If you prefer your reading with the trappings of the best of Victorian serials, as filtetered through some more modern descriptions of carnal experience, then Gordon Dahlquist’s The Dark Volume might just be the book you’re looking for.

TDV is, of course, the sequel to Gordon’s justly acclaimed The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, and our signed limited will be produced in the same style as the previous volume, complete with a snazzy Dave McKean cover.

Head over to the product page to see what Celeste, Dr. Abelarad, and the assassin, Cardinal Chang have been up to. We’re expecting the files for the book in the next week, at point we’ll begin proofreading and fit it into our schedule as quickly as we can.

This morning, we here at Subterranean were told about the passing of Philip Jose Farmer, who we have been lucky to publish, but have been even luckier to be readers of for so many years. You can imagine it’s been a sad day here — we’re still working through our emotions about it. But we can say that our memories of him are good ones. He was always a joy to work with, and we will dearly miss his intelligence and good nature. Our thoughts are with his wife, and with all of his readers and fans. He’s one of the great ones.

Hisownself is back, this time with a companion volume to his ultra-wild short story collection The King and Other Stories. Lansdale Unchained and Unhinged includes a number of his popular columns from Subterranean Online, as well as uncollected short stories that, shall we say, challenge the boundaries of the word weird. As with The King, each of the tales features a full-page illustration by Glenn Chadbourne. So buckle up and get your Lansdale on.

We here at SubPress are fans of elegant small collections such as Antiquities by John Crowley or The Devil in the Details by James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers. Our latest offering fits solidly in that mode. Scenting the Dark and Other Stories, the debut hardcover by Campbell Award-winner Mary Robinette Kowal packs a powerful 25,000 words into its roughly 100 pages. Do yourself a favor and check out one of our finest new short story writers — and novelist, as Mary just sold a pair to Tor (Congrats!)

There are a couple of new features by SubPress favorites up at Subterranean Online — “A Four-Sided Triangle”, the latest pulp excursion by Mike Resnick’s singular creation, the Honorable Right Reverend Doctor Lucifer Jones. (You can read the full set of Lucifer’s adventures in Hazards, due out this summer.) Meanwhile, Joe R. Lansdale has an appreciation of “Leslie Whitten, Neglected Master”. Enjoy.

Over at the site that hosts Philip José Farmer’s International Bibliography, there’s a brand new interview with Christopher Paul Carey, who edited our new Farmer Omnibus, The Other in the Mirror, as well as some of our previous books by Phil. As Christopher notes of the new title and its relationship to “the other”: “The current omnibus, by focusing more on theme than series, allowed for the opportunity to drive that point home, to present to the science fiction readership in general, and Farmer readers specifically, a venue by which they could appreciate one of the larger themes that Philip José Farmer, a Grand Master in science fiction and fantasy, chose to explore in his over half a century of writing.” Head over to the site to check out the full interview.

Shawn Speakman over at Suvudu covets our edition of Dan Simmons’s Victorian thriller, Drood: “Every once in a while I will bring attention to something that I want for my collection—in hopes of finding a few others out there with common interest as well as highlighting a book I think deserves it.

“The Subterranean Press edition of Drood, written by Dan Simmons, is one such book.

“The man on the cover is obviously Dickens, but if you look closely at his hat you see it is constructed of a collapsing train bridge, the event that altered the life of arguably the most famous writer in the 19th century. As that bridge collapsed, so did Dickens’ life, and the character of Drood rises up out of the smoke behind the train. That literary cover is just too beautiful and poignant not to love.”

We recently totaled up the orders we have on hand for Dan’s epic new novel, and between those for individuals, specialty retailers, wholesalers, and large online retailers, the total was over 1000, all that for a 500 copy print run. It bears repeating — if you want to be assured of getting a copy, your best bet is to order one direct. Getting one from another source, who we might not be able to supply with any copies, is a crapshoot at best.

Publishers Weekly has just reviewed James P. Blaylock’s special collaborative collection, Metamorphosis, writing, “these three reflective short-short stories employing Blaylock’s signature nostalgic prose are individually strong in technique…”

In addition to the tales — co-written with three of Blaylock’s students — Metamorphosis features an introduction and illustrations by Tim Powers, as well as an afterword by notorious crank William Ashbless. Head over to Subterranean Online to read “Stone Eggs”, one of the stories from this elegant short collection.

We’ve decide to extend the special price on Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles: the Definitive Edition until the end of this week, February 27, 2009. We’re already hard at work proofreading the stories, while our designer formats the screenplays for our edition and Edward Miller works on the new illustrations. Once this deadline has passed, we don’t plan on offering any other discounts on Ray Bradbury’s materpiece, which features more than 50 stories, screenplays, an essay, and introductions by John Scalzi and Joe Hill.

We’re pleased to announce the signed limited edition of one of the most important modern space operas, The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton.

We’ve seen copies of Reality go for as much as $600 on the collector’s market. Our signed limited edition, slated for publication later this year, will be one tenth that price, and, at over 900 pages, with a wraparound dust jacket by Tomislav Tikulin, a bargain at that. Please check out the book’s page for full details.