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Earthling Publications is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 small press
Small press
Small press is a term often used to describe publishers with annual sales below a certain level. Commonly, in the United States, this is set at $50 million, after returns and discounts...

 run by Paul Miller and specialising in fine limited edition books in the horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 and dark fantasy
Dark fantasy
Dark fantasy is a term used to describe a fantasy story with a pronounced horror element.-Overview:A strict definition for dark fantasy is difficult to pin down. Gertrude Barrows Bennett has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Both Charles L...

 genres.

In 2003, Earthling won the Horror Writers Association
Horror Writers Association
The Horror Writers Association is a worldwide non-profit organization of professional writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of Horror and Dark Fantasy writers. It was formed in the 1980s with the help of many of the field's greats, including Joe Lansdale, Robert...

 Specialty Press Award.

Books Published by Earthling

The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies - a collection by Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...

 and edited by Phil and Sarah Stokes (forthcoming, 2009)

Slices by James A. Moore
James A. Moore
James Arthur Moore is an American horror novelist and short story writer.In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction"...

 - collection of short stories (2009)

Midnight on Mourn Street by Christopher Conlon (2008)

The Hellbound Heart: 20th Anniversary Edition by Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...

 (2007)

This Is Now by Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall.-Biography:...

 (2007)

The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall.-Biography:...

 (2007)

American Morons by Glen Hirshberg
Glen Hirshberg
Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...

 (2006)

Pressure by Jeff Strand (2006)

World of Hurt by Brian Hodge
Brian Hodge
Brian Hodge is a prolific writer in a number of genres and sub-genres, as well as an avid connoisseur of music. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is working on his latest novel.Brian Hodge's novels are often dark in nature. Themes like self...

 (2006)

Bloodstained Oz
Bloodstained Oz
Bloodstained Oz is a Wizard of Oz related novella by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore, and it was illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. It was published as a limited edition hardcover by Earthling Publications in 2006...

 by Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...

 and James A. Moore
James A. Moore
James Arthur Moore is an American horror novelist and short story writer.In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction"...

 (illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne
Glenn Chadbourne
Glenn Chadbourne is an American artist. He lives in Newcastle, Maine. He is best known for his work in the horror and fantasy genres, having created covers and illustrated books and magazines for publishers such as Cemetery Dance Publications, Subterranean Press, and Earthling Publications. Mr...

) (2006)

King of Souls by Brian Knight (2006)

Home Before Dark: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Vol. 2 by Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...

 (2005) - collection of short stories

Riverside Blues by Erik Tomblin (2005)

Apocalypse Now, Voyager by Jay Russell
Jay Russell
Jay Russell , is a film director and also executive producer and director of the film My Dog Skip.His other directing credits include Tuck Everlasting, Ladder 49 and The Water Horse...

 (2004)

Midnight Rain by James Newman
James Newman
James Newman may refer to:* James Newman , actor who stars on MTV's 2011 series Skins* James H. Newman , American astronaut* James R. Newman , mathematician and mathematical historian* James W...

 (2004)

Game by Conrad Williams
Conrad Williams
Conrad Williams was a fictional character in UK soap opera Family Affairs, played by Simon Merrells from 2004 until October 2005.-Conrad's Arrival:...

 (2004)

Exorcising Angels by Simon Clark
Simon Clark
Simon Clark is a horror novel writer from Doncaster, England. One of his most notable works is the novel The Night of the Triffids.Clark has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and British Fantasy Award...

 and Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...

 (2003) - two original stories by each author ("Skins" by Tim Lebbon and "A Bridge to Everywhere" by Simon Clark), and an original collaboration, "Exorcising Angels," all based on the themes of Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...

 and the Angels of Mons
Angels of Mons
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I...

 legends

The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction. He has received degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Washington . After leaving a teaching position at BYU, he held positions at Oklahoma State University, Syracuse University...

 (2003)

More Tomorrow & Other Stories
More Tomorrow & Other Stories
The collection More Tomorrow & Other Stories by Michael Marshall Smith draws together 30 of the author's short stories, including several written specifically for the collection. Smith's short stories had been partially collected in 1999's What You Make It, but this had only been published in the UK...

 by Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall.-Biography:...

 (2003) - collection of short stories

Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Vol. 1 by Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...

 (2003) - collection of short stories

"Dirty Movies" by Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...

 (2003) - a limited chapbook released at the World Horror Convention 2003 to tie in with Graveyard Peoples release

Godhead Dying Downwards by Jeffrey Thomas
Jeffrey Thomas (writer)
Jeffrey Thomas is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known for his stories set in the nightmarish future city called Punktown, such as the novel Deadstock and the collection Punktown , from which a story was reprinted in St. Martin's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #14...

 (2003) - 15 lettered copies came with an additional chapbook titled "The Red Spectacles"

El Dia De Los Muertos by Brian A. Hopkins (2002)

Simon Clark: A Working Bibliography & A Trip Out for Mr. Harrison by Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...

 and Simon Clark
Simon Clark
Simon Clark is a horror novel writer from Doncaster, England. One of his most notable works is the novel The Night of the Triffids.Clark has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and British Fantasy Award...

 (2000)

Little Lost Angel by Erik Tomblin (2005)

After The Elephant Ballet by Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...

 (2005)

"Blood Tide" by James A. Moore
James A. Moore
James Arthur Moore is an American horror novelist and short story writer.In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction"...

 (2005) - a limited edition chapbook only released at the World Horror Convention 2005 to promote Moore's Blood Red

The Rise and Fall of Babylon by Brian Keene
Brian Keene
Brian Keene is an American author, primarily of horror, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won two Bram Stoker Awards.- Background :Keene was born in 1967. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and many of his books take place in these locales. After graduating high school, he...

 and John Urbancik (2003) - featuring "Babylon Rising" by Brian Keene and "Babylon Falling" by John Urbanrik

The Longest Single Note, Special Edition by Peter Crowther
Peter Crowther
Peter Crowther is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is the founder of PS Publishing. He edits a series of themed anthologies of science fiction short stories published by DAW books...

 (2002)

Cat Stories by Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall.-Biography:...

 (2001)

Earthling Halloween Series

Each year, Earthling Publications releases a Halloween themed limited edition book. This started in 2004 with a novella by Glen Hirshberg called Mr. Dark's Carnival (there were only 15 copies made). Because of the low print run for Mr. Dark's Carnival, Earthling considers it #0 of the series.

0. Mr. Dark's Carnival by Glen Hirshberg
Glen Hirshberg
Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...

 (2004)

1. Blood Red by James A. Moore
James A. Moore
James Arthur Moore is an American horror novelist and short story writer.In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction"...

 (2005)

2. The Unblemished by Conrad Williams
Conrad Williams
Conrad Williams was a fictional character in UK soap opera Family Affairs, played by Simon Merrells from 2004 until October 2005.-Conrad's Arrival:...

 (2006)

3. The Haunted Forest Tour by James A. Moore
James A. Moore
James Arthur Moore is an American horror novelist and short story writer.In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction"...

 and Jeff Strand (2007)

4. Moontown by Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins
Peter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics...

 (2008)

5. October Dark by David Herter
David Herter
David Herter is an American author. His first novel was Ceres Storm in 2000, which was chosen as one of the top 10 science fiction books of 2000 by Amazon.com, followed by Evening's Empire in 2002....

 (2009)

Earthling Modern Classics

The titles released by Earthling under their Earthling Modern Classics line are what they consider "much celebrated or are considered cornerstone works."

King Rat
King Rat (1998 novel)
King Rat is the debut novel by China Miéville. Unlike his Bas-Lag novels, it is not a New Weird story but an Urban Fantasy, set in London during the late 1990's. It follows the life of Saul Garamond after the death of his father and his meeting with King Rat...

 by China Miéville
China Miéville
China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...

 (2005)

Song of Kali: 20th Anniversary Edition by Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....

 (2005)

The Snowman's Children by Glen Hirshberg
Glen Hirshberg
Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...

 (2007)

Strangewood by Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...

 (2008)

Anthologies

The Earthling Sampler, Vol. 1 edited by Paul Miller (2003)- released as a limited edition hardcover (10 copies) and as a paperback giveaway of a few 100 copies. Featuring:
  • Simon Clark
    Simon Clark
    Simon Clark is a horror novel writer from Doncaster, England. One of his most notable works is the novel The Night of the Triffids.Clark has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and British Fantasy Award...

    's "The Burning Doorway"
  • Brian Evenson
    Brian Evenson
    Brian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction. He has received degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Washington . After leaving a teaching position at BYU, he held positions at Oklahoma State University, Syracuse University...

    's "The Din of Celestial Birds"
  • Peter Crowther
    Peter Crowther
    Peter Crowther is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is the founder of PS Publishing. He edits a series of themed anthologies of science fiction short stories published by DAW books...

    's "The Longest Single Note"
  • Brian A. Hopkins' "Diving the Coolidge"
  • Tim Lebbon
    Tim Lebbon
    Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...

    's "Bomber’s Moon"
  • Jeffrey Thomas
    Jeffrey Thomas (writer)
    Jeffrey Thomas is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known for his stories set in the nightmarish future city called Punktown, such as the novel Deadstock and the collection Punktown , from which a story was reprinted in St. Martin's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #14...

    ' "The Red Spectacles"
  • Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...

    's I Never Spent the Money"
  • Michael Marshall Smith
    Michael Marshall Smith
    Michael Marshall Smith is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall.-Biography:...

    's "To Receive is Better"

Rolling Darkness Revue anthologies

Anthologies containing stories by the authors who were a part of that years Rolling Darkness Revue tour.
  • Rolling Darkness Revue 2005 (AKA Darkness Rising) by Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...

    , Peter Atkins
    Peter Atkins
    Peter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics...

    , Robert Masello, Robert Morrish, Michael Blumlein
    Michael Blumlein
    Michael Blumlein, M.D. is a fiction writer and a physician. Most of his writing is in or near the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His novels include The Healer, The Movement of Mountains and X, Y. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award...

    , and Nancy Holder
    Nancy Holder
    Nancy Holder is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction and fantasy shows, including Angel and Smallville.Holder is a four-time winner...

     (2005)
  • Rolling Darkness Revue 2006 (AKA At the Sign of the Snowman's Skull) by Peter Atkins
    Peter Atkins
    Peter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics...

    , Clay McLeod Chapman, Dennis Etchison
    Dennis Etchison
    Dennis William Etchison , is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison refers to his own work as “rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world.”Stephen King has called Dennis Etchison “one hell of a fiction...

    , Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...

    , Lisa Morton
    Lisa Morton
    Lisa Morton is an American horror author and screenwriter.Morton was born in Pasadena, California, and entered the film industry in 1979 as a modelmaker on Star Trek: The Motion Picture...

    , and Norman Partridge
    Norman Partridge
    Norman Partridge is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of a Crow novel, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow...

     (2006)
  • Rolling Darkness Revue 2007 (AKA The Twilight Limited) featuring:
  • Peter Atkins
    Peter Atkins
    Peter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics...

    ' "Last of the Invisible Kings"
  • Dennis Etchison
    Dennis Etchison
    Dennis William Etchison , is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison refers to his own work as “rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world.”Stephen King has called Dennis Etchison “one hell of a fiction...

    's "Call Home"
  • Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...

    's "Miss Ill-Kept Runt"
  • Complete text of the Rolling Darkness Revue 2007 original play-let by Atkins and Hirshberg
  • The Rolling Darkness Review 2008 (AKA KRDR 666 Hz: Welcome to the Ether) by Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...

    ("Like Lick Em Sticks, Like Tina Fey"), Peter Atkins, Kevin Moffett, and the script of the playlet performed on the 2008 tour
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