Announcing The Beekeeper’s Apprentice or: On the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King, 30th Anniversary Edition

Announcing the 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition of the first in the beloved Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series, chosen as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association and as an Outstanding Book for the College Bound by the American Library Association, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice has continued to beguile readers of all ages and backgrounds.

The gorgeous MidWorld Press edition of the book will be signed by the author and limited to 300 hand-numbered copies. New dust jacket art, as well as four full-color interior illustrations have been created by artist Grace Aldrich.

About the book:

I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him.   

In this first of the “Russell Memoirs,” young Mary encounters a retired Sherlock Holmes during the first year of the Great War, and impresses him enough that, reluctantly, he takes her on as his apprentice. It takes a great deal of adjustment—on both sides.

He said nothing. Very sarcastically.

But Russell, as he comes to call her, matures into an Oxford undergraduate with her own strengths and interests—

I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.   

—until danger comes out of nowhere, and threatens their partnership, and their very lives.

One of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

"As every good mystery reader knows, when Sherlock Holmes quit detection, he retired to the South Downs to keep bees. What he wanted was the quiet life. What he got, according to Laurie King, was a gawky but fiercely intelligent apprentice. Not only that, but this apprentice was a young woman….For my money, Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years. Intelligent, humane, gifted with both talent and insight, she is an unalloyed pleasure to read."
—Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

• Author: Laurie R. King

• Artist(s): Grace Aldrich has created a stunning wrap-around illustration for the book’s dust-jacket as well as four gorgeous interior illustrations printed on 100# Gardagloss Art paper and hand-tipped into the text block.

• Trim size: 6 x 9 inches

• Binding: Hardcover, quarter bound with Fiscagomma Black on the spine and Brillianta book cloth covering the front and back boards, the text block will be Smyth Sewn and include head and foot bands

• Printed on acid-free 70# Opaque Smooth Natural paper

• Sewn-in ribbon book marker

• 350 pages

• Edition: Signed by the author, limited to 300 hand-numbered copies

• Year: Winter 2024/2025

  Cover price: $140

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ANNOUNCING PRE-ORDERS FOR THE SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION OF THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS BY JASON PARGIN

This Book is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It!) is the sequel to Jason Pargin’s bestselling comedy-horror novel, John Dies at the End. Dave and John are back!

About the book:

Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.

You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection--the creature stimulates skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like. You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed.

Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it. Either way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking.

"Like an episode of AMC's The Walking Dead written by Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy…Imagine a mentally ill narrator describing the zombie apocalypse while drunk, and the end result is unlike any other book of the genre. Seriously, dude, touch it and read it." –Washington Post

"Kevin Smith's Clerks meets H.P. Lovecraft in this exceptional thriller… [Jason Pargin] is a fantastic author with a supernatural talent for humor. If you want a poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, disturbing, ridiculous, self-aware, socially relevant horror novel than This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It is the one and only book for you." –SF Signal

• Artist(s): Zoë van Dijk has created wraparound dust jacket art as well as four interior illustrations and an illustrated signature page.

• Trim size: 6 x 9 inches

• Binding: Cloth-bound hardcover, Smyth Sewn

• Printed on 70# Smooth Natural acid-free paper

• 435 pages

• Edition: Signed, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies

• Year: August 2024

  
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THE SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION OF The Atlas of Hell: Stories BY nATHAN bALLINGRUD is AVAILABLE NOW!

Our signed, limited edition of The Atlas of Hell: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud is in stock and shipping now!

About the book:

We are proud to present The Atlas of Hell: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud, a beautiful and terrifying collection from one of our greatest modern storytellers. Originally published under the title Wounds, our edition is using the author’s preferred title and includes new material.

The author takes us on a tour of the outskirts of Hell, starting with our first co-traveler, a shady book dealer forced by a mob boss to track down a low-level thug who may have come into possession of an infernal atlas and ending on Hell’s shore with a group of cannibal diabolists intent on dining with the Devil himself.

In between, we travel to a small town to visit the daughter of a recently-deceased alchemist, we are given a behind-the-scenes peek at a ghoulish sea-side carnival, creep through a city that has become a literal hell-mouth, and take a trip to New Orleans to watch a bartender struggle with the emptiness he finds inside himself.

Like a cross between Ray Bradbury and Clive Barker, Nathan Ballingrud shows us the horrible beauty and the beautiful horror where our everyday lives overlap the border of Hell.

The book is available in two states, numbered and lettered.

The numbered edition is 276 pages, printed on 55lb Natural offset paper, cloth-bound, with a full-color wraparound dust jacket by Ebrahel Lurci and six full-color interior illustrations by Ebrahel Lurci and Bastien Lecouffe Deharme.

The lettered edition is 276 pages, printed on 55lb Natural offset paper, bound in Fiscagomma Agenda, with a two-sided full-color wraparound dust jacket and twelve full-color interior illustrations by Ebrahel Lurci and Bastien Lecouffe Deharme. The book will be enclosed in a custom-made clamshell case that will also be bound in Fiscagomma Agenda.

Both states of the book include five brand-new vignettes written by Nathan Ballingrud specifically for these editions.

Also included in both states, a new Foreword written by Christopher Buehlman, author of Those Across The River and The Blacktongue Thief.

474 signed and numbered copies: $110

26 signed and lettered copies: $700

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THE SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION OF IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN by ANDY DAVIDSON is SHIPPING NOW!

Our signed, limited edition of In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson is in stock and shipping now!

A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. 

An addictive Western literary horror for fans of Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice.

Includes a foreword written for this edition by Joe R. Lansdale.

About the book:

One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster.

Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while. But after Travis crosses paths one night with a mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes weak and bloodied in his cabover camper the next morning—with no sign of a girl, no memory of the night before.

When motel-owner Annabelle Gaskin offers the cowboy a few odd jobs to pay his board, he takes her up on the offer. By day, he mends the old motel, insinuating himself into the lives of Annabelle and her ten-year-old son. By night, in the cave of his camper, he fights an unspeakable hunger. Before long, Annabelle and her boy come to realize that Travis is not what he seems.

Half a state away, a grizzled Texas Ranger is hunting Travis for his past misdeeds, but what he finds will lead him to a revelation far more monstrous. A man of the law, he’ll have to decide how far into the darkness he’ll go for the sake of justice.

When these lives converge on a dusty autumn night, an old evil will find new life—and new blood.

500 signed and numbered copies: $100

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THE SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION OF JOHN DIES AT THE END by JASON PARGIn is now SHIPPING

Our signed, limited edition of the first novel in Jason Pargin’s cosmic horror/comedy series, John Dies at the End, is in stock and shipping now!

The book also includes a new Foreword written for this editon by independent film director Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End).

500 signed and numbered copies: $95

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THE SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION OF THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF by christopher buehlman is now SHIPPING

Our signed, limited edition of Christopher Buehlman's first fantasy novel, The Blacktongue Thief, is in stock and shipping now!

About the book:

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief begins a 'dazzling' (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other . . .

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path.

But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark.

Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants.

Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honor is a luxury few can afford.

Includes a Foreword by Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld.

“The Blacktongue Thief is fast and fun and filled with crazy magic. I can't wait to see what Christopher Buehlman does next." - Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of the Lightbringer series

500 signed and numbered copies: $100

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THE SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION OF THE LAST WATCH is IN STOCK AND SHIPPING

Our signed, limited edition of J.S. Dewes's sci-fi novel, The Last Watch, is in stock and ready to ship!

The Divide.

It’s the edge of the universe.

Now it’s collapsing―and taking everyone and everything with it.

The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels―the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military.

At the Divide, Adequin Rake commands the Argus. She has no resources, no comms―nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. Her ace in the hole could be Cavalon Mercer--genius, asshole, and exiled prince who nuked his grandfather's genetic facility for “reasons.”

She knows they’re humanity's last chance.

500 signed and numbered copies: $55

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between two fires is IN STOCK AND SHIPPING

Our signed, limited edition of Christopher Buehlman's historical horror novel, Between Two Fires, is in stock and ready to ship!

This special edition is signed by the author and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. Includes a Foreword by author Nathan Ballingsrud (North American Lake Monsters, Wounds, The Strange).

And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…”

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.

Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

500 signed and numbered copies: $75

RING Shout is IN STOCK AND SHIPPING

Our signed, limited edition of P. Djèlí Clark's historical horror/fantasy novella, Ring Shout, is in stock and ready to ship!

This special edition is signed by the author and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. It also includes a Foreword by Tochi Onyebuchi (Riot Baby, Goliath).

500 signed and numbered copies: $60

BLACKTOP WASTELAND is IN STOCK AND SHIPPING

Our signed, limited edition of S.A. Cosby’s first novel, Blacktop Wasteland, has arrived and is ready to ship!

His father told him, “You can’t be two types of beast.”

Beauregard “Bug” Montage is a man of two worlds: the sunlight world of honest mechanic-work, kid’s math homework and being a loving husband… and the underworld of heists and robberies, keeping one step ahead of the law, and out-driving any cop that tries to catch him. So far, Bug has managed to keep the two closed off from each other.

But, these worlds are getting ready to collide headlong when, out of desperation, Bug signs on as wheelman for a diamond robbery that goes very bad, very fast.

Now, Bug is going to make sure that the crooks from that twilight world of fast cars, loud guns, and big talk are going to regret pulling him back under. They’re going to find out exactly which kind of man they’re dealing with when they come after Beauregard Montage.

S.A. Cosby hasn’t just written a heist novel; this is a story about race, family, and identity and one man’s fight to discover who he really is when everyone and everything around him is trying to make him something else.

This special edition is signed by the author and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. Also includes a Foreword by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic, Velvet Was The Night).

500 signed and numbered copies: $55

BETWEEN TWO FIRES is NOW OPEN FOR PRE-ORDERS!

Our signed, limited edition of Christopher Buehlman’s second novel, Between Two Fires, is up for pre-orders! This one will be shipping out this summer.

Christopher Buehlman invites readers into a darker age—one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven, and of hell on earth . . .

And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the heavens down . . .”

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.

Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

This edition includes cover and interior artwork by Francois Vaillancourt and a new introduction by author Nathan Ballingrud. This is Christopher Buehlman’s second book, following his chilling folk-horror novel, Those Across The River.

500 signed and numbered copies: $75

Those across the river is in stock and shipping!

Our signed, limited edition of Christopher Buehlman’s first novel, Those Across The River, is in stock and shipping!

The year is 1935. Failed Academic Frank Nichols and his partner, Eudora, have come south to claim an inheritance in the cursed and impoverished town of Whitbrow, Georgia. The nature of the curse is inextricably bound to the lost plantation once owned by Frank’s ancestor, Julien Savoyard, a man so brutal his slaves rose up and murdered him at the end of the Civil War. Frank means to find that plantation, write a book about Savoyard, and restart his career. But a blood debt is owed, and something in those woods has been waiting a long, long time to call it in.

This edition includes cover and interior artwork by David Palumbo and a new introduction by Stoker Award-winning author Adam Cesare. This book is a great place to start with Christopher Buehlman if you want to get familiar with his writing style in anticipation of our upcoming limited editions of two of his other novels: Between Two Fires and his debut fantasy novel, The Blacktongue Thief.

500 signed and numbered copies: $90