Things on the Robert McCammon front have been really busy of late, so we thought we’d offer a quick guide to what’s going on.

Baal

• Limited Edition: All copies shipped and en route to customers or already in their hands.
• Deluxe Limited: Waiting on slipcases. Projected to ship in Jan/Feb.
• Lettered Edition: Waiting on traycases. Projected to ship in Jan/Feb.
• Ebook: Now available for Kindle and Nook.

The Hunter from the Woods

• Limited Edition: All copies shipped an en route to customers or already in their hands.
• Lettered Edition: Waiting on traycases. Projected to ship in Feb/Mar.
• Ebook: Now available for Kindle and Nook.

The Providence Rider

We’re just approved the rough sketches for the five black-and-white interior illustrations that will appear in all editions of the book. In addition, we’ve given Vincent Chong the okay for the two color plates and full-color endsheets that will be exclusive to the Limited and Lettered editions. The bonus novella—the first time Matthew encounters the supernatural—has been dropped into the limited edition and is being proofed. This is likely to be our most attractive McCammon production yet, and one hell of a thrill ride of a novel. We expect it to land on many fans’ lists of favorites of 2012, so don’t miss out.

We’ve decided to add the full-color endsheets to the signed trade copies (but not the unsigned trade edition), to make them an even better value to collectors. There are only 1000 of these, unlike the nearly 2000 copies that Robert McCammon signed for The Five, so please get your order in soon.

Two McCammon limiteds that aren’t on our immediate schedule, Bethany’s Sin and Stinger, have already been fully designed, and are working their way through the production process. 2012 is really going to be the year of McCammon here at SubPress.

We’re pleased to announce the largest collection of Jonathan Carroll’s short fiction yet published. The Woman Who Married a Cloud will feature 37 stories—including his limited edition novella, “The Heidelberg Cylinder”—spread across nearly 600 pages. The signed, limited edition is only 350 copies, which we expect will presell quickly. Here are all the particulars on Woman, which will be out next Summer:

“A gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, thought provoking novel. It is a page-turner par excellence”
—Stephen King on Bones of the Moon

“A fabulous leap from your world into one of transcendent wonder and horror”
—Stanislaw Lem

Described by Michael Dirda in The Washington Post as “sexy, eery and addictive”, the fiction of Jonathan Carroll occurs at the point where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the commonplace becomes unsettling, and yet where we nonetheless always recognize the stories being told because they are always about ourselves and what happens in our deepest, sometimes darkest hearts.

Always better known as a novelist—readers first experienced Carroll’s elegant, eloquent, wondrous, terrible and often surreal fiction in his classic debut The Land of Laughs, which he followed with Bones of the Moon, Sleeping in Flame, A Child Across the Sky, and others—Carroll has also created a compelling and deeply moving body of short fiction. Perhaps more eclectic and slant-wise than some of his novels, stories like World Fantasy Award winning “Friend’s Best Man” and Pushcart Prize and Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire honouree “Home on the Rain” stand amongst his very best work.

The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories is the best and most complete collection of Jonathan Carroll’s fiction ever published. It collects 35 stories written across a thirty year long career, a number appearing here in print for the first time, in a single landmark volume that stands as the perfect introduction to this unique and wonderful writer.

Limited: 350 signed numbered copies, bound in leather: $75
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition: $45

Glen Hirshberg’s latest collection, The Janus Tree and Other Stories, is in our warehouse, ready to ship as soon as its turn in the queue arrives. In the meantime, here’s another laudatory review to nudge you to pick up this excellent volume.

From Strange Horizons:

“Glen Hirshberg has made a name for himself in literary horror as a writer of subtle, creepy stories with high emotional impact, and this holds true in his third collection—a limited edition cloth-bound hardcover from Subterranean Press. What is almost immediately clear on reading is that Hirshberg has a knack for creating pitch-perfect atmospheres through careful wording, atmospheres that either repel or beckon—sometimes both.”

We’ll leave you with one final incentive to order. A while back, we bought a hundred copies of Glen’s previous collection, American Morons, and will be tossing a free copy in with random orders for The Janus Tree. With luck, you could end up with an extra volume’s worth of excellent short horror fiction.

We’ve begun shipping Brent Weeks’ new novella, Perfect Shadow, a prequel to his best-selling fantasy series, The Night Angel Trilogy. It will probably take us a week or so to get everyone’s copies out via USPS/UPS.

We did no advance review copies of the novella, so chances are good that the majority of Brent’s fans aren’t even aware Shadow exists, meaning prices may skyrocket on the secondary market. I’m happy to report that we have a double handful of copies of left, which are now posted to our store.

Tis the season, maybe for a pair of Connie Willis Christmas themed tales. Featured first is her ebook novella, All Seated on the Ground (Kindle|Nook), which is a screwball delight, replete with aliens.

Also available is her robot centric novelette, All About Emily (Kindle|Nook), which contains 17,000 words of screwball comedy goodness, with robots. The hardcover editions will ship soon, but if you’re the sort who can’t wait, the ebooks are out in the world.

This is our big one for 2012. Robert McCammon’s latest Matthew Corbett historical thriller, The Providence Rider.

For the first time in the Corbett novels, the signed, limited hardcover will feature a long additional story about Matthew, one that cannot be reprinted for two years following its debut in our edition. We’ll also have signed copies of the trade hardcover available, though not nearly so many as we did for his last novel, The Five.

Here are the full details:

The Providence Rider is the fourth standalone installment in the extraordinary series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver. The narrative begins in the winter of 1703, with Matthew still haunted by his lethal encounter with notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter. When an unexplained series of explosions rocks his Manhattan neighborhood, Matthew finds himself forced to confront a new and unexpected problem. Someone is trying—and trying very hard—to get his attention. That someone is a shadowy figure from out of Matthew’s past: the elusive Professor Fell. The professor, it turns out, has a problem of his own, one that requires the exclusive services of Matthew Corbett.

The ensuing narrative moves swiftly and gracefully from the emerging metropolis of New York City to Pendulum Island in the remote Bermudas. In the course of his journey, Matthew encounters a truly Dickensian assortment of memorable, often grotesque, antagonists. These include Sirki, the giant, deceptively soft-spoken East Indian killer, Dr. Jonathan Gentry, an expert in exotic potions with a substance abuse problem of his own, the beautiful but murderous Aria Chillany, and, of course, the master manipulator and “Emperor of Crime” on two continents, Professor Fell himself. The result is both an exquisitely constructed novel of suspense and a meticulous recreation of a bygone era.

This signed, limited edition of this generous volume also contains a new, utterly compelling Matthew Corbett adventure, “Death Comes for the Rich Man.” This 11,500-word novella, which has never before been published and will not be reprinted anywhere else for at least two years, takes place between the events of Mister Slaughter and The Providence Rider. In the course of this startling tale, Matthew is approached by a wealthy, dying man with an urgent, if impossible, request: to keep Death itself at bay. Filled with danger, mystery, and an almost tangible sense of place, these superbly crafted narratives represent Robert McCammon at his best and historical fiction at its finest and most developed. Many devoted readers have been waiting for this book. They will not be disappointed.

Important note: We had a great time hosting Rick McCammon here at the SubPress warehouse, where he signed the better part of 2000 copies of The Five. For The Providence Rider, we wanted to make signed copies available to his fans once again, but make it a bit easier on Rick, both travel- and wrist-wise. There will only be 1000 signed (uninscribed) trade copies of The Providence Rider available. Please get your order in early if you’d like to snag one.

Lettered: 26 signed, deluxe bound copies, housed in a custom traycase
Limited: 474 signed numbered copies, with the bonus novella, and artwork not in the trade hardcover
Trade (unsigned): Fully cloth bound hardcover copies
Trade (signed): Fully cloth bound hardcover copies, signed by the author

After shipping all of our preordered copies, we have a small supply of the Centipede Press signed, limited edition of Thomas Ligotti’s classic collection, The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein left. We’re offering these copies at $150 apiece, which is the going rate even this soon after publication. Given how spiffy a production this is, and how collectible Tom’s work remains, we suspect the price is only going to increase.

We’re giving away five Advance Reading Copies of Lucius Shepard’s highly anticipated The Dragon Griaule, which contains one short story, four novellas, and a novel, about that enormous, centuries-long dormant title creature.

Winning one is easy. Sign up for our email newsletter! On Friday, December 16, 2011, we’ll draw the email addresses of five lucky winners who’ll then have the chance to read Lucius’ epic collection months before the hardcover is due out.

Good luck!

We’ve just finished work on the Winter 2012 issue of Subterranean, which will begin posting (roughly two stories per month) in January.

Here’s a look at what we’ll have on offer:

• “Water Can’t Be Nervous” by Jonathan Carroll
• “The Way the Red Clown Hunts You” by Terry Dowling
• “The Least of the Deathly Arts” by Kat Howard
• “Seeräuber” by Maria Dahvana Headley
• “Drunken Moon” by Joe R. Lansdale
• “Chicago Bang Bang” by C.E. Murphy
• “Treasure Island: a Lucifer Jones Story” by Mike Resnick
• “The Last Song You Hear” by David J. Schow
• “Three Lilies and Three Leopards” by Tad Williams (a new 20,000 word novella)

We hope you’ll join us. In future issues we have novellas by Walter Jon Williams, Jay Lake, Robert Jackson Bennett, and Allen Steele, and stories by Hal Duncan, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brian Lumley, and many others.

More Robert McCammon is on the way. We’ve shipped about a quarter of the copies of The Hunter from the Woods to those who ordered direct, with more being bagged and boxed every hour. Hunter contains three novellas and three short stories centering on Michael Gallatin, the werewolf hero of McCammon’s classic novel, The Wolf’s Hour. We currently have fewer than 30 copies left available for sale.

We’re turning away tons of orders from our wholesale and large online retailers, so your best bet is to order direct.