Ex Occidente Press

[Waterdweller]

This sounds almost to good to be true.
On secod thought the site doesn't have a proper imprint.
WHOIS gives this:



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Domain Name: exocccidente.com
Created On: 22-Jan-2009 00:00:00
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Registrant Name: Dan Ghetu
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while the site claims to be romanian.
Also there seems to be a strange lack of mention of the forthcoming publications on the authors websites.

I might be wrong but this looks like an elaborate scam.

[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.

[MadsPLP]

Quote Originally Posted by Waterdweller

This sounds almost to good to be true. On secod thought the site doesn't have a proper imprint. [...] Also there seems to be a strange lack of mention of the forthcoming publications on the authors websites. I might be wrong but this looks like an elaborate scam.

I received my copy of Putting the Pieces in Place yesterday. It didn't seem like a scam to me. The book was there, you know.

The postage stamps were Romanian, as were the sender's adress. In fact, Dan has proven to be a perfect gentleman. I could think of larger, richer groups to scam than readers of weird fiction of a certain quality.

Tartarus has putten some pages up for Putting the Pieces in Place, as well as mentioning the Valentine collection.

Btw, Putting the Pieces in Place is a very handsome book. The end papers, the frontispiece and the quality of the paper are all beautiful to look at and to feel.

[qcrisp]

Quote Originally Posted by MadsPLP

Btw, Putting the Pieces in Place is a very handsome book. The end papers, the frontispiece and the quality of the paper are all beautiful to look at and to feel.

I received my copy just this morning, and can second this.

I should probably also say, there are a number of reasons why I, for one, haven't mentioned my own collection with Ex Occidente much (actually, it has been mentioned briefly on my blog), largely to do with waiting for details to be finalised before I made any announcements. I was actually asked not to send the website URL around until the details written there were correct and so on, but, anyway, obviously the URL has been released or leaked or something.

Having received my copy of Putting the Pieces in Place, I'm looking forward more than ever to seeing All God's Angels, Beware! come out. I think it will be my best collection so far.

[qcrisp]

Quote Originally Posted by MadsPLP

The postage stamps were Romanian, as were the sender's adress.

I believe the website designer hails from the States, hence the apparent anomaly. I think it's not always good to take that Internet code information at face value for many reasons. I know that my IP address doesn't show my actual geographical location, for instance, but somewhere quite different.

[nomis]

Quote Originally Posted by qcrisp

I believe the website designer hails from the States, hence the apparent anomaly. .

Though he does hail from the USA originally, Brian J Showers lives in Dublin now and has for some time. Anyone unfamiliar with his book "The Bleeding Horse" really ought to look into it, especially if one's tastes run toward LeFanu. Further proof, as Quentin suggests, you can't trust everything you see online. I believe, since Yahoo is the registrar, the USA based info comes from their primary servers.

[yellowish haze]

Quote Originally Posted by nomis

Quote Originally Posted by qcrisp I believe the website designer hails from the States, hence the apparent anomaly. . Though he does hail from the USA originally, Brian J Showers lives in Dublin now and has for some time. Anyone unfamiliar with his book "The Bleeding Horse" really ought to look into it, especially if one's tastes run toward LeFanu. Further proof, as Quentin suggests, you can't trust everything you see online. I believe, since Yahoo is the registrar, the USA based info comes from their primary servers.

Brian J Showers is the Ex Occidente Press website designer?? It's a small world!
"The Bleeding Horse" is a great book, btw. I've always been into Le Fanu and I'm glad to see other writers write supernatural fiction in this vain.

[The New Nonsense]

I've never heard of Brian J. Showers, though he sounds very interesting. So I looked him up and bought his book. What's truly strange is that he's originally from where I live, Madison, Wisconsin. Small world indeed!

[MadsPLP]

Peter Bell will be releasing a collection too. I can't say I've heard about Mr. Bell, but the description sounds interesting.
http://www.exocccidente.com/lightoftheworld.html

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THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AND OTHER TALES by Peter Bell Cover art: To be finalised Publication Date: early March 2009 ISBN: Sewn hardcover, limited to 400 copies, 316 pp with end papers and a full-color frontispiece. A deserted Hebridean beach in winter. A baronial estate in Norway. A seedy fairground on the Isle of Man. An old church in the Italian Apennines. A small town in Germany. The mystical island of Iona. Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. A Cumberland village in the merry month of May. A sinister Cambridgeshire manor. The Carpathian Mountains in Romania. These are some of the settings for Peter Bell's collection of strange tales, which draw strongly on the genius loci of scenes he knows and curious things witnessed and imagined in them. Within these pages you will meet a variety of familiar horrors: vampire, werewolf, phantom, demon, devil-doll, scarecrow, monster; woven into new, convincing tapestries of terror. The canvases of a symbolist artist driven mad by the horror of her occult vision take on terrible form. A priceless antique doll is the bearer of a suicidal curse across the generations. The finding of an unknown journal by a famous Victorian travel-writer leads a second-hand book dealer on a bizarre odyssey to Transylvania. A middle-aged, neurotic woman meets grim apotheosis amidst springtime celebrations. A boy who takes on holiday a book of ghost stories encounters things more dreadful than in fiction. A historical researcher interested in war crimes disturbs more than she bargains for behind a Scandinavian legend. A tourist in a Lake District church finds himself in unpleasant confrontation with an old enemy. An ancient horror is aroused on a Scottish island at the dawn of the Millennium. A man is drawn by strange portents to a remote part of Tuscany and an awesome cosmic revelation. A reading of an M. R. James story brings a member of the audience to an abominable fate. A storm-wracked cruise-ship bears a passenger to a morbid rendezvous. A widower becomes obsessed with the true tale of a young woman called to a mysterious death on Iona. Peter Bell's stories avoid overt horror, preferring subtlety and awe, and range through the fearful and frightening, the witty and ironic, the melancholy and mystical. Suffused with literary and artistic contexts, they are written in the tradition of writers as diverse as M.R. James, Meyrink, Aickman, Machen and Blackwood. Contents Introduction The Light of the World Archangel Inheritance Lamia Millennium Ball Nostalgia, Death & Melancholy Only Sleeping M.E.F. Ressurection The Barony at Rodal The Cruise A Midsummer Ramble in the Carpathians Story Notes The Light of the World and Other Tales is a sewn hardcover book of 316 pages with endpapers and a full-colour frontispiece. Edition limited to 400 copies. $40 inc. p&p to Europe and USA, $45 to the rest of the world.