Publisher Brett Alexander Savory writes that ChiZine Publications is now accepting pre-orders for the limited hardcover edition David Nickle’s short story collection, Monstrous Affections (see this page). The $50 book will printed only in quantities sufficient to meet the pre-orders received during by the end of July. Finished copies are expected in late October.
Monstrous Affections will contain 13 short stories and an introduction by writer/editor/journalist Michael Rowe. The hardcover edition will be signed by the author, Rowe, and cover artist Erik Mohr. Nickle won the Bram Stoker Award winner for his short story “Rat Food” (co-written with Edo van Belkom). Later this year, ChiZine Publications will offer a trade paperback edition of the book. Contents:
“The Sloan Men”
“Janie and the Wind”
“Night of the Tar Baby”
“Other People’s Kids”
“The Mayor Will Make a Brief Statement and then Take Questions”
“The Pit-Heads”
“Slide Trombone”
“The Inevitability of Earth”
“Swamp Witch and the Tea-Drinking Man”
“Fly in your Eye”
“The Delilah Party”
“Polyphemus’ Cave”
“Pants are for Company”
At the same time, they’re taking pre-orders for Robert J. Wiersema’s The World More Full of Weeping (see this page). The $35 signed, limited edition hardcover (again, printing only to fill pre-orders) must be ordered by mid-August, and will contain a bonus story, “The Small Rain Down” (which won’t appear in the later trade edition). Savory describes The World…: “When eleven-year-old Brian Page disappears in the woods, the entire community of Henderson rallies around his family, sending searchers into the darkening forest. But what appears to be a simple nature walk gone wrong takes an ominous turn when his father Jeff is reminded that he disappeared into the same woods a quarter century earlier, an incident of which he has no memory. What secrets lie in the mysterious forest? Will Brian follow in his father’s footsteps, and emerge shaking into the arms of his family, or will he be claimed by the eternal twilight of the trees?”