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End of Summer Auction Sale!
We will be listing some of the best Auctions of the year, with low starting bids and no reserves!
I’ll be listing new titles daily throughout the rest of September. There will be some old, tough to find, rare items in these listing so check back daily. And to sweeten the deal we are going to give away a free paperback with each auction win regardless of the final price of the auction. So if you win a paperback auction you’ll get two books for the price of one!
Here are just a few title we listed today:
VENDETTA by James A. Moore (Lettered Edition)
Publisher: Morning Star 2009
- This is a signed lettered edition hardcover in custom Traycase
- Cover art and interior illustrations by Alan M. Clark.
- One of only 26 signed leather bound lettered edition in traycase.
Book was published at $295 but we are starting the bidding at only $179 with a buy it now at only $199!!!
Book is in new unread condition
He has a perfect life. A beautiful wife, three loving children and an empire he’s spent a lifetime building. Robert Workham is happy, truly happy for the first time in as long as he can remember.
The last time he came close to this level of joy was a lifetime ago, when he was a very different entity, a violent, hateful thing that killed without remorse or compassion. In his time he has slain kings, leaders of industry and some of the most power figures in the history of mankind. But that’s all in the past.
But now his past is coming back for him… His name is Jonathan Crowley, and he is relentless and unforgiving.
PATCHWORK by James A. Moore (Number two of our Novelette Series) (Lettered Edition)
Publisher: Bloodletting Press 2008
This is a signed lettered edition hardcover in custom slipcase
Book was published at $100 but we are starting the bidding at only $49 with a buy it now at only $75!!!
Book is in new unread condition
The old saying “the Devil is in the details,” might well be true, but how can you know if what you see is the work of a deity or a demon? That perhaps is a matter of perspective. There are myriad answers to the questions of fate, synchronicity and destiny. Just as there are there are any number of ways in which a quilt can be made, countless different patterns and shapes that can be put together in the making of the thing and little of it ever seems to be deliberate, unless you take the time to look at the big picture. Seen as a single unit, the pattern emerges, if the people behind the design have done their part properly.
Seen from a proper perspective a logic and rhythm present themselves that could easily be lost without the added distance. The same seems to be true, on occasion, with the scheme of how human lives interact. There may be truth in that or merely false perceptions. A lot of it seems to depend on who you speak to, who you ask. The patterns that are seen after all is said and done could be coincidence, or they could in fact be the machinations of some greater force.
A visit then, to see the pieces, placed as they are around the town of Beldam Woods, to watch them as they are chosen and stitched into one another, to make a pattern out of patchwork.
TERMINAL: The Play by Brian Keene & Roy C. Booth (Limited Edition)
Publisher: Morning Star 2008
This is a signed limited edition hardcover
Book is in new unread condition
BONUS: This book also comes with the very rare chapbook STONE TEARS by Brian Keene.
This book is being published by Morning Star an imprint of Bloodletting Press
William Shakespeare once wrote that all the world is a stage, and all the men and women in the world are merely players upon that stage, each with their own entrances and exits.
But while this may be true, you’ve never seen an exit like Tommy O’Brien’s…
Since it’s initial publication, Brian Keene’s Terminal has been hailed by critics as “this generations’ The Girl Next Door”, “emotionally brutal”, “gritty yet sublime”, “a seminal work in the Brian Keene canon”, and “a bleak, grim reality play”.
Now that reality play is indeed a reality. Brian Keene and the esteemed, award-winning playwright Roy C. Booth have teamed up for a stage adaptation of Terminal that will appeal to both old and new fans alike.
If you’ve read the novel and think you know the story of Tommy, Sherm, Benji, and the rest, think again. While faithful to the novel, Terminal: The Play delivers more twists and turns and adds new layers of depth to Tommy’s struggle to survive—and its ultimate aftermath.
JUDAS GOAT by Greg F. Gifune (Signed Limited Edition)
Publisher: Morning Star 2008
This is a signed limited edition hardcover
Book is in new unread condition
Who is the Judas Goat?
It had been twenty years since Lenny Cates had seen or heard from his old college flame Sheena. Theirs had been a brief and tumultuous relationship that ended badly, so when Lenny is notified that Sheena has died in a freak accident and has left her entire estate to him, he feels compelled to investigate the last days leading to her untimely death. As Lenny arrives in town to settle her affairs, he begins to dig deeper into Sheena’s life and learns her final days were cast in shadows of loneliness, depression and experiments in black magic. Soon, Lenny will discover that Sheena’s death has awakened something insatiably demonic and old as mankind, something lying in wait and growing stronger in a quiet little town where the horrors of the past never truly die, pain is eternal, and nothing is as it seems.
Look closer…sometimes evil hides in plain sight.
Four New Auctions Listed by Bloodletting Books
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
URBAN GOTHIC by Brian Keene Lettered Edition Pictures.
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
URBAN GOTHIC lettered edition by Brian Keene Now Up For Preorder!
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.
Five New Auctions Just Listed: Richard Laymon, Brian Keene, Ronald Kelley and More!
Take a look at the latest five listing at the Horror Mall auction site!
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.
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
URBAN GOTHIC by Brian Keene limited edition hardcover now shipping!
URBAN GOTHIC by Brian Keene limited edition hardcover now shipping!
We have only a handful of copies remaining so get your copy soon.
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.
Specifics:
- Each book is hand bound
- Hand sewn pages
- All color interior illustrations by Alex McVey
- 70 lbs archival quality acid neutral paper
- Hand signed and numbered
- And a couple more surprises!
Great New Auctions Up At The Horror Mall Auction House!
Tananarive Due My Soul To Keep Delirium Ultra Edition
This auction is for one copy of My Soul To Keep by Tananarive Due Delirium Ultra Edition. This was the 8th and last Ultra edition published to date and exceeds even the quality of Delirium lettered editions. This is #12 of only 26 made. Both the book and the traycase are bound in that soft, luxurious Delirium leather in a rich red color. This is one of the best quality books I have ever seen and a great edition to any collection. Both the book and the traycase are in MINT condition and the book has never been read.
BONELAND by Jeffrey Thomas – LETTERED w/ metal traycase. NEW / MINT
This is Novella #1 of the Novella Series by Bloodletting Press
“In 1893, the Guests attempt their first contact with the human race. Families go mad. Parents commit suicide. A president is assassinated.
By 1918, in the bleak boneland of the 20th Century, human assassins commit atrocities and global wars are waged to sate the appetites of the Guests. John Board is a crime scene photographer, whose nightmarish images of human destruction are used as titillating entertainment. Board’s future is tied in with these unseen, unfathomable forces — and so is his past. America is drowning in a sea of blood as flashbulbs click and movie cameras roll. The Guests are here to stay.
Boneland is a tale of a not-so-alternate history…a story of horror, science fiction, and the surreal by Jeffrey Thomas, acclaimed author of Letters From Hades, Punktown and Monstrocity.”
Episodes:
- The Black Cat
- The Damned Thing
- Dream Cruise
- Pelts
- Pro-Life
- Family
- Right To Die
- The Screwfly Solution
- Sounds Like
- The V Word
- Valerie On The Stairs
- The Washingtonians
- We All Scream For Ice Cream
This is a first edition hardcover in near fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by both Hugh B. Cave (author) and Lee Brown (illustrator) on an afixed bookplate by the publisher on the front free endpaper.
Omnibus collection of twenty-six horror stories selected from the pulps
Contents:
- Murgunstrumm
- The Watcher in the Green Room
- The Prophecy
- The Strange Death of Ivan Gromleigh
- The Affair of the Clutching Hand
- The Strange Case of No. 7
- The Isle of Dark Magic
- The Whisperers
- Horror in Wax
- Prey of the Nightborn
- Mazon’s Mistress
- Dead Man’s Belt
- Boomerang
- The Crawling Curse
- Purr of a Cat
- Tomorrow Is Forever
- The Ghouls Gallery
- The Cult of the White Ape
- The Brotherhood of Blood
- The Door of Doom
- The Death Watch
- The Caverns of Time
- Many Happy Returns
- Ladies in Waiting
- The Grisly Death
- Stragella
Tim Curran goes hell-bent for leather in this supernatural thriller set in the Wild West, and he scores a big, bloody bulls-eye. Writing in the rich language of a Dark Angel on hell-brewed whiskey, Curran gives us the scariest beasts ever to fork legs over a horse. Skin Medicine is a wild ride into the Dark Frontier. –author of Bad Juju
Chalco, a young Aztec boy, feels helpless as Spanish forces near his village in Oaxaca. But when a messenger of the gods (who just happens to be a tiny agave worm), hands him a key to unlock the doors of human perception and visit unseen worlds, Chalco journeys into a mystical labyrinth, searching for a way to defeat the invaders. He will face gods, devils, and things that are neither. But he will also learn that some doorways should never be opened and not all entrances have exits…
Each traycase and book have a real hand chiseled arrowhead inlaid in the boards. Each arrowhead is unique and only one good arrowhead is produced out of three attempts, and only stone hand tools were used in their making.
Imported, handmade, French marbled endpapers.
Bound in gold silk ribbon marker.
A Couple Hot Items That Are In Very Short Supply!
New Anthology Based on Edward Lee‘s Vision of Hell
Edited and Illustrated by Gak
With an all new short novel, THE SENARY, by Edward Lee
And featuring all original short fiction from:
• John Shirley
• John Everson
• Brian Keene
• Charlee Jacob
• Maynard and Sims
• Gerard Houarner
• Bryan Smith
Signed by all contributors.
Spanning 2006 to 2008, Leader of the Banned: The Best of Hail Saten, Volume 4 collects the legendary final Hail Saten essays, covering torture porn, writing collaborations, the history of the horror genre, the future of the small press, the media, pop culture, the 2008 presidential race, the Stephen King phenomenon, and more. It also includes the incendiary “If I Were President”—the fateful entry that landed Keene on the government’s watch list. As an added bonus, it also includes many never-before-published essays, as well as material Keene wrote under a pseudonym that was previously unknown to the public—until now.
New BRIAN KEENE Announced from Thunderstorm Books!
THE LEADER OF THE BANNED: The Best of Hail Saten, Vol 4 by Brian Keene (Limited Edition)
Horror Mall copies include an original remarque by cover artist GAK.
After nearly a decade of skewering politicians, corporations, organized religion, publishers, peers, enemies, friends, and often himself, Brian Keene’s extremely popular ‘Hail Saten’ finally came to an end in 2008. For almost ten years, Keene’s essays were a must-read for both fans and pros. Unfortunately, in a post 9/11 world, they also became a must read for the U. S. Government.
Spanning 2006 to 2008, Leader of the Banned: The Best of Hail Saten, Volume 4 collects the legendary final Hail Saten essays, covering torture porn, writing collaborations, the history of the horror genre, the future of the small press, the media, pop culture, the 2008 presidential race, the Stephen King phenomenon, and more. It also includes the incendiary “If I Were President”—the fateful entry that landed Keene on the government’s watch list. As an added bonus, it also includes many never-before-published essays, as well as material Keene wrote under a pseudonym that was previously unknown to the public—until now.
More Awesome Earthling Lettered Editions up at the Horror Mall Auction Site!
We’ve just listed another 9 awesome EARTHLING PUBLICATIONS lettered editions up at the auctions site! Here are some of the titles: (Just click on title for more information)
CAT STORIES by Michael Marshall Smith (Lettered Edition)
HOME BEFORE DARK: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Vol 2 (Lettered Edition)
APOCALYPSE NOW, VOYAGER by Jay Russell (Lettered Edition)
GODHEAD DYING DOWNWARD by Jeffrey Thomas (Lettered Edition)
MIDNIGHT RAIN by James Newman (Lettered Edition)
EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS by Brian A. Hopkins (Lettered Edition)
WORLD OF HURT by Brian Hodge (Lettered Edition)
MORE TOMORROWS AND OTHER STORIES by Michael Marshall Smith (Lettered Edition)
GAME by Conrad Williams (Lettered Edition)
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTILATION by Brian Evenson (Lettered Edition)