again. There’s a few flies dipping in and out of the back of her skull.
“What happened to her?”
I feel a little uncomfortable. I wasn’t really planning to lay it all out like this.
“Well, I hate to say this but I killed her.”
Jeremy nods slowly. He’s starting to take this in and I’m relieved.
“Don’t ask me why. Anything I say is just gonna sound ridiculous.”
I rub my hand in my hair. I want to appear frustrated.
“Things just got out of control.”
Bob Clark owns the Self Serve at Cashtown Corners. It’s the only business there and Bob is the only resident. He’s never been comfortable around other people. Until he starts to kill them. And murder, Bob soon discovers, is magic.
People Live Still at Cashtown Corners is Bob’s account of a tragedy we all thought was senseless.
HC-only material: Pontypool script (with different ending than the film!)
