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SoS #1 Cover
From Arthur Suydam. Also the catalog copy: When the Son of Satan is your best option, God help you. New Orleans. The Big Easy. The membrane between our world and the underworld has always been a little thinner here. Now, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the outpouring of human misery has drawn demons like…
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Picture of Pictures
Here’s the cover of my upcoming story collection Pictures from an Expedition, coming later this summer from Night Shade Books. Thanks to Patrick Arrasmith for a lovely image and to Claudia Noble for an equally wonderful design. I love it and you should, too. (This is a small version because [apart from bandwidth considerations] the…
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Forbidden Planets
Here’s the cover of the anthology Forbidden Planets, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the film that we all remember for Robby the Robot (and, let’s not kid ourselves, the swimsuit). My contribution is called “This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine,” and if I had a list of all the other stories I’d…
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More Pulp
Got my contributor copies of Retro Pulp Tales in the mail yesterday. Publishers Weekly says, “With six-guns blazing and tentacles flailing, this nifty all-original anthology delivers impressively on the “pure storytelling” promise Lansdale (Flaming London) makes in his intro. The dozen authors manage to address serious issues while remaining true to their roots and the…
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Son of Satan
Just in time to coincide with the release of The Omen, Marvel Comics announced at WizardWorld in Philly that Daimon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan, will be coming back in a five-issue limited series that will land in stores this fall. I’m writing it, and Russ Braun is the artist, and there is an outstanding…
Crooked House Fictions 