THE BAD MOON BOOKS WE LIKE THREES SALE BEGINS TODAY! ON TILL FRIDAY THE 13th! 30% OFF!
THE BAD MOON BOOKS ALL THREES SALE!
Hey, we here at Bad Moon Books love THREES! One of our favorite of course is the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Here are some others: my three beautiful granddaughters, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, 3 of a kind in poker, well, you get the idea. So we thought it would be fun to have an ALL THREE’S SALE! The sale begins today on the 23rd, ends on August 13th (Friday), that’s THREE weeks, and YOU GET 30% OFF ANY IN STOCK BAD MOON BOOK TITLE! Why not grab a bunch right now. If you do, we promise to put you in our Top 3 customers……….. :0)
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Google BookmarksJOHNNY HALLOWEEN BY NORMAN PARTRIDGE!
JOHNNY HALLOWEEN: TALES OF THE DARK SEASON by Norman Partridge (signed limited hardcover)
Norman Partridge’s Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s 100 Best Books of 2006. A Bram Stoker Award winner and World Fantasy nominee, Partridge’s rapid-fire tale of a small town trapped by its own shadows welcomed a wholly original creation, the October Boy, earning the author comparisons to Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson.
Now Partridge revisits Halloween with a collection featuring a half-dozen stories celebrating frights both past and present. In “The Jack o’ Lantern,” a brand new Dark Harvest novelette, the October Boy races against a remorseless döppelganger bent on carving a deadly path through the town’s annual ritual of death and rebirth. “Johnny Halloween” features a sheriff battling both a walking ghost and his own haunted conscience. In “Three Doors,” a scarred war hero hunts his past with the help of a magic prosthetic hand, while “Satan’s Army” is a real Partridge rarity previously available only in a long sold-out lettered edition from another press.
But there’s more to this holiday celebration besides fiction. “The Man Who Killed Halloween” is an extensive essay about growing up during the late sixties in the town where the Zodiac Killer began his murderous spree. In an introduction that explores monsters both fictional and real, Partridge recalls what it was like to live in a community menaced by a serial killer and examines how the Zodiac’s reign of terror shaped him as a writer.
Halloween night awaits. Join a master storyteller as he explores the layers of darkness that separate all-too-human evil from the supernatural. Let Norman Partridge lead you on seven journeys through the most dangerous night of the year, where no one is safe…and everyone is suspect.
NEW TARTARUS! ANGELA SLATTER, SOURDOUGH AND OTHER STORIES!
SOURDOUGH AND OTHER STORIES by Angela Slatter (limited edition hardcover)
Welcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter’s impeccably imagined tales.
In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other. Love, loss and life are elegantly dissected in Slatter’s earthy yet poetic prose.
As Rob Shearman says in his Introduction: ‘Sourdough and Other Stories manages to be grand and ambitious and worldbuilding-but also as intimate and focused as all good short fiction should be . . . The joy of Angela Slatter’s book is that she’s given us a set of fairy tales that are at once both new and fresh, and yet feel as old as storytelling itself.’
Contains: ‘Introduction’ by Robert Shearman, ‘The Shadow Tree’, ‘Gallowberries’, ‘Little Radish’, ‘Dibblespin’, ‘The Navigator’, ‘The Angel Wood’, ‘Ash’, ‘The Story of Ink’, ‘Lost Things’, ‘A Good Husband’, ‘A Porcelain Soul’, ‘The Bones Remember Everything’, ‘Sourdough’, ‘Sister, Sister’, ‘Lavender and Lychgates’, ‘Under the Mountain, ‘Afterword’ by Jeff VanderMeer.
THE BLACK SUN SET BY LEE THOMAS UP FOR PRE-ORDER!
THE BLACK SUN SET by Lee Thomas (chapbook)
Past and Future. Life and death. The pieces of the Black Sun are rumoured to act as bridges between extremes, erasing boundaries and offering their holders the ability to move freely from one state to the next. Time is fluid, and the dead won’t stay dead.
Buster is a simple man who works as muscle for a small-time syndicate. He’s getting too old to bust limbs and collect debts, and he thinks it might be time to put away his criminal past. One of the few jobs he still enjoys is watching his boss’s house. The work is easy. The threat is minimal, and it allows him to spend time with his boss’s beautiful wife. What Buster doesn’t know is that his boss has been collecting pieces of an ancient amulet, an amulet with tremendous power, and there are people who will do anything to possess it.
Deception, seduction, torture and murder are only the beginning of the atrocities performed in the name of The Black Sun. People have killed for a single piece of it. They have died for one. Now, the pieces are coming together and no act is too brutal, too bloody if it means completing The Black Sun Set.
THE LOST MACHINE BY RICHARD A. KIRK UP FOR PRE-ORDER!
THE LOST MACHINE by Richard A. Kirk (signed trade paperback edition)
In a wasteland ravaged by plague, Lumsden Moss steps out of a decaying prison. Armed with a satchel of yellowed notebooks containing the fragile memories of five murdered children, he is determined to track down and confront their killer. Lumsden, accompanied by a stranger, begins a long journey to the vast City of Steps where he is forced to confront the horrors of the past and present.
“A crow, chased by smaller birds, rose from a wind sculpted tree. Twisted strands of grass emerged from the snow and rattled against the crust, but it was a person standing in the yard that caught his attention and set his heart racing. Moss looked over his shoulder. Going back inside was unthinkable. Seeing that the gates were loose, the locking mechanism brutalized, he shoved them outward. The dry hinges juddered, showering the bricks with rust that looked like flakes of dried blood.”
“What Richard has succeeded in doing here is to draw a dark,strangely beautiful world—a world uniquely his own (which I would love to see more of by the way)… He has made his places real and his people breathe”. Mike Mignola, creator/writer/artist of Hellboy
Final Altar 13 Auction Notice
We’re down to less than 20 auctions left before lifetime rights of refusal for Altar 13 limiteds end.
Current auctions as of this posting:
All numbers before these and copy 65 are now officially sold.
Thanks to all of the winning bidders! The first book plus Altar 13 certificates have been sent to everyone so far.
DELUXE SHERLOCK IMPOSSIBLE CASES IN STOCK! ONLY 13 COPIES DONE!
SHERLOCK HOLMES THE IMPOSSIBLE CASES by Daniel McGachey (signed limited deluxe hardcover)
In these recently discovered accounts, sealed and hidden from prying eyes for almost eighty years, Dr. John H. Watson puts pen to paper once more, as he accompanies his friend, that most rational of detectives, Mr. Sherlock Holmes in the utterly irrational realm of the otherworldly, the uncanny, and the supernatural.
What was it about the loathsome contents of a match-box that sent an apparently fearless man stark staring mad?
How can Sherlock Holmes be called upon to investigate a murder where the victim is his client, and where the murder has already taken place?
What is it that lies in the darkness of an ancient burial mound, and can it really bring about death to any who would disturb its resting place?
Can mere words in a stolen manuscript really open men’s minds to maddeningly terrifying visions of a world beyond our own?
In order to find the solutions to these problems, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson may yet discover that sometimes it is not so easy to eliminate the impossible!
GORD ROLLO VALLEY OF THE SCARECROW!
VALLEY OF THE SCARECROW by Gord Rollo (Limited edition hardcover)
During the great depression, a small backwoods community in Iowa face even more difficult times than most, having to endure the slowly fading sanity of their leader, Reverend Joshua Miller. When it is clear the man has slipped beyond the edge of reason and perhaps signed a deal with the devil, the citizens unite to stop him any way they can, breaking into the church to lash the reverend to his wooden alter cross then boarding up the windows and doors to leave him to fate and God’s judgment. The people of Oak Valley then abandoned their town to the cornfields and woods; ending the madness for what they hoped was forever.
They were wrong!
Seventy-four years later, the corn and trees have taken back the area and not much is left of the once thriving little community but Joshua Miller’s desecrated church still stands, and within it’s boarded up and sun-baked walls something that used to be a holy man waits for whoever is unfortunate enough to release him from his cross…
TWO GRAY FRIAR TITLES COMING TO THE MALL!
THE CASTLE OF LOS ANGELES by Lisa Morton (trade paperback edition)
Theatre director Beth Ortiz is the newest resident of The Castle, an exclusive Los Angeles artists’ community. Anxious actors aren’t all Beth has to worry about in her new space, however, for The Castle has a secret history of madness and murder, and a celebrity artist who develops a strange fixation on Beth.
And The Castle also happens to be haunted. By some particularly uneasy spirits.
WHERE THE HEART IS edited by Gary Fry (trade paperback edition)
Take an alternative tour of Great Britain . . .
Writers are often told to write about what they know best . . . and what do they know better than their own homes? In this anthology, 19 fine authors of dark fiction reveal some of the less palatable elements of their native environments.
There’s blood where the heart is. Much blood.
Stephen Volk
Rhys Hughes
Gary McMahon
Joel Lane
Simon Bestwick
Paul Finch
Gary Fry
D F Lewis
Andrew Hook
Allen Ashley
Stuart Young
Simon Kurt Unsworth
Carole Johnstone
Michelle James
Stephen Bacon
John Travis
Mark Patrick Lynch
Mark West
Mike O’Driscoll
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.
