Win Scott Eckert | Novelist | Editor | Essayist

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Tales of the Shadowmen 7: Femmes Fatales is NOW AVAILABLE!

I'm pleased to announce that Tales of the Shadowmen 7: Femmes Fatales is NOW AVAILABLE from Black Coat Press!

US$22.95/GBP 14.99 - 6x9 tpb, 324 pages - ISBN-13: 978-1-935558-44-6 / cover by Phil Cohen

This seventh volume of the only international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world's most fantastic heroes from popular literature spotlights the females of the species: beautiful, deadly, tragic, accursed, enticing… all gathered here for an amazing collection of new adventures...

Tremble as Christine Daae meets Herbert West the Reanimator and Dr. Loveless Nurse Ratched! Experience thrills as Milady tries to outwit Captain Blood and Lady Blakeney the Black Coats! Watch in awe as Becky Sharp foils the designs of Sâr Dubnotal and Amelia Peabody those of mad King Tut! Wonder as the Bride of Frankenstein challenges the power of Dr. Omega and the vampire countess Marcian Gregoryi that of Victor Frankenstein and the Illuminati! Also starring Carmilla! Catherine Levendeur! Rosa Klebb! Fah Lo Suee! And the Eyes Without A Face!

With a foreword by Xavier Mauméjean and a portfolio by Matt Haley.

My tale, "Nadine's Invitation," is an entry in my "Wold Newton Origins" regencypunk series which kicked off with last year's Scarlet Pimpernel story "Is He in Hell?" (appearing both in

Tales of the Shadowmen 6: Grand Guignol and slightly revised and expanded in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions [Meteor House]). "Nadine's Invitaiton" is available as on online teaser.

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