Here are two Kickstarter books I backed on 2023 that just came in.
I will have a small number copies of The Book of Fuligin in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, currently in progress.
Archive for the ‘Horror’ Category
Library Addition: Two Kickstarter Firsts
Tuesday, November 26th, 2024Library Addition: Five Signed Firsts
Monday, November 25th, 2024Four of these were bought from a dealer having a 40% off sale, and the fifth (the Rucker) was part of that estate purchase, which I didn’t realize was signed until I went to catalog it for sale because none of the other books in that purchase were.
Library Additions: Three Hippocampus Press Firsts (Lovecraft, Shea)
Thursday, November 21st, 2024I finally got in a long-delayed order from Hippocampus Press.
Gray lines in purple at top are a scanner artifact.
Copies of these will be available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (currently in progress).
Library Addition: Arkham House Ephemera Guide
Thursday, November 14th, 2024This popped up on an Arkham House group, and I knew that I had to pick up a copy. Not because I collect Arkham House ephemera, but because I collect Arkham House reference books. I think this one is the fifth I own.
Herron, Don, and John D. Haefele. Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years 1937 —1973: A Pictorial History & Guide For Collectors. Cimmerian Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original (a POD books, with “version 1.1 (November 2024)” on the copyright page and “Made in the USA/Coppell, TX/08 November 2024” on last (barcode) page), a Fine copy. Just what the title says, a pictorial history of Arkham House ephemera (catalogs, review slips, etc.) issued from the press’s founding up through 1973. The book is actually useful even if you don’t collect ephemera, as the full catalogs show when books went out of print and how much they were going for, etc.
This was published at $40. I put it in my basket where it sat for a bit until I had enough other items to make it worth an order, whereupon I found it had dropped in price to $29.33! If you want a copy, click on the Amazon link above, by which time the price will no doubt have fluctuated up or down due to their mysterious algorithm…
Library Addition: Sax Rohmer’s A Little Yellow Book of Perilous Tales
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024Another Borderlands Little Book:
Rohmer, Sax (F. Paul Wilson, editor). A Little Yellow Book of Perilous Tales. Borderlands Press, 2024. First edition hardback, #463 of 500 copies signed by Wilson, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Short stories, including the very first Fu Manchu story ever published.
I will have a very small number of copies available in the next lame Excuse Books catalog (currently in progress).
Fark Scary Story Thread for 2024
Thursday, October 31st, 2024Today is Halloween, which means it’s time for the annual Fark scary story thread!
Here are the links to threads from previous years:
While you’re here, feel free to check out some of my other freaky/creepy/scary/silly Halloween posts.
Library Addition: Signed, Limited First of Dan Simmons’ Carrion Comfort
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024The third (and thus far final) book from that seller of Dark Harvest books on eBay.
Simmons, Dan. Carrion Comfort. Dark Harvest, 1989. First edition hardback, #303 of 400 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket a few touches of edgewear and a trace of rubbing to front spine join in a Fine slipcase. His celebrated novel of psychic vampirism. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. Chalker/Owings, page 121. Bought off eBay for $75.
Simmons published this, Hyperion and the underrated Phases of Gravity the same year, quite an impressive literary feat (though I’d already been following him from Song of Kali), and briefly enjoyed some “The Next Stephen King” collecting hype. But overproduction of some of Simmons work (particularly from Lord John Press) quickly proved that the market for Dan Simmons limited was not as large as the market for Stephen King limiteds. But Simmons still produces some fine work up to this day…
Halloween Horrors: Giant Insects
Saturday, October 26th, 2024If you’re easily freaked out by ordinary insects, you might not to want this giant insects video:
Obviously AI, but pretty well done. The guy’s entire channel features more of this sepia-toned nightmare fuel…
Halloween Horrors: Pitch Meeting for The Shining
Friday, October 25th, 2024What’s more Halloween than an iconic horror movie directed by iconic director Stanley Kubrick from an iconic horror novel by Stephen King mocked by iconic Ryan George?
Honestly, I remember not being all that impressed with The Shining when I saw it back in the 1980s. A rewatch is probably overdue.
(And for fans of The Shining, this odd item might be of interest…)
Library Addition: Signed, Numbered Edition of Joe R. Lansdale’s The Nightrunners
Thursday, October 24th, 2024Someone on eBay was selling off a bunch of Dark Harvest limiteds, and I picked up three of them for a comparative song. This is the first.
Lansdale, Joe R. The Nightrunners. Dark Harvest, 1987. First edition hardback, #60 of 300 numbered copies signed by Lansdale, introduction author Dean R. Koontz, and illustrator Gregory Manchess, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase; a pristine, mint copy. Joe’s most splatterpunk work. Supplements both the lettered slipcrate edition and the trade edition I bought and had Joe sign back when it came out, so I now have all three states. Isajanko, A009.a.ii. Person/Orbaugh/Lansdale, “Joe Lansdale: Notes Toward a Bibliography,” 10a. Chalker/Owings, page 120 (Jack was not a fan of the novel). Bought off eBay for $75.
By way of coincidence, I will have a copy of the trade edition of The Nightrunners signed by both Lansdale and Koontz in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.