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New acquisitions, One for the Road, Martian Chronicles and more
Posted by Peter Crowther on February 9th, 2009 at 14:30
Hi, everyone;
We’re well past time for the new newsletter so let’s get right on with it!
New acquisitions
The following are new stories purchased for Postscripts:
- “The Fishes Speak” – Michaela Roessner
- “Only One Ghost” – John Grant
- “Osmotic Pressure” – Jack Deighton
- “The Rescue” – Holly Phillips
- “Signs Along the Road” – Richard Parks
- “Frightened Angels” – Jeremy Adam Smith
- “The Cinema of Coming Attractions” – Rjurik Davidson
The following are newly purchased books for the PS Publishing catalogue:
- Clowns at Midnight by Terry Dowling – a novel
- Dark Eden by Chris Beckett - a novel
- Rebel at the End of Time by Steve Aylett – a novella, set in Michael Moorcock’s End of Time sequence
And last but not least there will be Black Wings, a new volume of Lovecraftian horror edited by leading Lovecraft scholar S T Joshi and featuring the following stories and writers:
- “Pickman’s Other Model (1929)” – Caitlín R Kiernan
- “Desert Dreams” – Donald R Burleson
- “Engravings” – Joseph S Pulver, Sr.
- “Copping Squid” – Michael Shea
- “Passing Spirits” – Sam Gafford
- “The Broadsword” – Laird Barron
- “Usurped” – William Browning Spencer
- “Denker’s Book” – David J Schow
- “Inhabitants of Wraithwood” – W H Pugmire
- “The Dome” – Mollie L Burleson
- “Rotterdam” – Nicholas Royle
- “Tempting Providence” – Jonathan Thomas
- “Howling in the Dark” – Darrell Schweitzer
- “The Truth about Pickman” – Brian Stableford
- “Tunnels” – Philip Haldeman
- “Violence, Child of Trust” – Michael Cisco
- “Lesser Demons” – Norman Partridge
- “Black Brat of Dunwich” – Stanley C Sargent
- “An Eldritch Matter” – Adam Niswander
- “Susie” – Jason Van Hollander
There may be a couple of tales still to be added to that line-up: S T and I will let you know in due course.
Stephen King’s One for the Road
We’ve now received seven of James Hannah’s twenty double-page-spread full-colour illustrations for our special edition of Stephen King’s One for the Road and they’re some of his absolute best work. We were going for ten but when we saw what Jim had in mind, we doubled it.
Interest in the new subscription rates for Postscripts (now officially a quarterly anthology) is high but we still have some of the five-year options left – which is the only way to get a copy of this very special edition of One for the Road. And, if you’re outside the UK and you have funds available, now’s a very good time to buy – £1 equals around $1.45 (it was $2.05 less than one year ago); the same goes for Lifetime Subscriptions.
As a taster, here’s one of Hannah’s illustrations – click through to see a larger version:
Click below to sign up for five years of Postscripts:
- Five year sub to Postscripts in unsigned hardcover editions
- Five year sub to Postscripts in limited special hardcover editions
- Other options, including instalment payments for the above
The Martian Chronicles
We’re in the final stages of negotiating the rights to co-publish (along with Bill Schafer’s Subterranean Press) the limited edition of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. This has been complicated, given that another publisher had advertised to publish this title, accepting pre-orders dating back some considerable time. We can’t make any promises yet — as certain details are fluid — but Bill and I are making every effort to see that those who paid the other publisher for the book are not shut out.
If you prepaid for a copy of The Martian Chronicles, please drop me an email at editor [at] pspublishing [dot] co [dot] uk. You should include your name, address, the version you purchased, and at what price. We’ll certainly do all that we can to try to reach a solution that will satisfy as many of Mr. Bradbury’s readers as possible.
One thing: in order to keep things simple – and to minimise the bookkeeping chaos! – this title can be ordered only through the Subterranean Press website. We’ll be including a link to that particular order-page in due course… but be warned: Bill’s site is the ultimate toyshop window so don’t go spending all your PS money over there!
(Please note that this edition of The Martian Chronicles will not be included in either of the PS Lifetime Membership plans.)
New novella from Richard Christian Matheson
We’ve negotiated with R C Matheson to publish a new novella by him later this year. No more details are available as yet – we’ll let you know more as soon as we know it ourselves.
We’ve got a couple of other things simmering on the stove but we’ll save those until next time.
Until then, look after each other… and happy reading!
Pete
February 10th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Very happy to see that you’ve picked up Dark Eden — looking forward to it!