The first three reviews of The Providence Rider have appeared on the ‘net. All are spoiler-free:
The Providence Rider will be published in May 2012 by Subterranean Press. You can pre-order several editions from Subterranean Press.
Artist Vincent Chong recently completed the artwork for the upcoming Subterranean Press release of Robert McCammon’s The Providence Rider, the fourth book in the Matthew Corbett series. He posted a few examples of the artwork on his blog. Vincent wrote:
As with Mister Slaughter, I did a number of B&W interiors, but for this one I also provided colour endpaper art (which you can see below) and two colour interiors, one to go with the new story, Death Comes for the Rich Man (another Matthew Corbett adventure), that accompanies this volume.
You can click on the images below to view larger versions of the art. The Providence Rider can be pre-ordered here.
Congratulations to Vincent, who last year received two British Fantasy Awards for ‘Best Artist’ and for ‘Best-Non Fiction’ for his art book Altered Visions. He was also nominated for the 2011 World Fantasy Award for ‘Best Artist’.
Subterranean Press is now taking pre-orders for their limited edition of Robert McCammon’s Bethany’s Sin. From their site:
Bethany’s Sin
by Robert McCammon
(preorder—to be published in October 2012)Dust jacket and full-color endsheets by Tomislav Tikulin
Limited: $75
ISBN: 978-1-59606-497-3
Length: 368 pages
Lettered: $250Bethany’s Sin is a tiny, picturesque village in rural Pennsylvania. Its tree-lined streets, beautiful houses, and manicured exteriors offer—or appear to offer—both peace and a place of refuge. Evan Reid, a man haunted by his memories of the Vietnam War and by a history of viscerally disturbing dreams, comes to the village with his wife and daughter, hoping to make a fresh start after a series of discouraging setbacks. At first, all goes as planned. Evan resumes his career as a freelance writer while his wife, Kay, begins teaching math at a local college. But there are things going on in Bethany’s Sin that no one wants to talk about: unexplained disappearances, houses that stand strangely vacant, half glimpsed figures that appear to be female, the impossible sound of hoof beats in the night. At the center of it all stands a single imposing woman: Dr. Kathryn Drago, a scholar and community leader who holds the key to the mysteries that enshroud the town.
First published as a paperback original in 1980, Bethany’s Sin was Robert R. McCammon’s second novel. Like its predecessor, Baal, it offers a frightening, thoroughly imagined portrait of ancient forces set loose in the modern world. Like Baal, it is both a notable accomplishment in its own right and an invaluable glimpse into the formative years of a major writer, a man whose raw narrative talent was apparent from the start. This deluxe new edition offers McCammon’s many fans the definitive version of a significant early work, a book that foreshadows the later—and larger—accomplishments to come.
Limited: 1000 signed numbered hardcover copies
Lettered: 26 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom tray case
You can pre-order the book by clicking here.
A few months ago, we announced that a new Robert McCammon short story would be published in a new anthology celebrating the work of Ray Bradbury. The title of the anthology is Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, and it is edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle. The book will be published in trade paperback by HarperCollins on July 17, 2011. It can be pre-ordered from Amazon.
A signed, limited edition of the book will be co-published by Guantlet Press and Borderlands Press. The limited edition is available for pre-ordering now. It comes in two states: a limited edition signed by all authors except Mr. Bradbury ($75) and a lettered edition signed by all authors including Mr. Bradbury ($500). You can read more about the book and place your order on the Gauntlet website.
The Robert McCammon story is entitled “Children of the Bedtime Machine.” Other contributing authors include Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Thomas F. Monteleone, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury himself, and 19 others. The full contents can be found on the Gauntlet website.
