Encyclopocalypse Dispatch #19

Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine Novelization brought back into print! Our first nonfiction title of 2024 announced! Renee DeCamillis returns to the world of The Bone Cutters!

Happy New Year! 2023 is gone…and we had so many incredible releases, it’s hard to believe. 2024 promises many more fantastic books.

We hit the ground running with the announcement of our first Non-fiction book of 2024 and now we have some more incredible announcements to get to!

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NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENTS & PRE-ORDERS

Phantom Limbs: Dissecting Horror's Lost Sequels and Remakes by Jason Jenkins
Release Date: April 2, 2024
Pre-order Links: Hardcover | Paperback | eBook

Earlier this week, Bloody Disgusting had the pleasure of announcing our first non-fiction release of 2024.

Writer Jason Jenkins had a long running column over at Bloody Disgusting called “Phantom Limbs” that we have loved for quite a while. Jenkins came to us with the idea of turning that column into a book with stories that hadn’t been covered anywhere. Of course we jumped at his proposal and couldn’t wait to get started. That was over a year ago and we’re thrilled that the book is about to find it’s way to horror fans’ bookshelves!

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm'lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated.

Wasn't there going to be a faithful film adaptation of Resident Evil in the late 90s?

Did you know that Mike Flanagan was going to do a spinoff of The Shining after completing Doctor Sleep?

Whatever happened to the rumored sequel to Texas Chainsaw 3D?

Based on the popular Bloody Disgusting web column of the same name, Phantom Limbs takes a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes - extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore - that were sadly lopped off before making it beyond the planning stages.

Here, writer Jason Jenkins chats with the creators of these unmade extremities to gain their unique insights into these follow-ups that never were, with the discussions standing as hopefully illuminating but undoubtedly painful reminders of what might have been.

This inaugural volume features twenty-five chapters covering such projects as:

Jigsaw's Twisted Tales by Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton
Hellraiser by Todd Farmer & Patrick Lussier
Hallorann by Mike Flanagan
Thirst by Mick Garris
The People Under the Stairs by F. Javier Gutierrez
The Plantation by Adam Marcus & Debra Sullivan
Resident Evil by Alan B. McElroy
Texas Chainsaw II by Scott Milam
The Hitcher by Jeffrey Reddick
Zero.Dark.Thirty by Stephen Susco
and many more!

The Bone Cutters by Renee S. DeCamillis
Release Date: January 23, 2024
Pre-order Links: Paperback | eBook
Cover Design by Grim Poppy Designs

In 2 weeks we will be re-releasing Renee S. DeCamillis’ critically acclaimed novella The Bone Cutters. We’re excited to bring this back into print as it prepares the way for it’s sequel in July.

Dory wakes up in the padded room of a psychiatric hospital with no recollection of how she wound up there. She soon finds out she's been Blue-Papered—involuntarily committed. She gets sent to the wrong counseling group and discovers a whole new world of psychiatric patients she'd never known existed. At first she just thinks they're cutters, all marked by similar scars, but then she finds out that those scars are from carving into their bodies where they chisel and scrape their bones. They harvest bone dust. This dust is highly coveted and sought after, as well as highly addictive. When they realize she's never been "dusted", Dory becomes their target. After all, dust from a "freshie" is much more valuable than theirs.

Frightened for her life, she desperately tries to prove to the psych. hospital staff that she's not delusional about these particular patients wanting to slice her open and scrape her bones. The staff doesn't believe her. They all think she's crazy. Dory ends up on the run, fighting for her life, trying to avoid getting "dusted" by The Bone Cutters.

Like Girl, Interrupted and "The Yellow Wallpaper", The Bone Cutters is one woman's dark and surreal experience with a madness that is not necessarily her own.

Chisel the Bone by Renee S. DeCamillis
Release Date: July 23, 2024
Pre-order Links: Paperback | eBook
Cover Design by Grim Poppy Designs

In July, Renee S. DeCamillis’ thrilling full length novel follow-up to The Bone Cutters, Chisel the Bone, releases. We love this book and how Renee brilliantly expands on every aspect of her novella.

Dory, a mental patient out on safety release, finds herself as the single witness who can bring down a horrifying cult of drug addicts from her past as well as their superntaural puppeteer.

Now, Dory finds herself on the run from the cult who wants to chisel her own bones into dust to satiate their addictions and keep her from bringing their secrets to light.

Renee S. DeCamillis expands the world of her critically acclaimed novella, The Bone Cutters, into a fully realized nightmare of survival.

Blue Sunshine: The Novelization by Ken Johnson
Release Date: February 27, 2024
Pre-order Links: Trade Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | eBook

At the end of February we’ll be bringing Ken Johnson’s novelization of Jeff Lieberman’s Blue Sunshine back into print! What makes this novelization distinct, as Jeff explains in his foreword, is the original script was set in New York City. Making it a very distinct New York story. Due to budgetary constraints, the film was set in California. Ken Johnson (working as an “author-for-hire” hired by the studio), made the decision to base his novel version off of Lieberman’s original draft.

We’re proud to release the definitive version of this novelization.

Working from Jeff Lieberman's original draft for BLUE SUNSHINE, which was actually set in 1970s New York, Ken Johnson’s novel reflects the grittiness and social turmoil of the times.

It started off as a great party—just eight of them in a ski-lodge in upstate New York. But then the last guest, Frannie, arrived. There was something wrong with Frannie’s hair. And something very wrong with his eyes. And what he did to three of the girls was too hideous for description...

That was just the start. After that, things began to happen all over New York—ugly things: psychosis, insanity, murder—and no-one could find an explanation. The police were helpless—because they didn’t know that behind all the grisly happenings lay a single, uncontrollable horror. A horror called BLUE SUNSHINE...

BLUE SUNSHINE is the Edgar Lansbury/Joseph Beruh Production starring Alice Ghostley, Zalman King, Deborah Winters and Mark Goddard based on an original screenplay by Jeff Lieberman.

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That’s all I’ve got for you today. 2024 is shaping up to be another memorable year, and we’re very excited to see what this year has in store for us. We have a magazine article in the works about what we’re doing, we’ll release the most non-fiction we’ve ever released, and we have many more exciting novelizations and original novels on deck.

Thank you for continuing to support our scrappy label, we couldn’t keep doing this without you!

Until next time,

Sean Duregger
Managing Editor, Encyclopocalypse Publications
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