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Anyone want to fancy a guess at the true identiy of "J.W. Böhm"?
I've ordered both of these Wounded Island volumes at Mark's intriguing recommendation... but it's clear this is some elaborate put-on... Wormwoodiana: This Wounded Island, Volume Two by J W Böhm |
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There's a new Margaret St Clair best of coming out called Hole In The Moon. I seen a database listing dating it back to 2017 but amazon says it's coming in September this year. Ramsey Campbell is editing it.
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Oh man, look at all the new goodies popping up on Zagava's site!
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At long last, just received email notice that the Jean Ray collection from Wakefield Press, "Whiskey Tales," is now being mailed out.
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In light of the new release (below) of Jean Ray's "Whiskey Tales," this forthcoming book from Wakefield Press also by Jean Ray may be of interest. No publication date is given yet.
For anyone who has not yet enjoyed "The Mainz Psalter," or "The Shadowy Street," or the novel "Malpertuis," many of his works are worth reading and until now the few english translations like "Ghouls in My Grave," or "My Own Private Spectres," have been difficult to obtain. Cruise of Shadows Haunted Stories of Land and Sea Jean Ray Translated, with an introduction, by Scott Nicolay Jean Ray’s second collection of stories written in French appeared six years after his inaugural collection, Whiskey Tales. Seven novellas written in the solitude of prison, including the one widely acknowledged to be his masterpiece, “The Shadowy Street.” With this collection, even as his pseudonyms began to multiply, Jean Ray began to realize his full talent as the godfather of the Belgian School of the Weird. Forthcoming |
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Regarding the quite recent release by Wakefiled Press of Jean Ray's "Whiskey Tales" which I had the real pleasure to receive lately and start savouring - though pb, an edition of the first water that includes a very informative intro by the translator - I would like to suggest Mr. Leonid Bilmes' late review at LA Review of Books titled "More than the Belgian Poe: The overdue return of Jean Ray's "Whiskey Tales".
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Found this forthcoming Arthur Machen book on Tartarus; not sure if this was already posted:
3rd March 2019 Arthur Machen's Occult Catalogues Tartarus Press has produced, for the Friends of Arthur Machen, a new hardback book, Arthur Machen's Occult Catalogues, edited by R.A. Gilbert: In June 1885 Arthur Machen received a letter from the publisher of The Anatomy of Tobacco, George Redway, suggesting that he could find some work for the author, if he would like to return to London. The job Redway had in mind was the compilation of a catalogue: ‘For the publisher of York Street was also a second-hand book-seller. He had a mass of odd literature stored in a garret in Catherine Street, and on these volumes I was let loose’. Machen summed it up as being ‘as odd a library as any man could desire to see. Occultism in one sense or another was the subject of most of the books.’ The Friends of Arthur Machen are pleased to be able to reprint Machen’s catalogue, The Literature of Occultism and Archaeology, along with the ‘Frederick Hockley’ catalogue of 1887. Later, while working for the book-sellers Robson & Kerslake, Machen spent his evenings selling books on his own account. With his friend Harry Spurr he created a business under the name of ‘Thomas Marvell’ and produced Thesaurus Incantatus, ‘a remarkable combination of magico-alchemical fable and very select catalogue of al-chemical books’. This was published in a small edition in December 1888, but it was not a great commercial success and with it Machen’s career as a cataloguer and bookseller came to an end. This catalogue is also included in the present volume. As R.A. Gilbert writes in his Introduction, there is ‘a codicil. Machen retained his enthusiasm for esoteric literature—perhaps inevitable, given his close friendship with A.E. Waite—and thirty-five years later gave his support to a catalogue of modern literature issued by R. Townley Searle’s First Edition Bookshop in 1923.’ Machen’s foreword, ‘The Grande Trouvaille’, describes a successful quest for books in the company of Waite. This last catalogue is also included, and if it is not quite so esoteric as the previous examples, collectors might be interested (and frustrated) to know that it includes a first edition of Dracula at 21s (Ł1.05) . . . Please note that this limited, hardback, first edition, will be available free to members of the Friends of Arthur Machen, and cannot be obtained elsewhere. Membership can be obtained here. http://www.tartaruspress.com/news.html |
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Vandermeer couple's Big Book Of Classic Fantasy comes in July.
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This VERY interesting news appears on S.T. Joshi's blog:
"Some very tempting items from Hippocampus Press are forthcoming. Two projects that have been in the works for many years now seem on the verge of publication: T. E. D. Klein’s Providence After Dark (a massive collection of his essays and reviews), and Matt Cardin’s To Rouse Leviathan (a volume of his collected fiction). I initially assisted Ted Klein in assembling his nonfiction some years ago, but lately he has taken the project in hand and added a number of pieces of which I was unaware. I will not be listed as editor of the book, but I may add a brief introduction providing an overview of the contents. Cardin’s volume is a rich storehouse of short stories and novellas inspired by Lovecraft, Ligotti, and other writers, but infused with Cardin’s own distinctive vision." S. T. Joshi - Blog |
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Quite impressed by the sheer quantity of books coming from British Library. Evil Roots: Botanical Gothic, Doorway To Dilemma: Dark Fantasy, Menace Of The Monster (I think this one is all science fiction), Hodgson and Blackwood collections. I don't think any site has them properly catalogued, I just had to click around amazon.
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Just saw this from Borderlands
A Little White Book of Screams and Whispers by Thomas Ligotti — Number, Signed, Limited Edition Borderlands Press |
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Well that's a must buy and no mistake.
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Glad to see the Ligotti finally announced.
Every time I emailed about a title, I added, "please, please include unpublished material" for the Little Ligotti. I hope this sells quickly, as it is a departure from the more mainstream authors. Usually the Little books have a run of 300. A Kiernan is in the works, as well. |
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https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/gasli...erm=2019-05-30
There was two Ronald Chetwynd Hayes collections edited by Jones in the 00s that are hard to come by and I thought this might be an omnibus of those but it's a Best Of with lots of new content |
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Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh
ISBN-10: 1096969467 Song for the Unraveling of the World ISBN-10: 1566895480 |
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This new translation from the French is not really "forthcoming" as it came out last month. But it looks interesting and have just ordered a copy.
THE LAWS OF THE SKIES By Gregoire Courtois, translated by Rhonda Mullins Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. The Laws of the Skies follows the terrified children as they scatter into the night to escape danger, dressed only in their pajamas. They face their darkest childhood fears and new imaginary threats, like trolls masquerading as boulders and child-eating tree trunks. A harrowing story of those days in the woods, of illness, poisoning, and accidents; of a love triangle among tots; a pint-sized hero; and a child on a murderous rampage that comes to a grisly end. Part fairy tale, part horror story, this macabre fable takes us through the minds of all the members of this doomed part, murderers and murdered alike. ............... REVIEWS: "The Laws of the Skies takes its title from a fable told within its pages, about a mouse who learns to fly, becoming a bat -- and who is subsequently attacked and blinded by vengeful birds. That description suggests a sharp turn from whimsy to menace, and it serves as a model for the novel as a whole. From the outset, we know that this tale of lost children will not have a happy ending, but the bleakness in store for these characters still has plenty of room to unnerve.” -- Tobias Carroll, Words Without Borders Daily "The French know how to push horror’s boundaries, and Courtois is no exception. In this sliver of a novel, he gradually picks off his cast, mounting tension by juxtaposing horrific action with the children’s innocence and an innocuous setting… Courtois’ expertly orchestrated decimation melds into a brutal whole that leaves the reader shaken, though its final images will prove unshakable.” -- Booklist, starred review “The ensuing story has a whiff of allegory: adults abandon their charges, classmates turn against classmates, and nature, quite literally, swallows them up. It’s unsettling. Along the way, Courtois raises pointed questions about the environment, the hereditary nature of evil, and the responsibilities of an older generation to the new. I felt absolutely nauseated by the end, and I have to admire that―it’s not every day that a book provokes such a strong physical reaction in me.” -- Rhian Sasseen, The Paris Review Staff Picks “Excellent...crystalline." -- New York Times Book Review, "Summer Reads" “ |
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Was interested in Terry Dowling because he was one of the few authors Jack Vance wrote an introduction for (a young one too, considering Vance did not keep up with the genre) and Harlan Ellison interviewed him on television, championed him.
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I saw the announcement on Terry's website but I couldn't find on the PS website preorder info. Just wanted to see if I was looking in the wrong place.
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I saw the news on their mailing list emails but nothing on their site yet.
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Fire n Blood
Too rich for my blood.
Too be honest, I don't read this author any longer, nor this series. But for those who do - George R R Martin's: Fire And Blood (Subterranean) Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart. What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel’s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed. https://subterraneanpress.com/news/g...o-the-printer/ |
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It's too bad Wilum isn't around for this one.
Love the cover art. Can't wait to read the annotated Rats Black Gate Cover Reveal: The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham, edited by Leslie S. Klinger |
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Announcement was in april but the first books aren't coming out until 2021!
Tom Doherty Associates Announces Nightfire, a New Horror Imprint | Tor.com And I just heard about the continuation of Weird Tales. I not that familiar with Jonathan Maberry but I'm not sure I'll dig his vision for it. Doesn't matter that much since Weirdbook, Skelos, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Tales From Magician's Skull are all in the same vein. |
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A Little Yellow Book of Fever Dreams by Caitlyn Kiernan — Signed
$30.00 - Available for pre-ordering This item will be released on October 1, 2019.The Seventh Title in Little Books Series III: https://www.borderlandspress.com/sho...ed-numbered-2/ |
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M John Harrison's new novel The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is up for pre-order.
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Horror Fiction in the 20th Century by Jess Nevins - Praeger - ABC-CLIO
nerds of a feather, flock together: Interview: Jess Nevins, author of Horror Fiction in the 20th Century This should be impressive. His previous books are very highly praised and extensive. I wanted to get Horror Needs No Passport sometime but these should be good too. |
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First of two forthcoming works from Wakefield Press:
"WAYSTATIONS OF THE DEEP NIGHT" By Marcel Brion Translated by George MacLennan and Edward Gauvin, with an introduction by George MacLennan (to be released in April 2020) First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations of the Deep Night remains the best known of Marcel Brion’s numerous works in the vein of the strange and the fantastic. The journeys in this volume carry the reader through the surreal vistas of an underground city that appears aboveground as a bizarre theater of facades and a fire-ravaged landscape where souls turn to ash. By playing with the format of hte ghost story or horror tale, Brion transforms the romantic waystations in this volume into stages on an inward journey into lucid dreams and no less lucid nightmares. Waystations evokes a deep night of strange encounters, enigmatic transformations, and labyrinthine journeys. A young castrato sings his heart out in a lost baroque garden; a timeless warrior retires out of battle to an uncanny final resting place; a child falls under the fateful spell of an enchanted painting; a traveler in a burned-out landscape encounters the Prince of Death; dancing cats engage in mortal combat in the cellars of an abandoned port city. These stories give substance to Brion’s claim that “the fantastic comes to us in the great tidal waves of night, phosphorescent plankton drawn by dark waves that break on humanity as soon as the sun of evidence and reason has disappeared.” A self-declared heir of Achim von Arnim and E. T. A. Hoffmann, Brion was also an admirer of the German Romantic writer Novalis and his sequence of Hymns to the Night, but his own imaginative homages to the night are more troublingly ambiguous, possibly an indirect reflection of the dark times in which they were written. Over the course of a long and productive career, Marcel Brion (1895–1984) published twenty novels, four volumes of short stories, and sixty-eight non-fiction books covering music, art, literature, history, and travel, and a large number of shorter essays and editorial introductions. Brion_Waystations |
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Second of two forthcoming works from Wakefield Press
"THE GRAND NOCTURNAL: TALES OF DREAD" By Jean Ray Translated, with an afterword, by Scott Nicolay (to be released May 2020) After the commercial failure of his 1931 collection, Cruise of Shadows, Jean Ray spent the next decade writing and publishing under other names in the stifling atmosphere of Ghent. Only in the midst of the darkest years of Nazi Occupation of Belgium would he suddenly publish a spate of books under his earlier nom de plume, all appearing in rapid sequence and which would later become his best-known and admired works. The first of these volumes, in essence picking up from where he left off a decade ago and signaling the beginning of his reputation as the Belgian master of the weird tale, was the 1942 publication of The Grand Nocturnal. The collection, as its subtitle indicates, consists of tales of fear and dread, but a dread evoked not by the standard tropes of horror (though rats, centipedes, and darkness lay waiting in these pages), but in what had now evolved into Ray’s personal brand of fear, drawn from a specifically Belgian notion of the fantasitc that lies alongside the banality of everyday life. An aging haberdasher’s monotonous existence opens up to a spiritual fourth dimension (and serial murder); an inebriated young man in a tavern draws cryptic symbols and mutters statements that evoke an inexplicable terror among some sailors, and as he sobers up, himself; three students drink Finnish Kümmel and keep watch over a deceased woman’s apartment, awaiting a horrific transformation. Yet these tales are laved with a certain morant humor that bears as much allegiance with Amborse Bierce as Edgar Allan Poe, and toy as much with the reader’s expectations as they do with their characters. Jean Ray (1887–1964) is the best known of the multiple pseudonyms of Raymundus Joannes Maria de Kremer. Alternately referred to as the “Belgian Poe” and the “Flemish Jack London,” Ray delivered tales and novels of horror under the stylistic influence of his most cherished authors, Charles Dickens and Geoffrey Chaucer. A pivotal figure in the “Belgian School of the Strange,” Ray authored some 6,500 texts in his lifetime, not including his own biography, which remains shrouded in legend and fiction, much of it his own making. His alleged lives as an alcohol smuggler on Rum Row in the prohibition era, an executioner in Venice, a Chicago gangster, and hunter in remote jungles in fact covered over a more prosaic, albeit ruinous, existence as a manager of a literary magazine that led to a prison sentence, during which he wrote some of his most memorable tales of fantastical fear. Ray_Nocturnal |
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Ramsey Campbell
A Little Green Book of Grins & Gravity $30.00 - numbered and signed Another of Borderlands Press "little" series. Description from website - The 9th volume of our “Little Books” Series III ! Before he wrote his first published book, Ramsey Campbell tried on various styles, and had two stabs at a detective novel in the style of John Dickson Carr. "The Enigma of the Flat Policeman" uses the second version of that book as a lens to examine his uneasy life and his psychological state at the time of writing. Where does fiction end and reality begin, and how do the pair interact?... The BP websitre does not list a contents page. Does Mr. Campbell visit here on occasion? If so, perhaps he can fill in details. A Little Green Book of Grins Borderlands Press |
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