Witness a slender neck being circled by rough hands…
sharp metal violently stabbing and twisting… the
emerging viscous dark red liquid being guzzled greedily,
lingering on lips and teeth, followed by the laughter of
madness. And that’s just Iris and Panda at a wine
tasting! “Pass me the bottle, woman! We might as well KILL it…”

THE PANDA BOOK OF HORROR will make your fur stand on end.
Your blood AND your G&T will run ice cold.

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When Edward Malone discovers a peculiar yellow bottle
on the banks of an ancient South American river, it
takes the combined efforts of Professor Challenger,
the Manleigh Halt Irregulars and Señor 105 to keep
the contents safely under wraps. And that’s before
Miss Iris Wildthyme sticks her nose in…

Time for Miss Wildthyme and friends to investigate!

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From the Nile in the thirties to Texas in the seventies, from
spirit visions at the Little Big Horn (Casino, Bar and Grill) to
a potentially painful colonic in space, Iris and Panda are fresh
back from their holidays, knackered, skint and burned the colour
of a Bloody Mary. Thank God they can sit back now, tip the
sand out of their Crocs, sort through their photos and decide
which versions of their holiday stories they like best…

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pur·ple (pûrpl) n.

1. Any of a group of colours with a hue
between that of violet and red.
2. Cloth of a colour between violet and red,
formerly worn as a symbol of royalty or high office.
3. Imperial power; high rank: e.g
born to the purple.
4. In the Roman Catholic Church,
the rank or office of a cardinal or a bishop

And now 5. Those literary worlds visited
by Iris Wildthyme where the prose is as sensual, convoluted
and self-aggrandising as Iris herself…

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Imagine if Iris Wildthyme somehow found herself involved in a series of adventures prompted by David Bowie song titles. ‘Cracked Actor’, ‘Lady Grinning Soul’, ‘The Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family’…the stories really just write themselves!

Implausible, I know, but Iris is a law to herself and she, like everybody else, does like a bit of Bowie…six Iris stories linked by one magnificent pop star.

This volume of the Obverse Quarterly will be printed and dispatched in August 2012.

With one story from each of the first four Obverse Books’ Iris Wildthyme collections, this is the perfect low price sampler for any reader who thinks they may fancy catching up on the adventures of the transtemporal adventuress!

Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta – Cody Schell (from ‘Iris Wildthyme and The Celestial Omnibus’)
The Delightful Bag – Paul Magrs (from ‘The Panda Book of Horror’)
The Shape of Things – Stuart Douglas (from ‘Miss Wildthyme and Friends Investigate’)
Annabel Regina – George Mann (from ‘iris: Abroad’)

The Obverse Quarterly is a new venture in current small press publishing. Taking our cue from the New England Library paperbacks of the 1970s, Obverse Books are delighted to present a set of four paperback short story collections, available both by annual subscription and as single volumes, each covering an area of interest to the genre fiction fan. From horror to fantasy, science fiction to detective stories, and with brand new stories from the likes of Michael Moorcock, Conrad Williams and Paul Magrs The Obverse Quarterly has something fresh and unexpected for everyone!

This is a subscription to the first four editions of the Obverse Quarterly, guaranteeing you a copy of this limited edition run of Obverse books at a bargain price!

The first year’s subs comprises the following books:

1. Bite Sized Horror ed Johnny Mains
2. Senor 105 and the Elements of Danger – ed Cody Quijano-Schell
3. The Diamond Lens – Short Fiction of Fitz-James O’Brien
4. Zenith Lives! – ed Stuart Douglas

Book 1: Tales of the City, edited by Philip Purser-Hallard

Beyond the end of the universe exists a city the size of a galaxy, packed with every human being that ever lived, from the first Australopithecus to the last post-human, resurrected in a city in which nobody can die…or rather, that used to be the case.

The first ever “City of the Saved” short story collection, edited byt he man who created it for the Faction Paradox Book of the War.

Book 2:Lady Stardust, starring Iris Wildthyme and edited by Panda

Imagine if Iris Wildthyme somehow found herself involved in a series of adventures prompted by David Bowie song titles. ‘Cracked Actor’, ‘Lady Grinning Soul’, ‘The Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family’…

Implausible, I know, but Iris is a law to herself and she, like everybody else, does like a bit of Bowie…six Iris stories linked by one magnificent pop star.

Book 3: The Casebook of the Manleigh Halt Irregulars, edited by Phil Craggs

First seen in Paul Magrs’ ‘The Delightful Bag’, then re-visited in Nick Wallace’s novella ‘The Irredeemable Love’, the Irregulars – Wilson, Whitney, Dogberry and Miss Clarissa Miller – return for a third time, traversing Earth’s more recent history in their very own Police station – until they come across a most unexpected future England!

Book 4: The Obverse Book of Detectives, edited by Stuart Douglas

Brainy Holmes types and idiosyncratic Morses are all very well, but what about those detectives on the very fringes of acceptable fiction? What price the stone age detective and the one based on Eastenders’ actress Anita Dobson and hger beau, Queen guitarist Brian May? How about the Dog Detective or that crime fighting duo, Dougie Camfield and George Spenton-Foster? Well, we can’t promise any of those exactly (though you never know!) but we can promise six brand spanking new detectives, created by six authors from the more…ahem…odd end of the spectrum!

Senor 105, masked Mexican wrestler and fighter of evil and infamy returns in his own collection, edited by 105 creator Cody Quijano-Schell!

Señor 105 contra el Bigote de Perdición – Lawrence Burton
Mechaluchador vs Iguanadios – Jonathan Dennis
Are you Loathsome tonight? – Blair Bidmead
Jackalope – Cody Quijano-SchellThe Anti-element – Julio Angel Ortiz
There and Back Again – Niamh Petit
Glyph – Joe Curreri

One of the very earliest science fiction authors, whose work has not been in print since 1929, Fitz-James O’Brien was an Irish writer of poetry, plays and short stories who fought in the American Civil War and was killed in battle in 1862. His imaginative and often surreal fantasies have rightly been described as one of the earliest forerunners of modern science fiction.

For much of the first half of the twentieth century, the detective Sexton Blake appeared to be a cross between Sherlock Holmes and James Bond, as he foiled super-villains and evil geniuses time and again in the pages of boys comics. Foremost amongst those villains was Zenith the Albino, an opera cloaked gentleman with a taste for danger and excitement and little thought for personal safety. Obverse Books is proud to present new Zenith adventures from some of Blake’s biggest and best known fans!

With new Zenith stories from Michael Moorcock, Paul Magrs, George Mann, Mark Hodder and Stuart Douglas.

PLEASE NOTE – THIS IS AN EPUB & MOBI DOWNLOAD OF
ZENITH LIVES (BOTH FILE TYPES SUPPLIED)

Edited by Phil Craggs

First seen in Paul Magrs’ ‘The Delightful Bag’, then re-visited in Nick Wallace’s novella ‘The Irredeemable Love’, the Irregulars – Wilson, Whitney, Dogberry and Miss Clarissa Miller – return for a third time, traversing Earth’s more recent history in their very own Police station – until they come across a most unexpected future England!

With new stories from

Nick Mellish
Eddie Robson
Matt Kimpton
and Kasey Szavai

amongst others!

With a projected publication date of 01 November 2012.

Brainy Holmes types and idiosyncratic Morses are all very well, but what about those detectives on the very fringes of acceptable fiction? What price the stone age detective and the one based on Eastenders’ actress Anita Dobson and her beau, Queen guitarist Brian May? How about the Dog Detective or that crime fighting duo, Dougie Camfield and George Spenton-Foster? Well, we can’t promise any of those exactly (though you never know!) but we can promise six brand spanking new detectives, created by six authors from the more…ahem…odd end of the spectrum!

Edited by Stuart Douglas, with a projected publication date of 01 February 2013.