Shadow Publishing October Newsletter
SUCH THINGS MAY BE
by JAMES WADEOur next book, edited by Edward P. Berglund, cover artwork by Jim Pitts. With a Foreword by Fritz Leiber, much of this book was the Arkham House title that never was! Now, Shadow Publishing brings all James Wade's (1930-1983) supernatural fiction, along with poetry, non-fiction articles, reviews and music scores together in this major retrospective of the author's work.
His supernatural fiction includes Cthulhu Mythos stories, 'A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth', 'The Deep Ones' and 'The Music of Erika Zann', whilst his non-fiction encompasses writings on Arthur Machen, reviews of H. P. Lovecraft, M. P. Shiel, Manly Wade Wellman and Ramsey Campbell among others. In all, over 50 individual pieces.
This title will be published towards the end of 2017.
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THE BLACK PILGRIMAGE & OTHER EXPLORATIONS: ESSAYS ON SUPERNATURAL FICTION
BY ROSEMARY PARDOEOur first non-fiction book. Scheduled for 2018, this collects Rosemary Pardoe's essays on supernatural fiction from Ghosts & Scholars, All Hallows and The Everlasting Club's Lady Wardrop's Journal. In all there will be between 40-50 essays in this collection.
Rosemary Pardoe is the esteemed essayist and editor of the famed M. R. James related Ghosts & Scholars magazine (changing its name to The G&S M. R. James Newsletter), which she has edited since 1979. She is the editor (with Richard Dalby) of Ghosts & Scholars: Stories in the Tradition of M. R. James (1987), and three volumes of The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows (Sarob Press). Her collection of short stories, The Angry Dead (as by Mary Ann Allen) was published in 1986 by Crimson Altar Press. She has contributed to books such as Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James, edited by S. T. Joshi and Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness Annotations, published by John Howard.
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CREEPING CRAWLERS Second edition
Edited by
Allen Ashley, the second edition of this superb anthology comes with a creepy new cover by
Peter Coleborn.
Creeping, slithering, crawling Horror, SF and Fantasy by nineteen authors including Adrian Cole, Storm Constantine, Andrew Darlington, Dennis Etchison, John Grant, Mark Howard Jones, and others.
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