Want something something spooky to read around Halloween? What could be better than GHOSTS BY GASLIGHT?
Edited by Jack Dann (World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of Dreaming Down Under) and Nick Gevers (acclaimed editor and book reviewer), Ghosts by Gaslight is a showcase collection of all-new stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense by modern masters of horror, fantasy, sf, and the paranormal. An absolutely mind-boggling gathering of some of today’s very best dark storytellers—including Peter Beagle, James Morrow, Sean Williams, Gene Wolfe, Garth Nix, Marly Youmans, Jeffery Ford, and Robert Silverberg—Ghosts by Gaslight offers chilling gothic and spectral tales in a delightfully twisted Victorian and Edwardian vein. Think Henry James’s Turn of the Screw and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with a decidedly steampunk edge, and you’re ready to confront Ghosts by Gaslight.
“Devotees of M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood will relish this superior anthology of original stories…. It seems almost unfair to single out individual works when all 18 are superb and will be cherished by steampunk and horror fans alike.” -- Publishers Weekly *starred review*
Check it out here. And here's a great new review by the Deseret News.
-- Diana
Kim Harrison's fabulous detailed and original world guide to her bestselling series, THE HOLLOWS INSIDER, is on-sale tomorrow! Written entirely by the author herself, this great book has an overarching story, plus everything you want to know about Rachel Morgan, the living vampires, elves, the Hollows, Inderlander, and more. Were pack registrations, demon spells, secret correspondence from Trent Kalamack, and much much more.
Plus, the cover of the first edition GLOWS IN THE DARK!
io9.com has a sneak peek inside THE HOLLOWS INSIDER. And Paul Goat Allen raves about it here (including a more detailed description of the contents).
In Michigan? Kim will be signing in Lansing on the release date:
Schuler Books & Music
2820 Towne Center Blvd
Lansing MI
7:00 pm
-- Diana
Richard is touring the third book in his amazing Sandman Slim series. I'll leave the rest to the man himself:
"Here are the current dates for the Aloha From Hell book tour. Some dates will be added and a couple don't have times yet. I'll updates those when I get the info. I'll sign your book, your Kindle, your child, your cat, your ass, your pancreas. I'll tattoo my name on your DNA with an electron microscope. If you buy the damn book I'll scrawl, scratch or gouge whatever you slap down on the table in front of me. But you have to deal with the cops and a vengeful God on your own."
October 18 7pm, MYSTERIOUS GALAXY, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92111
October 19 7:30 pm, MYSTERIOUS GALAXY, 2810 Artesia Blvd, Redondo Beach, CA 90278
October 20, BARNES & NOBLE, 1201 3rd ST, Santa Monica, CA 90401
October 21 7pm, DARK DELICACIES, 3512 W Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
October 22 5pm, POISONED PEN BOOKSTORE, Ste 101 4014 N Goldwater Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85251
October 23 2pm, MURDER BY THE BOOK, 2342 Bissonnet ST, Houston, TX 77005
October 24, UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE, 4326 University Way, Seattle, WA 98105
October 25 7pm, POWELL’S BOOKSTORE, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005
October 27 7pm, BOOKS INC., 301 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041
November 5 3pm, BORDERLANDS BOOKS, 866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Kim Harrison has her first ever NYC signing and Q&A Thursday, 10/15 at the NYU bookstore at 6:30pm! Don't miss it!
NYU Bookstore, 726 Broadway at Astor Place
N.B. THE HOLLOWS INSIDER will not be available, but Kim will sign any/all preorders, and then you can pick up your signed copy on Tuesday, 10/25. (Can't wait for THE HOLLOWS INSIDER? We're selling 100 advance copies Saturday 10/15 at the New York Comic Convention, Booth #944!).
Richard Kadrey will be reading from ALOHA FROM HELL at Borderlands Books as part of San Francisco's fabulous Litquake festival.
Saturday, 10/15/11, 7:15pm-8:15pm
Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
Here's an excerpt of ALOHA FROM HELL at io9.com.