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RULE DEMENTIA!

by Quentin S. Crisp

Cover art by Steve Lines. CLOUD 022

Stories: Jellyfish Joe, The Haunted Bicycle, Zugzwang, The Tao of Petite Beige, The Waiting, Unimaginable Joys

Rule Dementia! is the third collection of stories from Quentin S. Crisp, and as such cements the fact that he is a major new talent on the UK small press scene. In this book you will find the bizarre and surreal mixed to such perfection with an older classic influence to bring about unique style and content. Read these stories carefully and be sure to sink fully within them, for they're as deep as the ocean and give clues to the identity and doctrine of the author more accurately than any fingerprint or brain probe.

Sometimes writing like a modern Kafka or Schulz, it's hard to pin down the fiction of this author and name any certain influence, but you can be sure the end result is something very special.

THE EVIL ENTWINES (Revised edition)

by John B. Ford & Guests

Cover art by Lorretta Mansell. CLOUD 030

£15.00/$22.00

Stories: Sermon w/ F. Paul Wilson, Dead Things w/ Paul Bradshaw, Mrs Drasic's farewell party w/ Eddie Angerhuber, The Nightmare Plot w/ Gary Greenwood, The Winged Menace w/ D. F. Lewis, Cemetery Snake w/ Tim Lebbon, The maker of Nightmares w/ Steve Lines, Croxton's return w/ Derek M. Fox, The Shadow Man w/ L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims, The Mechanical Museum w/ Thomas Ligotti, Eyes End w/ Ramsey Campbell, The Fevered Brain w/ Joseph S. Pulver Sr., The Toll w/ Paul Kane, The Moulder of Blackest Nightmare w/ Simon Clark, The Corpse Awakens w/ Steven Lee Climer, The Resurrection of Conrad w/Jeffrey Thomas, The cairn w/ Paul Finch, macabre Delights w/ Michael Pendragon, Degrees of Separation w/ Brian Stableford, The Man With Haunted Eyes w/ David Price and Sailing Into Night - a round robin featuring Joseph S. Pulver Sr., John B. Ford, Michael Cisco, Jeffrey Thomas, Quentin S. Crisp, Jeff VanderMeer, Mark McLaughlin, Eddie M. Angerhuber, Thomas Ligotti, Scot Peacock, Ann K. Schwader, Brian Stableford, Thomas Wiloch, Steve Rasnic Tem, Mark Samuels and Matt Cardin.

After the considerable success of John B. Ford's collaborative book THE EVIL ENTWINES we at Rainfall Books realised the high demand for an extended version of that same tome, this time featuring all the collaborative stories John has ever done.

Here you'll find a start-studded line up of authors mingled with some of the fastest rising new talent. These are authors John admires and found it a great honour to work with. If you are a fan of such writers as Thomas Ligotti, F. Paul Wilson, Simon Clark, Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Thomas, Brian Stableford, Tim Lebbon, D. F. Lewis, Paul Kane, Steve Lines, Paul Finch, L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims etc, this book is a must buy for you.

TELL ME WHEN IT'S OVER

Notes From the Paisley Underground

Edited by Clive Jones

Cover art by Steve Lines. CLOUD 025

£12.00/$19.99

Postage: UK £2.00 Europe £4.00 USA £5.50

The 1980s saw an explosive manifestation of psychedelic music from the West Coast of the USA known as the PAISLEY UNDERGROUND. This 280 page book compiles archive interviews from the most important magazines of the era. It also features new introductions to the bands by the top writers in the field.

Bands featured include: Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Long Ryders, Green On Red, Three O’Clock, True West, 28th Day, Wednesday Week, Mazzy Star, Clay Allison and Opal.

Authors featured in Tell Me When It’s Over include: Pat Thomas,

Nigel Cross, Jud Cost, Fred Mills, Jon Storey and Paul Ricketts.

TERROR TALES #3

John B. Ford & Paul Kane

Cover art by Steve Lines. CLOUD 031

£15.00/$22.00

Stories: The Causeway by Stephen Laws; I'm Awlays here by Richard Christian Matheson; Blast From the Past by Simon Clark; A Short Guide to the City by Peter Straub; Whispers by Marie O'Regan; Tripod by Jeffrey Thomas; Where It Roots, How It Fruits by Chaz Brenchley; The dark Exit by Joel Lane; Feels Like Stephen King by Stephen Deighan; 0.5 MG by William Conrad; The Happt Misanthrpist by John Travis; What Elroy Did in His School Holidays by Jonathan Oliver; The Summer House by Vicki yates; A Slave of Melancholy by Mark Samuels; Bus Driver by Kevin Anderson; Dead to the World by Allen Ashley.

The latest edition of the highly acclaimed TERROR TALES with a stunning line up of writers brought to you by those two creatures of the night Fiendish Ford and Kreepy Kane.

MIRROR MERE

by Marie O'Regan.

Illustrated by David A. Magitis. CLOUD 034

Stories: Whispers, Suicide Bridge, Bleed For Me, Alsiso, Sea View, 4.44, Cut To The Chase, Do You Remember, No Way Up, Samedi's Child, Can You See Me?, Touch, Spiritus Sanctus, Stay, Mirror Mere, I'll Call You, Tabith's Angel.

The debut collection from one of today's rising stars of horror, Mirror Mere will unnerve and disturb in equal measures. Take Marie O'Regan's hand as she shows you a world you've never seen before, one which mirrors our own but is just that bit different, that bit more terrifying. In sixteen short stories and the never before seen novella from which this book takes its title, she will expose you to some of these frights. Open the pages and look into the mirror . . . if you dare.

SIGNS OF LIFE

by Paul Kane

Illustrated by Ian Simmons. CLOUD 035

Stories: Signs of Life, The Bite, Who's Been . . .

with an introduction by Stephen Gallagher

Inside the pages of this very special book you will find two novellas and one short story from the imagination of Paul Kane, prize-winning author of Aline (In The Dark), Touching The Flame and Funny Bones. All are guaranteed to scare, to excite, to make you think twice about the world you're living in. And just who - or what - you're sharing it with.

LOST WORLDS OF SPACE & TIME vol 2

Edited by Steve Lines.

Illustrated by Steve Lines. CLOUD 028

Price £12.00/$20.00

Stories:

XICCARPH

The Lord of Xiccarph by Ron Shiflet

The Maze of Maal-Dweb by Steve Lines

The Reprisals of Maal Dweb by Henry J. Vester III

The Death of Maal Dweb by C. J. Henderson

The Legacy of Maal Dweb by Ron Shiflet

EARTH

The Gordian Knot by Robert M. Price

Orpheus At Sea by Mark Francis

The Cave Wizard by Richard L. Tierney

The Letter by Warlock G Vance

The Night That Wins by Joel Lane

AIHAI

Cavern of the Golden Fleece by Edward P. Berglund

YIHH

The Sarcophagus of Yiolh-Ngwehh by Simon Whitechapel

XULTHOOM

The Xulthoom Dispatches by Scott Urban

ZOTHIQUE

The Vainglorious Simulacrum of Mungha Sorcyllamia by Mark McLaughlin

The Fane of Mordiggian by Ann K. Schwader

At the Yielding of Twilight by Ann K. Schwader

Maraeva by Ran Cartwright

Plagues by Franklyn Searight

The Storming of Vrookhal by Laurence J. Cornford

Cincor During Necromantic Rule by Ron Shiflet

Deepness by Phillip Ellis

Gylas’ Hymn To Mordiggian: A Fragment

The Villanelle Of The Last Days by Phillip Ellis

The Black Massif by Stanley Sargent

The long awaited second volume of LOST WORLDS OF SPACE & TIME, the tribute collection to the works and worlds of Clark Ashton Smith. Featuring the cream of today's fantasy authors exploring the wondrous realms of Smith's exotic imagination.

In these two volumes (really a single volume split into two for ease of publication) we pay tribute to the works of Clark Ashton Smith as today’s current practitioners of the ‘weird tale’ explore his incredible and macabre realms and create a stunning collection of tales inspired and influenced by the master.

By the time you turn the last page of this collection we will have taken you from Earth’s infancy and The One Continent down winding corridors of space and time to Atlantis, Hyperborea, Averoigne, Xiccarph, Earth, Aihai, Yihh, Xulthoom and finally to the last dying continent of Zothique. And that’s a journey of the mind worth taking I’m sure you’ll agree!

So come on, plunge deep into a universe of incredible worlds and fantastic creatures and experience once again the gorgeous, luxuriant feverishly distorted visions of Smith’s macabre creations.

THE PERCIVAL TYLER FILES

by Clinton S. Green.

Cover by Steve Lines. CLOUD 032

Price: £10.00/$20.00

Stories: The Prophecy In The Wood, The Curse of the Hindo, The Lost.

Percival Tyler is a young man in awe of his redoubtable father, the founder of the American Society for Reason and enemy of occultists everywhere. Early twentieth century society in New England, USA is rife with witches, spiritualists, and age-old legends from the backwoods. Percival assists his father on several cases, including an investigation of a series of horrific grave desecrations supposedly perpetrated by ghouls!

Weak-minded mortals cling to their superstitions, but the dedicated group of educated gentlemen fight to expose these so-called supernatural events. Their investigations show these occult oddities to be perfectly explainable in the end or do they?

The Percival Tyler Files is the story of supernatural beliefand the dogma of logic. It is the study of a son's attempts to live up to the impossible expectations of his father and of his strange journey towards an unspeakable destiny.

IN FEAR & DREAD

by Derek M. Fox.

Cover by Steve Lines. CLOUD 036

Price: £12.00/$25.00

Stories: Comeback, The Swing, Packy's Room, Sira, Call Me Daughter, Family Ties, Certificate X, Billy One-Eye, Heaven Sent?, A Walk In The Field, Schoolyard, Dwelling Place, An Exercise In White, Preacher Empty Chairs, Ripples, Creepers, Downfall, Heat, Windows Weeds, Stopping Clocks.

Derek M. Fox, a British author/creative writing tutor, has had countless stories published in the small press world. He has built a reputation for delivering chilling and atmospheric tales that linger on in the mind even after the last word has been read. Along with the novels Recluse and Demon there have been other collections of stories from Fox, but we at Rainfall Books are delighted to unleash upon the world his most complete and powerful collection yet..

Utmost care is recommended now as you are about to enter a world of Fear & Dread!

CONJURE

by Mark West.

Cover by Mark West and Darren Martin

CLOUD 037

Price: £8.99

Newly pregnant, stuck in a job she doesn't like and mourning the death of her cousin, Beth Hammond's life isn't working out the way she thought it would. So when her boyfriend wins a weekend away, at the east coast seaside resort of Heyton, Beth thinks this could be just what they need - some time to themselves, to get away, relax and make their plans for the future.

Unfortunately, as they begin their weekend, a JCB driver accidentally damages a centuries old memorial at the beach. He hopes no-one will notice but something has - a presence that was buried beneath the memorial, sealed in stone tomb, that now wants its revenge on the residents of Heyton.

CHARNEL WINE

by Richard Gavin

Illustrated by Steve Lines. CLOUD 023

Stories: Charnel Wine, Reflections From The Abyss, Mrs South, Fragments Of A Primordial Gnosis, The Lodge, Bernice's Journal, View From A Ghost Ship, The Tides That Bind, Parting The Veils, Heirlooms, Porcelain And Pretty Lace, The Physics Of Unseen Puppeteers, The Folly, Forewarning: The Good Doctor's Eternal Return, Flowers Of Delirium, The Masters Posthumous Sermon, Leavings Of Shround House: An Inventory, Acolytes Of The Reaping, The Churchyard Chrysalids, Soiled Throats Or The Litany Of The Maggot, The Whimper Of Those Long Lost, Fruit From The Barbarous Garden, Texts.

THE WALDORF STREET PARADOX

by Sue Phillips

Illustrated by Karl Owens. CLOUD 024

Stories: The Dark Mirror, Shadows. Busman's Holiday Part 1 (Buss Pass), Busman's Holiday Part 2 (One And A Half Return), Busman's Holiday Part 3 (Automated Service), Cat's Paw And the Threefold Law, Images Of Angels - Gold, Images Of Angels - Black, Top Up, Website, Epilogue.

Wit, whimsey and illusion - all tied up with a black bow. 10 stories - 2 award winners. 3 brand new, and a cracking good read inbetween! Ten small stories that combine to tell a much larger tale.

LOST WORLDS OF SPACE & TIME Volume 1

Edited by Steve Lines

Illustrated by Steve Lines. CLOUD 022

Authors: James Ambuehl, James Chambers, Laurence J. Cornford, Walter C. DeBill, Michael Fantina, John B. Ford, Randal D. Larson, Steve Lines, Mike Minnis, Joseph S. Pulver Sr.,Robin Reed, Richard L. Tierney, Simon Whitechapel.

Plunge into a universe of incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities and still more fantastic creatures. Experience once again the gorgeous, luxuriant and feverishly distorted visions of Clark Ashton Smith's macabre creations with these stunning new tales set within the lost worlds of time and space of Clark Ashton Smith.

ASSEMBLY OF ROGUES

Edited by Martin Roberts & John B. Ford.

Illustrated by Des Knight and Steve Samuels. CLOUD 026

Authors: Simon Clark, Tim Lebbon, Paul Kane, Derek M. Fox, Mark Chadbourne, Paul Finch, Mark Valentine, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Crowther, Mark Morris, James Newman, Graham Joyce, John B. Ford.

This book combines with a DVD of the same title to bring you stories and interviews with the current UK Masters Of Terror!

Martin Roberts and his Purple Rage film company have traveled the UK to track down and interview the most eminent authors and publishers the form the heart and soul of the small press and professional horror world.

Here, in this strictly limited edition, you have the chance to be party to the thought and views of authors you will at last be able to put a face to, then go on and read their offerings in the shape of specially selected stories.

Last but by no mans least, this rare package is completed by a CD featuring eight songs from Steve Lines' band Stormclouds. "Dark Dreams" gives us a sample of some of their music from a variety of albums.