The Orphan Palace: A Road Trip to Madness
Three months have passed since our last release, Jeanette, but there are three more books to come from Chômu in 2011, and today the first of them, The Orphan Palace, by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., (also featuring fabulous cover art from Peter Diamond) is finally released. Hitch a ride to madness by picking up a [...]
Prize Draw Winners and General Update
Time has passed and there have been a number of Prize Draw winners since the results of the Man Who Collected Machen competition were announced. The most recent of these eminent winners is Eddie Jones of Wisconsin, who will soon be receiving a specially inscribed copy of Jeanette, by Joe Simpson Walker, with a custom-made [...]
Introducing Jeanette
July is here. Could this be the feel-good hit of the summer? Jeanette, by Joe Simpson Walker, is officially released today.
Here is the soundbite:
“Joe Simpson Walker is to kinky boots what William S. Burroughs was to junk.”
We feel confident in saying that you have not read anything like Jeanette before. It is a [...]
Update near the eve of the tenth Chômu release
This month, Chômu Press will release our tenth publication, Nemonymous Night, by D.F. Lewis (reviewed here), so we thought it was an appropriate time for a general update and some future forecasts.
We are proud of each of our releases and are gratified to know that our titles are now enlivening bookshelves and enriching readers’ [...]
Introducing the romanti-cynical world of Rhys Hughes
“Because I have experimented with so many different genres, styles and moods, not one of my individual books to date really provides a full overview of what I actually do. Link Arms With Toads! is different because it’s a fully representative sampler of my entire body of work and has been designed as a showcase [...]
The winning entry of the Machen competition
In March we announced a competition for a specially signed copy of The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels, inviting readers to decode the message written in an alien language on the book’s cover.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, the language has proved to be too strange and alien to yield up its [...]
Reminder – last day of the Great Lover prize draw
This is just to remind people that today is the last day on which they can enter the prize draw for the inscribed copy of The Great Lover. Details of the prize draw may be found here. Please remember that you must be on our mailing list in order to enter.
Dying to Read – Feltham, here we come!
And now for something completely different! In keeping with the Chômu mission to bring you works that are of the highest quality and (maybe not just) a little unusual, we are very pleased to present a murder mystery that is also something of a literary conundrum. Dying to Read, by John Elliott, is a crime [...]
Revenants and Polycrates – prize draw winners
The prize draw copy of Revenants, by Daniel Mills, has now been sent to the winner of the draw, Todd Treichel, who reports that he is thrilled with his luck, and very happy with the book. He has also kindly offered a message to readers of the website, that, “Chomu needs to be explored [...]
Discover the subterranean frontier of The Great Lover
Today we are proud to announce the release of a book that we know has been much anticipated – the sixth novel from International Horror Guild Award winner Michael Cisco, The Great Lover. A many-spired citadel of a novel, The Great Lover has its foundations in an underground of untamed vision, but its architecture is [...]
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