We’re closing out the Fall Issue of Subterranean Online in the next week or so. Among the features just posted are a short, dark tale by Caitlin R. Kiernan, “In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection,” and the final travails of the madcap characters in Daniel Abraham’s screwball serial, “The Support Technician Tango”

In the Winter issue, look for a novella by Thomas M. Disch, plus short stories by Michael Bishop, Tia V. Travis, Mike Resnick (surprise, a Lucifer Jones tale!) as well as hot new writer Rachel Swirsky.

Thanks to everyone’s enthusiasm for the presale of Joe Hill’s LOCKE & KEY, illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez. The Lettered edition sold out within 8 minutes of being announced, and the Limited edition on the first day we had it up for presale. We’ll keep everyone posted via our email newsletter as this project works its way toward publication. (The book was never actually posted to our site, and only made available to our newsletter subscribers. Just one more reason to sign up.)

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

From Voices of New Orleans:
“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.”

Signed HC:

$45

Trade HC:

$20

This special is good until the end of the day on Tuesday, November 20, 2007.

Order at least 5 Limited or Trade editions priced $150 or less (in print or forthcoming books are eligible, but Lettered editions are not) and your total order is 50% off. To take advantage, you must mention this special when checking out. Your shopping cart and automatic email confirmation won’t refect the sale price, but don’t worry, we’ll catch it when processing your order. Limit of one copy of any given title.

A few other things to note. If paying via PayPal, do NOT go through our store. Drop us an email for a PayPal invoice. This special may not be combined with any other special offer, coupon, or savings certificate. Regular shipping charges apply.

Take all of this info with a healthy sized salt lick at hand, but here are the current tentative dates we have from our printer for various projects.

First, the reprints:

– The Winds of Marble Arch (Connie Willis) 11/19
– Promises to Keep (Charles de Lint) 11/21
– The Sagan Diary (John Scalzi) 12/03
– You’re Not Fooling Anyone… (John Scalzi) 12/05

and on to the original titles:

– Coraline (Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean) 12/19
– Fevre Dream (George R. R. Martin) mid to late January
– Pilot Light (Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock) end of December
– The Kragen (Jack Vance) 12/10
– All Seated on the Ground (Connie Willis) 12/4

The astute among you will notice we have nine books at the printer, with at least three more headed that way for January publication. More on those as their publication dates near.

The first step in our program to bring all of Lewis Shiner’s books back into print is a big one. We’ve been entrusted with his new novel, Black & White, which, as Jonathan Lethem points out, is up to Lew’s usual fine standards: “Black & White, Lewis Shiner’s long-awaited return to the novel, is social realism so urgent and committed as to be an act of witnessing. Like books by Richard Price and George Pelecanos, Shiner’s is both a page-turner and an urban documentary with a big, fierce heart.”

Here’s a taste of what the novel is about:

When Michael follows his dying father to North Carolina, a lifetime of lies begins to unravel. His pursuit of his father’s past–haunted by voodoo, adultery and murder–takes him to a place called Hayti, once the most prosperous black community in the South. Now the mysteries of Michael’s own heritage become a matter of life and death, as racial conflicts barely restrained since the 1960s erupt again.

Rooted in the true story of the US government’s urban renewal policy and its disastrous aftermath, Black & White is a literary thriller, a family saga, and a searing portrait of institutionalized hatred.

Limited: 200 signed numbered copies, with an exclusive chapbook of uncollected short stories: $45
Trade: Fully bound cloth hardcover: $25

We’ve just ordered a second printing of John Scalzi’s book on writing, You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop. The first edition, published early in 2007, is already selling for $250+ on the secondary market. The reprint is not large — only 500 copies — so get your order in quickly, and look for it to ship less than a month from now.

Unsigned second printing: $35

On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers’s great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill a minute action that carries on from page one.

The Subterranean Press edition of On Stranger Tides will be available in three unique editions:

Trade: fully cloth bound hardcover: $18.95

Limited: 250 signed numbered hardcovers, bound in a premium cloth and a different dust jacket design, with an exclusive portfolio section of piratical illustrations by Powers: $75

Lettered: 26 copies, bound in leather and housed in a custom traycase, with one additional illustration not in the Limited: $250

“If you thought the true gothic novel died with the 19th century, this will change your mind. Shadow is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendor and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots. There’s a haunted house (ah, but by what?) called the Angel of Mist, and the only horror greater than the thing rotting in its bricked-up crypt is (but of course, senor) the horror of doomed love.

“There’s a great deal of love in Shadow, doomed and otherwise. Much of it is lavished upon a romantic dream of Barcelona as it might have been in the mid-20th century (in Zafon’s hands, every scene seems to come from an early Orson Welles movie); even more is reserved for books. Shadow’s narrator is a sweet kid named Daniel Sempere, whose mother has died and who is horrified to realize he can no longer clearly remember her face. When he tells his father this, the elder Sempere takes him to what is surely one of the more delightful locales in modern fiction: the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. There, he’s told, a visitor may adopt one book which he will care for ever after, making sure it is never lost. Daniel chooses The Shadow of the Wind, by a forgotten writer (the Dow Mossman of his day, one might suppose) named Julian Carax, only to discover that a terrifying man — if he is a man — has made it his life’s work to burn every Carax novel in existence. The story that follows includes murders, false identities, and two supremely satisfying love affairs. Be warned, you have to be a romantic at heart to appreciate this stuff, but if you are, this is one gorgeous read.”

–Stephen King

The Shadow of the Wind has become an international phenomenon, a best-seller in dozens of countries. Subterranean Press is proud to announce this deluxe limited edition, which will feature a fine paper (80# Finch or better), deluxe cloth, a sewn binding, and be printed in two colors throughout.

The Lettered Edition will be hand bound in the finest materials, housed in a handmade clamshell traycase, and may well be printed on even higher grade paper than the limited.

We consider The Shadow of the Wind to be one of the most important books of the past twenty years, and aim to honor it with the lavish edition it so richly deserves.

Limited: 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author: $75
Lettered: 26 signed copies, lavishly bound, housed in a handcrafted traycase: $500

The accolades keep coming in for Tim Lebbon’s powerful two-novella collection, After the War, due to be published early in the new year. This time around, the good word is from Booklist: “In each of these two powerful novellas set in Lebbon’s vividly imagined world, Noreela, an outcast, struggles to make the right choices in a context in which no good choices are left… Lebbon’s post-apocalyptic fantasy world is a bleak one, and his strong, descriptive writing and sympathetic characters make its horrors all too visible.”