Name: King Sorrow (preorder)
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Price: 170 USD
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(preorder—to be published this Fall/Winter)

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Alan Dingman.

Published by PS Publishing.

The signed limited edition of Joe Hill’s King Sorrow—an 800 page monster of a novel, including previously unpublished material, as well as a dust jacket and twenty interior illustrations—will be published later this year by PS. Publishing.

Please note that this title is currently an exclusive preorder item, to which certain restrictions apply.

Notes:

Only customers who ordered the PS Publishing edition of The Fireman from SubPress may preorder King Sorrow at this time.
Please mention your number for The Fireman when checking out. We will do our best to match numbers, but cannot guarantee we’ll be able to do so.
US residents much choose Priority Mail or UPS as the shipping method for this title.

About the Book:

Extensively illustrated by Alan Dingman with 20 sumptuous interior pieces of art; wraparound colour dustjacket; printed endpapers and PPC boards, this edition will also feature Alan Dingman’s dragon motif printed on the page edges. The book will be housed in a handcrafted, illustrated slipcase and will be accompanied by a laminated bookmark with tassels featuring dragon artwork.

A Few Words from Joe Hill:

Some people are cat people—some people are dog people—me, I always wanted my own dragon.

Notoriously, they aren’t great pets, of course: they have a bad habit of burning down your barn, your house, your shtetl, your life. But they make better conversation than a poodle and you can’t ride to war on the back of a Siamese. Although...come to think of it...dragons and cats have a lot in common. Like cats, dragons are lazy, proud, expect to be worshipped, and delight in recreational acts of homicide.

I guess the folks at PS Publishing must be dragon people too...

They’ve pulled out all the stops for one of their most beautiful limited editions ever and aim to present King Sorrow in its fullest, loveliest and most villainous form yet. Publisher Pete Crowther doesn’t do anything halfway, and PS Publishing has routinely offered best-in-class versions of my books—it’s been my great good fortune to get to work with them so frequently.

And I’m especially delighted that Pete, Nicky Crowther, and the whole team have given me a chance to present a slightly expanded version of the text. I had to make some hard choices as I revised King Sorrow for wide release and in the end I was forced to cut out a favorite subplot starring Donovan McBride, one of the novel’s six heroes. The PS edition of the novel restores this material in full and it seems to me the book is better for it.

I know you’ll have fun visiting with the King. But if he asks to have you for dinner, I encourage you to decline in the politest way possible; there’s a good chance he has you on the menu.”

Limited: 1000 numbered copies signed by Joe Hill and Alan Dingman, in slipcase

“A badass reinvention of the Faustian bargain on the grandest of scales. King Sorrow’s menacing voice soars through these pages like Joe Hill’s own, making you want to turn and turn and turn them and still long for more. Reminiscent only of Hill’s own very best.”

—Thomas Olde Heuvelt, author of Hex and Darker Days

“Bestseller Hill masterfully sustains tension throughout this immersive doorstopper of a horror novel, [with] his pitch-perfect characterizations and doses of black humor. This reinforces Hill’s reputation as a titan of the genre.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Hill’s remarkably well-paced, character-centered epic, blanketed in unrelenting dread that escalates to pure terror every Easter, is perfectly suited for this moment. Pitting the computer age against folktales, King Sorrow is a story that seriously contemplates the costs of power. However, the real horror may be that there are plenty of dragons to go around.”

—Booklist (starred review)

“With King Sorrow, Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century.”

—Alan Moore, legendary author and creator of Watchmen, Swamp Thing, and From Hell.

“Epic! King Sorrow is Hill’s best and most ambitious work to date. Those Game of Thrones dragons are mere geckos next to Hill’s monster.”

—Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Whistle

“When they talk about ‘natural born storytellers,’ it’s Joe Hill they’re talking about.”

—John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of When the Moon Hits Your Eye

“Joe Hill’s best novel yet! Morphing from an evil fairy tale to all-out epic horror thriller, King Sorrow is big, meaty, and irresistible. This book is both a wild ride and a skilled character study in power, corruption, and consequences. You’ll never look at dragons the same way again—and you’ll hope no dragon ever glances your way.”

—Tananarive Due, author of the Los Angeles Book Prize and Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Reformatory

“A brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon’s, and a stinging twist in its tail. I devoured it.”

—Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Suite 11

“King Sorrow riddles and refracts the cultural and historical horrors of our last forty years through the eyes of a badass dragon and a group of close friends who know one another too well. It’s a soaring epic and painfully intimate. It’s humane and hideous. You won’t be able to stop burning through the pages.”

—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts

“King Sorrow is an epic that will linger with you long after the last page is turned, a timeless tale that’s also a haunting time capsule. Joe Hill somehow delivers it all, from the terrifying to the hilarious to the heartbreaking. A relentless and thoughtful tour de force, King Sorrow proves Joe Hill is one of the great storytellers of our generation.”

—Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead

“Joe Hill walks the tightrope between horror and fantasy with grace and menace. This is a tale infused with terror and hope.”

—Robin Hobb, New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Keeper and Blood of Dragons

“A monster of a book, as gripping and wickedly insidious as the title character. Not a page is wasted along its scaly length, from human villainy to diabolical plots, government folly to the desperate search for redemption. A vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger.”

—Nick Harkaway, author of Karla’s Choice and Titanium Noir

Published by PS Publishing.

We’re more than happy to let you know that we’ll be receiving copies of the signed limited edition of Joe Hill’s The Fireman. Without further ado…the details.

About the Book:

Thanks to author Joe Hill and those lovely folks at Gollancz, PS are publishing the super-duper bells’n’whistles edition of Joe’s apocalyptic novel, THE FIREMAN in September 2016. Coming out just three months after Gollancz’s trade version, the PS edition will come in two states thus:

1000 copies in an illustrated slipcase and signed by the author;
26 oversized lettered copies housed in a deluxe traycase and signed by both Joe Hill and artist David Stoupakis.

PS launched Joe Hill onto an unsuspecting world back in 2005 with his groundbreaking debut volume, 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS. The PS edition of THE FIREMAN is set to follow the same high standard . . . and then some.

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.