Pre-order BONE MARROW STEW by Tim Curran - ASYLUM PROJECTS

Tasmaniac · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:31 pm

Available to pre-order NOW for a July 2011 release.

Tasmaniac Publications
presents

BONE MARROW STEW
Collected Works
Volume One

by

Tim Curran

Come closer.
Together, we’ll climb this crooked stairway and slip through the crooked doorway at the top, enter a crooked room. We’ll leave the crawling black gutter ruin of the world behind us. Here, there is a glow beneath the blackened cauldron and here we may sup and chat, away from those maggot-white oblong faces that press up to the shuttered windows. I want to whisper something in your ear here in our little world lit only by fire and scented by hot marrow-fat and steaming gut. Ignore the creeping shadows and nightmare cosmic vistas opening up around us, they are but tales wanting to be told. Hear only my voice:
Many, many years ago when I was seven or eight years old I made something of an unconsciousness decision to dwell in the shadows of a half-lit world and there I have existed, happily, ever since. Before then I don’t think I had any true obsessions. I was sort of like a glob of unshaped clay waiting to be molded and pressed into something. Once the change had occurred and the cold clay was formed, the pulp of fear juiced from me, I no longer feared the shades that crept in the darkness or the spidery things that scuttled over moonlit rooftops or the shapeless horrors that oozed in the sunless, sewerlike spaces of dank cellars. I became one of them, you see. I lived in weed-clotted drainage ditches and hung bloated in dusty webs in high attic corners and swam in miasmic ponds. I met little girls who fed on souls and puppeteers who were more puppet than man. I crouched in night-black trenches while ghoulish things chattered their teeth and I sailed tall ships into graveyard seas. I met men with kaleidoscopic eyes and listened to the ravings of snakeoil salesmen as they vomited flies. I was there when the living dead swarmed the Paris Metro and grotesque little men crawled from the fens for their midnight offerings. I listened to the screams of innocents lost in the fog and the sucking sounds of men reduced to things less than men and, yes, I watched as eldritch, obscene things seduced children with promises of sweets.
Fill yourself with the marrow and gut and blood of the stew as I lean closer and whisper into your ear of what I know and what I have seen and what, I think, you may never forget.

A delicious 460+ page release spanning Tim’s career from his very first professional sale, Reign of the Eater, to exclusive never before released stories, plus a full bowl of juicy tales in between.
Full wraparound artwork and extensive internal illustrations from Keith Minnion and introduced by Simon Clark, this collection is signed by all three contributors.

The moment I started reading the stories in this collection I just wanted to shout ‘WOW!’ Tim Curran’s work erupts so powerfully from the page. His vivid action zaps you in the eye. Then his words continue into the depths of your soul where they sow explosions of delight and wonder.
- Taken from Simon Clark’s intro, Welcome to the Feast.

Priced at a very reasonable $40 with only 250 hardcover copies available, secure yours by sending a blank e-mail with BMS – country of residence (Example: BMS – USA) in the subject line to: tasmaniacpublications@gmail.com
We will reply with your given number, and an invoice to follow.

Bone Marrow Stew launches our new all hardcover line, The Asylum Projects.

SteveVernon · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:18 pm

In a word - awesome!

Tasmaniac · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:10 am

horrordude · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:58 am

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

Snagged mine (I think Steve put mine aside last year

)

Tt

KeithMinnion · **Joined:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:58 pm **Posts:** 430

Tim's great stories will sell themselves, but if some pictures might stir a little extra interest, you can find them here:

wm ollie · **Joined:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:34 pm **Posts:** 363

i've been a Curran fan for years

tim curran · **Joined:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:29 am **Posts:** 107

This is going to rock! I've never been so excited to get a book out!

horrordude · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:05 am

The best thing about this (besides Tim getting his stories out there) is, that it's Volume One!

We get to look forward to more darkness and insanity by The Corpse King.

TMLCrow · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:56 pm

Email sent. I can't wait to read this one.

KeithMinnion · **Joined:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:58 pm **Posts:** 430

A big, hefty package arrived from the UK today from Simon Clark, filled with full color signature sheets for Tim's book. I had done the painting for this sheet in watercolor, and the stock Steve chose is a watercolor paper - each of these sheets looks like an original watercolor painting!

I will be spending this evening with a glass of wine and a felt-tipped pen, watching old movies on TV while I sign away. I promised to turn them around and get them to the Post Office tomorrow!

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

Nanci · **Joined:** Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:48 am **Posts:** 4992

I heard the dedication page is verrrryyy special

TMLCrow · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:12 pm

Tasmaniac · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2011 7:01 pm

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

Do you have an idea when it will ship Steve? When can I start staking out my mailbox?

Tasmaniac · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:06 pm

Pre-order BONE MARROW STEW by Tim Curran - ASYLUM PROJECTS

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