I wanted to touch base with the Delirium community on some important matters…

I. Shifting Gears

For the hardcore Delirium fan, it’s been a year of change. Horror Mall has now taken over distribution of all direct sales, the trade paperback line has successfully launched and is picking up steam. The economy has dropped into the abyss, which has affected a lot of collectors’ budgets. We’ve lost customers, but, in the end, we’re gaining more. So I wanted to take a moment before I get into the updates to thank everyone for their continued support and patience. These changes (although a lot of people can’t see it) will strengthen Delirium for the long term, and the results are already positively impacting this press as this post goes live.

II. Production Schedule

Beginning in January ‘09, Delirium Books will begin a set publication release schedule as follows:

One original first edition novel will be published per month in limited edition HC and trade paperback. These editions will be published simultaneously. The trade paperback will be covered under the book club subscription through Horror Mall.

As most of you know, beginning in August, all book club featured titles will be first edition originals from this month forward. No reprints or books that are about to be reprinted in mass market will be scheduled as book club selections.

Here is the forthcoming schedule from August through December:

August 2008: Dead and Gone by Harry Shannon
September 2008: Passenger by Ronald Damien Malfi
October 2008: TBA [Original novel from Greg F. Gifune]
November 2008: Blood Alchemy by Kurt Newton
December 2008: Manhattan Grimoire by Sandy DeLuca

III. Series Schedules

Beginning in 2009, the following series schedules will be put into place:

Dark Essentials Series (Biannual). A single volume will still be 4 titles (published in 2 years).
HC Chapbook Series (Biannual). This will now become a book line and not a series, due to the fluctuating prints runs.
X-Series (Biannual). Focus on 100-copy prints runs of hardcover titles not to be published in trade paperback. This series will focus more on new and upcoming talents.
Ultra Series (Annually). 26-copy leather production with leather hinged box.

IV. Audiobooks

Production on audiobooks is now beginning. It’s in a test mode now. We’re currently testing the market and look to get some original audiobooks (fiction not available as bound books) out in the near future. These will be available in .MP3 format as digital downloads only.

V. UK Distribution

Beginning in 2009, Delirium Books’ trade paperbacks will have UK as well as US distribution. Contracts are being modified now, so any Delirium title will be available through distribution channels in the UK.

VI. Print Runs

You’ll be seeing Delirium hardcover prints runs decreasing as we offer trade paperbacks simultaneously with hardcover releases. The majority of hardcovers will have a 150-copy print run and will ultimately sell out FAST, which is why #7 below is important.

VII. Subscriptions

The most requested item I’ve heard from customers since Delirium moved its online sales to Horror Mall is for Delirium to reinstate its subscriptions through Horror Mall. I have made significant steps to set up a hardcover subscription plan to coincide with the paperback book club. One per month, the same titles offered as paperback book club featured selections. And since most of these are only being produced as 150-copy print runs, this becomes an even more attractive subscription plan.

This plan will be available to the public in the coming days / weeks. But first, all active HC subscribers will be contacted beforehand with links to the plan.

VIII. New Preorder

E-mails are bouncing faster and being eaten by spam filters. I sent out a notice that Monster Behind The Wheel by Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty will be up for preorder at Horror Mall on Tuesday. These were sent to past buyers of Corrosion Press titles, but we’ve had a fair share of e-mail bounces. So if you bought the last Corrosion Press title (Ugly Heaven, Beautiful Hell) direct, you should have received a notice. If not, please e-mail me for the link to reserve your copy early before it sells out.

Before the big Tuesday release at Horror Mall, Delirium’s first audiobook is now up for grabs for 50% off the retail price. We wanted to give Delirium fans a chance to order this at a big discount to celebrate the kick off of our new audiobook line.  This audiobook is more than 9 hours long and it’s available for a limited time only for $9.95.  This is an electronic download only, as Delirium’s audiobook line will only be produced in this electronic format.

One of the grossest, most extreme novels is now available as an audiobook! Narrated by Mark Justice, Edward Lee’s cult classic The Bighead returns.

Rape. Murder. Brain-eating…

THE BIGHEAD

Who is he? What is he? An inbred homicidal pervert? A supernatural psychopath? Who or whatever he is, he’s on a roll now, raging out of the Virginia backwoods, and leaving in his wake a trail of blood, guts, and disgust far beyond the limits of your reckoning.

JERRICA

Sex-addict, drug-addict–a woman so far out of control she would make Linda Lovelace look like a schoolmarm. And little does she know, The Bighead is coming…for her.

THE ABBEY

Closed for years, Wroxeter Abbey is back in business, haunted by two nuns…from hell. Erotopathic, clinically demented, gross beyond belief. To the faithful priest, Father Alexander, they will do things that absolutely beggar description…

Never before has a work of fiction dared to delve so deeply into the realms of perversion, sexual dementia, and bad taste.

THE BIGHEAD

He’s coming, all right. He’s coming for you.

“Edward Lee is to horror novels what Spain and S. Clay Wilson were to Underground Comics over twenty-five years ago–funny, evil, perverse as it is humanly possible to get…and gleefully outrageous about it. I’d say we got us a whole new sub-genre goin’ here, boys and girls—splatterspunk!”

—JACK KETCHUM, author of Off Season, Offspring, and Joyride

“Never have I been so ashamed of myself for laughing so hard at something so utterly depraved!”

—JOHN MASON SKIPP, co-author of Light at the End, The Bridge, and Animals

“A demented Henry Miller of horror. Sexually revolting, outrageous, disgusting, THE BIGHEAD is the sickest piece of fiction I’ve ever read!”

—DOUGLAS CLEGG, author of Goat Dance, Children’s Hour,
and The Halloween Man

“An outrageous, over-the-top gross-out! A must for any reader who thinks s/he’s shockproof! Should carry a warning: do not read on a full stomach…. Far and away the grossest novel I’ve ever read!”

—LUCY TAYLOR, author of The Safety of Unknown Cities,
Close to the Bone, and Dancing With Demons

“The grossest book I’ve ever read, an all-you-can-stomach fictive fanfare of nonstop perversity, pulp horror themes yanked inside-out with a vengeance, for absolutely shocking entertainment. THE BIGHEAD would make the Marquis de Sade wince!”

—T. WINTER-DAMON, author of Rex Miller: The Complete Revelations

Order Now

Later today (Wednesday, April 9th) Delirium Books will be releasing two new titles for preorder.

500-copy limited edition hardcover of Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes From The End of the World by Brian Keene

150-copy limited edition hardcover of Saying Uncle by Greg F. Gifune.

Please read some important information below before e-mailing Delirium Books or Horror Mall:

• Both titles are NOT covered under any subscription. If you want a copy, you’ll have to order your copy through Horror Mall. First come, first serve.
• If you want a matching number, please put your request in the special instructions section of your order. Horror Mall will do its best to accommodate the customers it can.
• There will be no CCE (Custom Collector Edition) of Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes. You may request to match either your CCE or limited edition HC. Of course, it will be first come first serve with number requests as well.
• There will be a trade paperback of Saying Uncle released later this year.

Please stay tuned to the announcement at Horror Mall sometime later today.

A new review of Ugly Heaven, Beautiful Hell is up at The Dream People.

Click HERE to read the review in full.

Trade paperback copies of this title are still available HERE.

Now available to order through Horror Mall is this month’s featured book club title: Daemon by Harry Shannon.

Black Ops specialist Jeff Lehane burned out fast and retired young. He still has nightmares about a bloody mission into Iraq, right on the eve of the war. Yet Lehane reluctantly agrees to assist his ex-wife, who is guarding a Latino rap star. She is killed during the concert, and Jeff soon discovers that someone—or something—has broken into the morgue to eat from her corpse. Outraged, Lehane assembles his former team and they begin to hunt down the ghoul that is stalking Las Vegas.

Book club orders will be charged and shipped on April 5th.

If you’re not a member of the book club, then you can purchase your copy HERE.

Other important links for this title:

Book Trailer
Free Download (Preface)

There’s a new article about author David Jack Bell and Delirium’s release of The Condemned. You can read it HERE.

You can purchase your trade paperback copy of The Condemned at Horror Mall.

Books #5 & #6 in the Delirium Hardcover Chapbook Series have just been announced. Each signed and numbered hardcover chapbook is side-sewn and has a full graphic wraparound cover and measures 4 1/2 inches x 6 1/4 inches and is exactly 100 pages.�

DIVAGATIONS by John Maclay

The six brand-new stories that constitute John Maclay’s latest collection, Divagations, demonstrate not just his specialty, the short-short story, but also his depth of style and characterization in the longer form. As usual, he is dark and downbeat, but at the same time he holds out hope that by honestly engaging with horror, one can find a better end.

In “Messenger,” he treats of a sudden presaging of doom.

In “The Book of Death,” he exhibits the mordant style that has won him praise for such from Joe R. Lansdale and the immortal Ray Russell.

In “Journeys,” he predicts that even after the most horrible of deaths, love and eternity will prevail.

In “Born,” he controversially deals with a major issue of our time.

In “The Cat Lover,” he draws a horrid but then heartwarming lesson for animal lovers everywhere.

And in “Widowed,” he utilizes two of his further specialties, erotic horror and the terrors of middle age, to also venture into the occult for a dark but wanly fulfilling end.

Read John Maclay’s Divagations, and you’ll see why Steve Vernon, in Hellnotes, has said of his collection Dreadful Delineations (also from Delirium), “This is classic material.”�

SUCKERS by J.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand

Vampires.

Well, not vampires—Pires. Whack-jobs who think they’re vampires. They’ve inducted an innocent young girl into their cult, and her mother has hired legendary (not in a good way) private investigator Harry McGlade to get her back.

Infiltrating this bloodthirsty cult is too big of a job for just one man, especially when he has the intelligence of half a man. But when he joins forces with the also-less-than-100%-competent Andrew Mayhem, maybe, just maybe, their combined efforts will succeed in thwarting this savage menace. Or perhaps they’ll just embarrass themselves and get killed.

Masters of humor-tainted-horror (or horror-tainted-humor) J.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand team up for the first time in this hilariously gruesome adventure that does not contain a single lame “You suck!” or “That bites!” joke. Suckers. The ultimate Idiots vs. Phony Vampires extravaganza!�

Now on sale at Horror Mall is the slipcase for volume 4 of the Dark Essentials Series. Titles that will be housed include:

Excavation by Steve Rasnic Tem
Untcigahunk by Rick Hautala
Prototype by Brian Hodge
The Demonologist by Michael Laimo

Due to this product being a custom order, payment is due at the time an order is placed. This product will only be sold through April 15, 2008. No more will be sold or produced after this date.

To place your order, please visit the following link:
https://www.horror-mall.com/DELIRIUM-DARK-ESSENTIALS-SLIPCASE-VOLUME-4-p-17698.html

Greg F. Gifune’s latest novel is shipping March 25th and is now up for preorder. This is part of the Delirium hardcover subscription. Subscribers were sent an e-mail with a special link to order earlier this afternoon. Non-subscribers can pick up their copy now by going to Horror Mall.

Dignon Malloy lives with his cat Mr. Tibbs in a rundown apartment in the heart of a dreary, nameless, industrial coastal city. Haunted by dark visions, memories of horrific childhood abuse and the recent murder of a coworker, his is a lonely, sad and painful existence… until he ventures into a used bookstore and comes across an old paperback titled Mythical Beings in a Mortal World.

Inside, someone has written a name—Bree Harper—and a phone number. Is it an innocent note left by the previous owner, or something far more sinister? As Dignon delves deeper into the book, and who, or possibly what, the beautiful and enigmatic Bree Harper is, he begins to realize finding this book may not have been a random event after all. His life and history may be more complex than he realized, and his role in the universe much deadlier than he ever imagined.

As Dignon moves closer to the truth, the lines between pain and beauty, and the horrors of the past and the terrifying realities of the present, become strangely malleable, blurring what is real and what is myth, who and what he and those around him may be, what the ghosts haunting him from his past may truly mean, and how the evil mythological creature stalking him may not be a myth at all, but horrifyingly real.

This book is being published in the following editions:

250-copy limited edition HC; $50.00
26-copy lettered HC (slipcased, leather-bound)

The lettered edition is sold out on announcement. Lettered buyers will receive a link to purchase once the lettered edition is in stock at Horror Mall.

Order now by going to the following URL:

https://www.horror-mall.com/BLOOD-IN-ELECTRIC-BLUE-by-Greg-F.-Gifune-p-17673.html

Tomorrow, copies of Dominion by Greg F. Gifune will be shipping. If you’re a book club subscriber, you’ll receive your copies first. In the next few weeks they’ll be landing sporadically in the chain stores, so if your local bookstore doesn’t have a copy, ask them, plead with them to order some copies.

When Daniel Cicero’s wife Lindsay is killed by a hit-and-run-driver, a large part of his own soul dies along with her. His happiness is shattered, his life destroyed. Unable to cope, he soon loses his job and eventually his sense of purpose, and as he descends into the throes of depression and sorrow, he spends his nights aimlessly wandering the streets of Boston and his days in a fog, living by rote, unable to move forward or to let go of the past.

And then the anonymous phone calls begin. A man claiming Lindsay is still alive taunts and threatens him with facts he could not possibly know. When strange and frightening visions begin to appear on his computer, a firestorm of horrifying nightmares and painful memories are unleashed that haunt Daniel at every turn, and with everything he knew of good and evil, life, death, love and loss in question, he slowly descends into a terrifying world of malevolence and madness where technology and age-old evils have merged, and where the walls separating the living from the dead may no longer exist.

In life—in death—and in the realms between the two—there is DOMINION.

You can now order your copy at Horror Mall:
http://www.horror-mall.com/DOMINION-by-Greg-F.-Gifune-p-17661.html

Or, you can save 25% on the cover price of this title and get a free trade paperback for joining the Delirium Book Club. You can now subscribe through Horror Mall at the following link:
http://www.horror-mall.com/Delirium-Book-Club-sp-8.html