The Unbroken Chain by Irvin S. Cobb

Very pleased today to get a book I ordered through the post from a bookseller in the States. On an Island That Cost $24.00 by Irvin S. Cobb, is a collection of short stories, only one of which I really need to get: The Unbroken Chain, reputedly a model for H. P. Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls. I have been trying to get hold of a copy of this story for a while without success.

In Things That Go Bump in the Night, which I co-edited with Douglas Draa earlier this year, we published another of Cobb's stories, Fishhead, which it is claimed inspired yet another of Lovecraft's stories, The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

I haven't read The Unbroken Chain yet, but I had in in mind when I ordered this book to include it in the next collection of old classic stories to be published by Parallel Universe later this year or early next, Classic Weird 2.

 

Paperback version of Classic Weird available in the States

A paperback version of Classic Weird is now available in the States for $11.50. A UK version will be available shortly.

amazon.com  $11.50 trade paperback 298 pages

The Monster-Maker by W. C. Morrow  The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson
The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan
The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford
The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford
The Ghost-Ship by Richard Middleton
The New Catacomb by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
The House of the Dead Hand by Edith Wharton
A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee
Phantas by Oliver Onions

Proof Copy received for Classic Weird

Just received a proof copy of the eighth book published by Parallel Universe Publications, Classic Weird - and I am absolutely delighted with it. I gave it approval straight away! The cover looks as stunning as I hoped it would.

The next task is to finish reading submissions for Kitchen Sink Gothic. The cut off date for submissions, though, isn't till the end of this month, so final selection won't be made till June. We're hoping to be able to publish this anthology sometime next month, definitely by July.

The paperback version of Classic Weird should be available via amazon later today.

Classic Weird now available on kindle

Classic Weird is now available on kindle. A paperback version will follow shortly.

Amazon.co.uk  £1.31

Amazon.com  $1.98

Classic Weird

I have now finished proof reading my selections for the forthcoming collection from Parallel Universe Publications: Classic Weird.

The stories in the book, which will soon be available as a paperback and ebook, are:


The Monster-Maker by W. C. Morrow 
The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson
The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan
The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford
The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford
The Ghost-Ship by Richard Middleton
The New Catacomb by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
The House of the Dead Hand by Edith Wharton
A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee
Phantas by Oliver Onions

Classic Weird: Dark tales of the supernatural

A work in progress, this is the proposed cover of Parallel Universe Publication's anthology Classic Weird: Dark tales of the supernatural, which will include tales by W. C. Morrow, E. F. Benson, Vincent O'Sullivan, F. Marion Crawford, Richard Middleton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J. Sheridan LeFanu, John Meade Falkner and Vernon Lee. Over 340 pages.