Jackasses of History

 
Now maybe I should publish something I wrote myself. I give you the Jackasses of History Bathroom Reader & Handy Manual of Unpleasant Trivia. It's available on Amazon and right here.

Pantano Wash

Conley Stone McAnally (Tales From Homer, O'Brian's Black & Tan, et al) just can't keep his hands off the keyboard. He's back with PANTANO WASH (in this publisher's opinion his best yet!). From the blurb on the back of the book:

"Pretty far from the right or left of old Route 66, depending on if you are going to or coming from California, is a small pueblo called Pantano Wash." Thus begins another chronicle from acclaimed humorist Conley Stone McAnally. To paraphrase a great poet, there are strange things done in the desert sun"...or something like that. Why don't you come on in to Peggy's, have a wedge of pie - or a whole circle if you like - and hear all about it?

This is Conley's seventh book with Pharaoh Publishing - it's available right here, and you can also find it on Amazon.

Special thanks to Richard Andrews, Arizona's best editor, for invaluable help again on this one!

Moonfleet

ISBN 978-0692451700, 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 292 pages, paperbound. $8.99 US

Thrilling old-school adventure from J. Meade Falkner! England, 1757...Moonfleet. A village with a secret. An orphan lad with a dream. A band of wily smugglers. A legend of lost treasure. When young John Trenchard discovers a long-lost crypt, he finds cryptic Bible verses inserted into an old locket. This chance discovery leads to a quest for a legendary jewel, swashbuckling action, and an experience that will change John's life forever. This classic of adventure fiction has long been in the public domain and is available for free in many ebook editions. This print version is for those who enjoy the feel of a physical book in their hands, and who love a rip-roaring adventure in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson and Talbot Mundy. Order it right here, or search for it on Amazon.

Coming This Summer

Just a brief note to let you know what's happening at Pharaoh: Conley McAnally has finished a new book, Pantano Wash, which should be released mid-summer. In the meantime we are continuing our old-school pulp series with Moonfleet, a tale of English smugglers by J. Meade Falkner, originally published in 1898. Work also continues on a complete reformatting, with footnotes, of Talbot Mundy's "Tros of Samothrace" novels - we plan to include every single novel in a mammoth 1,000 page omnibus edition. Finally, we've started formatting text for Edmund Ironsides, an Elizabethan play that may or may not have been (but probably wasn't) written by a young Shakespeare. And as if that wasn't enough to keep a hobby publisher busy, the Nerd Glows On imprint is deep into work on the second edition of the Manifesto roleplaying game.

All in all, it should be a productive summer! Check back for details as time marches on.

Ashwood: Tales From the Porch

ISBN 978-0692415917; 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 122 pages, paperbound. $4.99 US

In this sequel to Tales From Homer and Tales From the Lake, Conley Stone McAnally continues his fictional career as special projects officer for the local university's department of village archeology. This time he takes a trip to Ashwood to record the tales of Simon Ash, the town's unofficial oral historian. Through the collected tales told on Simon's porch, witness American history in a microcosm. Get it right here, or search for it on Amazon! 

Thanks again to Dick Andrews for another fine editing job.

O'Brian's Black & Tan

ISBN 978-0692364253; 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 108 pages, paperbound. $4.99 US

Tales from an Irish Pub! "Sir Snapper" Holds Court...In this charming sequel to Wilson Bay: Tales From an Eskimo Village and Jump, Alaska: Tales From the Interior, Conley Stone McAnally inherits a pub in rural Ireland. Read along as Conley matches wits and storytelling skills with the colorful locals, hunts the last snake in Ireland, learns how to wrestle a bull, celebrates Potato Day, helps get out the Leprechaun vote, and more! A special thanks to Dick Andrews of Tucson, AZ for an incredible editing job on this one. You can order your copy right here, or search for it on Amazon.

The Mad King

ISBN 978-0692396216; 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 374 pages, paperbound. $9.99 US

Two-Fisted Old-School Action from Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars! Barney, a rural man from Nebraska, is unaware that he shares the blood of kings. In the fictional European nation of Lutha, young Barney finds himself mistaken for the rightful king Leopold. Unfortunately the true king has been imprisoned by his wicked uncle, and to make matters worse, the First World War looms in the near future. Barney finds himself drawn into a web of trickery, mistaken identity, true love and intense action in a realm turned upside-down. This novel, long in the public domain, is available for free in many ebook editions. This exclusive keepsake print version, completely re-set and edited, is a must for Burroughs fans and anyone who appreciates a good adventure story in the style of H. Rider Haggard and Anthony Hope. Order your copy right here, or search for it on Amazon.

Under the Andes

ISBN 978-0692392683; 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 334 pages, paperbound. $9.99 US

Old-School Pulp Adventure! Rex Stout, the creator of Nero Wolfe, cut his teeth writing adventure stories for pulp magazines. This early example of his work is rife with fist-fights, escapes, beautiful women, degenerate natives, and underground explorations, as two brothers and the woman they both yearn for find themselves trapped in an undiscovered netherworld of darkness, danger and desire. This novel, long in the public domain, is available for free in many ebook editions. This exclusive keepsake print version, completely re-set and edited, is a must for Rex Stout fans and anyone who appreciates a good adventure story in the style of H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Order your copy right here, or search for it on Amazon.

Jump, Alaska, 2nd Edition

ISBN 978-0692318041, 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 118 pages, paperbound. $5.99 US

The second edition of Conley Stone McAnally's Jump, Alaska: Tales From the Interior is now available on Amazon! "There are strange things done in the midnight sun..." Conley once again feels the call of the wild and returns to bush Alaska, where he takes a post as an itinerate teacher. In these 24 short tales, Conley recounts his further adventures, meets up with a strange cast of characters, and obliterates the line between fact and fiction. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Conley follows an animal skin map around the bush, attends a native Thanksgiving feast, adopts a raven, pays homage to Robert W. Service, makes wry observations on politics, and much more. This second edition is part of the saga that began with Wilson Bay: Tales From an Eskimo Village and continues with O'Brian's Black & Tan: Tales From an Irish Pub.

Wilson Bay, 2nd Edition

ISBN 978-0692317990, 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 140 pages, paperbound. $6.99 US

The second edition of Conley Stone McAnally's Wilson Bay: Tales From an Eskimo Village is now available on Amazon! Conley takes us on a year-long odyssey to a remote region of Alaska, where he chronicles his experiences as a "gussick" among the Eskimos. Ranging from hilarious misadventures to serious reflections, WILSON BAY is a comical, heartfelt, and unflinching portrait of life in rural Alaska - one where the line between fact and fiction is often blurred. This second edition is the first book in the saga that continues with Jump, Alaska: Tales From the Interior and O'Brian's Black & Tan: Tales From an Irish Pub.

Tales From the Lake

ISBN 978-0692305102, 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 114 pages, paperbound. $4.99 US

The long-awaited sequel to Conley Stone McAnally's Tales From Homer is now available! Tales From the Lake continues in the vein of its predecessor, as Conley explores a lake town that has fallen into ruin. He finds a trunk of journal notes from a young boy named Mickey and edits them into a heartwarming and humorous account of a small Midwest community. You can get it directly from Amazon right here.

Tales From Homer, 2nd Edition

ISBN 978-0692300527; 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 114 pages, paperbound. $4.99 US

We're proud to announce the second edition of Pharaoh's very first book, Tales From Homer by Conley Stone McAnally. You can order it directly from Amazon right here. This edition features a new cover, a helpful "Who's Who in Doodenville," and an excerpt from the charming sequel, Tales From the Lake.

New Editions on the Way

Three titles by Conley Stone McAnally - Tales From Homer, Wilson Bay, and Jump, Alaska are temporarily out of print. Second editions are in the works. These will be released simultaneously with Tales From the Lake, the delightful sequel to Tales From Homer, in time for the holiday season.

Hold On, I'm Comin'

William Scott. Chaffin's My Heart It Beats the Lonely Runner is out of print. He's revising and adding lyrics and drawings (along with a new cover) for a second edition. We hope to see this soon, but you can't rush genius. It'll be ready when it's ready. In the meantime, console yourself with some of Chaffin's latest music.

Black Ambient

Pharaoh makes its first foray into music with a release from Call Me Snake on the Minutewax label (our new music imprint). It's meditation music for metalheads - drones, bells, static, disembodied tones and voices, backdrops for sinister moods or creative trances. Weighing in at a loopable 20 minutes, it features four tracks: Night Alone, Random Angels, Metal Frog, and Static Stalker. Find it here

In case anyone wonders, Minutewax was, indeed, the indie CD-R label of the late Ian Thomas. We use the name in his honor and with his blessing. 

Tales From Cape City

ISBN 978-0615985251, 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 130 pages, paperbound. $7.88 US

Colin Lee Campbell turns to the superhero genre with tales of heroism, anti-heroism, and black humor. In nine action-packed tales, Colin takes us on a whirlwind tour of Cape City's past and present, seen through the eyes of heroes and villains who redefine what it means to be "super." Before the founding of Cape City, a French fur trader arrives in a Native American village, followed by a Jesuit priest, just as spirits and creatures from the nearby lake suddenly begin causing trouble. Can Natiakah, the lake's guardian, save the village, or is he only a myth? An old man in a retirement home looks back on his life as Gangbuster, a Golden Age superhero who fought crime in Cape City from the Roaring Twenties up to World War Two. In six darkly comedic tales, Deadbeat gives the reader a look through the eyes of an antihero cursed with immortality, from deserting the Confederacy, fighting undead in the Wild West, to serving prison time in modern-day Cape City, and more. A girl is missing in Cape City, and only one superhero is intent on finding her. But Da Bomb has an explosive temper...literally, and everything he encounters along the way just seems to make him angrier.

Funeral Train and Other Stories, 2nd Edition

ISBN 978-0692024720, 5"x8", black and white interior, color cover, 118 pages, paperbound. $6.99 US

This classic by Colin Lee Campbell is now available on Amazon, with a handsome new cover and bonus story. The ten tales collected here run the gamut from the fantastic to the macabre. They include The Abels, Funeral Train, A World Apart, Noah's Hunger, Horror Vacui, The Oneironauts, Dhatura's Song, The Looking Glass Planet, and Lock Picker.

Upheaval

The Pharaoh web site was smashed and rebuilt from scratch. Most existing titles will soon go into second editions. We are moving all titles to the 5x8 matte cover format. We've learned a thing or two in our first few years of operation, so we're re-tooling everything. Expect some titles to disappear from virtual shelves for a while. Colin Lee Campbell's Tales From Cape City and Funeral Train and Other Stories, which pioneered the new format, are available now.