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Forthcoming PS Titles

The Painting and the City [hc]
The Painting and the City [hc]
novel by Robert Freeman Wexler
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301538


Synopsis / Contents:

What is the secret contained in Philip Schuyler's painting? Who was the woman he depicted, the innocent woman and her dark stalker? The Kreunen sisters know, but they must re-bury the past. And Jacob Lerner, artist flailing in a sea of commerce, can only press forward, explore his own art and the mystery of Schuyler's painting, aided and manipulated by an animate marionette of rosy glass...

The Painting and the City [sc]
The Painting and the City [sc]
novel by Robert Freeman Wexler
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301545


Synopsis / Contents:

What is the secret contained in Philip Schuyler's painting? Who was the woman he depicted, the innocent woman and her dark stalker? The Kreunen sisters know, but they must re-bury the past. And Jacob Lerner, artist flailing in a sea of commerce, can only press forward, explore his own art and the mystery of Schuyler's painting, aided and manipulated by an animate marionette of rosy glass...

Passing for Human [hc]
Passing for Human [hc]
short fiction anthology by Michael Bishop & Steven Utley (eds.)
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834228


Synopsis / Contents:

Passing for Human is a new anthology of short fiction, edited by Michael Bishop and Steven Utley.

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Passing for Human [sc]
Passing for Human [sc]
short fiction anthology by Michael Bishop & Steven Utley (editors)
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834235


Synopsis / Contents:

Passing for Human is a new anthology of short fiction, edited by Michael Bishop and Steven Utley.

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Grazing the Long Acre [hc]
Grazing the Long Acre [hc]
collection by Gwyneth Jones
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301552


Synopsis / Contents:

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Grazing the Long Acre [sc]
Grazing the Long Acre [sc]
collection by Gwyneth Jones
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301569


Synopsis / Contents:

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Spook City [hc]
Spook City [hc]
Anthology by Edited by Angus Mackenzie with stories by Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker & Peter Atkins
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-025-3


Synopsis / Contents:

If, as Carl Jung said, Liverpool is "the pool of life" then here are things from the darkest depths of that pool, brought to the surface to terrify and startle you . . .

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Spook City [sc]
Spook City [sc]
Anthology by Edited by Angus Mackenzie with stories from Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker & Peter Atkins
publication date: Mid 2009
£125.00 [$187.50]

Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-026-0


Synopsis / Contents:

If, as Carl Jung said, Liverpool is "the pool of life" then here are things from the darkest depths of that pool, brought to the surface to terrify and startle you . . .

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Blue Canoe [hc]
Blue Canoe [hc]
novella by T.M. Wright
publication date: Early 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834730


Synopsis / Contents:

My name is Happy Farmer.

I was born in a cherry red 1967 Mercury Montclair near a strip mall outside Cooperstown, NY, not much more than fifty years ago, to a loving young couple who - at the time - had no money but who had very large dreams...

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Blue Canoe [jhc]
Blue Canoe [jhc]
novella by T.M. Wright
publication date: Early 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834747


Synopsis / Contents:

My name is Happy Farmer.

I was born in a cherry red 1967 Mercury Montclair near a strip mall outside Cooperstown, NY, not much more than fifty years ago, to a loving young couple who - at the time - had no money but who had very large dreams...

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R.I.P. [hc]
R.I.P. [hc]
Novella by Terry Lamsley
publication date: Early 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-906301-57-6


Synopsis / Contents:

"The dead are everywhere. There are untold billions of them. We, the living, are just an insignificant minority."


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R.I.P. [jhc]
R.I.P. [jhc]
Novella by Terry Lamsley
publication date: Early 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-906301-58-3


Synopsis / Contents:

"The dead are everywhere. There are untold billions of them. We, the living, are just an insignificant minority."


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Showcase #6: Glass Coffin Girls [hc]
Showcase #6: Glass Coffin Girls [hc]
a mini-collection by Paul Jessup
publication date: Mid 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-023-9


Synopsis / Contents:

This is a crevice book . . . a shadow volume whose pages were written in the cracks of ancient cities and long since forgotten. Nine stories, nine shadows . . . words tattooed on skin, locked in towers, frozen under glass and sleeping with apple hearts, refusing to be defined. They are carved of light, and slither through your fingers like winter rain.

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Showcase #6: Glass Coffin Girls [jhc]
Showcase #6: Glass Coffin Girls [jhc]
a mini-collection by Paul Jessup
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-024-6


Synopsis / Contents:

This is a crevice book . . . a shadow volume whose pages were written in the cracks of ancient cities and long since forgotten. Nine stories, nine shadows . . . words tattooed on skin, locked in towers, frozen under glass and sleeping with apple hearts, refusing to be defined. They are carved of light, and slither through your fingers like winter rain.

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Billy's Book [hc]
Billy's Book [hc]
novella length collection by Terry Bisson
publication date: Early 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301354


Synopsis / Contents:

From SF's master satirist, Terry Bisson, a set of devastating contemporary fables...

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Billy's Book [jhc]
Billy's Book [jhc]
novella length collection by Terry Bisson
publication date: Early 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301361


Synopsis / Contents:

From SF's master satirist, Terry Bisson, a set of devastating contemporary fables...

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Urbis Morpheos [hc]
Urbis Morpheos [hc]
novel by Stephen Palmer
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301439


Synopsis / Contents:

A million years in the future, two ecosystems stand opposed. The first, Nature, has faded, and exists only as isolated havens or, in the wider world, as biomes perverted by artifice into hideous forms. And against it stands the manufacturing ecosystem, which has evolved into a myriad lifelike shapes, yet offers only an antiseptic brutality.
The land itself has changed. It is mutable. Maps remain accurate for little more than decades in Urbis Morpheos, the great manufactured environment that once was Earth...


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Urbis Morpheos [sc]
Urbis Morpheos [sc]
novel by Stephen Palmer
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301446


Synopsis / Contents:

A million years in the future, two ecosystems stand opposed. The first, Nature, has faded, and exists only as isolated havens or, in the wider world, as biomes perverted by artifice into hideous forms. And against it stands the manufacturing ecosystem, which has evolved into a myriad lifelike shapes, yet offers only an antiseptic brutality.
The land itself has changed. It is mutable. Maps remain accurate for little more than decades in Urbis Morpheos, the great manufactured environment that once was Earth...


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The Language of Dying [hc]
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]
The Language of Dying [jhc]
novella by Sarah Pinborough
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301835


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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Darkness on the Edge [hc]
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]
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


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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Timeswitch [sc]
Timeswitch [sc]
novel by John Gribbin
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301781


Synopsis / Contents:

A time traveler from the 20th century is in a desperate race against time across 11th century England in an attempt to change the course of history. But which history? And which 20th century? With chilling overtones of the environmental crisis facing us today, but incorporating the latest scientific thinking about the Multiverse, John Gribbin offers a unique blend of real science and adventure fiction.

Old fashioned hard Sf at its best all the science in the story is real, even the time travel. It just hasn't happened yet - or has it?

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Timeswitch [hc]
Timeswitch [hc]
novel by John Gribbin
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301613


Synopsis / Contents:

A time traveler from the 20th century is in a desperate race against time across 11th century England in an attempt to change the course of history. But which history? And which 20th century? With chilling overtones of the environmental crisis facing us today, but incorporating the latest scientific thinking about the Multiverse, John Gribbin offers a unique blend of real science and adventure fiction.

Old fashioned hard Sf at its best all the science in the story is real, even the time travel. It just hasn't happened yet - or has it?

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Counting Tadpoles [sc]
Counting Tadpoles [sc]
collection by Uncle River
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301422


Synopsis / Contents:

These stories, wise, witty, and offbeat takes on the stranger "what-ifs" of human nature, come from the pen of Uncle River, hermit and occasional prophet of the SF world. Conceived in the sparsely populated American Mountain Southwest, where loners, rugged individualists, and small, eccentric communities live close to Nature and formulate alternative, sometimes surreal codes of existence, River's tales are narratives of laconic power, visionary yet saturated with the colors and sounds of real places, real people, the dreamers of New Mexico...

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Counting Tadpoles [hc]
Counting Tadpoles [hc]
collection by Uncle River
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Slipcased Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301415


Synopsis / Contents:

These stories, wise, witty, and offbeat takes on the stranger "what-ifs" of human nature, come from the pen of Uncle River, hermit and occasional prophet of the SF world. Conceived in the sparsely populated American Mountain Southwest, where loners, rugged individualists, and small, eccentric communities live close to Nature and formulate alternative, sometimes surreal codes of existence, River's tales are narratives of laconic power, visionary yet saturated with the colors and sounds of real places, real people, the dreamers of New Mexico...

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Ars Memoriae [hc]
Ars Memoriae [hc]
novella by Beth Bernobich
publication date: Mid 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301705


Synopsis / Contents:

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Ars Memoriae [jhc]
Ars Memoriae [jhc]
novella by Beth Bernobich
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301712


Synopsis / Contents:

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Impossible Stories 2 [hc]
Impossible Stories 2 [hc]
collection by Zoran Živkovic
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834-30-3


Synopsis / Contents:

"Compartments": On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveller experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness "Compartments" taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation both moving and full of hope.


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Impossible Stories 2 [sc]
Impossible Stories 2 [sc]
collection by Zoran Živkovic
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcase Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834-31-0


Synopsis / Contents:

"Compartments": On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveller experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness "Compartments" taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation both moving and full of hope.


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Long After Midnight [sc]
Long After Midnight [sc]
collection by Ray Bradbury
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834457


Synopsis / Contents:

A crazy scheme to bring peace to the world with the aid of rust. A martian who could be Jesus. An author, plucked from his grave, is thwarted by one Melissa Toad, the mysterious witch of New York. This is a collection of tales which demolish the old saying: truth is stranger than fiction.

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Long After Midnight [hc]
Long After Midnight [hc]
collection by Ray Bradbury
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834440


Synopsis / Contents:

A crazy scheme to bring peace to the world with the aid of rust. A martian who could be Jesus. An author, plucked from his grave, is thwarted by one Melissa Toad, the mysterious witch of New York. This is a collection of tales which demolish the old saying: truth is stranger than fiction.

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Roadside Bodhisattva [hc]
Roadside Bodhisattva [hc]
collection by Paul Di Filippo
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301941


Synopsis / Contents:

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Roadside Bodhisattva [ltd]
Roadside Bodhisattva [ltd]
anthology by Paul Di Filippo
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Limted Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301767


Synopsis / Contents:

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The Black Heart [hc]
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]
The Black Heart [jhc]
collection by Patrick O'Leary
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301811


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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Gilbert and Edgar on Mars [hc]
Gilbert and Edgar on Mars [hc]
novella by Eric Brown
publication date: Mid 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301682


Synopsis / Contents:

G.K. Chesterton, fantastical novelist, literary journalist, paradoxical poet and prolific short story writer penned more than a hundred books in his lifetime as well as countless articles and essays on every subject under the sun - but only now can his travels across the face of the red planet be revealed.

In this exuberant novella Eric Brown recounts Chesterton's astounding adventures on Mars, his meeting with Edgar Rice Burroughs and his treatment at the hands of the Six Philosophers.


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Gilbert and Edgar on Mars [jhc]
Gilbert and Edgar on Mars [jhc]
novella by Eric Brown
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1906301682


Synopsis / Contents:

G.K. Chesterton, fantastical novelist, literary journalist, paradoxical poet and prolific short story writer penned more than a hundred books in his lifetime as well as countless articles and essays on every subject under the sun - but only now can his travels across the face of the red planet be revealed.

In this exuberant novella Eric Brown recounts Chesterton's astounding adventures on Mars, his meeting with Edgar Rice Burroughs and his treatment at the hands of the Six Philosophers.


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The Machineries of Joy [sc]
The Machineries of Joy [sc]
collection by Ray Bradbury
publication date: Late 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834419


Synopsis / Contents:

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The Machineries of Joy [hc]
The Machineries of Joy [hc]
collection by Ray Bradbury
publication date: Late 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1905834402


Synopsis / Contents:

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Cast a Cold Eye [hc]
Cast a Cold Eye [hc]
novella by Derryl Murphy & William Shunn
publication date: Mid 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-89-7


Synopsis / Contents:

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Cast a Cold Eye [jhc]
Cast a Cold Eye [jhc]
novella by Derryl Murphy & William Shunn
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-90-3


Synopsis / Contents:

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Reunion [hc]
Reunion [hc]
novella by Rick Hautala
publication date: Mid 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-029-1


Synopsis / Contents:

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Reunion [jhc]
Reunion [jhc]
novella by Rick Hautala
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-030-7


Synopsis / Contents:

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The One Who Disappeared  [hc]
The One Who Disappeared [hc]
novella by David Herter
publication date: Mid 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-033-8


Synopsis / Contents:

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The One Who Disappeared [jhc]
The One Who Disappeared [jhc]
novella by David Herter
publication date: Mid 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-034-5


Synopsis / Contents:

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Escher's Loops [jhc]
Escher's Loops [jhc]
novel by Zoran Zivkovic
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-031-4


Synopsis / Contents:

Escher's Loops is the latest magisterial story suite from Zoran Zivkovic, Serbia's grand master of literary surrealism. In his most intricate and audacious marriage yet of human life and the symbolic infinite, Zivkovic dazzles writers and critics alike:

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Escher's Loops [ltd]
Escher's Loops [ltd]
novel by Zoran Zivkovic
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-032-1


Synopsis / Contents:

Escher's Loops is the latest magisterial story suite from Zoran Zivkovic, Serbia's grand master of literary surrealism. In his most intricate and audacious marriage yet of human life and the symbolic infinite, Zivkovic dazzles writers and critics alike:

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Viator Plus [hc]
Viator Plus [hc]
collection by Lucius Shepard
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863035-5


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Viator Plus [jhc]
Viator Plus [jhc]
collection by Lucius Shepard
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-036-9


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Showcase #7:  A Web of Black Widows [hc]
Showcase #7: A Web of Black Widows [hc]
collection by Scott Carter
publication date: Late 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-037-6


Synopsis / Contents:

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Showcase #7:  A Web of Black Widows [jhc]
Showcase #7: A Web of Black Widows [jhc]
collection by Scott Carter
publication date: Late 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-038-3


Synopsis / Contents:

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Just Behind You [hc]
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]
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]
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]
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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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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Clouds [hc]
Clouds [hc]
novella by Lavie Tidhar
publication date: Late 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-043-7


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Clouds [jhc]
Clouds [jhc]
novella by Lavie Tidhar
publication date: Late 2009
£25.00 [$37.50]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-044-4


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Creatures That Time Forgot [hc]
Creatures That Time Forgot [hc]
anthology by Stephen Utley
publication date: Late 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-045-1


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Creatures That Time Forgot [jhc]
Creatures That Time Forgot [jhc]
anthology by Stephen Utley
publication date: Late 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]

Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-84863-046-8


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Postscripts Issue #19 [hc]
Postscripts Issue #19 [hc]
a quarterly anthology by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers (editors)
publication date: Summer 2009
£12.00 [$18.00]

Hardcover

ISBN:


Synopsis / Contents:

Postscripts #19 : ENEMY OF THE GOOD

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Postscripts Issue #19 [ltd]
Postscripts Issue #19 [ltd]
a quarterly anthology by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers (editors)
publication date: Summer 2009
£28.00 [$42.00]

Limited (signed) Hardcover

ISBN:


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Postscripts #19 : ENEMY OF THE GOOD

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