Last Chance On Two ChiZine Publication Titles!

The preorder period will be over on Monday for the following two titles.  After that no more will be sold!  ChiZine Publications titles are starting to demand a premium after publications so reserve your copy.

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 the hardcover of this edition of this title will contain the short story “Ollie’s Oswald”

Short story collection by one of the greatest voices in the genre.

13 stories

12 cities

3 continents

1 voice . . .

From Atlanta to Blackpool, London to New York; from Rome to Prague to San Francisco . . . from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Birmingham, Alabama, to Washington D.C. (citadel of the dead) to Hollyweird and the city of Lost Angels . . . all are cities of night.

And the night is forever now.

Hardcover Only Content: A frontispiece by Mark Maddox, an exclusive interview with the author, and a brand new 1,500-word short story

Infernal House announces THE WOMAN by Jack Ketchum!

If you ordered our last publication HAUNTER OF THE THRESHOLD please put your number or letter in the note section so we can match it up for you.

Feel free to use Horror Mall layaway for this unique item.

Infernal House is proud to announce THE WOMAN by Jack Ketchum.  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 will 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?

If you are interested in the lettered edition please click here for more information

We just added four great new auctions at the Horror Mall action site.  Some of the books listed include Brian Keene, Tom Piccirilli, a rare Chizine Publications title and an awesome Bad Moon Books lettered edition.

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THRUST by Tom Piccirilli lettered edition

PLAGUE MONKEY SPAM by Steve Vernon lettered edition

DEAD OF NIGHT by Brian Keene signed graphic novel

CHASING THE DRAGON by Nicholas Kaufmann limited edition

BY BIZARRE HANDS RIDES AGAIN by Joe R. Lansdale (Limited Edition)

By Bizarre Hands was Joe R. Lansdale’s first short story collection and is held by many to be the most important horror collection published in the eighties, some have argued that it the best collection published since Ray Bradbury’s Dark Carnival in 1947.  Regardless, the importance of this work and its effect on the genre, even to this day, cannot be underestimated.

By Bizarre Hands Rides Again is a must have collection for any genre enthusiasts library.

With BY BIZARRE HANDS RIDES AGAIN you’ll have all the classic tales that made up the original along with several new entries and a brand new introduction by the author.

This edition will include the following:

• Introduction by Lewis Shiner
• New Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale
• King of Shadows
• Starlight, Eyes Bright
• Morning, Noon, and Night
• Not From Detroit
• Fish Night
• The Pit
• Duck Hunt
• By Bizarre Hands
• The Steel Valentine
• I Tell You It’s Love
• Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches
• Boys Will Be Boys
• The Fat Man and the Elephant
• Hell Through a Windshield
• Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock
• Trains Not Taken
• Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back
• The Windstorm Passes
• Night They Missed the Horror Show
• On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks

Book is limited to only 300 signed and numbered copies.  Cover art and illustrated by Alex McVey.

SEX, DEATH, AND HONEY by Brian Knight LETTERED EDITION now up at Horror Mall.

This is one of only 26 signed, custom bound lettered editions in traycase.

Butch Quick never looks for trouble, but trouble has a way of finding him, and when a dead prostitute and a foul-mouthed Macaw turn a routine repo job into another misadventure, he’d better be ready for it.  Tonight the streets of Paradise Valley are crawling with scumbags, and they are all on the lookout for him.

After a deadly scrape with Paradise Valley drug kingpin Cameron Finke, Butch realizes the only way out of this new mess is straight through it, and the only way through it is a Russian beauty named Honey Beloi.  But before she can help him, he must save her from the same people who are trying to put him on ice.

In this race against drug dealers, moronic henchmen, and crooked cops, Butch can only hope the finish line isn’t a slab.

From the Misadventures of Butch Quick –

Specifics:

• Each book is hand bound at a handsome 12″ trim size
• Hand sewn pages
• Beautiful interior illustrations by Micah Consylman
• Sewn in silk ribbon marker
• 70 lbs archival quality acid neutral paper
• Hand signed and lettered
• Custom Traycase
• And a couple more surprises!

Here are a few pictures of URBAN GOTHIC by Brian Keene Lettered Edition.

These will be shipping in about 4 weeks.  Only 3 copies left!

Traycase

Only a handful of these remain!

Urban Gothic by Brian Keene lettered edition.

This is one of only 26 handmade, leather bound, smythe sewn, editions in custom made traycase.

When their car broke down in a dangerous neighborhood of the inner city, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter in the old dark row house. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until morning. They were wrong on all counts. The residents of the row house live in the cellar and rarely come out in the light of day. They’re far worse than anything on the streets outside. And they don’t like intruders. Before the sun comes up, Kerri and her friends will fight for their very lives… though death is only part of their nightmare.

Two New ARCANE WISDOM Titles Now Shipping!

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.

For ordering information on this title just click on the cover art.

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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