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For Dr. James Clarke Wildman's (Savage's) birthday....

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For James Bond's birthday....

Captain Midnight Chronicles from Moonstone Books

Here's the cover for Captain Midnight Chronicles from Moonstone Books. My story is "Captain Midnight at Ultima Thule." Apparently the book is slated for late spring (May/June) 2010, so keep an eye out!

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To complement the pic o' the day, here's a bonus pic, the recent edition from Paizo Planet Stories...

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Brad Mengel reviews THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE

Brad Mengel, over at the Serial Vigilante Blog, has reviewed The Evil in Pemberley House.

Please check it out!

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TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 3: DANSE MACABRE edited by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2007.

The third annual merry-go-round of heroes and villains of popular literature, the danse macabre of the Shadowmen. The stories take place in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from adventure literature actually exist in the same universe. ike the previous two volumes, Tales of the Shadowmen 3: Danse Macabre is packed with pulp meta-fiction. Stories feature Doc Ardan (Doc Savage), Adélaïde Lupin (daughter of legendary thief Arsène Lupin), private eye Nestor Burma, Fantômas, Hercule Poirot, Doctor Omega (Doctor Who), Judex (a French version of The Shadow), King Kong, the vampire Countess Elisabeth Bathory, John Devil, the Mahars of Pellucidar, Captain Kronos, Madame Atomos, the Black Coats, Modesty Blaise, the Lovecraftian Mythos, Solomon Kane, Dr. Mystère, OSS 117, and more.

Contributors include Michael Moorcock, Brian Stableford, Chris Roberson, David A. McIntee, Paul Di Filippo, John Peel, Matthew Baugh, Bill Cunningham, Brad Mangel, Win Scott Ecker, and many more.

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Rick Lai’s Secret Histories: Criminal Masterminds (Altus Press, 2009)

The follow-up to Lai’s Daring Adventurers collection, this volume contains the following: “The Chronological Crimes of Wu Fang and Yen Sin,” “The Secret History of Captain Nemo,” “A Brief Biography of Dr. Caber (1883-1945?),” “The Bride of Shiwan Khan,” “The Mask of Erik,” “The Life of Dr. Antonio Nikola (1856-1898?),” “The Brothers Zaroff,” “The Savage Killer,” “Irma of the Ilsa,” “The Trail of the Feathered Serpent,” “Zanigew the Killer,” “The Balkan Tigress,” “Astar of Opar: The Secret Origin of Sumuru,” “The Hansoms of John Clay,” “The Tiger of Haiti,” “Professor Moriarty’s Other Daughter,” “The Third Most Dangerous Man in London,” “Some Chronological Observations on the Fu Manchu Series,” “Fu Manchu Vs. Cthulhu,” “Ah Ling, Brother to Fu Manchu,” “The Legacy of Hanoi Shan,” “The Secret of Erlik Khan,” “Partners in Crime: Fu Manchu and Carl Peterson,” “Alias Dr. Natas,” “Sirens of the Si-Fan,” “The Hidden Hand of Shiwan Khan,” and “John Sunlight and the Si-Fan Succession.”

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TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 2: GENTLEMEN OF THE NIGHT edited by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2006 .

More short stories inspired by French, American, and British pulp fiction. The stories take place in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from adventure literature actually exist in the same universe. Like the first volume, Tales of the Shadowmen 2: Gentlemen of the Night is chock full of Wold Newtonian and pulp fiction goodness. Stories feature Doc Ardan, Arsène Lupin, Fantômas, Harry Dickson, the Phantom of the Opera, Sherlock Holmes, Zenith the Albino, D'Artagnan, Doctor Omega (Doctor Who), Irene Adler, the Nyctalope, the Sâr Dubnotal, Judex, The Time Traveler, John Devil, Frankenstein, Countess Cagliostro, Rouletabille, the Moonstone, Joseph Jorkens, the Lovecraftian Mythos, and more.

Contributors include Kim Newman, Chris Roberson, Brian Stableford, John Peel, Jess Nevins, Bill Cunningham, Matthew Baugh, Win Scott Eckert, and many others.

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Rick Lai’s Secret Histories: Daring Adventurers (Altus Press, 2008)

The first in a series of article collections by one of the Wold Newton authors.

This volume contains the following: “A Chronology for the Avenger,” “Yasmini of India,” “The Life and Times of Steve Harrison,” “The Legend of El Borak,” “The Life and Times of Wild Bill Clanton,” “The Saga of Singapore Sammy,” “The Sgt. Jaeger Chronology,” “The Mystery of Harry Quatermain and Other Conundrums,” “The Saga of John Gorman,” “Secrets of Sir Henry Merrivale,” “The Lecoq Universe,” “Peter the Brazen: The Inconsistencies,” “Peter the Brazen Vs . Fu Manchu,” “The Hand of Kong,” “The Contradictions of Khlit the Cossack,” “The A .J . Raffles Chronology,” “The Insane Captain Wentworth,” “The Anomaly of Professor Challenger’s Daughter,” “A Scandal in Ruritania,” “The Holmes-Lupin Rivalry,” “The Savage Family of India,” “The Tragic Case of John Blakeney” and “The Jules de Grandin Chronology” (co-authored with Matthew Baugh).

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Short fiction by Arthur C. Sippo, MD, MHP

The Loki Comrades stories depend heavily on the background from Philip José Farmer in his authorized Doc Savage novel Escape from Loki and his biography Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.

• "His Last Hand" - Zine of Bronze 3
• "Long Tom Robber" - Zine of Bronze 4
• "Andy and Ted’s Excellent Adventure" - Zine of Bronze 5

Forthcoming: a Pat Savage pastiche, "The Perils of Patricia," to be published in Zine of Bronze 7.

Stories about Sun Koh, the heir to Atlantis who has come forward from the deep past to prepare mankind to survive the coming Ice Age:

• "How art thou Fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer!"
• "Thou Preparest a Table Before Me"
• "Sit Thou at My Right Hand"

Not yet published:

• "As far as the East is from the West"
  
• "The Triumph of the Will"

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Glimmerglass, edited by John Allen Small

Glimmerglass: The Creative Writer's Annual (Volume 1) is now available, including contributions from writers such as Roman Leary, P.J. Lozito, Dennis E. Power, Arthur C. Sippo, Michael D. Winkle, and John Allen Small.

• A high school student finds more excitement than she bargained for when a new classmate talks her into spending the night in a haunted barn....
• A mysterious traveler and his young granddaughter find themselves coming to the aid of one of the greatest adventurers of the 20th century....
• An investigative journalist uncovers the incredible true story behind the legendary rampage of a giant gorilla in New York City....

These tales and more can be found in the pages of this publication, which was created especially for people who love to read by people who love to write. It represents the efforts of a collection of individuals who are sensitive to the power of the written word, people who care about their craft and who might one day place in front of your child or grandchild a sentence or paragraph that may in some fashion change that child's life. For such is the power of creative writing.

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Day 7 of a week of posts of non-English language Philip José Farmer books in my collection... Blown. I tend to push the "spicy" envelope with the pics on this blog, but this one takes it beyond even that threshold... so the pic is behind the cut.

CROSSOVERS: A Secret Chronology of the World, Volume 1 -- cover by Mark Maddox!

...And here it is!

Artist Mark Maddox has done a wonderful job bringing my and Black Coat Press publisher Jean Marc Lofficier's vision for the cover to life.

We've already supplied our direction for Volume 2 and have no doubt the results will be equally stunning!

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In Micah S. Harris' THE ELDRITCH NEW ADVENTURES OF BECKY SHARP, the villainess of the Victorian classic Vanity Fair enters the Cthulhu Mythos as an agent of H.P. Lovecraft's Great Race of Yith!

Cover, frontispiece, and title page illustrations by Loston Wallace! With a mini-introductory essay by Mark (Xenoxoic Tales, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, King Features' Prince Valiant) Schultz!

And the answers to these and other metafictional mysteries: 1) The circumstances of the unheralded first attempted Lidenbrock Expedition to the Center of the Earth! 2) The secret parentage of Ann Darrow, bride of the fearsome Kong! 3) The apocalyptic origins and final fate of Queequeg's fetish and how it went from pagan idol among the wreckage of the Pequod to a dust-gathering paperweight at 221-B Baker Street!

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Day 6 of a week of posts of non-English language Philip José Farmer books in my collection... Nothing Burns in Hell.

Green Man Review on THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE

Robert M. Tilendis over at the Green Man Review has some very nice things to say about The Evil in Pemberley House.

"This one is fun--a good, tight story, enough psychology to keep it interesting, villains galore, characters with eccentricities that only the English can manage gracefully, a rich context, and lots of sex."

Check out the complete review here!