2 New Hardcover Chapbooks Announced
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.�
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!�
