Underland Press
Underland Press is a publishing company owned by Victoria Blake. Victoria Blake is a writer and the former prose editor for Dark Horse Comics.
Current debut authors for Underland Press include: Bram Stoker Award winner Kealan Patrick Burke, Edgar Award and International Horror Guild Award nominee Brian Evenson, Two-time World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer, multiple award winner Will Elliott, and husband and wife writing team Berry Verhoef and Esther Verhoef writng as "EScoBER".
Will Elliott's novel The Pilo Family Circus is scheduled to make its North American debut in 2009 through Underland Press. It was originally published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC fiction award (sponsored by ABC Books). The novel went on to win the Aurealis Award (co-winner: Best Horror novel, plus the Golden Aurealis Award) , the Australian Shadows Award , the Ditmar Award (Best Novel) , and the Sydney Morning Herald's "Best Young Novelist Award" for 2007. The Pilo Family Circus was also short-listed for the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel.
Kealan Patrick Burke's online-only interactive Wovel, The Living debuted June 1, 2008 on the official Underland Press website.
Releases
- Last Days, by Brian Evenson (scheduled Winter, 2009)
- The Pilo Family Circus, by Will Elliott (scheduled Winter, 2009)
- Finch, by Jeff VanderMeer
- Chaos, by EScoBER
Wovels
- The Living, a Wovel by Kealan Patrick Burke (June, 2008 - October 2008)
- FirstWorld, a Wovel by Jemiah Jefferson (November 2008 - current)