Insidious Publications

As you may well have noticed, over the past year, Insidious Publications has been pretty stagnant. There are a lot of reasons for that. I’ll share a couple of them, but I’m pretty sure nobody wants to read the essay I could write detailing the entire situation.

Here it is in a nutshell. The economy and the (what seems to be) collapse of the small press market have taken a deadly toll on us. I’m not saying the small press market is gone, but it sure ain’t what it used to be and our sales numbers speak to that in volumes. Which is why, when our last title took 4 times longer to design and put together, then for an added bonus, cost us 3 times more to produce than expected…well. It’s obvious what it’s done to us.

We have taken the last several months to step back and look at the situation and have decided that the only course of action left to us, is to dissolve Insidious Publications. It was a hard choice to make and a serious kick to our pride, but really, we’re left with no other option. We can’t afford to continue in this turbulent atmosphere.

What this means—The Marquee lettered edition will not be produced and refunds will be given for that title. I apologize for that and ask for your patience concerning the refunds—more patience, I should say. I have money coming in from book projects I’ve done for other publishers and that money will be sent out to our customers who preordered that book. That’s first. Second, our subscribers to the lettered edition subscription list will be refunded. I again ask for you patience in that as well. You all have my word; every last one of you will receive any money you’ve paid towards any of our products that will not be produced.

With all that nastiness out of the way, I also have some goods news. Many of you have been waiting for James A. Moore’s title, The Wild Hunt. We have partnered up with Tom and Billie Moran at Sideshow Press to get this book produced and even better…at break-neck speeds! We have it ready to go and it should be off to the printer in early Feb. (Look for the announcement from Sideshow.) There is one other title we plan to partner with SSP to complete, but I’ll keep quiet about that for the time being, but believe me, you guys are gonna love it.

I appreciate everybody’s kindness over the past 6 or 7 years that we’ve been around. Maybe we’ll come back, maybe we won’t. I just don’t know. For now, I’ll be concentrating on my book bindery and try to build that business.

I could go on and on, but I think I’ve said enough. So, I’ll leave it at—Thank all of you and I’ll be talking to a bunch of you very soon.

Best,

Chris

Release Date – Feb. 2009

Scott Dryden, manager of the Quinley Inn, believed his story began with the death of Duffy Birdsong, but quickly learned that beginnings and endings are not always as they seem. Reoccurring dreams and visits from the dead drive him headlong into a new reality beyond his own existence, one in which tragedy and hope are intertwined and the purpose of his soul is understood. In Marquee, John Paul Allen leads us into a world where death is merely a brief interruption.

Marquee is book One in Insidious Publications’ handmade Chapbook Series; perfect bound with striking full color interior illustrations in a new and exciting format you have likely never seen in a limited edition – limited to 125 signed and numbered copies. Also available as a Lettered edition limited to 26 copies; entirely handcrafted, bound in genuine leather, and with a bonus story entitled Runs Like Rabbit. Art by Tom Moran.

Release Date – Jan. 2008

Deviance, criminal behavior, and sex with turkeys; it’s all in a night’s work for shock jock Andy Crow and his sidekick Charles Greene. You never know what you’re going to hear when you tune to 1200 AM Live.

Explore the darker side of human nature with the inhuman Crow. Everyone has their kinks.

1200 AM Live! With Crow & Greene

A Dirty Crow Radio Production

“Dirty laundry is our specialty

…care to share?”

Special guest, Miss Black Howard Stern, Charlie Superfly!

1200 AM Live is book Four in Insidious Publications’ handmade Softcover Novella Series; perfect bound, and limited to 500 signed and numbered copies. Also available as a Lettered edition limited to 26 copies; entirely handcrafted, bound in genuine leather with a striking full color interior. And lastly, available in an extremely limited quantity of just five (5) copies as an Ultra edition; bound in leather, masterfully traycased, including a paperback copy housed in the casing for the most discerning collector to use as a reading copy.

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Release Date – July 2007

Ben Klein used to sell his own brand of strawberries, but he’s been out of that racket for quite some time. He much prefers to travel the globe, giving speeches on farming and winning corporate awards. When he ventures into an unnamed metropolis to claim his latest prize, he finds himself stranded on the top floor of one of the world’s tallest buildings.

An epic storm has smashed across the planet, wiping out every creature that wasn’t thousands of feet off the ground. As of now, there is no ground. Through the windows of the famous Peak Restaurant, Klein and three young servers watch the water grow higher. And the higher it gets, the more they panic… and the more truth Klein shares about his violent past.

Strawberry Man is a surrealistic vision of a drowning skyscraper, a view of bald nature at war with corporate ambition, and a look at a man who finally faces the raging nature within himself.

Listen to a reading of Strawberry Man by author Eric Shapiro.

Strawberry Man is book Three in Insidious Publications’ Softcover Novella Series; perfect bound, and limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Each book is entirely hand crafted sporting French parchment endpapers with linen signature sheets and beautiful, full color interior illustrations by artist Danny Roberts. The talented author and screenwriter John Skipp has written the foreword and will be autographing the book along with Eric Shapiro.

Release Date – April 2007

They are four, thirty-something college friends, all with successful jobs, beautiful homes, and ideal families. That is, until Mickey’s business folds and his marriage crumbles. Concerned with their friend’s erratic behavior and deteriorating mental health, the remaining trio stages an intervention. Will their actions prove too late to stop Mickey’s downward spiral, or will their own personal convictions spawn dangerous consequences?

Before it is resolved, the problem with Mickey will test a decade-old friendship against the power of fanatical ideals…

The Problem With Mickey is book Two in Insidious Publications’ Softcover Novella Series; perfect bound, and limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. Each book is entirely hand crafted sporting French parchment endpapers with linen signature sheets and beautiful, full color interior illustrations. Autographed by the author, Tom Moran, and Gregory Lamberson who wrote the foreward.