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Just noticed there is now a new collection of stories by Grabinski available in English:

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ISBN 978–0–9557285–3–2; 124pp; £6

For more see here:
http://www.cbeditions.com/

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No problem, darknessdoubled. It's good to know that this info was of some use to you.

Does anyone know the contents of this collection? I was trying to find them on the publisher's page but in vain.

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There are six stories collected here:

White Virak
The Gray Room
In Sarah's House
The Dead Run
The Black Hamlet
Szatera's Engrams

The Gray Room and The Black Hamlet were first printed in The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy (which was compiled and (mostly) translated by Wiesiek Powaga, who did the same for this new Grabinski volume).
The book is very lovely. CB Editions seem to be very promising (and I'm a sucker for the streamlined, minimal art design of each of the books issued thus far).
Thanks again!

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Thanks, darknessdoubled!!!

All of the stories are familiar to me except for The Dead Run. I somehow fail to find what is the original title of this story as no title from Grabinski's bibliography seems to fit.

Now I know I will have to get this book as well. :cool:

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"The room was in shambles, the kitchen window broken inward. Blood smeared the floor and walls. Richard approached the sink, glass crunching under his shoes, and looked toward the hunched mountains. Against the violet of the dawn, the silhouette of some great-winged bird or bat was plain above the lake, and it let loose the torso clutched by talons so that the body fell and upset the water's icy stillness.

Richard Whitson turned from that impossible sight and fought the urge to retch. He stumbled like a man blinded by his terror back into the living room, there to gaze once more at the product of his crime - that once-beautiful Christmas tree now so obviously ghastly in its color. His battle to keep his stomach down was lost at the sight atop the tree. For where would have been the star rested the brutally torn head of his grandfather."

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David of Current 93, with whom Jessica is close friends, published a wonderful collection of her work many years ago. I looked for the book but, since moving in with mum, my library is still in a state of chaos. Can't even recall the name of the book. I'm slowly hunting all of my weird fiction titles and placing them on shelves together, so I'll find it eventually -- but that is a chore that comes last, I've so much writing to do. Ash-Tree Press published a beautiful hardcover collection of fiction and poetry (Jessica is one of the finest poets in the genre), The Deep Museum, in 2003. She has a mass market pb collection, A Silver Thread of Madness,which collects some amazing short stories. And her one horror novel, Anthony Shriek, is magnificent. It really broke my heart when she became embittered and stopped writing novels. She has several writing projects that are in various states of completion --- all of them sound fantastic --- but she needs to find publishers who pay decently and will publish her books in hardcover. Her weird fictions are works of utter and absolute genius.

She is also one of the finest, most important editors of weird fiction, and has edited some really important collections of ghost stories by many forgotten/neglected authors from the past. She was also an early champion of Tom's writing.

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Some members of this site are already aware of the following items concerning Ligotti and Salmonson, but at the risk of repetition I'll point them out:

"Jessica Amanda Salmonson: Heromaker" (essay by Ligotti). Thanks to bendk for posting this essay; otherwise I wouldn't have been able to read it.

And the following exchange from the "Fantastic Metropolis" interview:

Neddal Ayad: By the way, I have you on the “never tried other modes of writing” thing. I would say that “Masquerade of a Dead Sword” is definitely a fantasy in the vein of Fritz Leiber or Michael Moorcock.

Thomas Ligotti: That was the only story I was commissioned to write. I had just started getting published and Jessica Salmonson asked me to write a story for her sequel anthology to Heroic Visions. Otherwise, I would never have written that story. Since then, I’ve been asked to write stories for theme anthologies but I’ve always turned down the offer.

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The mention of Salmonson reminded me of the Ligotti issue of Dagon (No. 22/23, 1998). In the Editorial to this magazine, Carl T. Ford writes: 'When you consider the author's output and remarkable high standard of horrific prose it is quite amazing that Thomas remains a writer for low-circulation magazines. In an introduction to the excellent "Masquerade of a Dead Sword" in Heroic Visions II, editor Jessica Amanda Salmonson observes that "his voice is perhaps too original for instant recognition among the typical editor or anthologist of horror fiction, a field where conservatism invariably translates artistic as being pretentious and where even a microscopic moment of the experimental creates paroxysms of disdain." I think I'll go along with that. Thomas Ligotti refuses to write for a large audience or to sacrifice style for a large bank cheque.'

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I've just found the book that I thought contained Jessica Salmonson's fiction that was published by David Tibet and find that it's not her work at all but rather:
MASTER OF FALLEN YEARS --Complete Supernatural Stories of Vincent O'Sullivan, edited, and with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Ghost Story Press, 1995).
Ghost Story Press was Richard Dalby and Kat & David Tibet. Sorry for the confusion.