A Hallowe'en Announcement of the Most Appalling News
I'm sorry. I am truly sorry. I have no idea how this could have happened.
I am the bearer of bad tidings.
It transpires that, for reasons that remain obscure, Thomas Dunne, the respected publishers of books such as Peter Ackroyd's six part History of England , through to striking new works of fiction like David Wong's John Dies at the End has, and I can hardly bring myself to say it, decided to publish Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute in North America, a continent hitherto spared that terrible contagion.
I can barely see to type, the tears are streaming so.
But, before you run off to stockpile batteries, ammunition, and canned food prior to walling yourselves up in the cellar, it is my unhappy lot to tell you that the coming apocalypse will be yet more terrible still.
In an act of elemental villainy that has left doomsday cults around the world nodding appreciatively, Thomas Dunne has requested -- Nay! Demanded! -- that a fourth Johannes Cabal novel be written, presumably to finish off any survivors.
The timeline is not set in stone, but I believe the intention is for Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute to be released approximately a year hence in North America, and the as-yet-unnamed fourth Johannes Cabal novel to follow a year later in the autumn of 2014.
Indeed, the autumn of the whole of that once proud continent.
Go to your families, your loved ones. Hold them close, now that you know your time is so cruelly limited. Tell them everything is going to be okay, though the lie curdles in your throat.
I'm so sorry.
I am the bearer of bad tidings.
It transpires that, for reasons that remain obscure, Thomas Dunne, the respected publishers of books such as Peter Ackroyd's six part History of England , through to striking new works of fiction like David Wong's John Dies at the End has, and I can hardly bring myself to say it, decided to publish Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute in North America, a continent hitherto spared that terrible contagion.
I can barely see to type, the tears are streaming so.
But, before you run off to stockpile batteries, ammunition, and canned food prior to walling yourselves up in the cellar, it is my unhappy lot to tell you that the coming apocalypse will be yet more terrible still.
In an act of elemental villainy that has left doomsday cults around the world nodding appreciatively, Thomas Dunne has requested -- Nay! Demanded! -- that a fourth Johannes Cabal novel be written, presumably to finish off any survivors.
The timeline is not set in stone, but I believe the intention is for Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute to be released approximately a year hence in North America, and the as-yet-unnamed fourth Johannes Cabal novel to follow a year later in the autumn of 2014.
Indeed, the autumn of the whole of that once proud continent.
Go to your families, your loved ones. Hold them close, now that you know your time is so cruelly limited. Tell them everything is going to be okay, though the lie curdles in your throat.
I'm so sorry.
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KG
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Oct 31, 2012 10:05AM
Noooooooo!!!!! We "across the pond" have a year to live, to suffer, to ponder the termination of our brief existence? How can we EVER deal with this stark news???? (Much wailing & gnashing of teeth!) I will have to console myself with the glimmering hope that, after such a nerve-wracking suspension of breath, perhaps Herr Cabal might be willing to reanimate my long-dead corpse, so that I may finally read the 3rd installment of his exploits (and the even farther distant 4th tome!)! Oh, alas - cruel world, crueler publishing schedule, and cruelest fate! The sands trickle agonizingly slow through the hourglass until the hour of our demise!
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