Subterranean Press posted this news on their site this morning:

Huge Robert McCammon News—A New Limited Edition and Three Trade Paperbacks

Blue World by Robert McCammon

We’re pleased to announce three new Robert McCammon titles. First up is the Signed Limited Edition of his classic collection, Blue World, expanded to include three newer stories, as well as a full-color dust jacket and full-color interior illustrations by Vincent Chong.

About the Book:

In this expanded edition of Robert McCammon’s classic short story collection, you will encounter horrors and delights in equal measure, including:

  • A man who awakens one morning to find a skeleton in bed where his wife had been the night before.
  • A small-time thief who steals a makeup case, and learns a dead horror star’s secret.
  • A roadside diner, where a Vietnam veteran comes seeking shelter from the storm.
  • A young man in prison, who finds beauty and hope on the wings of a yellow bird.
  • Halloween in a very special residential area, where trick-or-treating is deadly serious.
  • A red house on a street of gray houses, and a breath of sweet fire.
  • The adventures of a has-been serial hero, who dons his old costume and goes in search of a serial killer.
  • A priest obsessed by a porno star, and his realization that both of them are being stalked by a third shadow.
  • An old woman who channels early, simpler times in a melancholy Bradburyesque future.

We will see worlds within worlds through the windows of these stories. We might even see the end of the world, and we might sit on a front porch for a while and sip a glass of gasoline on a hot December day.

Limited: 1000 signed numbered hardcover copies, with exclusive full-color illustrations: $80
Lettered: 52 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom traycase: $275

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Yellowjacket Summer
  • Makeup
  • Doom City
  • Nightcrawlers
  • Pin
  • Yellachile’s Cage
  • I Scream Man!
  • He’ll Come Knocking at Your Door
  • Chico
  • Night Calls the Green Falcon
  • The Red House
  • Something Passed By
  • Blue World
  • Strange Candy (previously uncollected)
  • White (previously uncollected)
  • Children of the Bedtime Machine (previously uncollected)

 

They Thirst by Robert McCammon

That’s not our only McCammon news of the day. This summer, we also plan to release three McCammon trade paperbacks;

If you’re a collector on a budget, there’s the option of having all three signed by the author. This special, limited to only 350 sets, can be ordered through the Blue World page.

 

 

 

The trade hardcover edition of Robert McCammon’s The Border is now available for pre-order from Amazon US, Amazon CA, and Amazon UK.

The lettered and limited editions are now sold out from Subterranean Press. Of course, they still have the trade hardcover available for pre-orders here. Copies of the limited edition can still be ordered from Cemetery Dance.

Chinese translation rights for The Border have been acquired by Nautilus.

The Border will be released on May 31, 2015, in trade hardcover, ebook (U.S.), and audiobook formats.

Subterranean Press is now taking pre-orders for Robert McCammon’s The Border, an epic SF/horror novel that will be released in May 2015!

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Pre-order your copy from Subterranean Press

From the Subterranean Press book page:

World Fantasy award-winning, bestselling author Robert McCammon makes a triumphant return to the epic horror and apocalyptic tone reminiscent of his books Swan Song and Stinger in this gripping new novel, The Border, a saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations.

But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, even worse, are transformed by otherworldly pollution into hideous Gray Men, cannibalistic mutants driven by insatiable hunger. Into these desperate circumstances comes an amnesiac teenaged boy who names himself Ethan—a boy who must overcome mistrust and suspicion to master unknowable powers that may prove to be the last hope for humanity’s salvation. Those same powers make Ethan a threat to the warring aliens, long used to fearing only each other, and thrust him and his comrades into ever more perilous circumstances.

A major new novel from the unparalleled imagination of Robert McCammon, this dark epic of survival will both thrill readers and make them fall in love with his work all over again.

The limited and lettered editions will feature:

  • An exclusive wraparound dust jacket
  • Custom slipcase or traycase (as appropriate)
  • An original afterword by Robert McCammon
  • Several full-page interior illustrations not in the trade hardcover
  • The trade edition dust jacket as a frontispiece

Limited: 500 signed numbered copies, with exclusive wraparound dust jacket and interior illustrations, housed in a custom slipcase
Lettered: 52 signed copies, bound in leather, housed in a custom traycase
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition

Note: The first 1000 trade copies ordered direct from SubPress will be signed by the author

Ebook versions (U.S.) will also be available, as well as an unabridged audiobook from Audible.

Subterranean Press has also revealed two of David Ho’s interior illustrations for the limited and lettered editions. Click on each image to view a larger version.

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Robert McCammon’s 1987 Bram Stoker Award-winning short story “The Deep End” will be one of five stories included in the Random House ebook Dark Screams: Volume 2. The ebook is edited by Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar and will be released on March 3, 2015. The ebook will feature short stories by Robert McCammon, Norman Prentiss, Shawntelle Madison, Graham Masterton, and Richard Christian Matheson. More information about the release, including titles and ordering links, can be found on the Random House website.

The ebook can be pre-ordered from these retailers:

The Dark Screams ebooks are published by Hydra, an ebook-only imprint of Random House, so no physical book is planned.

An audiobook edition of Dark Screams: Volume 1 was released, so it’s possible there will be an audiobook of Volume 2. Stay tuned….

German publisher Festa Verlag will publish a new, two-volume German translation of Swan Song on May 26, 2015. You can see more about the releases and pre-order them on their website: Swans Song 1: Nach dem Ende der Welt and Swans Song 2: Das scharlachrote Auge.

The books will also be available from Amazon DE: Swans Song 1: Nach dem Ende der Welt and Swans Song 2: Das scharlachrote Auge.

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