Dear MySpace friends of Philip José Farmer:
The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert is now available for preorder from Subterranean Press and Amazon.com.
From the publisher:
The Evil in Pemberley House
By Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert
(preorder--to be published in September)
Dust jacket by Glen Orbik
Trade: $40
ISBN: 978-1-59606-249-8
Limited: $60
Length: 216 pages
For over thirty years, readers have marveled at Philip José Farmer’s
inventive integration of popular fiction and literature’s most beloved
characters, in a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First
described in the fictional biographies Tarzan Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer expanded his Wold Newton mythos in novels such as The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Time’s
Last Gift, Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, The Dark Heart of
Time: A Tarzan Novel, and Escape from Loki: Doc Savage’s First Adventure.
The Evil in Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton
cycle, plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the
daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s
and ’40s, Dr. James Clarke “Doc” Wildman, is all alone in the world
when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England—old, dark,
and supposedly haunted.
But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the
ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates an
introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural
with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work
through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the action
at Pemberley from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and ingrains the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Evil in Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with
broad appeal to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly
followers of Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer’s own
celebrated Wold Newton Family.
The Limited Edition of The Evil in Pemberley House will come
with an exclusive chapbook of bonus materials that includes Philip Jose
Farmer’s original outline for the novel, as well as an extensive family
tree for the Wold Newton Universe.
Limited: 200 numbered copies, signed by Win Scott Eckert, with bonus chapbook
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition
Preorder now from www.subterraneanpress.com or Amazon.