Underland Press Books

The Complete Drive-In
By: Joe R. Lansdale

 

Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in: a circus of noise, sex, teenage hormones, B-movie blood, and popcorn. On a cool, crisp summer night, with the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes, movie-goers for the All-Night Horror Show are trapped in the drive-in by a demonic-looking comet. Then the fun begins. If the movie-goers try to leave, their bodies dissolve into goo. Cowboys are reduced to tears. Lovers quarrel. Bikini-clad women let their stomachs’ sag, having lost the ambition to hold them in. The world outside the six monstrous screens fades to black while the movie-goers spiral into base humanity, resorting to fighting, murdering, crucifying, and cannibalizing to survive. Part dark comedy part horror show, Lansdale's cult Drive-In books are as shocking and entertaining today as they were twenty years ago.

This volume contains all three Drive-In books in one volume, along with an introduction by Don Coscarelli and illustrations from the Coscarelli movie that was never made.

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The Other
By: Matthew Hughes

Hailed as the heir apparent to Jack Vance, Matthew Hughes brings us this speculative, richly imagined exploration of society on the far edges of extreme. A central character in Black Brillion, Luff Imbry is at last front and center in Hughes’s latest rollercoaster adventure through a far-future universe.

“A tremendous amount of fun.”
—George R. R. Martin

The Other has been shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award, 2011. Congragulations Matt! 

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In Extremis
By: John Shirley

Get ready for a wild ride. Over his long career, John Shirley has earned his reputation as a writer that doesn’t pull his punches, and doesn’t treat his readers gently. In Extremis features more than twenty of Shirley’s most intense stories originally published in anthologies and periodicals like Asimov's Science Fiction, Cemetery Dance, and New Noir. In addition, this volume contains two never-before-published pieces that are sure to roil the genre’s most hardened readers. 

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Glimmering
By: Elizabeth Hand

Originally published in 1997, Glimmering is a visionary mix of fantasy and science fiction about a world in which humanity struggles to cope with the ever-approaching "End of the End."

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Curse of the Wolf Girl
By: Martin Millar

Kalix, a morose, laudanum-addicted, unschooled, slightly anorexic werewolf is still on the run. The youngest daughter of the thane of the MacRinnalch Clan of werewolves, held responsible unfairly for the death of the thane, and justifiably responsible for the deaths of a great many other werewolves, remains prohibited from returning to Scotland in order to maintain the uneasy peace that temporarily prevails in court, despite the endemic debauchery and degeneracy always threatening to again spiral out of control.

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The Pilo Family Circus
By: Will Elliott

"Audition or die." Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrible alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have originated. Yet, in this place--peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous--where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead . . .

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Finch
By: Jeff VanderMeer

Two dead, only one of them human. What will happen if Finch uncovers the truth? And will the fantastical city of Ambergris ever be the same?

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The acclaimed indie band Murder by Death has recorded a soundtrack to the novel, taking as their launching point certain scenes from the book. The CD is available from their site. Click here.

Finch Insurgency Campaign: download Finch “traitor” posters, icons, banner slogans, Murder by Death official soundtrack, “fungal teasers,” podcast promos, and more. We wanted to make the experience more about providing cool stuff for you than about PR for Finch, so many of these Insurgency Campaign items require you to mention the book, too, and a link to ordering information.

 

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Finch: The Rebel Samizdat Edition (350 hardcover copies, signed, numbered, $50)
By: Jeff VanderMeer

“Everyone’s a collaborator. Everyone’s a rebel. The truth in the weight of each.” 

Only 350 of the $50 Rebel Edition printed.

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Out of country? No problem. I'm willling to make an exception to the Underland policy of shipping only within the U.S. Write me at victoria at underlandpress dot com, and we'll figure out the details.

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Finch: The Heretic Edition--SOLD OUT
By: Jeff VanderMeer

THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT

Only 150 of the $110 Heretic Edition printed.  

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Out of country? No problem. I'm willling to make an exception to the Underland policy of shipping only within the U.S. Write me at victoria at underlandpress dot com, and we'll figure out the details.

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Last Days
By: Brian Evenson

The American Library Association's pick for Best Horror Novel of the Year in 2009, and a Shirley Jackson Award nominee, Last Days was first published in 2003 as a limited-edition novella titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation. Its success led Evenson to expand the story into a full-length novel. In doing so, he has created a work that's disturbing, deeply satisfying, and completely original.

This book is available as trade paperback, limited edition, audio CD and MP3 CD.

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Last Days Limited Edition--SOLD OUT
By: Brian Evenson

THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT

This is the limited edition of Brian Evenson's remarkable book Last Days. Underland Press produced only twenty-seven lettered and forty-eight numbered copies of the edition. In addition to the lettered and numbered copies, there are five printer proofs. Once they're gone, they're gone.

The limited edition package consists of the offset-printed text hand-bound into a foil-stamped hardcover, with a letterpress-printed jacket. Brian Evenson wrote longhand sentences from the book on each jacket, making each one unique. It's quite beautiful. 

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Real Unreal: The Best American Fantasy 3
By: Kevin Brockmeier

A city in a bottle. Kings. Genies. Jane Austen and Frankenstein. Grandmothers at sea . . . The acclaimed Best American Fantasy series continues with twenty stories chosen by bestselling writer Kevin Brockmeier, author of A Brief HIstory of the Dead and The Truth About Celia.

With stories by Stephen King, Peter S. Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Jeffrey Ford, and Lisa Goldstein alongside tales by Kellie Wells, Thomas Glave, Ryan Boudinot, Rebecca Makkai, Will Clarke, Martin Cozza, Chris Gavaler, John Kessel, Deborah Scwartz, Paul Tremblay, Shawn Vestal, and Katie Williams, Best American Fantasy 3 promises a richly diverse experience of contemporary fiction.

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Chaos
By: Escober

When British soldier Alex Fisher returns home from his tour in Bosnia, he's plagued by blackouts, recurring nightmares, and uncontrollable acts of violence. Escaping to Mexico, Fisher sets off on a globetrotting tour in an attempt to distance himself from the demons in his head. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman named Angela introduces Fisher to a far more passionate--and far more dangerous--life. After a series of life-threatening encounters, Fisher begins to wonder just who Angela really is--or even if she's real at all. With his grip on reality slipping, Fisher's demons return in full force, awakening a flood of suppressed memories. As he attempts to sort through his complicated and half-remembered past, Fisher discovers that the truth is harder to accept than the lies. The first of four books by a popular Dutch writing duo, this tense, psychologically acute thriller marks their American debut.

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FirstWorld
By: Jemiah Jefferson

March 2036. The world has been divided, not by geography, but by standard of living and technological status. Some have nothing but their ideologies; some their addictions, their cunning, their desperation. The luckiest, safest, healthiest live in the  first world–-all of them employees of FirstWorld Corporation. A global communications network, a consortium of manufacturers and energy suppliers, a system of belief: this is FirstWorld. They are your doctors, your teachers, your bankers, your technicians. They are everywhere and they are you.

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