10p045: Announcing the 2024 Tenebrous Book Club Subscription!
I’m standing on a ledge and your fine spider web is fastening my ankle to a stone
Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult!
It’s a tense world right now, and the holidays only tend to exacerbate it. Whether you’re spending your time with loved ones in celebration, or by burying them in shallow graves in the woods, we’re flattered that you’re carving out our eyes a couple minutes for us as well.
We won’t keep you long. Just a couple brief announcements:
ONE HAND TO HOLD, ONE HAND TO CARVE wins the Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel
Congrats to M.Shaw on this incredible win at BizarroCon last weekend!
We put our blood and sweat into every single Tenebrous release, but there’s no denying that ONE HAND… holds an extra special place in both Alex and my hearts. It was our first single-author release, and the one where the vision for what we wanted this press to mean fully crystallized. M.Shaw’s win is a validation for Weird, envelope-pushing Horror that delivers both Pulpy chills and unapologetically intelligent grace. “Proud” doesn’t begin to sum it up.
To celebrate, ONE HAND TO HOLD, ONE HAND TO CARVE is on sale at our webstore for the rest of November! Save almost 30% on print copies, and eBooks are half off. If you haven’t given this bold novella a spin yet, well, now you’ve got no excuse.
About ONE HAND TO HOLD, ONE HAND TO CARVE:
Two halves of a human cadaver awaken on a cold morgue slab. The two distinct personalities, Left and Right, remember nothing of their previous life as a singular body. Bound by necessity to carve out an existence on the fringes of society, the two brothers have very different ideas of the life they want. Their impending schism will lead each on his own frightening path; one forward to a new life, one backward to the origin of their struggle.
ONE HAND TO HOLD, ONE HAND TO CARVE is a surreal Body Horror journey that redefines familial bonds and what it means to be an individual.
OK, a bunch of our regulars have been asking for this for a while now:
Announcing the 2024 TENEBROUS BOOK CLUB SUBSCRIPTION
We’re happy to announce that we’ve (mostly) gotten our shit together and are offering subscriptions for all EIGHT scheduled Tenebrous book releases next year!
Subscribers to the book club will save almost 20% off the price of buying the books individually; there are no additional shipping fees; and you’ll get an exclusively designed t-shirt or tank top that won’t be made available anywhere else!
So what’s on tap for 2024 from Tenebrous?
Brave New Weird - The Best New Weird Horror Vol. Two (due February)
Mouth - a novella by Joshua Hull (due March)
From the Belly - a novel by Emmett Nahil (due April)
Split Scream Volume 5 - two novelettes, authors TBA (due June)
Trve Cvlt - a New Weird Horror Gamebook (?! More info on this unique, super-rad project coming very soon) by Michael Bettendorf (due August)
Unannounced collection (due September)
A Spectre is Haunting Greentree - a novella by Carson Winter (due October)
Split Scream Volume 6 - two novelettes, authors TBA (due November)
Plus the aforementioned exclusive shirt, available only through this sub, and all the unique stickers, bookmarks and swag we conjure up over the course of the year.
(Release months are approximate and not final. Any changes in titles or release schedule will be sent via email to subscribers.)***
***Non-U.S. Residents: we pondered not making this subscription option available worldwide, but at the end of the day we want all our amazing readers to have access to what we do. So:
Non-U.S. subscribers will receive all books and exclusive shirt as scheduled, and will receive 1-2 deliveries throughout the year of bookmarks, stickers and whatever other cool shit we come up with. Those just might not arrive at the same time.***
As always, Tenebrous eBooks are included free with the purchase of our print books.
Speaking of eBooks: if that’s your preferred reading experience, we’ve got your subscription hookup too! And you’ll save almost 25% from buying them individually:
We just released THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM this past Tuesday, and our final release of 2023, Anthony Engebretson’s Eco-Horror-Noir oddity, LUMBERJACK, is due out next week!
Both of those are available at our webstore as well.
That’s a lot of product-slinging this week, I realize. Sorry ‘bout that; we’re just excited about all the cool shit we’ve got queued up.
We’ll actually be back next week with some more measured, nuanced thoughts, from both Alex and myself, about that old publishing chestnut that never seems to go out of style: ethical dilemmas.
Until then: be kind to yourself. Take a walk. Find a small moment to do something good for only you. Hex an enemy. Whatever it takes to drag your shambling corpse from one day to the next.
You are loved.
Hail Indie Horror.
Hail that sweet, sweet subscription money raining down upon our heads.
Hail the Tenebrous Cult.
Matt & Alex