New, Rare and Interesting Items This Week at Miskatonic Books

To get ordering information on any title just click on the cover art.

Many of the books we carry are rare and we have a very limited quantity. All books are sold on a first come first serve basis.

We are always interested in buying classic horror, Lovecraftian fiction, Freemasonry, Alchemy, and hardcover occult titles. Feel free to contact us at miskatonicbooks@me.com

 

All books are in stock and shipping:

THE OCCULT RELIQUARY by Daniel Schulke (Limited Edition Hardcover in Custom Slipcase)

 

First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, original quarter burgundy leather over gilt-stamped cloth boards with felt-lined slipcase, limited to 250 copies. 216 pp, over 275 illustrations, 130 of which are in full colour. A fine copy in slipcase. Edited by Daniel A. Schulke and with an Introduction by Graham King,

The Occult Reliquary presents a selection of images from the Richel-Eldermans Collection, an occult archive of some 2,000 images and artifacts housed in the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall. Situated at the crossroads of erotic magic, ceremonial angelic conjuration, and witchcraft, the images comprise, in part, a pictorial cipher of the rituals of Ars Amatoria, a European magical order using sex magic, and the lesser-known M.:.M.:. , based in the Hague and Leiden. Also referenced among the collection are materials relating to A.:.A.:. of Aleister Crowley. The transfixing procession of images, charms, magical seals, and ritual objects in the Collection is the work of multiple artists, and displays a high degree of magical insight and creativity. It will be of interest to students of witchcraft, Freemasonry, the Goetia, sex magic, and early twentieth century occultism. The Reliquary presents for the first time a selection of these magical images, many reproduced at full scale, and bound with the highest quality materials. Printed in large-format on archival paper, it was released in three editions: We offer here a copy of the Deluxe Quarter Leather Bound Edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. Three Hands Press is an imprint associated with XOANON Publications.

 

 

 

 

SOLVE A Graphic Grimoire by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

 

 

Bound in a premium black cloth lettered in white, with artistic embellishments in blind. Edition limited to 800 hand-numbered copies. The third volume in the Tela Quadrivum series following “Coagula”.

 

Solve takes the reader further into the alchemical process begun in Orryelle’s previous volume for Fulgur. Says the author/artist: “SOLVE dissolves the gold distilled in COAGULA, tears apart our egos, dismembers our bodies and hurls any conceptions of perfection back into the primal void. Herein lies death, destruction, and the Prima Materia, the base matter, the Al Khem – the fertile black soil of decomposing forms, the compost for new growth. In an exploration of the Nigredo, or Blackening phase, of Alchemy, the concepts of Black Magic are re-examined in this ThanatErotic tome of the backward winding path; from the darkness of the womb to the darkness of the tomb…”

 

776 1/2 by James A. Eshelman (Signed Leather Bound Hardcover Edition)

 

A very special edition of a popular reference, crafted with unusual beauty.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary year of Temple of Thelema, we are pleased to offer this deluxe limited edition of 156 numbered, signed copies of 776½ with premium design and manufacturing.

This edition offers a red bonded leather hardcover with gold foil stamping, gilded page edges, Rainbow end leaves, and a mounted bookmark ribbon. Manufactured with acid-free paper and binder boards, and with superior binding (Smyth-sewn signatures), this volume will last for generations.

A special numbered commemorative page, signed by the author, certifies the uniqueness of this edition.

 

DUELING MINDS by Brian James Freeman (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

 

Hardcover Limited Edition of 550 signed (by all of the contributors) and numbered copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with illustrated endpapers

Featuring stories by Brian Keene, Gary A. Braunbeck, Tom Piccirilli, Tim Lebbon, Jenny Orosel, and Gerard Houarner!

Cover artwork by Alan M. Clark

Interior artwork by Erin S. Wells

About the Book:
Where do you get your ideas?

It’s probably the most common question an author gets asked during his or her career.

This anthology isn’t meant to answer that question, but it is designed to give readers a glimpse into how the imagination works.

These talented authors were shown a haunting piece of artwork by acclaimed artist Alan M. Clark and then asked: “What worlds do you see hidden inside this painting?”

The stories collected in this book are their answers.

Table of Contents:
“Introduction” by Brian James Freeman
“Purple Reign” by Brian Keene
“Bargain” by Gary A. Braunbeck
“Between the Dark and the Daylight” by Tom Piccirilli
“Falling Off the World” by Tim Lebbon
“That Which Binds” by Jenny Orosel
“Breath of Bygone Spirits” by Gerard Houarner

 

HOMESTEAD by James A. Moore (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

 

featuring artwork by Alex McVey

About the Book:
Home is where the pain is….

Kathy Erinson just wanted a hobby, something to help her relax and keep her from getting too bored.

What she didn’t expect was that the illustrations she started working on would try to tell her secrets best ignored.

What she didn’t expect was the sudden wash of memories about people and things she’d done her very best to forget about: Her first kiss, her best friend, her family and the dark, dark things that were done once to protect family and homestead alike.

Something from the past has come back and that something is very unforgiving.

Hardcover Limited Edition of 550 signed and numbered copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with illustrated endpapers

 

TYLER’S THIRD ACT by Mick Garris (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

 

Artwork by William Stout

About the Book:
How much would you pay to experience something truly disturbing?

Tyler Sparrow isn’t too happy about recent changes in the movie and television industry.  The continuing emphasis on unscripted reality entertainment is putting writers like himself out of work.  As his career enters its “Third Act” (industry jargon for the final section of a film script), Tyler decides to take matters into his own hands: he’ll create and star in his own web-based program, something sensational and disturbing that will grab the short-attention-span of today’s fickle audiences.

Trouble is, if the program is successful, then audiences will be hungry for more… and it will become increasingly difficult to satisfy their appetites.

What happens when you mix the knowledge of a media-industry insider with a horror writer’s eye for the bizarre?  You get Tyler’s Third Act, Mick Garris’ satire on the twisted world of reality programs.

Hardcover Limited Edition of 550 signed and numbered copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with illustrated endpapers

New, Rare and Interesting Items This Week at Miskatonic Books

We have some exciting new advance orders in the store this week and you’ll want to reserve your copy soon before sold out. We also have some new esoteric items in that are sure to interest the occult reader.

To get ordering information on any title just click on the cover art.

Many of the books we carry are rare and we have a very limited quantity. All books are sold on a first come first serve basis.

We are always interested in buying classic horror, Lovecraftian fiction, Freemasonry, Alchemy, and hardcover occult titles. Feel free to contact us at miskatonicbooks@me.com

 

THE MOONCHILD OF YESOD: A Grimoire of Occult Hyperchemistry, or Typhonian Sex Magick by Karl Stone (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover) Import

Published on Lughnasadh 2012, in a strictly limited edition of 418 copies, this book is beautifully designed to reflect the Golden Age of Victorian publishing, bound in pale blue buckram with silver foil blocking, printed on Favini Alga Carta White 120gsm, and features full-colour illustrations by Stafford Stone (no relation). Each copy is signed and numbered by the author, and comes with a specially designed bookmark. 

Published by The Imaginary Book Co. 

Book is in new unread condition 

The Moonchild of Yesod by Karl Stone 

Very rarely does a genuinely original occult book appear: this work, “The Moonchild of Yesod” (subtitled “A Grimoire of Occult Hyperchemistry, or Typhonian Sex Magick”), is just such a book. With an extraordinary use of language, the author builds on the work of Mme. Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, and Kenneth Grant to construct a Magickal Mirror that opens a genuine Gateway to Beyond. Covering both practical and theoretical aspects, the eleven chapters are titled Hierophantism,The Mystical Veil, The Outer Garment of the Mind, Elemental Invocation, The Key of Tarot Dynamics, The Metaphysic of the Tarot Keys and the 93 Current, Occult Anatomy, The 50 Gates of Understanding, Hierogamy, The Sexual Ritual of the Sepher Yetzirah and A Sabbatic Sexual Working. 

“For the use of the practising occultist and hyperchemist, giving in a compendious form a full description of obscure rites and practices, and a complete explanation of metaphysical matters, hallucinatory vortices, tentacled antheridial gateways toother worlds, the dislocation of the mind, and the deep penetrative insight that arises from these territories, arranged in an entirely novel and interesting manner.” 

From the cover: 
“Oracular gnosis, is the hypostatic precipitation of phantasma within the non-spatial stellar dimensions of the initiate. Traffick with praeter-human intelligences are received as a concussion of ‘shadow signatures’ which colour (Kalas) the magickal mirror experientially as a Somatonoësis. 
Magickally, the crystallisation of this phantasma is a Lunar sexual operation. It occurs within the oneiric womb of Yesod, which receives the praeter-human spermatozoon via the lens of Daäth (The gateway to the ‘Outer Ones’). Within this siderialised amnion, the spectral tinctures undergo a form of hyper-chemistry, whereby the colours (Kalas) out of space arouse a convolvulus within the ‘Astral Light’, manifesting an antheridial embryonate, the Moonchild (Homunculus), which consolidates it’s prescience upon the substrate of the terrestrial sphere. The Moonchild is the vehicle of the Magickal Will i.e. making the word, flesh. 
This grimoire is both a Theoretical and Practical exegesis of initiation, sexual magick, qabalah and sorcery. It elucidates the tangential and oblique method, whereby contact with the subtle occult forces are amplified from the deep soundless recesses of non-spatial stellar loci as a physicality (Somatonoësis). Such transmissions are approached indirectly and inferred by the magickal engine of the qabalah, whereby their gateways are represented as tauroid gestalts (Sephira) to the ‘Outer Ones’. Such traffick can be used for mystical or magickal operations depending upon how the practitioner utilises these subtle intrusions (Kalas) of phantasma inspissated within the alembic of the adepts occult anatomy as a Somatonoësis.”

 

CROSSED KEYS Being a Chimeric Binding of Both The Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III (Signed Deluxe Leather Bound with Leather Bag Slipcase)

 

Offered for sale is an extremely rare and sought after copy of the Sable et d’Or fine bound edition. Only 55 copies of this edition were made, and of those 55 only TWO copies are signed by the author – THIS being one of them. This book was the winner of Balkan’s Book of The Year award for its sheer beauty, and has been widely regarded as the most impressive of Scarlet Imprint’s venerable Fine Edition releases.

Crossed keys is a chimeric binding of both The Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III in a fresh translation by grimoire magician MC. They are complementary grimoires, spanning the very earliest example of the genre to the late bibliotheque bleue period. Together they comprise a wealth of spells, spirits, lore, talismans and psalm magic, with their head in the highest heavens and their feet in the deepest hells. This is the first time they have been bound into one volume. 

Extensively footnoted, the seals corrected, re-drawn and restored, with excerpts and workings from the translator’s magical record, this is a well armed and practical text which throws light on the Grimorium Verum, Red Dragon and Grand Grimoire. It is a vigorous text, designed to be put to use. 

Crossed keys is a chimeric binding of both The Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III in a fresh translation by grimoire magician Michael Cecchetelli. 

They are complementary grimoires, spanning the very earliest example of the genre to the late bibliotheque bleue period. Together they comprise a wealth of spells, spirits, lore, talismans and psalm magic, with their head in the highest heavens and their feet in the deepest hells. 

This is the first time they have been bound into one volume. 

Extensively footnoted, the seals corrected, re-drawn and restored, with excerpts and workings from the translator’s magical record, this is a well armed and practical text which throws light on the Grimorium Verum, Red Dragon and Grand Grimoire. It is a vigorous text, designed to be put to use. 

 

THE VERY BEST NEW HORROR with Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell and more (Signed by all in custom slipcase)

 

One of only 200 signed by all contributors in custom slipcase. This copy is a very rare PC (Publisher’s Copy) Book is in fine unread condition in a like dust jacket and slipcase.   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. TABLE OF CONTENTS: EDITOR’S FOREWORD     Stephen Jones INTRODUCTION: BETTERING THE BEST     Ramsey Campbell NO SHARKS IN THE MED     Brian Lumley THE MAN WHO DREW CATS     Michael Marshall Smith THE SAME IN ANY LANGUAGE     Ramsey Campbell NORMAN WISDOM AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH     Christopher Fowler MEFISTO IN ONYX     Harlan Ellison THE TEMPTATION OF DR STEIN     Paul J. McAuley QUEEN OF KNIVES     Neil Gaiman THE BREAK     Terry Lamsley EMPTINESS SPOKE ELOQUENT     Caitlín R Kiernan MR. CLUBB AND MR. CUFF     Peter Straub WHITE     Tim Lebbon THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT: ANNO DRACULA, 1981     Kim Newman CLEOPATRA BRIMSTONE     Elizabeth Hand 20TH CENTURY GHOST     Joe Hill THE WHITE HANDS     Mark Samuels MY DEATH     Lisa Tuttle HAECKEL’S TALE     Clive Barker DEVIL’S SMILE     Glen Hirshberg THE CHURCH ON THE ISLAND     Simon Kurt Unsworth THE NEW YORK TIMES AT SPECIAL BARGAIN RATES     Stephen King INDEX TO TWENTY YEARS OF BEST NEW HORROR

 

MOONBANE by Al Sarrantonio (Signed Deluxe Leather Bound Lettered Edition in Custom Traycase)

 

Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered hardcover copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker and additional full-color artwork. Book is in new unread condition. 

Cover artwork by Alan M. Clark 
Interiors by Keith Minnion 

About the Book: 
After twenty years, the classic novel of lycanthropy by horror master Al Sarrantonio is back in print, in a beautiful new limited signed edition. 

Moonbane asks the simple question: Why do werewolves howl at the Moon? 

The answer: Because that’s where they originally came from! 

A fast-paced horror-thriller in the tradition of Richard Matheson’s I am Legend, Moonbane explodes with a riveting opening reminiscent of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, and never lets up for a moment. 

Moonbane has been hailed as “A great fast read with a super ending.” (Rocky Mountain News; also one of their top book choices of the year); “Unabashedly violent…a raw power…that holds the reader’s interest until the final pages.” (Mystery Scene); “A great evening’s read” (Charles de Lint); “A stylish B-movie of a novel. Fast-paced and poetic.” (Joe R. Lansdale). 

With a new Preface by the author, and with a cover by Alan M. Clark and beautiful interior artwork by Keith Minnion, Moonbane is published here for the first time in hardcover – in an edition that is bound to become a treasured collectible.

 

BRIMSTONE TURNPIKE Kealan Patrick Burke (Signed Deluxe Leather Bound Lettered Edition in Custom Traycase)

 

Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker and additional artwork. Book is in new unread condition. 

Brimstone Turnpike 
edited by Kealan Patrick Burke 

About the Book: 
Each of us chooses a path through life without knowing where it will lead. There may come good fortune, or misery, joy, or death. It is not for us to know. 

But sometimes we are handed an opportunity to alter our destiny, though we may not recognize it when it’s there before us. It might be a lottery ticket, or an ad in the newspaper. It might also be an old man named Johnny Divine, and the treasures he keeps in a battered red leather suitcase at the Brimstone Turnpike. 

On a lonesome stretch of deserted highway, amid the ruins of a gas station with a tragic past, Johnny waits in the searing sun for those who have found their way off the beaten path, off the map, and into a place where dreams can come true and nightmares become real, depending on the choices made. 

Welcome to the Brimstone Turnpike, where the choice is yours. 

Join wayward travelers Thomas F. Monteleone, Scott Nicholson, Tim Waggoner, Harry Shannon and Mike Oliveri, as we take a trip into the heart of darkness, where a gift from a silver-toothed old man can mean the difference between life and death. 

“Introduction” by Peter Crowther 
“The Prime Time of Spenser Golding” by Thomas F. Monteleone 
“Behold the Child” by Harry Shannon 
“Burial to Follow” by Scott Nicholson 
“Warning Signs” by Michael Oliveri 
“A Strange and Savage Garden” by Tim Waggoner

 

 PICKING THE BONES by Brian Hodge (Signed Deluxe Leather Bound Lettered Edition in Custom Traycase)

 

Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker. Book is in new unread condition 

About the Book: 
Dying is easy. Living is hard. 

Step back, back into the world of 1996… 

“Dark fiction so numbing cold and cutting edge you better hold onto your ass with your free hand … There are no simple ‘entertainments’ or cheap grabs for the throat to be found here. Hodge is deadly serious about presenting a world where the worst punishment is the mere fact that you are aware you will probably live to see another day.” 

So wrote critic Stanley Wiater about Brian Hodge’s renowned first short fiction collection, The Convulsion Factory. Three collections later, nothing has changed. 

Well … maybe one or two trifling entertainments. A couple of cheap grabs for some body part or another. But that’s about it. There are still plenty of fates worse than death.

New Stephen King Limited Edition Title Announced!

“Randall Flagg came to me when I wrote a poem called ‘The Dark Man’ when I was a junior or senior in college. It came to me out of nowhere, this guy in cowboy boots who moved around on the roads, mostly hitchhiking at night, always wore jeans and a denim jacket. I wrote the poem in the college restaurant on the back of a placemat, but that guy never left my mind.”
— Stephen King

The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem
by Stephen King

About the Book:
Stephen King first wrote about the Dark Man in college after he envisioned a faceless man in cowboy boots and jeans and a denim jacket forever walking the roads. Later this dark man would come to be known around the world as one of King’s greatest villains, Randall Flagg, but at the time King only had simple questions on his mind: where was this man going? What had he seen and done? What terrible things…?

i have ridden rails…

More than forty years after Stephen King first wrote his breathtaking poem “The Dark Man,” Glenn Chadbourne set out to answer those questions in this World’s First Edition hardcover featuring more than 70 full-page illustrations from the talented artist behind The Secretary of Dreams.

i have slept in glaring swamps…

This Cemetery Dance Publications hardcover is a true marriage of words and art, with Chadbourne pulling the images from King’s imagination and illustrating them in magnificent detail. This incredible blending of King’s words with Chadbourne’s art creates a unique page turning experience you can return to again and again, always finding new details hidden on every page. You’ll discover hidden layers and mysterious secrets for years to come.

i am a dark man…

So who is the Dark Man and why is he traveling the country? The answers are terrifying….

Three unique editions to choose from

To reserve your copy just click on the cover art below for more information.

NOTE: We have a very limited supply of these and the publisher sold out of both the limited and the lettered edition in minutes of announcing it. We are selling our handfull of allotted copies on a first come first serve basis. This is a pre-order and is not expected to ship until late July early August.

THE DARK MAN: AN ILLUSTRATED POEM by Stephen King (First Edition Hardcover in Custom Slipcase)

World’s First Edition, First Printing SLIPCASED trade hardcover featuring a different dust jacket and shrink-wrapped with a deluxe custom-made slipcase and a collectible Glenn Chadbourne bookmark featuring a Dark Man drawing that doesn’t appear in the book

THE DARK MAN: AN ILLUSTRATED POEM by Stephen King (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover in Custom Traycase)

Traycased Signed Limited Edition of only 500 copies printed in two colors on a specialty paper stock, bound in a fine material with two-color hot foil stamping, a different dust jacket, a color frontispiece, satin ribbon page marker, and embossed endpapers, signed by Stephen King and Glenn Chadbourne

THE DARK MAN: AN ILLUSTRATED POEM by Stephen King (Signed LETTERED Edition Hardcover in Custom Traycase)

Signed Lettered Edition of only 52 copies printed in two colors on a specialty paper stock and bound in two different fine materials with gilded page edges, a different dust jacket, a different color frontispiece, a satin ribbon page marker, imported endpapers, a hand-drawn Dark Man illustration by Glenn Chadbourne in every copy, all protected in a custom deluxe traycase, signed by Stephen King and Glenn Chadbourne

New, Rare and Interesting Items This Week at Miskatonic Bookstore

To get ordering information on any title just click on the cover art.

Many of the books we carry are rare and we have a very limited quantity.

All books are sold on a first come first serve basis.

For the esoteric minded reader:

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum by Elias Ashmole (First Edition Hardcover)

The Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum is a major collection of English alchemical texts which encapsulate the arcana of the Magnum Opus in poetic form. Originally gathered from several rare medieval manuscripts by Elias Ashmole, the text represents the largest collection of verse treating of the production of the Philosopher’s Stone to be brought together in one volume.Ashmole’s pride in English literature is amplified by the consideration he gave to the project. In deciding which texts should be included in the book he details ancient British examples among the Druids & the Bardic Tradition and explains that poesy is much better than mere verse. Here we find well known names in the alchemical corpus among whom are included; Thomas Norton, George Ripley, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Daston, Pearce the Black Monke, Richard Carpenter, Abraham Andrews, Thomas Charnock, William Bloomefield, Edward Kelley, John Dee, Thomas Robinson, William Backhouse, John Gower, John Lydgate, W. Redman and several anonymous authors. This who’s who of English alchemists is placed in historical context by a Prolegomena by Ashmole, which supports his thesis that England may be proud of its alchemical literary heritage. In addition Ashmole has provided ample annotations and commentary to each of the texts as supplementary material in the concluding chapter of the book. The text has a new introduction by William Kiesel and a full bibliography of alchemical and bibliographic materials used in researching the text. This complete edition of the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum goes beyond the mere reprinting of the original pages as past facsimiles have done. Using the original errata sheets provided by Ashmole, the entire text has been corrected and reset in a more readable typeface and features clear reproductions of the original engravings produced by Robert Vaughan. In addition, this edition features a more complete version of the Breviary of Naturall Philosophy by Thomas Charnock by employing a complete manuscript of the text not available to Ashmole in 1652. This is the most ambitious publishing project embraced by Ouroboros Press in its years of laboring to bring source works of western esotericism to scholars and collectors alike. Over a dozen individuals and institutions worked hard to bring the book into this complete and corrected edition. This is fine esoteric book arts at its best, a volume Elias Ashmole himself would be proud of. Stout Octavo, 6 x 9 inches. 528 pages. Primary Typeface: Williams Caslon Text. Rubricated title page in red and black ink. Illustrated with alchemical engravings, ornamental grotesques, dragons, trees, and fleurons. Includes an 11 x 14 folding plate titled; George Ripley’s Wheel.

THE CATECHISM OF LUCIFER by Johannes Nefastos (Limited Edition Hardcover)

“Written as a counter-gospel for the Evangelical Lutheran catechism, but in addition to this, it represents a Gnostic form of Satanism on its own. In this book is outlined the path out of worldliness, out of theology mortally wounded by its false theodicy, even out of humanity taken as something small-minded, powerless and petty. The Catechism of Lucifer is founded upon the idea that by hating the perverted picture made of God by the Christian doctrine, we may truly attain higher possibilities for our Spiritual development and Empowerment. On this demanding but beautiful and meaningful path we are led by our innermost potential of ingeniosity, the divine Master Lucifer.

Book is in fine unread condition.

• Includes the following texts:
• The Ten Commandments of Lucifer
• The Satanic Credo in Three Creeds
• The Master’s Prayer in Six Articles
• Of Lucifer’s sacraments
• Of Demons
• Of Magic
• Of the Responsibility of the Individual
• Of Satan
• And many relevant quotations taken from the different sources of Star of Azazel’s literature.

Ixaxaar Occult Literature, 2013. First Edition Hardcover. Small Octavo. 82pp. Gilt decorated black faux leather, black textured endpapers, finished with a black silk ribbon and cream colour head- and tailbands, printed on embossed linen paper. Publisher’s printed bookmark loosely inserted.

THE INFERNAL COLOPATIRON: A Manual of Daemonic Theophany by S. Connolly (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

BACK IN STOCK!!! Selling quickly

Being a sacred grimoire of the walkers, detailing the olde ways of Demonolatry gate opening and the arte of daemonic theophany. Discusses centuries old, never before published Daemonolatry methods to produce Daemonic manifestations and includes the never before published Purswell ascension ritual, the pre-curser to the Dukanté version.

extured black faux leather, copper lettering to spine & copper sigil of Ocat, the “abyssal gatekeeper of the dead”, on upper board. Sigils and illustrations. Bibliography. Edition limited to 220 hand-numbered copies, consecrated and sigilised by the author, thus the limitation page may have an oleum smear from the anointing oil, or ink smudges from the blood infused ink. Called by the publisher: “A sacred grimoire of the walkers, detailing the olde ways of Demonolatry gate opening and the arte of daemonic theophany. The author discusses centuries old, never before published Daemonolatry methods to produce Daemonic manifestations and includes the previously unpublished Purswell ascension ritual, the pre-curser to the Dukanté version.” We note that each copy has printed within it a curse that is said to activate if someone steals or reproduces the book in any manner, including internet uploads. Not to be reprinted.

Book is in new unread condition

For the Horror Fiction connoisseur:

BRIDES OF THE IMPALER by Edward Lee (Signed Deluxe Leather Bound Lettered Edition in Traycase)

Traycased Hardcover Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker.

Book is in fine condition in a like traycase

About the Book:
Cristina Nichols fears the future, through the harrowing whispers of her past. She longs to forget the depraved abuses she suffered in her youth that left her afraid of love and passion. But something, somewhere, is suddenly tantalizing her, beckoning into a muse of carnal revelation and ecstatic fulfillment…

SECRET PASSIONS…

Deep in the cryptic New York City brownstone, something awakens, brimming with hot, real breath, libidinous longings and desires of the flesh the likes of which Cristina cannot conceive…

A SECRET LUST BURIED FOR AGES…

In the basement she finds it, the sinister evil finally unbound, reaching forth in vampiric bloodlust to prey upon her most forbidden fantasies and plummet her body and soul into a chasm of wantonness as black as the most timeless sin…

IMPALER

The secret will drench your desires in blood…

SERPENT GIRL by Ray Garton (Signed Lettered Edition Hardcover)

Steven Benedetti’s work has him driving the lonely highways at night, as it so often does. But tonight he passes a carnival and decides to stop for a break. At the carnival, Benedetti meets the Serpent Girl, a woman who stirs him like no other woman has, a woman who, like Benedetti, has a secret. They hit the night roads together and begin a journey that will change Benedetti forever.

Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker and extra full-color artwork

THE HORROR HALL OF FAME: THE STOKER WINNERS edited by Joe R. Lansdale (Deluxe Signed Leather Bound Lettered Edition in Traycase)

Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 (signed by the editor) and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page and additional color artwork

Book is in fine condition in like traycase

Featuring full color cover artwork by Alan M. Clark and black & white interior artwork for every story by acclaimed artist Glenn Chadbourne

About the Book:
This landmark anthology collects for the first-time ever the Bram Stoker Award-winning short stories and novellas from legendary authors such as George R.R. Martin, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, David Morrell, Alan Rodgers, and many, many others! The Stoker Award is presented annually by the Horror Writers Association, and this volume represents the very best fiction in the horror field!

• Table of Contents:
• “Introduction” by Joe R. Lansdale
• “The Scent of Vinegar” by Robert Bloch
• “The Calling” by David B. Silva
• “Chatting With Anubis” by Harlan Ellison
• “The Pear-Shaped Man” by George R.R. Martin
• “The Night They Missed the Horror Show” by Joe R. Lansdale
• “Lady Madonna” by Nancy Holder
• “The Box” by Jack Ketchum
• “Stephen” by Elizabeth Massie
• “The Red Tower” by Thomas Ligotti
• “The Boy Who Came Back From the Dead” by Alan Rodgers
• “The Night We Buried Road Dog” by Jack Cady
• “Metalica” by P.D. Cacek
• “Orange is for Anguish, Blue is for Insanity” by David Morrell

LAST EXIT FOR THE LOST by Tim Lebbon (Deluxe Signed Leather Bound Lettered Edition in Custom Traycase)

Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather

Book is in fine condition in like traycase

cover artwork by Les Edwards

About the Book:
From multi award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer Tim Lebbon comes this huge collection of the very best of his short fiction.

His first short fiction collection As the Sun Goes Down (Night Shade Book), attracted rave reviews. Now, Last Exit for the Lost collects the best of Lebbon’s output from 2000 to the present day. Weighing in at over 560 pages and containing 150,000 words of fiction, it also features two brand new, never-before-published stories: the novelette The Evolutionary, and the novella Nothing Heavenly.

• In Kissing at Shadows, a man makes a yearly journey through an apocalyptic landscape to visit the memory of his wife…
• In The Stuff of the Stars, Leaking, a dead sea creature washed up on a remote beach proves to be more mysterious than it first appears…
• A man loses his son… and he will do anything to get him back In Perpetuity…
• In The Horror of the Many Faces, Watson witnesses his friend Sherlock Holmes committing horrendous crimes that the great man himself would have trouble solving…
• A boy meets a mysterious stranger who can heal dead animals in The Evolutionary… but is there some fearful design to their meeting…?
• And captured by angels or demons, a prisoner can find Nothing Heavenly in either…

Lebbon has been described as “…the most exciting voice in the horror genre since Poppy Z Brite and Bentley Little”, “…the most exciting new name in horror for years”, and “…one of the very few genuinely talented British writers of thought-provoking horror and dark fantasy”.

If you’re brave enough to step through this Last Exit, you’ll see why…

STORIES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS by Michael Marano (Deluxe Signed Leather Bound Lettered Edition in Custom Traycase)

Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker

Book is in fine condition in a like traycase

Introduction by John Shirley

About the Book:
Stories from the Plague Years is the first fiction collection from award-winning fantasy author Michael Marano.

Nine tales are arranged in a haunting symphony that guides readers through a tour of the darkest landscapes of human existence. Here, fury and hate grow so strong, they cannot be held within one man’s body, and manifest themselves to devastating effect. Cities contain second, unseen cities populated by the vengeful ghosts of those who died too soon. Countries fall to famine and war.

But these are also the tales of love lasting beyond death, love existing beyond all hope, and friendships never forgotten. Included are the widely praised stories “Winter Requiem,” “The Siege,” and the controversial “Burden,” as well as two original novellas.

Marano, acclaimed for his evocative voice, paints lush portraits both terrifying and tender, injecting even the darkest of fantasies with a punk rock sensibility and a touch of the humane. With Stories from the Plague Years, he presents snapshots of a time when our world collided with evil, sickness, and self-destruction and left behind lasting scars on those who dared to survive.

KING BLOOD by Simon Clark (Deluxe Signed Leather Bound Lettered Edition in Traycase)

Traycased Hardcover Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather and Smyth sewn with a satin ribbon page marker

About the Book:

Warm
Rick Kennedy feels pretty good. Tonight there’s going to be the party of the summer. The brother he hasn’t seen for years has just flown in, and this is the night Rick plans to do something about Kate Robinson — the beautiful girl he just can’t get out of his mind. In the pleasant village of Fairburn the evening air is warm…

Warmer
And this is the night that Rick encounters the mysterious stranger in the woods.

Hot
Soon he wakes to find 30,000 refugees choking the streets. People are running for their lives. Only there’s nowhere to run.

Hotter
The ground heats up inexorably. Roads melt. Cities erupt into flame. Lakes boil. Pockets of natural gas explode like nuclear bombs and geysers of scalding water flood through whole communities.

Burning
Survivors search desperately for refuge in a landscape burning forever hotter beneath their feet. But they have yet to confront the Grey Men — and the demons inside themselves…

New, Rare and Interesting Items This Week at Miskatonic Bookstore

To get ordering information on any title just click on the cover art. Many of the books we carry are rare and we have a very limited quantity of. All books are sold on a first come first serve basis.

For the esoteric minded reader:

The Book of Abrasax. A Grimoire of the Hidden Gods by Michael Cecchetelli (Signed Leather Bound Limited Edition)

“The Book of Abrasax is concerned with operations of practical magic, and there are chapters on spacial, protective, amorous, wealth, curse, and transcendent operations. Cecchetelli sticks very close to the original texts from which he draws but is also not afraid of making changes, additions, and insertions when needed. This is actually the real genius of the book. Former attempts have stayed so close to the original that they omit things where the papyri is worn, and refuse to make even the most obvious changes for fear of not passing academic scrutiny. Mike understands that the needs of the academic and the needs of the magus are not always the same. He has the intelligence, wisdom, gnosis, and frankly daring to alter the text in accordance with the intended goal: producing a workable modern grimoire.”
-Inominandum-

This is a signed leather bound Practitioners Edition. This is number 55.

Book is in fine condition.

CHILDREN OF CAIN by Michael Howard (First Edition Hardcover)

The mid-twentieth century witnessed the birth of popular occultism in the West, including an interest in witchcraft. At the forefront of popular witchcraft was Wicca, a recension of ceremonial magic and nature worship advanced by Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders, now widely regarded as a religion. However, lesser-known streams of the witch-current thrived the shadows, having older historical roots, and linked to an ancient body of practice – witch-bottles, knotted cord spells, curses, exorcisms, sexual magic, and charms ranging from the conjuration of angels to protection of livestock and hearth.

This was Traditional Witchcraft, whose origin in part lies with the sorcery of the cunning-folk of Britain and Colonial America. Though largely avoiding the popular occult limelight, from 1970 onward, elements of Traditional Witchcraft experienced a partial emergence into the public through such publications as Paul Huson’s Mastering Witchcraft, the writings of Robert Cochrane and Evan John Jones, and Andrew Chumbley’s Azoëtia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft.

Based on over forty years of research and private collaboration with practitioners, Michael Howard’s Children of Cain is the definitive history of Traditional Witchcraft and its key operatives in Britain and the United States. Supplemented with diverse photographs and illustrations, many appearing for the first time, the book artfully encompasses the unique legacy of Traditional Witchcraft – those who bear the Mark of the Exile as a sign of hidden power: the Children of Cain.

Book is in new unread condition

THE DEVIL’S RAIMENTS by Martin Duffy (Limited Edition Hardcover)

In occult literature, the Vestments of the Art Magical are poorly understood, principally because few save the body of initiates behold them. The robe, mask, hood, mantle, garter, and veil, constituting the exterior arrayments of the witch, trace their pedigree to a number of magical sources, each constituting a mystery of form and function. These mystical underpinnings often possess a deeper arcanum, being both emblematic of specified witch-powers and serving a hidden ritual purpose. In ‘The Devil’s Raiments’, Martin Duffy examines the relationship of the sorcerer to that which clothes him, with particular emphasis on the witch-cult. Also explored is the modern perception of the witch as the Naked Enchantress, as well as some of the older historical rationales for the portrayal of nudity in witchcraft. The text is illustrated with five original drawings by Sussex artist Steve Damerell.

First edition. Octavo, hardcover with dust jacket. 96 pp. Limited edition of 800 copies only. Issued as Three Hands Press Occult Monograph No. 2. A fine copy, as new in dust jacket.

MYSTICISM: INITIATION AND DREAM by Andrew D. Chumbley (Limited Edition Hardcover)

Richmond Vista, CA, USA: Three Hands Press [ Xoanon ], 2012. First Edition Hardcover. 8vo. 56pp. Fine cloth spine, papered boards, gilt lettering to spine, bibliography. Standard hardcover edition, limited to 1,000 copies. A monograph by British occult author Andrew D. Chumbley (1967-2004).”Written as an undergraduate as SOAS University of London in 2001, “Mysticism: Initiation and Dream” would foreshadow the concerns of Andrew Chumbley’s later doctoral research on the transcendental nature of the magical dream. In the course of his exposition, the concepts of the Initiatic Dream are traced to furthest antiquity, epitomized by the participatory nature of the Mystic within the Oneiric Realm. The axiomata of Dream Reification and Rarefaction are introduced as defining processes of this twilight pilgrimage, both of a gnostic and illuminative character. At the time of his matriculation, Chumbley had already established a solid reputation as an occult author and practitioner of widely varying spiritual disciplines. His highly-acclaimed books Azoetia (1992) and Qutub (1995) arose not only from the solid foundation of magical practice and theory, but also from a highly complex mystical dream system, perfected for many years. Though forming the core of his coursework, Mysticism – together with the bulk of his SOAS essays – were written in a transcendent dialogist style altogether in concord with the body of his occult work.” NEW book, fine in fine dust jacket.

 WEST COUNTRY WITCHES by Michael Howard (Limited Edition Hardcover)

In this second volume in what is to be a four book series, the author examines the Craft sorcery and folklore of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset. Rich in folklore and folk traditions, the West Country has always had an aura of mystery and magic, and this is reflected in its past and the various races and their spiritual beliefs who have occupied it down the centuries.

Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition, limited Hardcover. 8vo. 224pp. Deluxe hardcover edition. Fine maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine and device to upper board. Brown endpapers. Title page and in-text llustrations, bibliography. A limited edition of 250 copies

 

For the Horror Fiction connoisseur:

THE WOMAN by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee (Deluxe Lettered Edition in Custom Traycase WITH BONUS NOVELLA!)

“He is, quite simply, one of the best in the business, on par with Clive Barker, James Ellroy, and Thomas Harris.”
— Stephen King

The Woman (Featuring A Brand New Bonus Novella!)
by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee

Update for Collectors:
The Lettered Edition sold out within 72 hours of being officially announced.

About the Book:
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?
About the Bonus Novella:
Cow by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee takes place a year after the novel ends, but to say anything else could spoil some of the surprises!

Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker

Book is in fine condition in like traycase

SERPENT GIRL by Ray Garton (Signed Lettered Edition Hardcover)

Steven Benedetti’s work has him driving the lonely highways at night, as it so often does. But tonight he passes a carnival and decides to stop for a break. At the carnival, Benedetti meets the Serpent Girl, a woman who stirs him like no other woman has, a woman who, like Benedetti, has a secret. They hit the night roads together and begin a journey that will change Benedetti forever.

Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker and extra full-color artwork

WICKED THINGS by Thomas Tessier (Deluxe Lettered Edition in Traycase)

This Cemetery Dance Limited Edition hardcover includes the bonus novella “Scramburg USA” by Thomas Tessier!

Update for Collectors:
The Lettered Edition sold out within 72 hours of being officially announced.

About the Book:
Private investigator Jack Carlson is traveling to the small, remote upstate city of Winship to look into a rash of suspicious insurance claims.

Like the farmer who accidentally blew himself up in a garnet mine, and the teenager who died in a peculiar car crash.

The Winship police and Medical Examiner appear cooperative but offer no real help.

Local insurance agent Joe Bellman is evasive and fearful.

And shortly after meeting Jack, both Bellman and his secretary Chris Innes turn up dead, an apparent case of murder-suicide.

Jack isn’t buying any of it.

As he pokes behind the Norman Rockwell exterior of Winship, he finds a place smoldering with crime, corruption and bizarre religious fervor. He becomes involved with a club dancer named Kelly, who may know some of the secrets but who may also be a mortal threat to Jack.

The town of Winship is itself part of the puzzle, a place where unseen choirs can be heard, where the ground appears to glow, creating confusion and mental disorder in anyone nearby, where gangs of young thugs roam free to bully and beat people.

A friend of Kelly’s disappears in an open meadow, as if swallowed up by the earth.

Behind it all may be a cherubic old priest, Father Jimmy.

And as Jack tries to unravel the growing number of mysteries — both criminal and mystical — he finds himself in a fight to save his own life, and sanity…

New and Rare Titles in the Store This Week

If you are interested in getting more information on any title below just click the cover art. Many of our titles are rare and in many cases we have only one copy. Books are always sold on a first come first serve basis.

We are always interested in hearing from our customers and readers. You can reach us at miskatonicbooks@me.com

We have one advance order this week and it is a good one:  TURNAROUND by Craig Spector (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

 

Eric Best’s world is changing… not just a piece here or there, really changing.

His monotonous day job working for an Internet search engine company leaves him unfulfilled, so he starts writing an exciting screenplay.

His wife isn’t happy with all of his time being monopolized, and their marriage is already a little rocky, but Eric is determined to finish what he started.

He’s becoming more and more invested in his work. He’s even having lucid dreams of his scripted universe… but more real.

Then he notices the changes.

Changes in his life that are impossible, wonderful, and even horrific…

Hardcover Limited Edition of 1000 signed copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn

Book is in new unread condition.

 

Continuing our building up the esoteric and occult section of our store we have some rare titles that just arrived.

 

HOWLINGS ed by Peter Grey (Limited Edition Hardcover)

Howlings comprises fourteen original and extensive essays which explore the grimoires. This was the first book of its kind, and helped set the modern grimoire magic revival alight.

These are passionate, informed and evocative pieces which create a unique testament to the vibrancy of the modern magickal current.

Howlings is an octavo book of two hundred and ten pages, four sumptuous colour plates, handsomely designed and bound in peacock blue and gilt stamped cloth in a limited second edition of 666 copies.

This edition is numbered sequentially from 334 to 999 inclusive.
The text remains the same as the first edition, though redesigned throughout.

Accounts, insights and speculations of working magickians from a whole range of traditions, this is a fascinating collection, now with a sequel, Diabolical.

Our writers pursue knowledge, power and wisdom through the pages of:

• Picatrix
• The Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of Solomon
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy
• Voudon Gnostic Workbook
• Lliber 231
• Qutub
• & the grimoire itself

Our esteemed writers are:

• David Rankine
• Donald Tyson
• Peter Grey
• David Beth
• Stafford Stone
• Paul Hughes-Barlow
• Krzysztof Azarewicz
• Jack Macbeth
• Thea Faye
• Aleq Grai
• Hafiz Batin

Book is in fine condition

 

The Authentic Red Dragon (Le Véritable Dragon Rouge) with The Black Hen (La Poule Noire) Translated by Joshua A. Wentworth (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

 

Le Véritable Dragon Rouge, or as it is more commonly known, Le Dragon Rouge (The Red Dragon) is one of the most notorious of the little books of black magic known as grimoires. This Teitan Press publication includes a complete facsimile of the earliest known edition – a French printing that is dated 1521 (although it was probably actually published in the early 1800s) – along with a complete English translation by Joshua A. Wentworth. It is prefaced with a thoughtful and sometimes humorous Introduction by Silens Manus.

The text of Le Dragon Rouge is typical of grimoires of the time, and is clearly related to the Grand Grimoire. Its anonymous author claims that the work is derived from the wisdom of the legendary King Solomon, and then sets down instructions for the creation of a number of magical implements: blasting rod (wand), talisman and magic circle, that are to be used to summon the demon “Lucifugé Rofocale,” who is then bound over to serve the sorcerer. In the process a great many sub-demons are named, and their attributes listed. This is followed by a series of magic spells or recipes for various purposes; from making oneself invisible, to winning the affections of another, to the cure of various common ailments. The book ends with a chart of lucky and unlucky days and a short version of the treasure-finding text known as La Poule Noire (The Black Hen). Le Dragon Rouge was very popular in early nineteenth century France, going through a number of clandestine and semi-clandestine printings, and is still said to be one of the most highly revered magic texts in certain Voodoo circles in Haiti.

The book is a hardcover, small octavo sized (7 1/4″ x 5 1/4″) 208pp. Sewn, printed on acid-free paper. Bound in heavy black cloth with a gilt dragon design on the front cover, and gilt title to the spine. Red “coffin silk” endpapers. Rubricated titles and frontispieces, black and white illustrations. Edition limited to 800 numbered copies. Signed on an attached bookplate by Silens Manus who does the introduction.

Book is in fine condition

 

THE KABBALAH OF THE GOLDEN DAWN (preface by S.L. MacGregor Mathers) by Westcott, W. Wynn (Golden Dawn Studies Series #15) Chapbook

The author of The Kabbalah of the Golden Dawn is W. Wynn Westcott Preface by MacGregor An excellent source for Westcott’s Kabbalistic philosophy drawn from letters and Edited by Darcy Golden Dawn series.

Chapbook is in fine condition

 

ENOCHIAN EXPERIMENTS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN by Florence Farr (Golden Dawn Studies Vol 7) Chapbook

 

The experiments Farr conducted with the Sphere Group in 1901 with the events and experiences chronicled in her diary. Keys to the Enochian Language; a corrected Holy Table; and a rare full page plate also are included.

Chapbook is in fine condition

 

THE GOLDEN DAWN AMERICAN SOURCE BOOK by Paul Foster Case (Golden Dawn Studies Series #15) Chapbook

This work contains the most significant letters and documents pertaining to the Order’s history in America. The Paul Foster Case correspondence is most interesting. Compiled and edited by Darcy Kuntz. Golden Dawn series 15.

Chapbook is in fine condition

Some Great New Advance Orders!

We have a new batch of fantastic advance orders recently announced.

WORLD WAR Z: THE DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION by Max Brooks (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

“The end was near.” — Voices from the Zombie War

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.

Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?”

Special Features Exclusive to this Collector’s Edition:
• epic cover artwork by Caniglia
• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the edition you’ll see in bookstores — and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!

Hardcover Limited Edition of 948 signed copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with a satin ribbon page marker and featuring a full-color signature sheet

 

THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE: THE DELUXE EDITION by Max Brooks (Signed Limited Edition)

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.

op 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don’t need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.

Hardcover Limited Edition of 948 signed copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with a satin ribbon page marker.

 

MASS FOR MIXED VOICES by Charles Beaumont (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

Remember that Twilight Zone episode? The one that gave you nightmares? Chances are it was written by Charles Beaumont. In a career that lasted only thirteen years before his premature death in 1967, Beaumont’s tales of horror, suspense and wonder established him as a master — stories which have appeared in magazines as diverse as Playboy, Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post, Mystery Digest, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Here is the definitive Charles Beaumont, a collection of short fiction which showcases the magic of this writer’s truly extraordinary imagination. Of the forty-two stories in this volume, eighteen are selected and prefaced by America’s top authors of fantasy and suspense, including Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Ray Russell, Jerry Sohl, Dennis Etchison, Douglas Heyes, and many others. They offer illuminating tributes to Beaumont — as a friend, a colleague, and a man whose creative talents left an indelible stamp on modern fiction, and on their imaginations.

This collection also features a new biographical introduction by editor Roger Anker, new artwork by David Ho, and a foreword by Beaumont’s son, Christopher. Once read, these stories are impossible to forget. Share the magic. Meet Beaumont.

Limited to 250 copies

Each signed by editor Roger Anker, Christopher Beaumont, and cover artist David Ho.
Comprehensive introduction, with many photographs, by Roger Anker.
Previous hardcover and paperback edition of Beaumont’s works, reprinted in color.
Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, sewn binding, rounded back, and other extras.

 

RUN FROM THE HUNTER by Charles Beaumont (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

It was a Festival for Death. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of Mardi Gras, murder lurked in masquerade, and a man — the wrong man — was being tracked like a tiger through every street and alley of the godforsaken town.

Written by Charles Beaumont and John Tomerlin in the mid-Fifties under the joint pseudonym of “Keith Grantland,” Run from the Hunter is a crime-suspense thriller.

Framed for the murder of Steffany Fontaine, the novel’s protagonist, Chris Adams is being taken to prison when he escapes, returns to the scene of the crime, and, while hunted by the police, searches for Steffany’s real killer. Every street and alley, however, will lead him to the place where the killers wait.

This hardcover edition, which features a new introduction by John Tomerlin, and new artwork by J.K. Potter, marks not only the novel’s first appearance since 1960, but also the first appearance of this important work under the byline of Beaumont and Tomerlin.

This book also includes the Beaumont-Tomerlin short story “Moon in Gemini,” which concerns a young expectant mother’s despairing journey into paranoia.

Limited to 200 copies

Each signed by John Tomerlin and J.K. Potter, with a facsimile signature by Charles Beaumont.
Full color wraparound dustjacket art by J.K. Potter.
Insightful introduction by John Tomerlin.
Bonus short story, “Moon in Gemini.”
Previous hardcover and paperback edition of Run from the Hunter, reprinted in color.
Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, sewn binding, and other extras.

 

THE INTRUDER by Charles Beaumont (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

Shortly after a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, a stranger arrives in Caxton — a small southern town peacefully awaiting the integration of its all-white high school. Adam Cramer, a polite, threateningly smooth-talking young Northerner, has come to persuade this community to work against the new segregation laws. Within days, he stirs the white residents to violence in order to play his own personal power games. By the time he leaves town, mob action, riots, bombings, and attacks on integrationists had become commonplace, turning neighbor against neighbor, husband against wife, white against black.

But The Intruder is more than just the story of one man and the trouble he brings. It is a fascinating portrait of a southern town in the mid-1950s, an exciting novel dramatizing the problems of sociological change, civil rights, and, ultimately, the changing face of America.

This edition of The Intruder marks the novel’s first appearance since 1962, and features a new introduction by Beaumont biographer Roger Anker, who presents an insightful look into the history behind the novel and its subsequent film. Also included is a new, illustrated afterward by Beaumont associate William F. Nolan (co-author of Logan’s Run), who recalls his role in the film, in which he plays a small town bigot.

Limited to 200 copies

Each signed by editor Roger Anker, William F. Nolan, and cover artist J.K. Potter.
Comprehensive introduction by Roger Anker.
Insightful afterword by William F. Nolan, illustrated with Nolan’s own photographs.
Previous hardcover and paperback edition of The Intruder, reprinted in color.
Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, sewn binding, rounded back, and other extras.

This weeks, new, rare and interesting items!

We’ve had a lot of titles come into the store this week along with the announcement of a few exciting, soon to ship advance orders from Cemetery Dance

STILL DEAD: BOOK OF THE DEAD 2 edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector (Signed Limited Edition) Dan Simmons, Tom Savini and More!

An anthology of horror stories based on the universe of George A. Romero features stories by Dan Simmons, Nancy Collins, Douglas Winter, and Bram Stoker Award-winner Elizabeth Massie, and includes the lost original script for Romero’s Day of the Dead!

This is a signed limited edition hardcover in custom slipcase. Book is signed by all contributors and is limited to only 500 copies and is in fine condition.

Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2

Foreword by Tom Savini
“Introduction: Nineteen New Ways to Kick Ass” by Skipp and Spector
“The Old Man and the Dead” by Mort Castle
“DONt/Walk” by Chan McConnell
“Necrophile” by Nancy A. Collins
“Rise Up and Walk” by K. W. Jeter
“One Step at a Time” by Glen Vasey
“The Ones You Love” by Skipp and Spector
“This Year’s Class Picture” by Dan Simmons
“Night of the Living Dead Bingo Women” by Simon McCaffery
“Abed” by Elizabeth Massie
“Come One, Come All” by Gahan Wilson
“The Prince of Nox” by Kathe Koja
“Beer Run” by Gregory Nicoll
“Prayer” by Douglas Morningstar and Maxwell Hart
“Calcutta, Lord of Nerves” by Poppy Z. Brite
“I Walk Alone” by Roberta Lannes
“Undiscovered Countries” by J. S. Russell
“Moon Towers” by Brooks Caruthers
“Passion Play” by Nancy Holder
“Bright Lights, Big Zombie” by Douglas E. Winter

BY BIZARRE HANDS by Joe R. Lansdale (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover in Slipcase)

This is the author’s first collection of horror stories .sixteen in all plus an introduction by Lewis Shiner ,interior illustrations by Mark Nelson and a perfect dustjacket illustration by J.K. Potter. “These are the kinds of stories one reads compulsively – helplessly enthralled by their seductive allure ,their perversions and truths ,their violence and centered peace.”

Bound in black cloth with red foil spine titles in matching black cloth slipcase which also has red foil spine titles.Issued in a limited signed and numbered edition of 500 copies of which this is #374/500 signed on the limitation page by Joe R. Lansdale by all.

Book is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket. Also includes a custom slipcase.

Two new advance orders announced by Cemetery Dance

OUT OF THE STORM by William Hope Hodgson (1st Edition Hardcover)

Seven stories by William Hope Hodgson, a supreme master of imaginative horror are here collected for the first time in hardcover.

This story collection contains:

• A Tropical Horror
• The Finding of the Graiken
• Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani
• The Terror of the Water Tank
• The Albatross
• The Haunting of the Lady Shannon
• Out of the Storm
• Biography of the author by Sam Moskowitz

Book is in near fine condition in a near fine dust jacket.

MORE THAN MIDNIGHT by Brian James Freeman (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

Featuring an exclusive introduction by Michael Koryta, cover artwork by Vincent Chong, and original interior illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne

About the Book:
This collection features five tales of horror by Brian James Freeman that deal with both real and supernatural terrors. It explores locations you would never think to look in because sometimes we find our darkest demons in the most unexpected places.

• In “What They Left Behind,” a young man discovers something lurking in the basement of the old office building his father-in-law has purchased in a last ditch effort to save the family business. This thing in the basement is evil and it’s very, very hungry.

• In “The Final Lesson” you’ll meet Ronald, a mild-mannered high school teacher who has never lifted his hand in anger, but there is a darkness inside him, which has been building and boiling since his wife was brutally murdered… and he might not be able to control himself when he learns more about why she died.

• A family man discovers there are monsters taking over the world in “Among Us,” but he also learns that a chosen few can fight back if they’re willing to sacrifice everything they’ve ever known and loved.

• As “Pulled Into Darkness” opens, Edward is certain of only one thing in life: eventually his wife will find a way to kill him. Her previous failures won’t stop her from trying again and again until she succeeds… and tonight one of them won’t be leaving the house alive.

• Finally, a lonely young man’s very unusual job is taking a heavy toll on him in “Answering the Call.” He stays in the homes of the deceased during their funerals to answer the phone, receive deliveries, and deter thieves who might have seen the obituary in the newspaper. The young man has witnessed a lot of strange things over the years in the homes of the dead, and today his job will truly become a matter of life and death…

These five stories showcase Freeman’s dazzling virtuosity and imagination as his characters descend into the depths of madness. Find out why Richard Matheson has called his writing “spooky stuff” and why Stewart O’Nan has said his stories have “great velocity and impact.” There is darkness all around us, and Freeman isn’t afraid to shine a light onto the things that scare us the most.

Hardcover Limited Edition of 750 signed (by Brian James Freeman, Michael Koryta, and Glenn Chadbourne) copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn

INDIAN SUMMER by Rick Hautala (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

It’s Friday, October 6th, the third day in a row the temperature has hit the high eighties. A genuine Indian summer heat wave.

Twelve year-old Billy Crowell and his friends are playing homerun derby at Pingree Park when the town’s fire horn starts honking. Everyone stops and counts the series of toots and they decipher the code: there’s a forest fire approaching town.

Billy and his friends join the firefighters as they attempt to protect their town from the raging forest fire, but the fire isn’t the only danger in the forest. Soon Billy is separated from the group, disoriented and lost. Daylight is fading fast and the forest is growing darker by the minute.

Before too long, Billy stumbles upon the mutilated corpse of a deer, and the true horrors of the woods are soon chasing after him as night consumes the land…

Hardcover Limited Edition of 750 copies signed by the author, bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn

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Two Signed Limited Edition Hardcovers by Bill Pronzini Announced!

Femme (A Nameless Detective Novella) by Bill Pronzini signed limited edition.

Hardcover Limited Edition of 400 signed copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn

About the book:

Femme fatale. French for “deadly woman.”

You hear the term a lot these days, usually in connection with noir fiction and film noir. But they’re not just products of literature or film, the folklore of nearly every culture. They exist in modern society, too. The genuine femme fatales you hear about now and then are every bit as evil as the fictional variety. Yet what sets them apart is that they’re the failures, the ones who for one reason or another got caught. For every one of those, there must be several times as many who get away with their destructive crimes...

In the thirty years the Nameless Detective has been a private investigator, he has never once had the misfortune to cross paths with this type of seductress… but in Femme he’ll meet Cory Beckett, a deadly woman who has brought some new angles to the species. New—and terrible.

 

Kinsmen (A Nameless Detective Novella) by Bill Pronzini signed limited edition hardcover

 

Hardcover Limited Edition of 400 signed copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn

About the Book:

Allison Shay was traveling home from the University of Oregon with her new boyfriend, Rob Compton, when their car broke down near the tiny rural town of Creekside, California. Soon after, Allison and Rob went missing without a trace.

Whatever happened, it felt like something bad to the Nameless Detective. Five days without a whisper of contact with the outside world. Long past the inconsiderate-kids stage; long past the silly and the harmless.

Kinsmen takes Bill Pronzini’s classic private investigator to California’s northeast backwoods, where an isolated community is determined to keep a deep, dark secret: why Allison Shay and Rob Compton really vanished.

The real question facing the Nameless Detective: are they still alive?

Two Exciting New Preorders Announced

WEAVEWORLD: 25 ANNIVERSARY EDITION by Clive Barker (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

Earthling celebrates 25 years of Clive Barker’s Weaveworld with the definitive edition of this dark fantasy masterwork. Weaveworld: 25th Anniversary Edition will be released late 2012 in a modest print run consisting of gift, numbered, and lettered editions:

hand numbered 1-350; signed by Clive Barker and illustrator Richard Kirk; leatherbound; fine endsheets; bound-in satin ribbon page marker; traycased; includes bonus appendix material printed in full color: previously unreleased art as well as an early treatment/synopsis and original typed and hand-edited manuscript pages for Weaveworld when it was inititally conceived as a children’s book

feature new typesetting and design, two-color offset printing on fine paper (likely 80# Finch), 7×10 inch oversized pages, and smyth sewing…and nearly 30 original pieces of art by Richard Kirk, who has illustrated other projects by Clive Barker as well as Earthling releases by China Mieville and Christopher Golden.

Time magazine calls Weaveworld “an irresistible yarn,” and Peter Straub says it is “pure dazzle, pure storytelling.” This 25th anniversary edition of Weaveworld will undoubtedly be the one to own and experience.

THE TWELVE by Justin Cronin (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

Deluxe Oversized Hardcover Limited Edition of 948 signed and hand-numbered copies bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with a satin ribbon page marker and featuring a full-color signature sheet

In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong.

With The Twelve, the story continues…

n the present day:
As a man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos, desperate to find others, to survive, to witness the dawn on the other side of disaster.

Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, has been so broken by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child’s arrival even as society dissolves around her.

Kittridge, known to the world as “Last Stand in Denver,” has been forced by loss of electrical power to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far.

April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a minefield of death and ruin.

These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned—and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights.

One hundred years in the future:
Amy, Peter, Alicia, and the others introduced in The Passage work with a cast of new characters to hunt the original twelve virals… unaware that the rules of the game have changed, and that one of them will have to sacrifice everything to bring the Twelve down.

The scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic tale of sacrifice and survival begun in The Passage surges forward in this breathtaking sequel.

Special Features Exclusive to this Collector’s Edition:
• epic cover artwork by Tomislav Tikulin
• at least ONE DOZEN black & white interior illustrations by Jill Bauman
• deluxe oversized design with a fine binding
• Smyth sewn with a bound-in satin ribbon page marker
• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the edition you’ll see in bookstores — and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!