Bestselling Pre-ordered Horror Books for February 2010

Clickers III: Dagon Rising

Author: Gonzalez, J. F. and Brian Keene
Cover Art: Dave Kendall
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 244pp.
Pub. Date: April 27, 2010
Publisher: Delirium Books

They thought it was over, but the second wave was only the beginning.

In the aftermath of the Clickers and Dark Ones’ siege and a coup against an insane President, America rebuilds. Change has come, and a better future is promised to all. But promises can be broken and there may be no future at all because deep beneath the ocean, a new terror awaits.

Dagon, god of the Dark Ones, is waking up . . . and if humanity doesn’t stop him, then mankind will face extinction.

Trapped on a South Pacific Island, the cast of Clickers and Clickers 2: The Next Wave join forces with a mysterious group of occult agents to face off against the Clickers, the Dark Ones, Dagon and an all-new threat — the deadly obsidian Clickers. The stakes have never been higher. Dagon is rising… and humanity will fall.

Clickers III: Dagon Rising — It’s more giant monster carnage and B-movie fun as only J. F. Gonzalez and Brian Keene can bring you.

By Bizarre Hands Rides Again

Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
Art: Alex McVey
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 300pp.
Pub. Date: June 15, 2010
Publisher: Morning Star

By Bizarre Hands was Joe R. Lansdale’s first short story collection and is held by many to be the most important horror collection published in the eighties, some have argued that it the best collection published since Ray Bradbury’s Dark Carnival in 1947. Regardless, the importance of this work and its effect on the genre, even to this day, cannot be underestimated.

By Bizarre Hands Rides Again is a must have collection for any genre enthusiasts library.

With By Bizarre Hands Rides Again you’ll have all the classic tales that made up the original along with several new entries and a brand new introduction by the author.

Book is limited to only 300 signed and numbered copies. Cover art and illustrated by Alex McVey.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Lewis Shiner
• New Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale
• King of Shadows
• Starlight, Eyes Bright
• Morning, Noon, and Night
• Not From Detroit
• Fish Night
• The Pit
• Duck Hunt
• By Bizarre Hands
• The Steel Valentine
• I Tell You It’s Love
• Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches
• Boys Will Be Boys
• The Fat Man and the Elephant
• Hell Through a Windshield
• Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock
• Trains Not Taken
• Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back
• The Windstorm Passes
• Night They Missed the Horror Show
• On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks

51 Fiendish Ways to Leave Your Lover

Author: Mannetti, Lisa
Illustrations: Glen Chadbourne
Format: Trade Paperback Edition
Type: Horror and Humor
Page Count: 118pp.
Pub. Date: February 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

“Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Yeah? Sez who?

If you prefer your vengeance served scalding hot with a side order of steaming gore 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave Your Lover is the how-to guide you’ve been waiting for. Come on now. Vengeance has fueled some of the greatest plots in classic literature. Why should reality be any different?

Why hold back?

Let’s face it — the world is full of ex-lovers, current lovers and soon-to-be-ex-lovers who soooo have it coming to them. Now you can spice your life up with a generous helping of venom, and forget all that “living well is the best revenge” malarkey.

Revenge is the best revenge.

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lisa Mannetti’s hilarious guidebook (replete with helpful illustrations by the celebrated artist Glen Chadbourne) will walk you — step by step — through the ghoulishly delicious process of getting over, getting on and getting even.

The Woman

Author: Ketchum, Jack
Cover Artist: Caniglia
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 300pp.
Pub. Date: August 30th, 2010
Publisher: Infernal House

The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from Maine into Canada for years now.

Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea.

Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral — and unstable — country lawyer who, out hunting one day, sees her bathing in a stream. Fascinated, he follows her to her cave. Cleek has many dark secrets and to these he’ll add another.

He will capture her, lock in his fruit cellar, and tame her, civilize her. To this end he’ll enlist his long-suffering wife Belle, his teenage son and daughter Brian and Peg, and even his little girl Darlin’, to aid him.

So the question becomes, who is more savage?

The hunter or the game?

Moonchild

Author: Crowley, Aleister
Cover Artist: Hans Memling
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 350pp.
Pub. Date: May 1st, 2010
Publisher: Arcane Wisdom
Original Pub: 1929 (Hardcover — Mandrake Press)

Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917.

Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by the protagonist Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians over an unborn child. It was first published by Mandrake Press in 1929.

Moonchild is a novel held in high regard for its magical and occult significance and also for its complex and well written prose.

Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, was an English occultist, writer, mountaineer, poet, playwright, yogi, and possible spy. He was an influential member of occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A A , and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) and is known today for his magical writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. He gained notoriety during his lifetime, and was denounced in the popular press of the day as “The wickedest man in the world.”

Crowley was also a chess player in his youth, a painter, astrologer, hedonist, bisexual, recreational drug experimenter, and social critic.

This edition will include a long introduction by Don Webb, a noted horror writer and author of Aleister Crowely: The Fire and The Force provides a long introduction to the work with some wit and perhaps some wisdom.

Blood and Gristle

Authors: Calvillo, Michael Louis
Artist: Daniele Serra
Format: Trade Paperback Edition
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 296pp.
Pub. Date: March 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

Blood and Gristle is a collection of twenty screwed up stories paired with twenty exquisite illustrations.

It’s about detachable children, and self worth, and hungry, hungry, garbage disposals. It’s about boxes that shape destiny and Magic Eightballs that don’t. It’s about drugs and devils and everlasting, gnashing teeth. It’s about a crack addicted cardiologist looking for love and a nasty basilisk with a taste for kindergartners. It’s about life and death, sorrow and fear, madness, faith, and all of the squishy, complicated stuff in between.

So brace yourself, unplug the goopy gray of your brain, and get ready . . . things are about to get very, very messy.

The Thief of Broken Toys

Author: Lebbon, Tim
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 150pp.
Pub. Date: May 15, 2010
Publisher: Chizine Publications

When a father loses his son and his wife leaves him, he cannot tear himself away from the small fishing village where the boy’s memories reside. They’re all he has left.

Thinking that his life is all but over, he takes to wandering the cliffs, carrying broken things that he always promised his son he would fix, but never did. They’re a sign of his failure, and they keep little Toby close.

And then he meets the thief of broken toys, and everything begins to change.

Only the hardcover of this edition of this title will contain the short story “Ollie’s Oswald”

I Am Providence: The Life And Times Of H. P. Lovecraft

Author: Joshi, S. T.
Format: 2 Volume Limited Hardcover Set
Type: Biography
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: June 15, 2010
Publisher: Hippocampus Press

In 1996, S. T. Joshi’s H. P. Lovecraft: A Life was published to universal acclaim. Joyce Carol Oates called it the “definitive” biography, and it won the British Fantasy Award and the Horror Write Sers Association Award. But that 1996 edition was abridged from the manuscript that Joshi wrote in 1993-95; in all, more than 150,000 words were cut for space reasons.

Hippocampus Press is proud to present the complete, uncut edition of Joshi’s biography, I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft.

In addition to restoring every word of Joshi’s original manuscript, the entire text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the new information on Lovecraft that has emerged since 1996. As such, this book can now truly be said to be the definitive biography of H. P. Lovecraft, written by the world’s leading authority on Lovecraft. Readers will find countless details about Lovecraft’s life and work not included in the earlier edition, along with important updates on new publications by and about Lovecraft in the last 15 years and on Lovecraft’s increasing worldwide reputation. This book constitutes S. T. Joshi’s final word on Lovecraft the man, the writer, and the thinker.

I Am Providence will be published as a limited edition two-volume hardcover set, with Smythe-sewn signatures and illustrated dust wrappers. All Hippocampus Press limited editions are printed on 60# white offset paper, acid free and elemental chlorine free.

Hallowe’en in a Suburb and Others

Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
Artist: Virgil Finlay
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Poetry Collection
Page Count: 64pp.
Pub. Date: April 15, 2010
Publisher: Stanza Press/PS Publishing

When the history of fantasy and horror fiction is being discussed, the pulp magazine Weird Tales is inevitably mentioned. Published on low-grade “pulp” paper, Weird Tales was the first newsstand magazine devoted exclusively to weird and fantastic fiction. It ran for 279 issues, from March 1923 to September 1954.

The three most important and influential writers to have their work published in the title were Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft; the Texan creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard; and the California poet, short story writer, illustrator and sculptor, Clark Ashton Smith.

“The Complete Poems from Weird Tales” series collects their verse in the order that it originally appeared in the pages of “The Unique Magazine”.

Table of Contents:

• Nemesis
• To a Dreamer
• Yule Horror
• The Ancient Track
• Recapture
• The Courtyard
• Star-Winds
• Hesperia
• Antarktos
• The Bells
• Nyarlathotep
• Azathoth
• Mirage
• The Elder Pharos
• Alienation
• To Virgil Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch’s Tale, ‘The Faceless God’
• Psychopompos
• The Canal
• To Klarkash-Ton, Lord of Averoigne
• Where Once Poe Walked
• The Messenger
• The Wood
• The Lamp
• Zaman’s Hill
• Harbour Whistles
• The Howler

Monster Town / The Butcher of Box Hill

Authors: Savile, Logan
Pseudonym for: Steve Savile and Brian M. Logan
Format: Signed Limited Flipbook Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella Collection
Page Count: 130pp.
Pub. Date: February 14, 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

Monster Town

When down and out Monster Wrangler JD Enron accepts a missing persons assignment from the mysterious blonde with breasts you can ski down, he knows it’s something he’s going to regret.

Especially as the job is going to take him back to Monster Town, the giant prison settlement in the New Mexico desert which houses all of America’s monsters.

Be they Vampires, Werewolves, Gargoyles, Chupacabras, Moth Men, Zombies, Bigfoots or any of the other godless creature to have walked the Earth, Monster Town is the place where they all end up.

And the one place you never want to go . . .

The Butcher of Box Hill

JD Enron is having the time of his life.

As a senior Monster Wrangler for the Brotherhood of the Hand (the clandestine off-shoot of the Catholic church hired by the US government to capture all of America’s monsters), he gets to hunt monsters on a daily basis. And JD really hates monsters.

But when his latest mission takes him to the remote logging town of Box Hill, Montana, in the dead of winter, he soon discovers that not all monsters have fangs.

And that freshly spilt blood looks so very different on snow . . .