Head over to check out Gahan Wilson’s cheerfully macabre artwork for M is for Magic, Neil Gamain’s collection geared toward readers of all ages. In addition to the creepy cover art, we’ve also posted b&w versions of three of the interior illos. (Our designers will be adding another color when they design the book in the coming weeks.)

* Over at Subterranean, the online version of our magazine, we’ve just published the final three chapters of Lucius Shepard’s stunning new novella, Vacancy. Speaking of Mr. Shepard, now’s as good a time as any to let you all know that next year we’ll be publishing a 250k word career retrospective of his. As I’ve been reading Lucius since high school, it’s making both of us feel old!

* We’ve just sent four new titles to the printer, including: Old Man Crow (Charles de Lint); The Shadows Kith and Kin (Joe R. Lansdale); Getting to Know You (David Marusek); and Rude Mechanicals (Kage Baker). Look for them in April. One point to note. The artist for David Marusek’s collection ran into some unavoidable personal travails, so this title won’t have interior illustrations, as originally intended. Apologies to all, but please know the stories themselves are worth twice the price of admission.

Posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 at 1:02 pm.