A New Chapbook – Gloom and Glow by Tobias Reckermann

Gloom and Glow by Tobias Reckermann, the latest book in the Eibonvale Press chapbook line, is now available to order in hardcover and paperback. This is a mini-collection of four horror stories, but with a fantastically wild, moody and surreal tone to them.

The Irony in ironclad machines works wonders when an egomaniac liar is telling the tale. Why, you haven’t visited Nachtland, yet? The land of the dead lies right round the next corner, but don’t forget the drum set when you go! Masks are the real faces – faces are inanimate masks.

This is an atmospheric, moody and surreal mini-collection of four stories from the stranger end of psychological horror fiction. With these obscurities and strange encounters, lunacy is just another word for love.

You can order the book here: https://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/chapbooks/Chap25-glow.htm with free shipping globally for orders over £20. And don’t forget that we also have some regular bundle deals for chapbooks, if you want to buy multiple titles.

Thanks everyone!

Alexander Zelenyj’s limited edition mini-collection Beware Us Flowers of the Devil is available to order now

* A retelling of an old Norwegian fairy tale with a very different ending to the original.

* A strange apocalypse, and the even stranger existence that comes after.

* After meeting the One, nothing can ever be the same again.

* A classmate’s secret identity, and two children doing what they must to remake the world into the Paradise it used to be.

Beware Us Flowers of the Devil was originally released as a free gift accompanying preorders for his full-length book Beware Us Flowers of the Annihilator, meaning that only a small number of copies were ever produced and it was never directly for sale. It felt as though the book deserved a bit more – so we have braught out a new version with a different cover in a limited edition run of 100 copies.

I have also prepared a bundle deal if you want to buy Devil and Annihilator together. The two are still a kind of pair, after all!

Get your copies here: https://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/chapbooks/Chap24-devil.htm

Oh and just to add … this and other Eibonvale titles should sidestep the recent problems with postage to the US as they are manufactured within the country. So if you are in the USA, you can still get free postage.

Two Rhys Hughes Titles Available to Order Now

Look what just arrived! I have to say, I am quite pleased with these ones. They have a pleasantly lively feel to them and they’ve ‘settled in’ well as actual books. Every time I see them in the flesh, some gears change in my mind as what I always saw as a flat, on-screen artwork becomes a solid 3d object.

Just to repeat – the hardcovers of these are available to order right away over on the Eibonvale Press website – https://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/ I’ll have to get on and design the paperbacks soon as well.

And don’t forget, you can find a bundle deal for the two titles together on either of the books’ pages.

Cover Reveal for Alexander Zelenyj’s Exclusive Free Chapbook

It feels a little cruel to reveal the cover of a book that is already unavailable – but I finished work on this one and uploaded it to the printers just half an hour ago! If you placed a pre-order for Alexander Zelenyj’s large collection Beware Us Flowers of the Annihilator, then you will receive this slim hardcover chapbook alongside it – Beware Us Flowers of the Devil. This book contains an additional four stories (we originally said two but got carried away) and it will not be available for sale … ever.

With a colour-scheme that was designed to be both gentle and toxic, and based on a deceptively classic artwork by Warwick Goble, this was again quite a different kind of cover to work on. Lots of colour blending and abstract shapes.

Of course, you can still get Alex’s full collection here. I did receive one report of someone having trouble placing a pre-order through PayPal. We are still not quite sure why, but of course, if anyone has encountered any problems or were prevented from ordering, please do reach out to me and I’ll sort it!

And with this, I can finally put the design work for this particular project to bed. With Colby Smith’s wonderful collection and this increasingly large-scale project happing at roughly the same time, it has been quite a workload and there is still much to do. But in terms of art, I can now turn my attention fully to the next projects, which will be the chapbook Gloom and Glow by Tobias Reckermann and Yesterfang by DF Lewis.

And a very very vague teaser … there might, MIGHT be a new Eibonvale imprint starting up sometime soon. And I don’t mean the still in-preperation photobooks.

Beware Us Flowers of the Annihilator – A First Look

I now have in my hands the first copy of Zelenyj’s collection Beware Us Flowers of the Annihilator, which will be officially launching in just one day now. I’m very happy with how this one has come out – a big, dramatic and very rich collection of stories. The book will be launching at the Weird Windsor event at Windsor Ontario. Anyone able to get there should definitely pay a call – there will be numerous authors, visual artists and musicians involved and admission is free. Being on the other side of the world, I won’t be able to be there myself, alas, but I’ll be with you in spirit!

This also means you have just one day left to take advantage of our pre-order special. Order the book by and including the 16th November and you will receive an exclusive free hardcover chapbook, Beware Us Flowers of the Devil, containing three extra stories. These chapbooks will only ever be available through this offer and orders will be shipped out as soon as the design of that book is complete, which should be fairly soon now. Click here for more info and to place an order: http://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/books/books_Annihilator.htm

This is also one of the first times I have ever directly used paintings by a living artist on an Eibonvale cover, with two beautiful and moody works by Canadian artist Carl Lavoie. These became centrepieces in a paper-and-metal collage and I love the way they look. Maybe this is something I will come back to.

A few early reviews, which I will present in more detail later:

https://www.horrordna.com/books/beware-the-flowers-of-the-annihilator-alexander-zelenyj-book-review

https://gnofhorror.com/alexander-zelenyj-beware-us-flowers-of-the-annihilator/

https://thebedlamfiles.com/fiction/beware-us-flowers-of-the-annihilator/