July Publications

Best known for his crime fiction, Shamus-winner Ed Gorman (Breaking Up Is Hard to Do) shows he can also spin a strong suspense story with a horror or SF edge in Different Kinds of Dead and Other Tales. Agent, Tekno Books. (Five Star, $25.95 320p ISBN 1-59414-213-0)

Charles de Lint fans will welcome The Hour Before Dawn and Two Other Stories from Newford by this World Fantasy Award—winning author. Agent, Russ Galen. (Subterranean [subterraneanpress.com], $35 114p ISBN 1-59606-027-1)

Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume Two, edited by Stanley Wiater, gathers 30 tales by America's master of the macabre along with tributes by Jack Finney and George Clayton Johnson. (Edge [www.gauntletpress.com], $16.95 paper 452p ISBN 1-887368-79-5)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's seminal 1871 SF novel, The Coming Race, edited with an introduction by British scholar David Seed, recounts the adventures of an Englishman in an underground world inhabited by a race of advanced beings. (Wesleyan Univ., $34.95 280p ISBN 0-8195-6749-3)