The Town (preorder)

(preorder—to be published soon)

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Dirk Berger.

“The horror poet laureate…a master of the macabre!”
— Stephen King

Lividian Publications is pleased to announce our signed, numbered, and slipcased Limited Edition hardcover of The Town by Bentley Little. Featuring a stunning full-color dust jacket by Dirk Berger, along with fourteen striking black-and-white interior illustrations, this special edition also includes an insightful foreword by Elizabeth Massie and an original introduction by Bentley Little. This elegantly crafted edition is housed in a custom-made slipcase stamped with hot foil artwork and featuring a unique die-cut window.

About the Book:

Welcome to McGuane, Arizona. Population: 200...199...198...197...

Gregory Tomasov has returned with his family to the quaint Arizona community of his youth. In McGuane, the air is clean, the land is unspoiled. Nothing much has changed.

Except now, no one goes out after dark.

And no one told Gregory that he shouldn’t have moved into the old abandoned farm on the edge of town.

Once upon a time something bad happened there.

Something that’s now buried in its walls.

Something now reborn in the nightmares of Gregory’s young son.

Something about to be unleashed...

Special Features:

• Full-color wrap-around artwork by Dirk Berger
• Fourteen interior illustrations by Dirk Berger
• Foreword by Elizabeth Massie
• An original introduction by Bentley Little
• Includes a collectible bookmark

Deluxe Production Features:

• Offset printed on an acid-free archival quality paper stock
• A fine cloth binding
• Hot foil stamping on the front cover and spine
• Smyth-sewn to create a more durable binding
• Twine head and tail bands
• High-quality endpapers
• Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker
• Custom-made slipcase stamped with hot foil and featuring a unique die-cut window
• Signed by Bentley Little, Elizabeth Massie, and Dirk Berger
• Limited to 600 signed and numbered copies

Praise and Reviews:

“The horror poet laureate…a master of the macabre!”
—Stephen King

“Bentley Little is on par with such greats as Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Peter Straub.”
—Midwest Book Review

“Little possesses the uncanny ability to take everyday situations and turn them into nightmares.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Little has the unparalleled ability to evoke surreal, satiric terror.”
—Horror Reader

About the Author:

Bentley Little was born in Arizona a month after his mother attended the world premiere of Psycho. He received his BA in Communications and MA in English and Comparative Literature at California State University Fullerton. His Master’s thesis was the novel The Revelation, which was later published and won a Bram Stoker Award in 1991. Since then, he has written many more novels and his work has been translated into seven different languages. Several of his novels have been optioned for film and The Consultant was adapted as a major eight-episode streaming series by Amazon MGM Studios.