Failure - Imprint - Pickman's Motel - Bloodwish - Divagations - Suckers

This is a Matching Numbered Set of the Delirium Hardcover Chapbook Series

Book 1 - Failure by John Everson

Cover Artwork by John Everson

From Bram Stoker Award Winning author, John Everson, comes the first book in Delirium's new hardcover chapbook series...

Raymond is such a failure, he can't even kill himself and get it right. Cindy just plain doesn't care; she'll get on her knees for anyone beneath the football field bleachers to score a nickel bag hit. And Sal is a frustrated goon with a hook nose and an attitude so sour he can't nail a girl even with the lure of free dope and a getaway car.

When these three desperate teens meet Aaron, a failed practitioner of the dark arts who offers them the best high they've ever smoked in exchange for some kinky sexplay inside his pentagram, things can only go from bad to worse. Aaron hopes to ensnare and re-birth the spirit of a late witch, to capture her power from beyond the grave for his own.

Soon, they'll all learn the darkest, bloodiest, most terrifying definition of Failure.

Book 2 - Imprint by Patrick Lestewka

Cover Artwork by John Everson

Our memories. They instruct us, guide us, help us distinguish wrong from right. They are, in a way, all that tethers us to the reality of our world. If our memories betray us, how do we know what's real anymore? How do we know who to trust? To love? To hate?

Sam Richards' wife has been killed. He knows who did it---and he's not going to rest until the debt has been settled.

But Sam's memory is playing tricks on him.

People are going to suffer because of that.

IMPRINT.

Book 3 - Pickman's Motel by Mark McLaughlin

Cover Artwork by John Everson

This is book #3 in the Delirium Hardcover Chapbook Series.

Once upon a millennium, Mark McLaughlin, the Clown Prince of Horror, wrote a fiendishly funny Delirium Books chapbook entitled Shoggoth Cacciatore And Other Eldritch Entrees, tales of cosmic dread liberally laced with wackiness. This time McLaughlin has prepared a more adult spin on the Mythos-go-round. In Pickman's Motel, you'll explore Arkham's bad side of town, a freaky neon playground of horny horrors. Learn the titillating truth about ghouls in the title story, and then laugh up a lung as you encounter every stand-up comic's worst nightmare: "The Heckler In The Ha-Ha Hut." McLaughlin tops off the collection by loading you into a time machine and sending you back to caveman days in "Tony Tar-Pit And Monkey-Face Joe Battle The Flying Mushroom-Devils: A Tale of Prehistoric Arrkhumm." So check into Pickman's Motel and find out what the nightlife in Arkham is really like!

Book 4 - Bloodwish by Michael McBride

I wish I may.

Eight-year-old Evan Murphy has just lost his father to cancer. His grief-stricken mother has uprooted him from the only life he’s ever known to move him to the small mountain town where she grew up. All he knows of the dark forest surrounding his new home are the fanciful stories from his mother’s youth about a hidden well that grants any wish.

I wish I might.

There are other children in the woods, children who stalk him from the shadows and stand beneath his window at night. Children with severed arms tied off with bloody burlap, their mouths wired shut by rusted lengths of wire to forever hold the secrets they would share.

Live to see another night.

Something even more evil hides in the darkest reaches of the forest, wishing for Evan.

Wishing for blood.

Book 5 - Divagations by John Maclay

Cover Artist John Everson

The six brand-new stories that constitute John Maclay's latest collection, Divagations, demonstrate not just his specialty, the short-short story, but also his depth of style and characterization in the longer form. As usual, he is dark and downbeat, but at the same time he holds out hope that by honestly engaging with horror, one can find a better end.

In "Messenger," he treats of a sudden presaging of doom.

In "The Book of Death," he exhibits the mordant style that has won him praise for such from Joe R. Lansdale and the immortal Ray Russell.

In "Journeys," he predicts that even after the most horrible of deaths, love and eternity will prevail.

In "Born," he controversially deals with a major issue of our time.

In "The Cat Lover," he draws a horrid but then heartwarming lesson for animal lovers everywhere.

And in "Widowed," he utilizes two of his further specialties, erotic horror and the terrors of middle age, to also venture into the occult for a dark but wanly fulfilling end.

Book 6 - Suckers by J.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand

Cover Artist John Everson

Vampires.

Well, not vampires—Pires. Whack-jobs who think they're vampires. They've inducted an innocent young girl into their cult, and her mother has hired legendary (not in a good way) private investigator Harry McGlade to get her back.

Infiltrating this bloodthirsty cult is too big of a job for just one man, especially when he has the intelligence of half a man. But when he joins forces with the also-less-than-100%-competent Andrew Mayhem, maybe, just maybe, their combined efforts will succeed in thwarting this savage menace. Or perhaps they'll just embarrass themselves and get killed.

Masters of humor-tainted-horror (or horror-tainted-humor) J.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand team up for the first time in this hilariously gruesome adventure that does not contain a single lame "You suck!" or "That bites!" joke. Suckers. The ultimate Idiots vs. Phony Vampires extravaganza!

Each chapbook is side-sewn and has a full graphic wraparound cover and measures 4 1/2 inches x 6 1/4 inches

Matching numbered set of all 6 titles