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In his most recent blog post, S.T. Joshi mentions this as an "exemplary collection of short stories." Nice cover. Reasonable price.
A Carnival of Chimeras by Stephen Woodworth : Hippocampus Press, specializes in classic horror and science fiction |
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There Is A Graveyard That Dwells In Man, the follow-up volume to Strange Attractor's previous David Tibet edited anthology The Moons At Your Door, is at last available for pre-order.
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In A Dark Light wrote, "There Is A Graveyard That Dwells In Man, the follow-up volume to Strange Attractor's previous David Tibet edited anthology The Moons At Your Door, is at last available for pre-order."
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Limited HB Edition (52) of Thin Places by Kay Chronister available this morning from Undertow Publications.
“Grim but effervescent.” - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Kay Chronister's remarkable debut collection of modern horror tales, Thin Places, echoes with the ghosts of Shirley Jackson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, while forging its own unique gothic sensibility. Here there be monsters! And witches! These are tales of monstrous mothers and dark desires. Love, grief, death; and the exquisite pain and joy of life. With transcendent prose, Chronister chronicles the lives of powerful women and children; wicked witches and demons. These are the traumatic ghosts we all carry, and Chronister knows what it means to be human and humane. Powerful and hypnotic, these are tales you won't forget, from a vibrant new voice. https://undertowpublications.com/lim...-north-america https://undertowpublications.com/lim...-rest-of-world |
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Rogomelec Paperback – April 21, 2020
by Leonor Fini (Author), Serena Shanken Skwersky (Translator) The first translation of Leonor Fini’s voluptuous and antipatriarchal gothic novel. Originally published in French in 1979, Rogomelec was the third of Leonor Fini’s novels. All the qualities of the paintings for which she is famed can be found in it: an undermining of patriarchy, the ambiguities of gender and the slipperiness of desire, along with darker hints of cruelty and the voluptuousness of fear. This novella’s ambiguous narrator sets off for the isolated locale of Rogomelec―where a crumbling monastery serves as a sanatorium and offers a cure involving a diet of plants and flowers―and moves through a waking dream of strangely scented monks, vibratory concerts in a cavernous ossuary and ritualist pomp with costumes of octopi and shining beetles. As the days unfold, the narrator discovers that the “the celebration of the king” is approaching, the events of which will lead to a shocking discovery in Rogomelec’s Gothic ruins. This first English translation includes 14 drawings by Fini that accompanied the novella’s original publication. |
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I've been interested in Charles Nodier since I read about him in Marina Van Zuylen's Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art. That book contains a fascinating chapter called "The Cult of the Unreal: Nodier and Romantic Monomania."
I see that Snuggly Books has several Nodier titles forthcoming, translated by Brian Stableford. This is very good news, because there isn't much Nodier in English translation. |
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I'm always surprised by just how many surrealist painters I admire also written books. Even more impressed when they are especially acclaimed for writing.
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Not a recommendation. Just a heads-up as this may spark some conversations within the weird community.
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I want to start with her epic fantasies but I will want that eventually.
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Italian gothic writer Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Fantastic Tales - Archipelago Books |
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There is also a hardcover edition published in 1992.
"Giulia's corpse...rests in her shroud as if wrapped in the veils of her virginal bed. Her beauty has lost none of its seductiveness. A white dress, light, almost diaphanous, covers her modest figure.... Her pure white hands lie at her sides with the gentle surrender of sleep, and only her feet, pointing upward and joined together, bear witness to the horrible rigidity of death." This passage from "Bouvard," a macabre evocation of obsessive love beyond the grave, typifies the eerie narratives in Fantastic Tales. The first Gothic tales published in the Italian language, Tarchetti's strange stories recall and sometimes imitate those of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Mary Shelley. In "A Spirit in a Raspberry," a nobleman is possessed by the soul of a servant girl; "The Letter U" recounts a man's mysterious phobia about that letter; the unexpected gift of everlasting life becomes a dreaded, endless curse in "The Elixir of Immortality." William Weaver, translator of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, writes: "While current Italian literature in English translation is closely followed by publishers, critics, and readers, the Italian writers of the past...are largely ignored. Lawrence Venuti now presents the nineteenth-century writer Iginio Ugo Tarchetti--a strange, romantic figure now almost forgotten even by Italian readers. But, as Venuti's probing introduction to this collection of tales indicates, Tarchetti is emblematic, the child of his times and their taste. These stories are enjoyable to read simply for themselves, but they also illustrate a literary culture of notable fascination. The translations flow, yet retain the flavor of their period and are true to the style and personality of their curious, gifted author." |
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This interview is eight minutes longer than ten, but the Robert Shearman collection sounds like an insane undertaking. The cheapest edition of it is Ł45 but it's a massive three volumes. Reggie Oliver illustrations too.
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I found a second-hand copy of the 1992 ed. of Tarchetti's book, and I did not find his tales as good as those by Poe and others.
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Hello there! This book contains just the 25,000 word novella - more accurately, unfinished novel - with my commentary that tries to reveal underlying themes. It sold out on publication, but I believe a few copies are still available.
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From the author of Straw Dogs and The Soul of the Marionette.
(When I saw the release date of November 17, 2020, I genuinely wondered if I would still be alive by then.) |
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If we are bendk . . . then I owe you a Coke!
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Alfred Doblin's Mountains Oceans Giants.
This is the blurbs from amazon "The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? – to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? – by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland’s volcanoes. Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong... Readers accustomed to following a story via Plot and Character may at first be disoriented by this epic of the future. Its structure is more symphonic than novelistic, driven by themes and motifs that emerge, fade back, emerge again in new orchestral voicings and new tempi. The prose – supple, rhythmic, harsh, elegiac, tender, unsparing – propels the reader on through scene after vivid scene. Mountains Oceans Giants is a literary counterpart to the painted dreams and nightmares of Hieronymus Bosch, in The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Last Judgement. Alfred Döblin, born in Szczecin in 1878, initially worked as a medical assistant and opened his own practice in Berlin in 1911. Döblin's first novel appeared in 1915/16. In 1933 Döblin emigrated to France and finally to the USA. After the end of the 2nd World War he moved back to Germany, but then moved in 1953 with his family to Paris. He died on June 26, 1957. Extravagant praise for this novel: "I know of no attempt in literature that pulls together so boldly and directly the human and the divine, piling on every kind of action, thought, desire, love... Here perhaps the true face of “Expressionism” reveals itself for the first time. – Max Krell “The account of the expedition to Iceland and the defrosting of Greenland … generates a poetry of fact that deserves to be considered a major literary achievement. … Döblin and Hřeg remind us that man is not the centre of a divine cosmos but simply a phenomenon, an unruly and destructive one, within the unimaginably larger system of nature.” – Richie Robertson, 2009, comparing Mountains Oceans Giants with Peter Hřeg’s 1993 novel Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow “…this extravagant book, whose theme is the heaven-storming extravagance of humanity, written as if under a visionary over-pressure…” – Gunter Grass 1978 “A unique and mighty work. The writer has created a gigantic animated teeming living world-picture, analytical and mysterious, mythical and scientific. He has unsealed a flask of powerful potion.” – Ernst Blass, in Die neue Rundschau 35 (1924)." and this is John Clute on SF Encyclopedia "Of direct sf interest is Berge Meere und Giganten ["Mountains, Seas and Giants"] (1924; cut vt Giganten ["Giants"] 1932), an extremely ambitious Future History, which extends from the aftermath years following the Great War into the twenty-seventh century CE. In the later years of the twentieth century the world, already plagued by Overpopulation and racism due to worldwide economic migrations, becomes a rigid, polarized Dystopia, a fixity (see Roderick Seidenberg) only to be shaken centuries later, when an indolent but restive underclass, locked into a Machine-driven culture that fails to supply its needs, inadvertently foments a world War whose advanced Weapons cause huge damage. Meanwhile, the Japanese have occupied much of North America, and the focus of the History shifts westward from Eurasia. A campaign to settle Greenland results in the melting of its icecap, and attendant Disasters; connected to this, giant Mutations in plant and animal life threaten the human world, and Monsters roam the transfigured islands that have emerged from what was once Greenland. As in more recent Zombie Apocalypse tales, contact with these Mutants is instantly fatal, and Homo sapiens moves Underground, constructing at the same time giant quasi-living defensive towers. Eventually humans and others tentatively join together to begin to reinhabit the Ruined Earth." |
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Here's my 4-star goodreads review of the Ramsey Campbell book discussed above (The Little Green Book of Grins and Gravity which is in fact the unfinished novel The Enigma of the Flat Policeman with commentary):
This slim collector's volume is a unique treat for fans of British horror grandmaster Ramsey Campbell and golden age locked-room-mystery master John Dickson Carr. The book is in fact an abandoned draft (130 pages in) of a Carr pastiche that Campbell composed as a 14-15 year old before he shifted his focus to Lovecraftian horror, though the mystery is filled with rich and "eldritch" atmosphere. Campbell inserts meta-commentary throughout about his difficult childhood at the time, living with his paranoid mother and absent, intimidating father, and reveals how his real life seemingly seeped into the fiction. While a good bit of the murder method is revealed, the final secrets are lost to time (the reader knows up front this will be the case, so it is not too frustrating). The blending of the mature meta-commentary with the youthfully exuberant, atmosphere-rich pastiche makes this a real treat for mutual fans of Campbell and Carr. Perhaps subtract a star if you're not a golden age locked-room mystery fan. |
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These books by Centipede Press sound interesting. I doubt if I'll be able to afford any of them.
Falling Angel and Angel’s Inferno by William Hjortsberg. These books are getting stained and then need to go out for slipcase making. Still a little ways off. Hopefully July. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. We are hoping for end of May. But the signature pages are being held up due to the pandemic. However, everything else is going steadily through the bindery. The two-color letterpress printed illustrations by Vladimir Zimakov look magnificent. Children of the Kingdom by Ted Klein. Masters of the Weird Tale by Stefan Grabinski. |
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I am intrigued by Susanna Clarke's forthcoming novel, Piranesi, since I enjoyed Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell a lot when I read it years ago.
Apparently, she signed a contract for two books, this one and another that could be the sequel she mentioned during an interview ages ago. |
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Out this week so not strictly "forthcoming." But this nonfiction academic work, based on presentations at the 2016 "Demon Things Conference" in Swansea, may be of interest to some TLO readers.
Demon Things: Ancient Egyptian Manifestations of Liminal Entities In March 2016, scholars from around the world gathered at Swansea University for a conference dedicated to exploring the range and variation of liminal entities that the ancient Egyptians believed were capable of harm and help. This inspired the papers in this volume, which present a broad array of manifestations given to demons through iconography, objects, or textual descriptions - all part of the vast numinous landscape of ancient Egypt. |
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David Peace's final installment of his Tokyo trilogy, will be published in July 21st. I was waiting for this to be released in order to read all three books in one go.
Tokyo Redux (Tokyo Trilogy, #3) by David Peace |
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...ff-vandermeer/
Episode 426: Ten Minutes with Ann VanderMeer No table of contents yet. Didn't expect this so soon. |
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I just posed on the MARK SAMUELS author thread about all his books that Zagava has in the works, particularly the newly announced BLACK ALTARS reprint.
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For those that didn't get the $225 Centipede Press boxed set.
Angel's Inferno | William Hjortsberg | No Exit Press |
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Speaking of new Mark Samuels books...
The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels [PREORDER] : Hippocampus Press, specializes in classic horror and science fiction |
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It came out a month or two ago but I thought it deserves a mention: Allison V Harding - Forgotten Queen Of Horror. She gets mentioned now and then but never had a collection until now.
Armchair Fiction MASTERS OF HORROR, VOL. ONE, ALLISON V. HARDING, THE FORGOTTEN QUEEN OF HORROR |
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Release date: October 20, 2020
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, by Megan Rosenbloom On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy―the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, innocents, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. |
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