Dead Letter Press has posted some information about their forthcoming anthology about evil books, Bound for Evil, including an alphabetized list of stories/contributors:

T.A.C. Amaral – “Damek”
Barry Baldwin – “If I Had a Hundred Tongues”
Glynn Barrass – “Fahrenheit Clark Ashton”
Skadi Meic Beorh – “The Devil & Nathaniel Hawthorne”
R. Michael Burns – “The Door, The Lock, The Key”
Ramsey Campbell – “Worse Than Bones”
Ramsey Campbell – “One Copy Only”
Robert Chambers – “The Yellow Sign”
Fred Chappell – “The Adder”
Rui Cruz – “Weird Chronicle”
Lorne Dixon – “Boek Van Namen”
Tom English – “The Strange Bequest of Simon Bray”
JG Faherty – “Windows to the Soul”
Eugene Field – “The Bibliomaniac’s Prayer”
David M. Fitzpatrick – “The Narconomicon”
Gary Fry – “The Guest Book”
Christopher Fulbright – “Mechanix”
Orrin Grey – “The Reading Room”
Angeline Hawkes – “A Lesson in Therapy”
Nathaniel Hawthorne – “The Devil in Manuscript”
Rhys Hughes – “Lem’s Last Book”
Rhys Hughes – “Finding the Book of Sand”
Margaret Irwin – “The Book”
M. R. James – “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook”
Mark Leslie – “Browsers”
Patrick LoBrutto – “Genesis for Dummies”
H. P. Lovecraft – “The Book”
H. P. Lovecraft – “The Dunwich Horror”
Michael Lovell – “The Story of Edward Hardiman”
Erin MacKay – “Letters Home”
Michael McGrorty – “Literature Abuse”
Mark McLaughlin – “Fine Print”
Gary McMahon – “Guidance”
Rick Moore – “The Incomplete Works of William Shakespeare”
Barry Napier – “A Collection of True Evils”
Kurt Newton – “Trunk Story”
Terri Nixon – “The Truth Inside the Lie”
Louise Norlie – “The Reference Book”
John R. Platt – “Flames in the Night”
John Llewellyn Probert – “Recipe for Disaster”
Jeffrey Rice – “The New Words”
Barbara Roden – “Association Copy”
Ian Rogers – “The Dark and the Young”
Jeff Ryan – “Readers Digested”
Jeff Ryan – “Prosecuted, Banished, and Shot”
Saki – “The Almanack”
Vincent L. Scarsella – “Practical Time travel”
J. Michael Shell – “A Fatal Distraction”
John Shire – “An Antique Land”
Ian Shoebridge – “Happiness”
Simon Strantzas – “Leather, Cold and Dark”
Montague Summers – “The Grimoire”
John Teehan – “Pact Anthology”
Ben Thomas – “Cormac’s Mirror”
Jeffrey Thomas – “Book Worm”
Lavie Tidhar – “The Book in the Earth”
Mark Tullius – “The Book of Revelation”
Jason Vogt – “Don’t Read Them After Midnight”
Chris Willrich – “The Thief with Two Deaths”
Andrew J. Wilson – “Limited Edition”
Michael D. Winkle – “The Book of Cain”
S. Levett Yeats – “The Devil’s Manuscript”
Jill Zeller – “The Alzheimer’s Book Club”

Some great classic authors are reprinted here, as well as some of my current favourites, including Angeline Hawkes, Lavie Tidhar, Gary Fry, Gary McMahon, and Barbara Roden (a fellow Canuck who also edits All Hallows).

I’m really looking forward to this one, not just because it features my first published novella, “The Dark and the Young,” but because it’s also my first appearance in a hardcover collection, and I get to appear alongside so many great authors.

The book has a hefty price tag ($80), but you’re really getting your money’s worth. Here’s some deets from the publisher’s website:

Deluxe smythe-sewn hardcover, bound in black imitation leather, and stamped in gold leaf with an original cover design by World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator Allen Koszowski.

64 ingenious tales of lost knowledge and restless ghosts, secret libraries and forbidden texts, alternate worlds and ancient gods—written by 59 internationally-acclaimed writers, including Ramsey Campbell, Rhys Hughes, H. P. Lovecraft, Fred Chappell and Jeffrey Thomas!

The book is a limited edition of 500 copies, with only 375 being made available for sale, so check it out soon because I think this one will sell out very fast.

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