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The pic o' the day is on vacation this week. It will be back sometime next week. Stay tuned.

Tales of the Shadowmen, Vol. 6: Grand Guignol - pre-order on Amazon

Tales of the Shadowmen, Vol. 6: Grand Guignol is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Edited by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, this latest entry in the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series from Black Coat Press "is dedicated to simpler horrors and theatrical villainy. Tremble as you face the terror of Fantômas, the villainy of Madame Atomos, the sorcery of Leonox, the unspeakable King in Yellow and the insanity of Alphaville! Fortunately for us, and for the world, there are always stalwart heroes rising up to stem the tides of darkness and restore peace and order to the world. Chevalier Dupin! Harry Dickson! Mowgli! Arsène Lupin! The Scarlet Pimpernel! Raffles and many more are there, to confront crazy sorcerers and ravening zombies, mad scientists and giant rats, evil computers and Hindu death cults, Martians and monsters!"

Contents:

• Christopher Paul Carey: Caesar's Children starring The Ponto Family.
• Win Scott Eckert: Is He in Hell? starring The Scarlet Pimpernel, Leonox.
• Emmanuel Gorlier: Out of Time starring The Nyctalope, The Time Patrol.
• Matthew Baugh & Micah Harris: The Scorpion and the Fox starring Becky Sharp, the Yellow Shadow.
• Travis Hiltz: The Treasure of the Ubasti starring Sâr Dubnotal, Mowgli.
• Rick Lai: Incident in the Boer War starring Fantômas, Raffles.
• Roman Leary: The Children of Heracles starring The Nyctalope, Professor Quatermass, The Master.
• Jean-Marc Lofficier: J.C. in Alphaville starring Jerry Cornelius, Alphaville, The Castle.
• Randy Lofficier: The Spear of Destiny starring Phantom Angel.
• Xavier Mauméjean: The Man for the Job
• William P. Maynard: Yes Virginia There is a Fantômas starring Fantômas, Frederick Dickson.
• John Peel: The Biggest Guns starring Doc Ardan, Lord Roxton, The Gun Club.
• Neil Penswick: The Vampire Murders starring Harry Dickson.
• Dennis E. Power: No Good Deed… starring Père Tabaret, Chevalier Dupin.
• Frank Schildiner: Laurels for the Toff starring Jean Kariven, The Toff.
• Bradley H. Sinor: Where the Shadows Began... starring Michel Ardan, Inspector Legrasse.
• Michel Stéphan: The Red Silk Scarf starring Harry Dickson, Madame Atomos.
• David L. Vineyard: The Children's Crusade starring Arsene Lupin, Harry Lime.
• Brian Stableford: Where Zombies Armies Clash by Night (Part IV of The Empire of the Necromancers) starring Ned Knob, Germain Patou.

For you Wold Newton fans out there, my tale pitting the Scarlet Pimpernel against Leonox takes place in November 1795--just one short month before a meteor with strange properties landed near the village of Wold Newton, England.

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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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Creative Mythographers on the Move

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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