Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner

Sent to the printer... Single volume with two full collections of this "detective" -- The Old Man in the Corner, and The Case of Miss Elliott. Also includes the story, "The Glasgow Mystery," which was left out of the former collection (originally published as in 13 stories in Royal Magazine).

Uncle Abner Mysteries

Sent to the printer... Collection of the 22 Uncle Abner short stories by Melville Davisson Post. Classic American detective fiction.

Early Father Brown

Sent to the printer... Finally got around to this one. The earliest Father Brown mystery collections, the only ones in the public domain in the US.

November Joe

Sent to the printer... Another classic Sherlockian-style detective, this one is a Canadian tracker. Great stories.

African Millionaire

Sent to the printer... Classic criminal rogue fiction, same category as Raffles.

Bestiarium Cryptozoologicum

The latest (and last for now) collection of classic short stories with cryptozoological themes. Sent to the printer.

Sherlock Holmes Vols. 1-3

Sent to the printer, three volumes of Sherlock Holmes stories. Just about all of them, except for the 10 stories in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes that are still under copyright in the U.S. (The agent never replied to my inquiry for licensing them.) Cover image is William Gillette, an actor who portrayed Holmes in early stage-plays, from a 1907 issue of Vanity Fair.

Ancient Haunts

Sent to the printer, a collection of two short volumes of ghost stories: The Stoneground Ghost Tales, by E. G. Swain, and Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye, by Arthur Gray (Master of Jesus College, Cambridge).

Robert H. Benson

Sent to the printer... The Supernatural Stories of Monsignor Robert H. Benson: The Light Invisible, A Mirror of Shalott.

After Dark Series

Two more sent to the printer: (Ambrose) Bierce After Dark, and (Nathaniel) Hawthorne After Dark.

A Spectrum Unseen

Sent to the printer... Invisible men, children, and creatures in classic science fiction and fantasy.

Anthropologica Incognita

Sent to the printer. Next in the classic themed sci fi / fantasy short story anthology series, focusing on wild men, strange apes, fantastic races, etc.

Cleek, Vols. 1-3

Sent to the printer. Three volumes, which includes 8 different Hamilton Cleek mystery titles. Hamilton Cleek was a fictional detective created by Thomas W. Hanshew, and continued by his wife (Mary E. Hanshew) when Thomas died in 1914.

John Silence (Algernon Blackwood)

I always wished Blackwood had done more John Silence stories. In any case, this is a collection of the six (often lengthy) stories he wrote. Sent to the publisher, available soon. It is priced competitively with the old Dover edition.

William Hope Hodgson

Uploaded to the printer, a collection of Hodgson's fantasy novels: The Boats of the "Glen Carrig," The House on the Borderland, The Ghost Pirates, and The Night Land.

I've been trying to stick to a 5 books a month schedule, but ended up with 4 this month, as I merged the planned two volumes of Hodgson's fiction into one title. This one is the full maximum for POD, 828 pages.

Update: Bordercrossings, by William Hope Hodgson now available

The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton

Sent to the printer, volumes 1, 2, and 3. Details soon...
Used the classic 1912 Vanity Fair caricature for the covers.

Update: Volume 1 here, Volume 2 here, Volume 3 here

Robert W. Chambers vol. 2

Sent to the printer... This volume includes various weird/supernatural stories from The King in Yellow, The Maker of Moons, The Mystery of Choice, and The Tree of Heaven.

Update: Details here.

Robert W. Chambers vol. 1

Sent to the printer, this volume includes the (mostly) cryptofiction stories from In Search of the Unknown and Police!!!

Update: Book details here.

Sauria Monstra

Sent to the printer... Sauria Monstra: Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, and other Fossil Saurians in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Update: Book details here.

Poe After Dark

Sent to the printer... Poe After Dark: 18 Tales of Mystery, Madness, and the Macabre.

Update: Book details here.

Lewis Carroll

Sent to the printer: includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Phantasmagoria, The Hunting of the Snark, and the two-part Sylvie and Bruno.

Update: Book details here.

Frank Aubrey Omnibus

Uploaded to the printer yesterday, and I should be able to approve it for printing early next week. Volume includes A Queen of Atlantis, and The Devil-Tree of El Dorado. (The latter is considered a loose sequel, as it recounts the ongoing adventures of the character, Monella.)

Update: Book details here.

Cetus Insolitus

Sent to the printer... Sea monsters, sea serpents, giant squid, invisible octopuses, and more...

Sea Monster Cryptofiction Anthology

Am also putting together an anthology on sea serpents, giant octopuses, and other aquatic unknowns in classic science fiction and fantasy. About 17 stories so far, waiting for perhaps three more. Would like even more, but I'm finding it difficult to track down others, as so little has been written about the subject (far less than you'd imagine), at least for the pre-1923 period. Essayists get stuck on Jules Verne and see little else beyond Hodgson and H. G. Wells. Besides several on my cryptofiction short stories page over at StrangeArk, stories will include From the Darkness and the Depths (about an invisible octopus), Tail of a Big Sea-Serpent (an early spoof on the Daedalus sighting, 1848 or so), The Finless Death (you don't want to hook this fish), and the comical Sea Serpent Syndicate, along with a few others. I would, of course, be interested in hearing about any little-known stories (1922 or earlier) that wouldn't be too difficult to obtain.

Looking ahead, while I'm not looking to put them out until, say, Jan or Feb 2009, the dino cryptofiction anthology should have a very interesting story by a well-known cryptozoologist, and I'll need to find a translator for a French tale if I can find it... (or learn to use Babelfish better.)

The Fantastic Imagination of George MacDonald

Sent to the printer...
Three volumes, page length is about 520 each, includes the novels and short stories with supernatural or fantasy plots, including the fairy tales.

Another Project

I'm putting together a trio of books collecting the fantasy fiction (including the fairy tales) of George MacDonald.

Omnibus vs Anthology

Yeah, have a few more anthologies on the way, but also some omnibuses... similar to Pym, will collect similar-themed fiction by different authors (usually). I just finished the ocr correction for The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, and am almost done with Vampires of the Andes, so will publish them together, I think. With separate books, I'd have to ask $13.95 minimum for the fiction, while I can put two novels together for $19.95 and save the reader some money (and still make a profit). The omnibus also allows me to market more effectively on Amazon, as the book won't be automatically shuttled as an alternative paperback for a current title by another publisher.

Out of the Sand: Egyptian SciFi / Fantasy

Just sent to the printer: Out of the Sand: Mummies, Pyramids, and Egyptology in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy. (Maybe it's just me, but I think I created an inadvertent optical illusion, placing the subtitle over wavy sand lines; makes them look a bit crooked.)

Flora Curiosa

Sent to the printer... Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy

About Time

Just uploaded to the printer, About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy. 15 stories from 1819-1916 that rely on time travel, time shifts, and other temporal tamperings before the "golden age" of science fiction.

Cryptofiction: Beyond the Great South Wall

Here's the wraparound for a classic (1901) cryptofiction novel, Beyond the Great South Wall, by Frank Savile, sent to the printer.