Category: Robert McCammon

Robert McCammon is participating in Monsters vs Madness: A Benefit Auction for Planned Parenthood. From their website:

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we’re auctioning off movie monster figurines hand-painted by some amazing artists including Richard Taylor of Weta Workshop, Don Maitz, Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger from KNB Effects, Chris Walas, Mitch O’Connell, Steve Wang, Joseph Michael Linsner, Tom Taggart, Kirk Thatcher, Bob Eggleton, David Fisher, and many more!

Robert McCammon painted a figure of the Mummy, which can be seen below. The website hasn’t been updated yet, but photos of some of the other figures can be found on the Facebook page for the auction.

The auction takes place November 11–27. Register to bid on the Monsters vs Madness website.

 

The Alabama Booksmith has announced that Robert McCammon will sign his new book, The King of Shadows, there on Saturday, December 3, 2022, at 3 PM!

The event will start with a presentation with Mr. McCammon discussing and, most likely, reading from The King of Shadows.

Copies of his in-print novels, including The King of Shadows, will be available for purchase, and attendees are welcome to bring other books for Mr. McCammon to sign.

NOTE that masks are required inside the Alabama Booksmith! I expect this to be true in December, too.

For details, including information about ordering a signed copy, visit the Alabama Booksmith website.

If you’re coming from out-of-town, you may check out the special rate the beautiful Valley Hotel offers Alabama Booksmith customers (they’re just a short walk away) by Clicking Here

Gothic Classics: The Castle of Otranto and The Old English Baron is the next volume from the Horror Writer Association’s Haunted Library of Horror Classics. The introduction to the book was written by Robert McCammon. It will be released on January 11, 2022. The book is edited by Leslie S. Klinger and Eric J. Guignard and published by Poisoned Pen Press.

Purchase from Amazon: Paperback Ebook

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Hydra Publications will release Writers Workshop of Horror 2 on September 1. The anthology consists of almost three dozen essays and interviews by and with some of the biggest names in horror, including a new interview with Robert McCammon conducted by Brady Allen. From the Hydra Publications website:

Each piece focuses on an element of the craft from the perspective of professional writers of the macabre or dark fantasy. The book is edited by Bram Stoker Award-winner Michael Knost and will be published by Hydra Publications as a trade paperback and ebook. Cover art is by the amazing Greg Chapman.

Editor Michael Knost posted this on Facebook on June 2, 2021:

I spoke with the publisher today and we are going to see pre-orders for Writers Workshop of Horror 2 very shortly! I will keep you updated. Shipping date is set to start September 1st! We will have ebooks, paperback, and also signed (by me)/limited paperback (100 copies) that will be delivered a little earlier than anything else. Thanks to Hydra Publications, all contributors, and Greg Chapman for the amazing cover.

For a complete list of the writers and the interviewees, please visit the Hydra Publications website.

From 1989 to 1991, I published six issues of Lights Out! – The Robert R. McCammon Newsletter. Five of those issues have been available to download as PDF files from this site for years, but the last issue was a subscriber-only issue—copies weren’t sold by book dealers at the time, and it’s been difficult to find. Now, 29 years later, we’ve decided to make a PDF of that issue available as our holiday gift to you!

Issue six was published in October 1991 and is most notable because it contains a lengthy excerpt from The Address, a novel about a house in Hollywood that Robert McCammon abandoned in 1990. In a preface to the excerpt, he describes the book, what it would have been, and why he gave up on it. The issue also includes a lengthy interview with Robert McCammon that I conducted. That interview has long been found in the Interviews section of this site, but you might enjoy seeing it in context.

So download the file, kick back, and enjoy reading a Robert McCammon piece that most readers have never seen before!

Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!

–Hunter

Happy Halloween!

Here’s a fun little Robert McCammon piece that few people know about. Well, until now. Back in 2008, Robert McCammon’s then-16-year-old daughter, Skye, hosted a podcast with her friend Brent Irwin. Their Halloween 2008 podcast featured a poem called “The Ballad of Cletus Fredrick.” The poem was written by Robert specifically for Skye’s podcast.

Skye and Brent have re-recorded the poem, and it can be found on Spotify at the link below!

“The Ballad of Cletus Fredrick”