Fans of Hard Case Crime and Harlan
Ellison will be pleased to learn that in April 2013 Hard Case Crime will publish
a new edition of Web of the City.
Shots were delighted
to receive the press release below from Hard Case Crime!
Harlan
Ellison’s First Novel —
Returning to
Bookstores After 30 Years!
HARD CASE
CRIME to publish definitive edition of WEB OF THE CITY
New
York, NY; London, UK (June 11, 2012) – Acclaimed author Harlan Ellison has
authorized the publication of a new edition of his first novel, Web of the City, by Hard Case Crime, the
award-winning line of mystery novels from editor Charles Ardai and publisher Titan
Books. The new edition, which will
feature not just the definitive text of the book but also three thematically related
short stories Ellison wrote for the pulp crime magazines of the 1950s, will mark
the book’s first appearance in stores in three decades.
Harlan
Ellison is one of the most renowned authors of the past 60 years. Although best known for his fantasy and
science fiction and his always-controversial essays, Ellison has also won the
Edgar Allan Poe Award twice for his crime fiction. Other honours he has received include a
record 10 Hugo Awards, 5 Nebulas (including the lifetime Grand Master Award), 6
Bram Stoker Awards (including their
lifetime Grand Master Award), 4 Writers Guild of America Awards, and 2 World
Fantasy Awards, as well as multiple other lifetime achievement awards. He has also been a finalist for the Emmy and
twice for the Grammy. The film made of
his life, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, starring
Ellison, took 21 years to make, and is one of the most award-winning
documentaries of the past five years.
Written
in 1957 while Ellison was enduring Army Ranger basic training in Georgia, Web of the City tells the story of a
teenager who sets out to leave the New York City street gang he runs with, putting
his family in grave danger. Ellison
wrote the book after going undercover for ten weeks as a member of an actual Brooklyn
street gang, the Barons, an experience that also inspired him to write the
famous “Memo From Purgatory” episode of The
Alfred Hitchcock Hour starring James Caan (The Godfather) and Walter Koenig (Star Trek).
Hard
Case Crime will bring the book out in April 2013, in paperback and e-book
editions, with a new cover painting in the classic pulp style by Glen Orbik.
About Hard Case Crime
Called
“the best new American publisher to appear in the last decade” by Neal Pollack
in The Stranger, Hard Case Crime has
been nominated for or won numerous honours since its inception including the
Edgar, the Shamus, the Anthony, the Barry, and the Spinetingler Award. The series’ books have been adapted for
television and film, with two features currently in development at Universal
Pictures and the TV series “Haven” going into its third season this fall on SyFy. Upcoming titles include new novels by Stephen
King and James M. Cain. Hard Case Crime
is published through a collaboration between Winterfall LLC and Titan
Publishing Group.
About Titan Publishing Group
Titan
Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in
1981, comprising three divisions: Titan Books, Titan Magazines/Comics and Titan
Merchandise. Titan Books, recently nominated as Independent Publisher of
the Year 2011, has a rapidly growing fiction list encompassing original fiction
and reissues, primarily in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, horror,
steampunk and crime. Recent crime and
thriller acquisitions include Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins’ all-new
Mike Hammer novels, the Matt Helm series by Donald Hamilton and the entire
backlist of the Queen of Spy Writers, Helen MacInnes. Titan Books also
has an extensive line of media and pop culture-related non-fiction, graphic
novels, art and music books. The company
is based at offices in London, but operates worldwide, with sales and
distribution in the US and Canada being handled by Random House. www.titanbooks.com
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CONTACTS
US media: Katharine
Carroll, 914-788-1005
UK media: Sophie
Calder, +44 (0)20 7803 1906
E-mail: media@hardcasecrime.com
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