#Random HOuse

[brokehorrorfan]

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror will be published on October 3 via Random House. It's curated by filmmaker Jordan Peele, who also provides an introduction and serves as editor with John Joseph Adams.

It features short stories by Erin E. Adams, Violet Allen, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Maurice Broaddus, Chesya Burke, P. Djèlí Clark, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, N.K. Jemisin, Justin C. Key, L.D. Lewis, Nnedi Okorafor, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nicole D. Sconiers, Rion Amilcar Scott, Terence Taylor, and Cadwell Turnbull.

The 400-page book will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio book. The synopsis is below.

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation. A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele’s anthology of all-new horror stories by Black writers. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and—like his spine-chilling films—its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world... and redefine what it means to be afraid.

Pre-order Out There Screaming.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

C-3PO's Book About Robots - art by John Gampert (1983)

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #790

In 1971, Random House made two Muppet activity books in which people could make pop up puppets of Sesame Street characters. The puppets were of Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch.

Sources:

The Muppets of Sesame Street. Random House. 1971.

More Muppets of Sesame Street. Random House. 1971.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Jeffrey Mishlove - The Roots of Consciousness - Random House - 1975 (cover illustration from a painted sculpture by Vijali)

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Hardcover - Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries by Alfred Hitchcock

Art by Fred Banbery

Random House (1963)

[secondbeatsongs]

Please elaborate on the Judy Blume fact

from the mid-00s to the early '10s, Random House had a website called "Random Buzzers", a place for kids and teens to talk about books

they had fun activities (short story contests, writing prompts, quizzes, etc), and for some of the activities, you got rewarded points, which you could then use to buy books in their online store.

it was a fun time! I really liked writing short stories and poems and stuff for the contests, and this wasn't like (afaik)...predatory? it wasn't something where the site was going to take these stories and use them later, it was just...for fun.

unfortunately, the site is down now, and with it all of the cool stories/art/poems/etc that people made. :/ but thankfully, I have most of my stuff backed up.

anyway! this site also had events where an author would join their discussion forum for a few days to answer a bunch of questions and talk with people. and one time they had Judy Blume join, and I got to chat with her a bit!

I talked about the books of hers I'd read, and showed a picture of my copy of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, and she told me that she was impressed I had a copy that was so old, and also that she'd always been annoyed with the cover art for that edition, because the cut of Margaret's dress made her look pregnant. xD

I also talked about how because I was homeschooled, I liked reading books about kids going to public school, because I would never know what that was like - and she said that made her wish she had written her books more descriptively, which I thought was sweet.

anyway, we had a nice talk, and she left the forum a couple days later, and that was that.

then, some time later, Judy Blume was at the national book festival, so I went, hoping that she would sign my book. and when I got up to the front of the autograph line, I said, "hi, I don't know if you remember me, but I talked with you once on random buzzers"

and...she did remember me! she knew my username, and that I was homeschooled, and she was excited that I had come to see her, and that she got to sign my book (even if it was a cover design she didn't like xD)

she just seemed really nice, and I'm glad to have had that experience.

[psychic-refugee]

I saw this post on Reddit, and I think it’s worth placing some context to the image.

Millar et al. on the book itself are credited for their original source material that Mejia butchered. They are not credited as co-authoring the novel itself.

Unless they come out with a 2nd ed. with a correction, then no, Millar et al. are NOT co-authors as the website and this poster are implying.

I believe Random House is trying to purposefully obfuscate the writing credit here. Random House and Random House Children’s also has this odd credit of “TV Show Writers,” rather than directly name Millar et al.

It feels like a shady semantics trick into making the gullible Wenclairs and unsuspecting potential buyers into believing Millar et al. had more to do with the process than they really did. For all we know the “TV Show Writers” could be other people who had a hand in the process, but are not Millar et al. themselves.

My question is if Millar et al. really had a hand in it, why wouldn’t they have promo’d the book?

Reminder: To date, Milar et al, Ortega, nor anyone from Netflix or the cast have not promo'd or even acknowledged this book. As far as we can tell from their social media content, they don't even know it exists.

No one from the writing team or the cast follow Mejia.

According to Wenclair logic, does that mean they're all distancing themselves from Mejia and hate them?

I know Wenclairs are allergic to critical thinking and are totally oblivious to their hypocrisy and double standards, but come on now. At least be consistent with your harassment.

Random House didn’t even promo the book and Mejia, like their novel, did half assed promo by only posting about it once and it was lukewarm at best.

My suspicion is that Random House knows a) Mejia did a terrible job and want to spread the blame around and b) are leeching off of Millar et al.’s credibility because Mejia is a nobody with an unimpressive CV.

I wouldn’t be surprised if many Wenclairs pirated the book bc they’re entitled povvos, so the book didn’t sell nearly as well as they were hoping. A lot of people also rightfully pointed out the inconsistencies and mistakes. So, Random House is trying to garner more interest in the novel by making it seem like it’s more canon than it is.

[oldshowbiz]

1962.

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, June 5 in 1919, the noted American children's author and illustrator Richard Scarry was born in Boston Massachusetts. In the course of his career, Scarry produced over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million worldwide. He his most well-known for his booksabout Busytown, with its population of anthropomorphic animals. The series was even adapted into an animated series, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, which aired on Showtime from 1993 to 1997, with reruns on Nickelodeon in the late 1990s.

We represent Scarry on his birthday with our copy of The Great Pie Robbery, published by Random House in 1969. The story begins with cherry pies being robbed from Ma Dog's Bakery in Busytown. But never fear, detectives Sam Cat and Dudley Pig are on the case!

In 1972, Scarry and his wife moved to Switzerland, purchasing a chalet in Gstaad, where Scarry died in 1994.

View another post on Scarry's The Great Pie Robbery.

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[geekcavepodcast]

“What If...?” Series of Adult Novels Announced from Marvel and Random House Worlds

Random House Worlds and Marvel Comics are collaborating on a series of adult novels carrying on the What If...? storytelling tradition at Marvel. Each book will focus on its own twist on a Marvel hero and will be set in their own distinct universes. Penguin House Audio will also publish audiobook editions of each novel.

The first three stories in the new What If...? series are:

What If...Loki Was Worthy? A Loki and Valkyrie Story by Madeleine Roux, on sale on March 12, 2024.

What If...Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? A Scarlet Witch and Spider-Man Story by Seanan McGuire, on sale in July 2024.

What If...Marc Spector Was a Host to Venom? A Moon Knight and Venom Story by Mike Chen, on sale in October 2024.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Cover of What If...Loki Was Worthy? A Loki and Valkyrie Story)

[fitsofgloom]

The Glow In The Dark Night Sky Book. My father bought me this back in '88 or '89, and I still have it, and yes, it glows in the dark. I never really took to that aspect of Astronomy -- the starry firmament just looks random and patternless to me, not easily defined by connect-the-dots figuring that puts faces on the cosmos -- but I've always loved the Greek Myths, and it's illustrated with fantasy novel-style art to depict the constellations. It brings to mind the conclusions of both "Clash of The Titans" and "Hercules '83" with the Gods of Olympus drawing players into the stars at their conclusions.

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

Return of the Jedi bookmarks - art by Patricia Wynne (1983)

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[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Dare Wright - Lona: A Fairy Tale - Random House - 1963

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Paperback - Alfred Hitchcock And The Three Investigators in The Secret Of The Crooked Cat by William Arden

Random House (1981)