Dark Regions Press book announcement thread

[Chris_Morey]

The new book Tales of the Weak & The Wounded by Gary McMahon is now available on the DarkRegions.com website in a leather-bound signed by both author and artist Deluxe Thirteen Hardcover with slipcase edition and a 100 Signed and Numbered Limited Hardcover edition!

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The sound of shuffling footsteps across the old cell floor…

A soft voice like a strange tune echoing along the empty corridors…

Dim lights in the windows of the abandoned asylum…

Discarded case files that flip open to reveal the dreams of broken minds…

Welcome to a place where the boundaries of fact and fiction meet.

Acclaimed author Gary McMahon raids the archives of a notorious derelict mental asylum called the Daleside Institute to bring you stories of madness, horror and emotional trauma. In locations as diverse as suburban Germany, the London Underground, an Italian seaside resort and the inhospitable polar icecap, you will meet damaged people with broken lives. Here are terrifying accounts of love, hate, death and madness…

These are the Tales of the Weak and the Wounded


About the Author

Gary McMahon’s short fiction has been reprinted in both THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR and THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY & HORROR. He is the British-Fantasy-Award-nominated author of the novels Hungry Hearts from Abaddon Books, Pretty Little Dead Things and Dead Bad Things from Angry Robot/Osprey and The Concrete Grove trilogy from Solaris.

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[Chris_Morey]

The Bram Stoker Award winning book Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill will be launching on the DarkRegions.com website in two collectible hardcover formats on Tuesday, February 28th. Click here to find out how you could win a $45 100 Signed and Numbered Limited Hardcover of the book for free.

Click here to read more about Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill

Winner of the 2009 Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Collection.

Nine stories of dark science fiction and fantasy take us through the underbelly of San Francisco's most notorious district known as the Tenderloin.

Best known for his strong sense of place and uniquely vibrant characters. O'Neill brings the gritty underside of the city to life with nine interwoven stories of broken lives, missed dreams, and all that can go wrong with both reality and fantasy among the down and out. The city itself opens wide to swallow all comers with the temptation of its secrets and sins, while O'Neill brings dignity and humanity to a set of characters often overlooked in both society and fiction.

"Haunting, lyrical and often uncomfortably realistic, this slim collection of eight short stories plunges the reader into the darker side of San Francisco. Altered states of consciousness-minds changed by grief, chemistry or too much hard living-are everywhere. In Magic Words, an advertising executive pays a homeless woman a high price for transient success. Poignant and plausible almost to a fault, Tombstones in His Eyes twists the horrors of drug addiction into something harder, sharper and scarier. In the Apotheosis of Nathan McKee, a brokenhearted father's descent into insanity-or is it merely invisibility?-makes normalcy seem all too tenuous. The best story of the bunch, 5150, documents the final moments of a worn-out cop about to retire. O'Neill's deft, authentic prose resonates with the weight of sad reality, erasing the line between knowledge and fear." - Starred review - Publishers Weekly

About the Author


Gene O'Neill is best known as a multi-award nominated writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.

O'Neill's professional writing career began after completing the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1979. Since that time, over 100 of his works have been published. His short story work has appeared in Cemetery Dance Magazine, Twilight Zone Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many more.

O'Neill has had many occupations besides writing including postal worker, contract specialist for AAFES, college basketball player, amateur boxer, United States Marine, right-of-way agent, and vice president of a small manufacturing plant. He also holds two degrees from California State University, Sacramento and University of Minnesota. He currently writes full time and lives in the Napa Valley with his wife, Kay.

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[Chris_Morey]

We are happy to announce that the Bram Stoker Award winning book Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill is now available on the new DarkRegions.com website. Read more about the book here: http://www.darkregions.com/taste-of-...by-gene-oneill

[Chris_Morey]

The novel Crustaceans by William Meikle is now available on the DarkRegions.com website in a Deluxe Signed Hardcover and a Trade Paperback edition (first 100 copies signed by the author). The book is already in stock and shipping to customers.

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From Scottish writer William Meikle comes a novel that is a welcome return to those tomes of pure enjoyment that we read with guilt in our early teens, in the tradition of James Herbert’s THE RATS and Guy N. Smith’s NIGHT OF THE CRABS.

It begins with a dead whale on a Boston shoreline--not in itself an unusual occurrence. But the things that claw their way out of the blubber are very unusual indeed. A cast of giant crabs, evolved over centuries, descends on a small coastal town and, having feasted, make their way to the city using the sewer system. Soon they are swarming around Manhattan, hunted and harried by a SWAT team tasked with ridding the city of the menace...before the menace gets big enough to rid itself of the city.


About the Author



William Meikle is a Scottish writer with over a dozen novels published in the genre press and over 200 short story credits in thirteen countries. He is the author of the ongoing Midnight Eye series among others, and his work appears in a number of professional anthologies. His ebook THE INVASION has been as high as #2 in the Kindle SF charts. He lives in a remote corner of Newfoundland with icebergs, whales and bald eagles for company. In the winters he gets warm vicariously through the lives of others in cyberspace, so please check him out at http://www.williammeikle.com

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Dark Regions Press
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[williemeikle]

Big beasties fascinate me

Some of that fascination stems from early film viewing. I remember being taken to the cinema to see The Blob. I couldn't have been more than seven or eight, and it scared the crap out of me. The original incarnation of Kong has been with me since around the same time. Similarly, I remember the BBC showing re-runs of classic creature features late on Friday nights, and THEM! in particular left a mark on my psyche. I've also got a Biological Sciences degree, and even while watching said movies, I'm usually trying to figure out how the creature would actually work in nature -- what would it eat? How would it procreate? What effect would it have on the environment around it?

On top of that, I have an interest in cryptozoology, of creatures that live just out of sight of humankind, and of the myriad possibilities that nature, and man's dabbling with it, can throw up.

Then there's Guy N Smith, who the book is dedicated to. Guy's killer crabs are remorseless, relentless and the kind of killing machine you can't help but love.

All those things were going round in my head when I first sat down to write the short novel Crustaceans.

As I started I only knew one or two things -- that there would be whales involved somewhere, and that the Crabs would be in the tunnels and sewers under the city. After some fascinating research into the history of excavations and tunneling I made a start.

I worked out a full ecological profile and lifecycle for my "beasts" but most of that went by the board as the plot took over. It went quickly, and I found myself enjoying it immensely. It runs in my head like a movie, and I'd love to see it on the big screen one day, or as a comic book. That's how I think of it -- big, brash and bloody.

It's definitely horror, but it's also Science-fiction, in a very 1950's B-Movie kind of way, a creature-feature if you like. It runs in my head like one of those lurid early technicolor monster movies, and readers will have fun thinking of it that way themselves.

Back to Guy N Smith again. This book began life as a possible collaboration with Guy which, for several reasons, didn't pan out. But the Crabs are all his, and without his original books, this one would never exist. (Indeed there are a few allusions in the book to the originals, a wee homage on my part.) I'd just like to thank Guy, for the inspiration and, more than that, for the fun he's given us in his books over his years of writing.

[Chris_Morey]

We are happy to report that the new novel Lullaby for the Rain Girl by Christopher Conlon is now in stock and shipping to customers! The book is currently available in a leather-bound signed by both author and artist Deluxe Thirteen Hardcover with slipcase edition and a 100 Signed and Numbered Limited Hardcover edition. The book features original artwork by Bram Stoker Award winning artist Vincent Chong. Read more about the book here: http://www.darkregions.com/lullaby-f...topher-conlon/

[Chris_Morey]

The Bram Stoker Award winning collection Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill is now in stock and shipping on the DarkRegions.com website: http://www.darkregions.com/taste-of-...y-gene-oneill/

[Chris_Morey]

Dark Regions Press currently has five titles nominated on the final ballot in the Bram Stoker Awards and for a limited time we are offering 25% off all five titles. Simply use coupon code STOKER25 in the final stage of checkout on the DarkRegions.com website.


The nominated titles are:

Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse (nominated for Superior Achievement in a Collection)

Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird (nominated for Superior Achievement in a First Novel)

Rusting Chickens by Gene O'Neill (nominated for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction)

Shroud of Night by G.O. Clark (nominated for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection)

Surrealities by Bruce Boston (nominated for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection)


Simply use coupon code STOKER25 in the final stage of checkout to get 25% off any/all of the above titles!

[Chris_Morey]

Dark Regions Press is proud to announce that the novel Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird was awarded Superior Achievement in a First Novel during the Bram Stoker Awards on Saturday, March 31st. The novel is currently in stock and available in two collectible hardcover formats: http://www.darkregions.com/isis-unbo...-allyson-bird/

[typicallydia]

Originally Posted by Chris_Morey

Dark Regions Press is proud to announce that the novel Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird was awarded Superior Achievement in a First Novel during the Bram Stoker Awards on Saturday, March 31st.

Congratulations!