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THE GREAT GOD PAN AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES by Arthur Machen: Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by S. T. Joshi

We are proud to announce the first title in our ARCANE WISDOM imprint. THE GREAT GOD PAN AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by S. T. Joshi.

Each one of the Arcane Wisdom titles will be half bound in exotic cloth and French marbled boards, custom end-papers, color frontis piece, sewn in ribbon marker and either signed by the scholar (on classic titles) who contributed to the edition or author that wrote the piece (if living). We plan on producing four titles a year with this imprint.

Here you will find the most significant contribution of Arthur Machen’s classic tales of dark fantasy and horror. With an introduction by S.T. Joshi who also contributes, notes and a complete Machen bibliography. This is a must have for the Machen enthusiast and Weird Tales collector.

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen was widely criticized by the press as degenerate and horrific due to its profligate style and sexual content, although since his work has since garnered a reputation as a classic of modern horror.

In Supernatural Horror in Literature H. P. Lovecraft praised the novel, saying: “No one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds”; he added that “the sensitive reader” reaches the end with “an appreciative shudder.” Lovecraft also noted, however, that “melodrama is undeniably present, and coincidence is stretched to a length which appears absurd upon analysis.”

Contents:

• Introduction by S. T. Joshi
• Forward by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Great God Pan
• The Three Impostors
• Prologue
• Adventure of the Gold Tiberius
• The Encounter of the Pavement
• Novel of the Dark Valley
• Adventure of the Missing Brother
• Novel of the Black Seal
• Incident of the Private Bar
• The Decorative Imagination
• Novel of the Iron Maid
• The Recluse of Bayswater
• Novel of the White Powder
• Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell
• History of the Young Man with Spectacles
• Adventure of the Deserted Residence
• The Shining Pyramid
• The White People
• A Fragment of Life
• The Bowmen
• Appendix 1: Introduction to The Three Impostors (1923)
• Appendix 2: Introduction to The Angels of Mons (1915)
• Notes
• Bibliography

MOONCHILD by Aleister Crowley

Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by the protagonist Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians over an unborn child. It was first published by Mandrake Press in 1929.

Moonchild is a novel held in high regard for its magical and occult significance and also for its complex and well written prose.

Aleister Crowley 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, was an English occultist, writer, mountaineer, poet, playwright, yogi, and possible spy.  He was an influential member of occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A∴A∴, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) and is known today for his magical writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. He gained notoriety during his lifetime, and was denounced in the popular press of the day as “The wickedest man in the world.”

Crowley was also a chess player in his youth, a painter, astrologer, hedonist, bisexual, recreational drug experimenter, and social critic.

This edition will include a long introduction by Don Webb, a noted horror writer and author of Aleister Crowely: The Fire and The Force provides a long introduction to the work with some wit and perhaps some wisdom.

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Take a look at the latest five listing at the Horror Mall auction site!

GHOUL by Brian Keene

June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with his buddies. Instead his summer will be filled with terror and a life-and-death battle against a nightmarish creature that few will believe even exists. Timmy learns that the person who’s been unearthing fresh graves in the cemetery isn’t a person at all. It’s a thing. And it’s after Timmy and his friends. If Timmy hopes to live to see September, he’ll have to escape the…GHOUL.

GHOST WALK by Brian keene

There are all kinds of legends about LeHorn’s Hollow. Everything from ghosts to a goat man are said to haunt the woods. So it’s the perfect place for Ken Ripple to set up his latest haunted attraction. Halloween is coming and Ripple knows folks will come from miles around to walk down the spooky trail and get scared witless. But there’s one thing Ripple hasn’t counted on. Those legends aren’t just talk. Evil really does wait in the woods. Soon the unsuspecting customers will pay their money and get in line…to die.

NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER by Richard Laymon

Shortly after returning to college for the start of the Fall semester, Ed Logan learns that the girl he loves has found herself a new boyfriend and won’t be coming back to school. Heartbroken and restless, Ed strikes out late one night for a walk through town. He doesn’t much care where he’s going, but soon finds himself fascinated by what he discovers between midnight and dawn — frightened by the town’s lurking terrors, lured by its mysteries… and enthralled by a strange, beautiful girl who roams the lonely streets.

MIDNIGHT GRINDING by Ronald Kelly

It’s dark. Crickets chirp in the black of night, accompanied by the lonesome call of a whippoorwill. On the front porch of a ramshackle house, pale moonlight reveals two forms in rocking chairs, facing one another. Just you and the storyteller.

You are uneasy at first, a little nervous… but for what reason? After all, they are only tall tales and folklore passed down from generation to generation. Just a bunch of ghost stories and strange yarns conjured up for your entertainment. Or are they? Perhaps, in some dreadful way, they are based more in fact, than in fiction.

You sit there in silence for a long moment. You contemplate making an excuse and taking your leave. But it is too late. In hushed tones, the storyteller begins. The crickets grow disturbingly quiet and the whippoorwill is replaced by the far away howling of a dog. Or something vaguely – and sinisterly – similar.

Then the storytelling session begins. And the darkness about you grows even darker…

BODY COUNTING by David Whitman

Body Counting is number 27 in the very popular Delirium X series. This is one of only 92 hardcover copies.

Contents:

Out of the Ashes
The Mind of Hunter Castle
Killing Brando
Angel Lust
What Love Was
The Eyes of God
The Death of the Piano Man
Dust in the Wind
The Thursday Night Poker Players
Broken Souls
The Hitman Always Rings Twice
Body Counting

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.

Only 250 signed and numbered hardcover copies will be published!

MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS by David Nickle (Limited Edition)

One of only 37 copies published!!!

ULTRA LOW PRINT RUN and getting very hard to find!

Book is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket

A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it. A repentant father summons help from a pot of tar to ensure it. A starving woman learns from howling winds and a whispering host, just how fulfilling it can finally be.

NIGHT LIFE by Ray Garton

Only 13 leather bound copies, housed in a traycase with an original illustration by Glenn Chadborne This is letter B

Dust Jacket by Bob Eggleton
Interior Illustrations by Glenn Chadborne

Readers have been waiting for nearly two decades for Ray to continue the story begun in his vampire classic, Live Girls.

Now, the wait is over.

Night Life, the sequel to Live Girls

FEARS UNNAMED by Tim Lebbon

This is one of only 26 leather bound and traycased lettered editions. THIS COPY IS LETTER “A”

Book is in perfect unread condition.

This volume contains four novellas written over the space of four years. Three of them are reprints—the award-winning ‘White’ and ‘Naming of Parts’, and ‘The Unfortunate’—and ‘Remnants’ is a brand new novella, exploring the City of the Dead and what happens when two friends find it in the Ethopian desert.

Bonus: Introduction by the author.

MISCHIEF by Douglas Clegg

Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with satin ribbon page marker and additional full-color artwork

Book is in perfect unread condition. This is letter “D” of 26

It’s the year 2000, and Jim Hook must stay in the rigorous prep school — the Bast — at any cost. He is a scholarship student, and his older brother — the angel of the family — had graduated from there before dying in a ski accident. His father had graduated from the Bast, too. Now Jim must, in many ways, take his brother’s place. Born into wealth, but growing up in genteel poverty, Jim has been living his family’s dream more than his own — but the Bast is the living symbol of his salvation. Still, he’s just been caught cheating on a test, and because of the strict honor code, Jim, a sophomore, now faces quick expulsion.

But that’s before the Cadaver Society gets to him — they vouch for his innocence, and in doing so, own his soul.

The Cadaver Society is a secret cadre of six students who manipulate, lie, cheat, and steal within the prep school to get ahead.

But at their core is the secret of a murder that occurred many years ago.

But even Jim doesn’t realize how special he is — that he is very different from the others. And when he is finally initiated into the Cadaver Society, he activates something within the school grounds…

Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with satin ribbon page marker and additional full-color artwork

Two men have the carcass.

From the moment Karen Lewis hears these words spoken over a crackling telephone line, her life begins to change for the worse. Later, she is stunned to learn that she is part-owner of a B&B in the small rural town of Fallen Trees, Washington, the very place her brother went missing from months earlier. She travels to Fallen Trees in hopes of learning the truth about what happened to her brother but instead is cast into a nightmare world that leaves her questioning her own sanity, suspicious of the people who say they loved him most and finally, the exact meaning of those five frightening words:

Two men…have the carcass.

This is a signed lettered edition hardcover in traycase.

Order your copy here at Horror Mall.  HE STEPPED THROUGH

One gray morning, the words appear everywhere: on the lips of the men shooting up an inner city burger joint, scrawled across a bloody crime scene, and written on the wall of the only occupied apartment in a downtown slum. In the space of a single day, they infected Los Angeles.

Crooked detective Walker wants to know what the words mean. Officer Megan Ricks can’t get the words out of her head. Gangbanger 2Bit wants to get as far away from the words as possible.

But the words can’t be escaped. They’re written in violence, and promise terror. When their meaning becomes clear, no one will be safe.

This is number 3 in the popular Bloodletting Press Novelette Series

Limited to only 250 signed and numbered perfect bound paperbacks.

Awesome New Morning Star Subscriptions for Collectors!

Some big changes at Morning Star

The economy has hit everyone hard and its no exception for small press publishers.  Our costs have gone up significantly while sales have gone down.  In order to stay healthy in this market something is going to have to give so here is our plan.

Morning Star will be publishing approximately 8 titles a year in 2010.  These releases starting with next years schedule will be in a more traditional book format, cloth bound, signature sheets, foil stamping, perhaps even dust jackets, etc.   These editions will be great quality, very readable, durable editions you’ve come to cherish in your libraries.

We will be announcing a subscription program where you will be able to subscribe and get your purchases at a 15% discount off the cover price.  All subscribers will be given a secured number and will keep that number for as long as they stay current on their subscription (Those that ordered VENDETTA limited edition can request to have their same number for their subscription).

We will also have some very special bonuses throughout the year that ONLY goes out to our subscribers.  These bonuses will ultimately be very collectible special issues reserved for our subscribers as our way of saying thanks for your continued support.

Here are the bullet points:

We are limiting the subscriptions to only 110!

• Subscriptions will have a one-time nonrefundable fee of $9 to secure their subscriptions.

• Subscribers will not pay for the title until the book is ready to ship. They will receive a hidden link in their email to order and pay for the book at the reduced price when the title is in stock and ready to ship.

• Subscribers will receive a 15% discount off the cover price of all editions within the subscription program.

• Subscribers will receive secured numbers as long as there membership is in good standing.

Some of the authors you can expect to see from Morning Star next year:

Joe R. Lansdale

Edward Lee

Nate Southard

Brett McBean

Steve Shrewsbury

Kelli Dunlap

And more!

Here are are some pictures of our latest publication URBAN GOTHIC limited edition by Brian Keene.

We still have a couple of copies left order yours here  URBAN GOTHIC