Sunday 29 October 2023

NEW TITLE NEWS: HAUNTINGS BY PETER BELL

HAUNTINGS:  Tales of Supernatural Dread by PETER BELL

Peter Bell in these ten stories presents an intriguing gallery of people and places that are in various ways haunted: by legend and superstition; cults and curses; vengeance and tragedy; existential crisis; sinister epiphanies; dreams and omens; ghosts, witches and demons. In landscapes as diverse as the Scottish Highlands, the Welsh Marches, the Yorkshire Wolds and the Cumbrian Fells, and in the dark interstices of town and country, the characters find themselves in uncanny congress with their haunted surroundings.

Stories: “The Bothy*” “Rounding the Stone*” “Reunion” “Ragnarok” “The Cry of the Curlew*” “The Curator of Souls” “The Tunnel” “The Swing” “The Portrait” and “The Crucifix*”. Preface by the Author.

*Previously unpublished and original to this collection. The previously published stories have been fully revised, some extensively. 

HAUNTINGS is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.

Bound in Midnight Blue Cialux Italian cloth, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine in Silver, Quality Cream Text Paper, Full Colour Marble Design Endpapers, Section (Thread) Sewn binding, Head/Tailbands and Ribbon Bookmarker. Approx 180pp including prelims etc.

Fantastic Colour Wrap Dust-Jacket and Black & White Frontispiece Art by PAUL LOWE.

Publication currently scheduled for late December 2023.

PRICES  ... (inclusive of Postage and Packing)

UK:  £38.00

EUROPE :  45,00 Euros

USA & Rest of World:  USA $60.00  [Tracked ~ USA $65.00]

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 Bank UK£ only]

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Europe/USA & RoW ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

Please Note: we are very sorry but we can no longer accept cheques in USA dollars due to changes with our UK banking arrangements.

 

Cheers, Robert.

Saturday 14 October 2023

POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS HAS ARRIVED

POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS, a shared volume by John Howard/Mark Valentine, touched down safely around a week or so ago.

I posted all individual pre-ordered books during the last few days and I aim to get book dealer orders shipped early next week.

All being well, copies should be arriving in the next two to three weeks.

Many apologies for the very slight delay on this one …

Thanks everyone for your continued support (and patience).

Cheers, Robert.

Tuesday 19 September 2023

POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS ~ UPDATE

The books are due to leave my printers tomorrow with touch down expected here in sunny France middle of next week. I'll work as fast as possible to get orders posted and can only apologize for the further delay. Cheers, Robert.

Wednesday 6 September 2023

POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS ~ PRODUCTION UPDATE

POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS, a shared volume by John Howard (the short novel “Fallen Sun”) and Mark Valentine (the novelettes “Masque and Anti-Masque” and “The Prospero Machine”) is very slightly delayed by about a fortnight or so … it’s currently ‘in production’ with my book printer and I am now expecting delivery around the middle of September.

I’ll work to check, number, pack, and post all pre-ordered copies as fast as I can once the books touch down here in France.

It’s already looking like it might sell out pretty quickly … just over 20 copies left of the 300 copy print run.

Full details at:  http://sarobpress.blogspot.com/2023/08/new-title-news-possessions-and-pursuits.html

Cheers, Robert.

Sunday 6 August 2023

BLOOD WOOD REVIEW

David Longhorn has reviewed Christopher Harman’s Blood Wood and Other Stories at: http://suptales.blogspot.com/2023/08/blood-wood-by-christopher-harman-sarob.html

Blood Wood sold out very very quickly but copies are probably still available from some of the dealers who stock Sarob Press titles.

In the UK try coldtonnage.com or fantasticliterature.com

In the USA there is camelotbooks.com / darkhollowbooks@metrocast.net / greenhandbookshop.com / ofilip@nstar.net and ziesings.com

The forthcoming Possessions and Pursuits a shared volume by John Howard / Mark Valentine is already (with a few weeks still to publication) looking like it, too, might sell out very quickly. Let me know if you want this one and haven’t yet ordered or reserved your copy … full details in the post below.

Cheers, Robert.

Tuesday 1 August 2023

NEW TITLE NEWS: POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS

POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS by JOHN HOWARD / MARK VALENTINE

In this third (and final) shared volume influenced by the supernatural and metaphysical thrillers of “Inkling” Charles Williams (1886-1945), John Howard presents a wonder-filled short novel and Mark Valentine serves up two rather amazing novelettes.

John Howard’s fast-paced novel ‘Fallen Sun’ recounts the battle between several rival groups for ownership of a powerful Byzantine talisman, and the different visions they each encounter when it is in their possession. Through many twists and turns of chance and intention, none of the characters emerge unchanged, until the full significance of the treasure is at last revealed.

Mark Valentine’s ‘Masque and Anti-Masque’ is set in a small, ancient university town with a tradition of seasonal processions. But what is their significance? Could the town really be the occult capital of England, as a new book proposes? And in ‘The Prospero Machine’, the cards issued by fortune-telling machines at a seaside resort seem to have an uncanny influence on the town, linked to an obscure society’s work with dream magic.

POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.

Bound in Light Blue Cialux Italian cloth, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine in White, Quality Cream Text Paper, Full Colour Marble Design Endpapers, Section Sewn binding, Head/Tailbands and Ribbon Bookmarker. Approx 176pp including prelims etc.

Fantastic Full Colour Wrap Dust-Jacket Art by PAUL LOWE.

Publication currently scheduled for end August 2023.

PRICES  ... (inclusive of Postage and Packing)

UK:  £38.00  /  EUROPE :  45,00 Euros

USA & Rest of World:  USA $60.00  /  USA $65.00 (Tracked)


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 Bank UK£ only]

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Europe/USA & RoW ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

Please Note: we are very sorry but we can no longer accept cheques in USA dollars due to changes with our UK banking arrangements.

 

Cheers, Robert.

Monday 3 July 2023

BLOOD WOOD SOLD OUT

BLOOD WOOD and Other Stories by Christopher Harman is SOLD OUT.   Cheers, Robert.

Sunday 11 June 2023

BLOOD WOOD HAS ARRIVED

BLOOD WOOD AND OTHER STORIES by Christopher Harman has arrived from my book printer.

All pre-ordered individual orders have shipped and should be touching down over the next two to three weeks.

Please note: BLOOD WOOD AND OTHER STORIES is already a very Low Stock item … just about half a dozen left. Check with me before sending payment …

As always, many thanks, everyone, for your continued support.

And still “In Print” and currently available I have:

THE FACES AT YOUR SHOULDER by Steve Duffy

ILL MET BY DARKNESS by Paul Finch*

LEGIONNAIRE  by C.E. Ward*

*Less than half a dozen left of each of these.

Cheers, Robert.

Monday 1 May 2023

NEW TITLE NEWS: BLOOD WOOD AND OTHER STORIES

BLOOD WOOD AND OTHER STORIES by CHRISTOPHER HARMAN

Christopher Harman is a former librarian and lives in Preston, Lancashire. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies over almost thirty years and this (sort of/mostly) retrospective and bumper collection of his work is really long overdue.

Presenting an invitation to terror … here the reader will discover a dozen tales of Jamesian chills, creeping urban dread and rural folk horror … there is darkness even in the common-place. And for Mr Harman’s characters there appears to be no escape from the lurking horrors …

Eleven of these stories were originally published (in magazines and anthologies) over a period of twenty years between 1994 and 2014 and are collected together here for the first time. The title novella “Blood Wood” was written especially and is wholly original to this volume.

Stories: “The Children”, “Passengers”, “A Better Place”, “In the Fields”, “Dinckley Green”, “Sleepers”, “By Leaf and Thorn”, “The Last to be Found”, “Jackdaw Jack”, “Dark Tracks”, “Hill Shadows” and “Blood Wood”

BLOOD WOOD is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.

Bound in ‘blood’ Red [what else] Cialux Italian cloth, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine in White, Quality Creamy Text Paper, Full Colour Printed Endpapers with a Marbled Design, Section Sewn binding, Red Head/Tailbands and Red Ribbon Bookmarker. Approx 232pp including prelims etc. Fabulous Full Colour Wrap Dust-Jacket Art by PAUL LOWE.

Publication currently scheduled for end May/early June 2023.

PRICES  (inclusive of Postage and Packing)

UK:  £38.00    Europe:  45,00 euros

USA & RoW:  USA $60.00 (or ‘Tracked’ USA $65.00) 

 

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 Bank UK£ only]

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Europe/USA & RoW ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

 

Cheers, Robert.

Friday 24 March 2023

ANOTHER REVIEW OF THE NEW STEVE DUFFY COLLECTION

David Longhorn has reviewed The Faces at Your Shoulder by Steve Duffy at: http://suptales.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-faces-at-your-shoulder-by-steve.html

Copies still available. Details at: http://sarobpress.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-title-news-faces-at-your-shoulder.html

Cheers, Robert.

PS: all ordered copies have shipped and, if not already arrived, should be touching down any day now.


Tuesday 7 March 2023

THE FACES AT YOUR SHOULDER ~ REVIEW

Best selling Crime author Paul Finch has reviewed Steve Duffy’s new Sarob Press collection The Faces at Your Shoulder in detail at: http://paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-tv-slot-heck-latest-and-bloody-blades.html  (just scroll down for the review)

Copies still available for those who might be wondering if this one is for them … hopefully Paul’s review helps.

Full details (including how to order/pay) at: http://sarobpress.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-title-news-faces-at-your-shoulder.html

Cheers, Robert.

Wednesday 22 February 2023

THE FACES AT YOUR SHOULDER HAS ARRIVED

Steve Duffy’s new collection (The Faces at Your Shoulder) has just arrived from my printer and looks great [just scroll down to the book announcement for full details including price for your location/how to pay etc].

Printed on 90gsm Munken Premium Cream paper, it’s bound in real Cialux Italian cloth (Nordic Blue) with marbled design printed endpapers, gold coloured bookmark and head/tailbands. It’s also blocked to the front boards as well as the spine in gold.

And, of course, it comes with splendid dust jacket art by the ever brilliant Paul Lowe.

Copies available to order now.

Cheers, Robert. 


Sunday 15 January 2023

NEW TITLE NEWS: THE FACES AT YOUR SHOULDER

THE FACES AT YOUR SHOULDER by STEVE DUFFY

Where are the monsters?  Sometimes they’re right behind you.

In this new collection of six novelettes – three are wholly original to this volume – Steve Duffy invites us to look over our shoulders, and asks us whether we recognise the faces that we see.  Some of them are all too human, some are animals, and some are like nothing we’ve ever seen – yet. 

In the snowy wastes of the Yukon and the mining country of Appalachia an age-old terror is unwittingly unleashed…

After-hours at the Pacific View diner, meet a glamorous, mysterious film star and uncover a monstrous bargain…

In Streatham or in Ethiopia, you must be careful what you wish for – very careful – or anything might happen…

Christmas is a time for family, and that means dark secrets, desperate desires and occult constructs…

Down at the zoo something is stirring: the animals know, but the warders won’t realise until it’s already too late…

Young love blossoms at the New York World’s Fair, but the future has its own agenda…

Steve’s previous Sarob Press collection (Finding Yourself in the Dark) sold out its print run within a few weeks of publication.  Don’t risk missing out – order your copy of The Faces at Your Shoulder now.  Before the monsters disappear...

Stories: “The Oram County Whoosit” “The Soul is a Bird*” “In the Days Before the Monsters*” “The Psychomanteum” “The Lion’s Den” and “Futureboro*” *original to this volume. “Foreword” and “Notes on the Stories” by the author.

THE FACES AT YOUR SHOULDER is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.

Bound in Nordic Blue Cialux Italian cloth, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine in Gold, Quality Munken Premium Cream 90gsm Text Paper, Full Colour Printed Endpapers, Section Sewn binding, Gold Head/Tailbands and Gold Ribbon Bookmarker. Approx 192pp including prelims etc. Fantastic Full Colour Wrap Dust-Jacket and B&W Frontispiece Art by PAUL LOWE. Publication currently scheduled for early/mid February 2023.

PRICES  ... (inclusive of Postage and Packing)

UK:  £38.00   /   EUROPE :  45,00 Euros   /  

USA & Rest of World:  USA $60  or  USA $65 (Tracked)


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 Bank UK£ only]

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Europe/USA & RoW ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

Please Note: we are very sorry but we can no longer accept cheques in USA dollars due to changes with our UK banking arrangements.

 

Cheers, Robert.