Win a copy of The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner, Volume Two, from Haffner Press!
Contests! We love contests. It’s because we love to give you things, just like Santa Claus.
In this case, it’s something you really, really want: the latest archival quality hardcover from Haffner Press, The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner, Volume Two, a massive collection of 30 early weird fantasy tales by Henry Kuttner. Here in the Black Gate offices we’ve been awaiting this gorgeous book for a long, long time. We first gave you a sneak peek back in April 2015.
The Watcher at the Door is the second volume in a three-volume “Early Kuttner” set collecting many of Kuttner’s earliest stories, most of which have never been reprinted. The first volume, Terror in the House, was released way back in 2010.
We have two copies of this beautiful hardcover to gave away. How do you win one? Now pay attention, this is the fun part. You must submit the title of an imaginary weird fantasy story. The most compelling titles — as selected by a crack team of Black Gate judges — will be entered into the drawing. We’ll draw two names from that list, and the two winners will receive a free copy of The Watcher at the Door, complements of Haffner Press and Black Gate magazine. Here are the titles of some of the stories in this book, to give you a little inspiration:
“We Are the Dead,” Weird Tales, Apr ’37
“The Curse of the Crocodile,” Strange Stories, Aug ’39
“Corpse Castle,” Thrilling Mystery, Nov ’39
“When New York Vanished,” Startling Stories, Mar ’40
“The Room of Souls,” Strange Stories, Jun ’40
How hard is that? One submission per person, please. Winners will be contacted by e-mail, so use a real e-mail address maybe. All submissions must be sent to john@blackgate.com, with the subject line The Watcher at the Door, or something obvious like that so I don’t randomly delete it.
All entries become the property of New Epoch Press. No purchase necessary. Must be 12 or older. Decisions of the judges (capricious as they may be) are final. Employees of New Epoch Press are ineligible to enter (wait, seriously? Curses!) Sorry, US only. Not valid where prohibited by law.
Our recent coverage of Henry Kuttner includes:
A Neglected Master: The Best of Henry Kuttner by James McGlothlin
Vintage Treasures: Earth’s Last Citadel by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner
Fantasy Face-Off: Henry Kuttner’s Elak of Atlantis vs. Robert E Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian
The Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner’s “The Graveyard Rats”
Henry Kuttner’s Thunder in the Void
Black Gate Contest: The Best One-Sentence Reviews of Henry Kuttner
Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One
More Haffner Goodness: Detour to Otherness
Robots Have Tales: Henry Kuttner’s Gallagher Stories
The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner, Volume Two is 700 pages in high-quality hardcover format, with an introduction by Dr. Garyn G. Roberts and a foreword by Robert A. Madle. It is edited by Stephen Haffner, and was published October 28, 2016. The cover price is $45. Cover art is by Jon Arfstrom.
It is available directly from Haffner Press.
Not entering but my favorite title of this type is Ramsay Campbell’s The Doll who ate his mother. It is a terrific book too.
I read The Doll Who Ate His Mother. Overall, I didn’t think the book was successful as a horror novel (I have issues with horror at the novel length). But the end of Campbell’s first chapter is one of the most chilling things I’ve ever read. A most successful hook!