Year: 2013

Thanks to artist Vincent Chong, T-shirts featuring the cover art for the Subterranean Press editions of The Wolf’s Hour and The Hunter from the Woods are now available in the Robert McCammon’s Worlds shop at Spreadshirt! They join shirts featuring the logo for The Five and the covers for Mister Slaughter and The Providence Rider.

wolf-shirtsThe purpose of the shirts is simply to help promote Robert McCammon’s work. In order to keep the costs down, no profit is made from these shirts; the prices shown are the actual costs of the shirts from Spreadshirt.com. A variety of shirt types, colors, and sizes are available.

Robert McCammon T-shirts at Spreadshirt.com

Note that the printing and shipping of the shirts is handled entirely by Spreadshirt. In my experience, it takes about 7 to 10 days for U.S. orders to be delivered.

If you purchase today, July 24, 2013, you can get free standard shipping with the coupon code XMASINJULY.

If you purchase between July 30 through August 6, you can get $10 off any order of $50 or more using the coupon code TENOFF.

 

 

The 2013 Bram Stoker Awards presentation was held on Saturday, June 15, 2013, at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA. Among the awards presented were the Lifetime Achievement Awards to Robert McCammon and Clive Barker. A video of the full awards ceremony has been uploaded to YouTube  and can be viewed below. For information about all of the winners, please visit the Stokers 2013 website. The presentation of McCammon’s award by Yvonne Navarro and Hunter Goatley begins at 1:06:20.

You can also view the video on YouTube.

Robert McCammon was a guest reader at the My Favorite Poem Sixth Annual Literary Event held on September 23, 2011, at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, AL. Mr. McCammon read T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” A low-quality video of his reading is now available on the Robert McCammon YouTube channel:

Video of the entire event, with all 15 guest readers, can be found on Vimeo.

Author Joe Lansdale wrote a brief essay about Robert McCammon for the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013 Incorporating The World Horror Convention Souvenir Book. Robert McCammon was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Bram Stoker Awards on June 15, 2013, at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. With the help of Lisa Morton, Norm Rubinstein, and Bailey Hunter, Joe Lansdale has given permission for his essay to be reprinted on this site.

Click to read “Rick McCammon, A True Southern Gentleman” by Joe Lansdale.

From Subterranean Press:

Just a quick note to let you know that the print editions of Robert McCammon’s I Travel by Night are now sold out. We don’t plan to reprint, so unless we see distributor returns—which is always a possibility—your best way to pick this historical vampire novella up are through your favorite store, or as the ebook.

In other McCammon news, the fall release of his classic Nazi zombie novel, The Night Boat, is right on schedule.

Limited: 1000 signed numbered hardcover copies: $75

 
Note: As of Thursday afternoon, copies of I Travel by Night were still in stock and available from both Amazon and Barnes and Noble, as well as Camelot Books and The Overlook Connection.

Nightmare_09_June_2013-200x300As reported earlier this month, Lisa Morton’s interview with Robert McCammon for Nightmare Magazine is now available to read for free. You can find the interview on the Nightmare Magazine website.

Also now available, Steve Berman’s new anthology Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny contains a reprint of Robert McCammon’s short story “Yellowjacket Summer.” The story previously appeared in the October 1986 issue of Twilight Zone and in the Robert McCammon short story collection Blue World. The trade paperback can be ordered from Amazon here.

The Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013 Souvenir Book included an excerpt from The Five, as well as an essay by Joe Lansdale entitled, “Rick McCammon, a True Southern Gentleman.” The cover for the book has been added to the Book Cover Gallery and can be seen here.

The Spring 2013 issue of Dark Discoveries magazine includes a new short story by Stoker Award-winner Joe McKinney entitled “The Woman Who Collected McCammon.” The story was inspired by Robert Bloch’s classic story, “The Man Who Collected Poe.” You can purchase the issue (or subscribe) on their website.

Finally, the goodie bag for the World Horror Convention 2013 included a postcard from Open Road Media, the ebook publisher of many of McCammon’s backlist titles, congratulating him on his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association. The front and back of the card are shown below.

Open Road Media - McCammon promo card - front

Open Road Media - McCammon promo card - rear

Funky-WerepigRobert McCammon will be the guest on Friday’s edition of The Funky Werepig (June 28, 2013). The show airs at 9 PM EDT on TMV Café. It will be archived on Archive.org after the live broadcast.

You can also listen to the live broadcast on your smartphone using the TuneIn app. The show will also be available from iTunes after the broadcast.

To listen to the live broadcast, visit TMV Café and click on the “Café” link at 9 PM EDT Friday.