Hi Folks!
We’re very pleased to announce that Booklist loves three more of our upcoming releases, which will greatly increase the number of copies libraries are ordering, so don’t wait to get your orders in for the Limited Editions while supplies last!
The Influence by Bentley Little
“Laid off from his engineering job, down-on-his-luck Ross accepts an invitation to live in his cousin Lita’s guest shack in the microscopic desert burg of Magdalena, Arizona. There he finds a simpler life that appeals to him, a girl he’s crazy about, and some hideous miniature kangaroos with rat faces. Okay, let’s back up. It was during local bigwig Cameron Holt’s New Year’s Eve party that the entire assemblage celebrated at midnight by shooting their guns into the air. The problem? Their bullets hit something. Something god-awful. Right now it’s stored inside Holt’s smokehouse. And its influence is bringing some people fantastically good luck and others bad—very bad. It’s also turning Magdalena into a jungle of mutated creatures that would make Dr. Moreau proud: gigantic chickens, zombie dogs, living cookies, animate scarecrows, whistling flowers, and oh-so-much more. Yes, the criminally overlooked Little might go a little too crazy here, but his small-town-loses-its-sh-t recalls his masterful The Mailman, and that should be all the recommendation fans need.”
— Booklist, Daniel Kraus
Submerged by Thomas F. Monteleone
“In his latest novel, sf and horror veteran Monteleone tells two stories at once, alternating back and forth between them. Erich Bruckner is the captain of the U-5001, a revolutionary new German submarine, in 1945. The U-5001, described as ‘an underwater aircraft carrier,’ is Germany’s last, best hope of victory in WWII, but its mission is incredibly daring and dangerous. In the present day, Dexter Bucklin is a wreck diver who discovers evidence of a German U-boat sunk in (of all places) Chesapeake Bay. But what was this oddly shaped sub’s purpose? As Bruckner’s and Bucklin’s stories merge, we begin to see that there’s a third story here, dark and mysterious, which gives the book an added, surreal dimension. Monteleone is an accomplished writer—his 1992 novel The Blood of the Lamb won a Bram Stoker Award—and with a genre-blending plot that combines WWII submarine thriller (see Edward L. Beach’s classic Run Silent, Run Deep) with a story of modern-day maritime archaeology and adventure (see Clive Cussler), this book is sure to garner him some new and enthusiastic fans.”
— Booklist, David Pitt
Shocklines edited by Richard Chizmar & Matt Schwartz
“Chizmar, anthologist and publisher of Cemetery Dance, and Schwartz, founder of the horror-themed website Shocklines.com, present 19 new horror stories by authors such as Tim Lebbon (prolific author of genre novels), Ted Kosmatka (author of two excellent speculative-fiction novels, The Games and Prophet of Bones), Yvonne Navarro (popular author of several books set in the “Buffyverse”), Norman Prentiss (award-winning author of short fiction), and Rio Youers (author of the novel Westlake Soul). The stories cover a wide range of ground, from subtle character studies to outright shockers to twisters in the style of Tales of the Unexpected; but what unites them all is the high quality of the writing. A lot of anthologies have a few bright lights and several less successful tales, with one or two clunkers; here, there is a uniformity of excellence, and it would be hard to single out any story as being better than the others. For fans of horror short fiction, a must-read.”
— Booklist, David Pitt
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
