AMAZING NEWS: 8-17-14

Killing Hour by Andrew GrossA young man’s suicide. An elderly woman’s murder. A conspiracy stretching back decades. Dr. Jay Erlich’s life is perfect: a wife and children he loves; a successful career. But a call comes that changes everything. His troubled nephew, Evan, has killed himself and Jay’s brother is in despair. Jay flies to California to help out, and is soon convinced Evan’s death was no suicide. When his investigation takes him on a journey into his brother’s shady past, Jay finds himself caught up in a world of dangerous secrets and ruthless killers£1.99
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The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerWelcome to the dollhouse, baby!When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She’s never heard of the world’s most fashionable magazine, or its feared and fawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. But she’s going to be Miranda’s assistant, a job millions of girls would die for. A year later, she knows altogether too much: Miranda is a monster who makes Cruella de Vil look like a fluffy bunny. But also that this is her big break, and it’s going to be worth it in the end. Isn’t it?£1.99
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The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. LewisOn a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan’s song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible.
The Magician’s Nephew is the first book in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, a series that has become part of the canon of classic literature, drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over fifty years.£1.99
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I did it! Finishing a trail might not seem as big an accomplishment as writing a novel, but for me, this one definitely was. A few weeks ago, my hiking partner T. Duren Jones and I completed the rugged Colorado Trail, nearly 500 miles of spectacular terrain from Denver to Durango. The CT is broken into 28 segments (ranging from 11 to 22 miles long), and Tim and I have been trekking one segment at a time for eight years. I’ve dictated a LOT of chapters along those miles—from Dune to Seven Suns to Clockwork Angels to Dan Shamble, Zombie PI. Now I just have to find a new goal to set my sights on.

Pain-Free Adventures

Tim has written an entire book of hiking anecdotes, Tales from the Trails, which includes many of our adventures in the wilderness. I wrote the introduction, and WordFire Press just released Tales from the Trails in print and in all eBook formats. If you read the book, you can enjoy the hikes without getting any blisters.

New Hellhole and Dan Shamble

The grand finale of my Hellhole trilogy with Brian Herbert, Hellhole Inferno, came outthis week from Tor. This is our science fiction epic, an original creation we developed together after writing numerous Dune novels. It could be the end of the universe (or at the very least, the end of the trilogy). Grab it now at your favorite bookseller.

On August 26, Kensington releases my fourth Dan Shamble, Zombie PI adventure,Slimy Underbelly. Something doesn’t smell right in the sewers of the Unnatural Quarter, with a tentacled crime overlord (or is it underlord?) concocting an evil real estate scheme from another dimension. It’ll take a zombie detective to get to the bottom of the slime.

For Amazon Kindle users, Unnatural Acts and Hair Raising are only $2.99 through 8/24, and Death Warmed Over is currently free.

Facebook Migration

If you want to stay in contact with me through Facebook, my personal page is maxed out, and they won’t let me change the group page to public. I started a new author page that is open to everyone. Eventually I’ll phase out the private group (which makes me approve each person who asks to join). You can help me by clicking Like on the new page, and leaving the old group. Click on my new page to get the process going. Then tell a friend. Kevin J. Anderson, KJA

Track Us Down at Our Book Signings

Brian Herbert will be signing Hellhole Inferno, The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma, and Ocean at

Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma, CA (August 19)
Bay Book Co in Half Moon Bay, CA (August 21)
Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA (August 22)
Borderlands Books in San Francisco, CA (August 30)

I (Kevin) will be promoting Hellhole Inferno, Slimy Underbelly, Dark Between the Stars, Mentats of Dune, and all my other releases at

RushCon in Toronto, ON, Canada (August 22–24)
Dragon*Con in Atlanta, GA (August 29–Sept 1)
Salt Lake City Comic Con, SLC, UT (September 4–6)

Don’t be shy—come see us. Until next time, keep reading!

KJA

P.S. Rebecca is pretty much mended now. She’s off of her pain meds and back working 24/7 again (well, almost). Thank you all for your prayers and healing thoughts.

Follow me on Facebook or on Twitter (@TheKJA)

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August 15, 2014

Columbia Workshop

Volume 1

Although many programs can be described as innovative and cutting edge, one classic from radio’s golden era was truly an experiment in what could be done with the medium from its first episode. For this reason alone, Columbia Workshop, Volume 1 from Radio Archives is a collection made for every fan.

When Columbia Workshop debuted on CBS in 1936, the concept of network radio was still in its infancy, just ten years old. Many within the radio business were undecided about various aspects of this new medium, including whether or not it could yield anything of value, something that can be seen as art and not simply a forgettable derivative of popular culture.

The concept of Columbia Workshop, conceived by Irving Reis, was essentially to try new innovations on radio, to push the medium’s boundaries. Although early shows struggled to strike a balance between what the actors and the production crew contributed to the programs, the best shows from the program focused on both the cutting edge work of sound techs and producers as well as the ability of performers to push themselves in ways other shows did not require them to.

Extreme attention was paid to every aspect of the show’s production. Music became more specialized and new tricks and techniques for sound proved to be one of the hallmarks of the program. Columbia Workshop, Volume 1 from Radio Archives features episodes that at the time went directions radio had yet to go and now are a vital part of radio history. 10 hours. $29.98 Audio CDs / $14.99 Download

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Nightbeat

Volume 1

“Hi, this is Randy Stone. I cover the nightbeat for the Chicago Star…”

In the postwar years, a new style of filmmaking began to emerge. Inspired in part by the moody and avant-garde expressionistic school that the Germans brought to the medium in the last days of the silent era, American mystery and detective films began adopting a dark and shadowy look, as well as an air of anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion in both plot and characterization. To critics, it became known as “film noir” — literally “black film” or “black cinema” — a style that would also quickly make its way to radio in such hard-bitten, downbeat series as The Adventures of Philip Marlowe and Broadway’s My Beat.

One of the top proponents of this style – and arguably the best of radio’s various newspaper-based dramas – was Nightbeat, the story of hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman Randy Stone and his quest for the human news behind the headlines. Starring Frank Lovejoy in the leading role, Lovejoy’s distinctive voice and manner, combined with performances by veteran radio performers like Lurene Tuttle, Peter Leeds, Jeff Corey, and Jerry Hausner, gave Nightbeat an unusual and engrossing style – literally film noir for the mind. One week the story would be lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek, the next an emotional tragedy with a downbeat ending; there would be suspenseful races for time and quiet reflections on everyday life among the masses. Through it all, Randy Stone, in a hard-boiled yet sensitive portrayal by Frank Lovejoy, would narrate the story and comment on it from beginning to end — often with a hard-edged cynicism that long-time fans knew was a cover for Stone’s personal sense of fairness and morality. This collection features twenty full-length NBC broadcasts from 1950 – including both the audition program and the first show of the series.10 hours. Regular Price $29.98 – Specially priced until August 28 for $14.99 Audio CDs / $7.49 Download

Doc Savage Audiobook

Flight Into Fear

by Lester Dent & Will Murray

Read by Michael McConnohie

The career of Doc Savage began in the Depression era of the early 1930s, continued on through World War II, and concluded at the dawn of the Cold War.

Most fans of the classic pulp series naturally prefer the high adventure tales of the Great Depression, while Doc’s World War II adventures are also very compelling. Comparatively few Doc Savage novels took place in that postwar period in which the Iron Curtain first fell and the Man of Bronze turned his attention to the new enemy––Soviet Russia and its Communist satellites.

Probably the greatest Cold War challenge Doc faced took place in The Red Spider, the novel that was suppressed in 1948 and not published until 1979. In that tense tale, Doc infiltrated Moscow in order to secure one of the Cold War’s greatest secrets. His brilliant success made him a permanent enemy of Russia.

Flight into Fear is a followup to The Red Spider. Marked for death by the Kremlin, Doc Savage is forced to go underground and take on a new identity as Banner, a.k.a. The Face, in order to penetrate the desolate Russian Arctic and advance the West’s earliest efforts at nuclear deterrence. His mission: establish the super-secret Project Moonwinx on Soviet soil.

At the same time, the Kremlin has sent a mysterious female assassin known only as The Red Widow to liquidate America’s greatest defender once and for all. Her motivation: pure revenge.

These sizzling ingredients make this one of the most compelling novels of Doc Savage’s Cold War career. Set in 1948, Flight Into Fear is based on a Lester Dent manuscript, and revised by Will Murray as an example of the type of challenges Doc Savage would have pursued had his magazine not been canceled in 1949.

Michael McConnohie gives a very suspenseful reading of this riveting tale torn from the pages of a historic time gone by. 8 hours $31.98 Audio CDs / $15.99 Download

A message from Will Murray:

Two weeks ago, I asked you to nominate your favorite Spider novel to be recorded as our next Will Murray Pulp Classics Spider audiobook. I wondered which of Norvell Page’s many great stories would rise to the surface. As it turned out, I was in for a big surprise.No one story was outvoted by another. Instead, we received multiple nominations for The Red Death Rain, Dragon-Lord of the Underworld, and Emperor of the Yellow Death. What fascinates me about these nominations is that all of them take place in New York’s Chinatown. Since we don’t have a clear winner, and we fully intend to record every Spider story eventually, the only solution would be to record the earliest nominated story, which is also one of my favorites, The Red Death Rain!Look for it soon. Thanks to everybody who participated. We learned a lot about your tastes. By the way, the Living Pharaoh and Black Police serials were also nominated. We’ll get around to those, too.

Robert Weinberg Presents

Cursed Be The Child Audiobook

by Mort Castle

Read by Nick Santa Maria

Cursed Be the Child by Mort Castle is a classic horror novel of possession and revenge. Lisette has been dead for nearly a century, but she is very determined to get payback on the big, cruel world that betrayed her.

This is not a book for the faint-of-heart. It is a story of a tormented soul, that of a murdered child, Lisette, who was raped and killed when she was only five years old.

Terribly ill, Lisette’s dying mother sends her to live with her uncle. But, it is 1918 and his family is also in the grip of the Spanish influenza. Still, it is Lisette’s savage uncle who rapes and murders her when she is only five. The monstrous circumstances of her death has changed the child into a tormented spirit. Now, another five year old girl, Missy, has moved into her new home, supposedly haunted, with its huge basement. Missy has no realization that her new imaginary playmate, Lisette, is looking for revenge for crimes that can only be taken against Missy and her family.

Cursed Be the Child is a chilling experience. The story is filled with dark, most horrifying magic. Children are abused, adults are tortured, lives are lost, while others are changed forever. This is a tale of ghostly possession and terrible tragedy. Overwhelmed by the evil spirit of Lisette, Missy plots horrible vengeance against her parents, Vicki and Warren; Vicki’s sister Carol Grace and her husband, a TV evangelist, Evan Dean; as well as their friends, a child therapist raised as a gypsy, Selena, and Selena’s boyfriend, David. Each character is attacked by Lisette, and each one of them fights in the battle to defeat her. Gypsy magic plays a large part in the story and the Romani people and culture are described with complete accuracy. The various adult characters in this book are real, they are believable, and they find themselves confronted by an evil they must destroy––or be themselves destroyed. This is a powerful novel, and not one you will easily forget.

Mort Castle is a Chicago writer who concentrates primarily on composing horror and dark fantasy fiction. In the course of a career spanning more than 45 years, Castle has sold more than 350 short stories and twelve books. His fiction has been nominated four times for a Bram Stoker Award (given by the Horror Writers Association) for the best short story of the year. A dedicated writing teacher, Castle has taught high school English and numerous writing seminars for aspiring horror authors. 8 hours $31.98 Audio CDs / $17.99 Download

Bob Weinberg & Nancy Holder at WFC in 1996

Riding the Pulp Trail Audiobook

by Paul S. Powers, Introduction by Laurie Powers

Read by James C. Lewis

Most fans of Western fiction know Paul S. Powers as one of the foundation authors of the famous pulp magazine of the 1930s and 1940s, Wild West Weekly, in which his popular characters Sonny Tabor, Kid Wolf, Freckles Malone, and Johnny Forty-five appeared for fifteen years.

Lesser known is the career Powers had after Wild West Weekly stopped publication in 1943. Powers continued to write for the best of the western fiction magazines throughout the 1940s. Now, here for the first time, are twelve Paul Powers stories written in the years after his Wild West Weekly career. Six of these were published in the leading western pulp magazines of the period. The other six, never published before, were discovered by Powers’ granddaughter Laurie in 2009.

Two of the published stories, “A Pard for Navajo Jack,” and “Judgment Day on Whisky Trail,” appeared in Thrilling Western in 1947 and 1948. “Hangnoose for a Prodigal” appeared in Thrilling Ranch Stories in March 1948. “Buzzards Hate Bullets” was published in Exciting Western in November 1947. The two other stories, “Boothill is My Destination,” that appeared in Texas Rangers in December 1947, and “Death is Where You Find It” in Rio Kid Western in August 1949, were imprints of Better Publications.

All of the stories in this collection reflect a new style that Powers had to adopt in the early 1940s. His earlier Wild West Weeklystyle was geared towards its adolescent audience and full of the “blood and thunder” that was indicative of the pulp westerns during that period. Writing stories for Wild West Weekly was a highly lucrative trade for my grandfather, but he had to change course and relearn his craft when the old style was no longer popular. No longer were heroes to be the semi-super human cowboys who survived hundreds of bullet wounds and shoot targets with jaw dropping speed and accuracy. They were now to be more mature and sometimes with a darker look on life. Heroes that for years were clean-cut, highly moral and almost puritan in their habits were replaced by lead characters who drank, smoked, and swore.

But Powers rose to the task and continued to have his stories published through the 1940s and into the early 1950s. These twelve stories are representative of that era; they make for an outstanding collection of frontier stories that represent the glory years of the Western short story and the best of Powers’ prolific pulp career. Read by James C. Lewis. 8 hours $31.98 Audio CDs / $15.99 Download

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New Will Murray’s Pulp Classics eBooks

The best of timeless Pulp now available as cutting edge eBooks! Will Murray’s Pulp Classics brings the greatest heroes, awesome action, and two fisted thrills to your eReader! Presenting Pulp Icons such as the Spider and G-8 and His Battle Aces as well as wonderfully obscure characters like the Octopus and Captain Satan. Will Murray’s Pulp Classics brings you the best of yesterday’s Pulp today!

Captain Combat #3 August 1940 Low Ceiling For Nazi Hell Hawks
There is no ceiling where Death rides the grim trail of the damned, and Herr Gruber talks the language of death to a million men who serve him! Captain Combat feels these vulture claws reaching for the flesh of the civilized world and knows that now, for the sake of others — it is Combat’s turn to die! Fly the skies of early World War II with Captain Bill Combat — the war ace who fought across Europe through the smoke of human liberties as it vanished from the earth. Fearlessly he battled the minions of the Nazi war machine. The Nazi evil had murdered his mother and uncle, and he vowed vengeance. It was a rousing call to America, which had not yet entered the war. But it was a call that only lasted for three issues of Captain Combat magazine: April, June and August of 1940. Captain Combat was a symbol created by author Barry Barton to do and say the things that America couldn’t officially say in those perilous times. Read along as blue skies turn red above, as green pastures become the barren homes of the dead. Today it stands as a rare glimpse of what fear fanned across America in the days when war was an ominous threat upon a bloody horizon. Captain Combat returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.

Dime Mystery Magazine Francis K. Allen and William Hines
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Dime Mystery Magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine, all written by Francis K Allen and William Hines, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.

Dime Mystery Magazine Frederick C. Davis Book 2
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Dime Mystery Magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine, all written by Frederick C. Davis, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.

G-8 and His Battle Aces #106 October 1943 Bombs from the Murder Wolves
And trapped in the vaults of Europe’s most feared Murder Master, the Ace American Flying Spy makes his last desperate gamble to track down the secret of the deadliest weapon any war has ever known — bombs which are piloted by living men, who have sworn to destroy a nation! G-8 and his Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in the middle of World War II. G-8 and his Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.

99 cent eBook Singles

Each 99 cent eBook Single contains a single short story, one of the many tales selected from the pages of Dime Mystery and Terror Tales. These short stories are not included in any of our other eBooks.

Terror Tales These Accursed Hands by William Hinds

Each living thing touched by these hands of mine shrinks in ghastly death! Last night, unthinking, I smoothed the brow of my beloved wife… In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a classic story the pages of Terror Tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.

Terror Tales Where The Black Cats Ruled by James Duncan

Hal Jordan saw Cora arch her beautiful white body lazily, while a sound like the spitting snarl of a cat came menacingly from her throat! In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a classic story the pages of Terror Tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.

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Doc Savage, Volume 76

The pulp era’s greatest superhero returns in two action-packed novels by Alan Hathway and Lester Dent writing as “Kenneth Robeson.” First, super-powered zombies go on a crime spree, including a graduate from Doc’s Crime College! Can Doc Savage destroy “The Mindless Monsters” and prove that he’s not their hidden leader? Then, why is a young engineer terrorized by a tiny white bird? The Man of Bronze faces one of his greatest challenges as he strives to defeat “The Mental Monster.” This instant collector’s item showcases the classic pulp covers by Emery Clarke, the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban and historical commentary by Will Murray, author of fourteen Doc Savage novels. Double Novel Reprint $14.95

Doc Savage: The War Makers

by Will Murray and Ryerson Johnson, writing as Kenneth Robeson, cover illustration by Joe DeVito

All over the Midwest, cars and trucks were crashing—stopped in their tracks by an inexplicable force! Had some unseen power targeted America’s automotive industry—or was something more sinister at stake?Summoned to solve the mystery, Doc Savage and his intrepid men follow a trail of terror that winds through the continental United States like a constricting serpent of senseless destruction.

From the nation’s car capital to the North Pole, the Man of Bronze races to stave off a strangely familiar menace only to confront a completely unexpected foe—the enigmatic Baron in Black! Softcover $24.95

The Shadow, Volume 86

Sanctum Books commemorates the 100th birthday of acclaimed science fiction/fantasy illustrator Edd Cartier in its biggest volume ever, with tales by each of The Shadow’s three Maxwell Grants! First, the Knight of Darkness follows an old sea captain’s “Treasure Trail” on a deadly path to uncover the sunken wealth from a Spanish galleon in a thriller by Walter B. Gibson! Then, “The Crimson Phoenix” entangles The Shadow in a poisonous net of international intrigue in a Theodore Tinsley novel that foreshadowed Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Finally, Lamont Cranston investigates a grisly “Model Murder” in a tale by Bruce Elliott. BONUS: a rare Edd Cartier classic from the Golden Age of Comics! This deluxe pulp reprint showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen with historical commentary by Dean Cartier, Will Murray and Phil Foglio. Double Novel Reprint $14.95

Weird Tales #299 Winter 1990/1991

The special Jonathan Carroll issue with all arwork by Featured Artist Thomas Kidd, includes 4 stories by Jonathan Carroll, plus contributions from William F. Nolan, Ian Watson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and many more. 148 pages. After the original magazine operation folded in 1954, there were several brief attempts to revive it — reprint anthologies in the ’60s, four new magazine issues in the ’70s, four original paperbacks in the early ’80s — before the resurrection finally achieved full-fledged afterlife under editor-publishers George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer and John Gregory Betancourt. Beginning in 1988, Weird Tales has been published more or less continuously. These 25 year old magazines are Brand new and have never been read. Radio Archives is proud to have a large inventory so that everyone can have a copy of this great magazine. $9.95

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Last Call for The Avenger pulp reprints. Limited supplies. When they are gone they’re gone!

Inventory of issues #9, #10, and #11 are very low. We have lowered the price to $7.95 to clear them all out. All other issues are now gone. This is the final price reduction.

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