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That is wonderful news about The Collected Connoisseur! I discovered Mark Valentine too late for the previous Tartarus collections, and just missed out on the Ex Occidente volume, so this information particularly delights me! I must say, that I have been especially lucky with out of print things being made available again recently. :)

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Excellent news, Ray!

Being too young for the Connoisseur volumes on Tartarus, and too late for the Connoisseur volume on Ex Occidente, I look forward to this very much, especially when it's such an affordable price.

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Hey Ray,

Is this going to be a softcover only book, or will it also come out in hardcover?

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It will only be available in paperback. The idea is to make the stories as accessible as possible to the maximum number of people.

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Splendid news! I'm only missing In Violet Veils, but I'm was afraid to even enquire as to what a copy of that might cost.

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A week before this was announced I bought a copy of The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales for about one hundred and fity pounds.

Still, no regrets.

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Ouch! I know of a collector who recently paid £100 for The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales , and £100 for a copy of the second Ex Occidente title...

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It seems fortune has a sense of humour.

If anyone wants a copy of The Rite of Trebizond and Ray's Putting The Pieces in Place (plus loads of other nice Occidental rarities), the press has a special Gifts From The Orient Deal going.

Ex Occidente Press

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The first 10 pages of the forthcoming Mark Samuels collection can be viewed in pdf here:

http://www.exoccidente.com/collectedmachen.html

In the next few days, 10-13 pages of excerpts will be uploaded with previews of the next 6 books which are to be published by Ex Occidente.

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Hot damn!

A new Mark Samuels collection just tickles me giddy!


and that Gifts from the Orient deal is a great buy.

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I wonder if Mr Samuels knows of this yet...

Joking apart I'm really glad Dan has got past the whole printer problem, its a shame the delays caused a few tifs else were.

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Sorry for the bluntness, but can one seriously reliably order from these people? There just seems to be way more negative feedback than any press of supposedly such high quality should have. I know it's balanced out by people who say they've had no problems, but there's far too many people for a longer span of time for it to be anything less than serious issues, issues I wish I heard about sooner.

After half a year of asking what's up with everything, and supposedly having multiple replacements shipped, I abruptly get a refund. I don't want a refund, I want my book. And I feel that if I chance yet another order, it'll remain yet unfulfilled, seemingly out of spite, as all signs systematically point to them just not wanting to send out books, or perhaps they mistakenly slipped them in the dustbin instead of the postbox, or perhaps the Romanian post really that horrendously unreliable that it's a complete crapshoot, and there's really a few more unclaimed books floating around their comically inept infrastructure. I don't want to level blame at anyone or thing, but I do want what I paid for, preferably before it becomes unavailable and shipping is no longer even an issue. Any genuine experience, anecdotes, secret handshakes, etc that could help me complete these maddening ordering rites successfully are boundlessly appreciated...

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Generally speaking, I give personal sympathy to any book-buyer who has problems with getting the books they want and to any publisher who has problems getting them to those who want them.

Mistakes will have been made but hearts are in the right place. And intentions good, as far as I can sense them.

If books themselves are worthwhile and remain treasured on bookshelves for centuries, nobody will be worrying about how they got there in the first place and what teething troubles or disputes dogged them initially. The six books I have bought and received so far from Ex O are such treasured books for me.

That does not necessarily help the previous poster. And I wish him or her well. As I do the publisher.

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There are previews up of the next 6 books, which are to be published very soon. I'm quite happy to see that a they will come so soon.
I think you can click the titles in this post too.
I am told four more previews will soon be added.

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There is also a preview up for Tenebrous Tales - I think it went up with Mr Samuels collection. I am realy curius about the John Howard collection though - if his stories are anything like his collaborations with Mark V then I'll have to go for The Silver Voices.

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The preview for Tenebrous Tales can be downloaded at the bottom of the page here:
Ex Occidente Press - Tenebrous Tales



This is probably a very useless answer to you, but I have never had problems. I don't know if it's the Danish postal system (I somehow have my doubts), but I can't seem to find any other explanation (it is - not yet - privatized).

I do wish the very best for you and your books (as I wish the very best for the publisher and the writers).

I, personally, have full confidence in Ex Occidente Press.

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I have just had the pleasure of looking at the first ten pages or so of Christopher 'Julian Karswell' Barker's Tenebrous Tales on the Ex Occ.

I'm sure anyone who is familar with Barker who does so will be laughing just as hard as I am.

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Wow !!! :drunk:

Mark S.

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I've had no problems whatsoever with Ex Occidente. I've always found Dan to be efficient and easy to deal with, as well as a man with impeccable literary taste.

This doesn't help anyone who has had problems with receiving books, of course; and people with legitimate concerns do need to be listened to.

The problem is that there are others who act out of political motivations. They muddy the issue and try to wring tactical advantage out of certain situations: these tactical twats make it trickier for the legitmate complaints to be taken seriously, unfortunately.

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Outside of having to cope with my own impatience I've had a very good experience with Dan and Ex Occidente.

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A torrent of books coming this Spring to say the least; time for me to get some pre-orders in. About halfway through Cinnabar's Gnosis at this point and it is a beautiful collection. Now I'm really looking forward to the Bulgakov book's arrival in the coming weeks.

I have been dealing with Ex Occidente Press since the publication of The Rite of Trebizond, and have to date never had any problems. Some of my orders have taken longer than expected to arrive, especially the last couple of titles, but I've taken into consideration the fact that it's going to take a bit longer for a book posted from Romania to reach me where I reside in the Pacific Northwest (U.S.A.) than someone on the eastern seaboard or in Europe. I have found Dan to be most courteous and pleasant to correspond with, and he has always responded to my e-mail inquiries.

A belated thank you to Ray at Tartarus Press for posting a link to EO on his site back in 2008. :)

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Just written a short sonata of reality and fantasy upon 'real-time reviewing' as it relates to my future book entitled 'The Last Balcony':
http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_last_balcony_1.htm

Very excited about the prospect. And I believe there will be a PDF extract on the Ex Occidente site very shortly.

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Des, who gets to real-time review The Last Balcony?

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After the book is out, I'll send a free copy to the first person who promises to do a genuine real-time review...alongside my own. :)

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perhaps I am just lucky ?

junkie

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Lucky? Or maybe you just don't have a political agenda like certain rival publishers! It might be justifiably claimed that those rival publishers are a bunch of Barbara-ians...

The photo of the books looks great -- shame about the Casino Royale 007 at the edges, though!

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Top marks for The Prisoner Blu-ray though.
Be Seeing You.

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While on the subject of Ex Occidente Press, could someone please tell me whether or not the Christopher Barker book Tenebrous Tales is worth getting or not and by that I'm referring specifically to the writing and not the quality and the layout of the book itself. You see, with his work being compared on the site to such luminaries as Walter de la Mare and Robert Aickman (my favourite writer), I was wondering how people here on this site rated his writing, if such comparisons with the above authors are justified or not and so on. I realise that whatever views are expressed don't automatically mean that I myself will ultimately come to agree with them but it would be nice nevertheless to get some measure of opinion on him, especially as I've never read any of his work upto press.

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Now that's a loaded question... Some might wonder whether it isn't also a tactical question, i.e. a question in bad faith. But I'm going to do you the (admittedly minor) service of acting as if it's an innocent, good faith question...

The answer is yes, Christopher Barker's book will be worth reading. There are several reasons for this, but before I give them, I'm going to wait a few days and let other people give their reasons why you shouldn't read it...

The Walter de la Mare thing is a red herring. All writers compare themselves to other, more renowned writers. I do it, you do it, we all do it. If you want to batter this Mr Barker (as many people do) don't do it with a fish. Truly.

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Hm I'm not sure what to make of that response. On the one hand, I'm very appreciative you've taken the time to respond to it in the first but on the other, I'm sensing the implication that you think my question is something less than genuine. I know Mr Barker has something of a reputation amongst many other forum goers for being, how can I put, rather controversial but none of that has anything to do with me. He's never done me any harm and has even made points in various threadson this site that I've agreed with. I genuinely just wanted to know what his fiction is like as I've never read it upto press. Perhaps someone could point me towards other publications that have printed some of his stories so I might give them a try first before committing to the book. The only thing that I am decided about with the book so far is its excellent cover; simultaneously haunting yet childish. I hope that at least doesn't change before it gets published.

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For the record, I'm planning to read Tenebrous Tales at some point. I haven't ever read anything by Barker before, but I think his knowledge of Aickman and work with Reggie Oliver probably suggests some kind of competent story telling ability. I don't know how good or bad it might be, but his weird fiction inclinations are enough to raise my interest.

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Exactly thats the same with me. Any blurb on the back of a new book that infers comparisons with the writers the likes of Aickman and De Le Mare will always grab my interest.

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For quite a while Mr Barker used to have a story called The Tableux up on his website: I enjoyed it but I don't know how indicative it is of his writing style as a whole; I can understand the de la Mare comparison in some of the descriptive prose - not sure about the Aickman influence in that particuarly though. Then again the version in Tenebrues Tales has been revised.

I think the big story he has been working on is the Nick Drake one - The Melancholy Haunting of Nicholas Parkes.

Rhys, are you sure you are not answering partly in bad faith.

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My thoughts and feelings exactly.

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A small update but apparantly Albert Power of the Stoker Society has an upcoming Ex Occidente collection entitled Darling Savishna and Other Stories.

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Just curious if anyone who ordered The Master in Cafe Morphine: A Homage to Mikhail Bulgakov has received their copy yet. It's been over two months since the publication date and I haven't heard anything about the book since.

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I don't think so - depending on how weak my finanicel reserve is I may be asking about that soon.

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Still waiting for my copy too.

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me too.

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The Bulgakov book isn't quite ready yet, but it's nearly ready. The delay was partly caused by some writers not preparing their Notes (an essential part of this tribute volume) on time -- not that I'm blaming them or anything: I always find writing story notes difficult myself. Printer problems were partly responsible too, but that has been resolved now.

So a little more waiting is unavoidable, I'm afraid, but it won't be long now before The Master in Cafe Morphine appears...

Regards!