Forthcoming Books

[Zaharoff]

https://www.egaeuspress.com/Trackless_Paths.html


Trackless Paths
by
Benjamin Tweddell



TRACKLESS PATHS - a collection of unsettling, esoteric, melancholic tales by BENJAMIN TWEDDELL - is now available to order.
Rarely are the realms of the unseen, the unknowable secrets of human life and death, so masterfully evoked than in Tweddell's meticulous prose. Rarely do we find ourselves sharing the same deadly longings, the same sadness as his doomed protagonists. Arcane knowledge often comes at a heavy price.
Having previously appeared in small runs, all long out-of-print, the stories included in this Egaeus Press book are :
A Crown of Dusk and Sorrow
The Measurer of All Things
The Veneration at Polwheveral Manor
The Paths of the Dead
The Salix Arcanum
The Place of Remaking
The book is a 244 page hardback with printed endpapers; featuring as its cover an original painting by Irah Solomon Stewart. It is limited to just 325 copies.
ISBN: 978-1-739579104.
It can be ordered now for £39.00, inclusive of postage worldwide.

[bendk]

Quote Originally Posted by Zaharoff

https://www.egaeuspress.com/Trackless_Paths.html Trackless Paths by Benjamin Tweddell TRACKLESS PATHS - a collection of unsettling, esoteric, melancholic tales by BENJAMIN TWEDDELL - is now available to order.

Benjamin Tweddell's work has gotten great reviews on Goodreads. Plus, I love Egaeus Press books. Look at that cover. Beautiful. Ordered.

[Cronopio]

That sounds really obscure.

[bendk]

This looks different.

https://polymathpress.com/products/a...y-robert-lewis

[Gnosticangel]

(Just received this email; anyone else?)

CHARNEL GLAMOUR by Mark Samuels announced

Greetings everyone,

Tomorrow/Thursday at noon eastern time HERE we're offering sales for Charnel Glamour by Mark Samuels.

Synopsis: Crouching defiantly in the shadow of the expanding metropolis of London, Gallows Langley broods at one end of the mystery-haunted Thool Valley. Here, the inroads of progress are baffled and thwarted and visitors from the capital should beware. With the first misstep, they are liable to stray into a universe of unsuspected forces, ancient and weird, an abyss on their very doorstep, and their enlightened urban values will prove ineffective talismans against what they encounter.

...Since the appearance of The White Hands and Other Weird Tales in 2003, Mark Samuels has forged a distinctive and uncompromising body of work in the realm of weird and horror fiction. Earning praise from such voices as T.E.D. Klein and Michael Dirda, Samuels has combined a Borgesian play of ideas with a sensibility steeped in the twin traditions of cinematic and literary horror. The nine extraordinary tales in Charnel Glamour form in this edition the first publication of the last writings left to the world by one of the most notable weird authors of our time.

Seven of the nine tales are set in the fictional Thool Valley, forming a myth-cycle around the village of Gallows Langley, the nucleus of a vortex of iniquitous cults and sinister distortions of the fabric of reality, with secret passages running in dark and labyrinthine ways between tales. In the Gallows Langley sequence, Samuels takes a turn away from the urban and corporate horror that has occupied much of his previous work, towards the rural and ‘folk horror’, showing us what baleful things the Wolf Moon illuminates and unearthing revenants from the soil of British history in an archaeology of the macabre.

The final two tales are the magisterial ‘If Destiny Still Reigns’, chilling as its Siberian setting, and the mist-wreathed, valedictory ‘The End of Death’, a case of missing persons and a dispatch on Last Things. Both, in their different ways, stand worthy as the last fictional testimony of a considerable author.

In the collection as a whole we find the familiar, dread-filled cosmology of the undead that has become a Samuels hallmark, here given some new twists and laced with a subtle, layered reflection upon the sources in our history of what might sustain us against the inhuman depredations to come. Lurid entertainment here sits side by side with an existentialism of the human species, and the philosophical peers from behind the gruesome.

Hailed already by pre-publication readers as his greatest collection, Charnel Glamour is the black swan-song of an author whose reputation will now only grow.

https://chiropterapress.com/collecti...eid=b489edb113

[Charon]

Got this as well and i can't wait !!!!

[Ligrotesque]

I got the limited slipcased copy of the M. Samuels book and wow, there are only 2 left.

[Michael]

I think all the slipcased ones are gone. Looks like a clamshell Lettered is still available.

I am still very saddened about Samuels death. I have read almost everything he wrote. This volume will be wonderful.

[bendk]

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris (May 28, 2024)

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most inspiring “monster” in contemporary fiction.

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold.
In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. Young Karen attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate Anka’s recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka's heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets she suspects her brother Deez of hiding. Ferris’s exhilarating cast of characters experience revelations and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries visited upon them earlier. Visually, the story is told in Ferris's inimitable style that breathtakingly and seamlessly combines panel-to-panel storytelling and cartoon montages filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster mag iconography.

I really enjoyed the first graphic novel.

[Gnosticangel]

RE: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris (May 28, 2024)

Thanks to Bendk for bringing this up. Loved the first volume but publication of the sequel has been pushed back for so long I stopped looking for it. Excited to see it now!