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The Evil in
Pemberley House |
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Written by Philip José Farmer
& Win Scott Eckert.
Philip José Farmer started this novel in the early 1970's
but never finished it. Win Scott Eckert (interview)
completed the novel, using Phil's outline
and notes.
An excerpt
has been published in Farmerphile
Issue No. 14, October 2008.
DEDICATION: "For Bette and Lisa: Two of a Kind". |
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COVER
TEXT:
For over thirty years, readers have marveled at
Philip José Farmer’s inventive integration of
popular fiction and literature’s most beloved characters, in
a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First described in the
fictional biographies Tarzan
Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life,
Farmer expanded his Wold Newton mythos in novels such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg,
The
Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Time’s Last Gift,
Hadon of
Ancient Opar, Flight
to Opar, The
Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel, and Escape from Loki: Doc
Savage’s First Adventure.
The Evil in
Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton cycle,
plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the daughter
of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and
’40s, Dr. James Clarke “Doc” Wildman, is
all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in
Derbyshire, England—old, dark, and supposedly haunted.
But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the
ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates an
introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural
with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work
through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the action
at Pemberley from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
and ingrains the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes
stories.
The Evil in
Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad appeal
to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly followers of
Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer’s own celebrated
Wold Newton Family.
(Subterranean Press)
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PUBLICATION
HISTORY
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FIRST PUBLICATION
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-249-8
hardcover (22,5×15cm)
09/2009
214
$ 40.00
Glen Orbik
Trade edition. 'First
Edition' stated on the copyright page. Blue cloth boards
with silver lettering on the spine. Both editions were published
simultaneously. This edition has no Wold Newton Family tree chart on
the end sheets. With "Editor's Notes". |
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FIRST PUBLICATION
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-249-8
hardcover (22,5×15cm)
09/2009
214 (novel) + 48 (chapbook)
$ 60.00
Glen Orbik (novel) + Keith Howell (chapbook)
Limited edition of two hundred numbered copies, signed by Win Scott
Eckert. 'First Edition' stated on both the copyright pages. The novel
comes with purple cloth boards and silver lettering on the spine, the
chapbook has soft covers. Both editions of the novel were published
simultaneously. This edition has a Wold Newton Family tree chart on the
end sheets. With "Editor's Notes".
The contents of the Limited Edition Chapbook, written by Win Scott Eckert (WSE) and
Philip José Farmer (PJF):
- Wold Newton Family Genealogy (extended chart)
- "The Wildman (Savage) Coat of Arms", by PJF & WSE
- "The Evil in
Pemberley House - Outline", by PJF
- "A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to The Evil
in Pemberley House"
, by WSE
- "Excessively Diverted, Or, Coming to Pemberley House:
A Further Excursion into Creative Mythography", by
WSE |
Glen
Orbik
Keith Howell
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(Lilburn, GA): Meteor House
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ISBN 978-0-9837461-9-5
trade paperback (21,5×14cm)
08/2014
256
$ 20.00
Glen Orbik
All preordered copies are signed by Win Scott Eckert. With:
- Frontispiece illustration by Keith Howell;
- Pemberley House Family Tree (Spoiler Free Version);
- "Foreword to the 2014 Edition", by Win Scott Eckert
- "Author's Notes"
- "Philip José Farmer's Outline"
- "A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to The Evil
in Pemberley House"
, by WSE
- "Afterword (Excessively Diverted, Or, Coming to
Pemberley House: A Further Excursion into Creative
Mythography)", by WSE
- Pemberley House Family Tree (Spoilers Version). |
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(Lilburn, GA): Meteor House
no ISBN
ebook
10/2015
(180)
$ 5.00
Glen Orbik
With:
- Frontispiece illustration by Keith Howell;
- Pemberley House Family Tree (Spoiler Free Version);
- "Foreword to the 2014 Edition", by Win Scott Eckert
- "Author's Notes"
- "Philip José Farmer's Outline"
- "A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to The Evil
in Pemberley House" , by WSE
- "Afterword (Excessively Diverted, Or, Coming to
Pemberley House: A Further Excursion into Creative
Mythography)", by WSE
- Pemberley House Family Tree (Spoilers Version). |
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