A press release from Pete Crowther of PS Publishing:
We’ve been threatening it for some time now but, aside from those heated and vigorous discussions in convention bars (when everything seems not merely possible but moreover a complete doddle), we’ve shied away from full commitment… simply because we already had so many plates spinning above our heads that one more (and a fairly major one to boot) looked set to be the plate that broke the camel’s back. (Don’t you just love mixed metaphors?)
But just this morning, in a typical Crowther “sod it, let’s go for it” moment, I told Mike to go ahead… and caution be damned. So, later this summer, you should watch out for the first titles in a PS mass market paperback line under our sister imprint Drugstore Indian. And who better to kick off than my good friend and long-time PS figurehead (from whom we’ve published twelve titles… some of them not even mis-spelled!), Ramsey Campbell.
Eight titles are already underway and every single one of them will be the definitive version… calling for some re-writing on some of the titles—director’s cuts, if you will, with that particular phrase being very appropriate in more than one case! The titles are as follows:
The Darkest Part of the Woods (not “The Wods” as originally noted on the spine of the book’s jacket)
Secret Story (instead of “Secret Stories”)
The Overnight (which, with Midnight Sun, is my personal favourite)
Told By the Dead
Creatures of the Pool
The Seven Days of Cain
The Inhabitant of the Lake
Just Behind You
Can there be anyone out there who hasn’t encountered Ramsey’s work?
Heck, can there be anyone who doesn’t absolutely adore these joyous, blackly humorous tomes of downright nastiness and terror? Well, I reckon the answer on both counts—strange as it may seem—is a resolute “yes”. And that’s odd when you consider the esteem in which the fellow is held.
But just to give you a tiny bit more persuasion, try this on for size.
The paperbacks will be £6.99 apiece plus postage (£2.99 in the UK, £4.99 in the US and £7.99 everywhere else). But you can buy four titles for £27.96 and just one postage charge or all eight titles for £49.99 plus just one postage charge. How could you possibly resist?