The Black Labyrinth Imprint - Line of Original Psychological Horror Novels

Santiago's artwork can be found on the The Best Horror of the Year Volume One & Two edited by Ellen Datlow, The King in the Golden Mask published by Tartarus Press, The Familair by Armstrong and Krause and countless other books and publications. He has become renowned for his darkly Gothic and brilliantly imaginative illustrations, making him the perfect visionary for the Black Labyrinth imprint.

Black Labyrinth News

Dark Regions Press is excited to announce that the best-selling author of Edge of Dark Water, The Bottoms, the Hap and Leonard novel series and Bubba Ho-Tep will be joining Tom Piccirilli in the list of ten Black Labyrinth authors.  Joe will be delivering an original psychological horror novella by the end of this year.

If we can have the book in stock on time, our goal is to launch Joe's book for order on the DarkRegions.com website on Tuesday, November 12th of this year.      


Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror." He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.

Black Labyrinth Book Edition Details

Ebook

Features: the titled novel/novella.  Does not include interior illustrations or any bonus stories/material.

Availbality: all major ebook platforms including Kindle, Nook, iBooks, Sony Reader, Kobo and Smashwords. 

Pricing: $3.99

Trade Paperback

Features: the titled novel/novella and all interior illustrations.  Does not include any bonus stories/material.

Specifications: first 100 copies are signed by the author, 6"x9", 12 point full color cover, 60lb. natural vellum stock.

Availability: DarkRegions.com, Amazon and other vendors.

(The Walls of the Castle) Pricing: $14.95

Signed and Limited Hardcover

Features: the titled novel/novella and all interior illustrations. (The Walls of the Castle) Includes the bonus novelette Face Blindness, a noir crime story.

Specifications: mint and first edition, print runs from 100 to 500*, hand numbered, 6''x9'', bound in black leatherette, signed by the author, front cover stamped with the Black Labyrinth logo, stamped on the spine with the title and author's name, includes end papers, black book ribbon with a black header, 60lb. natural vellum stock. Only 100 to 500* will ever be produced and numbered worldwide.

Availability: DarkRegions.com and specialty vendors.

(The Walls of the Castle) Pricing: $40.00

Leather-bound Deluxe Lettered Hardcover with Slipcase

Features: the titled novel/novella and all interior illustrations.  (The Walls of the Castle) Includes the bonus novelette Face Blindness, a noir crime story.

Specifications: hand lettered/numbered A-Z/1-52*, 6''x9'', bound in black leather, signed by both author and artist, front cover stamped with the Black Labyrinth logo, front cover stamped and spine stamped with the title and the author's name, includes end papers, black book ribbon with a black header, 60lb. natural vellum stock and a leatherette-bound slipcase. Only twenty-six will ever be produced and lettered worldwide.

Availability: DarkRegions.com and specialty vendors.

(The Walls of the Castle) Pricing: $99.00

Specialty Oversized Cowhide-Bound Ultra-Deluxe Numbered Hardcover Tome w/ Special Edition Traycase

Features: the titled novel/novella and all interior illustrations.  (The Walls of the Castle) Includes the bonus novelette Face Blindness, a noir crime story and the exclusive essay "What I found in my Spinal Fluid This Time" by author Tom Piccirilli.  Features Santiago Caruso's cover artwork as a color frontist piece.

Specifications: mint and first edition, hand numbered 1-13, 8.5''x11'', bound in black cowhide, signature page which is signed by author, artist and editor, Smyth sewn, printed with oil-based ink, includes end papers, black book ribbon with black header, premium 70lb Classic Crest paper, a special edition Black Labyrinth traycase.  Only thirteen copies will ever be produced and numbered worldwide. 

Availability: DarkRegions.com and specialty vendors.

(The Walls of the Castle) Pricing: $300.00

Black Labyrinth Authors

Black Labyrinth Book Schedule

All Black Labyrinth books will be launched first on the DarkRegions.com website.

The Walls of the Castle by Tom Piccirilli Information

Synposis

 In the labyrinthian maze of endless corridors, annexes, and wings of the enormous medical complex known as The Castle prowls a grief-stricken man determined to redeem himself and bring justice for those victims incapable of doing it for themselves.

 During the four months that his son lay dying, ex-con Kasteel lost his job, his wife, and nearly his mind.  He became a fixture at the Castle, a phantom prowling the halls in the deep night, a shadow of his former self until he faded from sight and was forgotten altogether.  

 Now, without any life to return to, he takes it upon himself to become the Castle's guardian.  He lives off the grid hiding among the hundreds of miles of twisting passages, rooms, offices, and underground parking structures.  Despair, confusion, and terror are the natural state and trade of any hospital:  Not only must the patients endure disease and infirmity, but others are victims of physical and sexual abuse from the outside world or from cruel security guards.  

 The Castle was originally a colonial Dutch settlement: a village that grew into a town which grew into a city and at last became a hospital.  Kasteel has lost his very identity to this place, taking for himself the original Dutch name for "Castle."  
 Kasteel sleeps in empty operating theaters, sneaks food from the cafeteria, hacks into computers, and is privy to both staff and patient files.  Using his skills as a burglar he tracks down the attackers, the deceivers, and the killers.  

 In the psychiatric wing's day rooms and gardens long-suffering patient Hedgewick is Kasteel's only friend.  Hedgewick sees his father's ghost and claims to fight in a gladiatorial arena while the hospital guards bet on the winners.  Kasteel and Hedge often meet in the Fool's Tower, a ten-story high steeple once used to quarantine yellow fever victims a century ago, overlooking acres of gardens.  A place where family members go to pray for their loved ones, and the distraught often commit suicide.

 But a new name is now whispered in the Castle: Abaddon, the ancient name for the angel of death.  A brain-damaged woman has visions and speaks only to Kasteel.  Abaddon is a killer, a man lost to the Castle like Kasteel himself, wandering the corridors searching out victims.  Even as Abaddon hunts the innocent, Kasteel hunts Abaddon, eager for a final showdown that may at last set him free.

 An atmospheric yet action-packed, mature psychological thriller that is part examination into the bonds of family and part treatise on the nature of identity, THE WALLS OF THE CASTLE explores the deepest areas of what makes us who we are.   With a noir sensibility and complexity of character, the novella is a hybrid psychological thriller that's part suspense tale, part family saga, and part literate mystery.


About the Author

Tom Piccirilli is an American novelist and short story writer. He has sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. Piccirilli is a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Paperback Original" (2008, 2010). He is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. He was also a finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award given by the Mystery Writers of America, a final nominee for the Fantasy Award, and he won the first Bram Stoker Award given in the category of "Best Poetry Collection".

Media Information

To set up an interview with editor Chris Morey, artist Santiago Caruso or any of the Black Labyrinth authors please e-mail us at: media@darkregions.com

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