Bestselling Pre-ordered Horror Books for April 2010

Brian Keene’s Dark Hollow Limited Edition T-Shirt

Store: The Bag And The Crow

Limited to 100 shirts/The Bag and the Crow exclusive

This is a double-sided shirt. On the front is the cover of Dark Hollow as released by Leisure Books. On the nape of the neck is The Bag And The Crow Logo in red.

This tee has a rock album cover feel to it and once these tees are gone . . . they’re gone. There will be no reprints.

Dark Hollow is currently being made into a movie. To commemorate this, The Bag And The Crow has created this fine T-shirt.

From the back cover of book:
Something very strange is happening in LeHorn’s Hollow.

Eerie, piping music is being heard late at night, and mysterious fires have been spotted deep in the woods. Women are vanishing without a trace overnight, leaving behind husbands and families.

When up-and-coming novelist Adam Senft stumbles upon an unearthly scene, it plunges him and the entire town into an ancient nightmare. Folks say the woods in LeHorn’s Hollow are haunted, but what waits there is far worse than any ghost. It has been summoned . . . and now it demands to be satisfied.

About the movie:
Bram Stoker Award winning US horror author Brian Keene and British Fantasy Award winning writer Paul Finch are combing forces to bring Dark Hollow to the big screen.

The film is based on Keene’s novel, which was first published last year, that tells the story about a satyr that comes to life in a forest and begins capturing women.

Award winning short film director Paul Campion, who is also a former Weta Digital texture painter, will make this his directorial debut, with a script written by Paul Finch. And to add icing to the cake, Weta Workshop will design and and create the creature makeup.

This is a High Quality Six Color Design.

6.1 oz., 100% preshrunk cotton. Seamless collar. Double-needle stitched. Taped shoulder-to-shoulder.

Generous Fit. High quality, heavyweight t-shirt at a great price.

Do Unto Others

Author: Gonzalez, J. F.
Cover Artist: Daniele Serra
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 154pp.
Pub. Date: May 31, 2010
Publisher: Thunderstorm Books

Jim Cornell used to be believe in God.

But when things went bad — his daughter getting cancer, his layoff from his well-paying job, the strain of his marriage — he began to have no use for God anymore.

When Jim’s forced into a situation that will require his participation in another man’s murder, his faith will be tested. Because while Jim used to believe in God, he’d never given that much thought to the Devil.

Now he’s going to have to. Because like it or not, Jim is involved with people who have a deep religious faith too.

Jim is about to discover that where there is light, there must be darkness. There’s more than one kind of religious faith and his is about to be put to the ultimate test.

Note: There will also be a 52 copy hardcover of this Elemental chapbook produced. Details forthcoming.

Major Karnage

Author: Zajac, Gord
Cover Artist: Erik Mohr
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 324pp.
Pub. Date: August 15, 2010
Publisher: ChiZine Publications

Don’t talk to him about the war!!!!

It has been 20 years since The War, and Major John Karnage has finally settled into retirement: locked up in an insane asylum, with an explosive device embedded in the back of his neck to curb his violent tendencies.

Karnage and his troopers have been deemed unfit to live in normal society. Like a bit of old chewing gum stuck under a coffee table, the world has left The War and its scarred, unstable veterans behind.

The military has been disbanded and World Peace has descended upon the Earth. Its inhabitants live happy, profitable lives under the global rule of the benevolent Dabney Corporation. All is tea and roses in this new, sanitized world . . .

Until a terrifying threat from beyond the stars rears its squiggly head!

An invading armada of aliens threatens to destroy the Earth, and it’s up to Major Karnage to stop them — as long as he doesn’t accidentally blow his own head off first.

Only 150 signed limited edition hardcover copies will be published.

Sparrow Rock

Author: Kenyon, Nate
Cover Artist: Zach McCain
Format: Signed Limited Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 360pp.
Pub. Date: May 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

They were just a group of high school kids looking for a place to party.

They didn’t know the end of the world was coming. Now, alone and trapped below ground in a state-of-the-art bomb shelter, they are being stalked — and the creatures that come for them through the dirt and ash are like nothing anyone has ever seen before.

There is a new ruling life form on earth, and these six humans are the only remaining prey.

Welcome to your worst nightmare.

Welcome to Sparrow Rock. . . .

Nexus: Ascension

Author: Boyczuk, Robert
Cover Artist: Erik Mohr
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 400pp.
Pub. Date: August 15, 2010
Publisher: ChiZine Publications

After returning from a thirty-year trade mission, the crew of the Ea wake from cryonic suspension to find that their home world, Bh’Haret, is dead.

“Screamer” satellites have been strung around their planet warning of a plague.

A scan of the surface of Bh’Haret reveals no trace of human life — only crumbling cities. Their fuel and other supplies nearly exhausted, the crew has little choice but to make planet fall on Bh’Haret, infected with a virulent and deadly disease.

In a desperate scramble to save themselves, the crew members of the Ea must each, in his or her own way, come to terms with the death of their world — and try to rekindle a belief in the possibility of life.

No more than 150 signed and numbered hardcover copies will be published.

The Very Best Of Best New Horror

Editor: Jones, Stephen
Cover Art: Edward Miller
Format: Deluxe Signed Limited Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: September 25, 2010
Publisher: Earthling Publications
Also Pub: September 25, 2010 (Hardcover — Earthling Publications)

For the past twenty years, the annual Best New Horror series has been the major showcase for superior short stories and novellas of horror and dark fantasy.

Edited by Stephen Jones, the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award-winning series has published more than 450 stories by around 200 of the genre’s most famous and acclaimed authors, as well as those newcomers who are just starting out on their careers.

To celebrate the anthology’s twentieth anniversary, the editor has selected from each volume one story that he considers to be the “best” for reasons explained in his historical introduction to each tale.

As a result, some of horror’s biggest names are represented, including Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Harlan Ellison, Brian Lumley and Neil Gaiman, along with newer writers such as Joe Hill, Glen Hirshberg, Mark Samuels and Terry Lamsley.

With a unique Introduction by Ramsey Campbell, and an indispensable Index detailing the entire contents of the series over all twenty volumes, The Very Best of Best New Horror is a tribute to the world’s premier annual anthology of contemporary horror fiction.

Note: The Deluxe Signed Limited Hardcover edition is signed by ALL the contributors!

Table of Contents:

• Editor’s Foreword by Stephen Jones
• Introduction: Bettering the Best by Ramsey Campbell
• No Sharks in the Med by Brian Lumley
• The Man Who Drew Cats by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Same in Any Language by Ramsey Campbell
• Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death by Christopher Fowler
• Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison
• The Temptation of Dr. Stein by Paul J. Mcauley
• Queen of Knives by Neil Gaiman
• The Break by Terry Lamsley
• Emptiness Spoke Eloquent by Caitlin R Kiernan
• Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff by Peter Straub
• White by Tim Lebbon
• The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula, 1981 by Kim Newman
• Cleopatra Brimstone by Elizabeth Hand
• 20th Century Ghost by Joe Hill
• The White Hands by Mark Samuels
• My Death by Lisa Tuttle
• Haeckel’s Tale by Clive Barker
• Devil’s Smile by Glen Hirshberg
• The Church on the Island by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates by Stephen King
• Index to Twenty Years of Best New Horror

The Last Zombie (The Last Zombie #1)

Author: Keene, Brian
Artist: Joseph Wight
Format: Comic Book
Type: Horror Comic
Page Count: 32pp.
Pub. Date: June 2010
Publisher: Antarctic Press

Check your fuel tanks, weapons and supplies; buckle down tight; and get ready for a thrill ride that may leave you breathless — or not even breathing!

Follow the frantic journey of a man seeking his one ray of hope in a post-apocalyptic nightmare United States. The zombies have come and (mostly) gone, but the disease is still out there, threatening the survivors. The country swarms with roving packs of wild animals — and worse, desperate humans — ready to do whatever it takes to survive.

Through it all, one man must drive from California to New York to reunite with the woman he loves . . . before it’s too late for either of them!

Creeptych

Author: Everson, John
Cover Art: John Everson
Format: Limited Mini-Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 156pp.
Pub. Date: May 15, 2010
Publisher: Delirium Books

Does your skin crawl when you see a spider on the wall or a roach on the kitchen floor? Do you find yourself itching uncontrollably after being touched by a fly or mosquito? Do you ever lie awake half the night because you felt something delicately, carefully crawling across your feet beneath the sheets?

Then this Creeptych of three bug-ridden stories is for you!

Bad Day: Paul Hughes had a really bad day. He lost his job, his wife and then after getting bit by a bug . . . his life. Compared to what happens to his neighbors after the Luna Roaches come to town, his day wasn’t so bad at all. At least he died. . . .

Eardrum Buzz: Wes couldn’t get enough of the music of Eardrum Buzz’s first disc, Misery Machine; the drone of their guitars was hypnotizing. But when he is brought into the band’s inner circle to join The Swarm, he soon has the music within him. Terrifyingly deep within him. . . .

Violet Lagoon: When a quartet of co-eds decide to reenact The Blue Lagoon on an abandoned Florida Key, they find more than just sex and sand is on the agenda. Stings turn out to play a part in their weekend as well. Lots and lots of stings. But those were just the beginning of the pain. . . .

Table of Contents:

• Bad Day
• Eardrum Buzz
• Violet Lagoon

Blockade Billy

Author: King, Stephen
Cover Artist: Glen Orbik
Interior Art: Alex McVey
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: April 21, 2010
Publisher: Cemetery Dance

Blockade Billy by Stephen King, an original, never-before-published novella that only the King of Horror could have dreamed up!

Even die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William Blakely, but in just a few weeks you’ll be holding this dark tale in your own two hands so you can read it for yourself.

That’s right! This exclusive trade hardcover edition is already rolling at the printer and will be arriving at our warehouse in mid-April. This beautiful hardcover edition also features stunning cover artwork by Glen Orbik and eight gorgeous pieces of interior artwork by Alex McVey.

About the Book: Even the most die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first — and only — player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game’s history.

Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse . . . and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.

This original, never-before-published novella represents Stephen King at his very best, and this hardcover edition brings it into print for the very first time.

Horror Mall Note: YES, we WILL have the extra baseball card with our copies!

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Author: Lee, Edward
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: June 15, 2010
Publisher: Camelot Books

“What’s a header?“

Fifteen years ago, Travis Clyde Tuckton asked that self-same question to his ancient grandfather, and the answer came in a rampage of twisted bloodlust, missing persons, and the most macabre and indescribable act of vengeance that human consciousness has ever devised . . .

Now, in those same desolate woods, amongst dilapidated shacks behind whose rickety doors no one dare look, something even worse has come to curse the land of simple folk, a jubilee of murderous perversity and sexual abomination too hideous to describe.

Only the courage of Travis Tuckton could ever begin to set things back to rights but, lo, Travis and his grandfather are long dead . . .

Ah, but their relatives aren’t!

And it will be these stout-hearted men who shall rise to the occasion of the most horrific revenge in the history of the backwoods — an eye for an eye, a head for a head! Not even unearthed graves, molested corpses, abducted tots, and an unspeakable human monstrosity can thwart the might of right.

Join steadfast hayseeds Helton, Dumar, and Micky-Mack as they venture forth into a wretched mire of unadulterated horror, where the symbol of ultimate evil is not a psycho-killer, nor a demon, but the full-tilt rev of power tools screaming through the endless night . . .

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Where revenge is all in the mind.