Elder Signs Press

Elder Signs Press is proud to announce the upcoming novel Black Glass, the Lost Cyberpunk Novel, by John Shirley.

In the future, we will forget who are…

Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being cyber cop to condemned criminal.  After four years of UnMinding–, his mind suppressed, his body enslaved–he’s released to discover his brother has slipped back into the underworld of the V-Rat, the virtual reality addict. 

Meanwhile, Candle’s harried by the murderous Grist, the head of the world’s biggest multinational. But his real enemy is something else: a conscious program, the Multisemblant, a meld of copied personalities, the dark side of five powerful people, with its own brutal agenda. 

Human society is sinking ever deeper a mire of escapism–but Richard Candle, looking for his missing brother, fights his way through the real world of underground stock markets, flying guns, the trash-walled labyrinth of Rooftown and the fringe of the fringe….

Black Glass will be available in signed, numbered, limited edition hardcover (limited to only 50 copies) as well as trade paperback and signed trade paperback.

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Elder Signs Press is excited to announce the upcoming title Pallid Light by Alexander Griffin, available in summer 2008.

The world ends with the flip of a switch. The thundering storms strike across the world, searing the earth, leaving destruction in their wake. Few will survive.

For the folks living in Temperance, Illinois the nightmare is just beginning. When the sky roils in luminous colors, the people of the small town begin to die, and Randall Clay decides to escape. What he didn’t expect was the dead to come back to life – or the nightmare that came after that.

Pallid Light will be available in signed, numbered, limited edition hardcover (limited to only 50 copies) as well as trade paperback and signed trade paperback.

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Elder Signs Press is proud to announce the upcoming novel The Screaming Tower, The Ebonacht Trilogy, Book One, by James Lowder.

Superstition shrouds the island of Thran and keeps the fear-plagued inhabitants subservient to the reclusive tyrant, Lord Ebonacht, and the denizens of the unseen Twilight Court. Only Janus, an orphan whose own mysterious past is discussed in frightened whispers, rails against the tales of the Strangerfolk and the other creatures that are rumored to stalk the night. His quest to prove the old stories false will bring him face to face with the prisoner of the Screaming Tower and reveal secrets about the world — and himself — far more terrible than those hinted at in the grimmest of legends.

The Screaming Tower will be available in signed, numbered, limited edition hardcover (limited to only 50 copies) as well as trade paperback and signed trade paperback. 

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Elder Signs Press is excited to announce the upcoming title The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia by Daniel Harms, available in summer 2008.

This is the third edition of his popular and extensive encyclopedia of the Cthulhu Mythos. Updated with more fiction listings and recent material, this unique book spans the years of H.P. Lovecraft’s influence in culture, entertainment, and fiction. The voluminous entries make The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia invaluable for anyone knowledgeable about the Cthulhu Mythos and necessary for those longing to learn about the Cosmic Horrors from past and present decades.

The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia will be available in signed, numbered, limited edition hardcover, as well as trade paperback.

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The Stoker Award preliminary ballot list has been announced (not the nominations), and both Horrors Beyond 2 and High Seas Cthulhu made the list of 10 titles in the Superior Achievement in an Anthology category!

Congratulations to the authors and artists who contributed to High Seas Cthulhu and Horror Beyond 2!

Active Horror Writers Association members, please contact William Jones (william@williamjoneswriter.com) for information about HWA review copies.

SHIPPING NOW: Horrors Beyond 2

Some Mysteries Should Not Be Disturbed
Uncanny contraptions, weird devices, technologies beyond the control of humanity abound in the universe. Sometimes there are things that resist discovery. When science pushes the boundaries of understanding, terrible things push back. Often knowledge comes at a great cost.

21 unsettling tales of dark fiction are gathered in this volume, exploring the horrors beyond our reality. Mad science, terrifying creatures, dangerous discoveries, stretched across a landscape of time and space. Explore the secrets hidden within the folds of the world unseen.

Featuring stories by William C. Dietz, A. A. Attanasio, John Shirley, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert Weinberg, Paul S. Kemp, Jay Caselberg, Stephen Mark Rainey, Gene O’Neill, Alexis Glynn Latner, E. Sedia, David Niall Wilson, Lucien Soulban, Paul Melniczek, Tim Curran, C.J. Henderson, Greg Beatty, Michail Velichansky, Ron Shiflet, John Sunseri, William Jones.

Available in a limited edition, numbered hardcover (signed by many of the authors) in the online store, a limited edition signed trade paperback, and trade paperback.

Purchase the hardcover ($45.00)
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Due to an overstock of material, Dark Wisdom Magazine is presently closed to submissions. All current submissions are now being considered as simultaneous submissions, which means that writers are free to submit the material to other markets while it is under consideration at Dark Wisdom, or withdraw it for publication in another market.

Join the staff of ESP at the High Seas Cthulhu Release party!

The celebration is Saturday October 13 at the ConClave 32 Science Fiction convention in Romulus, Michigan, which is held October 12-14.
There will be a drawing for free copies High Seas, as a chance to meet several of the contributors, discussions, music, food, freebies and more!

Here’s the official link to ConClave’s website:
http://www.conclavesf.org/
Stop by and say hello, we look forward to seeing you there!