Woods and Waters Wild is the third volume of Charles de Lint’s Collected Early Stories. We’ll have more to say about it in the near future, but in the meantime, here’s the table of contents, a list of obscurities that will be the envy of de Lint readers everywhere. Woods and Waters Wild is slated for a 2008 release.

Table of Contents:

High Fantasy
* “A Kingly Thing” (5900 words);
* “Woods and Waters Wild” (2400 words);
* “The White Road” (8170 words);
* “The Graceless Child” (8650 words);
* “The Fane of the Grey Rose” (14,700 words);

Angharad
* “Cold Blows the Wind” (4450 words);
* “The Weeping Oak” (5400 words);
* “Into the Green” (5500 words);

Dennet & Willie
* “Dennet & the Fiddler” (8000 words);
* “Dragonwood” (5700 words);

Pastiches
* “A Tale of Tangle Who Has Many Names” (1200 words);
* “Of the Temple in the City of the Burning Spires” (600 words);
* “Nareth the Questioner” (800 words);
* “Llew the Homeless” (1750 words);

Thomas the Rhymer
* “Thomas the Rhymer” (10,800 words);
* “Gipsy Davey” (8200 words);
* “Cruel Sister” (7950 words);

Woods and Waters Wild will be available only from Subterranean Press in two unique editions:

Signed: fully cloth bound hardcover edition: $40
Lettered: 52 signed leatherbound hardcovers, housed in a custom traycase: $200

Voices of New Orleans on Poppy Z. Brite’s new collection, due to ship in November:“Taken as a group, the stories of Antediluvian Tales show what Poppy Z. Brite has been quietly doing so well for years—writing about the working class of New Orleans…This one is a small treasure that fans of good Southern writing should certainly enjoy and readers who love the city will find irresistible from the very first page.”

While we’re at it, here are the Publishers Weekly and Booklist reviews for Antediluvian Tales once again:

From Publishers Weekly:
“The seven stories in this slim collection from Brite (Soul Kitchen) form a poignant requiem for pre-Katrina New Orleans, which serves as the setting for all of them…the book’s best is ‘The Feast of St. Rosalie,’ whose simple account of a young woman contemplating romance in the midst of a religious festival mixes charm and pathos for a beautiful elegy to Brite’s hometown.”

From Booklist:
“Brite chisels a few new facets in the diamond that was antediluvian New Orleans.”

The trade hardcover of The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories is in stock and shipping, and we’ve ordered the cases for the Limited and Lettered editions. Each edition is over 90% sold out, so get your order in soon if you’d like a copy. (We haven’t yet decided if we’ll be reprinting the trade hardcover.)

As Publishers Weekly says in its starred review, “Willis makes brilliant short fiction look easy in this collection of 23 novellas and short stories, which display a powerful range of sensibility, from poignant tenderness (’Inn’) and heartbreak (’Samaritan’) to close-to-the-bone satire (’Even the Queen’) and blackest savagery (’All My Darling Daughters’).”

Trade:

$40

Limited:

$125

Lettered:

$250

Welcome to the son of the cousin of the massive production update. As you’ll note, we’ve just posted the cover art for the limited edition of Hunter’s Run, the tri-authored sf novel by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham. It’s one of the quickest, best, sf novels we’ve read in years, so please consider picking it up in some edition, if not the SubPress limited.

Now, to the books at the printer. Here are a number of titles with tentative ship dates. We’ll post more specific publication dates as we have them.

– Plots and Misadventures (Stephen Gallagher)
– The God of the Razor (Joe R. Lansdale)
– The Taint and Other Novellas (Brian Lumley)
– Red Seas Under Red Skies (Scott Lynch)

The following are heading to the printer in October, for November releases:

– Antediluvian Tales (Poppy Z. Brite)
– Crooked Little Vein (Warren Ellis)
– Coraline (Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean)
– The Ghost Brigades (John Scalzi)