Underland Latest Horror Publisher

Posted by bob in News on August 13th, 2008

We’re always interested to hear when someone else dips their toes into the horror field.  Our friend, Victoria Blake, formerly of DH Books, sent us news of her newest venture, Underland Press.

“I started Underland with a vision of bringing the world’s best odd, scary, and unsettling fiction to life and to light,” Blake said in a release. “I wanted to make a publishing company that had as much presence online as it did in print. Both of those things have happened. Underland is now distributed by PGW, one of the industry’s heavy-hitters, which means our books will be available everywhere books are sold. The website has been getting a substantial amount of online attention for our wovel, or web novel, where readers vote on the plot choices in real time. People are taking notice.

“We have four print books scheduled for our first year-by alt-lit master Brian Evenson, by world-renowned fantasist Jeff VanderMeer, by rising star Will Elliott, and by the husband-and-wife team Escober. Our first books will be available in January.”

One of the innovations is to offer a chapter a week online at their website.  They nicknamed this a wovel beginning with Kealan Patrick Burke’s The Living.