Sunday 3 November 2024

NEW TITLE NEWS ~ THE GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF LANDSCAPE FIGURES

THE GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF LANDSCAPE FIGURES

Once again Rosemary Pardoe will edit and introduce what (she says) might be her final Ghosts & Scholars anthology (the seventh!). A good place to finish with the volume Ro has always wanted to do.

Thirteen devilishly eerie tales where the authors have taken English landscapes and the strange figures, images and patterns often depicted and carved thereon as inspiration for truly uncanny and weird histories… Six of the stories have been selected from (mainly) small press publications and seven are brand new and were written expressly for this volume (including one by the editor herself ~ the first Jane Bradshawe story in almost forty years).

The reprints:  “The Madness of a Chalk Giant” by Colin Insole. “Figures on a Hillside” by Steve Duffy. “The Pharisees’ Glass” by R.B. Russell. “Chalk” by Katherine Haynes. “The Regulars” by David Longhorn. “All I Ever See” by Mike Chinn.

The ‘new’ stories:  “The White Round” by John Howard. “Lob Top” by Christopher Harman. “And Then There’s Place-Name Studies” by John Whitbourn. “The Scouring” by Carole Tyrrell. “Dyrehill Park” by C.E. Ward. “The Lickey Beast” by David A. Sutton and “The Lady and the Unicorn” by Mary Ann Allen (aka Rosemary Pardoe).

Paul Lowe has (once again) provided a quite exceptional and brilliant dust jacket painting and a pretty scary black & white frontispiece.

THE GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF LANDSCAPE FIGURES is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.

Bound in Green Cialux Italian cloth/linnen, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine, Quality Enso Creamy Text Paper, Marble Design Endpapers, Section (Thread) Sewn binding, Head/Tailbands and Ribbon Bookmarker.

Approx 200pp including prelims/introduction etc.

Full Colour Dust-Jacket & Black and White Frontispiece Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled for mid December 2024.

PRICES  ... (inclusive of Postage and Packing)

UK:  £38.00

EUROPE :  45,00 Euros

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

*I’ve noticed a number of items sent tracked of late have not been scanned by the post services as they should and have arrived safely at their destination without their route being fully “tracked”. This is, of course, out of my control … please bear this in mind when choosing tracked shipping.

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 or any other currency due to changes with our UK banking arrangements.

 

Cheers, Robert.

Thursday 24 October 2024

THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES ~ REVIEWED

David Longhorn has reviewed Steve Duffy's collection, THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES, at his terrific SUPERNATURAL TALES site. Check out what he thinks at: 

https://suptales.blogspot.com/2024/10/these-and-other-mysteries-by-steve.html  

David publishes the brilliant  Supernatural Tales story journal... Latest issue out now. Cheers, Robert.

Monday 21 October 2024

THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES ~ SOLD OUT

THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES by STEVE DUFFY has SOLD OUT very quickly.

Thanks again to everyone for your continued support.

The announcement of a new Ghosts & Scholars anthology (THE GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF LANDSCAPE FIGURES) is coming very shortly!

Cheers, Robert.

Friday 13 September 2024

THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES: STEVE DUFFY ~ UPDATE

THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES by STEVE DUFFY is slightly delayed and delivery to me here in France is now expected on (or shortly after) the 23rd September.

My apologies to everyone for the delay.

I will, of course, work as hard as one person can to get all pre-ordered copies posted as soon as possible after the books arrive.

Many thanks for your patience.

Cheers, Robert.

Saturday 13 July 2024

NEW TITLE NEWS: THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES by STEVE DUFFY

“THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES” by STEVE DUFFY

Steve Duffy is the author of the collections The Night Comes On, The Five Quarters (with Ian Rodwell), Tragic Life Stories (all Ash-Tree Press), The Moment of Panic (PS Publishing) and, more recently, from Sarob Press, Finding Yourself in the Dark and The Faces at Your Shoulder.

He is an International Horror Guild award winner for ‘Best Short Story’ (“The Rag-and-Bone Man”) and a Shirley Jackson award winner for ‘Best Novelette’ (“Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage”).

Sarob Press is delighted to present a new and truly exciting collection of eight stories from the pen of one of the very best and original story writers working in the genre today. Three of the stories have appeared previously and five are all new and were written expressly for this volume.

Black magic in the suburbs of Manchester. The no-man’s land of the heart. Late night ghosts on TV. Following the footsteps to Carcosa. Seaside memories that turn to horror. Summoning elementals in a Scottish castle. Answered prayers and a weird messenger. Journeys end and lost loves...

The protagonists in these eight stories encounter the strangeness and the terror which lies beneath the surface of our British cities, in the trenches of WWI, on a cold grey Lincolnshire beach, in dark and terrible recollections and on a summer lakeside holiday in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

The stories: “Dead Centre of Manchester*” “The Harvester of Ladslove” “Screen Burn” “Stations*” “Last Rites at Saltstrand*” “The Strathantine Imps” “Three Deals with the Supreme Being*” & “The Lake of the Lost*” with a foreword and notes on the stories by the author. *Previously unpublished. 

THESE AND OTHER MYSTERIES is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover. Bound in Light Blue Cialux Italian cloth/linnen, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine, Quality Enso Creamy Text Paper, Marble Design Endpapers, Section (Thread) Sewn binding, Head/Tailbands and Ribbon Bookmarker.

Approx 192pp including prelims/foreword etc.

Dust-Jacket & Black and White Frontispiece Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled for late August 2024.


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 or any other currency due to changes with our UK banking arrangements.

 

Cheers, Robert.


Sunday 16 June 2024

SPIRITS OF THE DEAD ~ SOLD OUT

SPIRITS OF THE DEAD by Ron Weighell is SOLD OUT.

Thanks, again, everyone for your continued support.

David Longhorn is doing a ‘running review’ of “Spirits of the Dead” at suptales.blogspot.com

Cheers, Robert.

Tuesday 7 May 2024

SPIRITS OF THE DEAD ~ UPDATE

I was knocked back about ten days during March but all 435 copies of SPIRITS OF THE DEAD by RON WEIGHELL have now left my book printer and, all being well, delivery to me is now expected (touch wood) next Monday.

It’s then going to take me seven-ten days to check, number and pack all the pre-ordered copies. So I expect to begin shipping on the 20 May, or thereabouts.

My apologies for the slight delay … please be patient everyone … most folks know it’s just me here at Sarob Press.

Stock Update:

LEGIONNAIRE by C.E. WARD ~ SOLD OUT

ILL MET BY DARKNESS by PAUL FINCH ~ just 2 copies left

POSSESSIONS AND PURSUITS by JOHN HOWARD/MARK VALENTINE ~ 3 copies only left

And … I have around 20 copies left of the quite brilliant THE FACES AT YOUR SHOULDER by the ever excellent Steve Duffy.

Cheers, Robert.