Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time by Philip Jose Farmer

To be published by Meteor House

This handsome new edition, sports a gorgeous painted cover by well known Burroughs artist Mark Wheatley, a new Foreword by longtime Burroughs scholar Robert R. Barrett, and a new Introduction by Farmer expert Win Scott Eckert.

One of the most famous heroes in literature is back! Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, returns with a vengeance in this action-packed adventure by Philip José Farmer, Hugo Award winner, Nebula Grand Master, and author of the incredible Riverworld saga.

Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane, has been kidnapped, and the furious ape-man will let nothing stand in the way of rescuing her-not even a sinister safari whose target is Tarzan himself. With fierce Masai trackers leading the chase, a trio of white hunters are hellbent on capturing the Jungle Lord. But as the pursuers, and their uncanny half-human tracker, close in from behind, Tarzan races toward even greater danger ahead.

For the trail leads to a bizarre, long-forgotten land boasting a multitude of strange and terrifying mysteries: the City Built by God, the Hideous Hunter, the One to Avoid, and most shocking of all, the Crystal Tree of Time-whose seductive powers could ultimately spell Tarzan's doom . . .
Philip José Farmer, a descendant of the actual Greystoke family, and a recipient of the prestigious Golden Lion Award, bestowed by the Burroughs Bibliophiles at the 1970 Dum-Dum, is famous for his adventure novels starring Tarzanic characters. Now, in Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time, authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Farmer lends his vast imagination to the legend of the Lord of the Apes himself!
  • Hardcover
The Macabre Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

To be published by Tartarus

Illustrations by Harry Clarke
Introduction by Brian Stableford

Edgar Allan Poe is remembered for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of 'mystery and imagination', many of which are distinguished by a relish for the macabre. A major figure in American literature, Poe was one of the country's earliest and leading practitioners of the short story, and is credited as the father of detective fiction, as well as a major influence on science fiction.

Poe's best-known work is decidedly Gothic. Recurring themes include considerations of death, the process of decomposition, the possibility of reanimation, and fear of premature burial. But Poe wrote not only 'horror', but satire, humour and hoaxes. He delighted in the use of irony and extravagance and the horror tale 'Metzengerstein', the first story he had published, was intended as a burlesque.

Poe became one of the first American authors of the nineteenth century to become more popular in Europe than in the United States, and was particularly respected in France following translations of his work by Charles Baudelaire.

Contents:
  • Introduction by Brian Stableford
  • Metzengerstein
  • MS. found in a bottle
  • The assignation
  • Berenice
  • Morella
  • King Pest
  • Shadow-A Parable
  • Silence-A Fable
  • Ligeia
  • How to Write a Blackwood Article
  • The Devil in the Belfry
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • William Wilson
  • The Conversation of Eros and Charmion
  • The Man of the Crowd
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • A Descent into the Maelström
  • The Colloquy of Monos and Una
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head
  • Eleonora
  • The Oval Portrait
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • The Black Cat
  • A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
  • The Premature Burial
  • Mesmeric Revelation
  • The Oblong Box
  • Some Words with a Mummy
  • The Imp of the Perverse
  • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  • The Cask of Amontillado
  • Hop-Frog
  • The Lighthouse
Harry Clarke (1889-1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator, and was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement. The Macabre Tales of Edgar Allan Poe contains all of the illustrations by Harry Clarke for the 1923 edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination, with one illustration reinstated (for 'Morella'), and a variant added ('The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'). In total there are 8 colour plates (tipped-in by hand), 23 full page black and white illustrations, and numerous ornaments.

Limited to:
  • 400 numbered copies
  • 8 tipped-in colour plates
  • 23 full page black and white illustrations
  • numerous ornaments
  • printed lithographically on 150gsm Munken pure rough paper
  • sewn sections
  • decorated boards
  • silk ribbon marker
  • head and tailbands
  • dustjacket
The Future is Blue by Catherynne M. Valente

To be published by Subterranean

Dust jacket illustration by Galen Dara.

Subterranean Press is thrilled to present a major new collection from one of the most dazzling, distinctive voices in the literary world. Catherynne M. Valente, the New York Times bestselling and multiple-award-winning author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and other acclaimed novels, now brings readers thirteen stories unlike any others.

In the title story, Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning novelette "The Future Is Blue," an outcast girl named Tetley lives on floating Garbagetown, in a world that dreams of the long lost land. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos is explored and reinvented in style in "Down and Out in R'lyeh." In the novelette "The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery," Perpetua masquerades as a man in order to continue her father's business as a glassblower and must fashion a special eye for a queen. And in "The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End," the wyvern A-Through-L, the warrior Green Wind and his giant cat the Leopard of Little Breezes cope with their broken-hearted disappointment over politicks as the evil Marquess ascends to rule. 

Of her previous collection, The Bread We Eat in Dreams, the New York Times said, "Valente's writing DNA is full of fable, fairy tale and myth drawn from deep wells worldwide." With The Future Is Blue she continues to build and invent unforgettable worlds and characters with lyrical abandon, creating stories that feel old and new at once.

The Future is Blue also includes three never-before-printed stories, for almost 30,000 words of work exclusive to this collection: "Major Tom," "Two and Two is Seven," and the long novelette "Flame, Pearl, Mother, Autumn, Virgin, Sword, Kiss, Blood, Heart, and Grave."

Table of Contents:
  • The Future Is Blue
  • No One Dies in Nowhere
  • Two and Two is Seven
  • Down and Out in R'lyeh
  • The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery
  • Snow Day
  • Planet Lion
  • Flame, Pearl, Mother, Autumn, Virgin, Sword, Kiss, Blood, Heart, and Grave
  • Major Tom
  • The Lily and the Horn
  • The Flame After the Candle
  • The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild
  • The Beast Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End
Limited to 1250 signed and numbered copies

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Dust of the Devil's Land by Bryan Killian

Roger and Brett, two boys riding out the end of the world in a tree house, will soon be faced with starvation unless they venture beyond the streets of their once idyllic neighborhood. Not an easy task when you don't trust adults. Elsewhere in the fallen city of Redding California, Jack, shell-shocked after the deaths of his wife and child, embarks on one final mission for his soul.

It's been weeks since the arrival of the zombies, and now pockets of survivors huddle together to form what's left of humanity, not knowing a new threat is clawing its way near. Even the smartest, strongest, and most resilient can fall to the teeth and claws of the dead.

Dust of the Devil's Land, Bryan Killian's follow up to Welcome to Necropolis, explores loss, agony, survival, and the last stand for humanity. Take a wild ride to the final minutes of all we know.
  • Limited to 52 signed and numbered copies

Hollow House by Greg Chapman

No one in Willow Street pays it any notice, not the disgruntled Campbell family next door, not Alice Cowley and her suicidal daughter, or Mr. and Mrs. Markham down the road. Not even Darryl, the loner at number seventy, who is abnormal himself, thinks much about it. It is just the old Kemper House, forgotten and abandoned.

Until it makes itself known.

When the stench of death wafts from Kemper House through Willow Street, and comes to the attention of recent resident and newspaper reporter, Ben Traynor, it starts a chain of horrors that brings Kemper House's curse into their own homes and leads others direct to its door. Kemper House not only haunts its neighbours, it infects them with an evil that traverses time and reality itself.
  • Limited to 52 signed and numbered copies
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