1/9/12 Brief Hiatus & New Zombie Books!
Please note that we will be out of town until January 18th. All direct orders placed between now and then will not be shipped until we return.
Signed copies of Pray to Stay Dead are temporarily out of stock. We will have more copies on hand within two weeks.
Reanimated Americans, our new Print Is Dead novel by Martin Mundt, is coming promptly and is already available in Kindle format, paperback, and at Smashwords.
Joe McKinney's The Crossing is now available in Kindle format and at Smashwords.
5/10/11 Test Drive Three New Zombie Titles
Print Is Dead is up and shambling, keeping us running like a demonic flesheater. It started with Mason James Cole's Pray to Stay Dead, with Nate Southard's Scavengers and John Sebastian Gorumba's World in Red hot on its heels! All three were extremely well-received at this year's World Horror Convention in Austin, Texas.
We want everyone to have an opportunity to read these novels, so we're making the first hundred pages of each available as a FREE sampler pdf for you to read and freely share.
Download your 3mb pdf today!
3/14/11 PRINT IS DEAD
It's finally here! Creeping Hemlock Press is delighted to announce that Print Is Dead, a new line of zombie novels, has hit the ground running with our inaugural novel, Mason James Cole's Pray to Stay Dead.
George A. Romero himself on Print Is Dead: "These guys know more about the undead than I do... and that's saying something, because I've been hanging out with zombies for as long as I can remember."
Watch this space for more announcements about new Print Is Dead titles, artwork, and excerpts. Better yet, subscribe to our newsletter! You can even customize your subscription interests.
3/1/11 Lawrence Block's CAMPUS TRAMP
Luminary of crime fiction Lawrence Block has granted us the rights to reprint Campus Tramp, a softcore erotic paperback novel originally published in 1960 by Nightstand Books under the pseudonym "Andrew Shaw." Features a new afterword by the author and a foreword by Ed Gorman.
Campus Tramp is now available for order at bookstores everywhere, for Kindle at Amazon.com
as well as through Barnesandnoble.com both in print and for Nook!
1/27/10 New price reductions!
Been itching for some Creeping Hemlock wares but the economy got you down? Stop losing sleep! Three of our most acclaimed titles can now be had for significantly less.
Children of the New Disorder by Tim Lebbon & Lindy Moore reduced from $35 to $19.50
Frayed by Tom Piccirilli reduced from $35 to $17.50
The Shallow End of the Pool by Adam-Troy Castro reduced from $12.95 to $8.95
As always, FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING!
12/10/09 How to Use Coupon Codes
If you have the redemption code for a free zombie chapbook with any purchase, simply make your main purchase (without selecting a chapbook) and enter the code for your preferred chapbook in the "Instructions to Seller" code during your PayPal checkout. Or, if you forget and finalize your checkout without doing that, just email us fairly promptly and we'll amend your order before shipping.
One free chapbook per paid book. Orders for multiple paid books may claim the same number of free chapbooks. Offer good while supplies last.
12/9/09 Deep Discount on Corpse Blossoms
Our breakout anthology Corpse Blossoms has sold since 2005 for $35-$40 as a beautiful, 400-page foil-embossed trade hardcover. We've permanently reduced the limited remaining copies of this gorgeous first edition to only $15. That's a mere sixty-three cents per kickass story.
And remember, shipping on all orders is free! (U.S. orders only, Media Mail rate.)
7/22/09 Fresh Undead Line to Launch
It's fair to say that zombies have been a passion of ours for decades. We even started a blog initially based around zombies in creative media (The Dead Don't Die). We dipped our toes in publishing the undead with 2008's uber-affordable zombie chapbooks Flesh is Fleeting, Art is Forever! and Thin Them Out. Next year we're going full-length with the not-so-fully dead. This series of affordable trade paperbacks will kick off with two novels by fresh blood (details to come), followed by Kealan Patrick Burke's The Living. Watch for more news!
6/20/09 New Review of The Fever Kill
From W.D. Gagliani's review in Cemetery Dance #60: "Having just read Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, I can honestly say that The Fever Kill puts me in the mind of that kind of book, and Piccirilli's writing is as fine, and maybe finer, than McCarthy's. The Fever Kill is just as deeply layered with moral ambiguities, just as peopled with characters trapped in orbits out of which they can't or won't break free. Riding along with Crease in his Mustang, revisiting old haunts, old grudges, old flames--none of which is the same, yet all of which is the same--evokes that same sense of desperation and inevitability all great noir writing aspires to. Piccirilli's horror credentials remain as an underlying current threaded between the traditional noir themes handled masterfully by a writer at the top of his game. Sardonic and sparse, there is simply no fat on these bones.... Perhaps the Coen Brothers should come calling."
Only a small handful of signed copies remain here at creepinghemlock.com. We're also offering imperfect copies for just $8.49.
The Fever Kill by Tom Piccirilli
Check out The Fever Kill at Amazon.com
6/6/09 More Titles Available at Amazon.com
Frayed by Tom Piccirilli and The Shallow End of the Pool by Adam-Troy Castro
In addition to The Fever Kill and the Stoker-finalist anthology Corpse Blossoms, you can now find two other Creeping Hemlock classics at your favorite online mega-bookstore. Frayed by Tom Piccirilli (FearZone.com's Best Novella of 2007) and The Shallow End of the Pool by Adam-Troy Castro (current Stoker finalist) are both in stock at Amazon.com. Current prices on those two titles match ours, but as sales and quantity go up we imagine they'll reduce. If you already own any of these, help us out by hopping over and contributing your thoughts as a customer review.
6/5/09 Zombie Chapbook Excerpts
Check out passages from two awesomely chilling and affordable chapbooks that AintItCoolNews called "damn fine reading" and "...some of the coolest zombie action you'll read this year," Gary A. Braunbeck's Flesh is Fleeting, Art is Forever and Kim Paffenroth, RJ Sevin and Julia Sevin's Thin Them Out.
5/31/09 The Fever Kill Damaged Copies for Half Off
Tom Piccirilli's The Fever Kill, the ultimate in gritty, pugnacious literary fugues, is known for driving casual bookstore browsers and employees into a state of implacable rage, resulting in many copies being utterly destroyed but leaving many more just somewhat damaged. For fine reading at a frugal price, consider picking up a minimally damaged copy of The Fever Kill for only $8.49 (including domestic shipping).
5/8/09 The Fever Kill Signed Copies are Almost Gone
This crisp, gutsy neonoir is available everywhere as a gorgeous trade paperback. However, for those who their Awesome a l'Orange with a side of fresh-picked Scarcity, we've offered a small run of 200 signed copies at no additional cost to readers. The full-color signature sheet is a thing of beauty!
As of this date, a mere nine signed copies remain, and they are only available right here at creepinghemlock.com.
3/30/09 So, Heck Yeah, New Website!
This baby's been in the pipeline for some time, but we've been so tied up with more pressing projects that we were never able to bring it to completion. (As a matter of fact, as of this moment some pages are still under construction.) We hope you like it; let us know!
Countless thanks are due to my good friend Jay Fraser of LS.Media Design for his brilliant, endless contributions and mentoring.
3/23/09 Shallow End garners a Bram Stoker nomination!
We're delighted to announce that Adam-Troy Castro's superb (and utterly uncategorizable) novella The Shallow End of the Pool has officially been nominated for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction by the Horror Writers Association. To celebrate, we've lowered the price from $12.95 to an even $10 until the winner is announced at the Stokers in June. (Domestic shipping is free, as always!)
Watch this space for the award results. If the enthusiastic feedback we've gotten thus far is an accurate indicator, this novella stands a fine chance of becoming Creeping Hemlock's first Stoker winner!
Congratulations, Adam-Troy!
3/6/09 Children of the New Disorder is Here!
We could not be more pleased with this glorious book.
"Children of the New Disorder is a fascinating and eminently readable story of a dystopian post-apocalyptic future...a fine addition to anyone's collection."
Norman L. Rubenstein, FearZone.com
Details on the lettered edition are pending as we hunt down the best options and price. It's a recession, after all, if not a full-blown infertility/mutant-ridden apocalypse.
