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     Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.39.199 |
If you’ve felt strange eyes studying you from the shadows, it has seen you… If crooked branches have rapped upon your window at night, it has summoned you… If your dreams are plagued by half-glimpsed terrors, it has claimed you… I am extremely proud to announce that my latest full-length horror collection, The Darkly Splendid Realm, will be published by Dark Regions Press: http://www.darkregions.com/. Featuring 13 new nightmarish tales (almost all of which are exclusive to this book), an Introduction by none other than award-winning author Laird Barron, and cover art by legendary artist Harry O. Morris, The Darkly Splendid Realm will initially be offered in two distinct versions: -100 signed and numbered limited edition hardcovers with dust jackets -13 Deluxe Editions. These will be leather bound, signed, and will feature a slipcase and other bibliophilic delights. The book is currently slated for a late-2009 release. Pre-order information shall be announced in the very near future. Thank you all for your interest. What a year 2009 is turning out to be for RCMB members! We'll all be broke by December, but very, very happy.  | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Wicked! Congratulations, Richard. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
Congratulations, my friend. | ||
| Steveduffy (Steveduffy) Username: Steveduffy Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 86.159.105.54 |
Woo, and indeed hoo. Likewise, wahey! That sounds absolutely splendid! | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.104.255 |
I think this book will make waves. My, it's been an incredibly strong year for supernatural fiction, hasn't it? | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.39.199 |
It certainly has, Simon. I was out for a walk this evening pondering just how much astonishing horror fiction has either been published in '09, or is due before the year's out. The folks on Ramsey's board (including the landlord himself, of course!) alone have enriched the genre by leaps and bounds over the last little while. This is an astounding time and I'm proud to be a part of it. My sincere thanks to you, the good Mr. Bestwick, Zed, and Steve. I truly hope that The Darkly Splendid Realm makes something of a mark. As long as readers dig it, and just a few minds are blown, I'll be very content indeed. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 192.206.151.130 |
Richard, Splendid! Very pleased for you. And pleased to see it will be out sooner rather than later. Congratulations!! | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.186.44 |
Well done, Richard! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.60.106.5 |
Congrats Richard. Are we getting back to discussing those Campbell stories again at some point btw? I thought your idea was a great one. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Great news, Richard, congratulations. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Thank you, Chris, Karim, and Mark. I appreciate the support. Karim: As a matter of fact, I've been meaning to post something regarding the Ramsey Campbell Reading Group all week. I would very much like to reboot this project. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.50.242 |
Congratulations Richard. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Thank you, Allyson. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.176 |
Congratulations, Richard. Looking forward to it. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.39.199 |
Appreciated, Steve. I hope you enjoy the book once it's released. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.6.105 |
Well done Richard - another book for the shelves! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Cheers, Mick! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.71.37.245 |
The Table of Contents for The Darkly Splendid Realm may now be revealed: *Introduction: Vistas of Evil Splendor by Laird Barron *Prowling Through Throated Chambers *Where the Scarab Dwells *Phantom Passages *Primeval Wood *Final Night in Nevertown *Children of the Mound *The Language of the Nameless Region *The Astral Mask *Dreaming While Adrift on the River of Despair *Getting the Strap *Waterburns *The Bitter Taste of Dread-Moths *Following the Silent Hedges *Author's Afterword The Autumn 2009 release date has been confirmed by Dark Regions Press. Pre-order information as well as free online sample stories and a preview of Harry O. Morris's incredible cover art will be available soon. Thanks, all! Best, Richard | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Well, I'm certainly needing some other kind of madness,  so I'll definitely be getting this one! I loved Omens, so I know to expect good stuff from you. Can't wait! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.71.37.245 |
Thanks so much, Niki. I'm really glad you liked Omens, but will I jinx things by boasting that I feel this new collection is even stronger? Oh, and bonus points for picking out the Bauhaus reference. Step aside, folks, the lady just won herself a Kewpie doll.  | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.227.90.149 |
Looking forward to this. It might just be the second-best book published this year! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.71.37.245 |
Agreed, Simon! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.31.153.8 |
Excellent news Richard, and some quite marvellous titles in that ToC! This is yet another volume that will added to the library in the extra turret I'm having built onto Probert Towers to house the extra books (the dungeon bit underneath is apparently free, although I'm sure I can find some good use for it as I walk the corridors, my ebony candelbrum held before me to illuminate my fine garments of charcoal grey and gold). No idea what I'm on tonight. What the hell IS a 'kewpie' doll anyway? Is it like an Action Man? | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.71.37.245 |
Thanks so much, John. If Probert Towers is anything even remotely like what you've described, I'll gladly donate a copy of The Darkly Splendid Realm in exchange for a glass of Amontillado and some ennui-ridden conversation with the Master of the House. Kewpie dolls were very cheap and very strange cartoon-like plastic dolls of babies or children. For some reason they were staple prizes that could be won at fairs and carnivals in the U.S. and Canada if one were able enough to beat the rigged shooting ranges, ring-tosses, etc. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
The boy's flying! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.73 |
Groovy stuff, Richard. Hope it looks great on the ole shelves. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.35.23 |
Thanks so much, Gary and Mark. I think the book will look quite striking. Dark Regions Press went above and beyond with the design, and Harry O. Morris's artwork is astonishingly good. I'm quite chuffed! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.229.203 |
Congratulations, Richard! Harry O. Morris is a living legend, or rather mythos. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Thank you very much, Joel. If you do read the book, I truly hope you enjoy it. Which reminds me: I'm very much looking forward to reading The Witnesses Are Gone. I fully agree about Harry's work. I've been lucky enough to have two covers done by him and each time he's sent me the "rough" versions, I've felt my jaw hit the floor. I think covers are very important; not quite as crucial as the words between them, but important nonetheless! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.92.51.178 |
Hi, all, I'm happy to report that Harry O. Morris's jaw-dropping cover for The Darkly Splendid Realm is now available for gawking by going here: http://www.richardgavin.net/ Dark Regions Press will be posting pre-order information for the book very, very soon! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.71.36.241 |
I'm very pleased to announce that The Darkly Splendid Realm is now available for pre-order, courtesy of Dark Regions Press. You can get more info about the book and place your order here: http://www.darkregions.com/the_darkly_splendid_realm.html Both the standard hardcover and Deluxe editions are being offered at a special sale price right now, so you can save some pennies. Thanks so much for putting up with my shameless self-promotion. To those who plan on buying the book, I think it is far and away the strongest work I've done to date. Best, Richard | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Good luck with this, Richard. It looks a splended volume. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.71.36.241 |
Thanks, Zed. One might even say it looks like a darkly splendid volume...(Sorry, I couldn't resist the bad EC Comics-style pun.) Fingers-crossed that the book does well. I think you'll like it, Zed. It's a pretty wide cross-section of horror, from the ghostly to the outright ghastly. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.92.55.61 |
For those who want a glimpse into The Darkly Splendid Realm, Dark Regions Press has posted a *free* PDF of the story "Prowling Through Throated Chambers." You can read the tale here: http://www.darkregions.com/samples/the_darkly_splendid_realm_sample.pdf Enjoy! | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 174.88.169.155 |
That's a great story, Richard! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.92.55.61 |
Thank you, Mike. I appreciate it. Plenty more horrors where that came from.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I'll print this off at work tomorrow, Richard - can't read off the screen. :-/ | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.92.55.61 |
Ah, using work time and resources for personal pursuits. You truly are a man after my own heart, Zed. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Oh, I'm a bit naughty, me. Right, then, I've printed it off and will read this evening, probably in the bath, with a nice glass of merlot. I know, I know...too much information. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.92.55.61 |
Too much information? Bah! Scarcely enough, you mean! | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.185 |
All: while you're at it, you can also order Rainey's "best of" collection Other Gods. Several of the stories (at least the ones that I know) are seriously good. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Indeed. Rainey's a very good writer and a very good editor. I miss "Deathrealm" magazine a lot. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I've not been taken with the 2 or 3 tales of his I read. Nothing about them stood out. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.36.197 |
I think what Zed is really trying to say here is "All of you should just order Richard's book instead!" | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.185 |
If you order 2 books then you get a free book - some of which seem fun enough. Hence, order Gavin & Rainey! Zed: well, ok, I also noticed a quality variation in Rainey's prose but when he's good, he can be amazing. And this is a kind of best-of collection, so I feel rather ok about it. I remember that I liked Fugue Devil quite a bit, for example. I read this in a Wildside Press collection - forgot the title. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 174.88.169.155 |
Or you can order Gavin & Kelly, and have a double dose of the Canadian chill. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.27.115 |
Forgive me bumping the dust off this thread, but for anyone who is interested, Dark Regions Press has just released the trade paperback edition of The Darkly Splendid Realm: http://www.darkregions.com/the_darkly_splendid_realm.html Thanks, all. Here endeth the pimpage. Best, Richard | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I'm reading this right now and it's very good indeed. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.27.115 |
Thanks, Zed. Appreciated. | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.132.5.239 |
Just ordered it Richard, looking forward to it. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.27.115 |
Thank you kindly, Colin. It warms my heart knowing that my work will be making its way to the black abyss from whence it came. |