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I’m starting this thread to clean up multiple newer editions of books by the author Joel Lane that were published by Influx Press. Information has been sourced from the publisher’s website and Amazon UK. The only order to how I’ve arranged the books are how they were listed on the website.

The first three books that need to be cleaned up are in this opening post. The last three will be in the next post due to character limit.



The Witnesses Are Gone

Paperback Edition: The Witnesses Are Gone (ISBN 9781910312971)

- The publication date is incorrect. This edition was published January 19, 2023.

- The page count is missing. It has 102 pages.

- M. John Harrison needs to be added with the Introduction role. Complete


Kindle Edition: The Witnesses Are Gone (ASIN B0B5BHMQ42)

- The page count is incorrect. Amazon says it has 84 pages.

- M. John Harrison needs to be added with the Introduction role. Complete


Missing Ebook Edition

The ebook edition is missing and needs to be added.

TITLE: The Witnesses Are Gone
AUTHOR: Joel Lane
INTRODUCTION: M. John Harrison
ISBN: 9781910312988
PUBLISHER: Influx Press
DATE PUBLISHED: October 6, 2022
FORMAT: Ebook
DESCRIPTION:
Moving into an old and decaying house, Martin Swann discovers a box of video cassettes in the garden shed. One of them is a bootleg copy of a morbid and disturbing film by obscure French director, Jean Rien.

The discovery leads Martin on a search for the director’s other films, and for a way to understand Rien’s filmography, drawing him away from his home and his lover into a shadowy realm of secrets, rituals and creeping decay. An encounter with a crazed film journalist in Gravesend leads to drug-fuelled visions in Paris – and finally to the Mexican desert where a grim revelation awaits.

The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the darkest parts of the underworld – a look behind the screen on which our collective nightmares play.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: From the publisher website: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co... Complete



Scar City

Paperback Edition: Scar City (ISBN 9781910312612)

- The publication date needs to be more specific. It was published October 29, 2020.

- The page count is incorrect. Amazon states that it has 256 pages.

- Nicholas Royle needs to be added with the Introduction role. Complete


Kindle Edition: Scar City (ASIN B08HQCGSN8)

- Nicholas Royle needs to be added with the Introduction role.

- The description is missing paragraph breaks. It should read as follows:

Joel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UK’s foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects of human nature. With a tight focus on the post-industrial Black Country and his home city of Birmingham, he created a distinct form of British urban weird fiction.

Scar City is one of the final collections put together before his death in 2013 – with his home city of Birmingham as their nucleus, these are intense, haunting and often painful stories from a master of the short form.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS ROYLE Complete


Ebook edition: Scar City (ISBN 9781910312629)

- The publication date should be October 23, 2020

- Nicholas Royle needs to be added with the Introduction role.

- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as the above Kindle edition. Complete



The Earth Wire

Paperback Edition: The Earth Wire (ISBN 9781910312575)

- The first paragraph of the description is missing. The following needs to be added at the beginning:
‘This was the area where he and I belonged, in transition between the city centre and the suburbs. It was an area made up of derelict buildings, factories, car parks, railway bridges, subways, canals. An area given back to whatever of nature could improvise a living there. An area whose chief landmarks were half-concealed places that had the feel of the past, but were too anonymous to count as history.’ Complete


Kindle Edition: The Earth Wire (ASIN B08HQ3FG3P)

- Nina Allan needs to be added with the Introduction role.

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
‘This was the area where he and I belonged, in transition between the city centre and the suburbs. It was an area made up of derelict buildings, factories, car parks, railway bridges, subways, canals. An area given back to whatever of nature could improvise a living there. An area whose chief landmarks were half-concealed places that had the feel of the past, but were too anonymous to count as history.’

Joel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UK’s foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects of human nature. With a tight focus on the post-industrial Black Country and his home city of Birmingham, he created a distinct form of British urban weird fiction.

His debut collection, The Earth Wire was first published in 1994 by Egerton Press and is reissued in paperback by Influx Press for the first time in over twenty-five years.

Love and death. Sex and despair. The Earth Wire is a thrilling, disturbing examination of the means and the cost of survival. Complete


Ebook Edition: The Earth Wire (ISBN 9781910312582)

- The publication date needs to be October 23, 2020. Complete


Thanks to anyone who can help out with this. Post #2 coming as soon as possible.

From Blue to Black

Unknown Paperback Edition: From Blue to Black (ISBN 9781919143910)

I can find no source for this edition. The ISBN is not listed on the publisher’s website or Amazon, and searching it on Worldcat gives no results. However, compare the ISBN for this unknown edition with the ISBN listed for the paperback edition on the publisher’s website and Amazon:
9781919143910
9781914391033

Because the numbers are so similar, I believe that whoever created this edition typed in the ISBN manually, but made a typo where they typed in 19 twice and were not able to enter the true last two digits of the paperback edition as a result. As such, I believe that ISBN 9781919143910 and the real, existing paperback edition with a number listed on Amazon and the publisher’s website (9781914391033) need to be merged. Links to both editions so the merge can be carried out:
From Blue to Black Accidental typo duplicate
From Blue to Black Real edition

I’ll list the information that needs to be corrected for the paperback edition once the merge is completed.


Kindle Edition: From Blue to Black (ASIN B09SSQMRLB)

- Kerry Hadley-Pryce needs to be added with the Introduction role.

- The description is missing paragraph breaks. It should read as follows:
Birmingham, early 1990s. Triangle are a cult act on the post-punk scene, led by brilliant and troubled vocalist Karl – a man haunted by past violence and present danger, torn between fame and oblivion, men and women, music and silence.

Triangle’s bass player, David, is struggling to make sense of Karl’s reality as the band start to make waves in the music scene and Karl starts to come apart in a blur of sex and drinking.

First published in 2000, Joel Lane’s debut novel From Blue to Black is a story of passion, blood and alcohol, broken strings and broken lives – a piercing voyage through our musical and political past that cuts to the bone. Complete


Missing Ebook Edition

The ebook edition needs to be added to the site.

TITLE: From Blue to Black
AUTHOR: Joel Lane
INTRODUCTION: Kerry Hadley-Pryce
ISBN: 9781914391040
PUBLISHER: Influx Press
DATE PUBLISHED: March 31, 2022
FORMAT: Ebook
DESCRIPTION: [same as the above Kindle description]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: From the publisher website: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co... Complete



The Blue Mask

Missing Paperback Edition

The paperback edition is missing and needs to be added.

TITLE: The Blue Mask
AUTHOR: Joel Lane
INTRODUCTION: Joseph O'Neill
ISBN-10: 1914391055
ISBN-13: 9781914391057
ASIN: 1914391055
PUBLISHER: Influx Press
DATE PUBLISHED: October 12, 2023
NUMBER OF PAGES: [not yet available]
FORMAT: Paperback
DESCRIPTION:
Neil is a student at Birmingham University, living a typical life of gigs, clubs, politics, sex.

One night, after a row with his lover, Neil follows a stranger onto a canal towpath. The stranger turns on him and attacks, viciously carving up Neil’s face and leaving him mutilated beyond recognition.

Neil’s recovery is a journey through surgical reconstruction and sexual alienation. His attempt to track down his attacker becoming a search for his own hidden, destructive self; a search that leads him to question values he had always taken for granted.

First published in 2003 and long out-of-print, The Blue Mask is a hardcore emotional trip exploring the trauma of change and the nature of violence and of love.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JOSEPH O’NEILL

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: From the publisher website: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co.... Complete


Missing Ebook Edition

The ebook edition is missing and needs to be added.

TITLE: The Blue Mask
AUTHOR: Joel Lane
INTRODUCTION: Joseph O'Neill
ISBN: 9781914391064
PUBLISHER: Influx Press
DATE PUBLISHED: October 12, 2023
FORMAT: Ebook
DESCRIPTION: [Same as paperback]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: From the publisher website: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co.... Complete

Information on the Kindle edition is not yet available.



Where Furnaces Burn

Missing Paperback Edition

The paperback edition needs to be added.

TITLE: Where Furnaces Burn
AUTHOR: Joel Lane
INTRODUCTION: R.M. Francis
ISBN-10: 1914391098
ISBN-13: 9781914391095
ASIN: 1914391098
PUBLISHER: Influx Press
DATE PUBLISHED: October 12, 2023
NUMBER OF PAGES: [not yet available]
FORMAT: Paperback
DESCRIPTION:
Episodes from the casebook of a police officer in the West Midlands:

A young woman needs help in finding the buried pieces of her lover... so he can return to waking life.

Pale-faced thieves gather by a disused railway to watch a puppet theatre of love and violence.

Why do local youths keep starting fires in the ash woods around a disused mine in the Black Country?

A series of inexplicable deaths uncover a secret cult of machine worship.

When a migrant worker disappears, the key suspect is a boy driven mad by memories that are not his own.

Among the derelict factories and warehouses at the heart of the city, an archaic god seeks out his willing victims.

Blurring the occult detective story with urban noir fiction, Where Furnaces Burn offers a glimpse of the myths and terrors buried within the industrial landscape.

First published in 2012, Joel Lane’s World Fantasy Award-winning collection is a true modern classic of weird fiction that cemented his place as one of the most important and distinctive British writers of the weird.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY R.M. FRANCIS

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: From the publisher website: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co... Complete


Missing Ebook Edition

The ebook edition needs to be added.

TITLE: Where Furnaces Burn
AUTHOR: Joel Lane
INTRODUCTION: R.M. Francis
ISBN: 9781914391101
PUBLISHER: Influx Press
DATE PUBLISHED: October 12, 2023
FORMAT: Ebook
DESCRIPTION: [same as the paperback]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: From the publisher website: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co... Complete

Information on the Kindle edition is not yet available.

Thanks to anyone who can help with this cleanup. Your assistance is hugely appreciated.

Nic wrote: "Paperback, kindle and ebook for The Witnesses Are Gone done."

Thanks so much. Crossed them off the list.

A week has passed since the thread was last updated, so I'm bumping.

Bumping again.

Bumping.

Scar City Paperback, kindle & ebook - done (let me know if I missed something)

Julia wrote: "Scar City Paperback, kindle & ebook - done (let me know if I missed something)"

The new editions of Scar City all seem to be in order. Thank you.

I've updated the kindle, paperback, & ebook edition of The Earth Wire.

Julia wrote: "I've updated the kindle, paperback, & ebook edition of The Earth Wire."

Edited my post to reflect this. Thanks so much.

From Blue to Black: kindle updated, ebook added here .

Julia wrote: "From Blue to Black: kindle updated, ebook added here ."

Thanks so much. Is there any chance you could merge the two paperbacks, or is that something a superlibrarian would have to handle?

Normal librarians can do that, I'm just not that familiar with merges, tbh...

The blue mask paperback & ebook are added: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio... .

Julia wrote: "Normal librarians can do that, I'm just not that familiar with merges, tbh...

The blue mask paperback & ebook are added: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio... ."

Thanks so much. I'll start a separate thread in Book/Author Issues, then return to this one to add the new paperback information if needed.

Where Furnaces Burn: Paperback & ebook editions added.

Julia wrote: "Where Furnaces Burn: Paperback & ebook editions added."

Thanks so much for all of your help. Going to mark the thread as complete since everything but the merging of the weird ISBN issue is done with, and I've got a separate thread going to correct that.