Quiet Houses, by critically acclaimed British writer Simon Kurt Unsworth, has been simmering away on our Top Five lists for the last couple of months, and in July it appears to have reached full boil, topping both our e-book and paperback bestsellers lists for the month. Andy Taylor’s e-book short story collection The Drunk and The Dead and Sylvia Shults’ literary mash-up The Taming of the Werewolf make their debut appearance on the e-book list, an occurrence that I attribute to their smiling faces having been front and centre on Dark Continents’ dealer’s table at FandomFest early in the month.
Top Five Bestselling e-books for July 2012
- Quiet Houses by Simon Kurt Unsworth
- Phobophobia edited by Dean M. Drinkel
- The Taming of the Werewolf by Sylvia Shults
- Inkarna by Nerine Dorman
- The Drunk and the Dead by Andy Taylor *
(* = from the Darkness and Dismay series)
After being eclipsed in May by new releases, horror short story readers’ favourite, Phobophobia, reasserts itself on both charts. An interesting development is seeing The Caretakers in the top five paperbacks alongside more recently released titles. The Caretakers, by Dark Continents’ founding member Adrian Chamberlin, was one of the titles with which we launched the company over a year ago. What with electronic and POD publishing, we are no longer constrained to the old model of publishing, which limited many titles to a limited print run and brief shelf life. Now, high quality novels can remain available to readers indefinitely.
Top Five Bestselling Paperbacks for July 2012
- Quiet Houses by Simon Kurt Unsworth
- Snareville II: Circles by David Youngquist
- Inkarna by Nerine Dorman
- Phobophobia edited by Dean M. Drinkel
- The Caretakers by Adrian Chamberlin
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