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Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genre. Based in Burton, Michigan, Subterranean issues approximately 45 titles each year. Since it began in 1995, both the publisher and numerous works it has produced have been honored with accolades including the World Fantasy, Loc

us, Horror Writers Association, and Hugo awards. Among the authors Subterranean has worked with are Kelley Armstrong, Ted Chiang, N.K. Jemisin, Joe Lansdale, Stephen King, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tamsyn Muir, John Scalzi, and many more.

09/26/2025

Happy Friday! What are you reading this week? Feel free to share your pets too, as ever.

09/24/2025

Time to give away a PC copy of our recently announced (and in stock and shipping!) letterpress edition of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, one of science fiction’s most famous, and beloved, novellas. This edition features Illustrations by Henry McCausland.

To enter, comment below with your favorite film adaptation based on a science fiction story or novel. Open internationally, ends 10-1-25 at noon ET. Note: We will notify you how to contact us if you win; we will not ask you to click a link here (sometimes scammers find these posts).

More about the book and order your copy here now: https://subterraneanpress.com/chiang-soyl/

09/23/2025

SST Publications has announced the signed limited edition of Paul Tremblay’s Horror Movie, which may be his most lauded novel yet.

We’re only taking preorders for this title for a limited time, because we have to finalize our order with SST.

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A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.

In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick.

The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot.

The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions—demons of the past be damned.

But at what cost?

Horror Movie is an obsessive, psychologically chilling, and suspenseful feat of storytelling genius that builds inexorably to an unforgettable, mind-bending conclusion.

Signed Limited Hardcover Edition:

Limited to only 500 signed and hand-numbered copies
Personally signed by Paul Tremblay on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page
Larger 6.14” x 9.21” trim size
368 pages
Printed on a heavier 100gsm acid-free paper
Bound in premium cloth with coloured head and tail bands
Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
Offset printed and bound with full-colour endpapers
Sewn binding for increased durability
Ribbon page marker
Main dust jacket artwork by Vincent Sammy
Reverse dust jacket artwork by Daniele Serra
Featuring six interior illustrations by Vincent Sammy

Preorder: https://subterraneanpress.com/tremblay-hm-sst/

From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):

“Tremblay (The Beast You Are) raises the bar for the cursed film trope with a novel that cleverly breaks the fourth wall between imaginary horrors and their real-world repercussions… A shocking but perfectly planned twist at the story’s climax makes this one of the most exciting outings in the recent crop of fiction about horror movies.”

From Library Journal (Starred Review):

“Narrated with a sardonic tone and Gen-X sensibility, Tremblay’s (The Beast You Are) novel shifts between the filming of the original movie and of the present-day remake, sprinkled with excerpts from the films’ scripts. Unease and terror rapidly build in the book as readers learn details of what happened on the original set and how it threatens the present. The novel is as unsettling and gripping as a slasher while also managing to be funny and thoughtful.”

From Booklist (Starred Review):

“The result is a suspenseful story that is marked by its relentless unease and disturbing revelations about the characters, yes, but also about the readers themselves. An immersive reading experience that will forever alter the way those who encounter it watch horror movies.”

From Kirkus:

“A fever dream about despair and regret that will stay with you long after the credits have rolled.”

09/22/2025

We’re pleased to present a letterpress edition of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, one of science fiction’s most famous, and beloved, novellas.

Copies of the signed, limited edition are in stock and shipping!

What would it mean to know the future? At one level we already know the most important aspect of the future, in that we know that we are mortal; moreover, we know that as long as we're alive, we will experience both happiness and heartbreak. This awareness of what lies ahead of us is an essential aspect of being human. But how much more would we want to know?

Is there a limit to the amount of detail we could apprehend before it becomes more than we can bear? In this celebrated novella, the basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture Arrival, a woman finds herself confronting these questions in a way she never could have expected.

All Editions of Story of Your Life Feature:

Text and Signature pages were printed by DWRI Letterpress;
Two color printing on the signature pages;
Six full-color illustrations offset printed on 80 # Finch;
Text has been printed on Mohawk Superfine 100 # text with an eggshell finish.

The slipcase has two color stamping in a light green and black, matching the colors of the stamping on the book. The book and slipcase are both bound in Verona cloth, in different shades of green. The front features one of the heptapod aliens, a detail from one of the interior art pieces by Henry McCausland. The back of the slipcase is stamped in light green foil with the various [flutters] of the aliens’ language.

Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcovers, in slipcase: $175

Order: https://subterraneanpress.com/chiang-soyl/

Praise for the Ted Chiang:

“Chiang has mastered an extremely tricky type of SF story. He begins with a startling bit of oddity, then, as readers figure out what part of the familiar world has been twisted, they realize that it was just a small part of a much larger structure of marvelous, threatening strangeness.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Chiang writes seldom, but his almost unfathomably wonderful stories tick away with the precision of a Swiss watch—and explode in your awareness with shocking, devastating force.”

—Kirkus

09/19/2025

Happy Friday! This is the freshly groomed almost 11-year-old Izzy. What are you reading this week? Feel free to share your pets too, as always.

09/18/2025

Heads up! Open ordering for the signed letterpress edition of Ted Chiang's novella, Story of Your Life, begins next Monday, September 22, 2025, at 12:00 pm EDT.

Links to the book's product page will be live for everyone at that time.

The limited edition is in stock and ready to ship!

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We’re pleased to present a letterpress edition of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, one of science fiction’s most famous, and beloved, novellas.

What would it mean to know the future? At one level we already know the most important aspect of the future, in that we know that we are mortal; moreover, we know that as long as we're alive, we will experience both happiness and heartbreak. This awareness of what lies ahead of us is an essential aspect of being human. But how much more would we want to know?

Is there a limit to the amount of detail we could apprehend before it becomes more than we can bear? In this celebrated novella, the basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture Arrival, a woman finds herself confronting these questions in a way she never could have expected.

All Editions of Story of Your Life Feature:

Text and Signature pages were printed by DWRI Letterpress;
Two color printing on the signature pages;
Six full-color illustrations offset printed on 80 # Finch
Text has been printed on Mohawk Superfine 100 # text with an eggshell finish

The slipcase has two color stamping in a light green and black, matching the colors of the stamping on the book. The book and slipcase are both bound in Verona cloth, in different shades of green. The front features one of the heptapod aliens, a detail from one of the interior art pieces by Henry McCausland. The back of the slipcase is stamped in light green foil with the various [flutters] of the aliens’ language.

Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcovers, in slipcase: $175

Praise for the Ted Chiang:

“Chiang has mastered an extremely tricky type of SF story. He begins with a startling bit of oddity, then, as readers figure out what part of the familiar world has been twisted, they realize that it was just a small part of a much larger structure of marvelous, threatening strangeness.” — Publishers Weekly

“Chiang writes seldom, but his almost unfathomably wonderful stories tick away with the precision of a Swiss watch—and explode in your awareness with shocking, devastating force.” — Kirkus

09/18/2025

Our pal, John Scalzi stopped by the warehouse to sign copies of his new novel, The Shattering Peace. We finished the initial shipping wave, and have a healthy number of copies available for those who missed out.

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After a decade, acclaimed science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the galaxy of the Old Man's War series with the long awaited seventh book, The Shattering Peace.

THE PEACE IS SHATTERING

For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartate agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay, even when some would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times. For now, more sensible heads have prevailed—and have even championed unity.

But now, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war. This war is between Consu factions...but nothing the Consu ever do is just about them. The Colonial Union, the Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dragged into the conflict, in the most surprising of ways.

Gretchen Trujillo is a mid-level diplomat, working in an unimportant part of the Colonial Union bureaucracy. But when she is called to take part in a secret mission involving representatives from every powerful faction in space, what she finds there has the chance to redefine the destinies of humans and aliens alike...or destroy them forever.

Order: https://subterraneanpress.com/scalzi-tsp/

Library Journal (Starred Review): “Scalzi’s (When the Moon Hits Your Eye) legion of fans, who have been waiting for this book for a decade, won’t be disappointed by the latest installment in the long-running, groundbreaking, utterly epic ‘Old Man’s War’ series. Highly recommended for readers who love broad sweeping space operas and science fiction with a high quotient of dry humor and witty sarcasm.”

From Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review): “We need more books about smart people winning… Classic Scalzi space opera at its wisecracking, politically pointed, and, somehow, fiercely optimistic finest.”

From Publishers Weekly: “Hugo Award winner Scalzi makes a surprise return to his Old Man’s War series a decade after the publication of The End of All Things with this tightly plotted story of interspecies negotiations. While this installment is light on politics, Scalzi leans into many other series staples—dramatic fight scenes, technical challenges, and bold personalities—and does a good job providing just enough exposition for readers who have forgotten the backstory while keeping the current situation feeling vital.”

09/16/2025

If projections hold true, the slipcases for Adrian Tchaikovsky's Hugo-nominated novel, Alien Clay, will arrive in our warehouse in early October.

When that happens, we'll jump this title to the front of the shipping queue as quickly as we can.

About the Book:

Humanity has never before encountered a world like Kiln: seething with deadly lifeforms and littered with the ruins of a vanished intelligent species, the planet poses an immense challenge to science.

But it also serves as the perfect prison.

Professor Arton Daghdev, specialist in alien ecologies, is about to get a brutal lesson in the rigors, mysteries and, ultimately, the transcendent possibilities of Kiln.

Back on Earth, under the authoritarian Mandate, Arton was a dissident. Not an outspoken hero, or a fighter, nonetheless, he’s been sentenced to exile in the off-world labour camps. His dream of studying alien life has come true in the worst way.

Now Arton will be forced each day to meet the alien life of Kiln face-to-face. Rampaging monsters, infectious microbes, shoddy equipment and the merciless regime of the camps will test him to his limits. But Arton is about to uncover the ultimate secret of Kiln—and in doing so, threaten the very stability of the Mandate. But victory will entail an almost unfathomable cost. And is political victory worth the loss of one’s very humanity?

From Publishers Weekly:

“Imprisoned dissident scientists struggle to understand alien ecology in this mind-expanding planetary romp from Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tchaikovsky (Service Model)… Tchaikovsky’s philosophical musings about identity and the individual against the collective will feel familiar to science fiction readers, but his resolution will surprise even longtime genre fans. Tchaikovsky continues to impress.”

From Kirkus (Starred Review):

“The biological aspect of the story is a tool to support Tchaikovsky’s primary message, which is a vivid illustration of how suspicion can undermine both an authoritarian regime and any potential resistance to that regime. In this novel, a lack of honesty and poor communication can literally kill. But at the same time, all talk and no action is no path to success, either.”

From Booklist:

“Written in a gritty, first-person style, Tchaikovsky’s latest (after Service Model, 2024) reveals that the clash is more than just between human and alien but between ideologies that can blind one from harsh realities.”

From Library Journal:

“Tchaikovsky (Lords of Uncreation) is a maestro of grim and claustrophobic science fiction, and his imagination knows no bounds. This is a prison drama set in a creepy alien world, with a dash of body horror and several parasitical nightmares. Daghdev is a flippant narrator who endures an endless gauntlet of extreme scenarios, and the disturbing imagery enriches the worldbuilding. His role as a free thinker also allows for a novel exploration of xenoscience, symbiotic relationships, and divergent evolution.”

Preorder now: https://subterraneanpress.com/tchaikovsky-ac/

09/15/2025

Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, the surprise fourth entry in his Southern Reach series continues to progress at the printer. If you’d like your copy to be sent out in the initial shipping wave, please get your order in.

Our edition will include:

The full text of the novel;
A full-color dust jacket;
Full-color endsheets (different images, front and back)
Four full-page full color interior illustrations
Roughly 30 small line art illustrations
A bonus section consisting of a related short story, “The Birdwatchers,” never before published in its completed form.

Along the way, the book has drawn some major praise:

“Drawing heavily on bioresearch and scientific extrapolations, this foray into the human cost of bureaucratic paranoia and the abandonment of logic to ‘hope, prayers, and blessings’ provokes, mystifies, and challenges readers in turn. VanderMeer’s horrifying declaration of the impossibility of knowing the other is a knockout.” — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“No character escapes with their sanity intact, though their madness may reveal greater truths that have far-reaching implications for the series. Still, VanderMeer understands that the mystery is the point, and, as told in beautiful prose infused with bizarre and disturbing images, Area X remains as fascinating and unknowable as ever.” — Booklist (Starred Review)

“Does VanderMeer resolve lingering questions from the previous novels? Not really. But the main theme of the trilogy was always unknowability—untrustworthy leaders, reckless wildlife, and complicated humans are his constant focus, and here he cannily balances the strangeness with the terror of confronting it.” — Kirkus Reviews

Preorder: https://subterraneanpress.com/vandermeer-a/

09/12/2025

Happy Friday! This is Beans, a new staff pet. What are you reading this week? Feel free to share your pets too, as always.

09/10/2025

In honor of John Scalzi’s visit to our warehouse today, our fabulous production editor did a little photo shoot with two of her pet mice, Ivy and Nettle. We’ll be shipping out signed copies of The Shattering Peace and When the Moon Hits Your Eye soon!

09/09/2025

The response to Peter Straub’s unfinished novel, Wreckage, accompanied by the supplemental volume, What Happens in Hello Jack, has been hugely gratifying.

Bev Vincent covered the two-book set in depth in Cemetery Dance Online.

We’ll leave you with a few snapshots from his investigation of Peter’s work, the first from a 2016 interview with the author, conducted by Adrian Van Young, that appeared in Electric Literature:

"These days and for maybe three years now I work away, when permitted by health and hospitals, on a long strange novel called Hello Jack. Jack the Ripper is invoked by a devoted admirer. The fifth-richest woman in America murders her dying husband. A black, retired homicide detective works as a private chauffeur, in which capacity he does a lot of good. Henry James pops up, thinking hard, as does the 12-year-old Aleister Crowley. There’s a weird painting, but no one can figure it out."

In the review proper, Vincent wrote:

“One notable aspect of Straub’s writing is that even characters mentioned in passing are given grace notes and interesting observations that make them feel real. He was also intensely curious about the origins of his characters. Margaret Hayward, for example, is only mentioned in passing in earlier works, but a discussion with Wolfe led him to explore her life to the extent that she is a co-lead of Wreckage, arguably its protagonist. Margot, whose favorite writer is Henry James, is married to the ‘wondrous terrible’ Harry Mountjoy, a much older, wealthy, and ruthless businessman. After suffering at his hands for several years, she decides to hasten his end-of-life process, enrolling her in the homicidal tradition of the Hayward family. However, this is her sole nefarious deed, and the rest of her story involves her efforts to do good things with her new status as the one of the richest women in the world.”

And later:

“[Otto Sven] Harbin is one of the book’s most intriguing characters. As a Black man in the 1950s, he is often unwelcome in the upscale places Margot frequents, although she uses her power and influence to shame people into admitting him. He has contented himself to remain Margot’s chauffeur despite a significant legacy from Mountjoy’s will, but the investigative skills he acquired as a police detective come in handy while protecting her.”

Snag yours while supplies last: https://subterraneanpress.com/newsthe-praise-continues-for-wreckage-and-what-happens-in-hello-jack-by-peter-straub/

And if you follow us on Bluesky, we have a contest for the set going on there.

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