For those of you awaiting my next collection, LAST EXIT FOR THE LOST from Cemetery Dance, we have a publication date of January 2010. Hoorah!
I’m also delighted to announce that my story The Deification of Dal Bamore will be published in the new anthology Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders. You can find full details here.
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There’s a lovely review of my forthcoming collection LAST EXIT FOR THE LOST at Shroud Magazine – check it out here. This book wil be published by Cemetery Dance Publications soon … I don’t know exactly when, but hopefully before my next collection comes out (which will be announced soon).
Been head-down to some intensive writing over the past few weeks, and things are moving on apace. So hopefully I’ll have some news soon, and also some more time to blog here on occasion. Please watch this space!
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Hoorah! Cemetery Dance have announce my new collection LAST EXIT FOR THE LOST. The stunning cover by the always-brilliant Les Edwards is on the right, and the announcement, in part, reads:
From multi award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer Tim Lebbon comes this huge collection of the very best of his short fiction.
His first short fiction collection As the Sun Goes Down (Night Shade Book), attracted rave reviews. Now, Last Exit for the Lost collects the best of Lebbon’s output from 2000 to the present day. Weighing in at over 560 pages and containing 150,000 words of fiction, it also features two brand new, never-before-published stories.
Of course due to inevitable delays between contract signature and book announcement, it’s not actually the best of my short fiction right up to 2009 (there’s another announcement coming soon about another collection that will cover that later period … oh yes indeed), but this book is one I’ve been looking forward to mmore than any other I can remember. It’s going to look lovely, for a start – what CD book doesn’t? And with that gorgeous cover, and a great Intro from Joe R. Lansdale, what more could I ask for?
Hope you’ll pop along and place your order.
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Publisher: Cemetery Dance hardback, 2010
Availability: Cemetery Dance (more coming soon)
Will also be available from:
USA
Mythos Books
Ziesing Books
Bad Moon Books
Camelot Books
UK
PS Publishing
A huge collection, cover by the very excellent Les Edwards, collecting my best short fiction between 2000 and 2006 (watch out for a PS Publishing collection next year collecting fiction from 2006 to the present, including the award-winning and very hard to find The Reach of Children…)
Included here is an original novelette, The Evolutionary, and a brand new novella, Nothing Heavenly. Pay the Ghost is here too (soon to be a major movie), as well as Kissing at Shadows, The Horror of the Many Faces, Body, and many others. And to top it all off, the very excellent Joe Lansdale provides a wonderful introduction.
“I highly recommend this collection. It’s an absolute must for fans of the author’s work, and a fantastic introduction and overview for those who have not yet had the pleasure of experiencing his unique and powerful visions of things we know…and more importantly, the things we don’t know, or are afraid to know about ourselves.” - Brian Keene
“During a 15-year career, award-winning horror author Lebbon has received many alms of praise. But perhaps none are more emphatic than the words of genre colleague Joe R. Lansdale, who, in introducing this collection, calls Lebbon a “magical and damned great writer.” The 19 tales sumptuously showcased here make a compelling case that Lansdale is right on target. In the title story, a despondent alcoholic learns the whereabouts of his long-lost daughter from a series of portrait paintings that transfer intimate moments from the lives of their subjects. The father of an abducted child in “Pay the Ghost” comes face-to-face with the ghoul behind the abduction on a genuinely haunting Halloween night. “Old Light” recounts the fate of a man given an ancient torchlight that shines on a sometimes unwelcome future. Lebbon’s prodigious gifts include a compelling narrative voice and an uncanny understanding of the human psyche. This first-rate collection is guaranteed to win new fans and provide older ones with much to savor.”
— Booklist
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