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Is there any way to get The Croning as an ebook? Buying it in the UK consists of giving amazon £13 and hoping they decide to stock some more at some point. Any way I can give Laird my cash directly and actually receive a copy?
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Evfedu posted:Is there any way to get The Croning as an ebook? Buying it in the UK consists of giving amazon £13 and hoping they decide to stock some more at some point. Any way I can give Laird my cash directly and actually receive a copy? Night Shade will ship to the UK, so buy from them. And I'd do it quick, apparently they're still running their 50% off sale; you'll have to buy three more books (there's a four-book minimum), but they have a very nice library to choose from - get The Imago Sequence if you don't have it, for example. Or all four volumes of Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year anthologies. Or Southern Gods. Or hell, all of the above  .
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May 8, 2012 23:52
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Hahahah $40 shipping cost for one book. Guess I'll be waiting this one out then.
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May 9, 2012 00:36
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Evfedu posted:Hahahah $40 shipping cost for one book. Guess I'll be waiting this one out then. Haha, it was like $85 for four books. Jesus, it's like they don't want international customers to buy their books direct. Try here instead.
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May 9, 2012 01:03
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fez_machine posted:Greg Stolze writer of the excellent cosmic horror novel, The Mask of the Other is running a kickstarter for a pseudo-sequel called Whatever Happened to Lala?. This just succeeded over the weekend, so he released Lala. Thanks for the tip. Haven't gotten to read either book yet but they look interesting.
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May 15, 2012 20:00
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If any other UK goons are lurking this thread, The Croning is now available as an ebook on Baen (thanks, Ornamented Death!), works out at about £3.80, kindle formatted perfectly and DRM free. Made the thought of the two massive train journeys I'm taking this weekend one to relish.
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May 17, 2012 21:49
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Blazed through the croning and enjoyed it a massive amount with a couple of reservations about pacing and the purpleness of the prose. Are Laird's short stories as good or better?
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May 21, 2012 23:35
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Evfedu posted:Blazed through the croning and enjoyed it a massive amount with a couple of reservations about pacing and the purpleness of the prose. Are Laird's short stories as good or better? Generally speaking they're better, likely because he's had a lot more practice writing short stories. The Imago Sequence is readily available, and while it looks like Occultation is sold out at a lot of places, that's most likely because Night Shade is about to release the trade paperback edition.
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May 22, 2012 04:19
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Ornamented Death posted:Generally speaking they're better, likely because he's had a lot more practice writing short stories. The Imago Sequence is readily available, and while it looks like Occultation is sold out at a lot of places, that's most likely because Night Shade is about to release the trade paperback edition. Where are you finding the Imago Sequence? I picked up Occultation no problem on Amazon, but they canceled my Imago Sequence order. I will add that Occultation is very good, but I think I liked The Croning a bit better.
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May 22, 2012 15:08
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Dyscrasia posted:Where are you finding the Imago Sequence? I picked up Occultation no problem on Amazon, but they canceled my Imago Sequence order. Huh, weird. You can get The Imago Sequence direct from Night Shade (don't bother if you're not America, though; see above), but not Occultation - I'm assuming because they've sold out of the hardcover and will be releasing the TPB soonish.
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May 22, 2012 15:21
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That must be it, I was hoping for The Imago Sequence hardcover edition, I just see the paperback version on NightShade.
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May 22, 2012 16:45
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Dyscrasia posted:That must be it, I was hoping for The Imago Sequence hardcover edition, I just see the paperback version on NightShade. That was an extremely limited run; I very, very rarely see copies for sale.
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May 22, 2012 17:13
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Ornamented Death posted:Generally speaking they're better, likely because he's had a lot more practice writing short stories. The Imago Sequence is readily available, and while it looks like Occultation is sold out at a lot of places, that's most likely because Night Shade is about to release the trade paperback edition.
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May 22, 2012 19:25
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I think that most stuff by Michael Cisco might qualify. I've only read The Tyrant, The San Veneficio Canon, and The Great Lover but they are all surreal and disorienting. I'm not going to be able to do any justice trying to give a good description other than they are a collection of nightmare imagery, dream-logic insanity, and stream-of-consciousness narration.
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May 22, 2012 23:33
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Thomas Ligotti's Grimscribe is now available as an ebook. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Noctuary will follow soon.
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One thing that seems to fit oddly well into the Cosmic Horror genre is "The Hitchhiker's Guide" series. It's basically a Cosmic Horror Comedy. The Earth is destroyed by an uncaring force, Knowledge of the scope of the universe causes insanity and the great tragedy where the protagonist loses his love happens for no real reason. It seems like it tends to hit this note much more heavily in the last book, which is probably the reason that people enjoyed it less.
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May 24, 2012 14:56
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Ornamented Death posted:Thomas Ligotti's Grimscribe is now available as an ebook. Wow - that's an awesome and unexpected surprise! Hope they'll be available in Epub format in the UK ...
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May 24, 2012 17:16
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Just chiming in here to say that I started reading Laird Barron's "Occultation and Other Stories" thanks to this thread and man...this guy's great! Thanks for the recommendation. I'm officially pretty geeked to go through all the other recommendations in here!
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May 29, 2012 11:18
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I've order the Simon Necronomicon from amazon a few days ago, after reading the Call of Cthulhu and exploring the Lovecraft universe. I wanted to know... what should i expect to find within it? The Mad Arab's story? The spells? Im just curious, because i haven't managed to get much info about it.
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May 30, 2012 02:11
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I'm going to guess either a lot of nonsense being passed off as ~*~spooky black magic~*~ or a collection of HP Lovecraft's stories. Based on the blurb about the author, I'm leaning towards the former; you probably wasted your money, bro. Yeah, the first review on Amazon basically spells that out. It's a fake spell book. Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 02:22 on May 30, 2012 |
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May 30, 2012 02:20
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Well it's ok, i do dig those creepy spells anyway  and there is a small story on the mad arab. We'll see how it turns out to be.
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May 30, 2012 02:46
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I just wanted to remind everyone that The Weird came out a few weeks ago. It is, for lack of a better term, the bible of weird fiction. You can also use it to stop a bullet or beat someone to death if you really need to (it's almost 1200 pages long).
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May 30, 2012 16:59
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Ornamented Death posted:You can also use it to stop a bullet or beat someone to death if you really need to (it's almost 1200 pages long). God bless eReaders for making anthologies practical. Carrying around a massive tome is a hell of a commitment. I'm enjoying The Weird - the editor's choice in stories is phenomenal.
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May 31, 2012 00:56
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Vertigus posted:God bless eReaders for making anthologies practical. Carrying around a massive tome is a hell of a commitment. The Weird is a "house book" for me; it won't leave my house, I'll read it here and put it back on the shelf.
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May 31, 2012 03:47
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I've read both of Barron's collections, and I've gotta say The Croning is awesome. While it didn't frighten me as much as some of his short stores, it did leave me with a feeling of uncomfortableness after finishing it. I'll never look at Rumplestilskin the same way again. It also has a bunch of connections to his prior storeies, I feel like I only caught 1/3 of them. Looking forward to The Light is the Darkness, a previously limited editon small press book about modern day gladiators.
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Jun 1, 2012 01:15
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There was another anthology of weird fiction called The New Weird that was released a few years back.
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I've just gotten a pair of books to start off; Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0575081570/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00 Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0575099356/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i01 Im planning on stepping into Poe's works after i finish with this books. Is there any other resource that is worth getting in regard of HP Lovecraft?
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Yggdrassil posted:Is there any other resource that is worth getting in regard of HP Lovecraft? It sounds like those two collect pretty much all of his fiction and poetry, so you should be good to go. The only other thing I can think of is The Horror in the Museum, which collects stories Lovecraft edited and revised for other people. His level of involvement varies from simple edits to basically re-writing everything. I'm not sure if the stories in here are included in the two volumes you bought, but generally speaking these stories are kept separate from the main body of Lovecraft's work. To go any farther with Lovecraft, you'd need to start picking up the pricier volumes annotated by Joshi, but frankly unless you're doing a major research paper on HPL, you don't need those.
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Ornamented Death posted:It sounds like those two collect pretty much all of his fiction and poetry, so you should be good to go. The only other thing I can think of is The Horror in the Museum, which collects stories Lovecraft edited and revised for other people. His level of involvement varies from simple edits to basically re-writing everything. I'm not sure if the stories in here are included in the two volumes you bought, but generally speaking these stories are kept separate from the main body of Lovecraft's work. Perfect then i'll get back to reading!
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The new Charles Stross Laundry novel, The Apocalypse Codex, is out today!
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Pope Guilty posted:The new Charles Stross Laundry novel, The Apocalypse Codex, is out today! I preordered it months back, was out of town and forgot about it, and came back today to find it waiting on the doorstep. This is the best thing. 
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Yggdrassil posted:I've order the Simon Necronomicon from amazon a few days ago, after reading the Call of Cthulhu and exploring the Lovecraft universe. I wanted to know... what should i expect to find within it? The Mad Arab's story? The spells? Im just curious, because i haven't managed to get much info about it. I own it and have read it from cover to cover. It's stupid. Also, I ordered this from the internet:  I love Robert Chambers.
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That is cool, but NB you can get Chambers free on Project Gutenberg if you have a Kindle. Mind you, everything that isn't King in Yellow has been crap so far.
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Pope Guilty posted:The new Charles Stross Laundry novel, The Apocalypse Codex, is out today! Was about to buy it for my kindle and found out amazon wants $16. What the gently caress amazon?
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Jul 5, 2012 01:54
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Mr.48 posted:Was about to buy it for my kindle and found out amazon wants $16. What the gently caress amazon? It's $13 now. Also, place the blame for the ridiculous pricing where it belongs: quote:This price was set by the publisher. There was actually a big dustup a few months back where Apple and a handful of publishers got bitch-slapped by the government for colluding on ebook prices. Hopefully that means prices will begin to come down.
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I preordered it on Amazon and today got an email saying that the price went down after I ordered but before it shipped, so they were refunding me 32 cents. Which... okay, I guess! The book is pretty good! I couldn't put it down, and it builds nicely on the world of the Laundry, revealing that even Bob doesn't know as much as he thinks he knows.
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Finished reading it, pretty awesome. I found it interesting that the Sleeper in the Pyramid is a recurring plot point. It seems like the events of the first two books were more separate world-building--Bob might reflect on those events, but Nazi infovores and DEEP SEVEN aren't an imminent threat anymore-- while Fuller Memorandum and now Apocalypse Codex are part of a continuing arc building up to NIGHTMARE GREEN.. The very ending when we find out that the Sleeper actually did "awaken" is pretty clear foreshadowing that this will continue. Now to hunker down and wait for the next book which hopefully will be along in another couple of years and will put Bob deeper into the fire. I hope the balloon starts properly going up soon; as much as I like the variety of stories Stross gets out of the series, I don't want it to be a Wheel of Time thing where we wait multiple decades for the apocalyptic payoff.
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Stross is way too productive and prolific a writer for me to worry about that.
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It'd be interesting to see a Lovecraftian Apocalyse actually occur for once instead of being narrowly averted
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TOOT BOOT posted:It'd be interesting to see a Lovecraftian Apocalyse actually occur for once instead of being narrowly averted I dunno where the world of The Laundry is going, but Stross has already done that.
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