Re: Ex Occidente Press
 

Dear All,

It is a bit like in that fine tale by Neil Gaiman, in which a merry group of decadent gourmands, after trying all sorts of outrageous foods, come to the conclusion that the last specialty they still have to taste is a roasted Phoenix. So they start looking for the elusive bird-god, they eventually manage to find one, they cook it and well, the end is pretty obvious. Let's just say the cheeky gourmands died in the end (I hope my memory is not failing me in such an embarrassing way).

Infra Noir is more or less that Phoenix. It could have very easily killed us all, but somehow we managed to survive it.

After many changes and delicate disasters, Infra Noir is now finally out. The copies will be shipped to Germany in one-two days, meaning that by next week Jonas will have your copies in the mail. Jonas also told me he still have available a couple of Lettered copies, so please get into contact with him at jonas@zagava.de as soon as possible.

A cautionary note to all those waiting for an eventual reprint of Infra Noir (or any of the six books within) by the occasionally random small press. That is not going to happen. The books of Infra Noir are exclusive to Ex Occidente Press and Zagava and they will remain so.

A few quick photos attached (the slipcase for the book is missing from the photos; the slipcase / box will be ready from my bindery later today). The book contains over 100 photography, so it would have been impossible to make photos of each page of the volume.

We are very proud and happy with this book and we hope you will enjoy it as well.

Thank You all.

Salut,
Dan

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Dear all,

here finally are the first photos of the dustjacketed softcover edition of "Infra Noir". Due to paper-supply problems both edition will arrive slightly delayed mid of this coming week in Düsseldorf and will be shipped speedily thereafter from here.

VERY few of the Roman-numbered deluxe edition are available via email only (jonas@zagava.de)
Get the standard version on the website - Zagava

Cheers!
Jonas

Re: Ex Occidente Press
 

Dear all:

While Infra Noir has finally (!) been shipped from Bucharest to Düsseldorf and will arrive here by courier on Monday,


we proudly announce the publication of:



This collection of 7 new stories comes as hardcover edition, limited to 75(!) exemplars only, bound in black fabric, with red silk bookmark ribbon, illustrated colour endpapers after a painting by Thomas Phillips and frontispiece.

In addition to being a fascinating author and painter, Thomas Phillips is also a renowned composer, who has shared the stage with Francisco Lopez, the mighty Sunn O))) and members of Opera McGill, among many others. So we thought it would be a splendid idea to attach a CD (see below) with music especially composed by Thomas Phillips.
A book with a soundtrack!

Like its precursor, The Light is Alone, Malingerer is what might be called a discursive inverted cross. On one level, it aims to exhibit various manifestations of Satanic practice because, quite simply, the latter’s representation in the horror genre offers a perverse but delectable pleasure; the liminality of horror always entails an element of fun. And yet the collection is also devoted to perpetrating a kind of violence against those evils that are distinctly unpleasant, specifically the Luciferian nature of religious and political fundamentalisms, abominations of conscience. Hence Malingerer’s alignment with the aesthetic diabolism of Lovecraft’s powerful oeuvre, among those of other esteemed writers and thinkers, while it carefully critiques and collapses the convoluted bigotry that, for better and most certainly for worse, found such sublime, unholy expression in the picturesque city of Providence.

(shipping starts in 2 weeks already!)
www.zagava.de

All my best wishes,
Jonas

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I have just received my purchased deluxe copy of INFRA NOIR:

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I am astonished as never before at the book's design inner and outer. Has to be seen to be believed and then appreciated. Artwork galore amid aesthetic materials...no words can do it justice. Linear as well geometrically dislocating.

Contains:
Smoke by Mark Valentine
Inflammable Materials by Thomas Strømsholt
The Unfolding Map by John Howard
Soot by Dan Watt and Andrzej Welminski
The Salamander Angel by Damian Murphy
The Slaves of Paradise by Colin Insole

Re: Ex Occidente Press
 

"A cautionary note to all those waiting for an eventual reprint of Infra Noir (or any of the six books within) by the occasionally random small press. That is not going to happen. The books of Infra Noir are exclusive to Ex Occidente Press and Zagava and they will remain so."

I thought that once the book goes out of print, the publishing rights revert to the author... meaning that any press can be free to reprint them, if the author decides to allow it...

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I understand this statement to mean that the authors have expressed their clear intention not to immediately (or at all?) re-publish the texts elsewhere, which seems like a noble gesture, but if you look at some of the material in this very, very handsome volume you will probably agree that even in this time of many of the Ex Occidente books being re-published by other publishers in adequately big editions, most of this content seems far too adventurous for anyone else to even consider touching.
I love the Mark Valentine and the DP Watt "books", all very much out there with the best that is currently being done as far as risk-taking and imagination is concerned. This is a book the publishers and authors can truly be proud of. Plus that "standard edition" is a superb production which I wouldn't think twice about purchasing had I been so unlucky to miss out on the deluxe edition, which design-wise is the book of the year for me so far.


Ohh... and "Malingerer" the new book by Thomas Philipps is due any day now, too! I thought his "The Light is Alone" was a stand-out entry in the Editions de l'oubli canon. Should be very interesting.

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”Wow,” said my wife as I unpacked the Infra Noir books. ”There’s so much to gaze at and study that I hardly even know where to begin ...” I should add that, unlike me, she is not stricken with the book-disease. (She may be now though). Anyway, she expressed my thoughts almost to the letter: Infra Noir is truly an extraordinary object – a thing of beauty, a joy forever ... Pride, such a strange feeling to me, is perhaps what I feel by having some of my short texts included in this amazing book which contains material by authors infinitely better than me; a humble kind of pride ...

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Ahhh! I have the slip-cased Infra Noir in my hands. A "reading copy" is en route. Cotton Gloves for reading on order. Most exquisite book triumph imaginable and object of unholy fetishism. I need a copy for every room in the house, and another for the custom-made leather book-holster I am having designed for it. This is not a book - it is a hand grenade! Congratulations to all involved.

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I have been reading Infra Noir numbered edition since the beginning of the week. 'Experiencing' might be a better description than reading. The synthesis of content and design really is something to behold. Congratulations to all involved, this is outstanding stuff.

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I'm way behind on my reading and have yet to read the latest Avalon Brantley as well as Infra Noir. Now another book has been placed on my tower of to read-books, as Thomas Phillips' Malingerer arrived today. I'm delighted to that it is dedicated to the true Danish king, our exiled monarch in Dallas, Texas.