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THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY
HOUSE, a new Wold Newton novel by
Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert. Subterranean Press, September 2009.
The Evil in Pemberley House
By Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert
(preorder--to be published in September)Dust jacket by Glen Orbik
Trade: $40
ISBN: 978-1-59606-249-8Limited: $60
Length: 216 pages
For over thirty years, readers have marveled at Philip José Farmer’s inventive integration of popular fiction and literature’s most beloved characters, in a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First described in the fictional biographies Tarzan Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer expanded his Wold Newton mythos in novels such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Time’s Last Gift, Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel, and Escape from Loki: Doc Savage’s First Adventure.
The Evil in Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton cycle, plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and ’40s, Dr. James Clarke “Doc” Wildman, is all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England—old, dark, and supposedly haunted.
But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates an introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the action at Pemberley from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and ingrains the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Evil in Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad appeal to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly followers of Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer’s own celebrated Wold Newton Family.
The Limited Edition of The Evil in Pemberley House will come with an exclusive chapbook of bonus materials that includes Philip José Farmer’s original outline for the novel, as well as an extensive family tree for the Wold Newton Universe.
Limited: 200 numbered copies, signed by Win Scott Eckert, with bonus chapbook
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition
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Coming in 2010
from Black Coat Press: CROSSOVERS: A Secret
Chronology of the World, Volumes 1 & 2 by Win Scott Eckert.
TARZAN ALIVE by Philip José Farmer. Bison Books, 2006. Or order it from: Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com.
The new Bison Books edition of Tarzan Alive includes a new Introduction by Mike Resnick, Farmer's "An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke" and "Extracts From the Memoirs of 'Lord Greystoke'" (neither of which were collected along with Tarzan Alive in previous editions) and a New Foreword by Win Scott Eckert.
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MYTHS FOR THE MODERN
AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE
edited by Win Scott Eckert. MonkeyBrain Books, 2005. Or order it from: Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com.
In his classic “biographies” of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip José Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE, edited by Win Scott Eckert, collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer’s successors—scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians—who bring even more fictional characters into the fold.
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Complete contents and ordering information here.
EXTRA!! Adrian Nebbett, Holmesian extraordinaire, has created an index to MYTHS. Download it here!
TALES
OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 5: THE VAMPIRES OF PARIS edited by
Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2009. Order it from: Amazon.com, Black Coat Press, or Barnes & Noble.com.
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Once upon a time, the world was but a stage for the exploits of the Shadowmen... The Vampires haunted the rooftops of Paris... Count Zaroff hunted the Serpent Men in the streets of New York... The Queen of Atlantis killed to save her mythical Kingdom... Arsene Lupin prowled the back alleys of Saigon... While in outer space, Doctor Omega and Professor Moriarty finally set foot upon an asteroid...
This fifth anthology of pastiches features some of the most amazing encounters between the legendary heroes and villains of popular literature: Count Dracula and Joséphine Balsamo, Lord Ruthven and the Count of Monte Cristo, the Nyctalope and Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Arsène Lupin and Hanoi Shan, Irma Vep and Fascinax, Monsieur Lecoq and Dr. Loveless... and even Sherlock Holmes and Tevye the Milkman!Expanding the shared universe seen in the first four volumes, Tales of the Shadowmen 5: The Vampires of Paris also features Doc Ardan, Madame Atomos, Jules Verne's Harry Killer, the Black Coats, Bertie Wooster, Hareton Ironcastle, and much more!
TALES
OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 4: LORDS OF TERROR edited by
Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2008. Order it from: Amazon.com, Black Coat Press, or Barnes & Noble.com.
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Join us again for this fourth volume and meet the most villainous cast to ever grace the pages of popular literature, spreading evil from the foggy underworld of London to the seedy taverns of Mars, and from the flowery banks of the Seine to New York's grimy Hell Kitchen...
Fantômas, Countess Cagliostro, Victor Frankenstein, Irma Vep, Count Orlock, Erik, Madame Atomos, the Black Coats, Charles Foster Kane, and even Great Cthulhu himself... Dare meet--the Lords of Terror!
Continuing to build the shared universe seen in the first three volumes, Tales of the Shadowmen 4: Lords of Terror keeps up the pulp meta-fiction tradition. Harry Dickson, Fantomas, Facinax, Doc Ardan, UNCLE, Rocambole, Hercule Poirot, Jeeves & Wooster, and much, much more!
TALES
OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 3: DANSE MACABRE edited by
Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2007. Order it from: Amazon.com, Black Coat Press, or Barnes & Noble.com.
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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. In Win Scott Eckert's "Les Lèvres Rouges,” Doc Ardan (Doc Savage), Adélaïde Lupin (daughter of legendary thief Arsène Lupin), and private eye Nestor Burma race to recover the Eye of Dagon from the vampire Countess Elisabeth Bathory and Le Chiffre. Other stories feature Fantômas, Hercule Poirot, Doctor Omega (Doctor Who), Judex (a French version of The Shadow), King Kong, 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.
TALES
OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 2: GENTLEMEN OF THE NIGHT edited by
Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2006 . Order it from: Amazon.com, Black Coat Press, or Barnes & Noble.com.
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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. In Win Scott Eckert's “The Eye of Oran,” Violet Holmes, the niece of Sherlock Holmes, vies with Doctor Natas (Dr. Fu Manchu) for a mysterious jewel in plague-ridden Oran. Will Doc Ardan (Doc Savage) arrive in time? Other stories feature 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.
TALES
OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 1: THE MODERN BABYLON edited by Jean-Marc and Randy
Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2005. Order it from: Amazon.com, Black Coat Press, or Barnes & Noble.com.
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This anthology features short stories inspired by French pulp fiction, written by several Wold Newton "creative mythographers," including Matthew Baugh, Win Scott Eckert, Greg Gick, and Rick Lai, as well as much more established science-fiction writers such as Brian Stableford, Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, John Peel, Terrance Dicks, Chris Roberson, and Robert Sheckley, among others. Nor are the stories limited to only French characters... Wold Newton Family members such as Doc Savage (aka "Doc Ardan," appearing in Win Scott Eckert's "The Vanishing Devil"), , Fu Manchu, Sherlock Holmes, and The Shadow, all make appearances in the anthology (even if some of them appear in disguise), as do perennial French Wold Newton Family members C. Auguste Dupin and Arsène Lupin. Several of the stories refer to or utilize Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Family theories and concepts. For fans of the monster corner of the Wold Newton Universe, there are stories featuring Frankenstein's Creature, the Cthulhu Mythos, and Erik (Phantom of the Opera).
LANCE
STAR—SKY RANGER edited by Ron Fortier, Cornerstone Book
Publishers, 2008. Order
it from: Amazon.com, Cornerstone Book Publishers, or Barnes & Noble.com.
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From the pages of the 1930s flying hero pulps comes Lance Star—Sky Ranger… Starring the long gone (but not forgotten) pulp character of ace aviator Lance Star—Sky Ranger in four brand new tales by Win Scott Eckert, Frank Dirscherl, Bobby Nash, and Bill Spangler, with corresponding spot illustrations and cover art by Rich Woodall. “Shadows Over Kunlun” by Win Scott Eckert: It’s early 1941: Lance and his Sky Rangers journey to San Francisco and Tibet in search of a long-lost Great War air ace, Le Faucon Rouge. But someone doesn’t want them to find Le Faucon…
In 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!
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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!
The Eldritch New Adventures of Becky Sharp by Micah S. Harris is now available for $14.95 ($15.27 Canada) plus $4.00 postage and handling for First Class mailing US (Total: $18.95) and $7.00 postage Canada (Total $22.27). Overseas mailing is priority only at $15.00 ($29.95 total).Pay via Paypal and pay to MHa6106@aol.com. Please specify "Becky Sharp Book" and include your name and complete address (including country if overseas) and if you wish your copy to be signed by the author. Also availale on Amazon.com.
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