Peter Crowther writes with the most recent news from PS Publishing.
First, the collectible book publisher is now offering e-book editions of some of its titles (expanding their horizons, as it were). The first title available is Black Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, edited by S.T. Joshi (available in April). The unsigned hardcover edition (limited to 500 copies) lists for £25.00, while the signed, traycased hardcover edition (200 copies) is available for £60.00. For those who are more interested in the content than in the collectability, PS is offering DRM-free ePub and mobi format editions for £8.49. Crowther offers this description of the book: “The work of H.P. Lovecraft continues to inspire many of the leading contemporary authors of horror and the supernatural. In this anthology, S.T. Joshi, the world’s leading expert on Lovecraft and the author of the lively treatise The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos, tries his hand at assembling a modern-day Lovecraftian anthology, casting his net on both sides of the Atlantic and producing a volume that radically expands our notions of what constitutes ‘Lovecraftian’ fiction.
“Caitlín R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, and Nicholas Royle produce innovative deconstructions of Lovecraft’s ‘Pickman’s Model’ and ‘The Hound.’ Michael Shea transfers the Cthulhu Mythos to San Francisco, Laird Barron and Philip Haldeman set their Lovecraftian horrors in the Pacific Northwest, and Donald R. Burleson and William Browning Spencer enliven the parched Southwest with cosmic monsters. Ramsey Campbell, Jonathan Thomas, Jason Van Hollander, and others make Lovecraft himself a character in tales of cosmic menace, while David J. Schow and Michael Cisco ring new changes on the Lovecraftian concept of the forbidden book. These and other stories by Michael Marshall Smith, Norman Partridge, W.H. Pugmire, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Darrell Schweitzer, Donald R. and Mollie L. Burleson, Sam Gafford, and Adam Niswander all reveal how vital and vibrant the Lovecraftian idiom remains… and how terrifying.”
In other news, PS is now “accepting orders for our sumptuous Archives series of the pre-comics code horror comics put out in the early 1950s by Harvey Comics. The first volume (the first seven issues of Chamber of Chills) features an introduction from Joe Hill and runs to just one thousand copies: 26 lettered traycased copies signed by Joe and featuring a special piece of commissioned artwork from Glenn Chadbourne, signed by Glenn (£249.99); 300 slipcased copies signed by just Joe (£84.99); and 674 bookstore copies (£24.99)—postage will be £7.99 UK and £9.99 rest of the world.” See this page for ordering information.