Ex Occidente Press

[Comrade Tulayev]

Great review Des of the new Marvick piece. For those interested in my own thoughts on the Marvick, I have posted a review of MADMAN OF TOSTERGLOPE and also of John Howard's DEFEAT OF GRIEF on Goodreads.

Here are those links...

Marvick:
Benjamin Uminsky (Los Angeles, CA)'s review of The Madman of Tosterglope

Howard:
Benjamin Uminsky (Los Angeles, CA)'s review of The Defeat of Grief

[nomis]

You are wrong; it's not an elaborate scam. Dan Ghetu is indeed Romanian, and is producing some very nice books. I've already received my copy of R.B. Russell's book and am expecting delivery of further volumes shortly.

[Waterdweller]

Thank you for this clarification.
And sorry, Mr. Dan Ghetu.

[nomis]

Peter Bell, another great writer who doesn't write nearly enough. I must go preorder this one immediately.

I hope everyone noticed the Joel Lane book in the "Future Titles" section. I'm quite excited to see that one.

I know at least four other writers who have books in the queue and whose names I'd love to share but until the books are announced it seems improper. You'll be excited -- not Ligotti-excited, but excited nonetheless.

Keep watching Ex Occidente over the next few months!

[MadsPLP]

@nomis> Could you possibly tell a bit more about Peter Bell? I tried googling him, but his name seems to be too common for anything useful to come up. Perhaps my skills at googling are not too efficient.

[nomis]

Peter is an author, historian, critic, and all around scholar. Most of his work can be found in places such as WORMWOOD, ALL HALLOWS, and SUPERNATURAL TALES. He's a fan of Aickman's strange sensibility, and tries to bring that to his work. He's English, of course, as 90% of modern traditional weird authors seem to be.

I believe this Ex Occidente book will be his first collection.

[MadsPLP]

Ah, yes. Now I remember his name - he wrote that very enlightening essay about Aickman as an anthologist in one of the more recent issues of Wormwood. Thank you!

The other magasines, I've only heard (good things) about. Aickmanesqueness is almost always an interesting thing in a writer.

Thanks for the information!

[The New Nonsense]

I just received my order from Ex Occidente Press, The Rite of Trebizond by Mark Valentine and Putting the Pieces in Place by R. B. Russell. Both are very attractive books. I contacted the publisher to compliment him on the books. In his response he mentioned a bit of info on the forthcoming Reggie Oliver collection, Madder Mysteries, saying,

"We are going to do something very special with "Madder Mysteries". The book should be out from the printers in maximum two weeks."

Such teasing words! I can hardly wait!

[nomis]

I wasted no time placing my orders for these. I'm very excited about them both.

[MadsPLP]

Some thumbnails of the new Jean Ray collection. A collection which should be imminent.