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My copies of Tales of the Shadowmen 6: Grand Guignol, which includes my story "Caesar's Children (A Tale of Pluritopia)," arrived today (see here for my pluritopian chronology). Here's the table of contents, followed by a description from the publisher (and yes, the cover is meant to be Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius, who appears in Jean-Marc Lofficier's story, "J. C. in Alphaville"):

US$22.95/GBP 14.99 - 6x9 tpb, 312 p.
ISBN-13: 978-1-935558-00-2

Contents:
Christopher Paul Carey: Caesar's Children
Win Scott Eckert: Is He in Hell
Emmanuel Gorlier: Out of Time
Matthew Baugh & Micah Harris: The Scorpion and the Fox
Travis Hiltz: The Treasure of the Ubasti
Rick Lai: Incident in the Boer War
Roman Leary: The Children of Heracles
Jean-Marc Lofficier: J.C. in Alphaville
Randy Lofficier: The Spear of Destiny
Xavier Mauméjean: The Man for the Job
William P. Maynard: Yes, Virginia, There is a Fantômas
John Peel: The Biggest Guns
Neil Penswick: The Vampire Murders
Dennis E. Power: No Good Deed...
Frank Schildiner: Laurels for the Toff
Bradley H. Sinor: Where the Shadows Began...
Michel Stéphan: The Red Silk Scarf
David L. Vineyard: The Children's Crusade
Brian Stableford: Where Zombies Armies Clash by Night (Part IV of The Empire of the Necromancers)

This sixth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen is dedicated to simpler horrors and theatrical villainy. Tremble as you face the terror of Fantômas, the villainy of Madame Atomos, the sorcery of Leonox, the unspeakable King in Yellow and the insanity of Alphaville!

Fortunately for us, and for the world, there are always stalwart heroes rising up to stem the tides of darkness and restore peace and order to the world. Chevalier Dupin! Harry Dickson! Mowgli! Arsène Lupin! The Scarlet Pimpernel! Raffles and mamy more are there, to confront crazy sorcerers and ravening zombies, mad scientists and giant rats, evil computers and Hindu death cults, Martians and monsters!

Long live the Shadowmen!

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Hey, one of those names on the covers of these forthcoming books looks familiar... Tentative contents here and here. (Actually, a number of those names look familiar...cool beans!)

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Writing update:

I turned in the article I've been working on, so now I can focus my undivided attention for the rest of the month on prepping the aforementioned big project. Then in the New Year onward to outlining a short story for approval in a forthcoming anthology and commencing the manuscript to Certain Fathoms, amongst other miscellanea.

Reading update:

I recently got a hold of the newly released Black Coat Press edition of Robida's The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul, a mammoth 564-page tome complete with over 150 black and white illustrations by the author. Robida, of course, was a source of inspiration for my story "Caesar's Children" in Tales of the Shadowmen: Grand Guignol, so I'm quite excited to read this. According to Brian Stableford's excellent introduction, Saturnin Farandoul hasn't been published in book form since 1880, and the BCP edition is the first English translation. From what I've read so far, it's wild satire. I'll be writing a review of this for another venue at a later date.