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And from all the evil teddy bears here at ChiZine, We still love you!

CHIZINE PUBLICATIONS is still taking pre-orders through Horror Mall and Camelot Books for their final two spring 2010 titles in signed limited edition hardcover format:

The Thief of Broken Toys by Tim Lebbon (only 250 copies will be printed!)

Horror Mall: https://www.horror-mall.com/THE-THIEF-OF-BROKEN-TOYS-by-Tim-Lebbon-Limited-Edition-Hardcover-p-20264.html
Camelot Books: http://www.camelotbooks.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=195&products_id=3529

Cities of Night by Philip Nutman (only 150 copies will be printed)!

Horror Mall: https://www.horror-mall.com/CITIES-OF-NIGHT-by-Philip-Nutman-Limited-Edition-Hardcover-p-20265.html
Camelot Books: http://www.camelotbooks.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=195&products_id=3528

The Thief of Broken Toys is currently #2 at Horror Mall, and Cities of Night is #4, so grab yours while you still can! Both books will come with exclusive content not available in the trade paperback.

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FILM REVIEWS

Phil Brugalette reviews PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, DAYBREAKERS, and LEGION.

http://www.chizine.com/potshots.htm

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BOOK REVIEWS

Ray Wallace reviews VINTAGE SOUL by David Niall Wilson and BENJAMIN'S PARASITE by Jeff Strand.

http://www.chizine.com/raysreviews.htm

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And now a word from our sponsor . . .

Available this month from Leisure Books:

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
by Brian Keene

One morning the residents of Walden,Virginia, woke up to find that the rest of the world was gone. Just . . . gone. Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, casting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in, no light, no people, not even electricity or radio or TV signals. And no one can get out. No one who dared to penetrate the mysterious barrier has ever been seen again. Only their screams were heard. But for some of the residents-turned-prisoners of Walden, even the fear of that unseen death can’t keep them from trying to escape this living purgatory.

SCISSORS
by Ray Garton

Stuart will never forget the horrible thing Dr. Ferguson did to him when he was boy. The pain, the blood and the snip-snip of those glinting scissors will live in his nightmares for the rest of his life. But now Dr. Ferguson is back and not just in Stuart’s dreams. He’s very real. He’s determined to perform that same horrible procedure on Stuart’s young son. And his scissors are nice and sharp.

Leisure Books
http://dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/Genre.cfm?L1=1&L2=0

Until next month, stay dark,

Brett Alexander Savory
Editor-in-Chief

ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words
http://chizine.com

**Next ChiZine Newsletter will be March 1st, 2010

First off, congratulations to everyone who made it onto the Aurora Award shortlist!!

We're particularly excited because our own Robert J. Wiersema is on there with his novella THE WORLD MORE FULL OF WEEPING, under "English short-form."

That's CZP's first ever nomination!!

You have until NOON on May 22 to vote online (Anyone who is a Canadian citizen or resident can vote):

http://www.prix-aurora-awards.ca/English/home.htm

Hope you'll consider Rob's novella! And good luck to all the nominees.

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Amazing starred review for Brent Hayward's dystopian science fiction novel Filaria at Publishers Weekly.

Filaria

Brent Hayward. ChiZine Publications (Diamond, dist.), $16.95 (240p) ISBN 9780980941012

Hayward's debut is a powerful, beautifully-written dystopian tale concerning four inhabitants of a gigantic but dying artificial habitat. Young Phister has lived his entire life on the radioactive lowest level, until he sets off in pursuit of a friend, and soon becomes lost among endless passageways. Ancient Mereziah, who's devoted his life to servicing the habitat's elevators, decides to hitch a ride on the outside of one of them, hoping to rise to the fabled top of the world before he dies. Tran so Phengh, a fisherman plying his trade on a polluted and retreating lake deep within the artificial world, leaves his dying wife and sets off on a quest to ask important questions of the Gods. Deidre, a pampered young girl who lives on the beautiful pastoral level at the top of the habitat, is wrenched away from her family by monstrous angels. Eventually, each learns some small part of the secret behind their claustrophobic artificial world and its impending collapse, though the tale ends abruptly, with no real resolution and little hope. With well-developed characters and four strong plotlines told through alternating chapters, Hayward delivers a fulfilling read. (Nov.)

—Publishers Weekly (http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/451220-Web_Exclusive_Book_Reviews_3_1_2010.php)

Filaria and all of CZP's other titles should start popping up in Borders stores in the US very soon! Go here to check out info about the book:

http://chizine.com/chizinepub/books/filaria.php

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