Four Undertow Publications Contemporary Classics Series Novels- Lynda E.Rucker "The Moon Will Look Strange"
- Joel Lane "The Lost District"
- John Langan "The Fisherman"
- Brian Evenson "Contagion"
All:
- Are Brand New/Mint/Fine/Fine - never read these copies, kept in glass enclosed bookcase, smoke & pet free home
- Are Limited Edition, Matching #89/100 copies
- Are Signed by author, except The Lost District - Joel Lane passed away well before publication
- Are Signed by Publisher Michael Kelly, Undertow Publications
- Have Leather Covers
- Have Illustrated Endleaves
- Are Smyth-Sewn
- Have Ribbon Page Markers
- Were purchased by me directly from Undertow Publications
I doubt you will find a better set of matching numbers for this great series from Undertow Publications!
From Goodreads:
The Moon Will Look Strange:
The laughter of a dead child echoes down the winding streets of a town in Spain… A mysterious stranger makes increasingly disquieting visits to a lonely English instructor in Central Europe… A woman experiences her own literal disintegration as someone – or something – from her past takes over her life…but who is the possessed and who is possessing? In return for the ability to touch the miraculous, the residents of an isolated mountain community are busily manufacturing items they don’t understand in preparation for a future they cannot imagine… With eight reprints from the pages of such publications as Black Static, The Third Alternative, and Supernatural Tales and three original tales, this chilling debut collection by Lynda E. Rucker will fill you with unease and unsettle your dreams. “Lynda Rucker's great talent is that she is able to carefully build a perceptive portrayal of the real world and in the process of that exploration find that edge where the everyday dissolves and the numinous begins. Her compelling execution of this transition strongly echoes the work of Robert Aickman.” – Steve Rasnic Tem
Volume 1 in our “Contemporary Classics” series.
First Hardcover Edition
Signed bookplate
Strictly limited to 100 copies
Hand-numbered
Bound in Blue leather with silver foil stamping
Full wraparound Dust-jacket by Vince Haig
Spine number “1” in our Contemporary Classics Series
Smyth-sewn
70lb Creme paper
Blue Silk Ribbon Marker
Matching Blue Head and Tail Bands
Illustrated Colour Endpapers
The Lost District:
A collection of fantastic and horrific stories that deal thematically address the core relationships of ones life, be they parental, first loves, best friends, or lovers (of both the hetero and homosexual variety). The decaying industrial backdrop of England's midlands provides a working class context that is both uniquely English, but universally accessible. (From the Skyhorse Publishing blurb to the 2006 Night Shade Books imprint paperback first edition)
The Fisherman:
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story.
Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.
100 signed and numbered copies
Bound in Green leather with gold foil stamping
Full wraparound Dust-jacket by Vince Haig
Spine number “3” in our Contemporary Classics Series
Smyth-sewn
80lb Creme paper
Gold Silk Ribbon Marker
Matching Head and Tail Bands
Illustrated Colour Endpapers
Contagion:
Mapping a literary space uniquely his own, Evenson's CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES pursues to a new level the crepescular and delirious exploration begun in his acclaimed and controversial ALTMANN'S TONGUE. In the O'Henry Award winning "Two Brothers," a minister breaks his leg while his sons watch then refuses to call an ambulance, remaining convinced even unto death that God will arrive to lift him up and make him whole. The self-acclaimed language specialist of "The Polygamy of Language" indiscriminately blends linguistics with murder. "Contagion" is a skewed retelling of the early history of barbed wire, which interweaves metaphysics and the Western genre. "Watson's Boy" shows a boy endlessly wandering the human equivalent of a conditioned response box while the protagonist of "By Halves" finds himself trapped in a relationship that may not exist. Throughout, Evenson's immaculate prose draws us mercilessly up to confront troubled and troubling lives that, astoundingly, are no less human than our own.