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October 16, 2015
Scarlet October Deals
Meteor House, publishers of Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows, are celebrating Win Scott Eckert’s continuation of the Wildman mythos by offering up a special package deal until the end of October. Save money on more books, including War of Shadows!
PACKAGE #1: Save $5 plus even more with the combined shipping discount!
Purchase The Scarlet Jaguar with The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert — both Pat Wildman adventures!
Meteor House’s trade paperback edition of The Evil in Pemberley House is full of bonus materials:
Foreword to the 2014 Edition
A Pemberley House/Wold Newton Family graphic tree
An Expanded Pemberley House/Wold Newton Family graphic tree, including SPOILERS from the novel
Outline for the novel by Philip José Farmer
A timeline of key events in the novel by Win Scott Eckert
A “Creative Mythography” essay by Win Scott Eckert, about the research and writing of the novel and ensuring it remained in continuity with Farmer’s other Wold Newtonian works, such as Tarzan Alive, Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, and The Adventure of the Peerless Peer
PACKAGE #2: Save $5 plus even more with the combined shipping discount!
Purchase The Scarlet Jaguar with Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows by Josh Reynolds.
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg was only the beginning! It is 1889 and Phileas Fogg has settled into a life of quiet sequestration in the rural idyll of his family estate with his wife and children. The millenia-old conflict which once threatened to consume him is over and done. Or so he thought…
With less than 20 copies remaining of the Hardcover Limited Edition of Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows, this offer is only good while supplies last!
PACKAGE #3: Save $10 plus even more with the combined shipping discount!
Purchase The Scarlet Jaguar and The Evil in Pemberley House and Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows.
One Mega-deal for all three books. Again, only while supplies last!
October 15, 2015
The Professor Teaches a Lesson
The Napoleon of Crime returns! Today sees the release of The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Moriarty, a chunky new anthology featuring 37 new stories–including one by me–about Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis, the insidious Professor James Moriarty.
My story, “How the Professor Taught a Lesson to the Gnoles” is an homage to both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lord Dunsany, creator of the titular Gnoles. It’s also my way of adding to the weird little world created by Dunsany in his 1912 story, “How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles” and then enlivened by Margaret St. Clair in her 1951 story, “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles”. Both of those stories, by the by, are included in The Weird, a wonderfully massive anthology by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Moriarty is available wherever books are sold, and in digital format. If Amazon is your dealer of choice, here’s the link.
October 4, 2015
The Astral Trail of the Great Psychagogue
Black Coat Press has released Sar Dubnotal 2: The Astral Trail, a new anthology featuring the exploits of the Great Psychagogue and globe-trotting occult detective, Sar Dubnotal, including my story, “The Swine of Gerasene”.
From the blurb:
From the sun-bleached streets of Tunis to the bottom of the seas, from the sordid back alleys of Paris to the blood-drenched trenches of the Somme, Sâr Dubnotal, the Great Psychagogue, his disciple Rudolph, his medium Gianetti Annunciata, and his trio of assistants, Frank, Fréjus and Otto, pursue evil wherever it hides.
The evil hypnotist Tserpchikopf, the monstrous Cthulhu, the diabolical Doktor Von Meyer, the vengeful wraith of Ligeia and the malevolent Helen Vaughn are amongst the foes they face in this volume.
Published anonymously in 1909 in a series of French pulp magazines, the Sâr Dubnotal series features one of the first superheroes of the supernatural. This collection includes one original, never translated before Sâr Dubnotal story and eleven exploits of the Great Psychagogue penned by seven modern masters of popular fiction.
My story, “The Swine of Gerasene”, previously appeared in volume 10 of Tales of the Shadowmen and sees Sar Dubnotal fighting alongside several other occult detectives against the timeless menace of the man-monster known as Count Magnus and a bevy of horrors from the darkest corners of time and space.
The anthology is available from the publisher.
September 22, 2015
The Red Road to Shambhala
Pro Se Productions in conjunction with Altus Press presents a new volume in its PULP OBSCURA line. Originally written under the pen name of John Grange by Victor Rousseau Emmanuel, Robert Leslie Bellem, and W. T. Ballard, Jim Anthony was a “half Irish, half Indian, and all-American” adventurer who inherited great wealth and had amazing mental and physical abilities.
And now he returns in a new adventure penned by noted author Joshua Reynolds: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF JIM ANTHONY, SUPER-DETECTIVE VOLUME TWO: RED SHAMBHALA!
A decades-old vendetta… A man thought long dead who might be seeking revenge… Two monstrous eagles at his beck and call… Men haunting rooftops, the skin ripped from their flesh… Rumors of stolen gold buried beneath the earth in a boxcar… And a villain so bold that he takes Jim Anthony’s headquarters hostage!
Featuring a fantastic cover by Mike Fyles and print formatting and logo design by Sean E. Ali, RED SHAMBHALA is available now at Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/New-Adventures-Jim-Anth…/…/ref=sr_1_2… and Pro Se’s own store at www.prose-press.com for 10.00.
This second volume of Anthony’s Pro Se adventures is also available as an Ebook, designed and formatted by Forrest Bryant and available for only $2.99 for the Kindle athttp://www.amazon.com/New-Adventures-Jim-Anth…/…/ref=sr_1_1… and for most digital formats via Smashwords at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/578285.
For more information on this title, interviews with the author, or digital copies to review this book, contact Pro Se Productions’ Director of Corporate Operations, Kristi King-Morgan at directorofcorporateoperations@prose-press.com.
To learn more about Pro Se Productions, go to www.prose-press.com. Like Pro Se on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ProSeProductions.
September 21, 2015
Close, But No Cigar
Editor Ellen Datlow released her full recommendation list for volume seven of her annual Best Horror of the Year anthology. As has happened many, many times in the past, I’m happy to say that made the list, but came short of making the final cut for the anthology itself. And while it’s a great honor to be on said list, with some of the finest authors writing today, as the title of this post says, close but no cigar.
At any rate, Datlow thinks my story, “The Briggs Hill Path” was worth a second look. Featuring the Lovecraftian duo of Harley Warren and Randolph Carter, “The Briggs Hill Path” finds the two engaged in psychic struggle with something which may or may not be an avatar of the Black Goat of the Woods. The story first appeared in the anthology, Song of the Satyrs, edited by Aaron French.
For the further adventures of Warren and Carter, be sure to check out “The Savage Dreamer”, “Dead Man’s Tongue” and “The Bells of Northam”.
August 31, 2015
An Expedition to Tsang
April Moon Books has released their newest anthology, Ill-Considered Expeditions, which includes my story “An Incident at the Plateau of Tsang”.
From the blurb:
This will be a voyage of discovery for all concerned as successive teams of hapless explorers fall foul of the elements and monstrosities lurking in shadowy caves, hidden temples, icy tombs and even alien planets.
From steamy jungles and back waters to unexplored islands and mysterious woodlands, researchers investigate alien artifacts and mysterious creatures, while others probe interdimensional portals, oblivious to the dangers.
Some are motivated by the romance of discovery, others by the heady intoxication of greed, but all are doomed when their forays into the unknown world become terrifying tales of ILL-CONSIDERED EXPEDITIONS!
“An Incident at the Plateau of Tsang” is set in Outer Mongolia in the 1920s. It’s loosely based on the atrocious career of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, an anti-Bolshevik Russian officer-turned-warlord, who rose to power in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War and ran riot across Mongolia for a few bloody years until his death at the hands of his own officers. While the protagonist of my story isn’t Ungern-Sternberg, they’re of a type: brutal men, determined to achieve their ends by any means necessary…even if that means bargaining with the devilish inhabitants of a hidden city…
You can pick up a copy of the book from Amazon.com or directly from the publisher.
August 25, 2015
Weird Heroes Again
“Pittailiniq”, the second installment of my irregular ‘WEIRD HEROES’ short fiction series is now available for download, courtesy of the folks at Pro Se Press.
From the blurb:
Something evil has taken hold of a trading post in the far north, something that has devoured every man, woman, and beast inhabiting the place. Now it is up to Ukaleq, an Inuit holy man, to put it right. The land has become pittailiniq, a sour, ruined place, and while it may be too late to save the people, Ukaleq might just be able to save the land – if not himself…
For those keeping track, this is the second appearance of the Inuit angakkuq, Ukaleq. He first popped up in the story, “The Teeth of Winter”, in last year’s Pulpwork Press Christmas Special, where he aided the Royal Occultist in putting the kibosh on a monstrous wendigo. In “Pittailinq” he faces a similar evil, when an ancient horror is awakened at a remote trading post.
“Pittailiniq” is available for download via Amazon.com and Smashwords.
August 16, 2015
Super-Detective Sneak Peek
Below the cut, you’ll find a sneak-peek of the back cover for Red Shambhala, the next novella-length installment in the New Adventures of Jim Anthony, Super-Detective.
Red Shambhala is the sequel to 2013’s Death’s Head Cloud, and will see the Super-Detective going up against his most deadly foe to date…the murderous criminal known as Koschei the Deathless. It’ll be available in print and digital later this month.
To catch up on Jim Anthony’s adventures, why not check out Death’s Head Cloud or the novel, The Vril Agenda, by Derrick Ferguson and myself?
August 13, 2015
The Wolf in the Corn
The newest issue of the Lovecraft eZine is now available to read for free, and it includes my story, “Seeking Whom He May Devour”, as well as stories by Simon Kurt Unsworth, Sam Gafford and more.
“Seeking Whom He May Devour” is a sort-of-kind-of sequel to “Corn-Wolf”, an earlier story of mine, which appeared in issue 11 of the now-sadly defunct horror magazine, Necrotic Tissue way back in 2010. The Corn-Wolf itself was also obliquely referenced in my novel, The Whitechapel Demon.
Too, Jackapo County, South Carolina, has served as a setting for a number of my horror stories, including most of those featuring the backwoods ghost-breaker, John Bass. It’s a nasty place, full of nasty things. The Corn-Wolf is only one of ’em…so check it out, and if you enjoyed the story, be sure to leave a comment here or at the Lovecraft eZine.
Lost in Translation
The new issue of the Japanese dark fiction magazine, Night Land Quarterly is now available. It includes a translation of my Royal Occultist story, “The Dreaming Dead”, as well as stories by Brian M. Sammons, David Conyers, Konstantine Paradias, Robert E. Howard and William Hope Hodgson.
“The Dreaming Dead” first appeared in the 2011 Miskatonic River Press anthology, Horror for the Holidays, and was reprinted last year in The Royal Occultist: Haunted Holidays. The latter is still available to download for free, by the by, if you’re interested.
If you’re interested, this marks the fifth story I’ve had translated into a foreign language, and the first time I’ve had one in Japanese. It’s also the first one I’ve sold independently of the English language version. Therefore, I’d like to celebrate in the chosen manner of my people, with an assist from Tom Waits.
