Each of the lettered copies of the oversized script book to Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s wonderful movie, MirrorMask, comes with an original illustration on the signature page. Head over to the MirrorMask page to take advantage of this ultra-rare opportunity to own an original piece of art by Mr. McKean. The ink illustrations he came up with for each of the signature pages are truly spectacular. Get your order in early to secure your favorite illustration.

Update: The Limited Edition is once again sold out. A few copies of the Lettered Edition remain unreserved.

We’ve just seen the first copies of Ray Bradbury’s Farewell Summer, the sequel to his classic novel, Dandelion Wine, and they’re gorgeous. Printed in two colors throughout, the 250 numbered copies sold out almost immediately. Recently, we had dealer cancel his order, so we have a handful of copies still available, and some news that will make the limited an even more attractive version of the book.

Due to miscommunication with our printer, the three extra bits that were supposed to be exclusive to the Lettered Edition were also printed in the Limited. So in addition to a gorgeous version of the novel, the numbered edition will contain “Farewell Summer” a different version than the already published short story, as well as two other fragments, “The Strategy” and “The Small Assassins.”

Those who preordered the Lettered edition shouldn’t fret that they’ll be getting an edition without any extras. We’re going to have a little rework done to add even more exclusive material: five previously unpublished fragments and bridge pieces that didn’t make it into the novel proper. We don’t know yet if this material will be in a section added to the book, or released as a very exclusive (26 copy) chapbook, but we (and Mr. Bradbury) are dedicated to seeing that everyone receives a very special edition of this novel.

All we’re waiting for now are the slipcases and traycases, meaning the Limited edition will ship in a few weeks, and the Lettered in just a couple of months.

As you can see, we’ve just posted the J.K. Potter cover to Joe R. Lansdale’s supernatural thriller, Lost Echoes, and it’s a stunner. The novel’s no less a winner, according to Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Look for our edition — the only hardcover — to be released simultaneous with the trade paperback in February. At only 400 copies, this isn’t a Lansdale with a robust print run, so we don’t expect it to be around long.

From Booklist:
“The prolific Lansdale returns, after sojourns in pulp, sf, and horror, to work his peculiar mojo on the supernatural crime thriller… Funny and scary, with a barn-burner ending.”

From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):
“In this superior East Texas crime thriller from Stoker-winner Lansdale (Sunset and Sawdust), Harry Wilkes discovers after a severe childhood ear infection that he has a peculiar ‘hindsight.’ Harry can not only see dead people but see and hear violent events as they occurred in the recent or distant past… Lansdale’s down-home prose erupts with explosive twists and razor sharp insights into how “echoes from the original sounds” can never be silenced until action is taken to defeat the fear that created them.

Both Rite (Tad Williams) and In Other Words (John Crowley) received complimentary reviews in the latest issue of Library Journal, not the easiest venue to crack, so we’re especially pleased.

Library Journal on Rite:
“From a witty yet sinister email exchange that heralds the dawn of a new age (”Not With a Whimper Either”) to a rowdy parody of Michael Moorcock’s tales of Elric, the albino anti-hero (”Go Ask Elric”), this collection of short writings presents another side of a writer known primarily for his novels (Tailchaser’s Song; The War of the Flowers). Characterized by a wickedly keen sense of humor and, at times, a feel for the poignant, Williams’s stories offer insights into the author’s career as well as his growth as a writer.”

…and on In Other Words:
“Although he considers himself neither a scholar nor a historian-”making suggestive remarks is more my job,” he writes–Crowley’s analyses offer a distinctive blend of scholarship, literary history, and readability.”

Sirenia Digest 8 (July ’06), excerpt from:

The Cryomancer’s Daughter
(Murder Ballad No. 3)

“And then,” she says, as though she still imagines that I’ve somehow never heard this story before, “the demons tried to carry the looking glass all the way up to Heaven, that they might even mock the angels.” But it shattered, I cut in, trying to sound sober, and she smiles a vitreous sort of smile for me. I catch a glimpse of her uneven bluish teeth, set like mismatched pegs of lazulite into gums the colour of a stormy autumn sky. If I were but a stronger woman — a woman of uncommon courage and resolve — I might now use all my geologist’s rambling vocabulary to describe the physical and optical properties of that half-glimpsed smile, to determine its electron density and Fermion index, the axial ratios and x-ray diffraction, diaphaniety, fracture, and etc. and etc., and on and on and on.
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In 2005, Caitlín R. Kiernan published Frog Toes and Tentacles, her first collection of “weird erotica.” Only a few months later, in November ’05, she began a monthly fiction digest, in PDF format and available by e-mail subscription only, the goal of which was to further explore the territory she first charted in that book. Imagine a collaboration between H. P. Lovecraft, Anaïs Nin, and Angela Carter, and you begin to get a glimpse of what the readers of the first twelve issues of Sirenia Digest have experienced. In January ’07, Subterranean Press will release a second collection of Kiernan’s weird erotica, Tales from the Woeful Platypus.
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Those of you who’ve been waiting on preordering Joe Hill’s debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box, might want to contact your favorite dealer, as the 515 copy limited edition is now sold out from us, a full four months before publication. Please note that wholesalers and large online retailers will not be receiving copies of our edition.

We’ve already been graced with Vincent Chong’s straight outta hell cover art, and two interior pieces are promised soon. The extra materials for the deluxe limited are nestled safely on our hard drives. Next up, we’re due to get the finished files from Joe’s main publisher, and will begin designing and proofing our edition, keeping it right on track for a March release.