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Collecting Darkness: 10 Years Of Delirium Books
Although this isn’t a Delirium release, I thought that Delirium readers should be reminded that the book Collecting Darkness: 10 YEARS OF DELIRIUM BOOKS by Larry L. Roberts & H Michael Casper has shipped. It was published by Cargo Cult Press and is sold in the Bloodletting Books shop at Horror Mall. It turned out beautifully.
I received a copy from Larry Roberts the other day and I’d like to personally thank everyone who was involved in this project. Quite an honor and a true must-read if you’ve been purchasing Delirium titles over the years. It was very cool to see the top Delirium collectors showcased in this book along with pictures of their libraries. Also, the price guide was a very thorough and interesting reference for collectors. Great material was found from cover to cover.
Here’s more about this book on the history of Delirium Books:
Here is the guide you’ve been waiting for. The definitive Delirium Books bibliography and price guide is complete. Yet it is more than a price guide; much more. Two longtime collector’s collaborate on this volume that all small press collectors will cherish. Their combined knowledge and experience of over 50 years collecting books is evident.
For Delirium Books fans as well as collectors, this is it. The History of Delirium Books, Shane Ryan Staley: The Man Behind Delirium, The Value of Collecting Delirium Books, a bibliography and price guide, quick lists, and a peek at the Top 7 Delirium Book Collectors in the World are some of the gems found here. Included quick lists are designed for the collector and reader. They’ll help you find specific information. For example, all the cover art by Mike Bohatch, a list of all the books in the Exclusives Series, or all books authored by Greg F. Gifune can be easily discovered.
However, more than that is found between these covers. Information for the collector is provided including purpose, collecting trends and rules, investing in books, grading books, glossary of terms, protecting your investment, and how to care for your books.
Immun3 by Michael McBride Shipping
Delirium Books’ new and improved limited edition mini-hardcover line has bulked up to focusing on novella / novelette length works. Immun3 by Michael McBride is now shipping, the latest production which features a side-sewn mini-hardcover with graphical wrapround cover (on the boards). One hell of a great story and book production combined for under $20. It’s an unbeatable deal. But with only 150 copies produced, it won’t be available long.
The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved. An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King. The Gulf War is over. Nirvana releases the album Nevermind. The Soviet Union collapses.
The year is 1991, and the world is changing.
For Landon Crane, the future couldn’t look brighter. He’s madly in love with a beautiful girl who’ll be leaving with him for college in just over a month. The small mountain town of Mineral Springs will be hosting the largest Independence Day celebration in its history to welcome home war hero Travis James, highlighting the ultimate summer of freedom.
The year is 1991, and nothing will ever be the same.
Travis has returned with more than the Medal of Honor. He’s brought something else with him, something capable of inflicting unimaginable pain and suffering. Before the night is through, Landon and the rest of the residents of Mineral Springs will be forced to answer the most terrifying question of all.
Who among them will survive?
Immun3 is a mini-hardcover (4.5 inches by 6.25 inches) novella side-sewn with a graphic wraparound cover on the boards.
If you are a Delirium hardcover subscriber and want to match this book to your subscription, you must submit this request in your order notes or else books will be randomly distributed.
Michael McBride’s Innocents Lost Limited Hardcover Shipping
Delirium Books has just released its 3rd hardcover first edition novel of the year. It is available and has already began shipping to hardcover subscribers. Only 150 hardcover copies being produced! Here’s more about this title…
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.
Note: Delirium Hardcover subscribers have been sent an e-mail with a link to order to get the discount associated with your subscription.
Non-hardcover subscribers can order their copies HERE.
Greg F. Gifune’s Long After Dark In Paperback
In the coming weeks, Delirium Books will be releasing Greg F. Gifune’s latest novel (Long After Dark) in trade paperback.
But before it’s available anywhere else or released into distribution, Horror Mall customers can order their copies and get $5.00 off if you order before 6/4/2010. No coupon needed!
Here’s a little more about the novel:
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.
Delirium Revisits Chapbook Format
For all you into Delirium nostalgia, Delirium has just announced Creeptych by John Everson, a mini-hardcover limited edition with the classic full graphical production on the boards.
This is a special mini-hardcover chapbook which measures 4 1/2 inches wide by 6 1/4 inches in length. It is signed by John Everson and limited to only 150 copies.
Does your skin crawl when you see a spider on the wall or a roach on the kitchen floor? Do you find yourself itching uncontrollably after being touched by a fly or mosquito? Do you ever lie awake half the night because you felt something delicately, carefully crawling across your feet beneath the sheets? Then this Creeptych of three bug-ridden stories is for you!
BAD DAY: Paul Hughes had a really bad day. He lost his job, his wife and then after getting bit by a bug… his life. Compared to what happens to his neighbors after the Luna Roaches come to town, his day wasn’t so bad at all. At least he died…
EARDRUM BUZZ: Wes couldn’t get enough of the music of Eardrum Buzz’s first disc, Misery Machine; the drone of their guitars was hypnotizing. But when he is brought into the band’s inner circle to join The Swarm, he soon has the music within him. Terrifyingly deep within him…
VIOLET LAGOON: When a quartet of co-eds decide to reenact The Blue Lagoon on an abandoned Florida Key, they find more than just sex and sand is on the agenda. Stings turn out to play a part in their weekend as well. Lots and lots of stings. But those were just the beginning of the pain…
Daemon / Dead And Gone
For anyone wanting to secure a copy of Harry Shannon’s trade paperback novels, Daemon and Dead And Gone, you’ll have a short period before they’re off the market. Both novels will be going out of print in less than a month.
Black Ops specialist Jeff Lehane burned out fast and retired young. He still has nightmares about a bloody mission into Iraq, right on the eve of the war. Yet Lehane reluctantly agrees to assist his ex-wife, who is guarding a Latino rap star. She is killed during the concert, and Jeff soon discovers that someone—or something—has broken into the morgue to eat from her corpse. Outraged, Lehane assembles his former team and they begin to hunt down the ghoul that is stalking Las Vegas.
DEAD AND GONE by Harry Shannon
Unemployed actor Jack Wade takes his comatose wife to an isolated spot in the mountains, a place where a man once murdered his entire family. Frankie was a successful movie producer, but now they have run out of money. This dilapidated cabin is all they have left.
As the long, lonely nights stretch out before him, Jack’s dreams overflow with nightmarish images. The isolation loosens his grip on reality. He believes Frankie is capable of leaving her bed and moving around. And as Jack falls apart inside the cabin, someone or something else begins stalking the woods outside…
Is the mountain evil, the cabin haunted? Or is poor Jack just going insane? Harry Shannon’s disturbing novel is a relentless, non-stop exercise in terror.
Preorder Clickers III
As of this first public announcement, the limited edition is more than half way sold out and only 5 copies of the lettered edition remain!
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.
Please note: the lettered edition contains the following bonuses:
- “Captivity” by J. F. Gonzalez (a brand new Clickers short story)
- Oversewn natural leather binding
- Custom-made slipcase with matching foil stamp design
- Special Endsheets
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…