Oktober Shadows
by Norman Partridge
Featuring cover artwork by Jon Foster and interior artwork by Glenn Chadbourne!
About the Book:
A lone man takes a wrong turn into another world... one with cobbled streets lit by Jack o' Lanterns, where all cats are black and monsters haunt the endless night. Werewolves prowl beneath a moon that is always full, and vampires feast in forgotten catacombs. Patchwork creatures stalk twisted forests where black roots dig into blacker soil.
This is Oktober, a dead land ruled by dead things. But Oktober has never seen a man like the soldier who has just cut a path through a river of poisonous fog. He's coming with a shotgun in his hands and a blood-stained Bowie knife strapped to his belt. Things are about to change in this darkest of worlds... and they will change forever.
This beautiful special edition novella will be lavishly illustrated by one of the best known artists in the genre, and this incredible collectible will be the cornerstone of any horror small press collection for many Halloweens to come.
About the "Four Days of Halloween" Limited Edition Promotional Offer:
The signed Limited Edition and deluxe signed Lettered Edition of this title were only be available for preorder between October 29, 2010 and 11:59:59 PM EST on November 1, 2010 — meaning you, the collector, got to set the print run for both of these beautiful, lavishly illustrated and signed special editions. When the countdown clock on the product page hit ZERO, the print run was set in stone. A lot of collectors missed out on this deal because of the tiny preorder window, but that can only mean good things for the collectors who were paying attention and grabbed a copy or two!Norman Partridge has been with Cemetery Dance since the beginning, and he is one of our most collectible authors. As always, he'll retain the other rights to this book and be able to offer it again some day in some other form, but this will be the only signed Limited Edition and it will be the World's First Edition.
Norman Partridge's fiction includes horror, suspense, and the fantastic — "sometimes all in one story" says his friend Joe Lansdale. Partridge's novels include the Jack Baddalach mysteries Saguaro Riptide and The Ten-Ounce Siesta, plus The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted for film. His novel Dark Harvest was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the 100 Best Books of 2006. Partridge's compact, thrill-a-minute style has been praised by Stephen King and Peter Straub, and his collections and stories have received both the Bram Stoker and IHG awards. You can find him on the web at www.normanpartridge.com and www.americanfrankenstein.blogspot.com.
Published in two states:
• Limited Edition hardcover signed by the author, limited to 586 copies (the number of collectors who
purchased a copy during the Four Days of Halloween promotional window) bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn ($40)
• Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather
with a satin ribbon page marker ($175)
Production Status:
The author is working hard on the manuscript and expects to be done later this spring. Jon Foster has been hired to paint the cover artwork, and Glenn Chadbourne is going to contribute the interior artwork, so we expect this to be a very special edition! Visit our official production update page for the latest news and updates about this and our other forthcoming projects.
