New Horror Books

[Masonwire]

Quote Originally Posted by Michael

I looked at Simon's website like a few weeks ago and never saw Burnt Suns, was totally unaware this was coming out. Then I saw Hippocampus's site yesterday and bought it. Was I just WAY off my game or did others miss it?

You can find it here: http://strantzas.com/burnt-black-suns/

[nomis]

Quote Originally Posted by Michael

I looked at Simon's website like a few weeks ago and never saw Burnt Suns, was totally unaware this was coming out. Then I saw Hippocampus's site yesterday and bought it. Was I just WAY off my game or did others miss it?

It was officially announced on Saturday, Michael.

[matt cardin]

Absolutely too cool, Simon. And what an amazing surround of high-level endorsement: intro from Laird, blurbs from Ligotti, Straub, Nevill. I can't wait to read the book.

[nomis]

Quote Originally Posted by matt cardin

Absolutely too cool, Simon. And what an amazing surround of high-level endorsement: intro from Laird, blurbs from Ligotti, Straub, Nevill. I can't wait to read the book.

I think you're really going to dig this one, Matt.

[njhorror]

I ordered it. Sounds good.

[bendk]

I have been looking forward to Simon's new book ever since S.T. Joshi gave it a glowing endorsement on one of Wilum's videos. He said it was one of the best collections he has read in years. And look at that gorgeous cover by Santiago Caruso!

The Lord Came at Twilight by Daniel Mills is also a must for me. Great cover art there too.

It looks to be a good year for horror literature.

[Freyasfire]

I was super excited when I heard about Simon's upcoming book from Laird Barron's blog! That is the best kind of literary surprise: not only hearing about a new book by an author you love, but also finding that it will be released very soon, AND will not be ultra limited and hard to obtain. Can't wait to read it!

[Sam]

So many great books coming up! THE LORD CAME AT TWILIGHT and of course BURNT BLACK SUNS are both hotly anticipated around my domicile.

Also due soon is ANA KAI TANGATA, the debut collection from Scott Nicolay.



Scott contributed the excellent "Eyes Exchange Bank" to THE GRIMSCRIBE'S PUPPETS, and has stories in Strange Aeons and The Lovecraft eZine. He also has a story in the upcoming Laird Barron tribute THE CHILDREN OF OLD LEECH, and in fact Laird wrote the introduction for Scott's book. It will be illustrated by David Verba, and is currently up for pre-order from publisher Fedogan & Bremer in regular hardcover and deluxe limited editions.

This is a big book, as some of the stories are novella-length. I have greatly enjoyed everything I've read from Scott so far, and I have no doubt this will be a brutally beautiful read!

[mgriffin]

I'm really looking forward to Scott Nicolay's book, too, and expect it will be much discussed later this year.

The cover image posted by Sam is not quite final. The text ended up being white rather than black with yellow drop shadow. The art is the same, of course.

[bendk]

Not exactly new as these were published by Ramble House more than a year ago, but I somehow missed them. I have wanted to read these (especially Freak Museum) ever since they were listed in Karl Edward Wagner's famous "39 Best Horror Novels" list in The Twilight Zone Magazine.

(Book descriptions by Ramble House.)





A legendary rarity, The Subjugated Beast is not simply a literary curiosity, but a true masterpiece of the genre, years ahead of its time. Denice Jeanette Bradley-Ryan writing as R.R. Ryan and Kay Seaton deserves to be thought of as one of the true masters of the weird novel and perhaps even the "Godmother of Splatterpunk". The Subjugated Beast easily stands with modern masterpieces like Richard Laymon's The Cellar, Ray Garton's Live Girls, Edward Lee's Creekers and other masterpieces of cutting edge horror; however, Ms. Bradley-Ryan was authoring these books over seventy years ago! Of her body of work, The Subjugated Beast stands out as the most unsettling, definitely not for the weak of heart!






A legendary rarity, Freak Museum was first published in London in 1938 and it was assumed that many copies were destroyed when the bombs began to fall. Virtually unobtainable for over seventy years, Freak Museum is a classic of the macabre worthy of a place beside such masterpieces of Gothic terror as J.U. Nicolson's Finger's of Fear, John Farris' All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, and Bruno Fischer's House of Flesh. Freak Museum is not for the faint-hearted!

The Mystery of the identity of "R.R. Ryan" has been around since the 50s and his introduction, John Pelan lays out the evidence for a definitive solution.