Burning Effigy Press

It's been a big year for Burning Effigy with the release of our first horror perfect-bound, Ian Rogers' SuperNOIRtural Tales. I just wanted to take a quick moment to thank each and every one of you for your support, whether it's been buying books, coming out to our events or simply liking us on Facebook and retweeting our announcements. In the small press world every bit counts, and we couldn't keep doing this without you. So from all of us, we wish all of you the best during this holiday season, no matter what you celebrate, and look forward to sharing more scary stories with you in 2013. Thank you, and Merry Merry!

For those who pre-ordered Ian Rogers' SuperNOIRtural Tales, the books shipped out last Monday and should be hitting your mailboxes soon, if they haven't already.

For everyone else: SuperNOIRtural Tales is in stock at the Burning Effigy online shoppe. Order your copy today!

And be sure to join us this Friday at 8:00pm at the Victory Cafe (581 Markham St) in Toronto for the SuperNOIRtural Launch Party. Eats, authors, an opportunity to buy SuperNOIRtural Tales (and get it signed!), as well as other Burning Effigy titles. Just because Halloween is over for another year, doesn't mean it's time to put away the spooky stories! Come celebrate the launch of Burning Effigy's inaugural horror paperback with us!

SuperNOIRtural Tales

Coming this November...

Felix Renn is a private investigator in a supernatural world, an alternate reality where a dark dimension called The Black Lands co-exists alongside our own. Travelling to and from The Black Lands is dangerous — and illegal — but that doesn’t stop some of the creatures that reside there from crossing over into our world from time to time.

In this collection of stories, Felix encounters a variety of terrifying entities, including ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and the dreaded Black-Eyed Kids.

In a world where paranormal has become the norm, each new case may be his last.

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SuperNOIRtural Tales collects all of the Felix Renn stories published to date, as well as a brand-new 50,000-word novel called “The Brick.”

The book also features an introduction by Mike Carey, author of the Felix Castor novels and writer for the DC/Vertigo comic book series Lucifer, Hellblazer, and The Unwritten.

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Praise for the Felix Renn Series:

“Wry and stylishly bizarre… Felix Renn has entered the weird and wild urban fantasy front; I hope he’s on the job for years to come.” — Laird Barron, author of The Croning and Occultation

“…an evocation of the classic, hardboiled detective that skirts the edge of parody without ever falling into it.” — John Langan, author of House of Windows

“…a fast-paced entertaining story that gleefully mashes up all-things-supernatural with his hardboiled PI.” — Paul Tremblay, author of Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye

“…there’s a lot of shading to Renn — the humour, the regrets, the resourcefulness… the chilly isolation of the human soul is felt throughout… Truly, this is one of the most chilling horror stories I’ve read in years. Make that, that I’ve read period.” — Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown

“[Rogers] understands the rat-a-tat-tat language of the best noir, and uses it to explore the interpersonal relationships of his characters… Felix Renn has a lot of life in him, and a lot of distance to travel.” — Simon Strantzas, author of Nightingale Songs