Congratulations to Underland Press

Congratulations to Portland’s newest publisher of the new weird and dark fantasy, Underland Press.  Underland’s first published title, Last Days, was chosen Best Horror Novel of 2009 by the American Library Association.  Underland’s second title, Pilo Family Circus, was also shortlisted for the prize.

Brian Evenson’s Last Days is “a down-the-rabbit-hole detective novel set in an underground religious cult,” starring Kline, a gumshoe who finds himself strong-armed into solving a murder mystery within the secret society.  All that and an introduction by Peter Straub.  You can download a free excerpt here.

Will Elliott’s Pilo Family Circus comes with an introduction by Katherine Dunn, and dips into the dark, chaotic world of a circus that straddles the border between hell and earth.  If you’re not already afraid of clowns, you will be after reading this.