Midworld Press...

[sholloman81]

Hey, after reading today's newsletter it looks like I was right about The Keep. I'm hardly ever right about anything (just ask the wife) so maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket or something! I don't know if I'm going to pull the trigger on a copy, though.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice sounds interesting, but the price point might be too high for me to do a blind buy. However, both Fever House and the Laird Barron omnibus sound pretty intriguing, so I'll keep an eye out for those. I'm still have yet to purchase anything from Midworld--both criticism of their early editions, including some unattractive cover art, and their newsletter response about the cover art to The Girl With All the Gifts turned me off a bit--but never say never.

Congrats on your guess! Will be passing on the Keep as well. Already have it as a part of the Borderlands Adversary Cycle set and don't need a dupe copy. Not really interested in the Beekeeper's apprentice as an LE but would like to read it at some point. Not sure about the Barron book. He's one of those authors that never seems to quite click for me as much as others but perhaps I would like his crime stuff better. Never heard of Fever House but it sounds like tons of fun.

[swintek]

Hey, after reading today's newsletter it looks like I was right about The Keep. I'm hardly ever right about anything (just ask the wife) so maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket or something! I don't know if I'm going to pull the trigger on a copy, though.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice sounds interesting, but the price point might be too high for me to do a blind buy. However, both Fever House and the Laird Barron omnibus sound pretty intriguing, so I'll keep an eye out for those. I'm still have yet to purchase anything from Midworld--both criticism of their early editions, including some unattractive cover art, and their newsletter response about the cover art to The Girl With All the Gifts turned me off a bit--but never say never.

Wow- this is exactly where I'm at with the titles just announced, and the press as a whole- pretty much verbatim. Nothing so far has made me pull the trigger, but, as a long-time Sherlockian- I am intrigued by The Beekeepers Apprentice, but, maybe not at that price, and, The Keep? I've already got a pretty ok signed/limited Borderlands edition, but- Palumbo... oooh, I like his stuff.

[Sock Monkey]

Hey, after reading today's newsletter it looks like I was right about The Keep. I'm hardly ever right about anything (just ask the wife) so maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket or something! I don't know if I'm going to pull the trigger on a copy, though.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice sounds interesting, but the price point might be too high for me to do a blind buy. However, both Fever House and the Laird Barron omnibus sound pretty intriguing, so I'll keep an eye out for those. I'm still have yet to purchase anything from Midworld--both criticism of their early editions, including some unattractive cover art, and their newsletter response about the cover art to The Girl With All the Gifts turned me off a bit--but never say never.

[Sock Monkey]

Looks like you're correct...from a review I found:

"When a group of Nazi soldiers occupies an isolated keep deep in the Transylvanian Alps, they awaken something out for their blood, at a determined pace of one death per night. Terrified, they ask for help; alas, the elite reinforcements prove ineffective. Desperate, they end up reaching out to an expert on local legends, a wheelchair-bound intellectual who happens to be Jewish. But even the scholar and his daughter don’t suspect the repercussions of what has been unleashed in the keep…" Notice there's even a young woman (that aforementioned daughter...?) pushing the wheelchair in MidWorld's art.

Thanks for the follow-up, Ron. It's nice to know that wasn't completely off on my guess.

[RonClinton]

I actually had some serious doubts (and am still not 100% sold on my guess) after your post inquiring if there was a person in a wheelchair in the book. I mean, I am, after all, the guy who recently guessed that a new Suntup book was going to be a book that they had already published, so...

Looks like you're correct...from a review I found:

"When a group of Nazi soldiers occupies an isolated keep deep in the Transylvanian Alps, they awaken something out for their blood, at a determined pace of one death per night. Terrified, they ask for help; alas, the elite reinforcements prove ineffective. Desperate, they end up reaching out to an expert on local legends, a wheelchair-bound intellectual who happens to be Jewish. But even the scholar and his daughter don’t suspect the repercussions of what has been unleashed in the keep…" Notice there's even a young woman (that aforementioned daughter...?) pushing the wheelchair in MidWorld's art.

[Sock Monkey]

You're probably right...my memory on books read decades ago isn't very reliable. I'd like to think that it is -- it's a work that deserves limited treatment, and aside from being one of volumes in the Borderlands set (and, man, Monteleone didn't do himself any favors with people on that recent mass-distribution of his Substack post), it hasn't seen that kind of treatment, not as a solo edition. I have a signed 1st HC of it, but might consider a limited of it, especially if there was additional content of some sort.

I actually had some serious doubts (and am still not 100% sold on my guess) after your post inquiring if there was a person in a wheelchair in the book.  I mean, I am, after all, the guy who recently guessed that a new Suntup book was going to be a book that they had already published, so...

[Sock Monkey]

I received the Monteleone emails as well and had assumed that it came from Substack because I subscribe to Keene's newsletter (either his or his store, Vortex Books, uses Substack, I believe), so I assumed it was sent as a "if you like that one, you might like this one" type of thing.  Although, it seems that Monteleone and Keene are on quite different ends of the spectrum politically.  Since Ron is saying that he has no connection to Substack, then I'd say that Monteleone's comments about not knowing how those who received the email did, in fact, receive the email does seems iffy.

[RonClinton]

I received three emails from Monteleone. I only check email about once a day, so I read them in reverse order and was puzzled. I stopped all communication with Monteleone at least 15 years ago so my only awareness of his implosion came from this forum, and I believe it was discussed on Jeff Terry's Youtube live. Monteleone pretty much laid it out in the emails and made the point of people who were upset. I was certain I would not have subscribed to his Substack so I logged in and confirmed that I am not subscribed. When I had my issues with him, he was a total ass and it appears he is also a liar, Substack did not send me those emails.

I have no involvement or subscriptions to any Substack contributor, so his claim that my email didn’t come from his Borderlands customer list is, at best, suspect.

[Martin]

You're probably right...my memory on books read decades ago isn't very reliable. I'd like to think that it is -- it's a work that deserves limited treatment, and aside from being one of volumes in the Borderlands set (and, man, Monteleone didn't do himself any favors with people on that recent mass-distribution of his Substack post), it hasn't seen that kind of treatment, not as a solo edition. I have a signed 1st HC of it, but might consider a limited of it, especially if there was additional content of some sort.

I received three emails from Monteleone. I only check email about once a day, so I read them in reverse order and was puzzled. I stopped all communication with Monteleone at least 15 years ago so my only awareness of his implosion came from this forum, and I believe it was discussed on Jeff Terry's Youtube live. Monteleone pretty much laid it out in the emails and made the point of people who were upset. I was certain I would not have subscribed to his Substack so I logged in and confirmed that I am not subscribed. When I had my issues with him, he was a total ass and it appears he is also a liar, Substack did not send me those emails.

[RonClinton]

It’s been a long time since I read it as well, but I seen to remember an elderly possibly Jewish man and his daughter in the old castle with Nazis and a possibly vampiric creature. Â I might be off on some (or all!) of that, but that’s what led me to the conclusion about the art. Â

You're probably right...my memory on books read decades ago isn't very reliable. I'd like to think that it is -- it's a work that deserves limited treatment, and aside from being one of volumes in the Borderlands set (and, man, Monteleone didn't do himself any favors with people on that recent mass-distribution of his Substack post), it hasn't seen that kind of treatment, not as a solo edition. I have a signed 1st HC of it, but might consider a limited of it, especially if there was additional content of some sort.

[Sock Monkey]

Maybe. I got more gothic vibes than vampiric, but is certainly is suggestive of a story like THE KEEP. It's been a while since I read it -- was there a character in a wheelchair? Drawing a blank on that.

It’s been a long time since I read it as well, but I seen to remember an elderly possibly Jewish man and his daughter in the old castle with Nazis and a possibly vampiric creature.  I might be off on some (or all!) of that, but that’s what led me to the conclusion about the art.  

[RonClinton]

From the artwork in their latest newsletter, I'm putting forth the guess that Midworld's going to be doing a limited of F. Paul Wilson's The Keep.

Maybe. I got more gothic vibes than vampiric, but is certainly is suggestive of a story like THE KEEP. It's been a while since I read it -- was there a character in a wheelchair? Drawing a blank on that.

[sholloman81]

From the artwork in their latest newsletter, I'm putting forth the guess that Midworld's going to be doing a limited of F. Paul Wilson's The Keep.

That's a great guess based on that art, especially with that version of the cross. I'm hoping that you are incorrect. Love the book and F. Paul Wilson in general; however, I already have this one as a limited from the set that Borderlands put out a while back (The Complete Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson). I guess if you are correct, my wallet will be happy.  

[Sock Monkey]

From the artwork in their latest newsletter, I'm putting forth the guess that Midworld's going to be doing a limited of F. Paul Wilson's The Keep.

[Sock Monkey]

Not me. I tried reading IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN a while back as it seemed like the perfect kind of book for me, and for whatever reason it just didn't click with me...my expectations were probably a bit too high, given its comparisons to Joe Hill and Cormac McCarthy (of which neither comparison is apt). It had its moments, but, I don't know, it just felt a bit flat to me. Again: not a bad book, probably just unmet expectations. No interest in THE LAST WATCH. I love the cover and plot description of THE PALE BLUE EYE, so I definitely get the attraction of that one.

I'm choosing to pass as well. I'm tempted, but I am trying to keep FOMO at arm's length and focus on getting stuff that I really want. Still would like to pull the trigger on that Atlas of Hell lettered...