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STRANGE TALES III, edited by Rosalie Parker, 14th December 2007, 288+ vi pages. £30.00. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in black wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 500 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-18-9.
Contents: 'Preface', 'The Lammas Worm' by Nina Allan, 'Morpheus House' by Mark Valentine, 'Sanctuary Run' by Daniel Mills, 'A Woman of the Party' by Elizabeth Brown, 'The Good, Light People' by Gary McMahon, 'Countess Otho' by Reggie Oliver, 'Melting' by A.J. McIntosh, 'It's White and It Follows Me' by Tina Rath, 'Yet No Greater Love nor Promise' by Joel Knight, 'Divan Method' by Eric Stener Carlson, 'Party Talk' by John Gaskin, 'The Other Box' by Gerard Houarner, 'The Great Blind God Passed Through Us' by Adam Golaski, 'Her Father's Daughter' by Simon Strantzas, 'Sister, Sister' by Angela Slatter, 'A Taste of Casu Marzu' by David Rix, 'The Solipsist' by Philbampus, 'Biographical Details'.
 
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WORMWOOD, Issue 13, Edited by Mark Valentine, 25th October 2009. 92 pages. £8.99. 525 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Atheneum Press.
Contents: 'Editorial', 'A Whirlpool Still More Rapid: M.P. Shiel’s "Vaila" and Gothic Impressionism' by Paul Fox, 'A Walk in the Woods: On Robert Aickman’s "Bind Your Hair" ’ by Philip Challinor, 'Things of Darkness: The Fiction of G.G. Pendarves' by Mike Barrett, ' "Maison Turque, or, The House of the Rose Leaf": Maupassant’s Obscene Farce' by Reggie Oliver, 'Maison Turque', by Guy de Maupassant (translated by Reggie Oliver), 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'Camera Obscura', 'Notes on Contributors'.
 
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THE ST PERPETUUS CLUB OF BUENOS AIRES, by Eric Stener Carlson, 25th October 2009, 233 pages. £25.00/$45. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in brown wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-16-5.
Reviews:
"This work should appeal to fans of good writing and the occult. The prose is top-notch and great care has been taken in providing the reader with an intellectual, multi-layered story." - Grim Rictus Reviews
"...a captivating novel written in a sparkling style, precise yet imaginative." - Mario Guslandi at Rick Kleffel's Agony Column.
        
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THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, by Washington Irving, 25th September 2009, 404+xi pages. £35.00/$60. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in blue grey cloth stamped in black, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-17-2.
Contents: Introduction by S.T. Joshi, From The Sketch Book: 'Rip Van Winkle', 'The Spectre Bridegroom', 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'. From Bracebridge Hall: 'The Historian', 'The Haunted House', 'Dolph Heyliger', 'The Storm-Ship'. From Tales of a Traveller: Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman: 'The Great Unknown' (a preface), 'The Hunting-Dinner', 'The Adventure of My Uncle', 'The Adventure of My Aunt, 'The Bold Dragoon; or, The Adventure of My Grandfather', 'The Adventure of the German Student', 'The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture', 'The Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger', 'The Story of the Young Italian'. The Money-Diggers: 'Hell Gate', 'Kidd the Pirate', 'The Devil and Tom Walker', 'Wolfert Webber; or, Golden Dreams', 'Adventure of the Black Fisherman'. Legends of The Alhambra: 'The Mysterious Chambers' 'The Adventure of the Mason', 'Legend of the Arabian Astrologer', 'Legend of Prince Ahmed Al Kamel', 'Legend of the Moor's Legacy', 'Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra', 'Governor Manco and the Soldier', 'Legend of the Two Discreet Statues', 'Legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa', 'The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier'. From Heath's Book of Beauty: 'The Haunted Ship'. Wolfert's Roost: 'Wolfert's Roost', 'The Grand Prior of Minorca', 'Guests from Gibbet Island', 'Don Juan: A Spectral Research', 'Legend of the Engulphed Convent', 'The Phantom Island'. 'Bibliography' by Richard Dalby
      
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COLD TO THE TOUCH, by Simon Strantzas, 29th July 2009, 212 pages. £25.00/$45. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-15-8.
Contents: 'Under the Overpass', 'The Other Village', 'The Uninvited Guest', 'A Seed on Barren Ground', 'Writing on the Wall', 'A Chorus of Yesterdays', 'The Sweetest Song', 'Pinholes in Black Muslin', 'Fading Light', 'Poor Stephanie', 'Like Falling Snow', 'Here’s to the Good Life', 'Cold to the Touch, and 'Afterword'.
 
Reviews:
"This exceptional collection is highly recommended." - Grim Rictus Reviews 
"Overall, the thirteen stories in this collection offer the reader strange rewards. There are no easy explanations, which is realism of a sort. There are no simple payoffs or cheap twists. There are shadows everywhere, and few signposts that can be trusted. But there are moments of humour and humanity amid the darkness and decay. " - David Longhorn, Supernatural Tales 16
"Mr. Strantzas is an amazing writer . . . Cold to the Touch is easily one of the best books I have read this year. Rating: 10/10" - The Speculative Fiction Junkie
"Cold to the Touch is a formidable gift to the field of weird literature." - The Grim Blogger, Grim Reviews
"One thing is certain, Mr. Strantzas ripped out a bit of his soul and threw it onto the page with a violent beauty. Such stories could come from no other place. This collection is evocative, endearing, strange and horrifying all at once. . . All of the stories in this collection are delightfully dark and wonderfully weird. - Sarah L. Gerhardt, She Never Slept
 "Say hello to a new and important voice in the canon of weird fiction." - Michael Kelly, FearZone.
"An excellent writer who likes to deal with the weirdest and more mysterious aspects of human condition, who likes to disturb and upset and manages to do that very effectively by emphasizing the dark shades lurking behind the light of everyday reality." Mario Guslandi at The Short Review.
A testimonial from the author Steve Rasnic Tem for Cold to the Touch: "Simon Strantzas is an important new writer of weird fiction, a position solidified by the release of his new collection, Cold to the Touch, from Tartarus Press. What I admired most about this collection, besides the fine writing, is how these stories defy a simply summarization. This fiction goes far beyond the simple scares of most horror. A mystery defying the usual explication of plot lies at the heart of each one, giving us much to chew on long after the story has ended. Cold to the Touch is a great reading experience."
Cold to the Touch has been the subject of a Weirdmonger "real-time" review by Des Lewis.
   
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THE DOUBLE EYE, by William Fryer Harvey, 29th June 2009, 303 + xvi pages. £32.50/$50. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-14-1.
Contents: 'Introduction' by Richard Dalby, 'Midnight House', 'The Star', 'Across the Moors', 'August Heat', 'Sambo', 'Unwinding', 'Sarah Bennet's Possession', 'The Tortoise', 'The Beast with Five Fingers', 'Six to Six-Thirty', 'Blinds', 'Miss Cornelius', 'The Heart of the Fire', 'Peter Levisham', 'The Clock', 'Ghosts and Jossers', 'The Sleeping Major', 'The Ankardyne Pew', 'The Tool', 'The Devil's Bridge', 'Two and a Third', 'Miss Avenal', 'The Double Eye', 'The Dabblers', 'Mrs Ormerod', 'The Follower', 'The Man Who Hated Aspidistras', 'Double Demon', 'The Arm of Mrs Egan', 'Account Rendered', 'The Flying Out of Mrs Barnard Hollis', 'The Habeas Corpus Club'.
      
Reviews: 
"...it's now possible to plug another gap in the century's roll-call of top short-fiction writers". - The Independent
  "Harvey is indeed a master of the uncanny and the supernatural who is able to deal with a variety of eerie subjects and to produce solid, compelling fiction, the kind of fiction which, fortunately, will never go out of fashion." - Mario Guslandi, Bookgeeks
 
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WORMWOOD, Issue 12, Edited by Mark Valentine, 2nd April, 2009. 92 pages. £8.99. 525 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Atheneum Press.
Contents: 'Editorial', 'Ruins of Time: The Mortal Terrors of Harlan Ellison' by Joel Lane, 'Wilkie Collins and the Ghostly Tale' by Albert Power, J'urgen' by Leonard Cline, 'Outer Monstrosities: William Hope Hodgson's "The Hog" ' by Benjamin Szumskyj, 'The Lost Dream: The Changes Günter Eich Made to His Radio Play Träume' by John Howard, 'Edward Lucas White: Narratives Out Of Nightmare' by Mike Barrett, 'The Rod of the Snake Reconsidered and Some Afterthoughts' by Robert Eldridge, 'A Gentleman of Letters: Peter Vansittart' by Mark Valentine, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'Camera Obscura', 'Notes on Contributors'.
 
Review:
"[Wormwood] opens the door to more lost and neglected writers than you can shake a library card at." - Ian McMillan, Yorkshire Post
 
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THE BUCKROSS RING, AND OTHER STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND SUPERNATURAL, by L.A.G. Strong, 2nd April 2009, 237 + xii pages. £32.50/$50. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in black wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-13-4.
Contents: 'Introduction' by Richard Dalby, 'The Buckross Ring', ' "Splidges" ', 'Mr Tookey', 'The Farm', 'Tea at Maggie Reynolds's', 'Breakdown', 'The Gates', 'Crabtree's', 'Death of the Gardener', 'Orpheus', 'Sea Air', 'Lobsters', 'The Doll', 'Let Me Go', 'Danse Macabre', 'The House That Wouldn't Keep Still', 'Light Above the Lake', 'Afterword: The Short Story'. 
 
 Reviews:
"LAG was particularly interested in the supernatural, though, being fascinated by the paranormal and this is reflected in the odd and genuinely chilling tales in The Buckross Ring. In 'The Doll', there's voodoo in the kind of quiet country setting that makes these kinds of things even more shuddery and abnormal, and the prose at the end of the story achieves a kind of bleak and affecting poetry." - Ian McMillan, Yorkshire Post
"...the author manages to achieve remarkable results thanks to his graceful and skilled narrative style." Mario Guslandi, The SF Site.
 
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TALES OF TERROR, by Guy de Maupassant, 11th December, 2008, 283+ xiv pages. £32.50/$55. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in red wibalin cloth stamped in gilt, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-12-7.
Contents: 'Foreword' by Ramsey Campbell, 'Introduction' by Arnold Kellett, 'The Horla', 'The Devil', 'Two Friends', 'Fear', 'The Hand', 'Coco', 'The Mannerism', 'The Madwoman', 'Mohammed-Fripouille', 'The Blind Man', 'At Sea', 'Apparition', 'Saint-Antoine', 'The Wolf', 'Terror', 'The Diary of a Madman', 'A Vendetta', 'The Smile of Schopenhauer', 'On the River', 'He?', 'Old Milon', 'The Head of Hair', 'The Inn', 'Mother Savage', 'Was he Mad?', 'The Dead Girl', 'Mademoiselle Cocotte', 'A Night in Paris', 'The Case of Louise Roque', 'The Drowned Man', 'Who Knows?', 'Mademoiselle Perle', 'Notes'.
 
Review:
"It's easy to see why Maupassant was regarded as France's best short story writer. . . . A splendid collection from a classic author." Andrew McQuade, Gorezone
 
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THE SNOW-IMAGE AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 23rd October, 2008, 417 + xvi pages. £32.50/$55. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in black wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-09-7.
Contents: 'Introduction' by Richard Dalby, 'The Hollow of the Three Hills', 'Roger Malvin's Burial', 'Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe', 'The Grey Champion', 'Young Goodman Brown', ''The White Old Maid', 'Alice Doane's Appeal', 'A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather', 'The Minister's Black Veil', 'Dr Heidegger's Experiment', 'Fancy's Show Box', ''The Great Carbuncle', 'The Prophetic Pictures', 'The Man of Adamant', 'The Sister Years', 'Edward Randolph's Portrait', 'Howe's Masquerade', 'Lady Eleanore's Mantle', 'A Select Party', 'A Virtuoso's Collection', 'The Antique Ring', 'The Hall of Fantasy', 'The New Adam and Eve', 'The Birthmark', 'Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent', 'The Celestial Railroad', 'The Christmas Banquet', 'Rappaccini's Daughter', 'P's Correspondence', 'Ethan Brand', 'The Snow-Image', 'Feathertop', 'The Ghost of Doctor Harris'.
 
Review:
'A pessimistic and psychologically disturbing writer if ever there was one, Hawthorne's dark outlook on humanity's fate still makes for compelling storytelling some 150 years on." Andrew McQuade, Gorezone
     
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WORMWOOD, Issue 11, Edited by Mark Valentine, 23rd October, 2008. 92 pages. £8.99. 525 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Atheneum Press.
Contents: 'Editorial', 'Resurrecting Alexander Crawford' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'The Experiment' by Alexander Crawford , 'Austin Osman Spare: English Satyr, Magus-Artist and Astral Visionary' by Adam Daly, 'Putting on the Surrealist Hat: The Decadent Aesthetic of Jules Charnier' by Reggie Oliver, 'The Maghreb and the Art of Living: André Gide's The Immoralist' by Paul Fox, 'Towards the Drogulus: A Strange Implosion of Self After Reading Elizabeth Bowen' by D.F. Lewis, 'Loving God and the Dead: Language and Theme in the Stories of Théophile Gautier' by Simon Whitechapel, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'Camera Obscura', 'Notes on Contributors'.
 
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AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE AND OTHER STORIES, by Ambrose Bierce, July 31st, 2008, 256 + xviii pages. £32.50/$65. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-10-3.
Contents: 'Introduction', by S.T. Joshi, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', 'A Tough Tussle', 'The Man and the Snake', 'A Watcher by the Dead', 'The Suitable Surroundings', 'An Inhabitant of Carcosa', 'The Boarded Window', 'The Middle Toe of the Right Foot', 'Haïta the Shepherd', 'The Damned Thing', 'The Eyes of the Panther', 'The Death of Halpin Frayser', 'An Adventure at Brownville', 'The Famous Gilson Bequest', 'The Secret of Macarger's Gulch', 'A Psychological Shipwreck', 'The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" ', 'John Bartine's Watch', 'The Realm of the Unreal', 'A Baby Tramp', 'Some Haunted Houses' ('The Isle of Pines', 'A Fruitless Assignment', 'A Vine on a House', 'At Old Man Eckert's', 'The Spook House', 'The Other Lodgers', 'The Thing at Nolan'), 'Bodies of the Dead' ('That of Granny Magone', 'A Light Sleeper', 'The Mystery of Charles Farquharson', ' "Dead and Gone" ', 'A Cold Night', 'A Creature of Habit'), 'Mysterious Disappearances' ('The Difficulties of Crossing a Field', 'An Unfinished Race', 'Charles Ashmore's Trail', 'Science to the Front'), 'A Diagnosis of Death', 'Moxon's Master', 'A Jug of Syrup', 'Staley Fleming's Hallucination', 'Beyond the Wall', 'The Stranger', 'The Ways of Ghosts' ('Present at a Hanging', 'A Cold Greeting', 'A Wireless Message', 'An Arrest'), 'Soldier-Folk' ('A Man with Two Lives', 'Three and One Are One', 'A Baffled Ambuscade', 'Two Military Executions'), 'The Moonlit Road', 'Bibliography' by S.T. Joshi.
     
Review:
'...an insight into a cynical soul who found humour in murder, patricide and all sorts of other macabre subjects. The master of the twish ending has at last come home." Andrew McQuade, Gorezone
 
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THE SAND MAN AND OTHER NIGHT-PIECES, by E.T.A. Hoffmann, May 8th, 2008, 531 + xviii pages. £35/$65. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 500 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-08-0.
Contents: 'Introduction' by Jim Rockhill, 'The Sand-Man', 'The Legacy', from The Serapion Brethren: 'A Fragment of the Lives of Three Friends', 'The Mines of Falun', 'The Singers' Contest', 'Eine Spukgeschichte', 'Automatons', 'The Life of a Well-Known Character', 'Albertine's Wooers', 'The Uncanny Guest', 'The Vampire'. 'The Cremona Violin', 'The Golden Pot', 'A New Year's Eve Adventure', 'The Abandoned House'. 'The Fiction and Collections of E.T.A. Hoffmann'.
     
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WORMWOOD, Issue 10, Edited by Mark Valentine, 14th April, 2008. 92 pages. £8.99. 525 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Biddles.
Contents: 'Editorial', 'The Void Behind the Face of Order: Robert Aickman, Anthologist of the Ghost Story' by Peter Bell, 'No Secret Place: The Haunted Cities of Fritz Leiber' by Joel Lane, 'Sand in the Machine: The Radio Play Träume (Dreams) by Günter Eich' by John Howard, 'Kenneth Grant: True Tales, Ancient Grimoires and Magical Fiction' by Dave Evans, 'Elementals and Others: The Fiction of Michael McDowell' by Mike Barrett, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'Camera Obscura', 'Notes on Contributors'.
 
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SREDNI VASHTAR, by Saki, 21st March 2008, 293 + xii pages. £30/$55. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in red wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-07-3.
Contents: 'Introduction' by Mark Valentine, 'The Reticence of Lady Anne', 'The Lost Sanjak', 'Gabriel-Ernest', 'The Saint and the Goblin', 'The Soul of Laploshka', 'Esmé', 'Tobermory', 'The Background', 'The Unrest-Cure', 'Sredni Vashtar', 'The Easter Egg', 'The Music on the Hill', 'The Peace of Mowsle Barton', 'The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope', ' "Ministers of Grace" ', 'The Remoulding of Groby Lington', 'The She-Wolf', 'Laura', 'The Hen', 'The Open Window', 'The Cobweb', 'The Seventh Pullet', 'The Blind Spot', 'The Story-Teller', 'The Lumber-Room', 'The Toys of Peace', 'The Wolves of Cernagratz', 'The Interlopers', 'The Hedgehog', 'The Image of the Lost Soul', 'The Infernal Parliament', 'When William Came'.
     
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THE TRIUMPH OF NIGHT, by Edith Wharton, 28th January 2008, 310 pages. £32.50. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-06-6.
Contents: 'Preface', 'The Fullness of Life', 'A Journey', 'The Duchess at Prayer', 'The Lady's Maid's Bell', 'Afterward', 'The Eyes', 'The Triumph of Night', 'Kerfol', 'Bewitched', 'Miss Mary Pask', 'A Bottle of Perrier', 'Mr Jones', 'Pomegranate Seed', 'The Looking-Glass', 'All Souls' ', 'An Autobiographical Postscript.'
      Review:
'Readers of her ghost stories today can enjoy Wharton’s wry scepticism, and in the process, perhaps have their own creative muscles strengthened to face that which is ghostly about today’s world.' Ann L. Patten, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.
 
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STRANGE TALES II, edited by Rosalie Parker, 16th November 2007, 327+ vi pages. £30.00. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in black wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 500 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-05-9.
Contents: 'Preface', 'Calico Black, Calico Blue' by Joel Knight, 'The Fairy Killer' by Quentin S. Crisp, 'She Lights the Little Candle' by Katherine Haynes, 'Mister Poppy' by Stephen Holman, 'Carden in Capaea' by Mark Valentine, 'What Water Reveals' by Adam Golaski, 'Pastor Arrhenius and The Maiden Brita' by Dale Nelson, 'The Other Village' by Simon Strantzas, 'What the Eye Remembers' by Anne-Sylvie Salzman, 'The Magpies' by David Rix, 'The Concise Picaresque Adventures of the Wanderlust Bridge' by Rhys Hughes, 'Sourdough' by Angela Slatter, 'The Hiding Place' by Barbara Roden, 'Mea Tulpa' by Roger Dunkley, 'Llanfihangel' by Elizabeth Brown, 'Dinckley Green' by Christopher Harman, 'Sejanus' Daughter' by Hilbourne Carlone, 'Biographical Details'
     
Reviews:
'Like all of Tartarus's output, the Strange Tales volume is beautifully produced and is a pleasure to read and put on the shelf. Tartarus books aren't cheap, but quality rarely is. ' Ian McMillan, Yorkshire Post
 '...a very rewarding reading experience producing that pleasant uneasiness and discomfort that any admirer of "strange" tales is seeking in dark fiction of good quality.' Mario Guslandi, The Agony Column.
'Editor Rosalie Parker has a keen eye for profound tales of terror." Andrew McQuade, Gorezone
From Strange Tales II, "The Other Village" by Simon Strantzas and 'Calico Black, Calico Blue' by Joel Knight have been selected for Best New Horror, edited by the indefatigable Stephen Jones. "What Water Reveals" by Adam Golaski has also been selected for Horror: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition, edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz. 
 
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WORMWOOD, Issue 9, Edited by Mark Valentine, 16th November, 2007. 92 pages. £8.99. 525 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Biddles.
Contents: 'Editorial', 'Mysteries of the Thirteenth Hour: The Enigmatic World of Phyllis Paul' by Glen Cavaliero, 'Speculative Metaphysics: The Early Fantasies of David Lindsay' by Jeff Gardiner , 'A Manifest Aesthetic: Georges Rodenbach and the City of Bruges' by Paul Fox, 'Le Fanu's The House By The Churchyard and the Influence of Richard Brinsley Sheridan' by Albert Power, 'A Great Labyrinth of Stories: Count Jan Potocki's The Saragossa Manuscript by Adrian Eckersley, 'She of Many Names' by William Charlton, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'Camera Obscura', 'Notes on Contributors'.
 
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GUIDE TO FIRST EDITION PRICES, 2008/9, by R.B. Russell, 1st November 2007, 576+x pages. £25.00. Trade paperback printed and bound by 10/10 Printing. 7,000 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-03-5.
Point: The seventh edition, printed in full colour with 1,000 illustrations and the values of over 42,500 sought-after books. 
     
Reviews:
"...curiously fascinating." Times Literary Supplement, 23rd May, 2008.
 
"…a browser’s delight, as illuminating as it’s absorbing … no collector will be fooled by the £25 tag. It’s priceless." The Bookdealer, October 2007.
 
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Dreads and Drolls, by Arthur Machen, 20th September 2007. Hardback: 241 + vii pages. £35/$65. Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-04-2.
Contents: 'Introduction, by R.B. Russell, 'Note, by Arthur Machen, 'The Man With the Silver Staff', 'The Mystery of Mr Haddock', 'Ceremony on the Scaffold', 'Mr Lutterloh', 'A Lament for London's Lost Inns', 'Madame Rachel', 'Sir Benjamin The "Baron" ', 'Our Betty's Day Out', 'How The Rich Live', 'The Highbury Mystery', 'Deadly Nevergreen', 'Polite Correspondence', 'How Clubs Began', 'The Ingenious Mr Blee', 'Old Dr Mounsey', 'Casanova in London', ' "Doubles" In Crime', ' "Characters" ', 'The Euston Square Mystery', 'More Inns', 'The Adventure of the Long-Lost Brother', 'The Power of Jargon', 'The Little People', 'The Campden Wonder', 'Morduck the Witch', 'The Man From Nowhere', 'Before Wembley', 'The Strange Case of Emily Weston', 'The Gay Victorians', 'A Castle in Celtic Mists', 'A Tale of a Turbot', 'Chivalry', '7B Coney Court', 'Concerning Cocktails', 'Mothers-in-Law', 'A Pretty Parricide', 'The Cry of a Captive', 'Our Funny Friends', 'Twins', 'Hungry Weather!', 'The Medicine-Man's Magic', 'The Best of Everything', 'The Merry Widow', 'Knocking Legends To Smithereens', 'One Night When I Was Frightened', 'The Wood Family', 'Houses', 'The People of the Wild', 'Laugh When You Awake', 'The Little Brown Things', 'Shakespeare's 'Bare Bones', 'The Simplicity of Genius', 'Books that a Queen May Read', 'Society and the Savage', 'Those Doctors!', 'The "B" in Baconian Bonnets', 'The Scholar and the Sun-Myth', 'Dr Johnson's Disappearing Act', 'When the Much-Travelled Man Comes Home', 'England's Last State Lottery', Bibliographical information.
 
 
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Strangers and Pilgrims, by Walter de la Mare, 11th June 2007. Hardback: 510 + xiii pages. £35/$65. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in grey wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 500 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-02-8.
Contents: Introduction, A:B:O., The Moon's Miracle, The Riddle, The Giant, The Quincunx, The Pear-Tree, The Bird of Travel, Seaton's Aunt, The Vats, Promise at Dusk, The Creatures, Miss Jemima, The Looking-Glass, Out of the Deep, Winter, The Green Room, The Scarecrow, Alice's Godmother, Mr Kempe, A Recluse, All Hallows, The Game At Cards, Crewe, The House, 'What Dreams May Come', Strangers and Pilgrims, A Revenant, The Guardian, An Anniversary, Music, Bad Company, Bibliographical Information.
 Reviews:
'This is a fantastic (in every sense) book of tales.' - Ian McMillan, The Times, 14th July, 2007.
'A beautiful edition of supernatural English fiction, subtle and disquieting rather than out and out frightening.' - Stuart Maconie, The Guardian, 13th February 2008.
'Best known as a poet and a writer of children’s fiction, Walter de la Mare can also deservedly take his place amongst the ranks of early twentieth-century writers of supernatural fiction.' Jenny McDonnell, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.
'Strangers and Pilgrims is a rewarding selection of tales, not a few of which are masterpieces, by an unduly neglected writer whose work will never be out of date. I envy readers who are coming to Walter de la Mare’s writing for the first time.' Paul Kane, The Compulsive Reader
 
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The Justice of the Night, by Glen Cavaliero, 23rd April, 2007. Hardback: 88 pages. £30/$55. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621317.
 
Contents: 'The First Lesson', 'Points of Recognition', 'Sky Light', 'Solo', 'Mater', 'Armistice', 'The Grange', 'Lay-By', 'Doomsday', 'Golden Girl', 'The Auditors', 'Bolt Hole', 'Winky', 'In Mrs Blicker's Room', 'That Old Black Magic', 'Sad Old Song', 'A Metamorphosis', 'View Halloo', 'The Brown Way', 'Dark Tower', 'Just for the Record', 'Garbo Talks', 'Bexhill-sur-Mer', 'Recantation', 'Moroccan Blues', 'The Wise Woman of Amounderness', 'Spoil', 'Ground Level', 'London Fires', 'Museum and New Moon', 'Hellingly', 'A Legacy', 'Elegy for James', 'Mountain Rescue', 'Memorial', 'Bound in Green', 'Watcher of the Deep', 'The Doorway', 'Mater Dei', 'Dismissal', 'By Command', 'On the March', 'Promised Land', 'Cat Nap', 'Settlement', 'Dulce Domum', 'La Gonterie', 'Midwinter Burial', 'Moving House', 'A Spell of Vertigo', 'Wakey Wakey!', 'Dead Ringers', 'Zero Summer', 'Dedication'.
   Reviews:
"It is characteristic of [Cavaliero] and his poetry as a whole that he offers no easy comfort, no easy assurance; and the verse, tautly combining mythology and motorways, the classic deportment of the ode with a diction garnered from fields not tilled by the grand style, is the appropriate vehicle of a vision which is strenuous, unflinching, and comprehensive. . . . footnote. The hardcover volume is beautifully produced by Tartarus Press: printed in elegant type on quality paper and with a very handsome dust wrapper. . . " Derek de Silva, Poetry Salzburg Review.
"Cavaliero is a visionary, taking us beyond the manifestly seen and felt." - Edward Gauntlett, The Charles Williams Quarterly, Summer 2007
 
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WORMWOOD, Issue 8, Edited by Mark Valentine, 23rd April, 2007. 92 pages. £8.99. 550 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Bath Press.
Contents: 'Editorial', 'The Territory of the Others: The Dark Fiction of Theodore Sturgeon' by Joel Lane, 'Lautréamont: Count of Cult-Authors, Master of Malevolence, Hero of Situationists' by Adam Daly, 'The Crystal Utopia: The Green Child by Herbert Read' by Paul Newman, 'Higuchi Ichiyo: The Brief Flight of a Literary Shooting Star' by Quentin S. Crisp, ' "Long Live Degenerate Art!'" ' by Don LaCoss, 'C.L. Moore' by E.F. Bleiler, 'Lionel Britton: An Update' by Tony Shaw, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'Camera Obscura', 'Notes on Contributors'.
 
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THE SECRET OF THE SANGRAAL AND OTHER WRITINGS, by Arthur Machen, Introductions by R.B. Russell, 6th February 2007. Second Tartarus printing. Hardback: 375 + vi pages. £35/$65. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in blue cloth stamped in gilt, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 978-1-872621-18-0.
Contents: The Secret of the Sangraal: Introduction and Essay. The Stroller, When I Was Young in London, London Thirty Years Ago, The Joy Of London, Re-Discovery of London, Dog and Duck: Dog and Duck, Why New Year?, On Valentines and Other Things, On Simnel Cakes, 'April Fool!' , The Merry Month of May, A Midsummer Night's Dream, July Sport: With Some Remarks on Young Mr Blueface, 'A Thorough Change', Roast Goose: With a Dissertation on Apple Sauce and Sage and Onions, Where are the Fogs of Yesteryears?, Martinmass, Christmas Mumming, A Talk for Twelfth Night, Some February Stars, March and A Moral, St George and the Dragon, The Poor Victorians, Stuff-And Science, On Holidays, Six Dozen of Port, The Custom of the Manor, The Vice of Collecting, Splendour, How to Spend Christmas, Adelphi: Fareewell! , The Art of Unbelief, Note. Dr Johnson's Disappearing Act. Notes and Queries: Guinevere and Lancelot, Shakespeare and Shakespere, A New Year Meditation, Casuistry, Superstition-or Instinct?, Imagination and Health, England and Revolution, Celtic Magic, The Holy Graal, Justice, Liberty-and Fallacy?, The Art of Divination, Our Absurd Education, The Cult of the Secret, Rouge et Noir-and the Unknown, The Moth and the Flame, Tom O'Bedlam and His Song, The Only Way. The Gray's Inn Coffee House. Bridles and Spurs: Bridles and Spurs, A Forgotten Book, The Strange Tale of Mount Nephin, Pictures on the Cards, The Ancient Speech, Mutterings in the Dark Grove, The Old Grammar School, Riddles and Symbols, The Holy Grail, The Bitter Impatience, Lost Books, True to Life. A Note on Poetry. Bibliographical Notes (from Danielson's Bibliography)
     
Review: 
...this volume is . . . an indispensable addition to the library of not only the Machen reader but student of weird fiction in general. . . . A sense of pleasure is available in practically every memory or essay put forth. . . . While the pleasure and intellectual worth of such a volume as this should be immediately recognized, one of the chief uses of these writings is the chance for the curious to draw connections between Machen's fiction and life. . . . this carefully assembled collection depicts various sides of Machen's interests and composition styles in one convenient, reasonably priced volume. William Simmons, Infinityplus
 
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THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES, by H.G. Wells, Introductions by Brian Stableford, 1st December 2006. Hardback: 363 + xiv pages. £35/$65. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in blue cloth stamped in silver, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-00-4.
Contents: 'Introduction', 'The Devotee of Art', 'Walcote', 'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid', 'The Lord of the Dynamos', 'The Temptation of Harringay', 'The Moth', 'Pollock and the Porroh Man', 'Under the Knife', 'The Plattner Story', 'The Red Room', 'The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham', 'The Apple', 'The Crystal Egg', 'The Presence by the Fire', 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles', 'The Stolen Body', 'A Vision of Judgment', 'A Dream of Armageddon', 'The New Accelerator', 'The Inexperienced Ghost', 'Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland', 'The Truth About Pyecraft', 'The Magic Shop', 'The Country of the Blind', 'The Door in the Wall', 'The Beautiful Suit', 'The Wild Asses of the Devil', 'The Story of the Last Trump', 'The Pearl of Love', 'The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper', 'Answer to Prayer'.
   Reviews:
'The Man Who Could Work Miracles: The Supernatural Tales of H.G. Wells is an extremely worthwhile collection and, like all Tartarus Press books, it is produced to an extremely high standard indeed.' Paul Kane, The Compulsive Reader
 Those who consider Wells only a great SF writer will be pleasantly surprised by this collection of stories, apt to charm both the devotees of fantastic literature and the regular readers of horror and ghost fiction. Mario Guslandi, SF Site
 
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THE HILL OF DREAMS, by Arthur Machen, Introductions by Mark Valentine, Lord Dunsany and Arthur Machen, 30th October 2006. Hardback: 230 + xxxii pages. £30/$55. Second Tartarus printing. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621317.
   
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WORMWOOD, Issue 7, Edited by Mark Valentine, 30th October 2006. 92 pages. £8.99. 550 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Bath Press.
Contents: 'Editorial', 'G.K. Chesterton: Artist of Fantasy and the Grotesque' by William Charlton, 'Oriental Gothic: William Beckford's Vathek and The Episodes of Vathek' by Albert Power, 'Agorit': An Unpublished Fragment by Sarban, 'Josef Šimánek: Czech Pagan Fantasist' by Cyril Simsa, 'Paul Leppin: The Ghost of Prague: An English Reader's Perspective' by Mark Beech, 'Cry Mider For Zeulas: The Elak Stories of Henry Kuttner' by Richard Toogood, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'Camera Obscura', 'Notes on Contributors'.
 Review:
...this is certainly where Wormwood’s talents lie - in close readings of obscure texts, informed by detailed knowledge of the authors and their work. By printing the texts themselves alongside masterly interpretations, the reader is invited to do likewise, thereby encouraging new scholarship and iconoclasm. - Dara Downey, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
 
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A WALBERSWICK GOODNIGHT STORY, by Louis de Bernières, October 2006. 12 pps. Limited edition of only 200 signed, numbered copies, hand-set in Perpetua type by Alan Anderson and printed on Zerkall paper. £25.00.
   
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THE SENSE OF THE PAST, by Henry James, Introduction by Glen Cavaliero, 23rd June 2006. Hardback: 657 + xi pages. £35/$65. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1 87262199 6 / 978-1-872621-99-9.
Contents: 'Introduction' by Glen Cavaliero, 'The Romance of Certain Old Clothes', 'De Grey: A Romance', 'The Last of the Valerii', 'The Ghostly Rental', 'Sir Edmund Orme', 'The Private Life', 'Owen Wingrave', 'The Altar of the Dead', 'The Friends of the Friends', 'The Turn of the Screw', 'The Real Right Thing', 'The Great Good Place', 'Maud-Evelyn', 'The Third Person', 'The Beast in the Jungle', 'The Jolly Corner', 'The Sense of The Past', 'Notes for The Sense of the Past'.
   
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WORMWOOD, Issue 6, Edited by Mark Valentine, 8th May 2006. 92 pages. £8.99. 550 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Bath Press.
Contents: 'Editorial', 'The October Revolution: Ray Bradbury's Existential Paradigm for the Horror Genre, Part Two' by Joel Lane, 'Old England, New England: M.R. James, Mary Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett' by John Howard, 'Through a Mind Darkly: Some Thoughts on J.S. Le Fanu and the Psychology of the Ghost Story' by William P. Simmons, 'Savage Songs from a Sinful Sea: Robert E. Howard's Faring Town Trilogy' by Benjamin Szumskyj, 'Introduction to William Hope Hodgson's "The Psychology of Species'" by Douglas A. Anderson, 'The Psychology of Species' by William Hope Hodgson, 'The Lost Genius of Britton: Proletarian Misfit, Apocalyptic Anarchist, Forgotten Genius' by Adam Daly, 'Trajectory of a Comet: Poland's Arch-Decadent' by Brian R. Banks, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, 'Camera Obscura', 'Notes on Contributors'.
 
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THE PALE APE, by M.P. Shiel, Introduction by Brian Stableford, 8th May April 2006. Hardback: 211 + xiv pages. £30/$55. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in red wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1 87262198 8 / 978-1-872621-98-2.
Contents: 'Introduction', ' The Pale Ape', 'The Case of Euphemia Raphash', 'Cummings King Monk', 'A Bundle of Letters','Huguenin's Wife', 'Many a Tear', 'The House of Sounds', 'The Spectre-Ship', 'The Great King', 'The Bride'.
Reviews:
Moments of terror-laden friction -- emotionally charged moments of explosion -- abound in this collection. . . . this volume instills a sense of both mysticism and earthly relevance to fantasies which celebrate the outré in the truest sense of the term, allowing imagination to run unfettered. The result? Stories without genres, nightmares without boundaries. - William Simmons, Infinity Plus
 Tartarus Press, a small UK imprint devoted to weird and supernatural fiction of high quality, after having reprinted Shiel's Prince Zaleski and The Purple Cloud presents us now with a new edition of The Pale Ape, an elegant, hardcover volume graced by a learned Introduction by Brian Stableford, a renowned authority in the field of decadent literature. - Mario Guslandi, Dark Wisdom issue # 10, 2006
 
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FATHER RAVEN AND OTHER TALES, by A.E. Coppard, Introduction by Mark Valentine, 3rd April 2006. Hardback: 301 + xii pages. £30/$55. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1 87262197 X / 978-1-872621-95-5.
Contents: 'Introduction', 'Adam & Eve & Pinch Me', 'Arabesque-The Mouse', 'The King of the World', 'Marching to Zion', 'Piffingcap', 'Clorinda Walks in Heaven', 'The Elixir of Youth', 'Simple Simon', 'The Tiger', 'The Man From Kilsheelan', 'Old Martin', 'The Bogie Man', 'The Martyrdom of Solomon', 'The Almanac Man', 'Polly Morgan', 'The Gollan', 'The Post Office and the Serpent', 'Crotty Shinkwin', 'Ahoy, Sailor Boy!', 'Gone Away', 'Jove's Nectar', 'The Philosopher's Daughter', 'Jack the Giantkiller', 'Rocky and the Bailiff', 'Ale Celestial?', 'Father Raven', 'The Drum', 'Cheese', 'The Homeless One', 'The Kisstruck Bogie', 'The Gruesome Fit'.
Review:
Not only enjoyable, these pieces capture the age old 'magic' once thought lost when the bards stopped speaking their dramas aloud. - William Simmons, Infinity Plus 
  
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THE LONG RETREATING DAY, by John Gaskin, 2nd February 2006. Hardback: 205 pages. £27.50/$50. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in red wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 450 signed copies. ISBN 1872621937.
Contents: 'Preface', 'Three Songs of Youth', 'The Conceit of the Dancing Man', 'Tapiola', 'St John's Wood', 'The High-Stepping Man', 'The Long Retreating Day', 'From Lydia with Love and Laughter', 'The Bay Platform', 'Rigor Mortis', 'Road Closed', 'Omega', 'Three Songs of Age'. 
Reviews:
"That’s the brilliance of the man, his work has the ability to distort time. These are modern works in a classic style and prove that the traditional supernatural tale is alive and in very good hands." - Highlander's Book Reviews
"Economically written and deeply felt nightmares of atmospheric subtlety and stark spiritual horror. . . reaffirming the importance of structure and lyricism in a genre too often represented by slap-dash sensationalism." - William Simmons, Hellnotes
"if you like solid, elegant fiction apt to make the act of reading almost a physical pleasure, then this is a book you shouldn't miss for any reason. . . . this volume is a literary gem that everybody should be entitled to enjoy." - Mario Guslandi, Agony Column
Gaskin's stories are excellent... - Simon Kurt Unsworth, All Hallows
 
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RITUAL, by Arthur Machen, with a Foreword by R.B. Russell, January 2006. 382 + xiii pages. £35.00. Fourth edition. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in red wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621279.
Contents: The Priest and the Barber, The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita, The Town of Long Ago, Candletime, Cidermas, Over the Gate, Of the Isle of Shadows, A Further Account of the Academy of Lagado, Tales from Barataria, Sir John's Chef, Rus in Urbe, By the Brook, The Autophone, The Brook Farm, A Remarkable Coincidence, A Double Return, A Wonderful Woman, The Lost Club, An Underground Adventure, Jocelyn's Escape, The Red Hand, The Rose Garden, The Turanians, The Idealist, Witchcraft, The Ceremony, Psychology, Torture, Midsummer, Nature, Holy Things, The Young Man in the Blue Suit, The Soldiers' Rest, The Monstrance, The Dazzling Light, The Little Nations, The Men from Troy, The Light That Can Never Be Put Out, Drake's Drum, A New Christmas Carol, 7B Coney Court, Munitions of War, The Gift of Tongues, The Islington Mystery, Johnny Double, The Cosy Room, Awaking, Opening the Door, The Compliments of the Season, The Dover Road, The Exalted Omega, The Tree of Life, Out of the Picture, Change, Ritual.
    
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WORMWOOD, Issue 5, Edited by Mark Valentine, 1st December, 2005. 92 pages. £7.99. 550 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Bath Press.
Contents: 'Edirorial', 'The Fully-Conducted Tour' by Robert Aickman, 'Afterword' by Glen Cavaliero, 'The October Revolution: Ray Bradbury's Existential Paradigm for the Horror Genre' by Joel Lane, 'Some Dark Ancestral Sense: Awe in the Work of Algernon Blackwood' by Jeff Gardiner, 'Victor Neuburg: The Triumph of Pan' by Richard McNeff, 'A Laurel Wreath for Lowry' by Alexis Lykiard, 'Phantom Doubles: A Freudian Reading of Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Hoffman's 'The Sandman' ' by Stephen Sennitt, 'The Self and the Void: The Lives and Deaths of Blaise Cendrars' by Adam Daly, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, Camera Obscura, Letters. 
 
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GUIDE TO FIRST EDITION PRICES, 2006/7, by R.B. Russell, 1st November 2005, x, 596 pages. £19.95. Trade paperback printed and bound by the Bath Press. 7,000 copies. ISBN 1872621953.
Point: The sixth edition, printed in full colour with over 600 illustrations and the values of over 35,000 sought-after books. 
New Reviews:
"Whether you're buying, selling or just curious, an entertaining and informative 'must have' for your reference library." -Rare Book Review, Feb/March 2006
  "This essential collector's guide" - Antiques Magazine, 3rd-16th December 2005
     
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WHERE NOTHING SLEEPS, by Denton Welch, 21st October 2005. Two slipcased hardback s of 380+xvii and 390 pages. £70/$140. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 500 sets. ISBN 1 872621 94 5
Preface by James Methuen-Campbell.
Volume 1 contains: 'I Can Remember,' 'Narcissus Bay,' 'At Sea,' 'The Happiest Time,' 'The Coffin on the Hill,' 'I First Began to Write,' 'The Barn,' 'The Trout Stream,' 'Mr Clarke,' 'Some Memories Evoked by Music,' 'A Visit to my Bois Relations,' 'A House Lost in the Darkness and Wintry Fields,' 'At Sir Moorcalm Lalli's,' 'The Packing-case House and the Thief,' 'Mrs Hockey,' 'A Child Meets Church and State and Poetry in Strange Places: Lady Astor,' 'The Death of My Mother,' 'The Big Field,' 'An Afternoon with Jeanne,' 'When I was Thirteen,' 'An Old Boy Takes me Out at Repton,' 'Ghosts,' 'The Earth's Crust,' 'The Youth Rang the Bell,' 'An Encounter by the River,' 'Back to Repton as an Old Boy,' 'I Left my Grandfather's House,' 'A Free Ride,' 'When I was an Art Student,' 'A Novel Fragment,' End-notes.
Volume 2 contains: 'The Judas Tree,' 'Strange Discoveries,' 'In Brixham Harbour,' 'A Party,' 'Sickert at St Peter's,' 'A Picture in the Snow,' 'Evergreen Seaton-Leverett,' 'A Fragment of a Life Story,' 'Leaves from a Young Person's Notebook,' 'Faces at the Stage Door,' 'Wainwright Home,' 'Fat Woman Sleeping in a Wood,' 'Touchett's Party,' 'The War Breaks Out,' 'Velvet', 'The Fire in the Wood,' 'A Dream of Vestals,' 'Fear,' 'Cupids from a Wedgwood Jar from a Bartolozzi Print from a Drawing by Lady Di Beauclerk,' 'Memories of a Vanished Period,' 'Man in a Garden,' 'A Morning with the Versatile Peer, Lord Berners, in the 'Ancient Seat of Learning',' 'A Mews Flat in the Country,' 'A Lunch Appointment,' 'Reading my First Review-in Spring,' 'Brave and Cruel,' 'In the Vast House,' 'John Trevor,' 'Full Circle,' 'Roger Saw the Man,' 'The Cottage After Dark,' 'Roger Lay on the Cliff,' 'Weekend,' 'Amy Lechworth,' 'Lady Gertrude,' 'Constance, Lady Willet,' 'Anna Dillon,' 'Alex Fairburn,' 'The Hateful Word,' 'The Diamond Badge,' 'When I Lie Awake,' 'In the Autumn Weather,' 'The Secret Life,' 'The Window,' 'Two Cows,' 'A Postscript,' End-notes, Bibliography
Reviews:
"James Methuen-Campbell, the editor of this new and definitive collection of [Welch's] short stories and other writings, wrote a biography of Welch in 2002 which did much to establish his reputation as an artist" - Ian Irvine, Independent on Sunday
     "Edited by welch's most recent biographer, Where Nothing Sleeps brings together in two handsome volumes 76 of his short stories 'and related autobiographical writings', together with expansive notes. Having the pieces presented thus, one makes discoveries..." Christopher Martin, Rare Book Review 
 
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BERESFORD EGAN, by Adrian Woodhouse, 28th July 2005. Hardback: 164 pages. £45/$90. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in red wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 79 black and white and 25 colour illustrations. 750 numbered copies. ISBN 1972621937. Contents: 'Beresford Egan' by Adrian Woodhouse, 'A Bibliography', Colour Plates, Black & White Plates, Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Index to the Essay.
 Reviews:
"This is quite simply a beautifully illustrated, well-written and lavishly produced biographical account of a great artist." - Book and Magazine Collector (cover date October 2005) 
"[A] handsome limited edition volume." - The London Evening Standard 
"Adrian Woodhouse's expansive and richly informative new volume on Egan, magnificently produced by the Tartarus Press in a limited edition of 750 copies, is the definitive work on this unique artist, unlikely ever to be surpassed." - Richard Dalby, Rare Book Review
"An excellent and readable account of Egan's life, work ... and romantic relationships." - George Locke, Bookdealer
 
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WORMWOOD, Issue 4, Edited by Mark Valentine, 13th May, 2005. 92 pages. £7.99. 550 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Bath Press. Cover illustration by Mervyn Peake. Contents: 'Joyce Carol Oates' by Peter Bell, 'Alfred Kubin' by Mark Beech, 'Margaret Irwin' by Sandra Unerman, 'Bruno Schulz & Tadeusz Kantor' by Daniel Watt, 'M.P. Shiel's Prince Zaleski' by Benjamin Hervey, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, Camera Obscura
   
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THE WANDERING SOUL, by William Hope Hodgson, Compiled and Introduced by Jane Frank, with a Foreword by Mike Ashley, April 2005. Published in association with PS Publishing. 384 + ix pages. £35.00. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in dark blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 500 copies. ISBN 1904619304. Contents: 'Foreword: The Last Redoubt' by Mike Ashley, 'Introduction: The Wandering Soul' by Jane Frank, References. Avenues to Publication: 'Physical Culture: A Talk with an Expert', 'From the Blackburn Evening Telegraph', 'Physical Culture Versus Recreative Exercise'. 'Health from Scientific Exercise'. Love of the Sea: Aboard the Canterbury, Ship's Log, Glossary. Story-telling through Slide Lectures: 'A Sailor and His Camera', 'Through the Heart of a Cyclone', 'When the Sea Gets Cross', 'A Cyclonic Storm', 'Through the Vortex of a Cyclone'. The Light that is on Land and Sea: Portfolio of Photographs. Speaking His Mind: 'Is the Mercantile Navy Worth Joining?-Certainly Not', 'The Poet vs. The Stonemason', 'The Trade in Sea Apprentices,' 'The Peril of the Mine', 'How the French Soldier Deals with Spies', 'A Pen Picture of How Frenchmen Fight', 'The 'Emergency Door' of the Sea. 'Out Boats'', 'An Old French Woman and Her Chickens'. Sentiment Through Verse: 'Boy Billy Boo-Hoo', 'Little Feet of Maggie Lee', 'The Heart Cry', 'Monsieur les Vidoques', 'Tramp! Tramp!', 'Nevermore', 'The Ocean of Eternity', 'Sea Revelry', 'One Nation Are We', 'Pillars of the Empire', 'Gun Drill', 'The Conqueror'. Personal Gestures: 'The Fruit of the Tree of Life', 'Scraps! Scraps!! Scraps!!!'. Coasts of Adventure: 'Down the Long Coasts', 'S.O.S.: The Real Thing', 'The Regeneration of Captain Bully Keller', 'The Island of the Crossbones', 'The Inn of the Black Crow', 'Jack Gray, Second Mate', 'The Friendship of Monsieur Jeynois', 'Judge Barclay's Wife', 'Captain Dan Danblasten'. Obituary: 'A Literary Letter'. With fifty-six illustrations.
Special, slipcased limited edition: 150 copies of The Wandering Soul with The Lost Poetry (137+xi pages), £60/$90. Three previously unpublished collections of William Hope Hodgson's verse, as he arranged them: Mors Deorum and Other Poems, Through Enchantments and Other Poems on Death, and Spume, which together include forty-three poems never seen before.
   
Review:
The major fantasy small press publication of the present century so far, in my opinion, is ... The Wandering Soul, a magnificent compilation of material from the archive of Wiliam Hope Hodgson. I confess to being seriously envious ... there was no way that any effort of mine would have achieved the same magnificence. - George Locke, Ferret Fantasy

 

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HEATHCLIFF'S TALE, by Emma Tennant, 14th April 2005. Hardback: 213 pages. £25.00. Sewn signatures, printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 500 signed copies. ISBN 1872621910. Paperback: 167 pages. £8.99. Printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press. Unlimited edition. ISBN 1872621920.
Reviews:
"Whether or not you accept all Emma Tennant's theories, as an imaginative response to Wuthering Heights her beautifully crafted tale is wonderfully engaged and engaging." - Lucasta Miller, Times Literary Supplement, 5th May 2005
"This ambitious novel . . . is a gothic tale . . . The language is Brontë-esque and, most importantly, this works well as a stand alone novel." - The Observer, 27th March 2005
"...it is an unalloyed pleasure." - The Scotsman, 2nd April 2005 
"A provocatively rewritten Wuthering Heights." - John Sutherland, Financial Times, the 16th April
"Glorious... with astute satires on academic spats, as well as answering John Sutherland’s question: 'Was Heathcliff a murderer?' " - Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman, 17th April 2005
"Whoever’s life or work she chooses to embellish, Tennant always makes it work. She is one of the greats, one of the originals." - Sunday Herald, 17th April 2005
Featured in The Independent on Sunday!, 10th April 2005
   
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LIFE OF ARTHUR MACHEN, by John Gawsworth, edited by Roger Dobson, with an Introduction by Barry Humphries, 3rd March 2005. Published in association with the Friends of Arthur Machen and Reino de Redonda. 394 + xxv pages. 75 illustrations. Not for sale - available only to members of the Friends of Arthur Machen. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in brown wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 250 copies. No ISBN assigned.
Reviews:
"Excellently edited by Roger Dobson who displays an impressive knowledge of Machen . . . is an extraordinary achievement" - Phil Baker, Times Literary Supplement.
"Sumptuous" - Simon Rogers, Book and Magazine Collector
   
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THE SUICIDE CLUB AND OTHER DARK ADVENTURES, by Robert Louis Stevenson, with an Introduction by Mark Valentine, 16th December 2004. 507 + xiv pages. £35.00. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 400 copies. ISBN 1872621902. Contents: 'The Plague-Cellar', 'A Lodging for the Night', 'Will o' the Mill', The Suicide Club: 'Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts', 'Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk', 'The Adventure of the Hansom Cabs', The Rajah's Diamond: 'Story of the Bandbox', 'Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders', 'Story of the House with the Green Blinds', 'The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective'. 'Thrawn Janet', 'The Body Snatcher', 'The Merry Men', 'Markheim', 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', 'Olalla', 'The Bottle Imp', 'The Isle of Voices', 'The Waif Woman', Fables: 'The Devil and the Innkeeper', 'The Yellow Paint', 'The House of Eld', 'The Man and his Friend', 'The Reader', 'The Distinguished Stranger', 'Something in it', 'Faith', 'Half Faith and No Faith at all', 'The Touchstone', 'The Poor Thing', 'The Song of the Morrow'.
 
"The Suicide Club and Other Dark Adventures could hardly be improved upon. It is a substantial collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction and shows the haunting hold that the strange, weird and macabre had on his imagination. You will find herein many wonderful and exemplary instances of the storyteller’s art, by a writer whose admirers have included Henry James, Borges, Graham Greene, Nabokov, Harry Mathews and many another writer besides. - Paul Kane, The Compulsive Reader.
   
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BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE, by Ralph Adams Cram, with an Introduction to Black Spirits & White by Stefan Dziemianowicz, and an Introduction to the Uncollected Stories by Douglas A. Anderson, 30th November 2004. 145+xxi pages. £30.00. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in black wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621880. Contents: Introduction to Black Spirits and White by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Black Spirits and White: No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince, In Kropfsberg Keep, The White Villa, Sister Maddelena, Notre Dame des Eaux, The Dead Valley, Postscript. Introduction to the Uncollected Stories by Douglas A. Anderson, Uncollected Stories: The Decadent, How Jamie Rode for the King.
Reviews:
  ". . . beautifully produed, a pleasure to read and handle . . .  Quite apart from it's intrinsic literary value, this book is a reminder to us British that the aesthetic movement in America did not begin and end with Oscar wilde declaring his genius to a New York customs official." - Reggie Oliver, All Hallows
"All in all the volume -- gorgeously produced as it's always the case with Tartarus -- offers some superb supernatural stories . . . " - William Simmons, Infinity Plus
    
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THE WHITE HANDS, by Mark Samuels, paperback reprint, 9th September 2004. 137 pages. £9.99. Printed and bound by Bath Press. ISBN 1872621724. Contents: The White Hands/ The Grandmaster’s Final Game/ Mannequins in Aspects of Terror/ Apartment 205/ The Impasse/ Colony/ Vrolyck/ The Search for Kruptos/ Black as Darkness.
 
Reviews:
Samuels' prose is some of the most highly polished and surreal it has been my pleasure to read since I first discovered Thomas Ligotti. Scott Connors in Weird Tales issue 342
In The White Hands, Mark Samuels earns a reputation as the contemporary British master of visionary weirdness. - Ramsey Campbell, Postscripts Number 5
A really impressive collection of stories: genuinely chilling -- almost mercilessly so, I kept thinking -- with really sharp, elegant writing, great sense of mood, and great intelligence and control in each piece. And they work extremely well with one another; I especially love the way the final story ties the whole collection together by once more bringing in Lilith Blake. - T.E.D. Klein
This is a book that was recommended to me about a week ago by Stephen Jones, who is a British anthologist, one of the two or three leading anthologists working in the UK. He said he'd come across a book called The White Hands and Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels, published by Tartarus Press. It's a beautifully made book, published in an edition of 350 copies. Steve Jones says Samuels is the most exciting new young(ish) writer that he (Jones) has come across in at least a year. … I think that there is just a chance that we are seeing the emergence of the next Clive Barker. Certainly a name worth keeping in mind. - Richard Lupoff, Cover to Cover
 [The White Hands] is a treasure and a genuine contribution to the real history of weird fiction ... Even when the settings and characters are modern Samuels manages to convey a sense of otherworldly nightmare. For example, the use of computers in 'The Impasse' gives these infernal machines the feel and function of the strange books that stock the shelves of so many of the best weird tales from Lovecraft to Borges. ('Mannequins in Aspects of Terror' is the other major instance of this wonderful feat.) I thought the most impressive story in the collection was 'The Search for Kruptos.' The exotic locale and the historical setting are not the sort of thing that I would attempt in a story, and I thought Samuels handled both tasks magnificently, not to mention the ingenious and awful concept of a book in innummerable volumes. The other stories that were among my favorites, and served most powerfully to convey a uniform sensibility to The White Hands, were 'Apartment 205' and 'Colony.' - Thomas Ligotti
In my opinion, although already in his late thirties, Mark Samuels is a rising star of supernatural horror fiction. Pick up a copy of his first collection now and be in at the beginning of the career of a major new British talent. You'll only regret it if you don't. - Steve Jones, The Alien Online
An impressive debut collection, The White Hands is an unexpected dark miracle of invention, tradition, and archetypal revision.... The author exhibits in this carefully arranged onslaught of weird fiction individualistic taste, thoughtfulness, and a strict control of literary subtlety. Re-envisioning the archetypal images and concerns of traditional supernatural fiction with distinctly contemporary, urban settings and bleak if heartfelt characters, Samuels weaves a deceptively subtle, menacing web of wizardry. - William Simmons, Hellnotes
If you thought The White Hands sounded like a lost story by Arthur Machen you would not be far from the truth. Machen is the dominant influence on this collection . . . One can also detect the influence of Kafka, of Christopher Fowler's urban nightmares, perhaps even Beckett at his most surreal. Samuels articulates brilliantly what modern man secretly fears most about death: not that it is extinction, but that it is an eternity in which the utter meaningless of life is fully revealed. - Reggie Oliver, All Hallows
Those good folks at Tartarus Press publish books that are beautifully presented collectors' items and this anthology of macabre tales by Samuels is a sewn hardback with a silk ribbon marker. Tartarus has cornered an intriguing market of cult writers who deal with arcane, supernatural fiction. They publish Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel alongside lesser-known contemporary writers, such as Mark Samuels.... The stories have an old-fashioned feel about them, owing something to the sinister atmospheres evoked by Poe and Lovecraft, but without the torture and slime.... Much of the writing is subtle with sinister undercurrents, always understated even when describing torment and suffering.... Samuels has certainly mastered the art of ambiguity most effectively and understands well the power of fantasy. - Jeff Gardiner, Prism
Mark Samuels is a perfectionist when it comes to creative writing. The fact that this is his first book actually makes me wonder if he's been holding back, continually striving for a level of creativity with which he's truly satisfied. And who wouldn't be satisfied with a book written to this standard? I found this collection of stories totally stunning! It's a book that Machen, Lovecraft, or Ligotti would be proud to have written. The stories are beautifully dark nightmares that mix escapism with strange, haunting qualities, fascinating and always compelling. - John B. Ford, Terror Tales
With his unique style, best described as something of a cross between Lovecraft and Robert Aickman, Thomas Ligotti has become an inescapable influence on the younger crop of promising writers of literary horror like Matt Cardin, Stephen Sennitt, Quentin Crisp and Mark Samuels. Samuels may be the best of the lot, if this excellent collection of weird fiction tales from Tartarus Press is any indication. There are times when I actually prefer Samuels to Ligotti, partly because he eschews the latter's often maddening obliqueness but also because of his uniquely urban sensibility. - Gabriel Messa, 'A Year's Best List', Fantastic Metropolis
Samuels is an extremely talented writer, his stories are superb and the present collection highly recommendable." - Mario Guislandi, Supernatural Tales
Probably one of the most important debut collections by a writer of ghost stories since Terry Lamsley and Thomas Ligotti more than a decade earlier, The White Hands and Other Weird Tales contained nine strange stories (two reprints) by London writer Mark Samuels, limited to just 350 copies from Tartarus Press - Steve Jones, Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #15 (Oct 2004)
The White Hands and Other Weird Tales is a highly impressive, extremely well-written book that will appeal to all with an interest in contemporary horror or “weird” fiction. This is one to place on the bookshelf in the company of Robert Aickman, Elizabeth Hand and Thomas Ligotti. - Paul Kane, The Compulsive Reader
      
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THE GOLEM, by Gustav Meyrink, translated, and with an Introduction by Mike Mitchell, with twenty-five illustrations by Hugo-Steiner-Prag, 31st October 2004. 253+xvi pages. £30.00. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in black wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621856.
 
"A gorgeous new translation . . . a frighteningly and frankly devilishly skilful description of the Prague ghetto and the creation by Rabbi Loew of an artificial man. . . published by the Tartarus Press and is absolutely beautiful." - Ian McMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3
"The Golem has rarely looked (or read) so well." - William Simmons, Hellnotes
"Excellent English translation by Mike Mitchell . . . If you are an enthusiast of dark fiction and you missed this classical novel so far it's high time to read it: you'll find it weird, engrossing, subtly and deliciously distrurbing . . . spellbinding black and white lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag." - Mario Guslandi - www.laurhird.com
"If you are set on installing a Golem permanently in your home, there can be no question that Tartarus offers the finest English speaking model." - Douglas Campbell, All Hallows
   
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WORMWOOD, Issue 3, Edited by Mark Valentine, 12th October 2004. 92 pages. £7.99. 550 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Bath Press. Contents: 'Mervyn Peake’s Lonely World' by Peter Winnington, 'The Mansions of Fear: The Dark Houses of Cornell Woolrich' by Joel Lane, 'Against the Spirit: A Look at Hugh Walpole’s The Killer & The Slain' by John Howard, 'Aura: Glimpses into Mexico’s Spectral Literature' by Adriana Diaz Enciso, 'John Wyndham and the Fantastic' by Andy Sawyer, 'The Panic God' by Adrian Eckersley, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford , 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, and 'Camera Obscura'
   
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RITUAL, by Arthur Machen, with a Foreword by R.B. Russell, 31st July 2004. 382 + xiii pages. £35.00. Third edition. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in red wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621279. Now out of print, but a fourth edition is available. Contents: The Priest and the Barber, The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita, The Town of Long Ago, Candletime, Cidermas, Over the Gate, Of the Isle of Shadows, A Further Account of the Academy of Lagado, Tales from Barataria, Sir John's Chef, Rus in Urbe, By the Brook, The Autophone, The Brook Farm, A Remarkable Coincidence, A Double Return, A Wonderful Woman, The Lost Club, An Underground Adventure, Jocelyn's Escape, The Red Hand, The Rose Garden, The Turanians, The Idealist, Witchcraft, The Ceremony, Psychology, Torture, Midsummer, Nature, Holy Things, The Young Man in the Blue Suit, The Soldiers' Rest, The Monstrance, The Dazzling Light, The Little Nations, The Men from Troy, The Light That Can Never Be Put Out, Drake's Drum, A New Christmas Carol, 7B Coney Court, Munitions of War, The Gift of Tongues, The Islington Mystery, Johnny Double, The Cosy Room, Awaking, Opening the Door, The Compliments of the Season, The Dover Road, The Exalted Omega, The Tree of Life, Out of the Picture, Change, Ritual.
 
  Reviews of this new edition:
Stories of the macabre exert their pull from Hallowe'en onwards, such as the stories of Arthur Machen, republished by Tartarus Press in handsome editions, made for reading by a flickering fire. - Suzi Feay, The Independent (29/10/05)
If you want an overall picture of Machen the man . . . secure a copy of Ritual from Tartarus while stocks last. - Reggie Oliver, All Hallows
Offering genuine emotion and passages that reach the ecstacy for which Machen so often attained, Ritual and Other Stories delights and disturbs in equal measure, embodying within its bewitching narratives an alchemist's brew of wisdom and wonder. - William P. Simmons, Cemetary Dance
    
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MISS HARGREAVES, by Frank Baker, with a Foreword by Glen Cavaliero, 24th June 2004. 266 + ix pages. £30.00. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in orange/brown wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621848.
 
A novel whose immediate, refined humor is overshadowed by an impressively chilling atmosphere of anticipation and subtle shock. - William Simmons, Hellnotes
Miss Hargreaves is certainly a superb 'rayd'! - John Howard, All Hallows
 
   
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WORMWOOD, Issue 2, Edited by Mark Valentine, 27th May 2004. 92 pages. £7.99. 550 copies. Paperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Bath Press. Contents: 'Daylight Ghosts: The Novels and Stories of Oliver Onions' by Glen Cavaliero, 'The Godwin Family' by Brian Aldiss, 'Ithell Colquhoun: The Versatile Surrealist' by Eric Ratcliffe, 'The Man Who Never Was: An Appreciation of Fernando Pessoa' by Adam Daly, 'Love, Life, and the Clemency of Death: A Re-examination of Clark Ashton Smith's "The Isle of the Torturers" ' by Scott Connors, 'Phantasmagoria and Psyche in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" ' by Jyri-Pekka Luoma, 'Francis Stevens: The Godmother of Modern Fantasy' by Jeff Gardiner, 'A Few French Ghosts' by Muriel Smith, 'The Decadent World-View' by Brian Stableford, 'Camera Obscura' by Mark Samuels, 'Late Reviews' by Douglas A. Anderson, Letters.
   
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MORBID TALES, by Quentin S. Crisp, with a Foreword by Mark Samuels, 27th May 2004. 226 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 187262183X.
 
Reviews:
I don't recall being so impressed with a short story collection by a new (to me) writer since I first read, in my youth, the works of M.R. James and H.P. Lovecraft. When I got my copy of Morbid Tales, except for the intriguing title and the attractive book production by Tartarus, I didn't know what to expect, knowing precious little about its author. . . . I can't recommend this book highly enough. Crisp will surprise and delight you with his marvellous writing skill and the ability to convey a profound sense of universal horror, cosmic menace and spiritual desolation. - Mario Guslandi, The Alien Online
"Attempting to find a frozen moment, description, or phenomena with which to express a breath of cosmic fear and awe, Crisp acheives with this collection a remarkable scrapbook of terrorr." - William Simmons, Cemetery Dance
"The power of the best stories here is in the way in which Crisp has been able to use his influences to reflect deep within himself and draw out something that is strikingly new." - Douglas Campbell, All Hallows
   
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THE HAUNTED WOMAN, by David Lindsay, with an Afterword by Douglas Anderson, 30th April 2004. 207 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in dark blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621821.
Review:
"A wonderful, undeservedly neglected interweaving masterwork of spiritual and emotional psychosis that will well repay the reader who immerses himself in its dark, wildly imaginative nightmares." - William Simmons, Hellnotes
   
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THE PURPLE CLOUD, by M.P. Shiel, with Illustrations by J.J. Cameron, and an Introduction by Brian Stableford, 17th March 2004. 286+xv pages. £30.00. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in purple wibalin cloth stamped in gilt, with head and tailbands. 400 copies. ISBN 1872621813.
 
Reviews:
"Tartarus has done us proud. This is a beautifully made edition of a remarkable novel, together with the original magazine illustrations finely reproduced, and an ailluminating introduction. Moreover, The Purple Cloud is worth reading quite apart from its considerable literary merits, as an important and influential genre work." - Reggie Oliver, All Hallows
 
"An acknowledged classic of post-apocalyptic science fiction, Sheil's ode to human persistence and his harsh physical/spiritual evolution marked a return to the author's decadent style of composition!"- William Simmons, Hellnotes
   
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STRANGE TALES, by Quentin S. Crisp, Anne-Sylvie Salzman, David Rix, Brendan Connell, Rhys Hughes, Mark Valentine & John Howard, Adam Daly, William Charlton, Dale Nelson, Tina Rath, Nina Allan, Len Maynard & Mick Sims, John Gaskin, and Don Tumasonis. Edited by Rosalie Parker. 15th December 2003. 289+vi pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in black wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621805. First edition out of print - second edition available.
Contains: 'Cousin X' by Quentin S. Crisp, 'Meannanaich' by Anne-Sylvie Salzman, 'Number 18' by David Rix, 'The Maker of Fine Instruments' by Brendan Connell, 'The Itchy Skin of Creepy Aplomb' by Rhys Hughes, 'The Descent of the Fire' by Mark Valentine & John Howard, 'The Self-Eater' by Adam Daly, 'Grand Hotel' by William Charlton, 'Shelter Belt' by Dale Nelson, 'Mr Manpferdit' by Tina Rath , 'Terminus' by Nina Allan, 'Between the Dead Men and the Blind' by Maynard & Sims, 'From Lydia with Love and Laughter' by John Gaskin, and 'Eye of the Storm' by Don Tumasonis.
 
Winner of the World Fantasy Award, 2004
 
Reviews:
'Few of the contributions to Rosalie Parker’s beautifully presented collection of new short stories fail to unsettle or disturb, and yet, as a whole, the volume’s success can be attributed to the sheer variety of tone, effect and subject matter.' - Dara Downey, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
"Taken as a whole, Strange Tales is one of the best original anthologies of recent years." - David Longhorn, Supernatural Tales
"A most impressive feature of the collection is the eclectic variety of style and content, and the way in which the various tales forge themselves into a collective exploration of 'strangeness' that is most disconcerting. As such, it fulfils the true purpose of an anthology: not simply a mix of interesting pieces, but a cohesive whole infused with a unifying vision, something greater than the sum of the total parts. Quite apart from the intrinsic merits of the stories, this book is, as much as anything, a triumph of editing by Rosalie Parker. . . This excellent volume is presented with all the quality one has come to expect from Tartarus." - Peter Bell, All Hallows
"At the end of this entertaining anthology the reader is left not only with the pleasant sensation that his time and his money have not been wasted, but with the reassuring discovery that weird horror fiction is alive and well and that, due to a number of emerging new talents, the future of the genre appears to be bright." - Mario Guslandi, Infinity Plus.
   
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WORMWOOD, Issue 1, Edited by Mark Valentine, 17th November 2003. 88 pages. £7.99. 470 copiesPaperback journal printed on cream bookwove paper, and bound by Bath Press. Out of print. Contents: Gustav Meyrink: The Monster-Magician in Kafka’s Shadow by Adam Daly, The Heroic Hereafter: Explaining Eddison by Jonathan Preece, Ernest Bramah: A Challenge to the Biographer by William Charlton, A Very Real Presence: Dame Muriel Spark, Briefly Interviewed, The Ninefold Kingdom and Others: Four Fictional Visions of the Political Future by John Howard, Everything Ends in a Greater Blackness: Some Remarks on the Fiction of Thomas Ligotti by Mark Samuels, The Decadent World-View by Brian Stableford, Revisiting Ramsey Campbell by William P. Simmons, Camera Obscura, Late Reviews by Douglas A. Anderson 
 
Reviews:
"Tartarus Press has just launched a journal, Wormwood, dedicated to fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature". Number One includes an in-depth look at Meyrink, an interview with Muriel Spark and an essay on "The Decadent World View" by Brian Stableford. Among the writers it resurrects is Edgar Magnus Birnstingl, author of a privately printed posthumous volume of stories which "date from the last two years of his life" (he died in 1915 aged 16). Oh dear, this is going to give me even more of a lust for lost books than I already have." - Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday
"Wormwood 1 is classy, refined and polished, both in content and presentation, and it doesn't seem like a first issue in any way." Rosemary Pardoe, Ghosts and Scholars
"Wormwood is an excellent magazine and one much needed in Britain where we should be vying with the Americans by presenting more fantasy-related discussion and analysis. This could potentially grow into something even better than the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you believe that the best academic work occurs on the cutting edge then take out a subscription to Wormwood and make your contribution." - The Alien Online 
"I read Wormwood over the holidays, while sipping a glass of imported absinthe, and found this journal to be a wonderful holiday gift. I don't usually find literary journals worth my time, cover to cover, but Wormwood, like the herb that flavoured my drink, is both bitter and sweet, flavoured with the heady brew of the decadence of yesteryear . . . my interest has been piqued, Wormwood has given me much to think about." - Ron Lewis, All Hallows
"Wormwood is an excellent magazine" - Jeff Gardiner, Prism (British Fantasy Society) 
   
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ECHOES AND SHADOWS, by Jon Manchip White, 1st November 2003. 218 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in black wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621791. Out of print. Contents: Knaves, Moel Hebog, Ora Pro Nobis, The Flask, Crystal, Corpse Candles, Shadowplay, A Box of Bones, The Jacket, Angharad, Smoke, Birdie, Epilogue
 
Reviews:
"...this is a genuinely old-fashioned collection of ghost stories, distinguished by lovingly evoked Welsh settings." - Douglas Campbell, All Hallows
"Tartarus continue to entertain and fascinate us with their delightful publications" - Jeff Gardiner, Prism (Britsih Fantasy Society)
   
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GUIDE TO FIRST EDITION PRICES, 2004/5, by R.B. Russell, 1st November 2003, xii, 516 pages. £17.99. Trade paperback printed and bound by the Bath Press. 4,500 copies. ISBN 1872621783. Out of print.
Point: The fifth edition.
Contains the values of over 33,000 sought-after books. 
   
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THE HOUSE OF THE HIDDEN LIGHT, BY ARTHUR MACHEN AND A.E. WAITE, 31st July 2003. 152+xxxv pages. £30.00. Published in association with Ferret Fantasy. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bath Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621775. Out of print. Contents: Introduction/ The Quest for the Hidden Book / The House of the Hidden Light.
 Reviews:
"In this handsome new edition from Tartarus Press, the editor R.A. Gilbert ... plausibly [suggests] the book to be a coded record of the two men's exploits in the bars and taverns of the metropolis, a secret diary of their boozy peregrinations, a grimoire of London pub life." Times Literary Supplement
"Tartarus Press, one of the few specialty presses making available for modern audiences rare and obscure macabre literary treasures, joins forces with Ferret Fantasy to offer macabre afficionados a gift that at once serves as a collector's edition of mystical allegory, a semi-autobiographical account of two men's spiritual coming of age, and an obscure, mystery-charged text. " - Underworlds Magazine   
   
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MASQUES AND CITADELS, BY MARK VALENTINE, 7th June 2003. 212 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bath Press in red wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head and tailbands. 300 copies. ISBN 1872621767. Out of print. Contents: The Hesperian Dragon/ The Lighting of the Vial/ The Nephoseum, or, The Play of Shadows/ Sea Citadels/ The Prince of Barlocco/ The Black Eros/ Mad Lutanist/ The Mist on the Mere/ The White Solander (with John Howard)/ The Last Archipelago (with John Howard)/ Acknowledgements.    
 Reviews:
 "A storyteller of impressive originality, Valentine writes with discipline and a deep understanding of the uncanny. A stunning Performance." - Underworlds Magazine
 "There is a sort of gradual, cumulative unease which draws one on to read the tales a second or third time . . . the connoisseur of good books and good reading will appreciate The Connoisseur" - John Hall, Sherlock
"What a splendidly quixotic aim: to restore a sense of the numinous to run-down secular old Britain!...It’s long been a tenet of mine that all the finest writers of the supernatural seek, in some way or another, to restore to the material world some sense of the numinous. Some do it by subtly warping one’s perception of the world till it more closely matches their own (Robert Aickman); some do it by capturing perfectly the genius loci of a particular place (Ramsey Campbell’s Merseyside); others (like Arthur Machen, Alan Garner, and our own Mr V), seek to re-energise the old touchstones of myth and magic. It’s a measure of his success, I think, that Mark Valentine’s name does not seem wholly out of place even in this exalted company." - Steve Duffy, All Hallows
"It is possible to be too subtle and 'recondite'. " - Prism 
"Mark Valentine is surely one of the best writers working in the genre." - David Longhorn, Supernatural Tales
   
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THREE MILES UP, BY ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD, 1st May 2003. 216 + xii pages. £25.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621759. Contents: An Introduction by Glen Cavaliero/ Three Miles Up/ Perfect Love/ Left Luggage/ Mr Wrong.    
 Reviews:
"Three Miles Up is a superb little volume: it may only contain four stories, but every one is a highly polished gem, and the introduction by Glen Cavaliero is thoughtful and well-written. The quality of the book production is, needless to say, immaculate." - Reggie Oliver, All Hallows
"Best remembered for mainstream novels of the middle class - realistic works which nevertheless hint of cosmic uneasiness - Howard's rare forays into the supernatural resulted in chilling expressions of terror and awe. Favoring painful themes of cultural displacement and alienation in an apathetic world . . . this is ghost fiction as it should be!" - Hellnotes 
"Tartarus Press is one of the finest small imprints devoted to reprinting lost titles in the supernatural field, recipient of a world fantasy award, and rightly so, in recognition of its splendid achievements in this area. It's enough to take a look at their last book: a collection of four strange stories by Elizabeth Jane Howard, beautifully produced and presented in an attractive, cute little format which reminds me somehow of breviary . . . So, if you're tired of disposable fiction to be forgotten the minute you close your book, if you want to read some high quality stories that will leave your mind delightfully uncomfortable, if you still appreciate the pleasure of having a nicely bound volume in your hands then you have to buy stuff like this. There are only 350 copies in print, so you'd better hurry... " - Mario Guslandi, Terror Tales
   
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TARNHELM, THE BEST SUPERNATURAL STORIES OF HUGH WALPOLE, 10th March 2003. 363 + xiv pages. £35.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bath Press in blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621740. Contents: An Introduction by George Gorniak/ The Clocks/ The Twisted Inn/ The Silver Mask/ The Staircase/ A Carnation For An Old Man/ Tarnhelm Or, The Death of My Uncle Robert/ Seashore Macabre/ The Little Ghost/ Mrs Lunt/ The Snow/ Miss Morganhurst/ Mrs Porter and Miss Allen/ Lizzie Rand/ The Tarn/ Major Wilbraham/ The Tiger/ Hugh Seymour (A Prologue)/ Angelina/ ’Enery/ The Fear of Death/ Field With Five Trees/ The Conjurer/ The White Cat/ The Perfect Close/ Mr Huffam, A Christmas Story.    
Reviews:
"There are twenty-five stories in this generous volume . . .Reading them in bulk one becomes aware of Walpole's limitations, but also of his great strengths. He is a master of narrative: even his lesser stories are very readable. He rarely commits an awkward sentence to paper, and there are plenty of felicitous turns of phrase." Reggie Oliver - All Hallows
"Tarnhelm ... is a smart edition of Walpole's 'spook stories' (to borrow E.F. Benson's phrase), and should introduce his work to a new generation of readers." - Peter Burton, Gay Times
"A tantalizing offering of fine frights, this assemblage of terror stories, most of them out-of-print, highlights the forgotten achievements of a macabre master whose understanding of the night side of human experience makes him indispensable fire-side reading. " - William Simmons, Flesh and Blood Magazine
"Literature would be a poor art without fantasy and Hugh Walpole can stake a claim to be a part of our literary fantasy heritage." - Jeff Gardiner, Prism
   
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THE WHITE HANDS AND OTHER WEIRD TALES BY MARK SAMUELS, 31st January 2003. 193 pages. £25.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bath Press in mauve wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621724. This edition is out of print, but a paperback reprint is available. Contents: The White Hands/ The Grandmaster’s Final Game/ Mannequins in Aspects of Terror/ Apartment 205/ The Impasse/ Colony/ Vrolyck/ The Search for Kruptos/ Black as Darkness.
 
Reviews:
Samuels' prose is some of the most highly polished and surreal it has been my pleasure to read since I first discovered Thomas Ligotti. Scott Connors in Weird Tales issue 342
In The White Hands, Mark Samuels earns a reputation as the contemporary British master of visionary weirdness. - Ramsey Campbell, Postscripts Number 5
A really impressive collection of stories: genuinely chilling -- almost mercilessly so, I kept thinking -- with really sharp, elegant writing, great sense of mood, and great intelligence and control in each piece. And they work extremely well with one another; I especially love the way the final story ties the whole collection together by once more bringing in Lilith Blake. - T.E.D. Klein
This is a book that was recommended to me about a week ago by Stephen Jones, who is a British anthologist, one of the two or three leading anthologists working in the UK. He said he'd come across a book called The White Hands and Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels, published by Tartarus Press. It's a beautifully made book, published in an edition of 350 copies. Steve Jones says Samuels is the most exciting new young(ish) writer that he (Jones) has come across in at least a year. … I think that there is just a chance that we are seeing the emergence of the next Clive Barker. Certainly a name worth keeping in mind. - Richard Lupoff, Cover to Cover
 [The White Hands] is a treasure and a genuine contribution to the real history of weird fiction ... Even when the settings and characters are modern Samuels manages to convey a sense of otherworldly nightmare. For example, the use of computers in 'The Impasse' gives these infernal machines the feel and function of the strange books that stock the shelves of so many of the best weird tales from Lovecraft to Borges. ('Mannequins in Aspects of Terror' is the other major instance of this wonderful feat.) I thought the most impressive story in the collection was 'The Search for Kruptos.' The exotic locale and the historical setting are not the sort of thing that I would attempt in a story, and I thought Samuels handled both tasks magnificently, not to mention the ingenious and awful concept of a book in innummerable volumes. The other stories that were among my favorites, and served most powerfully to convey a uniform sensibility to The White Hands, were 'Apartment 205' and 'Colony.' - Thomas Ligotti
In my opinion, although already in his late thirties, Mark Samuels is a rising star of supernatural horror fiction. Pick up a copy of his first collection now and be in at the beginning of the career of a major new British talent. You'll only regret it if you don't. - Steve Jones, The Alien Online
An impressive debut collection, The White Hands is an unexpected dark miracle of invention, tradition, and archetypal revision.... The author exhibits in this carefully arranged onslaught of weird fiction individualistic taste, thoughtfulness, and a strict control of literary subtlety. Re-envisioning the archetypal images and concerns of traditional supernatural fiction with distinctly contemporary, urban settings and bleak if heartfelt characters, Samuels weaves a deceptively subtle, menacing web of wizardry. - William Simmons, Hellnotes
If you thought The White Hands sounded like a lost story by Arthur Machen you would not be far from the truth. Machen is the dominant influence on this collection . . . One can also detect the influence of Kafka, of Christopher Fowler's urban nightmares, perhaps even Beckett at his most surreal. Samuels articulates brilliantly what modern man secretly fears most about death: not that it is extinction, but that it is an eternity in which the utter meaningless of life is fully revealed. - Reggie Oliver, All Hallows
Those good folks at Tartarus Press publish books that are beautifully presented collectors' items and this anthology of macabre tales by Samuels is a sewn hardback with a silk ribbon marker. Tartarus has cornered an intriguing market of cult writers who deal with arcane, supernatural fiction. They publish Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel alongside lesser-known contemporary writers, such as Mark Samuels.... The stories have an old-fashioned feel about them, owing something to the sinister atmospheres evoked by Poe and Lovecraft, but without the torture and slime.... Much of the writing is subtle with sinister undercurrents, always understated even when describing torment and suffering.... Samuels has certainly mastered the art of ambiguity most effectively and understands well the power of fantasy. - Jeff Gardiner, Prism
Mark Samuels is a perfectionist when it comes to creative writing. The fact that this is his first book actually makes me wonder if he's been holding back, continually striving for a level of creativity with which he's truly satisfied. And who wouldn't be satisfied with a book written to this standard? I found this collection of stories totally stunning! It's a book that Machen, Lovecraft, or Ligotti would be proud to have written. The stories are beautifully dark nightmares that mix escapism with strange, haunting qualities, fascinating and always compelling. - John B. Ford, Terror Tales
With his unique style, best described as something of a cross between Lovecraft and Robert Aickman, Thomas Ligotti has become an inescapable influence on the younger crop of promising writers of literary horror like Matt Cardin, Stephen Sennitt, Quentin Crisp and Mark Samuels. Samuels may be the best of the lot, if this excellent collection of weird fiction tales from Tartarus Press is any indication. There are times when I actually prefer Samuels to Ligotti, partly because he eschews the latter's often maddening obliqueness but also because of his uniquely urban sensibility. - Gabriel Messa, 'A Year's Best List', Fantastic Metropolis
Samuels is an extremely talented writer, his stories are superb and the present collection highly recommendable." - Mario Guislandi, Supernatural Tales
Probably one of the most important debut collections by a writer of ghost stories since Terry Lamsley and Thomas Ligotti more than a decade earlier, The White Hands and Other Weird Tales contained nine strange stories (two reprints) by London writer Mark Samuels, limited to just 350 copies from Tartarus Press - Steve Jones, Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #15 (Oct 2004)
      
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VARIOUS TEMPTATIONS BY WILLIAM SANSOM, 14th December 2002. 350 + xv pages. £35.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in orange wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621732. Contents: Introduction by Mark Valentine/ The Equilibriad/ A Woman Seldom Found/ The Little Room/ A Smell of Fear/ From the Water Junction/ The Peach-House-Potting-Shed/ A Country Walk/ The Forbidden Lighthouse/ Murder/ Saturation Point/ The Long Sheet/ Fireman Flower/ The Cliff/ The Vertical Ladder/ The Little Fears/ The Tournament/ Various Temptations/ Crabfroth/ A Saving Grace/ One Sunny Afternoon/ In the Maze/ My Tree/ A Touch of the Sun/ The Ballroom/ Pas De Deux.
Note: The author's name is spelt incorrectly on the spine!
 
 Reviews
"Warmly recommended" - The Independent, 24/11/06
". . . there are some undeniably brilliant pieces here." - Douglas Campbell, All Hallows
"Correctly titled, Various Temptations, a collection of 25 stories introduced by Mark Valentine, offers a rare opportunity for readers to acquaint themselves with an author whose fictions are timely and timeless." - Hellnotes
"A wealth of fictional explorations that peer deep into the nightmarish wonders hiding just within the surface of the everyday." - FEO AMANTE.COM. 
   
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PRINCE ZALESKI BY M.P. SHIEL, 30th November 2002. 187+xxvii pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver and gold, with marbled endpapers, head and tailbands, and silk ribbon marker. 400 copies. ISBN 1872621716. Contents: Prince Zaleski by Brian Stableford/ A note on the Zaleski Stories by R.B. Russell/ The Race of Orven/ The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks/ The S.S./The Murena Murder/ The Missing Merchants/ The Hargen Inheritance.
Reviews:
"Prince Zaleski, an impressive, attractive offering to the macabre enthusiast's library, presents ample evidence of the title character's decadent mysticism and Shiel's prowess as a stylist, building torrents of acrobatic logic and emotional overflow with solidly layered, carefully sequenced building-blocks of description and pacing. A memorable collection by an author who deserves more exposure." - Hellnotes
"Prince Zaleski is published by Tartarus Press so you know you are getting an extremely high-quality product. All their books are durable and elegant, even attractive in an academic sort of way. . . . It is an exceptional book in every way, and one that will be particularly prized by collectors. Highly recommended." - Wayne Edwards, Cemetery Dance.
"A memorable collection by an author who deserves more exposure." - William Simmons, Infinity Plus
"An indispensable acquisition for all who relish the elegant and eccentric in detection." Sherlock
  "Triumphantly over the top and, by turns, atmospheric, pulpish, cranky, maddening and absurd, the Zaleski stories continue to intrige, and this is unquestionably the definitive edition." - Douglas Campbell, All Hallows
"Tartarus Press reissues Shiel's stories featuring this most darkly decadent of detectives, with an introduction by Brian Stableford and featuring the additional stories completed by John Gawsworth. Hopefully we can jumpstart a Shiel renaissance." - Gabriel Messa, 'A Year's Best List', Fantastic Metropolis
   
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 THE DOLL MAKER BY SARBAN, 26th October 2002. 272 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in green wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with head and tailbands and silk ribbon marker. ISBN 1872621708. Contents: The Doll Maker/ The Trespassers/ A House of Call.
Second Tartarus Printing
 Reviews
Comprised of the title novella, "The Trespassers," and "A House Of Call," The Doll Maker and Other Tales Of The Uncanny is an attractive feast of phantasm, a curious shadow-land of disturbing ambiguity existing between normalcy and the unexpected. - Gauntlett
 "A beautifully written tale of rural magic reminiscent of Machen. Another Tartarus book to be read and treasured." - Matt Leyshon, Blood from Stones (Waterstones magazine)
"I am delighted with this lovely new edition of a favourite book. . . . get your order in quickly - you won't regret it." - Rger Johnson, All Hallows.
   
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UNDESIRABLE GUESTS BY WILLIAM CHARLTON, 20th September 2002. 239 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in red wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with head and tailbands, and silk ribbon marker. 350 signed copies. ISBN 1872621694. Out of print. Contents: The Television Set/ A Votary of Science/ Undesirable Guests/ The Paper/ Travelling By Air/ A Visit to Dublin/ Norton Camp/ The Spider/ A Prohibited Area/ The Straw-Man/ The Conference Centre/ Hakanono/ The Island/ The Area 
Reviews:
"The true shiver of unease . . . Undesirable Guests and Other Stories is the philosopher William Charlton’s first work of fiction and very unnerving it is too. With a couple of exceptions these stories are not ghost stories, but perhaps in style some of them are reminiscent of that supremely frightening writer M. R. James, although the unsettling title story, ‘Undesirable Guests’, is more Saki-esque than Jamesian. . . . The atmosphere of the stories is laced with unease while the dialogue is blackly humorous. I could not have enjoyed them more." - Harriet Waugh, The Spectator
"The fourteen stories in this collection (which benefit, as is usual at Tartarus, from an impeccable presentation) delineate with paradoxical precision the contours of a world that is barely visible." Le Visage Vert 
   
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STORIES FROM A LOST ANTHOLOGY BY RHYS HUGHES, 1st August 2002. 296 + viii pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in black wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head and tailbands. 450 copies of which the first 150 are numbered and signed by the author. ISBN 1872621686. Contents: The Welsh Raree by Michael Moorcock/ Portrait Of An Artist As A Rusty Bus/ The Lute And The Lamp/ Toastmaster, Buttermistress/ Journey Through A Wall/ The Marsh Callow/ Story From A Lost Anthology/ Less Is More/ Jellydämmerung!/ The Macroscopic Teapot/ Fallow/ The Crab/ Pyramid And Thisbe/ The Lover And The Grave/ The Evil Side Of Reginald Burke/ Asparagus On The Tooth/ A Languid Elagabalus Of The Tombs/ Owlbeast/ Tin In The Soul/ Cockatrice At The Door/ Robin Hood’s New Mother/ The New Giraldus
Reviews:
  "I will refrain from waxing lyrically over any more of the stories found in this collection, although there is much to admire here. Each piece is more varied and wonderful than the last but less striking than the one ahead." - Kayalucia Lauwerys, Cemetery Dance
"More than a collection of non-traditional storytelling and narrative invention, Stories From A Lost Anthology is a challenging assemblage of unique ideas expressed in an unusual, captivating style by an author systematically creating a fresh, unique world by a recasting of elements of the old." - William Simmons, Infinity Plus 
"...if you care at all about originality, and fun, and thrills and spills and spellbinding." - Steve Duffy, All Hallows
   
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WRITTEN WITH MY LEFT HAND BY NUGENT BARKER, 1st July 2002. 264 + x pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in red wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621678. Out of print. Contents: Foreword by Douglas Anderson/ Bibliographical Notes/ Curious Adventure of Mr Bond/ Stanley Hutchinson/ The Six/ I and My Wife Isobel/ Whessoe/ Interlude/ The Spurs/ Death’s Door/ Gertie Macnamara/ The Invalid/ Out of Leading-Strings/ Mrs Sayce’s Guy/ Expectation of Life/ A Passage in the Life of Dr Wilks/ The Strange Disappearance of Monsieur Charbo/ The Thorn/ One, Two, Buckle My Shoe/ Aimless Afternoon/ The Announcement/ Crescendo/ Life and Death of the Princess Gertrude 
Point: Written With My Left Hand was first published by Percival Marshall & Co. of London in 1951.
"...if you have been intrigued by the anthology appearances of the stories included, you are likely to find this collection rewarding; the shortness of the pieces and the wide variations of style and tone mean that it is rarely dull. The outstanding stories are all, in their own ways, very accomplished indeed, and it's surprising that so little is known of their author." - Douglas Campbell, All Hallows 
   
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THE SACRIFICE AND OTHER STORIES BY SARBAN, 1st June 2002. 256 + vi pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in dark blue wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 187262166X. Out of print. Contents: Foreword/ The Sacrifice/ The Sea-Things/ Number Fourteen/ The King of the Lake
  Reviews:
"To find four splendid weird tales among a deceased writer's unpublished effects is a considerable bonus. . . . I am not alone in thanking Tartarus Press and Jocelyn Leighton of giving us, at last, the complete strange stories of Sarban. As always, the production of The Sacrifice and Other Stories is generally excellent, and the book as a physical object is a pleasure to handle." - Roger Johnson, All Hallows, October 2002.
"All in all, consider Sacrifice a must-have for Sarban collectors and aficionados of atmospheric supernatural tales. " - Jack Lloyd, Cemetery Dance, 2003
"Each of the rare, dark treasures offered in The Sacrifice and Other Stories suggest the aesthetic power of subtlety. There is little if any blood shed in Sarban's mythologically informed stories of despairing beauty . . .Found in the unpublished effects of the deceased author, The Sacrifice and Other Stories provides an invaluable footnote to the career of one of dark fantasy's most superb, somewhat neglected craftsmen. "- Gauntlet
   
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NIGHTMARES OF AN ETHER-DRINKER BY JEAN LORRAIN, TRANSLATED BY BRIAN STABLEFORD, 29th March 2002. 247 + xxxiv pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in black wibalin cloth decorated in gold and red, with head and tailbands. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621651. Out of print. Contents: Introduction by Brian Stableford/ Early Stories: The Egregore/ Funeral Oration/ The Locked Room/ Magic Lantern/ The Glass of Blood/ Beyond/ Glaucous Eyes/ Sensations: One of Them/An Undesirable Residence/ A Troubled Night/ A Posthumous Protest/ An Uncanny Crime/ The Holes in the Mask/ The Visionary/ The Possessed/ The Double/ Souvenirs: The Toad/ Night-Watch/ The Spirit of the Ruins/ Récits: Dolmance/ One January Night/ The Spectral Hand/ Prey to Darkness/ Contes: The Princess of the Red Lilies/ The Princess at the Sabbat/ Narkiss/ The Princess au miroirs/ Notes
Reviews:
"Lorrain is a powerful and effective writer . . . this is an important collection." - Douglas Campbell, All Hallows, October 2002.
   
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A DAMASK OF THE DEAD BY JOHN GALE, 14th February 2002. 100 pages. £25.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in dark blue wibalin cloth with head and tailbands. 250 signed copies. ISBN 1872621635. Contents: The City on the Farthest Shore of a Sable Lake/ Remembrance: A Hunt in Masks/ Lachrymae: Fragments of Letters Sent from a Land by the Sea/ The Casket of Obsidian/ The Poet Who Fell in Love with the Moon/ The Old King’s Prophecy: A Faery Tale/ Vigil/ The Roses and the Poet/ The Three Threads of the Moon’s Hair/ A Sundial in a Windowless Chamber/ Lilies of Zircon/ The Exquisite Madness of Prince Akbhar/ A Damask of the Dead
Reviews:
 "... the great virtue of dealing with the eternal themes of love, beauty, and mortality is that, if you can carry it off, you will have created something of lasting value. I think Gale has done so, and is to be congratulated." - David Longhorn, All Hallows.
 "His short pieces are chill, polished gems of real beauty . . . something of Clark Ashton Smith’s lush style there— languid messages from the land of Averoigne, and yet also more than a little of the nineteenth-century French decadents’ stylishly despairing prose . . . enjoy his precious messages from a time lost and yet to be."—John Whitbourn
"Gorgeous . . . lovely."—Rosemary Pardoe
"As Machen has observed, literature consists in the art of telling a wonderful story in a wonderful manner. Few writers today acknowledge the need for either element. John Gale is one who has mastered both. By what-ever means you may, therefore, seek out his work: you will be glad you have done so."—Mark Valentine
   
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DENTON WELCH: WRITER AND ARTIST BY JAMES METHUEN-CAMPBELL, 1st March 2002. 268+xvii pages. £30.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in orange wibalin cloth with head and tailbands. 500 copies. ISBN 1872621600. Out of print. Contents: Foreword by Alan Bennett/ Preface/ Introduction/ Acknowledgements/ List of Illustrations/ Denton Welch, Writer and Artist: Childhood, Repton and China, Goldsmiths’, The Accident, Hadlow Road, The Hop Garden, Pond Farm and Pitt’s Folly Cottage, Eric Oliver, An Inevitable Decline, Middle Orchard/ Appendices/ The Packing-case House and the Thief/ The Big Field/ Reading My First Review—In Spring/ Notes/ Bibliography/ A Catalogue of Pictures/ Index
Reviews: 
"James Methuen-Campbell ... wrote a biography of Welch in 2002 which did much to establish his reputation as an artist" - Ian Irvine, Independent on Sunday, November 27th 2005 
"[Methuen-Campbell's] engrossing, careful and incisive book is a testament to Welch's strange attraction, and is to be cherished, not least for its sensitivity to a character who, as Alan Bennett observes, was 'tough, single-minded and often difficult to live with'." - Robert Hoare, Independent on Sunday, 17th March, 2002.
"Methuen-Campbell's attention to detail exceeds that of Welch's previous biographer... surpasses its predecessor ... in the greater attention it gives to Welch's paintings and drawings, generously illustrated in both black-and-white and colour." - Frances Spalding, Times Literary Supplement, 14th March 2002
"The allure of Welch's writing, and of the personality that Methuen-Campbell so skilfully reveals, is rooted in a childlike delight in the small pleasures of life, expressed from the vantage point of someone who has suffered and enjoyed the challenge of the survival. " - Patrick O'Connor, The Literary Review, May 2002.
"One of the joys of this immaculately presented book is the number of black-and-white and colour reproductions of Welch's paintings and drawings. Further, this new biography seems more carefully researched, more thoughtfully constructed." - Peter Burton, Gay Times, May 2002.
"As this new study is limited to 500 copies, I predict that it will end up as one more Welch curio, feverishly hunted in Hay-on-Wye bookshops at £200 a copy." - Michael de-la-Noy, The Independent, 22nd April, 2002.
"Diligently researched." - Selina Hastings, The Spectator.
"Now, this very sound biography by James Methuen-Campbell should help to consolidate a more enduring reputation. It redresses the neglect of his largely overlooked career as an artist, as well as narrating a life that was by any standards lived in adversity." - Phil Baker, Guardian
"Among the bonnes bouches on offer in this elegantly produced book, which would have delighted the Welchian fastidiousness, are the first publication of three previously uncollected short pieces of his, a full bibliography of his writings, 61 plates, fifteen of them in colour, and a catalogue of all his known pictures -- except two in my possession -- and illustrations." - Richard Whittington-Egan, Contemporary Review
Point: This book is being reprinted in paperback by I.B. Tauris Summer 2003 
   
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GÜNTER WEBER'S CONFESSION, by Louis de Bernières, December 2001. 18 pps. Limited edition of only 350 numbered copies, hand-set in Perpetua type and printed and bound by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press. With a specially commissioned colour frontispiece by David Johnson, lithographically printed. 250 copies on Teton paper, 100 special copies on Zerkall paper signed by the author. Of the signed copies, the first 25 are bound by Sue Bennett in boards with a slipcase and are for presentation only. Unsigned copies, £32.50. Signed copies, £55. ISBN 1872621643. Out of print.
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is a modern classic, loved by millions long before it became a hit movie. But few readers will know that a short while after the book was first published Louis de Bernières wrote a further, final chapter to the novel. This tells how Leutnant Günter Weber returned to the house of Pelagia and Dr Iannis after the massacre of the Italian soldiers. Weber wishes to explain his part in various events that have occurred, but the Doctor does not give him the reception he expects. 
   
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THE COLLECTED MACABRE STORIES OF L.P. HARTLEY, December 2001. 393+xi pages. £35.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in dark blue wibalin cloth with head and tailband. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621627. The first edition is out of print, but a second printing is available. Contents: Introduction by Mark Valentine/ From the Introduction to Lady Cynthia Asquith’s Third Ghost Book/ A Visitor from Down Under/ Podolo/ Three, or Four, for Dinner/ The Travelling Grave/ Feet Foremost/ The Cotillon/ A Change of Ownership/ The Thought/ Conrad and the Dragon/ The Island/ Night Fears/ The Killing Bottle/ A Summons/ W.S./ The Two Vaynes/ Monkshood Manor/ Two for the River/ Someone in the Lift/ The Face/ The Corner Cupboard/ The Waits/ The Pampas Clump/ The Crossways/ Per Far L’Amore/ Interference/ The Pylon/ Mrs Carteret Receives/ Fall in at the Double/ Paradise Paddock/ Roman Charity/ Pains and Pleasures/ Please Do Not Touch/ Home Sweet Home/ The Shadow on the Wall/ The Sound of Voices/ Mrs G. G./ The Stain on the Chair
Reviews:
"Tartarus Press’s fine edition of Hartley’s stories deserves the widest possible readership." - Scott Connors, Weird Tales, 2006
  "One of the undisputed books of the year, for which demand will surely outstrip the initial printing; if you haven't ordered it already, do so without delay. Well done, Tartarus - yet again." - Steve Duffy, All Hallows, October 2002.
"Cats and Coffins. The Collected Macabre Stories is a handsome-looking book, decently bound and properly sewn." - Times Literary Supplement, April 12, 2002.
"In short, this collection, introduced by Mark Valentine, is a celebration of the darkly comedic, the tragic, and the unknown -- a chronicle of midnight encounters between the haunters and the haunted better known for his mainstream novels than for the work where he truly stood out." - William Simmons, Infinity Plus 
   
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THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE, by Robert Aickman, October 2001. 223+viii pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in burgundy wibalin cloth with head and tailband and silk ribbon marker. 500 copies. ISBN 1872621619. Contents: Foreword by Jeremy Dyson/ Proem/ The Misty Giants/ I Loom/ I am Born and Immediately Fall Ill/ My Father’s History and Disposition/ My Father’s Life as a Displaced Person/ I Begin to Read the Classics/ I First Realize Myself/ I Assume a Mask/ Mixed Friends/ Relatives are All Alike/ Relatives as Divinities. I. Their Domain/ Relatives as Divinities. II. Their Mores/ Splendours and Miseries of Childhood/ My Struggles at Schools. I. The Dames and the Prep/ My First Projects for a Better World/ My Struggles at Schools. II. The Big House/ The Illnesses and the Flights (I)/ My Second Projects for a Better World/ The Illnesses and the Flights (II)/ I Suffer from Loneliness/ The Great Flower of Light/ The Poet and the King/ Deaths of the Divine Relatives/ A Distant Star/ I Love and Lose/ Tableau.
Point: The Attempted Rescue was first published by Gollancz, 1966.
"Robert Aickman will be remembered primarily for his fiction, I know, but I wonder how many who are fortunate enough to read this powerful memoir will remember, instead, that boy who cringed in fear of the shouting below. For those, The Attempted Rescue will remain Aickman’s most profound legacy." Lisa DuMond, Black Gate Magazine
"Read The Attempted Rescue, if you are an admirer of the artist; read it also for a glimpse of a time long gone, of a past which, as Jeremy Dyson points out in his shrewd and sympathetic introduction to this volume, is indeed a foreign country." Steve Duffy, All Hallows
"Aickman shows a solid comprehension of Freudian theory and he frequently refers to the sexual frustration resulting from single sex schooling and his shy nature. He demonstrates a perceptive awareness of symbols and their effect on the subconscious and comments on experiencing inexplicable fear induced by objects which in retrospect he sees as sexual symbols. This in itself certainly encourages a close re-reading of The Collected Strange Stories." - Matt Leyshon, Enigma
"Of interest to casual reader and macabre afficionado alike are those recounted memories of the bizarre, uncertain moments of fragility and uncertainty which invested Aickman's childhood with such penetrating depths of insecurity and unresolvedness. " - "Fine Frights" column from The Horror Within
   
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GUIDE TO FIRST EDITION PRICES, 2002/3, by R.B. Russell, November 2001, ix, 406 pages. £14.99. Trade paperback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press. 2,000 copies. ISBN 1872621589. Out of print.
Point: The fourth edition.
Contains the values of over 25,000 sought-after books.
Reviews: 
"When I get my hands on something like R B Russell's Guide to First Edition Prices I can't wait to see if I've got any treasures on my hands." - Suzi Feay, Literary Editor, Independent on Sunday, 7th October 2001.
"{The book} is a handy guide to have in one's kit, especially for spotting particularly rare books by less well-known authors and also for checking bibliographies... Mr Russell gets an A- from this reviewer." - Jack Laurence, Bookdealer, 8th November 2001. 
   
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UNCLE STEPHEN, by Forrest Reid, July 2001, xviii, 280 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in green wibalin cloth with head and tailband and silk ribbon marker. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621589. Out of print.
Point: Uncle Stephen was first published by Faber & Faber, 1931. This edition with a new introduction by Colin Cruise.
A subtle, supernatural novel reminiscent of the work of the author’s great friend Walter de la Mare.
 ". . . If you can appreciate fine words and sensitive feelings and fantastic situations, Uncle Stephen is your book." - Time and Tide 
   
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THE PRINCESS DAPHNE, by Edward Heron-Allen, April 2001, ix, 265 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in grey wibalin cloth stamped in burgundy and gold,with burgundy and gold head and tailband and silk ribbon marker. 150 copies. ISBN 1872621570. Out of print. Contents: The Determined Dilettante by R.B. Russell and Roslaie Parker/ Novel/ Notes on Heron-Allen/ Bibliography.
Point: Although it was intended to print 300 copies of this book, there were problems with the blocking of the boards, the printing and the binding which caused one half of the run to be rejected. Therefore copies were only numbered up to 150.
Description: A novel of metempsychosis, psychic vampirism, dopplegangers and love!  
   
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DROMENON, by Gerald Heard, May 2001, xx, 292 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver on spine and with Trabuco symbol on front board, with silver head and tailband and silk ribbon marker. 350 numbered copies. ISBN 1872621562. Out of print. Contents: Gerald Heard - Magic Mythmaker by John Cody/ The Great Fog/ Wingless Victory/ Despair Deferred…?/ Vindicae Flammae/ The Eclipse/ Dromenon/ The Cup/ The Chapel of Ease.
"In his introduction to this luxurious limited edition John Cody describes Gerald Heard as, "…one of the best-kept secrets of twentieth-century philosophy, science and literature." Imagine M. R. James being lead astray by Timothy Leary and you will have some idea of what to expect from Dromenon. " - Matt Leyshon, Enigma
"The stories included in this volume ... are informed not only by an ingenious imagination, but the vast erudition that characterized all his writings. Science fiction of the highest order ..." - Marvin Barrett, Parabola. 
   
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THE LOST STRADIVARIUS, by John Meade Falkner, December 2000, xvi, 233 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback, printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in blue wibalin cloth, stamped black and gold, with blue and yellow head and tail bands and blue silk ribbon marker. 300 numbered copies. ISBN 1872621 554. Out of print. Contents: Introduction by Mark Valentine/ The Lost Stradivarius/ A Midsummer's Marriage/ Charalampia.
 Reviews:
  "Tartarus Press has produced The Lost Stradivarius to its usual very high standards.... [It is] ... one of the finest ghost stories of the past two centuries. It had been unavailable in Hardcovers since the Tom Stacey edition of the 1970s, and I'm delighted to welcome it back." - Roger Johnson, Ghosts and Scholars.
“The Lost Stradivarius can justly be termed a masterpiece of supernatural literature.” – Steve Duffy, All Hallows 
   
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GHOST STORIES, by Oliver Onions, December 2000, vii, 455 pages. £30.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in white,with green and white head and tailband and green silk ribbon marker. 350 copies. ISBN 1872621546. The first edition is out of print. Contents: Introduction by Rosalie Parker/ Credo/ The Beckoning Fair One/ Phantas/ Rooum/ Benlian/ The Ascending Dream/ The Honey in the Wall/ The Rosewood Door/ The Accident/ IO/The Lost Thrysus/ The Painted Face/ The Out Sister/ “John Gladwyn Says...”/ Hic Jacet/ The Rocker/ Dear Dryad/ The Real People/ The Cigarette Case/ The Rope in the Rafters/ Resurrection in Bronze/ The Woman in the Way/ The Smile of Karen.
Reprinted May 2003 with an extra tale, "Tragic Casements".
"This is a reason to rejoice, for those who missed the first edition: Tartarus press offers a second printing of Oliver Onions' Ghost Stories, a generous collection of supernatural invasion, psychological unease, and transitory shifts between the commonplace and the surreal." - William Simmons, All Hallows
"Ghost Stories by Oliver Onions gives afficionados of suggestive horror a cause for celebration. Tartarus Press offers in its second printing of Oliver Onion's Ghost Stories a generous collection of superbly written tales of supernatural invasion, psychological unease, and transitory shifts between the everyday and supernatural - reality and the surreal both concepts presented by the author as paradoxical effects of the same cause . . . and the cause of similar events." - "Fine Frights" column from The Horror Within
"In this new book, Tartarus press has gathered all Onions' significant short weird fiction, eliminating a couple of very minor tales from the canon, but including several previously left out . . . He remains very much worth reading, because of the many arresting and unusual aspects of his work, the frequent passages of shining prose, and those two or three stories, amomng the best written in the genre of supernatural fiction, which make us lament that no more stories of their calibre were written." - Don Tumasonis, All Hallows.
   
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CHRISTMAS MISCELLANY, December 2000, stapled booklet. 1000 copies. Not for sale. Out of print. Contents: Uncollected Characters of the Book World/Sarban/ The Nephoseum by Mark Valentine/ Literary Society Contacts/ Robert Aickman: Degrees of Deviation/ Edward Heron-Allen and Christopher Blayre/ Alain-Fournier: "A bird was learning its song/ New and Forthcoming/ In Print 
   
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PAN'S GARDEN, by Algernon Blackwood, September 2000, x, 296 pages, £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in black and gold,with green and yellow head and tailband and green silk ribbon marker. 300 numbered copies. ISBN 187262152X. Out of print. Contents: True Inspiration by Mike Ashley/ The Man Whom the Trees Loved/ The South Wind/ The Sea Fit/ The Attic/ The Heath Fire/ The Messenger/ The Glamour of the Snow/ The Return/ Sand/ The Transfer/ Calirvoyance/ The Golden Fly/ Special Delivery/ The Destruction of Smith/ The Temptation of the Clay
Description: Pan’s Garden is the result of Algernon Blackwood’s passion for the supernatural in Nature.
Reviews
"Accept him warts and all as a great original and there are always rewards and illuminations on offer." - Alexis Lykiard in All Hallows
   "A distinctly pagan tone dominates the stories of cosmic energies and ancient Powers within Pan's Garden ... These tales are evocative and thought provoking, moreover, Blackwood's philosophies are as relevant now as they were at the turn of the last century." - Matt Leyshon, Enigma
   
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SHAPES IN THE FIRE, by M.P. Shiel. October 2000, vii, 233 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in orange wibalin cloth stamped in red and gold,with gold head and tailband and red silk ribbon marker. 300 numbered copies. ISBN 1872621538. Out of print. Contents: Jaunting on the Scoraic Tempests . . . by Brian Stableford/ Xélucha/ Maria in the Rose-bush/ Vaila/ Premier and Maker/ Tulsah/ The Serpent-Ship/ Phorfor
Description: Shapes in the Fire is M.P. Shiel at his decadent best.
Reviews: 
"If Shiel's writing was decadent and perverse in 1896, to read it in the twenty-first century is even more so. Readers who may feel inclined to take that as a challenge shouldn't hesitate. Go on - I dare you!" - Douglas Campbell, All Hallows
"Thankfully, Tartarus has seen the light and put Shiel's original, unblandified collection back on the shelves. At last we can read 'Waila,' the high-octane version of 'The House of Sounds.' " - Michael Cisco - New York Review of Science Fiction 
   
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RINGSTONES, by Sarban. July 2000, 272 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Antony Rowe in yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper,with yellow and black head and tailband and yellow silk ribbon marker. 350 numbered copies. ISBN 1872621511. Out of print. Contents: A Christmas Story/ Capra/ Calmahain/ The Khan/ Ringstones/ Number Fourteen
Point: The five original stories of the collection are here augmented by the first ever publication of “Number Fourteen”, a newly discovered conte cruel.
Description: Uniquely disquieting short stories.
Reviews
"Let us be thankful that Tartarus Press have given us this lovely edition of his work." - Roger Johnson in All Hallows   
   
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THE SALUTATION, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. June 2000, xiii, 255 pages. £25.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in blue wibalin cloth stamped in gold,with blue head and tailband. 250 numbered copies. ISBN 1872621503. Out of print. Contents: Introduction by Claire Harman/ Some World Far From Ours/ Early One Morning/ The Salutation/ Over the Hill/ A Parting gift/ Perdita/ How to Succeed in Life/ The Son/ A Moral Ending/ This Our Brother/ The Holy War/ The Maze/ Elinor Barley/ The Best Bed/ Emily
Description: Short stories.
 "This collection is by no means genre horror, but for those of you that may be unfamiliar with this brilliant author, this may serve as an excellent introduction to her work." -John Pelan, Hellnotes.
   
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A FRAGMENT OF LIFE, by Arthur Machen. May 2000, x, 127 pages. £20.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver,with blue and white head and tailband. 250 numbered copies. ISBN 187262149X. Out of print.
Description: The novella, augmented by the original ending from the Horlicks Magazine, 1904 
   
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THE GREEN ROUND, by Arthur Machen. May 2000, x, 129 pages. £20.00. Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in green wibalin cloth stamped in gold,with green and gold head and tailband. 400 numbered copies. ISBN 1872621465. Out of print.
Point: With an Introduction by Mark Valentine
Reviews: 
“Machen expertly conveys mystery and a sense of the supernatural whilst maintaining a believable environment and story line. Ultimately, The Green Round, though flawed, is an interesting supernatural tale with many very memorable scenes.” - Matt Leyshon, Enigma.
"A sense of the infinite, along with an interest in secret truths hidden beneath "illusions" of reality, are expressed with consummate power in The Green Round, one of Machen's few novels written to please a publisher." - William Simmons, Underworld
 
   
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THE SMELL OF TELESCOPES, by Rhys Hughes. March 2000, 280 pages. £27.50. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Antony Rowe in black wibalin cloth stamped in gold,with yellow and black head and tailband. 250 numbered copies signed by the author. ISBN 1872621449. Out of print. Contents: The Banker Of Ingolstadt / Ten Grim Bottles/ Spermaceti Whiskers/ The Blue Dwarf/ The Purloined Liver/ The Squonk Laughed/ Telegram Ma'am/ Depressurised Ghost Story/ Thanatology Spleen/ The Tell-Tale Nose/ A Girl Like A Doric Column/ The Orange Goat/ Nothing More Common/ Muscovado Lashes/ A Person Not In The Story/ Bridge Over Troubled Blood/ Burke And Rabbit/ The Yellow Imp/ Lanolin Brows/ The Haunted Womb/ Mister Humphrey's Clock's Inheritance/ There Was A Ghoul Dwelt By A Mosque/ The Purple Pastor/ The Hush Of Falling Houses/ The Sickness Of Satan/ Omophagia Ankles
Description: A second collection of short stories by Hughes to be published by Tartarus
Reviews
  "Hughes' writing has the lightness of Calvino's prose grounded in hardy welsh pragmatism. He is probably one of the most criminally neglected writers in the world - in that his imagination, inventiveness, linguistic cleverness, and his lack of cliché should have been enough long ago to attract the attention of the same literary mainstream that delights in the aforementioned Calvino." - New York Review of Science Fiction
Hughes has crafted a series of literary gems here, filled with clever puns and word play, light and frothy on the surface, but with a dark and bitter brew concealed beneath the foam. This new collection shows that Hughes has continued to grow as a writer and most especially as a stylist. Anyone with a love of language will find much to enjoy in this book. - Hellnotes
For me to say that this is an important collection from a publisher that has previously offered up rare volumes by Machen, Sarban and Aickman is to put it in rather lofty company, but I don't feel that such praise is at all unwarranted. Rhys Hughes is one of the most wildly inventive talents that we are graced with today, and I think that anyone willing to approach this book without being shackled by restrictive concepts of what weird fiction should be will be very favourably impressed. - All Hallows
Rhys Hughes is an accomplished player with words, plots, effect, relationships, sensibilities; you name it, Hughes tries to stand it on its head. More often than seems attributable to mere chance, he succeeds. - Locus
Dazzling prose. Put your feet up and dip in. Life will never seem quite the same again. - The Third Alternative
   
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