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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2013 18:40:13 GMT
Many thanks to my friends at Constable Robinson for sending their latest catalogue. Aside from Stephen Jones' Best New Horror 24 (due September), this title particularly caught my eye. Stephen Jones (ed.) - Psycho-Mania! (October 2013)  Les EdwardsBlurb: We all go a little mad sometimes ...
Included among these twisted tales of psychos, schizoids and serial killers, many with a supernatural twist - is Reggie Oliver's revival of Edgar Allan Poe's wily French detective C. Auguste Dupin, a new Bryant & May London mystery from Christopher Fowler, child actor-turned-private eye Marty Burns investigating a quirky Hollywood case by Jay Russell and internationally best-selling Michael Marshall revisiting The Straw Man conspiracy. Alongside one of Robert Bloch's most iconic stories, there's an original wraparound sequence in the style of the author by John Llewellyn Probert.
With classic reprints by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper, and Dennis Etchision, original fiction by Peter Crowther, Brian hodge, Richard Christian Matheson, Paul McAulay, lisa Morton, Robert Shearman, Steve Rasnic Tem, and others, you'd have to be out of your mind not to take a stab at these stories!Other forthcoming titles of possible interest to some of our readers would include: Mark Campbell - Dr. Who: The Complete Guide (June) Mike Ashley (ed.) - The Mammoth Book Of Time Travel SF (July) Dr. Leo Ruickbie - A Brief Guide To Ghost Hunting (August) Paul Simpson - A Brief Guide To C. S. Lewis (Sept.) Gardner Dozios (ed.) - The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF 26 (Sept) and: Shaun Ryder - What Planet Am I On? (Sept.): The legendary Happy Monday's frontman goes in search of Extra-terrestrials. Also, it seems the 20th anniversary reissue of Stephen Jones' Mammoth Book Of Zombies is already available though have yet to see a copy in the rotting flesh. |
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Post by Dr Terror on May 14, 2013 18:54:29 GMT
An intro by Robert Bloch - that's impressive!
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 14, 2013 20:25:02 GMT
Thanks for posting, Dem - this is the first I've seen of this! (And another title change from THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PSYCHO STORIES and then THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PSYCHO-MANIA). I've done a linking wraparound story like in the Amicus film ASYLUM. It says in the style of Robert Bloch but I like to think it's all me, really - starting and finishing the book and popping up regularly between stories. A bit of a dream project, actually.
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2013 20:44:48 GMT
Well done your worship! Would love to know what you made of Guy Adams' Hands Of The Ripper (don't tell me you didn't know about that?) Good spot on the Bloch introduction, Dr. T. either this project was a decade in the making or SJ has taken to consulting the ouija board. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 14, 2013 20:52:30 GMT
Aha! I forget we probably haven't mentioned it on here, what with all the health nonsense that happened at the end of last year, but HANDS OF THE RIPPER was Guy Adams' wedding present to us. We were so touched we were beyond words, especially as it's one of our all-time favourite Hammer Horrors. Good fun, isn't it?  |
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2013 21:19:02 GMT
It's a very jolly romp and no mistake, the first of the new Hammers i've managed to finish (though will try resume Vampire Circus shortly. And to think most newly weds have to make do with a toaster. You must both be very proud! You can download a pdf of the full Constable-Robinson July-Dec 2013 catalogue HEREIf it's just the Mammoth & Brief Guides content you're after, you'll find that HERE. |
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Post by andydecker on May 15, 2013 16:12:57 GMT
Thanks for the info. I am not very interested in a book like Psycho-Mania. And a recycled cover, really? The psycho-serial-killer has become so omnipresent that it is hard to care any longer. On the other hand, a wraparound by Mr. Probert, a new (?) Reggie Oliver Story ... hard to resist. We' ll see.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 3, 2013 14:12:01 GMT
It's not due for another month, and there's been a change of cover, but here is the table of contents for Stephen Jones' eagerly awaited Psych-Mania (Robinson, 2013). Having given it some thought, my guess would be that Robert Bloch's introduction is the foreword he contributed to Susan Casper & Gardner Dozio's Jack The Ripper to help 'celebrate' the centenary of the murders. We'll not have too long to find out.  Les Edwards
John Llewellyn Probert - prologue: Screams In The Dark
Joe R. Lansdale - I Tell You It's Love
Reggie Oliver - The Green Hour
Steve Rasnic Tem - The Secret Laws Of The Universe
Basil Copper - The Recompensing Of Albano Pizar
David A. Sutton - Night Soil Man
Brian Hodge - Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella
Scott Edelman - The Trembling Living Wire
John Llewellyn Probert - Case Conference #1
Robert Silverberg - The Undertaker's Sideline
Joel Lane - The Long Shift
Brian Lumley - The Man Who Photographed Beardsley
Lisa Morton - Hollywood Hannah
Paul McAuley - I Spy
Mike Carey - Reflections On The Critical Process
David J. Schow - The Finger
Lawrence Block - Hot Eyes, Cold Eyes
Jay Russell - Hush ... Hush, Sweet Shushie
John Llewellyn Probert - Case Conference #2
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Gatecrasher
Robert Shearman - That Tiny Flutter of The Heart I Used To Call Love
Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
Dennis Etchison - Got To Kill Them All
Mark Morris - Essence
Michael Kelly - The Beach
Robert Bloch - Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper
John Llewellyn Probert - Case Conference #3
Ramsey Campbell - See How They Run
Conrad Williams - Manners
Christopher Fowler - Bryant & May And The Seven Points
Harlan Ellison® - All The Birds Come Home To Roost
Rio Youers - Wide Shining Light
Neil Gaiman - Feminine Endings
Peter Crowther - Eater
John Llewellyn Probert - Case Conference #4
Peter Crowther - Mr Mellor Comes To Wayside
Michael Marshall - Failure
Kim Newman - The Only Ending We Have
Richard Christian Matheson - Kriss Kross Applesauce
John Llewellyn Probert - Epilogue: A Little Piece Of Sanity
Case NotesBlurb (from Stephen Jones Editor.com) WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES . . . When journalist Robert Stanhope arrives at the Crowsmoor asylum for the criminally insane to interview the institute's enigmatic director, Dr Lionel Parrish, little does he realise that an apparently simple series of tests will lead him into a terrifying world of murder and insanity . . . In this chilling new anthology, compiled by multiple award-winning editor Stephen Jones, some of the biggest and brightest name in horror and crime fiction come together to bring you twisted tales of psychos, schizoids and serial-killers, many with a supernatural twist. Reggie Oliver revives Edgar Allan Poe's wily French detective C. Auguste Dupin, there is a new "Bryant & May" London mystery from Christopher Fowler, child actor turned private eye Marty Burns investigates a quirky Hollywood case by Jay Russell, and international best-selling author Michael Marshall returns to The Straw Men conspiracy. With a never-before-published Introduction by Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), along with one of his most famous and iconic stories, this volume also features an original wraparound sequence in the style of the author by John Llewellyn Probert. Add classic reprints by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper and Dennis Etchison, along with original fiction by Peter Crowther, Brian Hodge, Richard Christian Matheson, Paul McAuley, Lisa Morton, Robert Shearman, Steve Rasnic Tem and many others, and you would have to be out of your mind not to take a stab at these stories! |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 4, 2013 8:06:29 GMT
Mr Jones says Bloch's introduction is 'previously unpublished', so who knows? I didn't recognise it when I read the proofs, but that doesn't mean anything!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 4, 2013 10:44:00 GMT
Mr Jones says Bloch's introduction is 'previously unpublished', so who knows? I didn't recognise it when I read the proofs, but that doesn't mean anything! Then that's yet another reason to look forward to it. Thanks for setting me straight, your eminence! Scanning the list, i've read the stories by Ramsey, pre-trademark Harlan E., Lumley (good, macabre, squelchy fun), Chetwynd-Hayes, Bloch, Basil C., Poe, and, very recently, Neil Gaiman, eight thoroughly nasty efforts which would make for a decent slimline collection in themselves. Very well done you for grabbing the lion's share of the action. I bet you're delighted to be sharing a collection with The Gatecrasher! |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 4, 2013 19:32:49 GMT
Mr Jones says Bloch's introduction is 'previously unpublished', so who knows? I didn't recognise it when I read the proofs, but that doesn't mean anything! Then that's yet another reason to look forward to it. Thanks for setting me straight, your eminence! Scanning the list, i've read the stories by Ramsey, pre-trademark Harlan E., Lumley (good, macabre, squelchy fun), Chetwynd-Hayes, Bloch, Basil C., Poe, and, very recently, Neil Gaiman, eight thoroughly nasty efforts which would make for a decent slimline collection in themselves. Very well done you for grabbing the lion's share of the action. I bet you're delighted to be sharing a collection with The Gatecrasher! I certainly am! In fact I was chuffed to be running my framework story out of and into stories by so many of my favourite writers. I think you'll definitely get a good old-fashioned Vault kick out of my bits, Mr D, especially the ending  |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 4, 2013 23:45:31 GMT
I certainly am! In fact I was chuffed to be running my framework story out of and into stories by so many of my favourite writers. I think you'll definitely get a good old-fashioned Vault kick out of my bits, Mr D, especially the ending Like I wasn't already sold on it.  |
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