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Posted in Miskatonic Books with tags , , , , on February 26, 2013 by miskatonicbooks

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THE COMPLETE SYMPHONIES OF ADOLF HITLER & OTHER STRANGE STORIES by Reggie Oliver (Signed Trade Paperback) Import

A man buys a CD bearing the title The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and finds himself dogged by a mysterious stranger. . . . A nun in eighteenth-century France acquires an inconvenient gift of prophesy. . . . An amateur dramatics group turns out to be something far more sinister. . . . An aristocrat tries to exploit a haunted room at his country seat, but has the tables turned on him by a member of the royal family. . . .
The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler is Reggie Oliver’s second collection of ‘strange stories’. It is now republished with new illustrations. Oliver’s characteristic wit, style, shrewd observation of humanity, and sense of place and time are all in evidence. He also has the simple gift of knowing how to tell a good story. As Glen Cavaliero says in his introduction ‘no one story is like another’, but they all point to the dark metaphysical currents that lurk beneath the surface of our daily lives.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.

The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler & Other Strange Stories is a paperback of 338 + ix pages.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.

Contents:

  • Introduction by Glen Cavaliero
  • The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler
  • Lapland Nights
  • The Garden of Strangers
  • Among the Tombs
  • The Skins
  • The Sermons of Dr Hodnet
  • Magus Zoroaster
  • The Time of Blood
  • Parma Violets
  • Difficult People
  • The Constant Rake
  • The Blue Room
  • A Nightmare Sang
  • The Babe of the Abyss
  • Bloody Bill
  • A Christmas Card

Our copies come with the authors own signed bookplate tipped in. Book is in fine condition.

 

RUPETTA by Nike Sulway (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

Cover artwork by Timothy Parker Russell

Four hundred years ago, in a small town in rural France, a young woman creates the future in the shape of Rupetta. Part mechanical, part human, Rupetta’s consciousness is tied to the women who wind her. In the years that follow she is bought and sold, bor-rowed, forgotten and revered. By the twentieth century, the Rupettan four-fold law rules everyone’s lives, but Rupetta—the immortal being on whose existence and history those laws are based—is the keeper of a secret that will tear apart the world her followers have built in her name.
This stunning new novel by award-winning Australian writer Nike Sulway invokes the great tradition of European fantasy/horror fiction and moves it forward in a superbly imaginative, highly original fashion.

Rupetta is a sewn hardback of 352 pages, printed lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.

Our copies are signed by the author.

 

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.

 

New, Rare and Notable

Posted in Miskatonic Books with tags , , , , on July 24, 2012 by miskatonicbooks

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HIS NAME WAS DEATH by Fredric Brown (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover)

This is an advanced order.

Any lucky amateur can do away with family. But it takes a professional to kill an almost perfect stranger. Fiendishly convoluted, His Name Was Death is a tale of geometrically multiplying homicides and a foolproof murder whose repercussions keep spreading to consume victim after victim.
Wickedly funny, His Name Was Death is widely considered to be one of Fredric Brown’s best suspense novels. This edition features a new introduction by Ed Gorman, a color cover by Gwabryel, and is signed by Gorman and Gwabryel.
Full color dustjacket on Mohawk Carnival Felt with black Brillianta cloth, ribbon marker, and a return of our full color illustration inlay on the front board. Each signature page has a drawing by Gwabryel.

Limited to 200 copies, each signed by Ed Gorman and illustrator Gwabryel.
Introduction by Ed Gorman.
Includes two bonus short stories.
Gwabryel has drawn a remarque on each of the signature pages.
Ribbon marker, color dustjacket, head and tail bands, rayon cloth construction and a full-color image inlay on the front board

 

The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories by Reggie Oliver (Signed Trade Paperback)

Variety and originality of setting, strength of characterisation, stylistic elegance and narrative power are qualities for which Reggie Oliver has become well-known in his five volumes of ‘strange stories’. All are present in this groundbreaking debut volume, first published in 2003. It was a nominee for best collection of 2003 in the International Horror Guild Awards.
A doomed relationship in a seaside town that persists after death. . . . A convent in which there is always the unacknowledged presence of an extra nun. . . . A balding actor who acquires a mysterious wig after his rival goes missing. . . . A brilliant inventor who becomes trapped inside his own sinister computer game. . . . A sixteenth-century cardinal who is tormented by dreams of the sect he has persecuted.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.
The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories contains: “Author’s Note”, “Beside the Shrill Sea”, “Feng Shui”, “In Arcadia”, “Evil Eye”, “Miss Marchant’s Cause”, “Tiger in the Snow”, “Garden Gods”, “The Black Cathedral” ,”The Boy in Green Velvet”, “The Golden Basilica”, “Death Mask”, “The Seventeenth Sister”, “The Copper Wig”, “The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini”.

The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories is a paperback of 333 pages, printed lithographically.

 

Some Edward Lee Rarities!

MASKS by Edward Lee and Jack Ketchum (Signed Deluxe Lettered Edition)

A beautiful and very rare copy of the Lettered Edition of MASKS by Edward Lee and Jack Ketchum.

This is a very rare “PC” copy of the hardcover lettered edition of MASKS. This edition is also inscribed on the title page by Jack Ketchum and signed “Dallas” his real name rather than his pseudonym Jack Ketchum. This edition is also signed by Edward Lee, and illustrator Erik Wilson.

Book is in fine unread condition.

OF PIGS & SPIDERS by Edward Lee, John Pelan, David Niall Wilson, Brett Savory (Signed Deluxe Lettered Edition)

One of only 52 signed lettered edition hardcover copies. This is letter “II” of 52. This copy is signed by all contributors. Book is in fine unread condition.

For Mature Audiences Only. These two tales take an untraditional look at cute and cuddly barnyard animals. Wilson and Savory’s “That’s Some Pig” combines a dysfunctional family, stuffed animals, disembowelment and green jello. Lee and Pelan’s “Charlie’s Web” poignantly deals with Chaldean sorcery, alternative sex practices, and a plumber’s nightmare in a white trash hell. Not for the squeamish. Barf bag not included.

 

KILL THE ENEMY and BOMB by Edward Lee (2 volume slipcased hardcover edition)

Hardcover set consists of two separate chapbooks, “Bomb” and “Kill the Enemy”, with the extra story “Driving”, housed in a custom slipcase and limited to 75 copies.

Both books are numbered 15 of 75 and are housed in a custom slipcase.

Bomb -and- Kill the Enemy by Edward Lee
Cover Art by Glenn Chadbourne

The next chapbooks in our chapbook line…..
The first, “Bomb” is Ed Lee’s first, last and only Love Story!
The second chapbook, “Kill the Enemy”, a wonderful never-before-published story about the horrors of war. The second chapbook also includes an extra story only available in the hardcover edition entitled “Driving”

 

Thomas Ligotti and Reggie Oliver Almost Sold Out and a New Titles Announced by Tartarus Press

Posted in Miskatonic Books with tags , , on October 5, 2011 by miskatonicbooks

We wanted to bring your attention to two important titles that are already sold out at the publisher and we are down to only a couple copies remaining.  If you haven’t reserved your copies do so soon.  You can always use the “bill me” at check out on all advance orders so you don’t have to pay until the book is read to ship, each order gets 5% back in points and only $5 shipping no matter what size the order.

THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN by Thomas Ligotti limited edition hardcover.

This new edition of Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant vignettes is a cause for celebration. Not only has the text been substantially revised by Thomas Ligotti, but artist Harry O. Morris has created eleven new artworks for the book. The text is gorgeously set and designed. Each copy is signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
The book also has a new introduction by Ligotti. It comes bound in printed cloth with a back panel velvet cloth, two ribbon markers, and is housed in a handsome slipcase.
The edition is limited to 500 copies for sale.

  • Limited to 500 copies, each signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
  • New introduction by Thomas Ligotti.
  • Substantially revised texts.
  • New artwork, all printed in full color.
  • Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.
  • Two-color cloth slipcase.

 

MRS MIDNIGHT AND OTHER STORIES by Reggie Oliver (Limited Edition Hardcover)

A TV reality show host helps to restore an East End music hall and uncovers the dreadful secret of Mrs Midnight and her Animal Comedians. . . . A historian travels to Switzerland to ghost the autobiography of an exiled Balkan king and encounters a sinister cult. . . . The Master of an Oxford college tries to introduce a dubious piece of modern sculpture into his college chapel with dire consequences. . . . A strange meeting takes place on a playing field between an officer on leave from the trenches and his former headmaster. . . .
The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver’s fifth collection of ‘strange’ stories are as varied and unusual as ever, though, as in previous volumes, the theatre forms the milieu of a number of his tales. But the theatres are not just English ones, in the provinces and the West End: one is on the Black Sea; another in post-colonial Kenya. Themes are equally varied, but underlying all is a deep sense of the spiritual under-currents just below the surface of everyday existence, and the precariousness of ‘normality’.
‘…by miles, the best living exponent of the spooky yarn,’ Barry Humphries.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.

Mrs Midnight and Other Stories contains:

  • “Mrs Midnight”
  • “Countess Otho”
  • “Meeting with Mike”
  • “The Dancer in the Dark”
  • “Mr Pigsny”
  • “The Brighton Redemption”
  • “You Have Nothing to Fear”
  • “The Philosophy of the Damned”
  • “The Mortlake Manuscript”
  • “The Look”
  • “The Giacometti Crucifixion”
  • “A Piece of Elsewhere”
  • “Minos or Rhadamanthus”

Mrs Midnight and Other Stories is a sewn hardback of 381 pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 400 copies.

 

Newly announced from Tartarus Press CLARIMONDE AND OTHER STORIES by Theophile Gautier (Limited Edition Hardcover)

If you appreciate supernatural French Decadence, then you need look no further than Clarimonde and Other Stories by Théophile Gautier. A pioneer of the genre, Gautier (1811-1872) garnered his initial enthusiasm for supernatural literature from the stories of E.TA. Hoffman, adding an erotic effusiveness all his own. Gautier’s trail-blazing manifesto for Romanticism was taken up by numerous other writers, most notably by Charles Baudelaire, who in 1857 dedicated Les Fleurs du mal to him.

The twelve stories in this volume repre-sent the best of Gautier’s fantastic tales and deal with a wide range of supernatural phenomena, including identity exchange (in ‘Avatar’), vampirism, time travel, the evil eye, and the decadence of ancient Egypt (in ‘One of Cleopatra’s Nights’). Most of the translations are by the Irish-American writer Lafcadio Hearn, and retain the ardent extravagance of Gautier’s original French style.

As Brian Stableford says in his new Introduction, ‘Gautier remains . . . a key writer in the evolution of fantastic fiction from its Gothic roots to its psychological sophistication, whose importance in the middle part of the nineteenth century . . . deserves to be ranked second [only to Poe].’

Clarimonde and Other Stories contains:

  • ‘Introduction’ by Brian Stableford,
  • ‘Onuphrius’
  • ‘Two Actors for One Part’
  • ‘Omphale’, ‘Clarimonde’
  • ‘One of Cleopatra’s Nights’
  • ‘The Opium Pipe’
  • ‘The Duplicated Knight’
  • ,‘The Mummy’s Foot’
  • ‘King Candaules’
  • ‘Arria Marcella’
  • ‘Jettatura’
  • ‘Avatar’, and various addenda.

Clarimonde and Other Stories is a sewn hardback of 366+xiii pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 300 copies.
Publication 21st October 2011

 

New Reggie Oliver Title Announced

Posted in Horrorgy, Miskatonic Books with tags , on August 26, 2011 by miskatonicbooks

MRS MIDNIGHT AND OTHER STORIES by Reggie Oliver (Limited Edition Import)

Click here for ordering information: MRS MIDNIGHT

A TV reality show host helps to restore an East End music hall and uncovers the dreadful secret of Mrs Midnight and her Animal Comedians. . . . A historian travels to Switzerland to ghost the autobiography of an exiled Balkan king and encounters a sinister cult. . . . The Master of an Oxford college tries to introduce a dubious piece of modern sculpture into his college chapel with dire consequences. . . . A strange meeting takes place on a playing field between an officer on leave from the trenches and his former headmaster. . . .
The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver’s fifth collection of ‘strange’ stories are as varied and unusual as ever, though, as in previous volumes, the theatre forms the milieu of a number of his tales. But the theatres are not just English ones, in the provinces and the West End: one is on the Black Sea; another in post-colonial Kenya. Themes are equally varied, but underlying all is a deep sense of the spiritual under-currents just below the surface of everyday existence, and the precariousness of ‘normality’.
‘…by miles, the best living exponent of the spooky yarn,’ Barry Humphries.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.

Mrs Midnight and Other Stories contains:

  • “Mrs Midnight”
  • “Countess Otho”
  • “Meeting with Mike”
  • “The Dancer in the Dark”
  • “Mr Pigsny”
  • “The Brighton Redemption”
  • “You Have Nothing to Fear”
  • “The Philosophy of the Damned”
  • “The Mortlake Manuscript”
  • “The Look”
  • “The Giacometti Crucifixion”
  • “A Piece of Elsewhere”
  • “Minos or Rhadamanthus”.
  • With illustrations by the author.

Mrs Midnight and Other Stories is a sewn hardback of 381 pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.

Four Centipede Press Titles in Stock and Shipping

Posted in Horrorgy, Miskatonic Books with tags , , , on January 23, 2011 by miskatonicbooks

DRAMAS FROM THE DEPTHS by Reggie Oliver (Signed limited Edition)

This 900 page collection of Reggie Oliver’s ghost stories and supernatural fiction contains the entire contents of his first three books, including two that are now scarce and hard to find.
This edition also sports a number of Reggie Oliver’s drawings, many of which are presented for the first time. This is going to be the standard for all of Oliver’s books: gorgeous design, stunning type work, all of the fiction, a handful of critical essays, oversize format. Each copy is signed by Reggie Oliver.

 

MASTERS OF THE WEIRD TALE: Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps the finest, certainly one of the earliest, writers of classic weird tales, Edgar Allan Poe is sometimes overshadowed by 20th century practitioners. Nevertheless, his handling of psychological depth is unmatched in the field.
This major collection features all of Poe’s horror, detective, and science fiction, and includes the complete Poe illustrations of Harry Clarke, Fritz Eichenberg, Gustave Doré, Virgil Finlay, Gahan Wilson, and Arthur Rackham, among others, including some new and fine color paintings by Swiss-artist Gwabryel. Bound in three-piece cloth with ribbon marker, translucent overlays, and enclosed in a cloth slipcase.

 

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE WEIRD TALES CIRCLE

Conversations with the Weird Tales Circle is a massive, oversize, celebration of the lives of H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Seabury Quinn, E. Hoffmann Price, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Lee Brown Coye, Hannes Bok, August Derleth, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and many others. Each writer has their own section in the book, complete with a custom drawing of the author by noted artist Alex McVey.
The sections contain letters and essays by the writers, with many interviews and memoirs about the writers, often by other writers from the Circle. With dozens of color and black & white photographs, and many of the articles never before reprinted (several coming from 1930s and 1940s fanzines that are now very difficult to find), this is an important and illuminating look at a group of people that defined an era. There is also a lengthy article on Weird Tales cover art with full-color reprints on nearly fifty Weird Tales covers, many of them printed at full page size. Essential for every fantasy and horror fan.
The book is a large sewn hardcover measuring 7 × 12 inches, over two inches thick, with 754 pages, with an image by Stephen Hickman printed on the front cover cloth, and black cloth on the spines and back. The book is rounded, with head and tail bands, and a ribbon marker, with black endsheets.

SLOB by Rex Miller

Slob was a momentous book in the field, Rex Miller’s story of the quarter-ton serial killer “Chaingang,” and it inspired a couple sequels. Ray Garton has supplied the introduction, Harry O. Morris provided the cover art. There is also a rare essay by Rex Miller at the back of the book, never before reprinted in book form. Limited to just 200 numbered copies, each book is signed by Ray Garton and Harry O. Morris.

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