Peter Crowther of PS Publishing announces that the independent British publisher will be publishing “a 500-copy limited edition of Joe Hill‘s second PS novel, Horns. There’ll be 300 slipcased copies signed by the man himself, and 200 traycased copies signed by Joe and artist Vincent ‘Vinny’ Chong.”
The slipcased copies “will feature a wraparound dust-jacket cover (with the cover art also on the actual boards) plus four interior colour plates. The trays will feature a different dust-jacket (though the boards will still have the artwork from the slipcased edition) plus an additional interior piece, which will complement a deleted chapter from the book (note: the deleted chapter will feature only in the traycased edition).” The book is currently scheduled for February 2010. The slipcased copies are expected to sell for £75 each, while the traycased copies will list for £200 each. Crowther also tells would-be buyers that “once the order page is up, all copies ordered before the end of 2009 will feature a reduction of £10 for the slips (to £65) and £25 for the trays (to £175)… and that’s in addition to the usual pre-publication free postage offer (which will run all the way through to the day finished copies are received from the printers).”
In addition to PS’s collectors’ editions, William Morrow will be publishing the book in a trade edition in the US in February, and Orion will do the same in the UK.
Hill won the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild for his 2005 collection 20th Century Ghosts. He also won a World Fantasy Award for his 2005 novella “Voluntary Committal” and a Stoker award for his 2007 novel Heart-Shaped Box.