Tim’s been into the bowels of SubPress storage, uncovered copies (sometimes as few as one) of a large number of books that we long thought out of print, and even badgered me into taking the time to put them up on Ebay. If you check out the auctions, you’ll find everything from first printings of Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box to Poppy Z. Brite’s The Value of X, to a whole lot of other good reading in between.

The last of Philip K. Dick’s sf to see print in the US, Nick and the Glimmung, is headed to the printer. In addition to PKD’s delightful YA tale, our edition sports a cover and four brand new color paintings by Phil Parks, best known for his illustrations for Dean Koontz limited editions.

We’re priviledged to have been entrusted with Nick, and earlier with the screenplay Ubik, and would like to take a moment to thank the fine folks who run Mr. Dick’s estate, and agent Russell Galen, who brought these projects our way.

In its most recent issue, Publishers Weekly called attention to Ray Bradbury’s Mystery Omnibus, Where Everything Ends, in a boxed notice accompanied by Jon Foster’s cover art. As they point out, Bradbury is the protagonist of the three novels, saying that “genre devotees will find contain elements comparable to Cornell Woolrich and Joel Townsley Rogers, are reprinted in this omnibus volume, along with a taut, previously unpublished short story. In the first novel, 1985’s Death Is a Lonely Business, which is the strongest, a shadowy killer culls out the lost souls of Venice, Calif., while leaving few traces of foul play.”

We’ll agree that Death is a strong novel indeed, distinguished by Bradbury’s foggy atmosphere. We suspect readers will also enjoy A Graveyard for Lunatics (which features a character very much like animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen), and Let’s All Kill Constance, about an aging movie actress from Hollywood’s early years.

We’re in the process of giving Where Everything Ends one final proofreading, after which it will be sent to the printer, right on schedule for its October release.

Niftily enough, Library Journal just had some kind words to say about Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert’s The Evil in Pemberley House, saying “this dark erotic novel mixes the gothic-horror format with pieces of Sherlockian mysteries as well as homages to Tarzan of Greystoke and the Doc Savage series.”

We’ve now finished shipping all preorderd copies of K. J. Parker’s military fantasy novella, Purple and Black, so watch your mailbox if you’ve ordered one.

Speaking of Parker, she is also the author of the phenomenal Engineer Trilogy, which deals in no small part with the mechanics of sieges, from both the offensive and defensive ends. With that in mind, we asked her to pen a non-fiction article for Subterranean Online on the topic. Head over and read “On Sieges” and then get yourself to a bookstore for The Engineer Trilogy. It contains some of the best multi-book plotting I’ve ever encountered.

Here’s the first word, along with J.K. Potter’s wonderful cover, for Lucius Shepard’s The Taborin Scale, the latest installment of tales that tell the history of the dormant Dragon Griaule. Now without further ado, from Bookotron: “What you can expect in this little book is a gorgeous volume, chock full of JK Potter’s best, and a slippery, surreal tale of sex, strangeness and ancient plans that envelope modern men. Shepard has spent a long time creating this particular series, and as a series, it has a depth and texture unlike any other. Of course, this is down to his style of creation. Shepard’s work has an organic feel, and this story, the story of the Dragon Griaule seems truly alive, even though it has at its heart a creature whose heart beats only once each thousand years. Might it finally be dead? Shepard’s not afraid to explore the philosophical as well as the physical, and he does both with incredible dexterity. There’s no need to weigh the buy-it level of ‘The Taborin Scale.’ This is world that even in death, offers new life.”

We’ve just posted our largest batch of Ebay auctions ever, with more than thirty different books offered. Help us clear out some space in the SubPress warehouse by picking up some limited and trade editions at unbeatable prices.

But don’t delay. In all cases, we’re offering 25 or fewer copies of any given book in an auction. Happy bidding and happy reading.

When this one showed up in our email, we simply couldn’t resist. Neal Barrett, Jr. lobbed us a dark, twisty, funny tale for Subterranean Online that really would have been at home in the page of Joe R. Lansdale and Keith Lansdale’s Son of Retro Pulp Tales.

Head over to “Limo” and give it a read, and imagine it nestled comfortably among that volume’s pulpy contents.

Though we haven’t had the chance to pull it from the site yet — please don’t try to order a copy — we’re happy to announce that Kage Baker’s steampunk novella, The Women of Nell Gwynne’s has now gone out of print in record time for one of her titles. If you have a favorite supplier, now’s the time to track down this 25,000 word gem.

If you’re looking for more Baker steampunk, you might want to preorder her Not Less Than Gods, a full-length novel that share’s the novella’s setting, as well as a short but important appearance by Nell Gwynne and her companions.

And in some final (for now) Nell Gwynne news, we’ll have a related novelette in Subterranean Online this fall.

On the Jack Vance front, we’ve just turned away orders for another 500 copies of his tribute anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth. Again, if you have a favorite secondary supplier, now’s the time to track down a copy, as we have no plans to reprint.

Orders are also starting to flow in quickly for This is Me, Jack Vance!, the SF Grandmaster’s autobiography. This title had a smaller than usual print run for one of our Vance titles, so may well sell out soon.

Just in from our shippers: all individual, retail, and wholesale orders for James P. Blaylock’s The Ebb Tide, his first new Langdon St. Ives adventure in nearly two decades, have finished shipping. Booklist called it “Crackling Entertainment” which we think sums this nifty illustrated novella up quite nicely, with its full color cover and interior b&w images by J. K. Potter that make it the perfect complement to our mammoth Blaylock steampunk omnibus, The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives.

As for more St. Ives, you can look for one of the classic novellas to appear as an audio in Subterranean Online in the near future. We should add that the omnibus is getting in quite short supply, with fewer than twenty copies each of the limited and trade editions still available.