Subterranean Press is going to publish What the Mouse Found, a new collection of “obscure and unpublished children’s stories” by Charles de Lint. Each story will feature a brand new illustration. They’ll be publishing, as is their wont, a hardcover trade edition (limited to 2000 signed copies; $20 each), and a leatherbound limited edition (400 copies; $45 each), which will include a special story not found in the trade edition.
The table of contents will include:
“What the Mouse Found” (previously unpublished)
“Oakey Bedokey” (unpublished)
“Gnomin’ in the Gloamin'” (first appeared in OSCAR, 1984)
“Tip & the Lion” (first appeared in Mothering, 1988)
“Maple Sugar” (first appeared in Mothering, 1988)
The extra story in the limited edition will be “The Songs of Timothy Tomtit” (previously unpublished)
They expect to publish the book in 2008, but they’re taking pre-orders now.
In addition, they’re also publishing de Lint’s Woods and Waters Wild, the third volume of his Collected Early Stories, in April 2008. The signed trade hardcover edition of this book is listed at $40, with the 52 lettered, traycased copies available at $200.
The table of contents of this volume includes:
High Fantasy:
“A Kingly Thing” (first published in Beyond the Fields We Know, 1979)
“Woods and Waters Wild” (SPWAO Showcase #1, 1981)
“The White Road” (Tales of the Witch World, 1987)
“The Graceless Child” (Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows & Wee Folk, 1991)
“The Fane of the Grey Rose” (Swords Against Darkness IV, 1979)
Angharad:
“Cold Blows the Wind” (Sword and Sorceress II, 1985)
“The Weeping Oak” (Sword and Sorceress IV, 1987)
“Into the Green” (Sword and Sorceress V, 1988)
Dennet & Willie:
“Dennet & the Fiddler” (Night Voyages 8, 1982)
“Dragonwood” (Night Voyages 10, 1984)
Pastiches:
“A Tale of Tangle Who Has Many Names” (Valhalla #1, 1979)
“Of the Temple in the City of the Burning Spires” (Valhalla #1, 1979)
“Nareth the Questioner” (Valhalla #1, 1979)
“Llew the Homeless” (previously unpublished)
Thomas the Rhymer:
“Thomas the Rhymer” (The Mythic Circle #1, 1987)
“Gipsy Davey” (Mythic Circle #5, 1988)
“Cruel Sister” (previously unpublished)