Tim Lebbon – horror and dark fantasy author

I write a brief piece for the new Mind Meld column over at SF Signal.  The question is “How do you define the sub-genre of “Swords and Sorcery”?”

Check it out!

Swords & Dark Magic landed a couple of days ago (in a bloody huge box …. HarperCollins, stop the waste!)  Great looking book with some wonderful writers, I’m looking forward to getting stuck in soon.

I’ll direct you to Lou Anders’s homepage for more details …

There’s a nice article here about THE NEW DEAD (titled ZOMBIE in the UK).

There’s also a long essay/review about Swords and Dark Magic here.  Not sure I agree necessarily with everything that’s said, but it’s an in-depth, thoughtful analysis.

… is out now!  This huge anthology, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders and published by Eos, is available from all the usual sorces, both online and in bookstores.  Also available on Kindle, iBooks, and B&N eReader/Nook.

The book contains brand new sword & sorcery tales from the likes of Steven Erikson, Glen Cook, Gene Wolfe, James Enge and many others, including my tale ‘The Deification of Dal Bamore’.

What are you waiting for?

Here’s the gorgeous cover for the forthcoming Subterranean Press edition of Swords & Dark Magic, the new Lou Anders/Jonathan Strahan edited anthology containing my story The Deification of Dal Bamore.  Artwork’s by Dominic Harman.  What do you think?

Check out this great cover for the fortcoming anthology Swords & Dark Magic, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders and containing my story The Deification of Dal Bamore.

Here’s the table of contents:

Check Your Dark Lord at the Door” — Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan
Goats of Glory — Steven Erikson
Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company — Glen Cook
Bloodsport — Gene Wolfe
The Singing Spear — James Enge
A Wizard of Wiscezan — C.J. Cherryh
A Rich Full Week — K. J. Parker
A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet — Garth Nix
Red Pearls: An Elric Story — Michael Moorcock
The Deification of Dal Bamore — Tim Lebbon
Dark Times at the Midnight Market — Robert Silverberg
The Undefiled — Greg Keyes
Dapple Hew the Tint Master — Michael Shea
In the Stacks — Scott Lynch
Two Lions, A Witch, and the War-Robe — Tanith Lee
The Sea Troll’s Daughter — Caitlin R Kiernan
Thieves of Daring — Bill Willingham
The Fool Jobs — Joe Abercrombie

The limited edition of the forthcoming swords & sorcery anthology edited by the excellent Lou Anders and Jonathan Strahan, and featuring my tale The Deification of Dal Bamore, has just been announced by Subterranean Press:

Limited: $75
ISBN: 978-1-59606-311-2
Length: 424 pages

Swords & Dark Magic is the most important new fantasy anthology to be published this decade. Featuring new stories from the bestselling and brightest writers working in the genre, including: New York Times bestselling authors Scott Lynch and Garth Nix; genre greats Michael Moorcock (with an all-new Elric novella), Michael Shea (with a fully authorized new Cugel the Clever adventure), Robert Silverberg (with an all-new Majipoor tale), Glen Cook (with an all-new Black Company story), Gene Wolfe, Peter S. Beagle, and C. J. Cherryh; and hot new writers who’ve been re-inventing swords and sorcery like Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, Tim Lebbon, and many more.

Limited: 500 signed numbered copies, bound in full cloth.

Table of Contents
Check Your Dark Lord at the Door” — Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan
Goats of Glory — Steven Erikson
Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company — Glen Cook
Bloodsport — Gene Wolfe
The Singing Spear — James Enge
A Wizard of Wiscezan — C.J. Cherryh
A Rich Full Week — K. J. Parker
A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet — Garth Nix
Red Pearls: An Elric Story — Michael Moorcock
The Deification of Dal Bamore — Tim Lebbon
Dark Times at the Midnight Market — Robert Silverberg
The Undefiled — Greg Keyes
Dapple Hew the Tint Master — Michael Shea
In the Stacks — Scott Lynch
Two Lions, A Witch, and the War-Robe — Tanith Lee
The Sea Troll’s Daughter — Caitlin R Kiernan
Thieves of Daring — Bill Willingham
The Fool Jobs — Joe Abercrombie-

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.