Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold

Cover by Richard Kirk

This huge (nearly 30,000 words!) chapbook contains rare glimpses into CaitlÌn R. Kiernan's new novel, Threshold. Inside you'll find alternate openings, deleted chapters, nonfiction related to the novel, and short stories about the same characters, most of it unpublished.

Trilobite: the Writing of Threshold will contain:

• 1. Author's Foreword -- An essay on the writing of the book
• 2. Original Unused Prologue -- "... the dead and the moonstruck..."
• 3. Second Unused Prologue -- untitled
• 4. Original Chapter 4 -- "Dane" (completely excised from final ms.)
• 5. Excerpt from Original Chapter 1 -- untitled
• 6. Related Short Stories --
• "The Well of Stars and Shadow" -- A prequel, with Dancy as a small child in the Florida swamps. (previously published only online)
• "In The Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888)" -- Essentially, a pro-prologue to Threshold, in which Chance Matthews' great-grandfather discovers the thing under the mountain.
• 8. Author's Afterword -- An essay on the geology and paleontology of the area where Threshold is set -- Birmingham and Red Mountain.

Signed/limited to 500 copies, and comes with the Nyarlathotep: The Crawling Chaos CD, and sold out at the publisher

Lettered edition limited to 52 copies and sold out at the publisher