The Eden Book Society Returns With Grady Hendrix, John Darnielle, Alison Rumfitt, and More!

Hello everyone, Nathan here.

Bekkii is having some well deserved time off, so you're stuck with me.

Just popping in to share that the Eden Book Society is back!

For those who don't know, The Eden Book Society was a publishing house that produced horror novelettes for a private list of subscribers. It was established in 1919 by the Eden family and ran until 2006.

Presided over by the Eden family, it was handed down through the generations issuing short horror novels to a confidential list of subscribers. Eden books were always written under pseudonyms and were rumoured to have been written by some of the greatest horror authors of their day, many of whom had strong ties to the Eden family.

Although the truth, if you really want to call it that, is that the Eden Book Society is a literary hoax — albeit an open one. Each year we pick six writers to take part and, though their names are attached publicly to the project, they all write under pseudonyms with their own invented backstories. Each series picks a year from the Eden archive, in this instance 1993, with all contributors penning their stories in the spirit of the time.

We're pleased to announce that the Eden authors for the 1993 series are Grady Hendrix, John Darnielle, Nina Allan, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Alison Rumfitt & Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ.

We currently have a project on Kickstarter for the new series and it has already passed the funding goal that we set for it. If you want to get involved you can back our project here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deadinkbooks/the-eden-book-society-1993?ref=5utvkn