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New Tom Piccirilli: COLD COMFORT Excerpt
Now available through the Darkside Digital shop is Delirium latest release, a digital-only novella by Tom Piccirilli. This will be the only edition released of this title.
You can check it out and download a free excerpt of chapter one at the following link:
https://www.horror-mall.com/COLD-COMFORTS-by-Tom-Piccirilli-Digital-Edition-p-20349.html
Here’s a little bit more about the novella…
After years toiling in obscurity, Thomas, a crime fiction author, is finally able to leave personal tragedy and poverty behind. A Hollywood benefactor has offered him a chance at success and celebrity. But deadly trouble looms when a beautiful woman comes between them. And Thomas discovers that the pain that drives him and ghosts haunting him aren’t content with staying in the past, but begin to appear in the night at every turn.
Incapable of distinguishing the dead from the living, his life from fantasy, Thomas tries to navigate his way through a bloodstained landscape of lust and murder.
Long After Dark by Greg F. Gifune Up For Preorder
It’s now available to the general public, but not for long. As of this posting, only 8 copies of the limited edition and 5 copies of the lettered edition are available.
After listening to customers and other advisers I have decided to include a dust jacket with mylar protector for all Delirium 2010 limited editions, including this one. The binding material will remain of the upgraded nature, the color will be uniform for all 2010 titles, differing from the 2009 binding material color. Lastly, there will be a slipcase for sale to house all 4 titles at year’s end, for those of you who’d like to match these as sets. No price increase. 
Hardcover subscribers remain largely split between those that prefer DJs and those who do not. So I hope this presents the best alternative for all parties involved, as it’s a complete package on both sides. I know I was one who fell on the side that didn’t care for DJs, but my plans are to take off the DJs and house the books in the slipcase at year’s end, as intended. The slipcase will be customized to fit the books with or without DJs…totally your choice.
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Harry Fremont hasn’t slept in days. He’s down with a terrible flu: runny nose, fever, a sore throat, the chills, and worst of all, a horrible cough that keeps him up all night. His wife Kelly is away on a business trip and their son Garret is at college, leaving Harry alone in the house. Though worn out, Harry has been unable to sleep…and things are starting to change. He’s seeing unusual things outside, just beyond the windows and confines of his home…hearing things…experiencing unsettling things that make no sense. And they’re getting worse.
Are they simply figments of a tortured and exhausted mind, or clues to an intricate mystery steeped in evil and deception Harry cannot yet comprehend? Haunted by remnants of earlier nightmares, disturbing questions about his life and marriage, strange shadowy figures, odd noises, cryptic writings on his doors and glimpses of a hideously disfigured being wrapped in bloody bandages, Harry free-falls into a horrifying world of paranoia, agony and terror where nothing is what it seems.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us…long after dark.
Sleep while you still can.
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This limited edition contains the following bonuses not found in either the paperback or digital release:
Long After Dark: Behind The Scenes
Delirium Production Input: The Great Dust Jacket Debate
As I’m less than a week away from moving this year’s first Delirium title to the binding stage, I’m asking for some input from Delirium hardcover subscribers.
Would you like to see Delirium’s 2010 titles with or without dust jackets?
Leave me a note in the comments section below (if you’re reading this on the Horror Mall forums, please leave input on the blog comments section, not in the forums). This isn’t a discussion, it’s a gathering of feedback from hardcover subscribers.
Please make sure you leave your real name and correct e-mail when posting comments. And note that if this is your first comment on this blog, it will be held for moderation, but will appear once approved.
Comments from those that aren’t current hardcover subscribers will be deleted.
Why am I asking? It seems that although the hardcover subscription remains sold out, only 1/3 of the subscriptions are being housed as a set in the slipcase. I believe the new direction (no dust jackets) is most effective as a set of each year’s books housed together.
I’ll be taking feedback on this through the weekend before I make a final decision early next week.
So it’s a chance for your voice to make an impact on the future production of Delirium limiteds.
So let me know your thoughts and the reasons why…
Delirium Announces Greg F. Gifune's New Novel LONG AFTER DARK
Delirium Books’ first major title of 2010 is now in production.
LONG AFTER DARK by Greg F. Gifune
Harry Fremont hasn’t slept in days. He’s down with a terrible flu: runny nose, fever, a sore throat, the chills, and worst of all, a horrible cough that keeps him up all night. His wife Kelly is away on a business trip and their son Garret is at college, leaving Harry alone in the house. Though worn out, Harry has been unable to sleep…and things are starting to change. He’s seeing unusual things outside, just beyond the windows and confines of his home…hearing things…experiencing unsettling things that make no sense. And they’re getting worse.
Are they simply figments of a tortured and exhausted mind, or clues to an intricate mystery steeped in evil and deception Harry cannot yet comprehend? Haunted by remnants of earlier nightmares, disturbing questions about his life and marriage, strange shadowy figures, odd noises, cryptic writings on his doors and glimpses of a hideously disfigured being wrapped in bloody bandages, Harry free-falls into a horrifying world of paranoia, agony and terror where nothing is what it seems.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us…long after dark.
Sleep while you still can.
This following editions will be published:
- Limited Edition Hardcover. 150-copy print run. Contains “Long After Dark: Behind The Scenes,” a bonus essay only printed in the limited and lettered hardcover editions. This edition is sold out. If you’d like to get on the list for a Delirium hardcover subscription, please place your name and e-mail address in our stock notification system for this product at the following URL: http://www.horror-mall.com/stock_notify.php?productid=17965. Cover price: $75.00. Ship date: February 23, 2010.
- Deluxe Lettered Hardcover. 26-copy print run. Contains “Long After Dark: Behind The Scenes,” a bonus essay only printed in the limited and lettered hardcover editions. This also contains a bonus afterword not found in any other edition. The book is bound in genuine natural leather with marbled end sheets and a slipcase foil stamped to match the book. Delirium lettered editions are only sold via reservation. There are currently 2 reserved letters available. To reserve a Delirium letter, you must purchase the last Delirium lettered hardcover which is Benjamin’s Parasite by Jeff Strand. If you purchase this lettered, you will get a chance to order a matching letter to Long After Dark as well as any future lettered as long as your reservation stays current. Cover price: $225.00. Ship date: March 30, 2010.
- Digital Edition. Cover price: $9.95. Will be available for immediate download on April 27, 2010.
- Trade Paperback. Cover price: $19.95. Will be shipping May 25, 2010. No preorders (orders will be taken once it’s in-stock and shipping).
Note to Delirium Hardcover Subscribers: Links have been sent out to each of you to order this through Horror Mall. Starting this year, each Delirium hardcover will need to be ordered individually. You will receive an e-mail with a link with each new title and will receive your discount and matching number automatically upon ordering. If you did not receive your e-mail and link, please leave Delirium a support ticket through Horror Mall: http://www.horror-mall.com/support (and be sure to pull down Delirium Books in the pull-down menu).
Note to Delirium Lettered Buyers: Links have been sent out to each of you to order this through Horror Mall. If you did not receive your e-mail and link, please leave Delirium a support ticket through Horror Mall: http://www.horror-mall.com/support (and be sure to pull down Delirium Books in the pull-down menu).
Delirium Books Website Downtime, Changes
Just wanted to post a notice that the Delirium website (www.deliriumbooks.com) will be going down for a day or two. I have decided to consolidate news and information into a single site between Horror Mall and Delirium. This will make it easier for me to post news and also easier for everyone who’s interested to have one single source to get the latest scoop on all things Delirium. So once the site goes back online, it will direct all traffic to the following URL:
http://www.horror-mall.com/deliriumbooks.
All news and announcements will be made via Delirium’s blog at Horrorgy which can be found here:
http://www.horror-mall.com/horrorgy/category/store/store-delirium/
Delirium fans can join the newsletter which is hosted by Horror Mall at the following link:
http://horror-mall.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=d372741da51dba29450a1cac0&id=5cbae788eb
Lastly, discussions on Delirium Books will take place on the official Delirium forums hosted at Horror Mall:
http://www.horror-mall.com/forums/index.php?/forum/5-delirium-books/
Last Chance For 2010 Delirium Hardcovers / 2009 Slipcase
Delirium Books will be pulling its hardcover subscription from being sold at the end this month or until the remaining 5 slots are purchased, whichever happens first. So if you’re waiting to purchase your subscription, time is running out. They will next be offered in December 2010 for a brief 30-day period (if any become available throughout next year).
The four titles included in this year’s subscription are:
Long After Dark by Greg F. Gifune
Description: Harry Fremont hasn’t slept in days. He’s down with a terrible flu: runny nose, fever, a sore throat, the chills, and worst of all, a horrible cough that keeps him up all night. His wife Kelly is away on a business trip and their son Garret is at college, leaving Harry alone in the house. Though worn out, Harry has been unable to sleep…and things are starting to change. He’s seeing unusual things outside, just beyond the windows and confines of his home… hearing things…experiencing unsettling things that make no sense. And they’re getting worse.
Are they simply figments of a tortured and exhausted mind, or clues to an intricate mystery steeped in evil and deception Harry cannot yet comprehend? Haunted by remnants of earlier nightmares, disturbing questions about his life and marriage, strange shadowy figures, odd noises, cryptic writings on his doors and glimpses of a hideously disfigured being wrapped in bloody bandages, Harry freefalls into the bowels of a hell he can never hope to escape from, a horrifying world of paranoia, agony and terror where nothing is what it seems.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us…long after dark.
Sleep while you still can.
Clickers III: Dagon Rising by J. F. Gonzalez & Brian Keene
Description: They thought it was over, but the second wave was only the beginning. In the aftermath of the Clickers and Dark Ones’ siege and a coup against an insane President, America rebuilds. Change has come, and a better future is promised to all. But promises can be broken and there may be no future at all because deep beneath the ocean, a new terror awaits. Dagon, god of the Dark Ones, is waking up… and if humanity doesn’t stop him, then mankind will face extinction.
Trapped on a South Pacific Island, the cast of Clickers and Clickers 2: The Next Wave join forces with a mysterious group of occult agents to face off against the Clickers, the Dark Ones, Dagon and an all-new threat — the deadly obsidian Clickers. The stakes have never been higher. Dagon is rising… and humanity will fall.
Clickers III: Dagon Rising – It’s more giant monster carnage and B-movie fun as only J. F. Gonzalez and Brian Keene can bring you.
Innocents Lost by Michael McBride
Description: A young girl vanishes in broad daylight on her tenth birthday. Her father, FBI Special Agent Phil Preston of the Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, devotes his life to finding her and discovers a pattern in a recent string of abductions.
Dr. Les Grant leads a group of graduate students into the Wyoming wilderness in search of an unidentified Native American medicine wheel photographed by an anonymous hiker. Instead, they stumble upon a macabre tableau of suffering.
Fremont County Sheriff Keith Dandridge finds himself right at the heart of the mystery when twenty-seven bodies are disinterred in the Wind River Range at the westernmost edge of his jurisdiction, with the promise of more to come.
All the while, an unknown evil is summoning the men to its killing grounds, where the remains of the lost innocents are left to rot…and a fate far worse than death awaits them.
TBA (Original Novel) by Greg F. Gifune
Details and description forthcoming.
HorrorWired (Exclusive Subscription-Only Hardcover)
Available FREE to only hardcover subscribers and lifetime members of Delirium Books is a limited (but unsigned) hardcover collecting all of Delirium’s 2010 digital releases not available in book format, including the 2009 titles already published (Kingdom Of Shadows & The Stranger). There will be no other edition of this available in any form except to existing hardcover subscribers who purchase ALL 2010 titles and lifetime subscribers.
2010 Slipcase (Optional, And At An Additional Cost)
There will also be a single slipcase for sale that will collect all 5 hardcover titles, continuing the set structure Delirium has incorporated with 2009′s release schedule.
To get in on this subscription, save almost 15% off the cover price to each book and also get the free limited hardcover of HorrorWired, you’ll need to get one of the last 5 subscriptions available and order before January 1, 2010.
https://www.horror-mall.com/DELIRIUM-HARDCOVER-SUBSCRIPTION-p-17965.html
2009 SLIPCASE REMINDER!!!
Also, a final reminder that 2009 slipcases for volume 2 of Delirium releases will be put into production on December 16th. You will have until December 15th to order these at the current price of $45. After that date, the price will increase to $75.
This is the Delirium slipcase to house volume 2 of its 2009 releases. Bound in the same material to match the books with silver foil stamping on front and spine. Slipcase showcases miniature foil designs matching the 4 books collected in volume 1 of 2009:
- Benjamin’s Parasite by Jeff Strand
- Reservoir Gods by Brian Knight
- Primitive by J. F. Gonzalez
- The Girl In The Woods by David Jack Bell
Delirium 2009 Slipcase, Volume 2
Delirium has announced the preorder of its slipcase to house volume 2 of its 2009 releases. Bound in the same material to match the books with silver foil stamping on front and spine. Slipcase showcases miniature foil designs matching the 4 books collected in volume 1 of 2009:
- Benjamin’s Parasite by Jeff Strand
- Reservoir Gods by Brian Knight
- Primitive by J. F. Gonzalez
- The Girl In The Woods by David Jack Bell
The following item isn’t expected to ship until Feb. 1, 2010, but payment must be received at the time your order is placed due to the custom nature of this product. You must order before Dec. 15, 2009. Orders placed after this date must be custom ordered at a higher price of $75 per slipcase.
Kingdom Of Shadows Paperback Release
Delirium Books has just released Greg F. Gifune’s latest book, Kingdom Of Shadows, as a trade paperback. It’s now shipping and you can download a free excerpt on the ordering page and discover why many in the industry consider Greg as one of the best authors working in the horror genre.
A band of desperate criminals…a seemingly deserted farmhouse guarded by the rotting remnants of scarecrows, the echoes of torture and depravity and the whispers of unholy nightmares…a dark night concealing terrible secrets, misery and long-suppressed horrors…
One faraway, nearly forgotten night, this night, stands between the forsaken and deliverance, but they are not alone in the darkness. Something demonic dwells within…something luring them toward a separate kingdom…a kingdom of night…a kingdom of evil…
A Kingdom Of Shadows…
Fear the night.
Delirium Hardcover Subscriptions + HorrorWired
The long sold out Delirium hardcover subscription plan is getting one big perk today. The Delirium HorrorWired series of digital releases are now being collected into a single annual volume which will be given free to all hardcover subscribers. The HorrorWired trade hardcover edition will be produced to meet the total number of hardcover subscribers.
Due to the Horror Mall’s no competition clause between shop owners, the Delirium storefront has acquired 5 new slots for its hardcover subscription due to the fact that Bad Moon Books has allocated its copies of future Delirium titles back to the Delirium Books shop.
These 5 subscriptions are now live and available to the first 5 customers at the following link:
https://www.horror-mall.com/DELIRIUM-HARDCOVER-SUBSCRIPTION-p-17965.html
Delirium / Jeff Strand Lettered Up For Grabs
Delirium has recently received back 3 of its lettered editions from booksellers to sell directly, so here’s a golden opportunity for a collector to get his or her number reserved for the future releases of Delirium lettereds, including some extremely sought-after titles coming in the next few years.
As of this initial announcement, 23 of 26 copies of Jeff Strand’s Benjamin’s Parasite lettered edition are pre-sold, which leaves just 3 available for sale on a first-come/first-serve basis. Those customers who land these 3 copies will also have the option to buy a matching letter of Delirium’s next leather-bound edition (to be announced next month).
Also, not only are Delirium’s lettereds genuine leather-bound and oversewn with special endsheets, each volume contains bonus material not found in any other edition published.
BENJAMIN’S PARASITE by Jeff Strand (Lettered Hardcover)
At any given moment, the human body contains millions of parasites.
This is the story of just one.
A really, really nasty one.
Benjamin Wilson was having a lousy month even before the stomach pains began. He was about to turn forty. One of his students had been shot while on a homicidal meat cleaver rampage. And shortly after the funeral, Benjamin didn’t feel so good…
Now everything is changing. His body is being affected in some very unpleasant ways. His personality is developing a few “quirks.” But the biggest change is that he has a bunch of evil and/or psychotic people trying to hunt him down to acquire the parasite. His only hope is Julie, a gorgeous bounty hunter who may or may not have Benjamin’s best interests in mind, and who may or may not be competent enough to help him anyway.
Jeff Strand, author of The Sinister Mr. Corpse, Gleefully Macabre Tales, and Pressure, delivers his most outrageous adventure yet—an over-the-top mix of gruesome body horror and a wacky road trip comedy.
You’ll laugh until your intestines scramble.
This special slipcased leather-bound hardcover edition is limited to 26 copies and features:
- Bonus afterword by the author
- Oversewn natural leather binding
- Custom-made slipcase with matching foil stamp design
- Special Endsheets