Underland Press

Underland Press is a publishing company founded by Victoria Blake. Victoria Blake is a writer and the former prose editor for Dark Horse Comics. Underland Press was sold to Resurrection House in September, 2013.

Debut authors for Underland Press included: Bram Stoker Award winner Kealan Patrick Burke, Edgar Award and International Horror Guild Award nominee Brian Evenson, Two-time World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer, multiple award winner Will Elliott, and husband and wife writing team Berry Verhoef and Esther Verhoef writing as "EScoBER".^[1][2]

Will Elliott's novel The Pilo Family Circus is scheduled to make its North American debut in 2009 through Underland Press. It was originally published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC fiction award (sponsored by ABC Books).^[3][4] The novel went on to win the Aurealis Award (co-winner: Best Horror novel, plus the Golden Aurealis Award),^[5][6][7] the Australian Shadows Award,^[8][9] the Ditmar Award (Best Novel),^[10][11] and the Sydney Morning Herald's "Best Young Novelist Award" for 2007.^[12] The Pilo Family Circus was also short-listed for the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel.^[13]

Kealan Patrick Burke's online-only interactive Wovel, The Living debuted June 1, 2008 on the official Underland Press website.^[14]

Releases

Novels

• Last Days, by Brian Evenson (February, 2009) ^[15] Released in the following formats:

Perfect Bound Trade Paperback ISBN 978-0-9802260-0-3

48 copy Limited Edition hardcover

27 Lettered Edition hardcover

• The Pilo Family Circus, by Will Elliott (March, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9802260-2-7 ^[16]
• Finch, by Jeff VanderMeer (scheduled November, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9802260-1-0^[17]
• Chaos, by Escober (AKA Esther Verhoef and Berry Verhoef) (May, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9802260-3-4 ^[18]
• The Complete Drive-In: Omnibus by Joe R. Lansdale (May, 2010) ISBN 0-9802260-4-X
• Curse of the Wolf Girl by Martin Millar (August, 2010) ISBN 0-9802260-5-8

Story Collections

• In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley by John Shirley - August 2011
• Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution edited by Victoria Blake - February 2013 ISBN 978-1-9371630-8-2

Omnibuses

The Complete Drive-In (2010) by Joe R. Lansdale, compiles the first three novels^[19]

Anthologies

• Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy 3, edited by Kevin Brockmeier (scheduled January 2010). Featuring stories by Stephen King, Peter S. Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Jeffrey Ford, Lisa Goldstein, Paul Tremblay, Will Clarke, Thomas Glave, John Kessel, Kellie Wells, Ryan Boudinot, Rebecca Makkai, Martin Cozza, Chris Gavaler, Deborah Scwartzand, Shawn Vestal, and Katie Williams. ISBN 978-0-9802260-8-9 ^[20]

Wovels

• The Living, a Wovel by Kealan Patrick Burke (June, 2008 - October 2008)^[21]

• FirstWorld, a Wovel by Jemiah Jefferson (November 2008 - April 2009) ^[22]

• Exit Vector, a Wovel by Simon Drax (June 2009 - current)

References

External links

• Underland Press official site
• The Living, a Wovel on Underland Press official site