Continuing our look at the bestsellers at the Horror Mall, here are the bestselling horror book in February 2010.
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Dust of the Dead
Author: Conner, C. David
Illustrator: Tony Karnes
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novella
Page Count: 170pp.
Pub. Date: February 26, 2010
Publisher: Sideshow Press
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Arizona, 1538
A relentless drought has dogged the region, driving local Native American tribes to war with their neighbors. Fearing an eminent attack from a local Apache tribe, a desperate Hopi medicine man sprinkles his warriors with dust from a mysterious meteor. He hopes it will aid them in battle.
It’s a slaughter.
The battle-hardened Apache quickly decimate the peaceful Hopi tribe and set to scavenging for food in their dwellings. But the battle is far from over. The butchered Hopi begin to rise, and the triumphant Apache soon find themselves facing a new enemy . . . a dead enemy.
Arizona, 1867
Dustin DeWind is a loner — a gunslinger used to sleeping under the stars with only his trusty steed and two pistols as company. When he approaches the tiny mining town of Saddleback, he hopes to find a bed, a bath, and a warm meal.
What he finds is death.
The local miners dug too deep, and what they unleashed has all but consumed the local population. Dustin soon finds himself holed-up in the local saloon with a handful of survivors and a trio of desperados.
With a hungry horde of reanimated corpses outside scrambling for entrance, it will take all his cunning and skills to survive.
Dust of the Dead is the first book in Sideshow’s Dark Canvas series, a new line of books with an increased emphasis on stunning horror illustrations. Dust of the Dead will be offered in a 7″ x 9″ signed and numbered softcover and later as a signed and numbered deluxe hardcover limited to only 30 copies.
- Oversized Trade Paperback
- Over a dozen full-page illustrations
- Printed on glossy paper
- Signed by author and artist
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The Companion
Author: Martin, Nicholas
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novella
Page Count: 108pp.
Pub. Date: January 27, 2010
Publisher: Sideshow Press
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The Companion by Nicholas Martin — Book Two in the First Cut Series!
From the geniuses at arcadiacorp the companion: The world’s first ‘date in a can’!
Aaron’s life lacks spark. Working as an advertisement designer for ArcadiaCorp, a manufacturing leader in a world infected with commercialism, he finds little joy in his profession, and he longs for a meaningful connection with the opposite sex. When he is asked to test his company’s latest product, The Companion, he is less than enthused.
Just add water and in 12 to 14 hours, you’ll have your very own playmate ready to service your every need.
The Companion is unnervingly realistic and equipped with a computerized brain that allows it to grow and adapt to its owner’s every need and whim. At first, Aaron is repulsed by this stunning, vegetative woman. However, he soon finds that he is developing feelings for this . . . thing . . . feelings he’s never had before. For the first time, his life has purpose, flair . . .
The Companion . . . Let your greatest fantasy be its worst nightmare
Then Aaron attends a Companion enthusiasts meeting where owners share their experiences with the ‘product’ . . . and everything changes.
The Companion: A dystopian vision that explores what happens when male sexuality meet hyper-commercialism.
Beautifully illustrated by Meghan Hakes.
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Going Monstering
Author: Lee, Edward
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 225pp.
Pub. Date: December 31, 2009
Publisher: Bloodletting Press
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Going Monstering is brand new full length novel by the master of twisted dark fiction Edward Lee!
Where are we going tonight?
Behind the facade of the sedate sorority house, unutterable horrors seethe while tumid desires rise. All the while, Ann White must become pervert-fodder if she hopes to pass Pledge Week. All too soon, she finds that no act of lewdness is deemed too demeaning, no manner of sexual degradation too foul . . .
For there is a secret festering in the bowels of Alpha House, an ancient carnal evil whose stygian lust is too hideous to imagine and still stay sane. As Ann literally dips herself into a cesspool of soul-soiling immorality, the black revelation throbs closer and closer . . .
Where are we going tonight?
Poor Ann will be slopped on, spewed in, spat upon, penetrated, humped, poked, humiliated, bitch-slapped, gang-sodomized, plungered like a toilet, filled like a decanter, and debased en masse — indeed, she will willingly go through a wringer of sexual depravity to prove her resolve, but along the way, as she converts herself into this veritable receptacle of sullied lust, will she live long enough to unveil the true secret of Alpha House?
Tonight, we’re going monstering.
An unrelenting and irredeemable novel of gore-house porn and unmitigated black comedic horror.
This is a signed limited edition hardcover, fully illustrated by Tom Moran. Only 300 hand signed and numbered copies will be published of this edition.
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The Great God Pan and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen: Edited, with Introduction and Notes
Author: Machen, Arthur
Editor: S. T. Joshi
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 250pp.
Pub. Date: September 2009
Publisher: Arcane Wisdom
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We are proud to announce the first title in our Arcane Wisdom imprint. The Great God Pan and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen: Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by S. T. Joshi.
Each one of the Arcane Wisdom titles will be half bound in exotic cloth and French marbled boards, custom end-papers, color frontis piece, sewn in ribbon marker and either signed by the scholar (on classic titles) who contributed to the edition or author that wrote the piece (if living). We plan on producing four titles a year with this imprint.
Here you will find the most significant contribution of Arthur Machen’s classic tales of dark fantasy and horror. With an introduction by S.T. Joshi who also contributes, notes and a complete Machen bibliography. This is a must have for the Machen enthusiast and Weird Tales collector.
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen was widely criticized by the press as degenerate and horrific due to its profligate style and sexual content, although since his work has since garnered a reputation as a classic of modern horror.
In Supernatural Horror in Literature H. P. Lovecraft praised the novel, saying: “No one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds”; he added that “the sensitive reader” reaches the end with “an appreciative shudder.” Lovecraft also noted, however, that “melodrama is undeniably present, and coincidence is stretched to a length which appears absurd upon analysis.”
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by S. T. Joshi
- Forward by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- The Great God Pan
- The Three Impostors
- Prologue
- Adventure of the Gold Tiberius
- The Encounter of the Pavement
- Novel of the Dark Valley
- Adventure of the Missing Brother
- Novel of the Black Seal
- Incident of the Private Bar
- The Decorative Imagination
- Novel of the Iron Maid
- The Recluse of Bayswater
- Novel of the White Powder
- Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell
- History of the Young Man with Spectacles
- Adventure of the Deserted Residence
- The Shining Pyramid
- The White People
- A Fragment of Life
- The Bowmen
- Appendix 1: Introduction to The Three Impostors (1923)
- Appendix 2: Introduction to The Angels of Mons (1915)
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Black Ink Horror XXX
Editor: Moran, Tom
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Periodical
Page Count: 50pp.
Pub. Date: 2008
Publisher: Sideshow Press
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This special, full-color edition of Black Ink Horror is devoted to horror stories of the extreme variety.
Sex and gore abound in this 50 page, highly collectible edition. Each of the five tales is accompanied by three illustrations.
This one is not for the prudish or easily offended — we cut our artist loose on XXX, and they left nothing to the imagination.
Note: Due to the sexually explicit nature of the cover of Black Ink Horror XXX I opted not to display the cover in order to maintain a “PG” status in case children visit this website.
Table of Contributors:
- Stories:
- Melissa Karnes
- J. Brundage
- Mark Leslie
- Nancy Jackson
- Michele Lee Freel
- Art:
- Geff Bartrand
- Tony Karnes
- Tom Moran
- Jeff Beckman
- Jacob Parmentier
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Silver
Authors: Savile, Steven
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 425pp.
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Variance
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Sometimes the truth is anything but honest.
Sometimes the stories everyone knows by heart are lies.
Sometimes lies are all we have left.
Two thousand years ago, thirty silver Tyrian shekels were paid to secure the most infamous betrayal of all time. Melted down by the grandsons of Judas Iscariot, Menahem and Eleazar ben Jair, in the dark heart of the Sicarii fortress, Masada, the silver was re-forged as a dagger. When the Sicarii zealots committed mass suicide in AD73 the dagger of Iscariot and the truth of his sacrifice were lost.
Until now.
A religious cult calling itself the Disciples of Judas has risen in the Middle East. Its influence is pernicious, its reach long. In thirteen cities across Europe thirteen people martyr themselves in the name of Judas, promising forty days and forty nights of terror. They twist the words of ancient prophecies to drive home the fear. On the last day, they promise, faith will fall. Everything you believe in will be proved wrong. Everything you hold true will fail.
Day by day the West wakes to increasingly more harrowing acts of terror. Fear cripples the capitals of Europe, who will be the next to fall? London? Rome? Berlin?
In a race against time — and prophecy — believing the terrorists intend to assassinate the Pope as part of their plan to bring down the Catholic Church, Sir Charles Wyndham’s team of combat specialists, codename Ogmios, tracks a labyrinthine course through truth, shades of truth and outright lies that takes them from the backstreets of London to the shadow of Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin all the way into the heart of the Holy See itself.
Forty days and forty nights of fear.
And today is day one.
Rat’s Note: This book is not available at the Horror Mall at this time.
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Urban Gothic
Authors: Keene, Brian
Cover Art: Alex McVey
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 250pp.
Pub. Date: September 2009
Publisher: Bloodletting Press
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When their car broke down in a dangerous neighborhood of the inner city, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter in the old dark row house. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until morning.
They were wrong on all counts.
The residents of the row house live in the cellar and rarely come out in the light of day. They’re far worse than anything on the streets outside. And they don’t like intruders. Before the sun comes up, Kerri and her friends will fight for their very lives . . . though death is only part of their nightmare.
Specifics:
- Each book is hand bound
- Hand sewn pages
- All color interior illustrations by Alex McVey
- 70 lbs archival quality acid neutral paper
- Hand signed and numbered
- And a couple more surprises!
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Daemon
Author: Shannon, Harry
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 295pp.
Pub. Date: April 2008
Publisher: Delirium Books
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Black Ops specialist Jeff Lehane burned out fast and retired young.
He still has nightmares about a bloody mission into Iraq, right on the eve of the war.
Yet Lehane reluctantly agrees to assist his ex-wife, who is guarding a Latino rap star. She is killed during the concert, and Jeff soon discovers that someone — or something — has broken into the morgue to eat from her corpse.
Outraged, Lehane assembles his former team and they begin to hunt down the ghoul that is stalking Las Vegas.
Rat’s Note: This book is not available at the Horror Mall at this time.
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Red Snow
Author: Slade, Michael
Format: Signed Trade Softcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Group
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Someone is bushwhacking athletes preparing for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.
Everything that can go wrong at Whistler Mountain does. But that’s merely the warmup to what Mephisto has planned.
His most vicious traps are set for the Special X psycho-hunters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He will grind Chief Superintendent Robert DeClercq’s face into the ice.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
These are the True First Editions of the title.
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Ouroboros
Authors: Kelly, Michael and Carol Weekes
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Page Count: 250pp.
Pub. Date: December 2009
Publisher: Arcane Wisdom
Also Pub: December 1, 2009 (eBook — Arcane Wisdom)
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The Great Wyrm Ouroboros — the ceaseless cycle of destruction and renewal.
In a small coastal town, an ancient force stirs, drawn by the cumulative power of life and death, grief and sorrow, and, ultimately, endless love.
Ouroboros — life out of death.
Tom Christiansen’s wife of 35-years, Dolly, is dead. His world suddenly shattered, Tom takes refuge in his house to grieve and reflect. Tom’s thin veil of reality and fantasy begins to crack and slip. He hears things: the rusty creak of the backyard swing; the tap of tiny feet from an upstairs room.
And he sees things, as well: a small rubber ball bouncing slowly down the stairs; birds like silent sentinels on electrical wires; a strange little pig-tailed girl suddenly appearing in his yard. And what is that mysterious figure lying in the upstairs bed that he used to share with his beloved wife?
Ouroboros — a new cycle has begun.
Tom’s long-time neighbors, and dearest friends, Mick and Robbie Hamlin begun to glimpse strange behavior from grief-stricken Tom. They witness dinner place-settings for two. They hear hushed conversations from the old house, as if Tom is speaking to himself, as if he isn’t alone. There is a pale little girl in the backyard, swinging ceaselessly. And something is rustling in the bushes, peering out from the undergrowth with inquisitive eyes.
Ouroboros — the end is just the beginning.
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