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Last Chance On Two ChiZine Publication Titles!
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.
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!
Last Chance On These Two Chizine Publication Titles!
Only a few days left to order these two Chizine Publication titles and then they’re SOLD OUT!
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
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!)
New ChiZine Digital Releases (Lebbon, Nutman)
ChiZine Publications has released two new digital editions, both must reads.
THE THIEF OF BROKEN TOYS by Tim Lebbon
When a father loses his son and his wife leaves him, he cannot tear himself away from the small fishing village where the boy’s memories reside. They’re all he has left.
Thinking that his life is all but over, he takes to wandering the cliffs, carrying broken things that he always promised his son he would fix, but never did. They’re a sign of his failure, and they keep little Toby close.
And then he meets the thief of broken toys, and everything begins to change.
CITIES OF NIGHT by Philip Nutman
Ten stories.
Eight cities.
Three continents.
One voice.
From Atlanta to Blackpool, London to New York . . . from Rome, Italy to Albuquerque, New Mexico via Hollyweird and the city of Lost Angels . . . all are cities of night.
And the night is forever. Now.
Two New Chizine Publication Titles Announced for Preorder!
SARAH COURT by Craig Davidson (Limited Edition)
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
THE HAIR WREATH AND OTHER STORIES by Halli Villegas (Limited Edition)
Girls and boys disappear; couples caught in the heat and suppressed rage of urban life are haunted by the ghosts of their own making; neighbourhoods drift in the murky atmosphere of buried emotions, where the echoes of distrust and dissonance prove that something just isn’t . . . right.
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
New Chizine Digital Editions Released (Gemma Files, Simon Logan)
If you’re economically-challenged and can’t afford the beautiful limited edition hardcovers of these titles, these digital editions are a great buy. Chizine is one of the best new presses to emerge in quite some time, producing some amazing fiction that you cannot afford to miss and still call yourself of fan. And at $5.95 and available in all the major formats (PDF, MOBI & ePUB) which are DRM-free, it’s a small risk to discover something big.
A BOOK OF TONGUES by Gemma Files
Two years after the Civil War, Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow has gone undercover with one of the weird West’s most dangerous outlaw gangs-the troop led by “Reverend” Asher Rook, ex-Confederate chaplain turned “hexslinger,” and his notorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess Pargeter. Morrow’s task: get close enough to map the extent of Rook’s power, then bring that knowledge back to help Professor Joachim Asbury unlock the secrets of magic itself.
Magicians, cursed by their gift to a solitary and painful existence, have never been more than a footnote in history. But Rook, driven by desperation, has a plan to shatter the natural law that prevents hexes from cooperation, and change the face of the world-a plan sealed by an unholy marriage-oath with the goddess Ixchel, mother of all hanged men. To accomplish this, he must raise her bloodthirsty pantheon from its collective grave through sacrifice, destruction, and apotheosis.
Caught between a passel of dead gods and monsters, hexes galore, Rook’s witchery, and the ruthless calculations of his own masters, Morrow’s only real hope of survival lies with the man without whom Rook cannot succeed: Chess Pargeter himself. But Morrow and Chess will have to literally ride through Hell before the truth of Chess’s fate comes clear-the doom written for him, and the entire world.
KATJA FROM THE PUNK BAND by Simon Logan
Katja, like everyone else stuck on the work island they call home, wants to get to the mainland by any means necessary. Shooting her boyfriend and stealing a chemical vial is one way to ensure her safe passage—the only problem is, she’s not the only one who wants it, and the freedom it will bring: There’s Nikolai the joystick junkie; Aleksakhina, Katja’s parole officer; Vladimir Kohl, the small-time chemical dealer, and his boss Szerynski; the rival chemical lord Dracyev, and his lover, Ylena. And there’s the Man In Red, ready and waiting for whoever is (un)lucky enough to end up with the vial.
Katja from the Punk Band is Jackie Brown meets the Sex Pistols—a fast-paced industrial crime-thriller that weaves multiple storylines and timeframes, from the author of Pretty Little Things to Fill Up The Void, Nothing Is Inflammable, and I-O.
Two New ChiZine Publications Titles Up for Preorder!
Two New ChiZine Publications Titles Up for Preorder! Only 150 of each title will be published. Once these are gone they are gone so reserve your copy soon!
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.
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.
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THE CHRISTMAS THINGY by F. Paul Wilson (Lettered Edition)
MIDNIGHT MASS by F. Paul Wilsong (Signed Lettered Edition)
THE STEPHEN KING UNIVERSE by Stanely Wiater & Christopher Golden.
HORROR STORY AND OTHER HORROR STORY by Robert Boyczuk
THE TEL AVIV DOSSIER by Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv (Limited Edition Hardcover)
New Digital Releases 3/15/10
CHASING THE DRAGON by Nicholas Kaufmann
Centuries ago, St. George fought and killed a dragon—or so the legend goes. The truth is somewhat different. George failed in his mission, and the Dragon still walks the Earth, protected by an undead army, hiding in the shadows and slaughtering men, women, and children for its prey. Each of George’s descendants through time has been tasked with killing the Dragon, and each has failed. Twenty-five-year-old Georgia Quincey is the last of the line—the last, best hope for defeating the Dragon once and for all. But Georgia is also an addict, driven to the warm embrace of the needle by the weight of her responsibility and the loss of everything and everyone she has ever loved. Tracking her nemesis to the small town of Buckshot, New Mexico for their final showdown, Georgia is about to discover the truth about the Dragon, a terrible secret that could put all life on Earth in peril.
Chimerascope—a story of many parts.
- A young artist hungers to draw you.
- A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish.
- A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew.
- The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge.
- A mysterious dancer leads a businessman to a most exclusive nightclub.
- A man is born each day into a new life—only to die each night.
- A sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity.
- A Norse god’s bar in Toronto hosts an unplanned family reunion.
- A woman descends into insanity—or is it the end of the world?
- A house as big as the world.
These are some of the stories you will encounter in Chimerascope, the first full collection of short fiction from award-winning Canadian author, Douglas Smith.
Sixteen stories of fantasy and science fiction, including one Aurora Award-winners, a Best New Horror pick, and nine Aurora finalists, that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity’s last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions to a dinner where a man loses everything.
FALLEN ANGEL by Amy Grech & Michael McCarty
When she turns eighteen, Angel McAllister forcibly endures an incestuous relationship with her father. Angel’s long-time friend and sarcastic, stand-up comedian Uncle Brew pays her a visit to catch up on old times and consoles Angel when she learns of her father’s death. And strange things start happening when she moves back home.
