Dear Reader, This version of the book is not the f…
Dear Reader,
This version of the book is not the final one. I edited the content based on reader feedback. People (some) were not happy with the ambiguity of the ending and some of the overly long) descriotions of Mars. The final (I think) version is only available from Amazon, iTunes, Kindle, etc as of Aug 2010.
Larry W Richardson
Marooned – Science Fiction & Fantasy books on Mars
Horror Short Story Collection: The Driver’s Guide to Hitting Pedestrians
Life is Full of Painful Things.
These are My Favorites.
–Andersen Prunty
Thus begins the collection of short and short short stories by Ohio bizarro and horror author Andersen Prunty.
I decided the best way to end what turned out to be a week of horror short story collections was to return to Andersen Prunty for one last look and The Driver’s Guide to Hitting Pedestrians seems like an appropriate way to close things out.
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The Driver’s Guide to Hitting PedestriansEditors: Prunty, Andersen |
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A pocket guide to the twenty-three most painful things in life, written by the most well-adjusted man in the universe. Does it make you sad to be alive? Boo-hoo. You’re living all wrong. My name is Andersen Prunty. I’m happiest while napping. I am a man with tennis shoes. They get older every time I put them on. This is how I deal with the pain of being alive. Now is our chance to deal with our pain together. You’ll thank me later. Lover and euphoria, Andersen Table of Contents:
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August 2011 (Trade Paperback — Lazy Fascist Press)
August 2011 (Trade Paperback — Lazy Fascist Press)
November 2011 (e-Book — Lazy Fascist Press)
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Horror Short Story Collection — Hi I’m a Social Disease: Horror Stories
I’m still reeling from the exhaustion and fatigue from a low level of thyroid hormone. I struggle to stay awake at work and I sleep ten hours or more at home. Mornings are my best time and I snuck this post in before the fatigue washed over me.
I haven’t done anything with Ohio authors lately so I did a quick check and discovered that Ohio bizarro and horror author Andersen Prunty has been busy republishing many delightful and hard to get (or expensive to get) short stories and novellas into affordable collections.
Hi I’m a Social Disease: Horror Stories is one such collection.
For instance, the novella Market Adjustment even spent time on Horror Mall’s bestseller list when it was originally published. Now it’s available again in two affordable editions.
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Hi I’m a Social Disease: Horror StoriesEditors: Prunty, Andersen |
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This collection of short stories by author Andersen Prunty features “Room 19″, a post-apocalyptic nightmare based on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ song “From Her to Eternity”, appearing for the first time anywhere, and “Market Adjustment”, about one man’s battle with the wealthy, previously available only in a very limited edition. Also includes: “The Dust Season”, “The Man With the Face Like a Bruise”, “The Photographer”, “The Night the Moon Made a Sound”, and “The Funeralgoer.” Table of Contents:
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Horror Short Story Collection: The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome Tenants
To complete the H. P. Lovecraft theme I have going here, let’s look at the first horror short story collection by then new-comer Ramsey Campbell with was completely Lovecraft inspired.
This 50th anniversary edition has many qualities to recommend it including original comments from August Derleth’s comments of the first drafts of tales within.
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The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome TenantsAuthor: Campbell, Ramsey |
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The influence of H. P. Lovecraft spans the centuries. Several of his correspondents who were writers learned by imitating him. The early tales of Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner read very much like Lovecraft, while others of his friends — Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard and August Derleth among them — incorporated his ideas and myths into their fiction. Bloch and Frank Belknap Long even wrote tributes to him that used him, barely disguised, as a character. After Lovecraft’s death August Derleth took control of his mythos, adding to and organising it more systematically than its creator ever had. Derleth was a jealous guardian of Lovecraft’s reputation, and insisted on vetting any stories by new writers that used the mythos. Few found his favour until 1961, when a Liverpudlian fifteen-year-old sent him the first drafts of several Lovecraftian tales. The outcome was a ten-year professional relationship and the appearance in 1964 of the first book of previously unpublished Lovecraftian fiction for five years. It was The Inhabitant of the Lake. This fiftieth anniversary edition reprints that book in full, including the original introduction. It also includes the first drafts of all the tales that were rewritten before publication and reproduces Derleth’s editorial responses to the stories. This edition is superbly illustrated by Randy Broecker in the great tradition of Weird Tales. Table of Contents:
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October 2011 (Limited Signed Hardcover — PS Publishing)
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CFRN Live Emini Trading Room Open House
S&P 500 Emini Futures Trading / Open House Friday 9:30AM EST 01/27/12. Professional emini traders and brokers will be on hand to answer all questions regarding emini charting platforms, emini indicators and free data feeds.
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Barcoding, Inc. Adds Two Sales Personnel to Growing Staff
Staff additions include Lutwin, a top-performing, returning Barcoding employee
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Horror Anthology: Medusa’s Coil and Others
Remember when I said this week’s postng may be rocky? Yeah, it got rocky. Sorry about being absent yesterday. Here is what I wanted to post:
This is the second book in S. T. Joshi’s latest project which makes H. P. Lovecaft’s collabrative stories available in a pair of attractive limited edition hardcover volumes with analysis.
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Medusa’s Coil and Others (The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H. P. Lovecraft #2)Author: Lovecraft, H. P. and others |
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Some of H. P. Lovecraft’s most fascinating work came from a time in his life that he was forced, by economic survival, to ghostwrite, collaborate and revise the work of others in the field. Here Lovecraft Scholar S. T. Joshi collects the best of these revisions and collaborations in a two volume set to be published this year from Arcane Wisdom Press. Medusa’s Coil and Others is the second of these two volumes. This edition is painstakingly annotated, and includes an introduction and bibliography by S. T. Joshi. The book is a must for the Lovecraft enthusiast and scholar alike. This limited edition hardcover will be strictly limited to only 150 hardcover copies. They will be signed by Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi and will be hand numbered on a custom signature sheet, featuring artwork by Zach McCain. We expect to be shipping these in late January reserve your copy now of this unique collection. Table of Contents:
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Well known Canadian adventurer storming through Perth before paramotor expedition
Parajet Expedition pilot, Mark Jennings-Bates, is better known for his championship winning rally team and his adventures in his home country of Canada.
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Still Available But Hurry: The 2012 Delirium Book Club
The 2012 Delirium Book Club is gearing up even as we speak but, if you act quickly, you may be able to claim one of the last few hardcover slots left or, if you prefer, get on the ground floor with immediate delivery of the first two horror novellas in ebook format.
The 2012 Delirium Book Club
This year the 2012 Delirium Book Club looks to be better and a little bigger than last year’s version. This year look for the formation of a book club community as well as twenty four terrific horror novellas, delivered two a month to your door or e-mail.
This year will have book club chats and author events. You’ll have the special features of Goodreads already prepared to add each novella into your own Goodreads online library catalog.
Don’t forget, both hardcover and ebook Book club members get to cast their votes for the best book of the year.
The horror novellas are written by some of the top names in small press horror and a few fresh faces as well.
Skeptical? Check out the advance release information for the first few months of the book club and judge for yourself.
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The Underdwelling (2012 Delirium Book Club #1)Author: Curran, Tim |
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With a kid on the way, Boyd needed the job bad. But the idea of going underground at the Hobart Mine, down into the dark labyrinth of tunnels to get at the raw ore, left him with a brooding sense of unease. Maybe it was the fact that his father had died down in the mines or maybe it was something much worse. Digging a new drift down in Level #8, the lowest level of the mine, an immense shaft opens up. Boyd and a few others volunteer to explore it. Some 400 feet down, they find a passage that leads to an immense cavern from prehistory. A petrified world. A prehistoric graveyard. Then a cave-in traps them down there. In the darkness and dank shadows of a fossilized world, they realize they are not alone. Something has woken in the stone. Something ancient and terrible and coldly intelligent. And it is lonely. |
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Heartless (2012 Delirium Book Club #2)Author: Leverone, Allan |
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An ancient blood sacrifice. An Aztec holy man, determined not to lose his dead sex slaves, regardless of the cost or consequences. And a trio of young people thrown together on a lonely Ohio road five centuries later, bring a shocking act of treachery full-circle. Before one steamy late-summer night is over, two young women and one young man will become linked forever in a reality far more horrifying than anything they’ve experienced in their worst nightmares. Or yours. |
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The Men Upstairs (2012 Delirium Book Club #3)Author: Waggoner, Tim |
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He finds her crying in the lobby of a movie theater and takes her home to his apartment. She’s a strange, beautiful woman with no last name, a mysterious past, and a powerful sexual allure. He wants her, and she wants him. There’s only one problem: the Men Upstairs. She used to belong to them — and they’ll do anything to get her back. |
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Subject 11 (2012 Delirium Book Club #4)Author: Thomas, Jeffrey |
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Welcome to the Subject 11 project. We are currently seeking 10 individuals to participate in a research study. Participants shall receive a sum to be discussed during initial telephone interview. Interested parties should email us via our contact page, subject11.webs.com, providing their telephone number and a brief biography of approximately 100 words, describing themselves in terms of gender, age, race, and occupation if any. The study will take place in a series of abandoned buildings rented for this purpose. Note: subjects involved in this test may find themselves experiencing certain psychological distortions. They may experience lapses in memory regarding others and themselves. Subjects may even forget how long this test is supposed to go on for. And please disregard any additional people you may feel you’ve sighted in the complex, beyond those in the test group. We thank you for your interest in our research. |
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Lords of Twilight (2012 Delirium Book Club #5)Author: Gifune, Greg F. |
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Strange things are happening in the small, isolated town of Edgar, Maine. Mysterious lights dot the night skies. A local farmer is found dead at the summit of a hill with no evidence as to how his body got there. Livestock is disappearing, only to be discovered later, dead and mutilated with precision-like wounds. And despite the coming of an enormous winter storm, odd men identifying themselves simply as ‘federal agents’ have converged on Edgar in government vehicles as if in anticipation of some greater event. Newcomer Lane Boyce, a recently divorced schoolteacher with a questionable past, believes there must be reasonable explanations for what is taking place, yet seems inexplicably tied to the events. Haunted by his own demons and drowning in loneliness and regret, Lane had hoped Edgar might be a quiet refuge and a place to begin again. Instead, there is madness here, an evil that is slowly making itself known. And as the snowstorm hits town, Lane finds himself trapped in his small house in the middle of nowhere, alone with his puppy . . . and something else. There, just beyond the trees, hidden in shadow, something watches, waits and whispers, ushering in a new age, a time of something else. Something other. Something close. Reality is no longer ours. It belongs to them. It belong to the Lords of Twilight. |
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Thirty Miles South Of Dry County (2012 Delirium Book Club #6)Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick |
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Down Here In The Dark (2012 Delirium Book Club #7)Author: Thompson, Lee |
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Also announced are:
- The Cold Spot (2012 Delirium Book Club #8) by J. G. Faherty
- Reign Of Blood (2012 Delirium Book Club #9) by Sandy DeLuca
- After The Fade (2012 Delirium Book Club #10) by Ronald Malfi
That leaves fourteen more surprises for the rest of the year.
You can get more information as well as order a club membership through the new Darkfuse website or by clicking on this non-affiliate link: The 2012 Delirium Book Club.
My membership was the perfect holiday gift — How about you? Are you ready for a year of horror novellas?
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13 Horror Gifts to Give Yourself
The second exercise of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is to make a list post.
Well, I’ve made a bunch of list posts — easy peasy — so long as they were book lists. This time I’m going to try something a little different.
Now that the major gift giving holidays are over, what sort of gifts would a horror fan such as the readers of this website enjoy? One caveat: No books. No Reading (Mostly).
Here is my list:
- Dismember — Me 12″ Plush Zombie
, A neat take apart plush zombie that Velcros back together.
- The Witcher Enhanced
and the sequel, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
, If I were to spend hundreds of hours playing a computer game, this would be it. A Witcher is a monster killer — Yeah!
- McFarlane Toys Clive Barker’s Tortured Souls 2: Camille Noire
, Of all of the McFarlane/Barker toys, Camille is the most interesting but your mileage may vary.
- After Dark Horrorfest, Vol. 4 (Dread / The Final / The Graves / The Hidden / Kill Theory / Lake Mungo / The Reeds / Zombies of Mass Destruction)
, There is always something to love, something to hate and a lot to watch in an eight-pack like this.
- Munchkin Zombies
and Munchkin Zombies 2
, a zany, crazy little card game with delightful John Kovalic art.
- Voodoo Doll
, sometimes simple is best. I like the versatility of these simple Voodoo dolls, which means no one is safe from my pins.
- Mannheim Steamroller’s Halloween
, Mannheim Steamroller’s Monster Mix
and Mannheim Steamroller’s Halloween 2: Creatures Collection
, the music genius that innovated Christmas music turns his attention to Halloween music.
- The Bag and the Crow’s Slaughter T-Shirt, any shirt from The Bag and Crow is a wise purchase but I must admit that lately I’ve been partial to this beautifully bloody design.
- Nightmares of H.P. Lovecraft Nyarlathotep Statue
, you could settle for the Ultra Cthulhu or Ultra Great Dragon statue but for eye popping effect — other people’s eyes, that is — give me Nyarlathotep.
- Toy Vault Cthulu Hand Puppet
, however, if the statue is a little out of your price range try a hand puppet and bring a rictus smile to their face.
- Monster of the Movies: Creature of the Black Lagoon
, I loved the original Aurora monster models kits and the Creature was always a favorite monster of mine.
- Bandai Godzilla — S.H.MonsterArts
, Sculpted by the renowned Yuji Sakai and featuring unprecedented detail with 29 points of articulation, this is THE Godzilla gift.
- The Paint in My Blood (8.5″x11″ hardcover), The hardcover comes with a CD containing a film of Alan M. Clark and some of his painting techniques.
There you go, 13 sets of gifts to brighten up any post holiday blues.
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