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Post by andydecker on Dec 1, 2015 18:36:50 GMT
Of course they have to do a paperback. There is only so much of Bela Lugosi's skin.
How about a spike from an Iron Maiden as an extra?
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Post by dem bones on Dec 1, 2015 18:47:53 GMT
I think we just blew any chance of a complimentary review copy.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 1, 2015 19:06:00 GMT
I never realized that the Ebook reprints of the first ones, which are at least in Germany ridiculously cheap, were done by Robinson.
Alone reading the overview from 1989 makes for nostalgic feelings. According to Jones 15% of american books and 9% of british books were horror. Unbelievable.
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 1, 2015 19:31:52 GMT
Great news from Planet Expert! To compliment the hard-cover edition of Best New Horror 26 (Deluxe Signed Tray-case, strictly limited, numbered, vacuum sealed, printed on nuclear strike resistant asbestos, bound in Bela Lugosi's skin, converts into a luxury yacht, free Stephen King blow-up doll with orders over £10, 000, etc), P.S. have announced a paperback edition, publication date "towards the end of 2015." Read the attractively worded, not the least bit up itself press release HERE. Wow, lessons to be learned on how to write marketing material there!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 7:48:39 GMT
Of course they have to do a paperback. There is only so much of Bela Lugosi's skin.
How about a spike from an Iron Maiden as an extra?
I'm holding out for the mega-limited edition, which comes tattooed on the riven flesh of a wailing sycophant. Comes with his own dust cover, too.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Dec 2, 2015 12:21:40 GMT
Indeed, volume 2 is complete for the first time.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 2, 2015 13:03:33 GMT
Indeed, volume 2 is complete for the first time. What was missing from the original volume?
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Post by dem bones on Dec 2, 2015 14:09:01 GMT
Roberta Lannes' Apostate in Denim? I Know Robinson weren't comfortable with one of her stories.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Dec 3, 2015 8:41:06 GMT
That's the one! But it was actually W. H. Smith's that said they wouldn't carry the book if we included Roberta's tale, as I recall.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2015 9:03:23 GMT
That's the one! But it was actually W. H. Smith's that said they wouldn't carry the book if we included Roberta's tale, as I recall. Thanks for the confirmation/ correction, Ramsey. And wasn't it the same WHS got shirty with Graham Masterton's Eric The Pie and refused to stock the launch issue of the short-lived Frightners magazine?
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Post by ramseycampbell on Dec 4, 2015 11:58:35 GMT
I'm pretty sure that's true.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 4, 2015 14:43:34 GMT
That's the one! But it was actually W. H. Smith's that said they wouldn't carry the book if we included Roberta's tale, as I recall. Thanks Dem and Ramsey!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2015 8:06:44 GMT
Matt, Ramsey, this is how Stephen Jones remembers the episode in The Mammoth Book Of The Best of Best New Horror, 2010. Best New Horror 2 was the only book I have ever had censored by a publisher.
Ramsey and I had solicited and contracted Roberta Lannes' disturbing serial-killer story 'Apostate In Denim' (from the first issue of Iniquities magazine) for the volume. However, when we delivered the book manuscript to Robinson, certain people in the company vehemently objected to the content of the story and refused to include it. Despite our protestations (how could a horror story be too horrific?), we were overruled. At least Roberta was very understanding about the whole matter, and she later included the tale in her 1997 collection The Mirror Of Night.
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