Bound For Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad

Cover Artist ALLEN KOSZOWSKI

Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad is a mammoth volume gathering together for the first time ever the very best stories of diabolical books. Illustrated throughout with over two dozen b&w pieces by World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator Allen Koszowski, BOUND FOR EVIL collects 66 tales of lost knowledge and restless ghosts, secret libraries and forbidden texts, alternate worlds and ancient gods; written by 61 acclaimed writers, including Ramsey Campbell, Rhys Hughes, Gary McMahon, H. P. Lovecraft, Jeffrey Thomas, Simon Strantzas, M. R. James, Mark McLaughlin, Robert W. Chambers, Christopher Fulbright, Gary Fry, and dozens more. Also included within the pages of Bound for Evil is a hidden (67th) tale.

Here's the Table of Contents:

• introduction: the secret lives & evil times of diabolical books Tom English.....xiii
  
  bound for evil:
• in the beginning
• genesis for dummies Patrick LoBrutto.....3
  
  scratch paper
• the devil’s manuscript S. Levett Yeats.....7
• the book Margaret Irwin.....22
• the devil & nathaniel hawthorne Skadi meic Beorh.....36
• the devil in manuscript Nathaniel Hawthorne.....41
• the grimoire Montague Summers.....48
• the book of cain Michael D. Winkle.....66
• canon alberic’s scrap-book M. R. James.....85
• flames in the night John R. Platt.....96
• fine print Mark McLaughlin.....102
• damek T. A. C. Amaral.....111
• fahrenheit clark ashton Glynn Barrass.....127
• boek van namen Lorne Dixon.....135
• pact anthology John Teehan.....145
  
  a not-too-gentle madness
• the bibliomaniac’s prayer Eugene Field.....153
• book worm Jeffrey Thomas.....154
• leather, dark and cold Simon Strantzas.....162
• limited edition Andrew J. Wilson.....173
• windows to the soul JG Faherty.....182
• if i had a hundred tongues Barry Baldwin.....190
• a collection of true evils Barry Napier.....197
• the incomplete works of william shakespeare Rick Moore.....215
• the strange bequest of simon bray Tom English.....228
• the story of edward hardiman Michael Lovell.....243
• the door, the lock, the key R. Michael Burns.....252
• happiness Ian Shoebridge.....269
• dibdin’s ghost Eugene Field.....288
  
  the romance of certain old books
• the dunwich horror H. P. Lovecraft.....291
• the adder Fred Chappell.....329
• finding the book of sand Rhys Hughes.....347
• worse than bones Ramsey Campbell.....354
• letters home Erin MacKay.....367
• prosecuted, banished, and shot Jeff Ryan.....387
• the reading room Orrin Grey.....389
• midnight express Alfred Noyes.....398
• the book in the earth Lavie Tidhar.....403
• the yellow sign Robert W. Chambers.....416
• the book H. P. Lovecraft.....432
• weird chronicle Rui Cruz.....435
• the narconomicon David M. Fitzpatrick.....449
  
  reference work
• guidance Gary McMahon.....467
• the almanack Saki.....477
• practical time travel Vincent L. Scarsella.....482
• a lesson in therapy Angeline Hawkes.....499
• cormac’s mirror Ben Thomas.....513
• recipe for disaster John Llewellyn Probert.....526
• the guest book Gary Fry.....539
• mechanix Christopher Fulbright.....557
• an antique land John Shire.....565
• the reference book Louise Norlie.....577
• the book of faces R. E. Hartman.....591
• the dark and the young Ian Rogers.....595
• the book of revelation Mark Tullius.....620
  
  misadventures in reading
• association copy Barbara Roden.....634
• a fatal distraction J. Michael Shell.....665
• one copy only Ramsey Campbell.....671
• the thief with two deaths Chris Willrich.....685
• the alzheimer’s book club Jill Zeller.....706
• readers digested Jeff Ryan.....714
• the truth inside the lie Terri Nixon.....716
• browsers Mark Leslie.....732
• don’t read them after midnight Josh Vogt.....739
• trunk story Kurt Newton.....749
• lem’s last book Rhys Hughes.....754
• the new words Jeffrey A. Rice.....766
• literature abuse Michael McGrorty.....777

Limited to 500 copies, of which only 375 will be offered for sale. Deluxe smythe sewn hardcover, bound in black imitation leather, and stamped in gold leaf with an original cover design by World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator Allen Koszowski.