Subterranean Press has revealed the cover art for Robert McCammon’s upcoming The Hunter from the Woods, a collection of stories and novellas featuring Michael Gallatin, the lycanthropic hero of The Wolf’s Hour.  The art is by Vincent Chong, who also did the cover art for the recent Subterranean limited edition of The Wolf’s Hour.  The book is scheduled for publication in November 2011. Click on the image to see a larger version.

Subterranean Press has also made the complete novella “The Room at the Bottom of the Stairs” available as a free ebook download in EPUB (NOOK) and MOBI (Kindle) formats.  This novella originally appeared in the limited edition of The Wolf’s Hour, and it is also included in The Hunter from the Woods.  You can download the novella from the Subterranean Press order page.

  • On Friday, July 29, 2011, Robert McCammon tweeted the following from his Twitter account:

    Robert McCammon

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    THE PROVIDENCE RIDER (Corbett 4) is done and off to my agent. It was an epic all-nighter, fueled by Kona coffee and cigar breaks on my balcony. The sun came up and the birds sang. The doc file was sent through the electric god. I rest ’til Monday, seeing HP tonight.

  • The Five is now available in ebook format for the Kindle and the NOOK! Other formats will be coming soon.

  • A new Chinese edition of Boy’s Life has been published by Yilin Press in China.  The cover can be seen below; it has been added to the Book Cover Gallery.

More fantastic reviews of The Five have popped up on various sites.  Here are some of the more notable reviews:

And here are several other recent mentions of Robert McCammon’s work:

Finally, reader Kevin Richardson posted this photo of his The Five t-shirt to the Robert McCammon Facebook page, along with the caption:

"Just finished reading The Five and love it. I even got in the last show free."

You can read more about the T-shirts by clicking here.

Korean publisher Sigongsa has released a new two-volume paperback edition of Robert McCammon’s Swan Song. The covers can be found below and in the Book Cover Gallery. The same publisher recently released a Korean translation of Boy’s Life. This is the first Korean translation of Swan Song.

Swan Song - Volume 1
Swan Song - Volume 2

The publisher also recently posted the prototype image of the cover to their Facebook page.


Swan Song prototype cover

Some blog posts by Sigongsa (in Korean) about their release of Swan Song can be found here.

Korean publisher Sigongsa has released a new two-volume paperback edition of Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life.  The covers can be found below and in the Book Cover Gallery.  The same publisher will be releasing a Korean translation of Swan Song sometime later this summer.  Boy’s Life was previously published in Korea in 1993; until now, it was the only McCammon novel translated into Korean.

Boy's Life - Volume 1
Boy's Life - Volume 2

Some blog posts by Sigongsa (in Korean) about their release of Boy’s Life can be found here.

T-shirts for THE FIVE
Sample T-shirts for THE FIVE

Thanks to Vincent Chong for the use of his logo for Robert McCammon’s The Five, we’ve created some logo T-shirts to help promote the book.  All of the shirts have The Five band logo on the front in either black or red, depending on the color of the shirt.

The purpose of the shirts is simply to help promote the release of The Five. 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.

Russian publisher Эксмо (Eksmo) has released new hardcover editions of four of Robert McCammon’s novels: They Thirst, The Wolf’s Hour, Swan Song (2 volumes), and Boy’s Life (2 volumes).  The covers of all six books have been added to the Book Cover Gallery. You can click on the images below to view a slightly larger version of each.

Boy's Life - Volume 1
Boy's Life - Volume 2
Swan Song - Volume 1
Swan Song - Volume 2
They Thirst
The Wolf's Hour

The August 2011 issue of Sci Fi includes a great review of Robert McCammon’s The Five by Adam-Troy Castro.  You can click on the image of the review page or click here to read the review in full, but it includes these lines:

…there is sustained, well-modulated characterization of even the fleeting characters…. There is an extended visit to the mother of one hard-bitten band member who is so artfully composed during her few pages on stage that she lives and breathes more vividly than some characters other authors labor and sweat over, for entire novels. ….There are tour-de-force passages, describing the sheer joy of playing before an audience, that are masterful set-pieces of evocative prose.  …The Five is a raucous, horrific, hilarious, sensuous, wild, and above all emotionally riveting ride, teeming with passages that you’ll want to read again.

The page also includes a review of Steven R. Boyett’s Mortality Bridge, which was also published by Subterranean Press.