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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Now Shipping: BLACK LEATHER REQUIRED by David J. Schow

Despair. Betrayal. Violent death. Scary monsters. Murder most foul. Things blowing up real good. Dinosaurs. Great big guns. Cannibalism, necrophilia, drug abuse, scuffed psyches and shattered hearts. Good guys, bad guys, and worse things waiting. Sound like fun? “This man must sound the Degüello when he sits down to write,” says F. Paul Wilson of the person whose name you’ll find on the spine here. “No quarter. No prisoners. No deals.”

It’s too easy to hang that deadly wrong turn and crash face-first into your worst nightmares . . . or most fervent desires, as these thirteen stories demonstrate.

In “Sedalia” you’ll meet a modern-day drover on a dinosaur roundup; then, in “Kamikaze Butterflies,” you’ll see that cowboy romanticism subverted, as an ironic flipside to the Ray Bradbury classic, “A Sound of Thunder.”

In “Bad Guy Hats” you’ll meet brand-new monsters who look just like the people you ignore in 7-Elevens.

Or how about interior evil, the torment of love destroyed? Read “Life Partner” or “Sand Sculpture.” (You may never step out of your front door again.)

Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you the International Horror Guild nominee for Best Collection, David J. Schow’s third assembly of short stories, back in print after nearly 30 years, in its first paperback edition ever, with an all-new cover and seventeen interior illustrations by artist extraordinaire Timothy R. Bradstreet!

Black Leather Required. Absolutely. Time to strap it on.

DAVID J. SCHOW is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of numerous novels, collections, TV shows, movies, nonfiction and comics — too many to count — and Black Leather Required is his tenth title in Cimarron Street’s massive reprint program of his work. Collect ‘em all!

Full contents include:

Introduction by John Farris
The Shaft
Sedalia
A Week in the Unlife
Scoop Makes a Swirly
Kamikaze Butterflies
Beggar’s Banquet, with Summer Sausage
Knight Moves
Jerry’s Kids Meet Wormboy
Life Partner
Gore Movie (unpublished novel excerpt)
Sand Sculpture
(graffito)
Bad Guy Hats
View from the Top by Robert Sabat
Afterword

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Black Leather Required by David J. Schow

Publication Date: February 6, 2022

Suggested Retail Price: $16.95

Trade Paperback - 362 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8454253356

Dimensions: 6 x 0.91 x 9 inches

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Now Shipping: bare•bones #8

Inside the eighth issue of bare•bones, you will find:

Matthew R. Bradley explores Damnation Alley on page and screen
Charlton’s overlooked Fantasy-Horror Comics by William Schoell
Peter Enfantino’s round-up of William Ard’s Buchanan novels
Returning to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by John Scoleri
Christopher Conlon examines the Robert Bloch Psycho novels and films
A look at the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas by Derek Hill
Richard Krauss digs into Sleuth Mystery Magazine
Exhuming Marvel’s Monster Mags — Dracula Lives! by Peter Enfantino
S. Craig Zahler reviews a cornucopia of comic collections
More depravity down Sleaze Alley discovered by Peter Enfantino
David J. Schow drops the needle on his latest R&D column

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bare•bones #8 - Fall 2021

Publication Date: November 18, 2021

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 110 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8469683353

Dimensions: 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Now Shipping: bare•bones #7

Inside the seventh issue of bare•bones, you will find:

Stuart Gordon’s Lovecraft Adaptations by Matthew R. Bradley
William Schoell looks at classic genre film comic adaptations
Duane Swierczynski takes us inside the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood book launch event
A roundtable discussion on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novelization with Stephen R. Bissette, Kim Newman, David J. Schow, John Scoleri and Duane Swierczynski
J. Charles Burwell on the Dell First Editions of James McKimmey
James McKimmey in Mike Shayne by Peter Enfantino
S. Craig Zahler reviews a potpourri of pulp fiction
Peter Enfantino shines a light down Sleaze Alley
The latest installment of David J. Schow’s R&D column

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bare•bones #7 - Summer 2021

Publication Date: September 1, 2021

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 112 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8541046397

Dimensions: 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Now Shipping: EYE by David J. Schow

Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you an updated edition of David J. Schow's fifth short story collection — back in print after 20 years — and for the first time in paperback!

You might perceive EYE as an unblinking scrutiny of sex, obsession, idol worship, penny miracles, policing the birthrate, mysterious phone calls in the dead of night, pornography, wrongheaded faith, or the price of devotion. With whom — or what — are you really crawling into bed, in the dark?

Or you might view it as a phantasmagoric kaleidoscope of sex, monsters, empaths, telepaths, aliens, peewee crime kingpins, otherworldly lovers, sentient art, UFOs, "rectosonics" and/or Mexican wrestling.

You could behold EYE as a spectacle of serial love, hot-and-cold lust, betrayal, and relationships seen from both ends of the telescope. Or a long, hard look into killers from inside their POV (and out), murder, mayhem, death and things worse than death.

Or you could stop reading this hard sell and start eyeballing the thirteen stories that comprise EYE ... including two completely new tales that have never before seen print, luscious illustrations by Thomas Canty, and a sparkling new Afterword, all prepared specially for this edition.

EYE. Feast yours!

Full contents include:

Unhasped
2¢ Worth
Petition
Quebradora
Blessed Event
Watcher of the Skies
Entr'acte
Holiday
The Potion
Scoop Goes Rectosonic
Why Rudy Can't Read
Dharma for One
Saturnalia
Afterword

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Eye by David J. Schow

Publication Date: August 4, 2021

Suggested Retail Price: $14.95

Trade Paperback - 260 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8512242117

Dimensions: 6 x 0.65 x 9 inches

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Now Shipping: SEEING RED by David J. Schow

Brain-scorching review hyperbole!
Pithy critical commentary!
Big-name blurb mongering!
Hardcore buy-or-die sales pitch hysteria!

You'll find none of that in Seeing Red, David J. Schow’s very first collection of short stories, back in print from Cimarron Street Books after twenty years.

Seeing Red features the World Fantasy Award-winning story, “Red Light,” the Twilight Zone Magazine prize-winner “Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You,” plus eleven more tales as startling, as disturbing, as provocative and unnerving.

Between these covers you’ll also find an introduction by best-selling fantasist T.E.D. Klein, a bevy of original illustrations (including previously unpublished cover concepts by Thomas Canty for the 1990 paperback edition), relevant magazine covers, an all-new interview — “Between Light & Shadow” — in which DJS recalls the era during which most of these tales appeared, and an updated and expanded Afterword. Not to mention, and an all-new cover by Tim Bradstreet!

Full contents include:

Introduction by T.E.D. Klein
Red Light
Bunny Didn’t Tell Us
Incident on a Rainy Night in Beverly Hills
The Woman’s Version
Lonesome Coyote Blues
Night Bloomer
One for the Horrors
Visitation
Pulpmeister
Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You
The Embracing
Blood Rape of the Lust Ghouls
Not from Around Here
History: Between Light & Shadow
Afterword: Seeing More Better Redder (1990-2021)

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Seeing Red by David J. Schow

Publication Date: May 22, 2021

Suggested Retail Price: $16.95

Trade Paperback - 376 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8713874919

Dimensions: 6 x 0.95 x 9 inches

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Now Shipping: bare•bones #6

Inside the sixth issue of bare•bones, you will find:

The Annotated Guide to Web Terror Stories by Peter Enfantino
Don D’Ammassa on the Hammer Horror Film Omnibus Novelizations
Matthew R. Bradley on Moon of the Wolf on Page and Screen
Horror Anthology Series in Britain by David A. Sutton
The Outer Limits on Home Video by Craig Beam
Caroline Munro and the Lamb’s Navy Rum Campaign Photo Gallery and Interview by John Scoleri
Richard Krauss on Private Eye digest
Ten Quick Takes from S. Craig Zahler
Peter Enfantino’s Sleaze Alley
David J. Schow’s R&D on Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine