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The Land of Somewhere Safe (NewCon Press Novellas Set 4) 22 Sep, 2018

₹ 288.00

In this remarkable novella, Hal Duncan has conjured a tale of The-Borribles-meet-Nazi-spies-and-run-headlong-into-the-occult.

The Land of Somewhere Safe: where things go when you think, “I must put this somewhere safe,” and then can never find them again.

The Scruffians: irreverent foul-mouthed street urchins, older than their years, waifs who have been Fixed by the Stamp, frozen so that they are immortal, providing perpetual slave labour. But now the waifs have nicked the Stamp and burned down the Institute that housed it, preventing any more of their number being Fixed and exploited.

Peter and Lilly: two school kids orphaned by Nazi bombs, who find themselves thrown together by circumstance and evacuated from London during the Blitz. Sent far further north than intended, all the way to the Isle of Skye, they are taken in by Clan Chief Lady Morag MacGuffin of Dunstravaigin Castle. With them are the four Bastable children – a jolly queer bunch – who prove to be far more than they seem.

The Reverend Blackstone: no real reverend at all, but an occultish Nazi spy determined to get his hands on the priceless Stamp, even if he has to raise hisself a demon to do so…

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Sodom / New Sodom 31 May, 2018

by Hal Duncan

( 2 )

₹ 203.00

Collecting twelve new works from the author of Vellum, Ink, Testament, & Songs for the Devil and Death, this chapbook takes the razing of Sodom as origin myth for all queers, gathers its toolkits from all corners of verse & song, old & new, to forge a passionate call to arms, a manifesto for art in the face of loss & surl.

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A Scruffian Feastiary (Fabbles Book 1) 29 May, 2018

by Hal Duncan

( 2 )

₹ 144.00

Fixed imperishable by the Stamp, sold as slaves, escaped to run wild, fight dirty & plot revenge, Scruffians might look no more'n filthy guttersnipes, but it's a daft groanhuff who crosses em.

Orphans, foundlings, latchkey kids...

From the Children's Crusades to the chimney sweeps of Ripper Vicky's London, from Jack Scallywag to the Beast of Buskerville, Scruffians have learnt the hard way to carry a shiv & mind yer mate's back. We'll learn you too, scamp, with these fabbles of Liberatings & Come-Uppances, carnival carnage & Christmas feasts. So cosy in & grab some grub. It's stew tonight, & if yer finds a finger... that's good luck!

Urchins, changelings, live-by-wits...

Like fugitives from the musical Oliver! by way of Clive Barker, like some queer punk bastard brat born of Neil Gaiman and William Burroughs, the anarchic Scruffians should appeal to readers of dark fantasy with a wicked sense of black humour and a fierce passion for social justice. Ain't no escapism without equality, mate, far as scruffs are concerned, so for those who've lost their spoons to the fuckeries of power and privilege, well, yer new cribmates have spoons to spare, innit. Sharpened to shivs, natch. Wielding whimsy in the service of satire then, with a wink to Peter Pan, a nod to The Borribles, and a salute to Sweeney Todd, this is punk fiction for yer inner feral child.

Or yer literal feral child, for that matter, if ye'd rather have em foul-mouthed & big-hearted than ever-so-polite but bigoty little twerps. Just don't blame me if yer eight year old decides she's Squigglet Muckentuff the Third now and wants to tackle institutional racism with a pennywhistle blowpipe and poison darts.

Rascals, scallywags, ruffians, scamps...

From short stories boiled down to pack the punch of a three-minute garage rock song to sprawling novellas as the pint-sized picaresque adventures of scallywag heroes of yore, here you'll find a panoply of postmodern fabbles ("it's like a fable with a bit of fib and a bit of babble thrown in for fun, innit!") packed full of the profane and the poignant. Offering humour in the face of horror, farcical and slapstick as a Punch and Judy show, solace in the face of sorrow, heartwarming as a locket from a dead mum set in a sniffly orphan's hand at Christmas, these are tales to break yer heart and remake it bigger than ever.

Scoundrels, hellions, Scruffians STAMP!

Whether it's a quiet contemporary fantasy story of gay foster kid runaways drawn into this queer found family or a riotous historical fantasy yarn told by the fabbler of their new crib to "explificate" the Dire Situation of waifs down the centuries scrobbled and Fixed to serve as mill workers, chimney sweeps or worse, every story stands alone, self-reliant as a Whitechapel guttersnipe. Across and between these stories though, in the sneaky hints and clues of a Big Picture, there's shenanigans and malarkey afoot too, for any reader ready to play along and delve ever-deeper into the world of the Scruffians.

Praise for the Scruffians

“The post- post- modern Victorian fables that comprise Hal Duncan’s A Scruffian Survival Guide inhabit a unique dark fantasy world – a feral dream. The language is mad genius.” — Jeffrey Ford on A Scruffian Survival Guide

“Hal Duncan's cheeky and charming Scruffian stories hide a steely shiv of inspection that digs uncompromisingly into the ribs of the establishment.

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A Scruffian Survival Guide (Fabbles Book 2) 29 May, 2018

by Hal Duncan

( 1 )

₹ 217.00

Urchins scrobbled down the centuries from yer poor and persecuted. Foundlings Fixed in imperishable waifhood by the Stamp & sold to rich groanhuffs as child labour. Hellions with spirits as resilient as their flesh, less like to cower from a kick than nick yer boot, hamstring yer and fuckin leg it.

Orphans, foundlings, latchkey kids...

That's what it is to be a Scruffian, mate, and there ain't a rhyme sung or tale told in a Scruffian squat that ain't, at the end of the day, out to learn yer how to survive. So cosy in, scamps, quit yer fidgeting, and hark to the fabbler of this here crib...

Urchins, changelings, live-by-wits...

Like fugitives from the musical Oliver! by way of Clive Barker, like some queer punk bastard brat born of Neil Gaiman and William Burroughs, the anarchic Scruffians should appeal to readers of dark fantasy with a wicked sense of black humour and a fierce passion for social justice. Ain't no escapism without equality, mate, far as scruffs are concerned, so for those who've lost their spoons to the fuckeries of power and privilege, well, yer new cribmates have spoons to spare, innit. Sharpened to shivs, natch. Wielding whimsy in the service of satire then, with a wink to Peter Pan, a nod to The Borribles, and a salute to Sweeney Todd, this is punk fiction for yer inner feral child.

Or yer literal feral child, for that matter, if ye'd rather have em foul-mouthed and big-hearted than ever-so-polite but bigoty little twerps. Just don't blame me if yer eight year old decides she's Squigglet Muckentuff the Third now and wants to tackle institutional racism with a pennywhistle blowpipe and poison darts.

Rascals, scallywags, ruffians, scamps....

From short stories boiled down to pack the punch of a three-minute garage rock song to sprawling novellas as the pint-sized picaresque adventures of scallywag heroes of yore, here you'll find a panoply of postmodern fabbles ("it's like a fable with a bit of fib and a bit of babble thrown in for fun, innit!") packed full of the profane and the poignant. Offering humour in the face of horror, farcical and slapstick as a Punch and Judy show, solace in the face of sorrow, heartwarming as a locket from a dead mum set in a sniffly orphan's hand at Christmas, these are tales to break yer heart and remake it bigger than ever.

Scoundrels, hellions, Scruffians STAMP!

Whether it's a quiet contemporary fantasy story of gay foster kid runaways drawn into this queer found family or a riotous historical fantasy yarn told by the fabbler of their new crib to "explificate" the Dire Situation of waifs down the centuries scrobbled and Fixed to serve as mill workers, chimney sweeps or worse, every story stands alone, self-reliant as a Whitechapel guttersnipe. Across and between these stories though, in the sneaky hints and clues of a Big Picture, there's shenanigans and malarkey afoot too, for any reader ready to play along and delve ever-deeper into the world of the Scruffians.

Praise for the Scruffians

“The post- post- modern Victorian fables that comprise Hal Duncan’s A Scruffian Survival Guide inhabit a unique dark fantasy world – a feral dream. The language is mad genius.” — Jeffrey Ford on A Scruffian Survival Guide

“Hal Duncan's cheeky and charming Scruffian stories hide a steely shiv of inspection that digs uncompromisingly into the ribs of the establishment. This latest volume, populated as always with wonderful characters old and new, deepens that exploration and brings it bang up to date. I loved every word of it.

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A Scruffian Primer (Fabbles Book 0) 29 May, 2018

by Hal Duncan

₹ 72.00

Meet the Scruffians, workhouse tykes and street arabs scrobbled by the Waiftaker General, dragged to the Institute and put to the Stamp, Fixed ageless, imperishable... the perfect child labour. Meet the scruffs escaped to live free & fight back.

Orphans, foundlings, latchkey kids...

Meet: Flashjack and Puckerscruff; Squirlet Nicely and Vermintrude Toerag; Yapper, the Scruffian what speaks Dog; Whelp, the dog Fixed as a scruff; and Rake Jake Scallion, not a scruff, but the finest friend a scruff ever had. Yeah, park yer arse, stray, and we'll learn yer the ABCs of being a scruff.

We'll learn yer how us Scruffians STAMP.

Urchins, changelings, live-by-wits...

Like fugitives from the musical Oliver! by way of Clive Barker, like some queer punk bastard brat born of Neil Gaiman and William Burroughs, the anarchic Scruffians should appeal to readers of dark fantasy with a wicked sense of black humour and a fierce passion for social justice. Ain't no escapism without equality, mate, far as scruffs are concerned, so for those who've lost their spoons to the fuckeries of power and privilege, well, yer new cribmates have spoons to spare, innit. Sharpened to shivs, natch. Wielding whimsy in the service of satire then, with a wink to Peter Pan, a nod to The Borribles, and a salute to Sweeney Todd, this is punk fiction for yer inner feral child.

Or yer literal feral child, for that matter, if ye'd rather have em foul-mouthed and big-hearted than ever-so-polite but bigoty little twerps. Just don't blame me if yer eight year old decides she's Squigglet Muckentuff the Third now and wants to tackle institutional racism with a pennywhistle blowpipe and poison darts.

Rascals, scallywags, ruffians, scamps...

From short stories boiled down to pack the punch of a three-minute garage rock song to sprawling novellas as the pint-sized picaresque adventures of scallywag heroes of yore, here you'll find a panoply of postmodern fabbles ("it's like a fable with a bit of fib and a bit of babble thrown in for fun, innit!") packed full of the profane and the poignant. Offering humour in the face of horror, farcical and slapstick as a Punch and Judy show, solace in the face of sorrow, heartwarming as a locket from a dead mum set in a sniffly orphan's hand at Christmas, these are tales to break yer heart and remake it bigger than ever.

Scoundrels, hellions, Scruffians STAMP!

Whether it's a quiet contemporary fantasy story of gay foster kid runaways drawn into this queer found family or a riotous historical fantasy yarn told by the fabbler of their new crib to "explificate" the Dire Situation of waifs down the centuries scrobbled and Fixed to serve as mill workers, chimney sweeps or worse, every story stands alone, self-reliant as a Whitechapel guttersnipe. Across and between these stories though, in the sneaky hints and clues of a Big Picture, there's shenanigans and malarkey afoot too, for any reader ready to play along and delve ever-deeper into the world of the Scruffians.

Praise for the Scruffians:

“The post- post- modern Victorian fables that comprise Hal Duncan’s A Scruffian Survival Guide inhabit a unique dark fantasy world – a feral dream. The language is mad genius.” — Jeffrey Ford on A Scruffian Survival Guide

“Hal Duncan's cheeky and charming Scruffian stories hide a steely shiv of inspection that digs uncompromisingly into the ribs of the establishment. This latest volume, populated as always with wonderful characters old and new, deepens that exploration and brings it bang up to date.

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Susurrus on Mars 1 Nov, 2017

by Hal Duncan

( 4 )

₹ 259.00

This novella-length collection of Erehwynan Idylls offers readers an indulgent and weird agglomeration of randy boys and revelations, as the embodiment of a small breeze--actually the gene-spliced child of the gods Zephyros and Ares--flirts and seduces fleshlings on a terraformed future Mars. Hal Duncan's acclaimed style is both alethic and erudite and offers a fresh telling of philosophical musings and classic Greek mythology for 21st century readers.

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An A to Z of the Fantastic City: A Guidebook for Readers and Explorers 22 Jun, 2016

by Hal Duncan, Eric Schaller

( 1 )

₹ 330.75

Sexy, secretive, yet clear-eyed, Duncan brings pop, high, and low cultures together in one handy sometimes amusing sometimes harsh A-to-Z which every bibliophile and armchair adventurer will find to be a necessary guidebook through the temerarious pages of international literature.

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The Boy Who Loved Death 5 Dec, 2015

by Hal Duncan

( 1 )

₹ 313.88

An anarcho-socialist Big Bad Wolf blowing down the houses of the Powers-That-Be. An Erocide cop lamenting the many ways people murder love. A vampire sworn to the light of Reason, engaged in experiments of gruesome rigour. A multiversal rebel invading the movie Casablanca to save his lost love from the Nazis. From the savage and joyous to the jaded and sorrowful, whether mournful or madcap, these eighteen stories from award-winning author Hal Duncan take a twisted look at death, the truest love you'll ever have.

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Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions 1 Apr, 2014

by Hal Duncan

( 2 )

₹ 500.00

Acclaimed author and critic Hal Duncan turns his analytic eye towards the development and current state of speculative fiction in the pages of Rhapsody. Duncan's trademark wry humor and suffer-no-fools approach to critiquing the genre will make this book more than a resource for students of the field—anyone who enjoys reading tales of the fantastical and strange can find Duncan's insight worthwhile to read again and again.

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Scruffians!: Stories of Better Sodomites 1 Apr, 2014

by Hal Duncan

( 4 )

₹ 500.00

Are you prepared to enter acclaimed author Hal Duncan’s world of scruffians and scamps and sodomites? Beware, for it is filled with the gay pirate gods of Love and Death, immortal scoundrels, and young men who find themselves forced to become villains. But who amongst us does not adore a gamin antihero? These fantastical tales from the fringes of an imaginative realm of supernatural fairies and human fey will captivate the reader. Light a smoke, raise a cup of whiskey, and seek a careful spot to cruise the Scruffians!

A finalist for the British Fantasy Award!

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Vellum: Roman (German Edition) 14 Jan, 2014

by Hal Duncan, Hannes Riffel

( 1 )

₹ 783.53

Das mächtigste Buch der Welt

Im düsteren Gewölbe einer schottischen Bibliothek stößt Reynard Carter auf das legendäre Ewige Stundenbuch. In diesem Buch soll nicht nur das Schicksal unserer Welt geschrieben stehen, sondern auch die wahren Namen aller Lebewesen, die jemals existiert haben. Wer diese Namen kennt, hat Macht über ihre Träger, ihm offenbaren sich die Geheimnisse des Universums. Als Carter das Buch öffnet, verändert sich alles – und er bricht auf zu einer Reise, die ihn an die Grenzen der Wirklichkeit führt ...

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Sodom! The Musical 17 Dec, 2013

by Hal Duncan

₹ 219.48

Being an Adaptation and Modernisation of "The Farce of Sodom, or The Quintessence of Debauchery," by Lord Rochester, Libertine & Rakehell, as Versified and Perversified by THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!! (sic)

Rochester's Restoration Farce may be the most notorious work of bawdy fun in English Literature, scandalous when it was written and still gloriously filthy even by today's standards. Here, Rochester's lyrics have been modernised to a contemporary rock opera, with none of the mischief lost, maybe even a little added just for fun. Here, you'll meet King Bollox of Sodom, his Royal Catamite, Puckinello, and his Pimpmaster General, Salascio. You'll meet his queen, Cuntacaea, and her Whores of Honour, Vaginia, Labia and Clitorix. You'll meet the Prince and Princess, Pricket and Slitia. You'll meet General Buggerman and Virtuoso, Dildo-Maker by Royal Appointment. Given that the stage directions in the original include a woman representing a fountain in a garden by standing on her head and pissing... well, nuff said, really.

And yeah, I kept that bit in. Duh.

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