Necropolis Press & Splore Books

04/14/2026

TITLE TUESDAY ! ! !

In early 2009, the curator of Special Collections at the Miskatonic University Library gave me exclusive rights to publish THE PORTS AND PORTALS OF THE ZELAZNIDS, the anonymous history of the mysterious Zelaznid people, which was read by the character Benjamin in my first novel A LIFE I CHIAROSCURO.

After much study, I think I figured out who authored the work. That scholastic journey is outlined in my intro essay to this fully annotated edition of the work, the only edition available to the public.

In ancient China, while searching for the gods, they learned a remarkable skill - the ability to travel to other worlds (ports) through the establishment of doorways (portals) from this world.Using portals, they would escape from countless dangers through the centuries. Using ports, they would in...

04/07/2026

TITLE TUESDAY!

One of our earliest titles remains one of the most popular. Under the influence of o***m and a thunderstorm in June 1816, several creative minds challenged each other to a horror writing contest. This volume contains the results of that contest - Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, John Polidori's THE VAMPYR, and fragments by Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley - annotated with study questions for classroom use.

In May of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin traveled with her future husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her stepsister Claire Clairmont, to Lake Geneva, Switzerland. There, they visited the exiled poet Lord Byron, as well as his doctor and companion Dr. John Polidori, at an estate called ...

03/24/2026

! ! TITLE TUESDAY ! !

It's the exciting return of Title Tuesdays (if I can keep myself organized). Today's title may look familiar. We initially launched it in December, but the printing company used the wrong paper (not entirely their fault). After a lot of back and forth - BOOM! - Here is the relaunch of the latest book in the Little Ben & Little Abigail Series. Ben uses a time machine to visit the past and helps a princess defend her castle against an evil army. Good stuff!

Little Ben goes back in time to help prepare Princess Violet for an attack on her castle.

03/22/2026

Grats to our writers, artists, and editors for another strong year at Necropolis Press and Splore Books - Royalties should post tomorrow morning. In the meantime, after a long delay, here are the BEST SELLERS FOR 2025

1-The Banditti of the Prairies - Bonney / Paul-Thomas Ferguson / Clark
2-Kings & Other Hallucinations - Ferguson
3-A Life in Chiaroscuro - Ferguson
4-Phantasmion - Coleridge
5-Watershed - Ferguson
6-The Geneva Collection (Frankenstein/The Vampyre, etc) - Shelley/Polidori/Byron/Shelley
7-Pandemonium - Michael Callahan / Ferguson / Keaton
8-Little Ben and the Old Man in the House - Wes Pranschke
9-To Live! - Callahan
10-Walden - Thoreau
11-A Thousand Miles or Less - Ferguson
12-Little Ben and the Air Pirates - Pranschke
13-Little Abigail and Her Busy Day - Pranschke
14-Little ben and the Refrigerator Box - Pranschke
15-The Castle of the Carpathians - Verne