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The Language of Dying [hc]
novella by Sarah Pinborough
publication date: Mid 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301828

Synopsis / Contents:

Sarah Pinborough is the British author of five horror novels and her sixth, Feeding Ground, is due out from Leisure books in October 2009. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and she has also written aTorchwood novel Into the Silence for BBC Books (May 09). She is currently working on A Matter of Blood, the first of a supernatural thriller trilogy for Gollancz, which will be in all good UK book shops in 2010.

Sarah has twice been short-listed for the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel and when she's not writing she can normally be found laughing with friends and drinking wine, probably with a cat in her lap.

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The Language of Dying [jhc]
novella by Sarah Pinborough
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]
Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301835

Darkness on the Edge [hc]
anthology by Edited by Harrison Howe
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301774

Synopsis / Contents:

Creativity is something like magic. One form might feed the other, providing inspiration, sparking ideas, fueling the creative juices. For the authors contained within this unique anthology, the source of inspiration was the music of Bruce Springsteen. Themes, lines, song titles . . . whatever it took to draw these stories into life.

So many of Springsteen's songs bring you close to the edge of a darkness where uncertainty reigns - a darkness not just on the edge of town but of our hearts and minds . . . the darkness between child and adulthood, perhaps; or between courage and fear; marriage and divorce; even confidence and self-doubt. These nineteen authors nudge us closer to an answer . . . and let us see what really is stirring out there in the shadows.

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Darkness on the Edge [sc]
anthology by Edited by Harrison Howe
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]
Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301781

The Black Heart [hc]
collection by Patrick O'Leary
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301804

Synopsis / Contents:

The Black Heart is a collection of Patrick O'Leary's newest stories. Here you will find aliens and apocalypses, God and Satan, witches and geishas, madonnas and mutes, birds and bears, zoos and prisons, weeping robots and knights who work in hardware, pardons and orgasms, men without legs and aliens without hearts. In short, pretty much your standard O'Leary stash...
"Funny and moving…a distinctive new voice in the field." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"Zany, serious, unclassifiable and delightful." -- Kathleen Ann Goonan
"Luminous and constantly surprising." Locus
"Read (it) while you still have the mind it is guaranteed to blow." - James Morrow

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The Black Heart [jhc]
collection by Patrick O'Leary
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]
Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301811

Just Behind You [hc]
collection by Ramsey Campbell
publication date: Late 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-84863-039-0

Synopsis / Contents:

"The stepping stones looked so close together he didn't have to stretch to walk. Only he was on the middle two when he felt them start to move. And when he looked down he saw the stream was really as deep as the sky, and lying on the bottom was a giant made out of rocks and moss that was holding up its arms to him. They were longer than he didn't know how many trees stuck together, and their hands were as big as the roots of an old tree, and he was standing on top of two of the fingers. Then the giant's eyes began to open like boulders rolling about in the mud, and its mouth opened like a cave and sent up a laugh in a bubble that spattered the boy with mud, and the stones he was on started to move apart..."

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Just Behind You [jhc]
collection by Ramsey Campbell
publication date: Late 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]
Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-84863-040-6

Synopsis / Contents:

This Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover edition includes the previously unpublished story, 'Safe Words'

Just Behind You

"The stepping stones looked so close together he didn't have to stretch to walk. Only he was on the middle two when he felt them start to move. And when he looked down he saw the stream was really as deep as the sky, and lying on the bottom was a giant made out of rocks and moss that was holding up its arms to him. They were longer than he didn't know how many trees stuck together, and their hands were as big as the roots of an old tree, and he was standing on top of two of the fingers. Then the giant's eyes began to open like boulders rolling about in the mud, and its mouth opened like a cave and sent up a laugh in a bubble that spattered the boy with mud, and the stones he was on started to move apart..."

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Creatures of the Pool [hc]
novel by Ramsey Campbell
publication date: Late 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-84863-041-3

Synopsis / Contents:

The calls on the radio are all about tunnels. Someone whose grandfather was involved in digging the first of the pair that take roads under the river says attempts were made to block up the excavations. The bosses accused the workmen of trying to prolong the job, but some of her grandfather's colleagues insisted the tunnel had been blocked from within. The wife of a worker at the sorting office on Copperas Hill reveals that the postmen are loath to use the tunnel that links the office to Lime Street Station. Perhaps it's a tale to frighten new recruits, since the veterans say the lights in the tunnel sometimes fail, unless they're switched off as a prank, at which point you may realise you have company that doesn't need to see you to find you, because you'll hear its whisper in your ear before you encounter its wet flabby touch. The construction of the offices unearthed coffins lined with lead. A ticket collector rings to talk about the underground railway, a loop of which passes beneath the centre of Liverpool, starting and returning at the bottom of the street the castle used to dominate. All the tunnels leak, and the loop has to be closed every spring while rails corroded by salt water are replaced. The employee says he's been told by contractors that they've heard intruders running or rather sloshing ahead of them in the dark, even in sections of the tunnels where there's no water underfoot…

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Creatures of the Pool [jhc]
novel by Ramsey Campbell
publication date: Late 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]
Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-84863-042-0

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