News Updated July 27th, 2010

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Mark your calendars for upcoming sigings and events.

The Shadow Saga is a brilliant epic that takes you into the secret world of vampires -- and a secret society sworn to destroy them. Sweeping, sensuous, and shocking, it is a powerful vision of immortality that will hold you in its spell . . . forever.

All of the books in The Shadow Saga are being re-released in new editions with brand-new covers. The first book, OF SAINTS AND SHADOWS, is now available. It includes a new foreword by Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire mysteries. Here's the publishing schedule:

July 27th, 2010 OF SAINTS AND SHADOWS
October 2010 ANGEL SOULS AND DEVIL HEARTS
December 2010 OF MASQUES AND MARTYRS
February 2011 THE GATHERING DARK
April 2011 WAKING NIGHTMARES - a brand-new Peter Octavian novel

Every big city has a soul, and every soul has a dark, secret side. The Chamber of Ten: A Novel of The Hidden Cities, the third Hidden Cities collaboration between Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon, is now available. When an American archaeologist and her beau discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco in Venice, they are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the city's future with the evils of its past. Learn more about The Hidden Cities.

Love the Hidden Cities novels? Here's your chance to get the next one FREE! The first 50 (fifty) people to review The Map of Moments: A Novel of The Hidden Cities by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon and post the review at both their blog (or website) *AND* at Amazon will get a free signed copy of the next Hidden Cities boo. Once you've posted your review, send your link(s) to citieshidden@yahoo.com The reviews must be at least one paragraph of at least five sentences. This contest is open to residents of the United States, Canada, and Europe. Must be at least 15 years old to enter.

Golden calls Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire "the coolest project [he's] ever been involved with." Months after a devastating plague ends World War I, Europe is suddenly flooded with deadly vampires. Lord Henry Baltimore, a soldier determined to wipe out the monsters, is on the hunt for the creature responsible for this chaos and his own personal tragedy. What he uncovers is a terror as horrific and frightening as any he's seen on the battlefield.

Dark Horse Comics will be publishing Baltimore: The Plague Ships, comics based on the novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Issue #1 comes out August 4th, 2010 - Pre-order now! Issue #2 comes out September 1st, 2010 - Pre-order now!

Download the Baltimore electronic press kit (EPK) now! Read an excerpt of the book, watch a video interview with the authors, and check out the press release, the cover image, the authors' photos and biographies, and more.

New Regency has acquired film rights to Baltimore. Golden and Mignola will write the screenplay. David Goyer will direct. We will keep you updated as the production moves forward.

Golden has contributed the short story "Thin Walls" to the anthology Death's Most Excellent Vacation, which will be available August 3rd, 2010. The full list of contributors is as follows: Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner, Jeff Abbott, L.A. Banks, Jeaniene Frost, Christopher Golden, Chris Grabenstein, Katie MacAlister, A. Lee Martinez, Sharan Newman, Lilith Saintcrow, Sarah Smith, and Daniel Stashower.

The zombies have arrived. Live it up with The New Dead, a new anthology edited by Christopher Golden which includes original short stories from Joe Hill, John Connolly, Max Brooks, Kelley Armstrong, Tad Williams, David Wellington, David Liss, Aimee Bender, Jonathan Maberry, and many others. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, saying,"The 19 provocative, haunting, and genuinely unsettling original stories in this zombie anthology move the genre beyond its usual apocalyptic wastelands."

The Waking: Dreams of the Dead, the first in a trilogy of thrillers written by Christopher Golden under the pseudonym Thomas Randall, is now available. Kara Foster thinks the hardest thing about moving to Japan will be fitting in as an outsider. But dark secrets are stirring at her new school. When Kara befriends Sakura, a fellow outsider whose rebellious nature sets her apart from the crowd, she learns that Sakura's sister was the victim of an unsolved murder on school grounds. And before long, terrible things begin to happen. It starts with nightmares - strange, otherworldly dreams that wake Kara in terror every night. Then more students start turning up dead, with strange marks on their bodies. Is Sakura getting revenge on those she suspects are responsible for her sister's death? Or has her dead sister come back to take revenge for herself? Learn more at The Waking website.

Soulless is a darkly unpleasant story about spirits, life after death, priorities, and zombies. It is an insidious, gruesome bit of work that differs in several vital ways from most zombie stories. It's also an ensemble piece. Soulless is now available as a trade paperback from MTV Books. It will be re-released in October 2010. Visit the Soulless website.

Book Banter interviewed Christopher Golden. Listen to the podcast online or click here to download the podcast.

Christopher has written a short story, "Quiet Bullets," for Joe R. Lansdale's Son of Retro Pulp Tales anthology for Subterranean Press.

The Hiss of Escaping Air, a special chapbook novelette, was created and released by PS Publishing to mark Christopher Golden's appearance as Guest of Honour at Fantasycon 2008. This brand-new story has a limited print run of only 300 numbered copies. Each and every copy was signed by the author. The cover art was created by Wayne Blackhurst. Rich Horton has The Hiss of Escaping Air for his anthology Fantasy: The Best of the Year anthology. This is the first time any of his short fiction has been selected for one of these collections. Note: The original chapbook is still available from PS Publishing, and with the way the pound has dropped against the dollar, it's MUCH cheaper for US readers than it was upon publication back in the fall.

A new trade paperback edition of The Ferryman with a brand new introduction by Charles de Lint has been released by Roc. What happens when a woman refuses to cross the river Styx with fabled ferryman Charon? Learn more about The Ferryman. Read the prologue.

When Christopher Golden wrote a supernatural thriller called Poison Ink, he hadn't seen or read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Now, having viewed the film with his kids, he has taken to saying that Poison Ink is sort of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with EVIL. Actually, the only similarity is that both involve a group of girls of very different backgrounds and the way that a brush with magic changes their relationships with one another. In Poison Ink, that brush is decidedly darker and more permanent than a funky pair of jeans. Poison Ink is now available in trade paperback. Visit the Poison Ink website.

At last, the Ghosts of Albion role playing game (RPG) is available for download online. Order the book through RPG Now or DriveThruStuff. Want to order it from your favorite local bookstore? Print out this form and ask them to order it for you at the shop! You can also buy a PDF download online via Eden Studios, where you may also download a free demo.

Check out Christopher Golden's serial interview at Bildungsroman. Start with Part 1 and keep on reading all the way through Part 13.

Earthling Publications has released a signed, limited edition of Strangewood. This edition includes sixteen illustrations by Richard Kirk, an introduction by Graham Joyce, and an afterword by Bentley Little. Even the endpapers are fully illustrated. (See samples of Kirk's illustrations.) The book is Smyth-sewn and bound in leather, and housed in a cloth-covered slipcase. To obtain a copy of the book, email earthlingpub@yahoo.com with the subject line Reserve Strangewood.

Behind The Veil, every captivating myth and fairy tale is true, the vanished exist -- and every fear is founded. The series concludes with The Lost Ones. After the first two ended on cliffhangers, the third act of Oliver Bascombe's story finally plays out. The Two Kingdoms are at war. The Myth Hunters, Book One of The Veil, and The Borderkind, Book Two of The Veil, are available in trade paperback and in mass market paperback. The Lost Ones, Book Three of The Veil, is available in trade paperback. Pick up the free electronic press kits (EPKs) for all three books: The Myth Hunters, The Borderkind, and The Lost Ones.

Meet The Sisterhood, a three-issue series of comics from Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, and Wellington Alves. Find it in your local comic book shop. Learn more.

Wildwood Road and The Boys are Back in Town are available in mass market paperback editions from Bantam Spectra.

Golden's short story Nesting is available for free at Horror Literature Quarterly.

Many Bloody Returns, an anthology edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, is now available. Golden is particularly proud of his contribution to the book, "The Mournful Cry of Owls," and thrilled to be on the table of contents alongside Toni Kelner, Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff, PN Elrod, and a host of other talented writers.

The anthology Five Strokes to Midnight includes thirteen stories by five authors -- Gary A. Braunbeck, Deborah LeBlanc, Tom Piccirilli, Hank Schwaeble, and Christopher Golden -- plus an introduction by Tim Lebbon and cover and interior illustrations by Hellraiser star Ashley Laurence. Golden's category of Folklore includes three stories: "Shaft 39," "Under Cover of Night," and "All Aboard." Five Strokes to Midnight has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and won the Bram Stoker Award.

Check out the trade hardcover edition of Joe Hill's extraordinary short story collection 20th Century Ghosts. Christopher Golden wrote the introduction to the limited edition a couple of years ago, before most people had heard of Joe, and now he can't wait for the rest of the world to get their hands on this collection, which shows so many facets of a brilliantly talented writer. Morrow has kept Golden's introduction for the new trade edition. If you weren't already planning to do so, you must check it out.

Dread Central has posted an audio book of Christopher Golden reading his short story Runaway.

Download and listen to his podcasts for Bantam here and here.

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