Rachel Blok writes that specialty British publisher Eibonvale Press, which “produces exceptionally attractive and lovingly designed editions of intelligent modern horror, magic realism, and the surreal,” is announcing the release of two new titles.
Experiments at 3 Billion A.M. by Alexander Zelenyj is a collection of forty stories which are dark, nostalgic, bizarre, magical, horrific, perverse, and filled with dark humour. “These haunting and surreal tales deal with death and abduction and disappearance; secret evil in urban landscapes, and alien phenomena in rural settings. This massive 600+ page collection features gorgeous black-and-white title plates for each story.” Zelenyj is a Canadian author whose work has appeared in a slew of small-press magazines. Contents of this volume include: Foreward by David Rix; “The Potato Thief Beneath Indifferent Stars”; “Blue Love Maria”; “Black Flies Inside”; “Footsteps to Blacken the Drifts”; “The Stealing Sky”; “The Mighty Ones Listen to the Night”; “Let the Firefly Men Remind You”; “Just Right Under Moonlight”; “Teenage Pirates and the Ghosting of Texas”; “The Loneliness of Strangefire Dancers”; “Onwards! To Memphis!”; “The Prison Hulk”; “Gladiators in the Sepulchre of Abominations”; “Night Symphonies”; “The Burning Sadness of Crash-Landed Sleepers”; “Tara of the Wine Cats”; “In the City Where Dreams Wander the Sidewalks”; “I Humbly Accept This War Stick”; “Lost in the Penguin Tunnel”; “The Lilac Perfumes Between the Stars”; “Dreams of the Rocket-Boy”; “Love, Death, and Monsters at the Drive-In”; “Letters from the Laboratory”; “The Snow Robins Fly Between Heaven and Hell”; “The Silly Significance of Running with Soda Fire”; “Waiting for the New Reign of the Fire Ants”; “Pining for the Lost Love of the Moon Creatures”; “The Empty Hands of Alvin Calvin Rourke”; “Salty Magic Balloon Trips for the Moon to Judge”; “The Runners Among the Stars”; “Captain of a Ship of Flowers”; “Pigeons or Ashes, and the Final Gift of Jimmy Colley”; “The Animals Have Seized the Diamond Sea Kingdom”; “The Grey Tammy and the Living”; “Christina the Bloomed”; “I am the Stink Candle”; “Grandmother Mars and the Relentless Call to Arms”; “Where the War Bird Leads”; “Another Light Called 1-47”; “Poppy, the Girl of my Dreams, and the Alien Invasion I Can Detect Like Radar through my Braces”. The hardcover versions (standard or limited) of Experiments… are available for £27.50; the paperback for £18.75.
Eibonvale has also released The Oz Suite by cult horror writer Gerard Houarner. This book is “a set of three brilliant, substantial, and very contrasting stories all rooted in the strange phenomenon that is The Wizard of Oz.” Houarner has written four novels—a three book series about supernatural assassin Max, and a fantasy—and over 250 short stories, with 48 earning Honorable Mentions in various Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror volumes. His stories have been gathered into four collections. The hardcover of The Oz Suite is available for £18, with the paperback listed at £6.75.