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The Book of Thomas: Heaven Available for Pre-Order

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Robert Boyczuk’s The Book of Thomas: Heaven can now be pre-ordered.

"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
—John Milton, Paradise Lost

In the beginning, the Church ruled all the Spheres of the Apostles. But that was millennia ago, before the origins of this massive, artificial realm were forgotten. Now, drought, plague and war afflict the Spheres that make up the world of Man, fragmenting society into antagonistic sects that carry out ruthless pogroms.

A young orphan, Thomas, is thrust into the midst of this upheaval and embarks on a journey to the highest of all Spheres, Heaven. As he struggles through his chaotic, crumbling world, Thomas witnesses cruelty and violence beyond measure—and chances upon unexpected moments of courage and self-sacrifice. In this turmoil, his belief becomes doubt as he is forced to make soul-rending choices between what his faith tells him he should do, and what he must do to survive.

The Book of Thomas: Heaven is the unflinching, deeply affecting tale of the battle that reason and religion wage for a boy’s soul.

Hair Side, Flesh Side Available for Pre-Order

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Helen Marshall’s Hair Side, Flesh Side can now be pre-ordered.

A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the extraordinary journey to the beginning of the universe. Lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting, Helen Marshall’s exceptional debut collection weaves the fantastic and the horrific alongside the touchingly human in fifteen modern parables about history, memory, and cost of creating art.

Imaginarium 2012 Table of Contents Announced

The works selected for the first annual Imaginarium have been announced, and are as follows:

• “Introduction” by Steven Erikson
• “Looker” by David Nickle
• “The List” by Kelley Armstrong
• “Biting Tongues” by Amal El-Mohtar
• “Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot” by Claire Humphrey
• “Split Decision” by Robert Runté
• “The Cinder Girl” by Peter Chiykowski
• “The Candle” by Ian Rogers
• “Through the Door” by Susan Ioannu
• “Signal to Noise” by Gemma Files
• “The Ones Outside Your Door” by Neile Graham
• “Down Where the Best Lilies Grow” by Camille Alexa
• “Hide” by Rebecca M. Senese
• “What We Found” by Geoff Ryman
• “Lie-Father” by Gemma Files
• “Centipede Girl” by Ada Hoffmann
• “Clockwork Fagin” by Cory Doctorow
• “Selected Haiku” by George Swede
• “Pure” by Rio Youers
• “10 things to know about staplers” by Carolyn Clink
• “Laikas I” by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
• “On the Many Uses of Cedar” by Geoffrey W. Cole
• “Obscured” by Rhonda Parrish
• “Hawkwood’s Folly” by Timothy Reynolds
• “Razor Voices” by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
• “The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light” by Neile Graham
• “Fur and Feathers” by Lisa L. Hannett
• “Breathing Bones” by Peter Chiykowski
• “The Education of Junior Number 12” by Madeline Ashby
• “One Quarter Gorgon” by Helen Marshall
• “A Puddle of Blood” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• “Nothing but sky overhead” by David Livingstone Clink
• “The Kiss of the Blood-Red Pomegranate” by Kristin Janz
• “Charm” by Anna Mioduchowska
• “Final Girl Theory” by A.C. Wise
• “To Live and Die in Gibbontown” by Derek Künsken
• “Beautiful Monster” by Helen Marshall
• “Malak” by Peter Watts

Congratulations to the selected authors, and all who deserve an honorable mention. The volume can be pre-ordered on this web site and other venues.

Every House is Haunted Available for Pre-Order

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Ian Rogers’ Every House is Haunted can now be pre-ordered.

"There are haunted places in the world, all existing in reality and every bit as tangible and accessible as the house next door. Sometimes it is the house next door."

In this brilliant debut collection, Ian Rogers explores the border-places between our world and the dark reaches of the supernatural. The landscape of death becomes the new frontier for scientific exploration. A honeymoon cabin with an unspeakable appetite finally meets its match. A suburban home is transformed into the hunting ground for a new breed of spider. A nightmarish jazz club at the crossroads of reality plays host to those who can break a deal with the devil...for a price. With remarkable deftness, Rogers draws together the disturbing and the diverting in twenty-two showcase stories that will guide you through terrain at once familiar and startlingly fresh.

Remember Why You Fear Me Available for Pre-Order

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Robert Shearman’s Remember Why You Fear Me can now be pre-ordered.

A woman rejects her husband’s heart—and gives it back to him, still beating, in a plastic box. A little boy betrays his father to the harsh mercies of Santa Claus. A widower suspects his dead wife’s face is growing over his own. A man goes to Hell, and finds he’s roommate to the ghost of Hitler’s pet dog. Giant spiders, killer angels, ghost cat photography, and the haunted house right at the centre of the Garden of Eden.

Deliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader’s Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before.

Napier‘s Bones now available on Audible

Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy is now available on Audible.com, narrated by Peter Ganim.

Never tried Audible? You can get this or another of our titles free with a trial membership.

ChiZine Reading Series May 9

We'd like to remind our readers that the ChiZine Reading Series event organized for last month has been rescheduled for this Wednesday, May 9. Come hear James Alan Gardner, Rio Youers, Ursula Pflug and Kari Maaren. More details are available on the Chi Reading Series website.

A Meme of Letters

In anticipation of the release of A Tree of Bones May 15, Author Gemma Files has completed filling her blog, "Music at Midnidght" with two letters a day, giving an in-depth look at the Hexslinger Series.

Receive an education on all things Hexslinger from Arcanistry to Zoroastrianism.

What is City 512?

Both the Soviet Union and the United States experimented with remote viewing, psychic communication and mind control as a means of gathering intelligence through the 20^th century.

So far as anyone knows, they failed utterly.

Now, all that is left of their efforts is ruins, in places so remote, so inconsequential, that they do not appear on maps—they do not rate names.

One such place is the town known only as City 512. Officially, nothing ever happened there.

Unofficially . . .

But now, you can find out more . . . .

The Indigo Pheasant Available for Pre-Order

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Daniel Rabuzzi’s The Indigo Pheasant: Longing for Yount Volume 2 can now be pre-ordered.

London 1817. Maggie Collins, born into slavery in Maryland, whose mathematical genius and strength of mind can match those of a goddess, must build the world’s most powerful and sophisticated machine—to free the lost land of Yount from the fallen angel Strix Tender Wurm. Sally, of the merchant house McDoon, who displayed her own powers in challenging the Wurm and finding Yount in The Choir Boats, must choose either to help Maggie or to hinder her. Together—or not—Maggie and Sally drive to conclusion the story started in The Choir Boats—a story of blood—soaked song, family secrets, sins new and old in search of expiation, forbidden love, high policy and acts of state, financial ruin, betrayals intimate and grand, sorcery from the origins of time, and battle in the streets of London and on the arcane seas of Yount.

Janus Available for Pre-Order

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of John Park’s Janus can now be pre-ordered.

In the near future, Jon Grebbel arrives on the colony world of Janus, and finds himself mysteriously without memory of his life on Earth. It seems that the long journey has caused severe memory loss in many of Janus’s colonists. While Grebbel wants to start his new life, he also wants his memory back, and starts treatments to restore his past. But they only leave him angry and disturbed and he begins to doubt the glimpses of the past the treatments reveal. Grebbel meets Elinda, an earlier arrival, whose lover, Barbara, vanished and then was found lying in the woods, apparently brain-damaged. Elinda has also lost her memories of Earth, but unlike him she has abandoned the effort to recover them. Now their meeting brings each of them a glimpse of an experience they shared back on Earth. Investigating Barbara’s fate and their own, the two find their love and their search for justice turning toward bitter self-discovery and revenge, even as they begin to uncover the darkness at the heart of their world.

Iambik adds Hexslinger Titles

Iambik Audio has extended their CZP lineup to include Gemma Files’ A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns. A recording of the third and final volume of the series, A Tree of Bones is also planned.

Bullettime Available for Pre-Order

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Nick Mamatas’ Bullettime can now be pre-ordered.

David Holbrook is a scrawny kid, the victim of bullies, and the neglected son of insane parents.

David Holbrook is the Kallis Episkipos, a vicious murderer turned imprisoned leader of a death cult dedicated to Eris, the Hellenic goddess of dischord.

David Holbrook never killed anyone, and lives a lonely and luckless existence with his aging mother in a tumbledown New Jersey town.

David Holbook is trapped beyond all space and time, compelled to live and relive all his potential existences, guided only by the dark wisdom found in a bottle of cough syrup.

From the author of the instant cult classic Move Under Ground comes a fantasy of blood, lust, destiny, school shootings, and Greek diners.

Swallowing A Donkey’s Eye Available for Pre-Order

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Paul Tremblay’s Swallowing a Donkey’s eye can now be pre-ordered.

Join Farm today! It’s only six years of your life . . . .

Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, antagonistic and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits, and farm animals illegally engineered for silence. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. When the narrator’s single mother, whom he left behind in City, falls out of contact, he fears the worst: his mother is homeless and subsequently to be deported under City to the Pier. On his desperate search to find his mother, he encounters ecoterrorists wearing plush animal suits, an election hangs in the balance as the City’s all-powerful Mayor is infatuated with magic refrigerators and outlaw campaigns, and he’s reunited with a wise-cracking, over-sexed priest who may or may not have ESP, but who is most certainly his deadbeat dad.

Whether rebelling against the regimented and ridiculous nature of Farm life, exploring the all-too-familiar and consumer-obsessed world of City, experiencing the all-too-real suffering of the homeless in Pier, or confronting the secrets of his own childhood, Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye’s narrator is a hilarious, neurotic, and rage-filled Quixote searching for his mother, his own dignity, and the meaning of humanity.

ChiZine Publications (CZP) is a World Fantasy Award-nominated independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words.

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Available Books

Current Catalogue

Fall 2012

Available for download

Limited Edition Hardcovers

The Book of Thomas: Heaven

by Robert Boyczuk

Available for preorder

Hair Side, Flesh Side

by Helen Marshall

Available for preorder

Every House is Haunted

by Ian Rogers

Available for preorder

Remember Why You Fear Me

by Robert Shearman

Available for preorder

The Indigo Pheasant: Longing for Yount Volume 2

by Daniel Rabuzzi

Available for preorder

Janus

by John Park

Available for preorder

Bullettime

by Nick Mamatas

Available for preorder

Swallowing a Donkey's Eye

by Paul Tremblay

Available for preorder

Pontypool Changes Everything

by Tony Burgess

Still available!

Trade Paperbacks for Pre-Order

Imaginarium 2012

edited by Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas

Available for preorder

Trade Paperbacks & eBooks

Rasputin's Bastards

by David Nickle

"This novel is supernatural eeriness at its best, with intriguing characters, no clear heroes, and a dark passion at its heart."
Library Journal

Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies

by James Marshall

"...prepare yourself for an epically odd, mind-bending experience."
The Eloquent Page

A Tree of Bones: Volume Three of the Hexslinger Series

by Gemma Files

"Potent mythology, complex characters, and dollops of creeping horror . . ."
Publishers Weekly

Ison of the Isles

Carolyn Ives Gilman

"It’s actually about something."
— GeekSpeakMagazine.com

Westlake Soul

by Rio Youers

"Just read it, and you'll understand."
— FearNet

Shoebox Train Wreck

by John Mantooth

"good, spare, bleak storytelling, and some haunting images"
— Publishers Weekly

The Steel Seraglio

by Mike Carey, Linda Carey & Louise Carey

" . . .a thrilling tale"
— Publishers Weekly

Enter, Night

by Michael Rowe

"[S]o rich and assured it's hard to believe it's Michael Rowe's first novel . . . . Michael Rowe is now on my must-read list."
— Christopher Rice

Bearded Women

by Teresa Milbrodt

The characters are worth knowing, and the insight they provide into unusual lives is worth pondering.
— Tzer Island

The Pattern Scars

by Caitlin Sweet

"A fine, intensely sensual novel full of keenly observed perceptions and shifting emotions."
- The Edmonton Journal

Briarpatch

by Tim Pratt

"A genuine talent . . . . Pratt is a writer to watch."
- Publishers Weekly

Picking up the Ghost

by Tone Milazzo

"[T]his debut entertains with an original approach and mix of breezy humor and dark fantasy."
- Publishers Weekly

Isles of the Forsaken

Carolyn Ives Gilman

"Vivid world-building, fascinating characters, and a rich, complex story—I love this book!"
- Kij Johnson, author of The Fox Woman

A Rope of Thorns: Volume Two of the Hexslinger Series

by Gemma Files

"Potent mythology, complex characters, and dollops of creeping horror and baroque gore establish Files's Hexslinger series as a top-notch horror-fantasy saga."
- Publishers Weekly

The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter

by Brent Hayward

". . . .combines elegant writing with moral ambiguity and an impressive array of grotesque characters."
- Locus

Eutopia

by David Nickle

"[E]stablishes [Nickle] as a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King"
- Alex Good, The Globe and Mail

The Door to Lost Pages

by Claude Lalumière

"Insanely imaginative. . . Lalumière's talents are on full display in this cerebral, erotic, and hypnotically compelling tale of bibliophilic wonder."
- Publishers Weekly

Napier's Bones

by Derryl Murphy

"[A] clever lark full of free-wheeling adventure and odd intellectual borrowings"
- Alex Good, The New York Review of Science Fiction

Every Shallow Cut

by Tom Piccirilli

"Piccirilli delivers his greatest book yet"
- Brian Keene, author of The Rising

People Live Still in Cashtown Corners

by Tony Burgess

"[A] stunning achievement . . . an unforgettable and profoundly unsettling experience."
- Paul Tremblay, author of In the Mean Time

In The Mean Time

by Paul Tremblay

"Powerful, emotional and unforgettable . . . Highl