SLAVER HEAP ~ UPDATE

I was expecting the delivery of Slaver Heap from our printers on the 3 June.

However, my book printer has been experiencing difficulties and I've not received the book or, as yet, a clear indication of what's happening.

News stories about possible administration for the printers are widely circulating ...

Sorry, but this has inevitably delayed publication somewhat.

I am somewhat in limbo ~ not sure what stage of print production had been reached or if I'll have to get Slaver Heap printed with a new book printer.

I'm hoping the situation will become altogether clearer shortly …

Please bear with me everyone for a few weeks until I can let everyone know what's happening.

Many apologies, Robert.

NEW TITLE FOR MAY 2013

Slaver Heap (a Gothic Novel) by Albert Power

From SAROB PRESS and hot on the heels of Not to be Taken at Bed-Time & Other Strange Stories (volume 8 in Richard Dalby's Mistresses of the Macabre series) by Rosa Mulholland (a very few copies still available) comes a one-off special visit to a dark and Gothic past ...

Albert Power is the author of Mad Matinée in Baku (Passport Levant, 2010). He has also edited and introduced volumes for The Swan River Press, Dublin.

Slaver Heap is the author’s first novel and is a return to the Gothic Romance as written by Radcliffe, Lewis and Maturin. The story presents a near-complete verity in regard to history, language, court procedures, composition and setting ~ here, then, is a true “Gothic” delight ... wild picturesque landscapes, a dark mysterious castle, beautiful heroines, evil villains and a hero (of sorts) ~ all with the brooding menace of the ‘supernatural’ Skelochar lurking mysteriously and adding to a heady and macabre mix set in the Ireland of the 1720s.

Limited Numbered Edition Hardcover. (vi+148pp)

Printed Boards. Cream Bookwove.

Wrap Cover Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication scheduled for the end of May 2013.

PRICES (inclusive of Postage & Packing from within the UK for pre-publication orders as shown)

UK: UK £28.00 (2nd Class Post)

Europe: 35,00 euros (Air Mail)

USA & Rest of World: US $49.50 (Surface Mail) or US $52.50 (Air Mail ~ Extra Charge for Air Mail)

HOW TO ORDER

E-mail sarobpress@gmail.com to order/reserve your copy and make payment by one of the methods detailed below.

HOW TO PAY
Paypal: visit www.paypal.com and send payment using our e-mail address sarobpress@gmail.com

Cheque (payable to ROBERT MORGAN) [UK £ or USA $* only]

*Please ADD US $2.50 for Conversion Fees if paying by USA $ check. Or keep the cost down and pay by PAYPAL.

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Euros ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

A pdf flyer is available by email ~ if you want me to send this along then just drop an email to sarobpress@gmail.com

Cheers, Robert.

BOOK OF SHADOWS SOLD OUT & NEWS

The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows is now SOLD OUT.

Thanks everyone for making this our most popular title to date.

The book has been so well received that editor Rosemary Pardoe and I have decided to produce a follow-up volume in 2014 (as long as we can achieve the same standard of stories).

Rosemary has just announced a call for submissions in the recently published issue (number 23) of The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter (a great journal that I can't recommend highly enough for fans of James and ghostly fiction in general).

The deadline for submissions is to be 31 January 2014.

The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows contents were inspired by eleven of M.R. James' ghost stories and Rosemary and I are looking for prequels/sequels to the remaining twenty two.

These are:

“Lost Hearts” “The Ash Tree” “Number 13” “Count Magnus” “The Rose Garden” “The Tractate Middoth” “The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral” “Martin's Close” “Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance” “The Residence at Whitminster” “The Diary of Mr Poynter” “An Episode of Cathedral History” “The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance” “The Haunted Doll's House” “The Uncommon Prayer-Book” “A Neighbour's Landmark” “A View from a Hill” “A Warning to the Curious” “An Evening's Entertainment” “There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard” “Rats” and “After Dark in the Playing Fields”

Any submission which is just a revamp or parody of the plot of the original story is unlikely to be selected. We are looking for something more original than that and there is no rule that the story must be in the James tradition itself. Rosemary will not look kindly on stories which have been simultaneously submitted elsewhere ~ word count up to the authors (within reason).

Submissions preferred by email attachment in Word or RichText format to Rosemary at pardos@globalnet.co.uk

Good Luck.

Cheers, Robert.  

NEW TITLE UPDATE

Our next title, Not to be Taken at Bed-Time & Other Strange Stories by Rosa Mulholland is with our printer and pre-publication orders should be shipping within the next 10-14 days.

I hope to announce details of our one-off special May 2013 title, Slaver Heap by Albert Power, very shortly ~ watch this space!

Already being worked on for later this year are two really terrific supernatural/ghostly collections which I'm pretty sure will appeal greatly to all our readers.

Cheers, Robert.  

NEW TITLE NEWS

Sarob Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of …

Rosa Mulholland: Not to be Taken at Bed-Time & Other Strange Stories

Edited & Introduced by Richard Dalby

In the late nineteenth century Rosa Mulholland achieved great popularity and acclaim for her many novels, several of which chronicled the lives of the Irish poor. These novels, notably The Wicked Woods of Toberevil (1872), incorporated weird elements of Irish folklore. She became one of the select band of authors employed by Charles Dickens to write stories for his popular magazine All the Year Round, together with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Hesba Stretton and Amelia B. Edwards. Her best seven supernatural and weird short stories have never been gathered together in one volume before, and this collection seeks to remedy the gap to celebrate this gifted late Victorian ‘Mistress of the Macabre’.

Content: “Introduction” “Not to be Taken at Bed-Time” “The Ghost at the Rath” “The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly” “The Mystery of Ora” “A Strange Love Story” “The Ghost at Wildwood Chase” “The Lady Tantivy”

Limited Edition Hardcover. Printed Boards. Cream Bookwove. Cover illustrations by Paul Lowe.

Publication scheduled for late February/early March 2013.

PRICES (inclusive of Postage & Packing from within the UK for pre-publication orders as shown)

UK: UK £26.50 (2nd Class Post)

Europe: 32,50 euros (Air Mail)

USA & Rest of World: US $47.50 (Surface Mail) or US $50.00 (Air Mail ~ Extra Charge for Air Mail)

HOW TO ORDER

E-mail sarobpress@gmail.com to order/reserve your copy and make payment by one of the methods detailed below.

HOW TO PAY
Paypal: visit www.paypal.com and send payment using our e-mail address sarobpress@gmail.com

Cheque (payable to ROBERT MORGAN) [UK £ or USA $* only]

*Please ADD US $2.50 for Conversion Fees if paying by USA $ check. Or keep the cost down and pay by PAYPAL.

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Euros ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

A pdf flyer is available by email ~ if you want me to send this along then just drop an email to sarobpress@gmail.com

Cheers, Robert.

LOW STOCK

I have less than 20 copies left of The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows and don't expect these to be around very long. If you're still undecided then on-line reviews can be found at :

http://suptales.blogspot.com/2012/11/review-ghosts-and-scholars-book-of.html

http://www.nudgemenow.com/article/the-ghosts-scholars-book-of-shadows-edited-by-rosemary-pardoe/

http://siderealpressxtras.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/466606352

Watch this space over the next week or so as I'm almost ready to announce our next title.

Cheers, Robert.

THE GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF SHADOWS ~ UPDATE

The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows has arrived and all pre-publication orders have now been posted.
If you are in the UK you should received your copy in the next day or two.

Europe orders should arrive in 3 - 5 days.

USA and Rest of World orders where the “airmail” option was selected should be dropping through letter-boxes in 4 - 6 days.

Surface mail orders can take up to 6 - 8 weeks but, usually, tend to arrive within 3 - 5.

This title remains IN PRINT so it's not too late to order your copy …

Cheers, Robert.

PS: the Peter Bell collection, A Certain Slant of Light, is SOLD OUT.