Rogue Planet Press

21/07/2024

09/07/2024

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/122707

08/07/2024

Laird Barron. Conan novel. Yes, Laird Barron. Yes, Conan novel.

Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more...

01/07/2024

Here are the first three pages of the 'Popovka' strip by Tomislav Takac that is appearing exclusively in the print and ebook versions of this month's edition.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schlock-Webzine-18-Issue-9-ebook/dp/B0D879YLNP/ref=sr_1_2?crid=AO1151AYXU41&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-6VC_CSzZc_kkhch1e__TRKiBIOvrmWPELRELJwl78P4ZJEPTjq0MUKDtNsn2DnJcbnFQ0wN5Rc2LRPzz8qsW4bcNZ1WKpH9_F7G-K9WwuQFxElckuMvnnhEeGWtGfptw55i7gHfAPhLqD2pNETu4y3Mh0V6gcRpduw4oNd93DGQVzSO_gw_oPfGiJ66u9YBZRczr8mfOTk-YXEZS762ptKD6dTIRJ0rEs0fgRjkKzA.i1kfyFU-UySn8avG57UUi31r2RaTiVYn1Rjmp1HAqSA&dib_tag=se&keywords=schlock+webzine&qid=1719822903&sprefix=schlock%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-2

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30/06/2024

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brazkovalsky/the-cimmerian-in-the-lost-lands-of-chtulhu?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=The%20cimmerian

Hard boiled Comic based on Conan. Story by Braz Kowalsky, Drawing by Angelo Russo. Edited by Closure Comics Collective.

08/06/2024

In which Mr Joshi reveals an exclusive: his first new short story within memory. And three guesses guess what magazine it will be appearing in...

I am obliged to begin this blog post on a sad note. The great Lovecraft scholar Robert H. Waugh died on April 13. Here is an obituary from the funeral home handling Waugh’s funeral: https://www.copelandhammerl.com/obituaries/Robert-H-Waugh?obId=31194353. I had been acquainted with Waugh since at l...

24/05/2024

Mythic tales, legends and lore are part of every human culture. From the quests of Greek myth, to China's Journey to the West, from India's Mahabharata to the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf, our histories resound with the clang of swords, and the struggle of heroes and heroines against dark forces and foul sorcery.

In the 20th century, Robert E Howard, among others, pioneered modern mythologies which have become known as Sword and Sorcery. This anthology continues that tradition, with eleven new sizzling S&S tales from the pens of the Innsmouth Writing Circle.

The yarns within feature a cast of lucky thieves, avenging barbarians, bold swordswomen, and temple plunderers, not to mention sorcerers, necromancers, priests and a range of horrors that would freeze the blood of all but the bravest warrior.

So don your chain mail shirt, hoist high your battle-axe, let loose a war cry, and join us in the days of High Adventure....

Feast of Fools and Other Tales

24/05/2024

London - truly one of the greatest cities in the world, with a history that spans thousands of years. Yet with its origins lost in the mists of myth and legend, London presents an enigma. For while it remains a vibrant, bustling metropolis, a centre of science, art, politics and innovation, it also has a darker side. An occult tradition that ranges from King Brutus of the Trojans, through Dee and Kelly, to Blake, the Theosophists, perhaps even the Ripper, and beyond.

Here are gathered nine new novelettes of weird and Lovecraftian London. From the days of Roman ruins, to its heyday as Heart of the Empire. From the terror of the Blitz, to psychedelic Swinging London. And all the way up to the present day, where the fog-shrouded past may still reach out and tap you on the shoulder...

The Eye of Jupiter - B Harlan Crawford

Frostfall - Tim Mendees

The Song from the Statue - Simon Bleaken

Cell 34- A.D. Radford

When Shadows Creep - Robert Poyton

Whispered Cadences of Sweet Delirium -Lee Clark Zumpe

Rag and Bone - David Cartwright

Shadows and Echoes - Gavin Chappell

The Piercer of the Veils - John Houlihan

448 pages, illustrated

When Shadows Creep

18/05/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cycMzekjYE

00:00 Rebel in the Rain02:40 Warriors of Synth06:18 Mushroom Soup (Part 1)08:00 Odin's Brew09:55 Mushroom Soup (Part 2)11:42 Brotna Mjölnir (The Broken Mjoln...

30/04/2024

It's May Eve. It's Beltane. It's the Eve of St Walpurgis.... or just plain old Walpurgisnacht. Tonight the wolves howl, the graveyards open, and sheeted spectres gibber in horror at the foul, blasphemous poems, short stories and art contained within these unhallowed pages... Read them who dares! ...

28/04/2024

Coming soon....

25/04/2024

https://www.amazon.com/Strigorovs-Forest-Tomislav-Takac/dp/1665716398/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ABX4G8TDWYO2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lvzNq8RpAjze62YPKHfEsw.zHyLKFeNfrR0YsHqGME7tS1lj4R__w4FIBq_rFAuAPM&dib_tag=se&keywords=strigorov%27s%20forest&qid=1714038641&s=books&sprefix=strigorov%27s%20forest%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C322&sr=1-1-catcorr

Strigorov’s Forest

10/04/2024

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

15/03/2024

Forty years ago...

Original Source - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdLzNSV3bK4Doctor Who Upscale Project Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/user/posts?u=9069743Episodes are Fr...

10/03/2024

10/03/2024

Submissions call:

“Exomoons–

Natural, and Unnatural, Astronomical Bodies Orbiting Strange Planets”

A Sci-Fi/Horror/Grimdark Anthology

Deadline: until full (probably within the end of this Summer…)

Payment:Exposure and Royalties

Short stories up to 7,000 words; Longer stories will also be considered.

Reprints: just in some restricted, limited cases, as long as you hold the rights.

“Many are the mysteries that have surrounded the Moon since the most ancient times, but there are – probably…- just billions of exomoons out there, past the boundary of our small Solar System. Exomoons are difficult to detect, given our present technology, and to date there have been no confirmed exomoon detections. However, observations from missions such as Kepler have observed something that might be reputed to be an exomoon. So, we all know about exoplanets that were discovered, more and more, year by year, thanks to the defunct Kepler space telescope, and today thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, to mention just two. But what about exomoons? Those still-unknown satellites orbiting exoplanets or other non-stellar extrasolar bodies are really difficult to find using current techniques. But what about them in the future? Were they born from the same matter the exoplanet they are orbiting is made of, like Earth’s Moon, or were they built (like the Death Star in Star Wars™) by some lifeforms or brought there by some alien species? And could those unknown exomoons support life, maybe even intelligent life? More than that, as Earth's Moon proved to be important in shaping life as we know it, because without it to stabilize our planet, its wobble would become erratic and extreme, what about exomoons and the many aliens they might have helped in developing and creating their strange civilizations elsewhere?”

Think of alien exomoons where once life was present and whose archaeological remains today have become the valuable prey of plunderers from space. What about moons that are bigger than Earth’s size, on which lifeforms are present, though orbiting a gas giant that doesn’t give them light, and warmth, the same as our Sun does. And what happened to exomoons partly damaged by something that apparently almost turned them into pieces of shapeless rocks in outer space? Are those exomoons full of surprises, or just as dead as our Moon is? Have some alien species visited them, or do they plan on doing it in the next future maybe?



Submission guidelines: Please include your name, address, e-mail address, the title of your story and its word count in your covering e-mail. Please submit your manuscript as a *.rtf or *.doc file (all other formats will automatically be rejected. Contact us prior to submitting if this presents an issue for you.).

Font and formatting: Please submit in Times New Roman, 12 point font; single line spacing. Please indent the first line of each paragraph half an inch. The page margin should be set to one inch on all sides.

No headers, footers or page numbers.

Please check spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

Upon acceptance into the Anthology, we ask that Horrified Press holds exclusive publishing rights for one year from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Horrified Press retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted Anthology.

This title will be available as an e-book and trade quality paperback.

Sergio “ente per ente” Palumbo and Curtis Manges will be presiding over this Anthology as Editors.

The title will be published by Rogue Planet Press, an Imprint of Horrified Press, under the supervision of Gavin Chappell.

Email your submission as an attachment to: associazione (AT) lacenturia.it

The email subject line must read “SUBMISSION — Exomoons – ‘your story title’” or your submission will not be considered for this Anthology.

Successful applicants will be notified before the deadline has expired, or as soon as possible. Each submission must be a discrete stand-alone story. Each author can send up to 4 entries overall for evaluation (this doesn’t mean that all of them will be accepted, of course).

Cover ( and Back-cover) Art: by Italian artist Sara Dellacasa.

There may well be some beautiful Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror themed black and white illustrations lurking on the inside as well, art by comics artists Davide “Atog” Marescotti, Sara Dellacasa and Rossana Berretta.



Here’s, as follows, one of the images that will be included in the Anthology, by Sara DELLACASA.

01/03/2024

THIS MONTH’S EDITION begins with another gripping instalment of A Prequel with the Challenger, followed by our usual round-up of news from the publishing world. Next, a man makes a Faustian pact with God. Fatty Millstone has a heart-to-heart with the reporter Crenshaw. That's followed by a brutal tale of revenge. Cops investigate the paranormal. A thief fights his way through a sorcerer's tower. And a reality TV start meets a gory comeuppance.

A group of people explore a haunted tunnel. A man returns to a house where his brother drowned. Space travellers run into a communications problem. We hear the shocking story of a medieval manuscript. Voices from the past are put up on sale. A farmer directs a girl across a bizarre landscape. Love is unlimited in an android future. And we review Scott Oden's Conan story, The Shadow of Vengeance.

schlock.co.uk

27/02/2024

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/innsmouthgold/when-shadows-creep/posts

04/02/2024

https://archive.org/details/perry-rhodan/Perry%20Rhodan%20001%20-%20Enterprise%20Stardust%20-%20K.%20H.%20Scheer/

01/02/2024

Candlemas is upon us! But beyond the nimbus of candlelight, in the outer darkness, weird things are afoot. And the weirdest of all is the latest edition of Lovecraftiana--the Magazine of Eldritch Horror! Featuring stories, poems and art by: Toe Keen Jim Pitts Bartek Kucharski Adam Newnham Don Web...

31/01/2024

Coming even sooner than Lovecraftiana: the Magazine of Eldritch Horror

31/01/2024

Coming soon. Very, very soon. Watch out. It bites.

29/01/2024

It's looking a lot like the new issue won't be appearing on the website next month. Doteasy.com, Schlock's website provider, has just modified its own site beyond recognition, having apparently removed any way to update the site.

How long it will be taking to sort this out we can't say. The chances of us remaining with Doteasy.com even if it can be sorted out in time for next month are slim. In the meantime, the next edition will be available on Amazon in eBook and magazine formats by the start of February.

22/01/2024

https://davidjohnbutler.com/giveaways/jan-2024-five-books-giveaway/?lucky=23223

SIX WRITERS are banding together to bring you a giveaway of FIVE SIGNED SFF NOVELS. This drawing will have five winners, and each winner will receive: A copy of MONSTER HUNTER MEMOIRS: FEVER, signed by Larry Correia and Jason Cordova, A copy of THE CITY OF MARBLE AND BLOOD, signed by Howard Andrew J...

24/12/2023

Free ebooks now available from Rogue Planet Press: Sword-swinging fantasy and steampunk sagas... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brutal-Blades-Rogue-Planet-Press-ebook/dp/B0CQK19WJ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AN3GKK50WE8O&keywords=brutal+blades&qid=1703408622&sprefix=brutal+blades%2Caps%2C113&sr=8-1

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22/12/2023

Think of what we know about Dickensian times, the 1800s, the industries, the political and social life and new struggles of that historical period, and so on. And now think of what might have happened instead, over the course of some very unusual 1800s, in a very different world, and what we don’t know about that!

A world at the time of the first steam engines, full of Victorian intrigues—when the first horseless carriages and many other incredible machines of creation appeared—that wasn’t a safe place nor a simple place…

England, other than Europe and the whole world was a dangerous place those years, crowded with strange individuals and bloody mercenaries known for their dark reputation; maybe some of them weren’t even exactly human, or from that same reality, and stumbling into them might quickly turn your life into a sequence of unusual adventures and change you forever while they tried to use your skills for their own ends, indeed.…

An Anthology of International Urban Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short Stories

by
Sergio Palumbo
Curtis Manges
John David Rose
Sara Dellacasa
Davide Marescotti
Rossana Berretta
R. Morlocke
Carlton Herzog
Ernesto Canepa
Michele Dutcher
Randolph Stuart
M. S. Swift
E. W. Farnsworth
Ivan ‘BearOld’ Bertazzoni
Cynthia Morrison
Karen Bayly
E. W. Farnsworth
Alessandro ‘AleckMcroy’ Loi
Geoff Nelder
R.J. Ren
John A. DeLaughter
Rhys Hughes
Gareth D. Jones

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CQRKTJNL
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQRKTJNL

10/08/2023

The other day, I receive my copy of Eldritch Investigations. Five hundred pages of occult detectives and two-fisted gumshoes sparring with the horrors of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Including stories by Glynn Owen Bar...

09/08/2023

Ebook free for the next five days!
Written over the span of three decades, these sword and sorcery tales will transport the reader to a glittering panoply of strange worlds: a wizard struggles to escape the dictates of fate; a thief plots a grand heist beneath the light of two moons; a Stone Age savage learns the riddle of metallurgy; temple robbers flee the authorities in a city of thieves; day labourers uncover horror in the labyrinth beneath the tower of a dead wizard; a viking shieldmaiden seeks a gory vengeance; alchemical secrets are gained at vast cost; a fugitive king learns the shocking secret of the lost valley; a loyal Amazon discovers the true nature of her liege lord; naive treasure seekers confront were-drakes in an Arctic island; and a perfect, gentle knight grows up at last.

Written over the span of three decades, these sword and sorcery tales will transport the reader to a glittering panoply of strange worlds: a wizard struggles to escape the dictates of fate; a thief plots a grand heist beneath the light of two moons; a Stone Age savage learns the riddle of metallu...

03/08/2023

The Caves of Mars

31/07/2023

It's Lammas Eve, and what's that cacophonic convocation of harpies and horrors? It can only be the latest edition of Lovecraftiana: the Magazine of Eldritch Horror! Featuring stories, poems and art by: Jim Pitts Pietro Rotelli M Stern Tony Daly Brian Barnett Matthew Wilson Lamont Turner Carlton H...