Category: Short stories

Once again, I’ve managed to locate cover scans of more books that I didn’t previously know about.  In the ’90s, several of Robert McCammon’s short stories were included in anthology reprints in Finland. The books includes translations of Night Visions 4, Night Visions 8, New Stories from the Twilight Zone, and Hot Blood. In addition, a fifth anthology included a reprint of “The Deep End.”

The covers for all of those have been added to the Book Cover Gallery, along with a second printing ARC for The Providence Rider, an advertisement for a 1992 book signing in Nashville, the cover art for the recent hardcover edition of Illustrated Masques, and the cover of a UK edition of Otto Penzler’s recent Zombies anthology.

Speaking of Illustrated Masques, a trade paperback edition of that book will be published in July 2012 by IDW. The book includes a graphic adaptation of Robert McCammon’s “Nightcrawlers.”









 

Shadow Show coverA 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.

  • Japanese illustrator Kazuki Tamada sent in his latest illustration inspired by a Robert McCammon novel. The image to the left was inspired by Mystery Walk.  Click on the image or click here to view a larger version of the images and Kazuki’s other illustrations.

 

  • Several new covers have been added to the Book Cover Gallery: the Advance Uncorrected Proof of The Providence Rider, a new Russian edition of Stinger, and a new Russian edition of Best New Horror, which reprints Robert McCammon’s short story “Pin.”  Click on the images below to view larger versions of each.

 

YouTube user ~somebody~ has posted a song based on the Robert McCammon short story “Something Passed By”. The lyrics for the song can be found below.



“Something Passed By” on YouTube
SOMETHING PASSED BY — ~somebody~

burst into flames like Johnny James
if I don’t drink the high octane
somehow time has been reversed
people age back to their births
this weather now… it acts so strange
especially those concrete rains
and gravity…depends on where you’re at
the wrong place and you may end up…flat

the newspapers read… the three words the experts had said
“SOMETHING PASSED BY”
different physics now apply
“SOMETHING PASSED BY”
no where to run, no place to hide
“SOMETHING PASSED BY AND TOOK THE SKY”

the laws of nature have been changed
its molecules…rearranged
we shake our heads, don’t understand it
sit back and watch the widespread panic
what happened to our beautiful planet?
maybe we took it just for granted

DEMONS cover artRobert McCammon’s World Fantasy Award-nominated short story “Best Friends” will be reprinted in the upcoming anthology Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed.  The anthology is edited by John Skipp, who also edited the recent Zombies and Werewolves anthologies.  The trade paperback will be published by Black Dog & Leventhal in September 2011.

The book can be pre-ordered from Amazon here. The complete Table of Contents can be found here.

“Best Friends,” which originally appeared in Night Visions IV, can be read here.

A brand-new short story by Robert McCammon will appear in an upcoming anthology honoring author Ray Bradbury.

Publishers Weekly: Deals the week of 4-25-11

Bradbury, Revisited
Ray Bradbury biographer (and former PW Midwest correspondent) Sam Weller sold his third book about the sci-fi author, Live Forever: An Anthology of All New Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury. Agent Judith Ehrlich brokered the deal for Weller, selling world English rights to William Morrow’s Jennifer Brehl at auction. Bradbury is writing the introduction to the book, and Weller is co-editing the title with Mort Castle.

Robert McCammon’s story will appear in the book, along with contributions from Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, David Morrell, Tom Monteleone, Lee Martin, Ramsey Campell, Dan Chaon, Harlan Ellison, and many more. The book is expected to be published in Summer 2012.

Author Lee Martin blogged about his story and provides more background information about the title of the anthology: Live Forever: Ray Bradbury and what it takes to make a story.

Gauntlet Press will be publishing J.N. Williamson’s Illustrated Masques in 2011. The book collects the two-volume 1992 graphic novel J.N. Williamson’s Masques and adds some new material. One of the stories adapted to comic form for this book is Robert McCammon’s “Nightcrawlers”. The script was written by James Kisner, and the art is by Ted Naifeh.

The book is expensive, but if you’re interested, you can read more about it on the Gauntlet Press site or on the Cemetery Dance site.

“Nightcrawlers” was originally published in the anthology Masques and was also included in Robert McCammon’s short story collection, Blue World.