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Reminder for those interested...
The long awaited reprinting of Jean Ray's "Whiskey Tales" by Wakefield Press is due to be released this Nov. 20.

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I recently bought three titles from Wakefield Press.
Their website is straightforward, and the books arrived quickly.

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Another recent release I'm sure some of you will be interested in: Glimpses Of The Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories edited by Mike Ashley. Ashley sought out stories that have never been reprinted and promises that hardly anyone living right now will have read many of these stories. I didn't recognize any of the authors apart from EF Benson (a newly discovered story from a newspaper!)

Ashley has been doing a lot of similar anthologies recently, including a collection of sea stories in which Hodgson was the only author I recognized by I don't know how supernatural orientated they will be, so I'm more cautious about buying that one.

These are all a part of British Library's recent series of digging up obscurities from old magazines and newspapers.

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THE TAIGA SYNDROME
Cristina Rivera Garza

Fiction. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana. A fairy tale run amok, THE TAIGA SYNDROME follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down--that she wants to be found. He hires the Ex-Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy, hostile forest where strange things happen and translation betrays both sense and one's senses. Tales of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective's quest, though the lessons of her journey are more experiential than moral: that just as love can fly away, sometimes unloving flies away as well. That sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do.

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(Another feminist Latinx novel; just released)

The Naked Woman
Armonía Somers

"Fierce And Mysterious, 'The Naked Woman' Walks In Dark Dreams. Somers' first novel, The Naked Woman, translated by Kit Maude, is a wild, brutal paean to freedom. It's a challenging book, one that took nearly 70 years to make its way into English. Somers — a pen name, she was born Armonía Etchepare — opens casually enough. "As much as she'd been hoping otherwise, Rebeca Linke's thirtieth birthday began with exactly what she had expected: nothing." That line could lead anywhere. The next scene could be a party, a bad family dinner, a marital fight. But in The Naked Woman, Rebeca heads to a remote cottage, strips naked, and cuts off her own head. Then she "[shoves] it back on like a helmet" and ventures, still naked, into the woods.
Somers' feminism is profound, and complicated. Though she does not shy away from brutality, the assaults she writes are not gratuitous. The Naked Woman is a novel about liberation, with a protagonist committed wholly to freedom. That freedom, though, comes at an enormous price. Rebeca has to behead herself to achieve it, and the women around her suffer because of it.
Not all of the novel is this challenging. Somers' language is freewheeling and fantastical, and so are her scenes. Rebeca appears as Eve, as the Holy Ghost, as seductress and Earth goddess and sprite. She communes, beautifully and platonically, with a horse. She inspires some truly blasphemous, and truly hilarious, behavior in the village church. It's not hard to understand why Somers didn't want to be considered a member of the Generación del 45, and it's not hard to see why: No one on Earth could keep up with her."

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AMNESIA: The Lost Films of Francis D. Longfellow
by Al Columbia

AMNESIA: The Lost Films of Francis D. Longfellow by Al Columbia Floating World Comics

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A lot of titles have been announced recently, and are creating difficult decisions for me.
Zagava - Lloyd, and Marvick
Egaeus - Wilkinson
Sarob - McGachey
Borderlands - Waggoner
Swan River - Green Book 11, 12
A couple other presses I follow have items in the pipe, but have not solicited orders yet.
My head spins at times.

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Zaharoff wrote, "A lot of titles have been announced recently, and are creating difficult decisions for me. Zagava - Lloyd, and Marvick, Egaeus - Wilkinson
Sarob - McGachey, Borderlands - Waggoner, Swan River - Green Book 11, 12....A couple other presses I follow have items in the pipe, but have not solicited orders yet. My head spins at times."

Agreed! It's been tough for me also. I always try to get something from Zagava. Their authors are wonderful and most of their books extremely well-made. Right now I'm waiting on the Marvick and Thompson books, plus the new Infra-Noir newsletter. Also ordered the new Wilkinson as his writing is excellent and Egaeus is a very fine press.

I am also waiting on two occult works from the talismanic publisher Three Hands Press, long ago pre-ordered: "Witch-Ikon," and "The Green Mysteries."

Three Hands Press - Fine Occult Publishing

And lastly the new nonfiction work by Classics philosopher and contemplative Peter Kingsley, "Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity."

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New from Strange Attractor:

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The Space Oracle
Ken Hollings

A radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.

Astronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.

A carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, The Space Oracle reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.

Panoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, The Space Oracle brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.

Ken Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, Welcome to Mars and The Bright Labyrinth are published by Strange Attractor Press.

REVIEWS
“Ken Hollings is a master at connecting the dots between avant-garde art history, outré culture and weird science.” —David Pescovitz, Boing Boing

Strange Attractor

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Just making sure that everyone knows that we are in for some more Roland Topor translated into English from the incomparable @las Press! One of my favorite writers--very excited about this. To those in the E.U. there is a special "launch price" of £6


Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne - Roland Topor

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I just got this in the mail today. It has some nice weird illustrations by Topor as well. And, like you, I was pleased to read on the back cover that more translations are coming.

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For those lost souls still waiting on their long-ago ordered HB copies of Reggie Oliver's "The Boke of the Divill," found this notice on Dark Region Press' production updates page:

UPDATE: THE BOKE OF THE DIVILL BY REGGIE OLIVER SIGNED HARDCOVER
November 16, 2018

Currently in line with our binder meeting the same fate as several other DRP titles that were waiting at a printer/binder who closed their doors. This one has been given a high priority and should begin shortly after the binder finishes with Bird Box Deluxe Hardcover edition. We anticipate binding to begin within 90 days and will post an update as soon as the binder gets started. Thanks to everyone for your patience!

UPDATE: The Boke of the Divill by Reggie Oliver Signed Hardcover - Dark Regions Press

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That's great to hear! Any timeline on The Red Brain?

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That's great to hear! Any timeline on The Red Brain?

Here you go:

UPDATE: THE RED BRAIN GREAT TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS DELUXE HARDCOVER
November 16, 2018

The Red Brain books are complete and the slipcases are being made! We anticipate the slipcases to be complete within 45 days of writing this update and for the completed books and slipcases to be shipped to us within 15 days after that. Thus, we anticipate customer orders on The Red Brain deluxe edition to begin in roughly 90 days from this update. Thank you to everyone for your patience and watch for another update when the slipcases are complete.

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Mother of God.
Another US press is using this excuse, as well.
Cemetery Dance Publications: Cemetery Dance Production Status Index
Meanwhile, both continue to solicit orders for new titles.
I will believe this when I ####ing see it, and even then I am finished buying from either outfit.
May their pants runneth over.
Apologies for my lack of festive joy.

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The thing that irks me about DRP is that they're incredibly flaky with email corros too. I'd written to them multiple times re changes to my address, have never received positive confirmation to any of them. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if:

- I don't get my books before I move overseas next year, and
- They all get shipped to my old address from 4 years ago anyway.

Well & truly never again after this.

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I received a Kickstarter update re: Boke on Oct 9, 2018, stating that binding on the project is slated to begin within 30 days. Then a follow up email sent out from DRP on Oct 31, 2018, stating that Boke of the Divil is 'currently being printed and shipping will start in 90 days'. And this notification is post their printer closing down. I have no idea if DRP really did have problems with their printer... sure... stuff happens. I think the larger problems though are just poor communication with customers about product delays (which happen and are reasonable) and slow responses to emails, requiring continuous effort by the customer to get information on an order. I think they just have their priorities of kilter.

Sorry for my cynicism but I would expect, 90 days from now, to get some other delay notification on Boke. All very disappointing... I will not be pre-ordering anything from DRP, ever.

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I need to keep a list of whatever I've pre-ordered. It's a bit offensive to get Kickstarter announcements for new campaigns from DRP when they haven't even fulfilled their old campaigns.

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DRP is a complete and hopeless mess with their production schedule. And they never learn from their mistakes. I've been waiting for I AM THE ABYSS for ages. And they always launch all these ridiculous Kickstarters. Look at a good press like TARTARUS that announces something for sale, then you order it and swiftly receive it.

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Re: Cemetery Dance
I'm one of the 586 who went in for Norman Partridge's as-yet unreleased "10/31: The Butcher's Tale" a little over 8 years ago. A novella! This one is all on the author, though.

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Yeah, I preordered Partridge's Oktober Shadows or whatever it is now renamed.
Because he could not finish that, I declined on the Butcher thing.
I wonder if there has been a shift in appetites for these more mainstream works?
Subterranean, for example, seems to have ceased all horror titles, shifting to SciFi and Fantasy. That strikes me as kinder to patrons, compared with presses who postpone publication dates until Caesar returns to Rome.

What am I looking froward to?
The titles Mark Beech announced for 2019!

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The issue stems from the fact that there's not a solid market for weird fiction in general. There are a number of small presses willing to invest in keeping the genre alive, but there's no monetary benefit in doing so. This creates an environment in which false promises are continually made.

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If you are talking about Dark Regions Press, maybe you mean take money from investors and then lie to their customers? When you ask for people to donate money to help your business, you have a responsibility to them. Don't ask other people to take the financial burden for your vanity projects then lie to them. Maybe if they ever delivered on their promises they would have customers willing to trust them and buy from them?

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That sounds like possible fraud to me. I was thinking of continual setbacks and such.

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My difficulties with small presses have been rare.
I realize most are one or two person outfits and I can be fairly patient.
My problems usually link back to larger publishers, who get over extended and cannot sustain the production line.
Often this is gradual and I do not realize until I am five - eight preorders deep.
I do like to think they are acting in good faith and will honor our arrangement.

One press that receives scant attention at TLO is Gauntlet.
Barry takes preorders, but only requests payment until the title is published, or publication is imminent.
Gauntlet is currently working on Clive Barker's works, with full cooperation of Mr Barker.
I am unsure how the TLO community regards Mr Barker.

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Don’t know about the community either, but i think he deserves some critical rehabilitation.

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Rosemary Pardoe apparently has a small handful left of her booklet “The Cropton Murders”, a very entertaining true crime tale from the 1870s alluded to by M.R. James. I read mine last night and was very engaged. They can be ordered from her directly.

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Dark Regions has never, to my knowledge, not shipped a book, which puts them one-up on a number of other presses.

However I wouldn't fault someone for exercising caution when pre-ordering from them... assuming that someone decides to order at all.

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As far as small Presses go I stick to Undertow and PS publishing. They’re both relatively cheap to order to the U.K. and have always been reliable to me.

I once had a small issue with PS but I contacted and it was sorted.

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Tartarus just published a new Reggie Oliver collection! How's that for the new year!

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Can anyone tell me how long Tartarus take to deliver to the U.K.

They might be based here I don’t know?

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They are based in the UK. In my experience their delivieries usually arrive within the week.

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Just ordered the new Reggie Oliver from Tartarus. In my experience, it usually takes 10 days to reach me in rural New York.

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I live in Australia, and it usually takes 2 weeks for a Tartarus package to arrive which is pretty reasonable.

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ORDERED!!! :)

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I ordered this immediately as well. I cannot wait! A new collection by Reggie Oliver is ALWAYS a reason to celebrate!

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A friend texted me about that yesterday and I went straight home and ordered it.

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I just noticed a few tantalizing titles forthcoming in 2019 from Eibonvale Press on their website: THE NEO-DECADENT COOKBOOK edited by Brendan Connell (anthology) THE MUSE by James Champagne (chapbook) FURIOUS IN THE EXPANSE by Yarrow Paisley (chapbook) There were several other chapbooks listed, but these were the ones that tantalized me the most!

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Indeed those do look very interesting... I didn't even know Eibonvale had a chapbook line (which they make available in little hard back books too!). On a bit of a whim (although a GR member highly recommended it from reading the ARC) I pre-ordered the newest Alexander Zelenyj, Blacker Against the Deep Dark. The stories are described as R rated twilight zone stories... which sounds really interesting to me.

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While this isn't really a forthcoming books per se, I wasn't sure where else to post this, although I suppose a Mark Samuels thread would have sufficed. I apologize if this book has been mentioned before, but it is news to me.

So while just perusing the Vault of Evil forums, I discovered that a couple of books would soon be going out of print from Parallel Universe publications. The one that caught my eye was "England B: Ninety Minutes of Hell" written by a "Richard Staines" which is apparently a pseudonym of Mark Samuels. So anyhow, apparently this book will only be available until the end of February, after which it will be going out of print. I'm not sure if I'll be ordering it, as the description doesn't really appeal to me all that much: "Written by "Richard Staines" (in reality Mark Samuels) this is a series of hilariously non-PC comic horror stories featuring the "notorious" manager Vince Grinstead and the most violent, psychopathic footballers in the history of English soccer!"

I am a bit curious though, because I am a fan of Mark Samuels' other work. Has anybody actually read this? More details here:
Parallel Universe Publications: Soon to be Out of Print