The Taint on sale today only (2/12/07)!

[ShadoeWolfe]

Everyone looking for a special Lumley edition at a great price? Check out Subterranean Press for an awesome offer for Brian's upcoming book later this year. Just got this email earlier today and got my copy set aside...


Announcing THE TAINT AND OTHER NOVELLAS by Brian Lumley
The Taint and Other Novellas: Best Mythos Tales, volume one
By Brian Lumley:
(preorder -- to be published in October)
Illustrated by Bob Eggleton
Limited: $40
ISBN: 978-1-59606-125-5
Lettered: $200
Length: 400 pages (tentative)
Prior to the first American publication of Brian Lumley's ground-breaking, dead-waking, best-selling Necroscope® in 1988 -- the first novel in a long-lived, much-loved series -- this British author had for twenty years been earning himself something of a reputation writing short stories, novellas, and a series of novels set against H. P. Lovecraft's cosmic Cthulhu Mythos backdrop. A soldier in 1967, serving in Berlin with the Royal Military Police, Lumley jump-started his literary career by writing to August Derleth, the then dean of macabre publishers at his home in Sauk City, Wisconsin, telling of his fascination with the Mythos, and purchasing books by the "Old Gentleman of Providence, RI." In addition, he sent a page or two of written work allegedly culled from the various forbidden or "black books" of the Mythos. Suitably impressed, the master of Arkham House invited Lumley to write something solid in the Mythos as a possible contribution to a new volume he was currently contemplating, to be titled -- what else but? -- Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. And as might well be imagined, that set everything in motion.
Forty years have passed since then and a good many words of Mythos fiction written, including critically acclaimed and award-nominated work, stories that have appeared in prestigious magazines such as Fantasy & Science Fiction, and hardcover volumes from publishers all over the world from the USA to China and the United Kingdom to Russia. But while Lumley's novels are all currently available, many of them in hardcover format, his Mythos short stories and novellas have until now remained uncollected.
Subterranean Press is proud to correct that omission in volumes that are guaranteed to be the pride of any collector's library of Mythos works other than tales written by H. P. Lovecraft himself. Here in this volume are found the novellas; the future companion volume contains the short stories. And thus the very best of Brian Lumley's works in this sub-genre, including such recent tales as The Hymn and The Taint, are collected and presented for the first time in this much more worthy and durable format...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Horror at Oakdeene
• Born of the Winds
• The Fairground Horror
• The Taint
• Rising with Surtsey
• Lord of the Worms
• The House of the Temple

Limited: 1500 signed hardcover copies: $40
Lettered: 26 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom traycase: $200



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[Chris Banks]

Cool, cool, cool. Must go and see if I can place an order, or something, I think.......!

[sideous]

Just got my 2 copies ordered

[DC 1]

tried the link, got this:

Miva Merchant has encountered a fatal error and is unable to continue. The following information may assist you in determining the cause of the error:

Error Code: MER-DTB-00072 Description: Product '' not found (oui/oui_ud.mv:555)
Any ideas?

[ShadoeWolfe]

tried the link, got this:

Miva Merchant has encountered a fatal error and is unable to continue. The following information may assist you in determining the cause of the error:

Error Code: MER-DTB-00072 Description: Product '' not found (oui/oui_ud.mv:555)
Any ideas?

I got the same error - email Bill directly and let him know that happened and he should send you a link that is correct.

[sideous]

Try this link:

http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Mer...oduct_Count=17

[Chris Banks]

That works for me. Don't know about the other guys.