“Hellfire & Damnation is an impressive collection, a series of remarkable tales—some based on true stories—organized around a brilliant and unifying theme that echoes Dante’s Inferno: Wilson’s harrowing work will stay with you long after you finish the final page.” – Lisa Mannetti, The Gentling Box

Hellfire & Damnation

Literature & Fiction

Wilson, Connie Corcoran

Genre Fiction

Merry Blacksmith Press

In 1960, Earl set forth these questions: 1.) Do you feel that magazine science fiction is dead? 2.) Do you feel that any single person, action, incident, etc., is responsible for the present situation? If not, what is responsible? 3.) What can we do to correct it? 4.) Should we look to the original paperback as a point of salvation? 5.) What additional remarks, pertinent to the study, would you like to contribute? Who answered? A panorama of authors and fans from across the history of the field including Ray Bradbury, Howard DeVore, Poul Anderson, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, Kurt Vonnegut, John W. Campbell, Horace Gold, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more. Originally published in SaFari Annual #1 (which was awarded a Hugo in 1961 as Best Fanzine) this is the only official print edition, now updated, compleat, and unexpurgated.

Who Killed Science Fiction?: Compleat & Unexpurgated

Kemp, Earl

History & Criticism

Daniel Pearlman is a master of the literary fantastic. His stories expand the imagination as he explores the boundaries of our world and enters the hazy penumbra of perception. These twelve stories are like no funhouse mirror you’ve ever seen before.

A Giant in the House & Other Excesses

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Pearlman, Daniel

Science Fiction

Eight dread-filled tales written and drawn by a master of horror and science fiction. These tales will haunt your dreams in a way Lovecraft only wished he could in his darkest nights. From the creator of Those Annoying Post Bros, Savage Henry, Keif Llama: Xenotech, and Star Crossed comes a collection of unhealthy tales. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

My Name Is Lesion: A Collection of Unhealthy Tales

Comics & Graphic Novels

Howarth, Matt

Graphic Novels

On February 20, 2003, The Station nightclub at 211 Cowesett Avenue, West Warwick, Rhode Island would bear witness to the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in American history. The Night the Music Ended is presented in memory of that tragic night and its victims, and looks at the nightclub itself, its place in the community, the fire, and the aftermath. In addition, The Night the Music Ended celebrates the music with interviews with the very bands that attracted so many devoted fans to this popular club: Quiet Riot, The Dave Davies Band, Warrant, The Fixx, and many more. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Station Fire Memorial Foundation.

The Night the Music Ended: The Station Nightclub: March 2000 - February 2003

History

Bellemore, Marilyn

Americas

Long-celebrated comic artist and writer extraordinaire Matt Howarth returns with a new collection of 25 classic and all-new science fiction stories. Western Promise explores the very boundaries of imagination and wonder with worlds beyond, aliens like no other, and stories without peer. Buckle in. Seal that space suit. Charge that blaster. It will do you no good. Nothing can prepare you for the universe of Matt Howarth.

Western Promises: and Other Tales of Interstellar Cynicism

The third collection by Hugo Award-winning author Tim Pratt— whose previous collection Hart &amp; Boot and Other Stories was a World Fantasy Award finalist—gathers 23 of his best recent works of science fiction and fantasy. Stories include Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award nominee “Her Voice in a Bottle,” Bram Stoker Award finalist “The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft” (with Nick Mamatas), and three new stories appearing here for first time: contemporary fantasy novelette “The Fairy Library,” science fiction short story “The Haunted Mech Suit,” and a new story set in the author’s popular Marla Mason urban fantasy series, “Cages.” Also included are such fan favorites as “The River Boy,” “A Programmatic Approach to Perfect Happiness,” and “Another End of the Empire,” plus many more, with illustrations by acclaimed artists Kat Beyer and Bradley K. McDevitt. Cover by Jenn Reese.

Antiquities and Tangibles: and Other Stories

Pratt, Tim

Past Masters and Other Bookish Natterings collects some of the very best of Bud Webster’s columns and author profiles drawn from a broad knowledge of the field of literary science fiction and fantasy. Bud is the final word on genre scholarship, and that has never been more evident than in this collection.

Past Masters: and Other Bookish Natterings

Webster, Bud

Do better. That’s a hell of a thing to demand of yourself. Marla Mason has been a mercenary, chief sorcerer and protector of an entire city, and an occult detective, and now she’s a goddess of Death… but only part-time. She gets to spend six months a year living as a mortal woman on Earth, and she’s decided to devote those months to hunting monsters for fun and personal redemption. Armed with axe and dagger, with the living severed head of her worst enemy in a birdcage for a traveling companion, she sets off by motorcycle into the American Southwest on a journey of self-discovery and other-destruction. Time to ride.

Bride of Death

Pratt, T.A.

Fantasy

Murder in Salem? In this day and age? First day back on the job, introverted police detective Andrew Lennox and his partner discover the body of a hanged man on Gallows Hill who turns out to be the lost heir of the Musgraves, an old family with a twisted history and who deny all knowledge of the victim. Solving the case takes Lennox through the colorful byways of modern Salem, a city still haunted by its own dark history of Puritan hysteria and witch-hunting zealots. He must deal with Halloween tourists, self-styled witches, college students, tarot readers, local politicians, retired cops and recent immigrants. Lennox discovers that everyone in Salem keeps secrets, and some will kill to keep them. “Rory O'Brien is an astonishing conjurer with words. Out of his deep historical knowledge, his perceptiveness about everyday existence, and his vivid imagination, he has brought to life in all its unique glory the legend-haunted city of Salem, Massachusetts. Detective Andrew Lennox is an utterly believable hero whose clever exploits provide subtle frissons.” – Paul Di Filippo, co-author of Families Are Murder. “What could be more ideal than a murder mystery set in Salem, written by an expert on the dark secrets of New England? What could be better than a police procedural at the very epicenter of our Trick or Treat tradition? Anyone seeking a delightful whodunit will eat this book up like a bag of Halloween candy.” – Walter Greatshell, author of Terminal Island

Gallows Hill

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

O'Brien, Rory

Mystery

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