2012 Upcoming Releases-Fantasy & Horror

[Loerwyn]

The Skybound Sea is indeed the last in Sam Sykes' Aeon's Gate trilogy. He's moving on to a new series but I'm not entirely sure what it'll be - I think it's potentially YA.

[HeclaBull]

Hey thanks for this, Darksbane. That sucks they keep doing that. I'll probably use good ole Book Depository UK then, the UK cover is better anyhow.

Yeah, I'll be doing the same thing Because Redick's series is great and I don't want to have to wait till next year to read the conclusion. It stinks when some writers deliver the sequels to their series in a timely fashion and the publisher pushes back release dates. Didn't this happen with Ian Tregellis too?

[Kazz Wylde]

Yeah, I'll be doing the same thing Because Redick's series is great and I don't want to have to wait till next year to read the conclusion. It stinks when some writers deliver the sequels to their series in a timely fashion and the publisher pushes back release dates. Didn't this happen with Ian Tregellis too?

Yes I just got my copy of Gary Gibson's Stealing Light from BD, took 11 days, not real bad.
Yeah I agree, The Chathrand Voyage series was a big surprise to me, I always pimp this series, I need to go with BD again for this for sure.
Yes I believe that just happened with the Tregellis series too.

[Randy M.]

The Big Book of Ghost Stories edited by Otto Penzler has just came out last week. It's an interesting line-up:

BUT I’M NOT DEAD YET
Conrad Aiken: Mr. Arcularis
William Fryer Harvey: August Heat

I’LL LOVE YOU—FOREVER (OR MAYBE NOT)
Ellen Glasgow: The Shadowy Third
Ellen Glasgow: The Past
David Morrell: But At My Back I Always Hear
O. Henry: The Furnished Room
Paul Ernst: Death’s Warm Fireside
Andrew Klavan: The Advent Reunion
R. Murray Gilchrist: The Return
Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw
Ambrose Bierce: The Moonlit Road
Lafcadio Hearn: The Story of Ming-Y
Lafcadio Hearn: Yuki-Onna

THIS OLD HOUSE
Amyas Northcote: Brickett Bottom
E. F. Benson: How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
G. G. Pendarves: Thing of Darkness
Edward Lucas White: The House of the Nightmare
Hector Bolitho: The House on Half Moon Street
Dick Donovan: A Night of Horror
Vincent O’sullivan: The Burned House

KIDS WILL BE KIDS
Rosemary Timperley: Harry
Michael Reaves: Make-Believe
A. M. Burrage: Playmates
Ramsey Campbell: Just Behind You
A. E. Coppard: Adam And Eve and Pinch Me
Steve Friedman: The Lost Boy of the Ozarks

THERE’S SOMETHING FUNNY AROUND HERE
Mark Twain: A Ghost’s Story
Donald E. Westlake: In At The Death
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Ghost of Dr. Harris
“Ingulphus”: The Everlasting Club
Isaac Asimov and James Maccreigh: Legal Rites
Albert E. Cowdrey: Death Must Die
Frank Stockton: The Transferred Ghost
Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost

A NEGATIVE TRAIN OF THOUGHT
August Derleth: Pacific 421
Robert Weinberg: The Midnight El

STOP—YOU’RE SCARING ME
Frederick Cowles: Punch and Judy
Henry S. Whitehead: The Fireplace
H. F. Arnold: The Night Wire 400
Fritz Leiber: Smoke Ghost 406
Wyatt Blassingame: Song of the Dead

I MUST BE DREAMING
Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman 437
Washington Irving: The Adventure of the German Student

A SÉANCE, YOU SAY?
Joseph Shearing: They Found My Grave
Edgar Jepson: Mrs. Morrel’s Last Séance
Joyce Carol Oates: Night-Side

CLASSICS
M. R. James: “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come To You My Lad”
W. W. Jacobs: The Monkey’s Paw
W. W. Jacobs: The Toll-House
Edith Wharton: Afterward
Willa Cather: Consequences
Cynthia Asquith: The Follower
Cynthia Asquith: The Corner Shop
H. P. Lovecraft: The Terrible Old Man
Erckmann-Chatrian: The Murderer’s Violin
Saki: The Open Window
Saki: Laura
Fitz-James O’Brien: What Was It?
Alexander Woollcott: Full Fathom Five
H. R. Wakefield: He Cometh and He Passeth By
Perceval Landon: Thurnley Abbey

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
Algernon Blackwood: The Woman’s Ghost Story
Victor Rousseau: The Angel of the Marne
Olivia Howard Dunbar: The Shell of Sense
Marjorie Bowen: The Avenging of Ann Leete

BEATEN TO A PULP
Greye La Spina: The Dead-Wagon
Urann Thayer: A Soul with Two Bodies
Arthur J. Burks: The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee
Thorp Mcclusky: The Considerate Hosts
Cyril Mand: The Fifth Candle
August Derleth and Mark Schorer: The Return of Andrew Bentley
M. L. Humphreys: The Floor Above
Manly Wade Wellman: School for the Unspeakable
A. V. Milyer: Mordecai’s Pipe
Julius Long: He Walked by Day
Dale Clark: Behind the Screen

MODERN MASTERS
M. Rickert: Journey into the Kingdom
H. R. F. Keating: Mr. Saul
Chet Williamson: Coventry Carol


It's an interesting line-up. What I've read (Bierce, Kipling, Benson, M.R. James, Blackwood, Saki, among others), I've generally liked, and there's a lot here I've not come across before. I look forward to picking away at this anthology a bit at a time.


Randy M.

[Hobbit]

OOOH... thanks Randy: not seen this one, but, as you know, I'm a big fan of Penzler's anthologies. This will be my Halloween read for this year!



[LATER EDIT.... And ordered. Great stuff!]

Mark

[Randy M.]

OOOH... thanks Randy: not seen this one, but, as you know, I'm a big fan of Penzler's anthologies. This will be my Halloween read for this year!
[...]

[LATER EDIT.... And ordered. Great stuff!]

Mark

You're welcome, Mark. I figured even if no one else was interested, you would be.


Randy M.

[Mithfânion]

Mjolnir

I agree. Very little buzz on these books even though they are supposed to big, big debuts. Gollancz is quiet about it, I see no arc's or early reviews, it's nothing like when Name of the Wind was launched, to name a comparison. I think they give it as much publicity as they do any other books, like say Elsbeth Cooper's Wild Hunt series.

I guess this is just how they work, they will focus their publicity engine on the more established big guns. I can't recall them making a major splash for Abercrombie's first book either, and that one gained a large readership steadily but surely. Lynch on the other hand came with a lot of pre-pub buzz, but that was US fed as well.

As for TOR UK, well they seem to release so few books now that the one book that I am interested in hardly getting any publicity sofar is no surprise to me.

[Hobbit]

Must admit they (Red Knight and Malice) are two I am looking forward to a great deal. Was hoping to get a heads up on both, but as yet to no avail. Do know people that have copies of the ARC of Malice, though.

Mark

[suciul]

Must admit they (Red Knight and Malice) are two I am looking forward to a great deal. Was hoping to get a heads up on both, but as yet to no avail. Do know people that have copies of the ARC of Malice, though.

Mark

I asked Orbit and they promised me a review copy of Red Knight when it's available, so we'll see as I plan to get the Uk version if that is published before; about Malice I will see as sometimes Tor.uk sends me review copies, but if I like what I read in a sample whenever available i will get that one too...

In the meantime not sure if it was mentioned but a new Jo Fletcher imprint novel (series debut and author's firrst adult fantasy) Mage's Blood by David Hair seems to be quite interesting and as the official release is Thursday (27) I will check it out and get a copy if I like what i see

[JustaStaffer]

I asked Orbit and they promised me a review copy of Red Knight when it's available, so we'll see as I plan to get the Uk version if that is published before; about Malice I will see as sometimes Tor.uk sends me review copies, but if I like what I read in a sample whenever available i will get that one too...

In the meantime not sure if it was mentioned but a new Jo Fletcher imprint novel (series debut and author's firrst adult fantasy) Mage's Blood by David Hair seems to be quite interesting and as the official release is Thursday (27) I will check it out and get a copy if I like what i see

They sent me a copy of MAGE'S BLOOD. Starting it tonight. Nice looking book.

[suciul]

They sent me a copy of MAGE'S BLOOD. Starting it tonight. Nice looking book.

Have not heard of it until today - for FBC Mihir got a copy and I am pretty sure I could have asked for one and got it, but I find it harder and harder to read print books so I prefer to wait for an ebook release if the publisher does not offer earcs with very, very few (I really, really want this) exceptions

The blurb sounds interesting but until I see a sample, I simply do not know if the book will interest me - for Red Knight I know for sure as the author is (99%) Christian Cameron under a semi pseudonym and I just love his style (he is one of my top 3 "regular ie publishing a book or more a year with rare gaps" non-sff authors of today)

For Malice same, have no idea how the book will read so need a sample...

[Contrarius]

Dangit, wrong thread. Nevermind!

[Danogzilla]

Dangit, wrong thread. Nevermind!

Shifting stickies have gotten me more than once .

[Contrarius]

That's what we get for posting before we look.

[Boiler]

quick question:

is there a thread/list somewhere with the releases that actually happened any given year?