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Lividian Publications is proud to announce North of Fear: An Anthology of Cold-Blooded Canadian Horror, edited by Steve Vernon, our first project produced entirely in Canada and featuring an all-star Canadian table of contents.
Contributors include Colleen Anderson, Kelley Armstrong, Sean Costello, Charles de Lint, Terri Favro, A.P. Fuchs, Sèphera Girón, Mark Leslie, Helen Marshall, William Meikle, David Nickle, Rhonda Parrish, Douglas Smith, Steve Stred, Edo Van Belkom, and Bev Vincent.
This special edition features exclusive wrap-around dust jacket artwork and sixteen interior illustrations by François Vaillancourt, along with our distinctive slipcase design with the custom die-cut window, making this production a true work of art.
Retail Price: $125
Publication Date: Spring 2027
Page Count: 354 pages
Status: Forthcoming: at the printer now!
Deluxe Production Features:
• Full-color wrap-around artwork by François Vaillancourt
• Sixteen black and white interior illustrations by François Vaillancourt
• Offset printed on an acid-free archival quality paper stock
• A fine cloth binding
• Hot foil stamping on the front cover and spine
• Smyth-sewn to create a more durable binding
• Twine head and tail bands
• High-quality endpapers
• Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker
• Custom-made slipcase stamped with hot foil and featuring a unique die-cut window
• Limited to 600 copies signed by Steve Vernon, François Vaillancourt, Bev Vincent, Colleen Anderson, Steve Stred, Rhonda Parrish, A.P. Fuchs, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Edo van Belkom, David Nickle, Sèphera Girón, and Charles de Lint.
About the Book:
Canada is a land of deep forests, frozen lakes, lonely roads, and long winter nights. A place where the dark arrives early, the cold bites hard, and every shadow seems to have teeth.
Edited by Steve Vernon, North of Fear features an all-Canadian lineup of authors gathered together to explore the terrors waiting beyond the porch light. These are stories of haunted places, strange encounters, buried secrets, winter dread, folklore, monsters, ghosts, and the old fears that come creeping back when the wind rises and the temperature drops.
Bundle up and listen carefully to whatever is moving outside. There is something out there in the dark and cold. And when you travel north, fear leaves tracks in the snow…
Table of Contents:
“Many Worlds Are Born Tonight” by Charles de Lint
“Absinthe & Angels” by Kelley Armstrong
“The Songs of My People” by William Meikle
“Nobody Here But Us Chickens” by Mark Leslie
“It Came From The Mountains” by Rhonda Parrish
“Dread of Winter” by Terri Favro
“By Her Hand, She Draws You Down” by Douglas Smith
“Writer’s Block” by Sean Costello
“Wrath of God” by Edo Van Belkom
“Them Skeleton Trees” by A.P. Fuchs
“Urban Legends” by Sèphera Girón
“Hanged If You Do” by Colleen Anderson
“Penny Farthing Dreadful” by Steve Vernon
“The Comic” by Steve Stred
“The Ghostly Illumination” by David Nickle
“The Mansion In The Woods” by Bev Vincent
“Survival Strategies” by Helen Marshall
Reviews:
To Come…
About the Editor:
Steve Vernon’s stories have appeared in Cemetery Dance, Apex, The Horror Show, Flesh & Blood, Hot Blood 13, Shivers 5, Horror Garage, Dark Discoveries, Shroud, and many other collections. He has written ten books for Nova Scotia’s Nimbus Publishing (Haunted Harbours, Wicked Woods, Halifax Haunts, Maritime Murder, More Maritime Murder, Where the Ghosts Are, and others). His children’s picture book, Maritime Monsters, has sold thousands of copies. Besides that, he has sold more than a hundred short horror stories. In addition to being a very prolific writer, he is a proficient oral storyteller, performing for audiences of five to five thousand. He currently lives in his home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his loving wife, and two attack-trained (when the mood strikes them) black cats.