LEGIONNAIRE UPDATE

The rather beautiful (Paul Lowe’s jacket art is truly superb) deluxe signed edition of LEGIONNAIRE by C.E. Ward touched down here in cold and rainy northern France just under two weeks ago.

All pre-ordered copies finally posted around 7/10 days ago.

Please, however, be a little patient, as some delays might occur over and above the usual festive madness as, you might have heard, most of France has been on strike (inevitably and unfortunately slowing everything down).

If you haven’t yet ordered, don’t worry there are still copies currently available but, because of the usual postal turmoil at this time of year, I won’t be posting any new orders received from today until after the 26 December (just in case).  Full details below.

Next up (mid-March) will be THE GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF MAZES, edited and introduced by Rosemary Pardoe and with dust jacket art by Paul Lowe. Details will be announced in the New Year.

Thanks again everyone for your continued support and Merry Christmas and all the best for 2020.

Cheers, Robert.

NEW TITLE NEWS ~ LEGIONNAIRE: C.E. WARD

NEW TITLE NEWS ~ A GHOST STORY FOR THE DARK WINTER NIGHTS

LEGIONNAIRE by C.E. WARD

The Legion of the Damned... for Armand Lucette and his weary comrades the unrelenting torture of the baking sun by day and the dark, uncaring bone-chilling cold of the desert nights are terrible enough ... but the horrors they experience at Seni-Bebrou, and on their flight through the unforgiving Sahara, become a terror almost beyond words. And who (if any) will survive to tell the tale(?) ... More terribly, what might then be their ultimate fate?

C.E. (Clive) WARD is the author of three Sarob Press ghost story collections (with a fourth currently being written) ... Vengeful Ghosts (1998), Seven Ghosts and One Other (2010) and Malevolent Visitants (2016). Each of these collections sold out very quickly and are now almost impossible to find ... and, when they do appear for sale, command very high prices. Clive describes LEGIONNAIRE as ... “my first attempt at writing that most tricky of compositions, the ghost story novella ...” and what an ‘attempt’. This publisher was blown away. But, then, Clive is one of our very favourite authors. The author also says (in his introduction) ... “LEGIONNAIRE is a story about the French Foreign Legion. It is, of course, also a story about ghosts. It attempts a most unlikely pairing and melange of the contemporary writers Montague Rhodes James and Percival Christopher Wren”. So, a fabulously dark and ghostly novella, introduced by the author and with absolutely brilliant dust jacket and signature page art by PAUL LOWE.

Say no more ... this deluxe limited edition book will sell out very quickly ... so get your copy reserved now (before it’s too late).

LEGIONNAIRE is a Hand Numbered SIGNED Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.

Bound in Wibalin Cloth (Fine Linen Style), Foil Blocked to Spine, Lithographically Printed on Quality Munken Premium 90gsm Cream Bookwove, Coloured Endpapers, Section Sewn Binding & Head/Tailbands.

Approx 96pp including introduction, prelims etc.

Tipped-in signature page on high quality 90gsm ivory parchment paper signed by the author and with extra art.

Wrap Dust-Jacket & Signature Page Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled for early December 2019.

Prices

(inclusive of Standard Postage & Packing ~ for TRACKED shipping please enquire)

UK: UK £35.00

Europe: 45,00 euros

USA & Rest of World: US $60.00

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 £ or USA $ only]

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

Cheers, Robert.

THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS ~ FURTHER UPDATE

THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS is, already, SOLD OUT.

This one has been very slow arriving in the USA for some reason ... a couple touched down about a week/ten days ago and books started arriving again on Thursday (31 October) ... so, if yours hasn’t arrived yet then, hopefully, it will be with you in the next week.

I have a very few copies left of ...

THEIR DARK & SECRET ALCHEMY

FROM ANCIENT RAVENS

Many thanks for your continued support as always.

Cheers, Robert.

PS:  I hope to announce LEGIONNAIRE by C.E. WARD in about a week.

THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS ~ UPDATE ETC

The last of the ordered copies of THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS were finally posted about 7-10 days back and should be touching down shortly (if they haven’t already arrived) ... I notice that (for some reason) the post is just a little slower than normal for some destinations at the moment ~ but, hopefully, the wait won’t be too long for those who haven’t yet received their copy.

WHERE SHADOWS GATHER by Michael Chislett is SOLD OUT.

Many thanks for your support as always.

Cheers, Robert.

REVIEW: WHERE SHADOWS GATHER

David Longhorn has reviewed WHERE SHADOWS GATHER by Michael Chislett on his SUPERNATURAL TALES blog at http://suptales.blogspot.com/2019/09/where-shadows-gather-review.html
Only 8 copies left!
Cheers, Robert.

WHERE SHADOWS GATHER REVIEWED

WHERE SHADOWS GATHER by Michael Chislett has been reviewed by Mario Guslandi at:

https://www.blackgate.com/2019/09/16/ghostly-corners-in-a-fictional-london-where-shadows-gather-by-michael-chislett/

I have only FIFTEEN copies left!!!

And THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS (details below) is due to arrive in around three or four days and, already, there are less than TWENTY copies left ... don’t hang about if you want this one!

Cheers, Robert.

NEW TITLE NEWS ~ THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS

NEW TITLE NEWS

THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS

Sarob Press is delighted to announce the publication of “THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS” ~ four all new darkly supernatural stories and novellas (each imbued with a sense of the mystery and the legends of landscape and place) by PETER BELL, MARK VALENTINE, REGGIE OLIVER and DEREK JOHN.

“Labyrinth” by Peter Bell ... set mostly in the 1960s this is a story of ancient well worship in the Peak District, and the cult of Proserpina in Roman Britain.

“A Chess Game at Michaelmas” by Mark Valentine ... a tale set in south-west England, and of strange customs and age-old ritual, a secret game, and a dark shadowy visitor.

“The Old Man of the Woods” by Reggie Oliver ... a new home in rural France, legends of the misty past, and a weird haunting story of the dark and deeply sinister woods.

“Cropmarks” by Derek John ... an Irish setting for a modern tale of witchcraft, dark ceremonies, a centuries-old place of worship, strange discoveries and a malevolent curse.

THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.  Bound in Wibalin Cloth (Fine Linen Style), Foil Blocked to Spine, Lithographically Printed on Quality 80gsm Cream Bookwove, Coloured Endpapers, Section Sewn Binding & Head/Tailbands. Approx 160pp including prelims etc.

Wrap Dust-Jacket Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled for end September 2019.

Prices (inclusive of Postage & Packing)

UK: UK £35.00

Europe: 45,00 euros

USA & Rest of World: US $60.00

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 £ or USA $ only]

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

Cheers, Robert.

WHERE SHADOWS GATHER HAS ARRIVED

All 225 copies of WHERE SHADOWS GATHER by Michael Chislett have touched down here in sunny France and I’m busy checking, numbering and packing pre-ordered copies and hope to have individual orders posted before the end of this month. Dealer copies will ship from Wales toward the end of next week.

This one looks great (see photo) and, already, only around 25 copies remain for sale.

Assuming all goes to plan, “THE PALE ILLUMINATIONS” is next up and I hope to be able to share details of this exciting four author project in a couple of weeks or so. Again, this is another with quite brilliant (Paul Lowe) dust-jacket art.

And, hopefully coming up before the end of this year, is a very special volume from Sarob Press favourite, and author of three superb collections ~ C.E. Ward. I’ll post details of this one in good time as I’m guessing that, as with Clive’s previous books, it’ll prove extremely popular and probably sell out very quickly.

Kind regards, Robert.

A REVIEW AND WHERE SHADOWS GATHER

THEIR DARK & SECRET ALCHEMY has been reviewed by Mark Andresen at  http://panreview.blogspot.com/ 

Copies still available.

And WHERE SHADOWS GATHER by MICHAEL CHISLETT (http://sarobpress.blogspot.com/2019/06/new-title-news-where-shadows-gather.html) is due to touch down here in France middle of next week ...

Regards, Robert.

WHERE SHADOWS GATHER ~ PRODUCTION UPDATE

Just a quick update on “WHERE SHADOWS GATHER” by Michael Chislett ... this one is now due to arrive here in sunny France on or around 22 July (a week or so later than originally planned).

I’m hoping to get all pre-ordered copies posted before the end of July.

Cheers, Robert.

NEW TITLE NEWS ~ WHERE SHADOWS GATHER

NEW TITLE NEWS

WHERE SHADOWS GATHER ~ MICHAEL CHISLETT

Sarob Press is delighted to announce the publication of Where Shadows Gather ~ a new collection of ghostly stories by Michael Chislett. Michael’s first Sarob Press collection, In the City of Ghosts, won the Dracula Society “Children of the Night” award and has long been out of print. This new bumper collection presents a further thirteen stories (five previously unpublished*), again mostly set in or around the author’s fictional London borough of Milford, and the ghost-strewn suburb of Mabbs End – although a couple of stories do venture overseas.

Ghosts, vampires, black magicians & other unusual terrors ... not everything is as it might, at first, seem to be, as darkness and light conspire to draw the reader in to where shadows gather, and the mist rises from the Thames, and creatures of the night walk and hunt, and haunt the foggy pathways and streets of the sinister city.

Stories:  “Downriver*” “In the Garden*” “Only the Dead know Deptford” “Mara” “The Extras*” “The Subliminals” “Endor” “The Whistle Thing” “Redriff” “The Raggy Girl*” “The Coast Guard” “Those that Come from the Air” and “The Snow Queen*” 

WHERE SHADOWS GATHER is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.  Bound in Wibalin Cloth (Fine Linen Style), Foil Blocked to Spine, Lithographically Printed on Quality White 80gsm Paper, Coloured Endpapers, Section Sewn Binding & Head/Tailbands. Approx 224pp including prelims etc.

Wrap Dust-Jacket Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled for early July 2019.

Prices (inclusive of Postage & Packing)

UK: UK £33.95

Europe: 45,00 euros

USA & Rest of World: US $60.00

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 £ or USA $ only]

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

Cheers, Robert.

THEIR DARK & SECRET ALCHEMY HAS ARRIVED

THEIR DARK & SECRET ALCHEMY has arrived safely from my book-printer. I’m really pleased with this one ~ the wrap dust-jacket art is gorgeous (my humble opinion) and the interior design came out just as I hoped.

All pre-ordered copies have shipped and should be touching down shortly (if they haven’t already). Allow some extra time as Easter has invariably slowed the postal system for some.

Around 30-35 of 250 copies left.

The first review has appeared courtesy of Des Lewis at: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/their-dark-secret-alchemy/

Final proofing of the texts of my next title (which I hope to announce early next month) is coming along nicely and I am currently aiming for a late June or (more likely) early July publication. Sarob Press favourite Paul Lowe is working on the wrap jacket art.

Kind regards, Robert.

BY NO MORTAL HAND ~ SOLD OUT

BY NO MORTAL HAND by Daniel McGachey is SOLD OUT.

Thanks everyone for your continued support.

The next Sarob Press title, THEIR DARK & SECRET ALCHEMY (details below), is with my book printer and ‘on target’ for a second week of April publication.

This one is selling very quickly on pre-publication with more than 80% of the print run (around 250) already sold or reserved.

Don’t hang about too long if you’re interested in this one.

Kind regards, Robert.

NEW TITLE NEWS ~ THEIR DARK & SECRET ALCHEMY

THEIR DARK & SECRET ALCHEMY

Sarob Press is delighted to announce the publication of Their Dark & Secret Alchemy, original stories by a triad of fabulous contemporary authors in a volume of dark and occult supernatural phantasmagoria ~ presenting three all new magical and deliciously macabre novelettes/novellas by:

RICHARD GAVIN ~ TEN OF SWORDS: RUIN

... Secret things, furtive silent rituals, and the revealing of darker truths.

COLIN INSOLE ~ THE DEAD OF MARIDUNUM

... A strange inheritance, a terrible tragedy, and the return of a sinister and ancient terror.

DAMIAN MURPHY  ~ THE AXIS OF THE LODESTONE

... Arcane ceremonies, the search for esoteric knowledge, and a sacramental descent into the depths.

THEIR DARK & SECRET ALCHEMY is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.  Bound in Wibalin Cloth (Fine Linen Style), Foil Blocked to Spine, Lithographically Printed on Quality Cream 80gsm Bookwove, Coloured Endpapers, Section Sewn Binding & Head/Tailbands. Approx 160pp including prelims etc.

Wrap Dust-Jacket Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled for early April 2019.

Prices (inclusive of Postage & Packing)

UK: UK £33.95

Europe: 45,00 euros

USA & Rest of World: US $60.00

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 £ or USA $ only]

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

Cheers, Robert.

BY NO MORTAL HAND REVIEWED

Daniel McGachey's BY NO MORTAL HAND has been reviewed by David Longhorn on his Supernatural Tales blog. Check it out here:
http://suptales.blogspot.com/2019/01/by-no-mortal-hand-sarob-press-2018.html#more
Only FOUR copies left!
Regards, Robert.

SOME REVIEWS

A GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF FOLK HORROR has been extensively reviewed by novelist Paul Finch at https://paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/2019/01/my-own-gazetteer-of-strange-eerie-places.html

Also, a couple* of reviews up on http://panreview.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-book-review-bonanza.html

*A GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF FOLK HORROR and REVENANTS & MALEDICTIONS by PETER BELL

Only a very few copies left of BY NO MORTAL HAND by Daniel McGachey.

Kind regards, Robert.