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“Its presence always permeates the dream: fog with a pallid face drifting in through an open window. It fuses its tormented spirit with dead objects, animating things which should not move or live, breathing a blasphemous life into the unliving. One glance at a design on the wall catches this Horror-Maker engendering a world of writhing creatures there. It lives in all things, and they tilt and flutter with a menacing absence of purpose or predictability. Finally it melds with the slowly coagulating shadows, and now it is without limits as it spreads to command a domain of quivering darkness. The universe becomes its impossible body, its corpse. As the blackness of space is its corrupting blood, so the planets are multiple skulls of the freakish beast; the paths of doomed meteors trace the architecture of its labyrinthine skeletal frame; spasms of dying galaxies are its nervous tics; and strange stellar venues of incomprehensible properties are the chambers of its soul. Within this universe the dreamer is trapped, his dreams confined to the interior of a form other than his own. But finally this Horror-Maker moves from outside to inside the dreamer, subverting his heroic autonomy, and becoming one with him. Now it is he himself who generates those nightmares from that design on the wall. Every glimpse conjures universes of cavorting horrors, and ultimately even the crystal absence of the void becomes populated by every monstrosity that can or cannot exist. There is no refuge from the living void, the terror of the invisible.” |
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Grimscribe Press Presents GLASS STORIES by Ivy Grimes |
Apr 30, 2024 - 8:30 PM - by dr. locrian
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Cover reveal from Grimscribe Press! Art by Jesse Peper!
Those who wish to buy one of the 50 limited edition hardcovers may pre-order here. Cloth, dust jacket, 70# paper. As of this post, 21 of the 50 books remain unsold.
The book is 142 pp. and will be released on August 21, 2024.
A collection by LC von Hessen will drop in October 2024. Stay tuned! Grimes and von Hessen are two of our favorite VASTARIEN veteran authors, and we're thrilled to be publishing both their debut collections this year.
GLASS STORIES by Ivy Grimes
Synopsis
Glass Stories by Ivy Grimes is a collection of seventeen darkly weird and humorous tales that reflect the essence of Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, Kelly Link, and Haruki Murakami’s storytelling. Grimes explores the spectral nature of glass in everyday objects, taking readers from purgatory to the Bible Belt, through narratives that shimmer with the uncanny and the absurd. An old woman invites two strangers into her glass tower, a woman gives birth under the glow of a glass gift from her late mother, a bookstore clerk’s mundane existence is shattered by a glass book, and a man untangles his mother’s fears through a glass oddity. From the menacing presence of a glass angel to a glass pet protector who eats light, each story is a pane that illuminates the characters’ deepest trials and whims. We witness a teen reinventing herself amidst glass coffins, two elderly brothers opening old wounds in a glass museum, a bride bedazzled by a glass apple given to her as a wedding present, an aggrieved daughter trapped atop a glass mountain by her father, and a captive woman who glimpses salvation through a mirror. The singular tales in Glass Stories entrance and delight.
Table of Contents
Glass Tower
Glass Mother
Glass Book
Glass Clue
Glass Turtle
Glass Art
Glass Coffins
Glass Museums
Glass Angel
Looking Glass
Glass Pet
Glass Piano
Glass Mountain
Glass Pills
Glass Cabbage
Glass House
Glass Apple
About the Author
Ivy Grimes was born in Alabama and currently lives in Virginia. She is very quiet and enjoys puzzles. Her stories have appeared in Vastarien, Interzone, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, hex, ergot., Seize the Press, and elsewhere. Also available are a chapbook of short stories called Grime Time and a novella called Star Shapes. Visit her at Ivy Grimes Writer of strange stories.
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CADABRA RECORDS: "The Tsalal" by Thomas Ligotti |
Feb 23, 2024 - 3:00 PM - by dr. locrian
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This Cadabra Records Ligotti double album, to me, with astonishing art by Grady Gordon, is the most aesthetically pleasing work they've produced to date. Yes, I'm biased. But dear Yog, this is gorgeous.
"ON SALE NOW! The Tsalal by Thomas Ligotti 2x LP set. Read by Jon Padgett and scored by Chris Bozzone. Liner notes by Michael Cisco. Packaged in a triple panel gatefold sleeve with art by Grady Gordon. Oversees customers can purchase through Psilowave. We have less than 100x copies to go around, so don’t sleep on this incredible production!!"
If you really want to know Ligotti's take on all things TSALAL, buy this. It begs to be heard read aloud.
Buy here if in the states.
Buy here if overseas (only 4 left!)
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Nightlands |
Mar 13, 2024 - 11:27 PM - by bendk
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"We’re soon to launch a brand new magazine we’re calling Nightlands. Each issue is dedicated to a corresponding book. Our very first issue is themed after the Ligotti and Trenz screenplays and is only available through purchase of Michigan Basement. Each issue will average between 24 to 36 pages and will be sold for printing costs, included in the price of our books. Every few issues will be collected and expanded with additional material and sold individually as single volumes. In the near future we have titles by Mark Samuels, Matthew M. Bartlett, Thomas Ligotti, T. E. D. Klein, H. P. Lovecraft with more to come, so you can only imagine how fun this magazine is going to be. Shown is cover art by Joe Keinberger and back cover art by Dave Felton."
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