Edited by Claude Lalumière & Don Pizarro

Cover by Galen Dara; Layout and Interior Art by Carrie Cuinn

Contributing Authors (in alphabetical order)

Colleen Anderson
Megan Arkenberg
Jesse Bangs
Todd T. Castillo
Tina Connolly
Michael J. DeLuca
Andrew S. Fuller
Lidya S. Gray
S.J. Hirons
Garry Kilworth
Yarrow Paisley
Amber Polo
Ursula Pflug
Gord Sellar
Trevor Shikaze
Michael Skeet
David Sklar
Ray Vukcevich
George S. Walker
A.C. Wise

We are so pleased to be able to show off another beautiful cover, designed and illustrated by our Art Director, Galen Dara. Be sure to click on the cover image to see a larger version!

We want to expand on the first book, without discarding any of it. The stories from Cthulhurotica are bold, sexy, creepy, empowering and frightening. What we’re looking for now is more … We want stories which use more of Lovecraft’s settings and characters. We’ve got Innsmouth and Arkham, but what about the mountains, the Artic, aboard the Emma? We met Nyarlathotep, the Mi Go, and the King in Yellow, but what about Ithaqua, or the Hounds of Tindalos? Tell us about Charles Dexter Ward’s neighbor, or the secretary in Professor Peaslee’s office.

What if Richard Upton Pickman painted pinup girls too?

Read more about what we’re looking for, and submit your unpublished original story, HERE

• You can now find reviews of our work
• Read interviews with our editors and staff
• Listen to our appearances on podcasts (free!)
• We have updated our appearance schedule for the year

In case you missed it on Twitter, the Hugo-nominated SF Signal podcast sat down with Claude Lalumière and Don Pizarro to talk about Bibliotheca Fantastica. Listen to it here!

We can’t wait to share the Table of Contents for this book with you.

- Carrie Cuinn, Publisher

• so far, we’ve received 110 submissions, and sent responses to all of them. If you have NOT received a response to your submission, please check your spam filter. If it is not there, please contact us.
• of that total, we’ve passed on 90 and have kept 20 in the pool of stories we’re seriously considering.
• of those 20, 11 are by men, and 9 by women.
• of those 20, 6 are by Canadians.

Keep those submissions coming!

More information (and the submission form) can be found here: http://daganbooks.submishmash.com/submit

In light of some recent problems at other publications, we’ve included a new clause in our contracts from here on out:

If the Publisher chooses to cancel publication of a story less than 30 days before the release of the anthology, for any reason other than having received evidence of plagiarism within the affected story, the Author will receive payment for the work, even though it will not be published. Evidence of plagiarism will render the story unpublishable, the Author will not be paid, and will further be prevented from working with Dagan Books in any capacity for a period of at least one calendar year from the date of notification.

We like transparency here at Dagan Books, so we’re sharing this clause with you. It’s also a warning, in its way. If we can prove that you even submitted something plagiarized to us, you’ll go on a “do not hire” list for a least a year. Depending on how egregious your use of someone else’s work, you may stay on that list indefinitely, and never be accepted for publication by us, ever again.

Hopefully this is simply a routine notice, and we won’t ever have to use it.

- Carrie Cuinn, Publisher

Thank you for your support, your patronage, your patience, and your readership.

We wish you the best this holiday season and in the new year.

- The Staff of Dagan Books

http://daganbooks.submishmash.com/submit

Looking for the guidelines for this project? Please see our post about it HERE.

We will accept submissions from December 15, 2011, at noon EST, to midnight EST on March 31, 2012.

Bibliotheca Fantastica

What we want: Stories having to do with lost, rare, weird, or imaginary books, or any aspect of book history or book culture, past, present, future, or uchronic. Any genre. Although the fantastical is not essential per se, stories should evoke a sense of the fantastic, the unknown, the weird, wonder, terror, mystery, pulp, and/or adventure, etc.

Originals only, no reprints. No simultaneous submissions. Prose fiction only (no poetry). Accepting stories of up to 10,000 words in length. We will accept two submissions per author.

Do not describe the story in your cover letter. Please put the word count on the first page of your submission. Please format italics in italics (no underline).

We will accept submissions from December 15, 2011, at noon EST, to midnight EST on March 31, 2012. We are taking submissions through an automated system that will not allow you to submit before December 15, but the link to do so will appear here: http://daganbooks.submishmash.com/submit

Dagan Books is paying 2 cents per word for each accepted story, plus contributor copies. Bibliotheca Fantastica will be available in both print and ebook, and is scheduled to be published Fall 2012.

About the editors:

Claude Lalumière is the author of two books – the collection Objects of Worship and the novella The Door to Lost Pages – as well as the co-creator of Lost Myths, and is the Fantastic Fiction columnist for The Montreal Gazette. Bibliotheca Fantastica is his tenth
anthology as editor.

Don Pizarro is an author of short fiction, and editor for Dagan Books. In addition to this anthology he is also editing Cthulhurotica 2 in 2012.