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14th June, 2013: Our next publication will be a paperback reprint of The Life of Arthur Machen by John Gawsworth, edited by Roger Dobson, originally published by Tartarus Press in 2005 with the Friends of Arthur Machen and Reino de Redonda. This new paperback edition includes an index, and (while stocks last), each copy is accompanied by the booklet 'Hail, O King', The Last Days of John Gawsworth by Roger Dobson, and a dvd of the BBC LINE-UP documentary on Gawsworth, narrated by Barry Humphries, originally released by The Friends of Arthur Machen in 2005.
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31st May: Dark World has received a very positive review from Publishers Weekly:
"Whether they provide their ghosts with a rationale for appearing, or present them as frightening because they are inexplicable, all the authors exercise restraint in their storytelling that encourages readers to fit their own worst fears to the story's supernatural events. This anthology, whose proceeds will benefit the Amala Children's Home of India, is Russell's first, but it shows a seasoned editor's understanding of effective weird tale telling."
***

30th May 2013: We have now accepted all the stories required for Strange Tales IV, and plan to publish the book later in 2013. We are now reading submissions for Strange Tales V, and the submissions window will remain open until we have accepted enough stories for the volume.
***

28th May, 2013: Although we have now received copies of Night Voices from the printers, unfortunately the jackets will have to be reprinted, which will take a couple of weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience, but the books will be shipped as soon as we possibly can.

24th May:
Nike Sulway's Rupetta receives a great review at Publishers Weekly:
"Sulway uses rich and evocative prose to pull the reader irresistibly into her tale's vividly rendered alternate Europe and its centuries of human power struggles. Her profound reflections on human frailty and the price for everlasting life seem as much a bonus as an integral part of its telling."

Wormwood 17 gets a very good review at She Never Slept:
"Once again, Mark Valentine has assembled an adept and well-read team of scholars who discuss fiction writers dealing in the unusual, whether famous, infamous, or obscure. Indeed, the lesser-known individuals are often the most interesting subjects."
***

23rd May 2013: We've received a few very positive notices on blogs today. Mark Valentine's Herald of the Hidden is positively reviewed by Mark Andresen at The Pan Review and by David Longhorn at the Supernatural Tales blog. Additionally, The Mumpsimus discuss our reprints of Robert Aickman here.
***

22nd May 2013: Our next publication will be Night Voices by Robert Aickman. It contains all of the original stories from the posthumous 1985 collection, plus Aickman's fantasy novella 'The Model', along with Aickman’s ‘An Essay’ (written on winning the first World Fantasy Award in 1976), and his Introductions to The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series, which he edited. In ‘Robert Remembered’, author Ramsey Campbell concludes this volume with memories of his friend.
It will be published on 29th May, 2013.
***

We are sad to learn of the death of Roger Dobson, a real, old-fashioned bookman who was devoted to a number of neglected writers, including Arthur Machen, M.P. Shiel, George Gissing, C.W. Blubberhouse and Julian Maclaren-Ross. His essays on literary matters were published in the Antiquarian Book Monthly Review and The Book and Magazine Collector, along with amateur publications like All Hallows, The Doppelganger Broadsheet, and his own Lost Club Journal (published with Mark Valentine).

Back in 1990 Roger Dobson and Mark Valentine encouraged Ray Russell to research and publish The Anatomy of Taverns, the first publication issued by Tartarus Press. Always supportive of Tartarus, Roger contributed to a number of our publications over the years, including the Introductions to our reprints of Arthur Machen's Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. He also edited Gawsworth's Life of Arthur Machen and contributed to Wormwood. We collaborated with Roger and Mark on the publication of our editions of Aklo and Ornaments in Jade.

Those who knew Roger will miss accompanying him on obscure literary expeditions and his conversations on all manner of bookish topics, for which he had great enthiusiasm and profound knowledge. RIP Roger.

A fine obituary of Roger can be found at the Wormwoodiana blog here.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.
                                                                                       Ernest Dowson
***

Left to right: Mark Saxton, Mark Valentine, Reggie Oliver, Tim Parker Russell

6th May, 2013: Many thanks to all who came to our Dark World afternoon in Carlton-in-Coverdale. We raised £250 towards the Amala children's home in India from book sales and donations.

A video of Mark Valentine reading his story "An Incomplete Apocalypse" during the afternoon can be watched here.

Reggie Oliver has very kindly donated a signed and mounted limited edition print of his illustration for his story 'Come into my Parlour', which he read during the afternoon. It is being auctioned on ebay here, along with a signed copy of the out-of-print first edition (limited to 300 copies) of Dark World, signed by editor Timothy Parker Russell, cover illustrator Stephen J. Clark, and contributing authors Mark Valentine, Reggie Oliver, Mark J. Saxton, Rosalie Parker and R.B. Russell. Proceeds from the auction will also go to Amala.
***

26th April: Nike Sulway and her new novel, Rupetta, are featured at the Weird Fiction Review. On the website you can read their thoughts on Nike and the book, an interview, and, finally, you can read the first full chapter of Rupetta, 'The Miracles of Consciousness'.
***


18th April 2013: We are delighted to announce an afternoon celebrating the publication of the bookDark World, edited by Tim Russell. It is to be held on Saturday May 4th, 1:30-4:30 pm, at the Coverdale Memorial Hall, Carlton, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 4AY.

Details here.
There will be readings by authors Mark Valentine and Reggie Oliver, an illustrated talk on the ghost story by Dr Gail-Nina Anderson, book sales, signings and refreshments.
Admission free – donations welcome.
For more details email tartarus@pavilion.co.uk, or call 01969 640399
***

15th April 2013: Rupetta by N.A. Sulway is "Novel of the Week" in The Tablet, where it is described as a novel with "a heart".
***

10th April 2013: We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Wormwood 20. The new issue contains the following eclectic mix of essays dealing with literature of the fanstic, supernatural and decadent:

‘Forever Always Ends: Robert Aickman’s Visions of Afterlife’ (part one) by Joel Lane
‘The Baroque of the Void: A Fantastic Fiction of the Austrian Idea’ by John Howard
‘John Cowper Powys: Celtic Colossus and Eminence Grise’ by Adam Daly
‘A Sombre and Unique Beauty: The Stories of Helen Simpson’ by James Doig
‘Fate as a Character: H. Rider Haggard’s Secret Currents' by Thos. Kent Miller
‘Under Review’ by Reggie Oliver
‘Late Reviews’ by Douglas A. Anderson
‘Camera Obscura’ by John Howard

Please note that the price of the new issue has been increased to £9.99Wormwood 20 will be published on 19th April.
***

22nd March 2013: Please note, we have now accepted all the stories required for Strange Tales IV, but the submissions window will remain open and we are now reading stories for Strange Tales V, which we hope to publish in 2014.
***

19th March 2013: Our next two books are by Mark Valentine. Both will be published in signed, numbered editions:

Herald of the Hidden collects ten adventures of Ralph Tyler, an occult detective from an obscure shire in the darkest heart of England, without private means or any special esoteric knowledge. Mark Valentine’s Ralph Tyler stories first appeared in hard-to-find small press publications. Three of the stories in this volume are previously unpublished, including two newly written for this collection. Along with six further supernatural tales, all the stories are previously uncollected in book form.

Star Kites is Mark Valentine’s first collection of poems, and draws on the sources that have inspired his acclaimed short stories—oneiric and otherworldly, and inexplicably beautiful. The poems evoke half-lit figures and images, seen in smoke, shadow, sun-haze and stone, and moments when the visible world does not quite cohere. Also offered are versions of poems by previously unheard European voices.

***

11th March 2013: Great reviews of Dark World can be found at Nudgemenow and M.R.Cosby's blog. Rosemary Pardoe has also commented on the anthology in the latest issue of Ghosts and Scholars (23) calling it a "quality" collection.
***

15th February 2013: Many thanks to everyone who bought a copy of Dark World, edited by Timothy Parker Russell. Tim has now raised the funds for his volunteering trip to the Children's Home at Amala in India this summer, and to make the extra contribution required. There are still a few copies left, and each one sold will form a part of an additional donation. There has been quite a lot of publicity for Tim and the book, and one of our favourite unsolicited comments is to be found at the Readhead blog.
***

10th February 2011: Many thanks to those who came along to the Golden Fleece in York for the launch of Rupetta by Nike Sulway. The crooked staircase, sloping floor, suits of armour and skulls added to the atmosphere, as did the friendly staff and pints of Theakstones Old Peculiar.

Nike Sulway reading from Rupetta

***
7th February 2013: We have various items of news:

The newest member of the Tartarus Press team, Timothy Parker Russell, has received a great feature for his Dark World anthology in The Guardian Online. The book is now also available as an ebook.

Also, great reviews have been posted at Rick Kleffel's Agony Column for Rupetta and The House of Oracles.

Ebooks are now available of Rupetta and Sourdough.

And finally, Michael Dirda has written an interesting article on M.P. Shiel for the Barnes and Noble Review. He notes: "A few years back, Tartarus Press, known for its important editions of neglected supernatural fiction, published a much coveted hardback, supplementing the text with illustrations from the novel's original serial publication. I treasure my copy."

***

4th February: Dark World has received a mention in The Independent's Between the Covers section.
***

3rd February 2013: We are pleased to announce the publication of The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler by Reggie Oliver in a new paperback edition.

And don't forget that Rupetta by Nike Sulway is to be published on the 9th. A "taster" pdf can be downloaded here. If anyone would like to join us in York for the launch/get-together next weekend, please email us at tartarus@pavilion.co.uk
***

25th January 2013: Forthcoming from Tartarus is a new paperback collection of ghost stories, Dark World, edited by Timothy Parker Russell. Published on 4th February, it contains stories by:

Reggie Oliver
Christopher Fowler
Rhys Hughes
Mark Valentine
Anna Taborska
John Gaskin
Corinna Underwood
Rosalie Parker
Jason A. Wyckoff
Mark J. Saxton
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
R.B. Russell
Stephen Holman
Steve Rasnic Tem
(cover art by Stephen J. Clark)

Dark World will be a numbered, limited edition paperback, with profits going to Amala Children's Home and School, India, where Tim will be working with orphaned children in July 2013.

***

22nd February 2013: We have reprinted Sub Rosa and Dark Entries by Robert Aickman. Both books will also be available from the usual dealers.

***

18th February: As a "taster", the Foreword to Rupetta by Nike Sulway is available as a pdf here.
***

15th February, 2013: Our next book will be a stunning new novel by award-winning Australian writer Nike Sulway. Rupetta invokes the great tradition of European fantasy/horror fiction and moves it forward in a superbly imaginative, highly original fashion.
And to celebrate the publication of Rupetta , Nike Sulway will be joining us for the launch of her book on the 9th February, from 12pm, at The Golden Fleece in York (UK). Everyone is welcome, but we would appreciate it if you could let us know in advance if you are coming, and whether you would like to eat with us. It is a great venue, in an amazing city (with some good bookshops!)
***

7th January 2013: Mario Guslandi has positively reviewed Intrusions by Robert Aickman at The Short Review.
***

3rd January 2013: Happy New Year!

Please note that Dark World is now closed for submissions. Many thanks to all those who offered stories. Publication is still planned for February.
News
14th June, 2013: Our next publication will be a paperback reprint of The Life of Arthur Machen by John Gawsworth, edited by Roger Dobson, originally published by Tartarus Press in 2005 with the Friends of Arthur Machen and Reino de Redonda. This new paperback edition includes an index, and (while stocks last), each copy is accompanied by the booklet 'Hail, O King', The Last Days of John Gawsworth by Roger Dobson, and a dvd of the BBC LINE-UP documentary on Gawsworth, narrated by Barry Humphries, originally released by The Friends of Arthur Machen in 2005.
***

31st May: Dark World has received a very positive review from Publishers Weekly:
"Whether they provide their ghosts with a rationale for appearing, or present them as frightening because they are inexplicable, all the authors exercise restraint in their storytelling that encourages readers to fit their own worst fears to the story's supernatural events. This anthology, whose proceeds will benefit the Amala Children's Home of India, is Russell's first, but it shows a seasoned editor's understanding of effective weird tale telling."
***

30th May 2013: We have now accepted all the stories required for Strange Tales IV, and plan to publish the book later in 2013. We are now reading submissions for Strange Tales V, and the submissions window will remain open until we have accepted enough stories for the volume.
***

28th May, 2013: Although we have now received copies of Night Voices from the printers, unfortunately the jackets will have to be reprinted, which will take a couple of weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience, but the books will be shipped as soon as we possibly can.

24th May:
Nike Sulway's Rupetta receives a great review at Publishers Weekly:
"Sulway uses rich and evocative prose to pull the reader irresistibly into her tale's vividly rendered alternate Europe and its centuries of human power struggles. Her profound reflections on human frailty and the price for everlasting life seem as much a bonus as an integral part of its telling."

Wormwood 17 gets a very good review at She Never Slept:
"Once again, Mark Valentine has assembled an adept and well-read team of scholars who discuss fiction writers dealing in the unusual, whether famous, infamous, or obscure. Indeed, the lesser-known individuals are often the most interesting subjects."
***

23rd May 2013: We've received a few very positive notices on blogs today. Mark Valentine's Herald of the Hidden is positively reviewed by Mark Andresen at The Pan Review and by David Longhorn at the Supernatural Tales blog. Additionally, The Mumpsimus discuss our reprints of Robert Aickman here.
***

22nd May 2013: Our next publication will be Night Voices by Robert Aickman. It contains all of the original stories from the posthumous 1985 collection, plus Aickman's fantasy novella 'The Model', along with Aickman’s ‘An Essay’ (written on winning the first World Fantasy Award in 1976), and his Introductions to The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series, which he edited. In ‘Robert Remembered’, author Ramsey Campbell concludes this volume with memories of his friend.
It will be published on 29th May, 2013.
***

We are sad to learn of the death of Roger Dobson, a real, old-fashioned bookman who was devoted to a number of neglected writers, including Arthur Machen, M.P. Shiel, George Gissing, C.W. Blubberhouse and Julian Maclaren-Ross. His essays on literary matters were published in the Antiquarian Book Monthly Review and The Book and Magazine Collector, along with amateur publications like All Hallows, The Doppelganger Broadsheet, and his own Lost Club Journal (published with Mark Valentine).

Back in 1990 Roger Dobson and Mark Valentine encouraged Ray Russell to research and publish The Anatomy of Taverns, the first publication issued by Tartarus Press. Always supportive of Tartarus, Roger contributed to a number of our publications over the years, including the Introductions to our reprints of Arthur Machen's Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. He also edited Gawsworth's Life of Arthur Machen and contributed to Wormwood. We collaborated with Roger and Mark on the publication of our editions of Aklo and Ornaments in Jade.

Those who knew Roger will miss accompanying him on obscure literary expeditions and his conversations on all manner of bookish topics, for which he had great enthiusiasm and profound knowledge. RIP Roger.

A fine obituary of Roger can be found at the Wormwoodiana blog here.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.
                                                                                       Ernest Dowson
***

Left to right: Mark Saxton, Mark Valentine, Reggie Oliver, Tim Parker Russell



14th June, 2013: Our next publication will be a paperback reprint of The Life of Arthur Machen by John Gawsworth, edited by Roger Dobson, originally published by Tartarus Press in 2005 with the Friends of Arthur Machen and Reino de Redonda. This new paperback edition includes an index, and (while stocks last), each copy is accompanied by the booklet 'Hail, O King', The Last Days of John Gawsworth by Roger Dobson, and a dvd of the BBC LINE-UP documentary on Gawsworth, narrated by Barry Humphries, originally released by The Friends of Arthur Machen in 2005.
***

31st May: Dark World has received a very positive review from Publishers Weekly:
"Whether they provide their ghosts with a rationale for appearing, or present them as frightening because they are inexplicable, all the authors exercise restraint in their storytelling that encourages readers to fit their own worst fears to the story's supernatural events. This anthology, whose proceeds will benefit the Amala Children's Home of India, is Russell's first, but it shows a seasoned editor's understanding of effective weird tale telling."
***

30th May 2013: We have now accepted all the stories required for Strange Tales IV, and plan to publish the book later in 2013. We are now reading submissions for Strange Tales V, and the submissions window will remain open until we have accepted enough stories for the volume.
***

28th May, 2013: Although we have now received copies of Night Voices from the printers, unfortunately the jackets will have to be reprinted, which will take a couple of weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience, but the books will be shipped as soon as we possibly can.
***

28th May, 2013: Although we have now received copies of Night Voices from the printers, unfortunately the jackets will have to be reprinted, which will take a couple of weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience, but the books will be shipped as soon as we possibly can.

24th May:
Nike Sulway's Rupetta receives a great review at Publishers Weekly:
"Sulway uses rich and evocative prose to pull the reader irresistibly into her tale's vividly rendered alternate Europe and its centuries of human power struggles. Her profound reflections on human frailty and the price for everlasting life seem as much a bonus as an integral part of its telling."

Wormwood 17 gets a very good review at She Never Slept:
"Once again, Mark Valentine has assembled an adept and well-read team of scholars who discuss fiction writers dealing in the unusual, whether famous, infamous, or obscure. Indeed, the lesser-known individuals are often the most interesting subjects."
***

23rd May 2013: We've received a few very positive notices on blogs today. Mark Valentine's Herald of the Hidden is positively reviewed by Mark Andresen at The Pan Review and by David Longhorn at the Supernatural Tales blog. Additionally, The Mumpsimus discuss our reprints of Robert Aickman here.
***

22nd May 2013: Our next publication will be Night Voices by Robert Aickman. It contains all of the original stories from the posthumous 1985 collection, plus Aickman's fantasy novella 'The Model', along with Aickman’s ‘An Essay’ (written on winning the first World Fantasy Award in 1976), and his Introductions to The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series, which he edited. In ‘Robert Remembered’, author Ramsey Campbell concludes this volume with memories of his friend.
It will be published on 29th May, 2013.
***



We are sad to learn of the death of Roger Dobson, a real, old-fashioned bookman who was devoted to a number of neglected writers, including Arthur Machen, M.P. Shiel, George Gissing, C.W. Blubberhouse and Julian Maclaren-Ross. His essays on literary matters were published in the Antiquarian Book Monthly Review and The Book and Magazine Collector, along with amateur publications like All Hallows, The Doppelganger Broadsheet, and his own Lost Club Journal (published with Mark Valentine).

Back in 1990 Roger Dobson and Mark Valentine encouraged Ray Russell to research and publish The Anatomy of Taverns, the first publication issued by Tartarus Press. Always supportive of Tartarus, Roger contributed to a number of our publications over the years, including the Introductions to our reprints of Arthur Machen's Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. He also edited Gawsworth's Life of Arthur Machen and contributed to Wormwood. We collaborated with Roger and Mark on the publication of our editions of Aklo and Ornaments in Jade.

Those who knew Roger will miss accompanying him on obscure literary expeditions and his conversations on all manner of bookish topics, for which he had great enthiusiasm and profound knowledge. RIP Roger.

A fine obituary of Roger can be found at the Wormwoodiana blog here.
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for awhile, then closes Within a dream. Ernest Dowson
***



6th May, 2013: Many thanks to all who came to our Dark World afternoon in Carlton-in-Coverdale. We raised £250 towards the Amala children's home in India from book sales and donations.

A video of Mark Valentine reading his story "An Incomplete Apocalypse" during the afternoon can be watched here.

Reggie Oliver has very kindly donated a signed and mounted limited edition print of his illustration for his story 'Come into my Parlour', which he read during the afternoon. It is being auctioned on ebay here, along with a signed copy of the out-of-print first edition (limited to 300 copies) of Dark World, signed by editor Timothy Parker Russell, cover illustrator Stephen J. Clark, and contributing authors Mark Valentine, Reggie Oliver, Mark J. Saxton, Rosalie Parker and R.B. Russell. Proceeds from the auction will also go to Amala.
***
26th April: Nike Sulway and her new novel, Rupetta, are featured at the Weird Fiction Review. On the website you can read their thoughts on Nike and the book, an interview, and, finally, you can read the first full chapter of Rupetta, 'The Miracles of Consciousness'.
***

18th April 2013: We are delighted to announce an afternoon celebrating the publication of the bookDark World, edited by Tim Russell. It is to be held on Saturday May 4th, 1:30-4:30 pm, at the Coverdale Memorial Hall, Carlton, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 4AY.

Details here.
There will be readings by authors Mark Valentine and Reggie Oliver, an illustrated talk on the ghost story by Dr Gail-Nina Anderson, book sales, signings and refreshments.
Admission free – donations welcome.
For more details email tartarus@pavilion.co.uk, or call 01969 640399
***

15th April 2013: Rupetta by N.A. Sulway is "Novel of the Week" in The Tablet, where it is described as a novel with "a heart".
***

10th April 2013: We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Wormwood 20. The new issue contains the following eclectic mix of essays dealing with literature of the fanstic, supernatural and decadent:

‘Forever Always Ends: Robert Aickman’s Visions of Afterlife’ (part one) by Joel Lane
‘The Baroque of the Void: A Fantastic Fiction of the Austrian Idea’ by John Howard
‘John Cowper Powys: Celtic Colossus and Eminence Grise’ by Adam Daly
‘A Sombre and Unique Beauty: The Stories of Helen Simpson’ by James Doig
‘Fate as a Character: H. Rider Haggard’s Secret Currents' by Thos. Kent Miller
‘Under Review’ by Reggie Oliver
‘Late Reviews’ by Douglas A. Anderson
‘Camera Obscura’ by John Howard

Please note that the price of the new issue has been increased to £9.99Wormwood 20 will be published on 19th April.
***

22nd March 2013: Please note, we have now accepted all the stories required for Strange Tales IV, but the submissions window will remain open and we are now reading stories for Strange Tales V, which we hope to publish in 2014.
***

19th March 2013: Our next two books are by Mark Valentine. Both will be published in signed, numbered editions:

Herald of the Hidden collects ten adventures of Ralph Tyler, an occult detective from an obscure shire in the darkest heart of England, without private means or any special esoteric knowledge. Mark Valentine’s Ralph Tyler stories first appeared in hard-to-find small press publications. Three of the stories in this volume are previously unpublished, including two newly written for this collection. Along with six further supernatural tales, all the stories are previously uncollected in book form.

Star Kites is Mark Valentine’s first collection of poems, and draws on the sources that have inspired his acclaimed short stories—oneiric and otherworldly, and inexplicably beautiful. The poems evoke half-lit figures and images, seen in smoke, shadow, sun-haze and stone, and moments when the visible world does not quite cohere. Also offered are versions of poems by previously unheard European voices.

***

11th March 2013: Great reviews of Dark World can be found at Nudgemenow and M.R.Cosby's blog. Rosemary Pardoe has also commented on the anthology in the latest issue of Ghosts and Scholars (23) calling it a "quality" collection.
***

15th February 2013: Many thanks to everyone who bought a copy of Dark World, edited by Timothy Parker Russell. Tim has now raised the funds for his volunteering trip to the Children's Home at Amala in India this summer, and to make the extra contribution required. There are still a few copies left, and each one sold will form a part of an additional donation. There has been quite a lot of publicity for Tim and the book, and one of our favourite unsolicited comments is to be found at the Readhead blog.
***

10th February 2011: Many thanks to those who came along to the Golden Fleece in York for the launch of Rupetta by Nike Sulway. The crooked staircase, sloping floor, suits of armour and skulls added to the atmosphere, as did the friendly staff and pints of Theakstones Old Peculiar.

Nike Sulway reading from Rupetta

***
7th February 2013: We have various items of news:

The newest member of the Tartarus Press team, Timothy Parker Russell, has received a great feature for his Dark World anthology in The Guardian Online. The book is now also available as an ebook.

Also, great reviews have been posted at Rick Kleffel's Agony Column for Rupetta and The House of Oracles.

Ebooks are now available of Rupetta and Sourdough.

And finally, Michael Dirda has written an interesting article on M.P. Shiel for the Barnes and Noble Review. He notes: "A few years back, Tartarus Press, known for its important editions of neglected supernatural fiction, published a much coveted hardback, supplementing the text with illustrations from the novel's original serial publication. I treasure my copy."

***

4th February: Dark World has received a mention in The Independent's Between the Covers section.
***

3rd February 2013: We are pleased to announce the publication of The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler by Reggie Oliver in a new paperback edition.

And don't forget that Rupetta by Nike Sulway is to be published on the 9th. A "taster" pdf can be downloaded here. If anyone would like to join us in York for the launch/get-together next weekend, please email us at tartarus@pavilion.co.uk
***

25th January 2013: Forthcoming from Tartarus is a new paperback collection of ghost stories, Dark World, edited by Timothy Parker Russell. Published on 4th February, it contains stories by:

Reggie Oliver
Christopher Fowler
Rhys Hughes
Mark Valentine
Anna Taborska
John Gaskin
Corinna Underwood
Rosalie Parker
Jason A. Wyckoff
Mark J. Saxton
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
R.B. Russell
Stephen Holman
Steve Rasnic Tem
(cover art by Stephen J. Clark)

Dark World will be a numbered, limited edition paperback, with profits going to Amala Children's Home and School, India, where Tim will be working with orphaned children in July 2013.

***

22nd February 2013: We have reprinted Sub Rosa and Dark Entries by Robert Aickman. Both books will also be available from the usual dealers.
26th April: Nike Sulway and her new novel, Rupetta, are featured at the Weird Fiction Review. On the website you can read their thoughts on Nike and the book, an interview, and, finally, you can read the first full chapter of Rupetta, 'The Miracles of Consciousness'.
***



18th April 2013: We are delighted to announce an afternoon celebrating the publication of the bookDark World, edited by Tim Russell. It is to be held on Saturday May 4th, 1:30-4:30 pm, at the Coverdale Memorial Hall, Carlton, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 4AY.
***

18th February: As a "taster", the Foreword to Rupetta by Nike Sulway is available as a pdf here.
***


15th February, 2013: Our next book will be a stunning new novel by award-winning Australian writer Nike Sulway. Rupetta invokes the great tradition of European fantasy/horror fiction and moves it forward in a superbly imaginative, highly original fashion.
And to celebrate the publication of Rupetta , Nike Sulway will be joining us for the launch of her book on the 9th February, from 12pm, at The Golden Fleece in York (UK). Everyone is welcome, but we would appreciate it if you could let us know in advance if you are coming, and whether you would like to eat with us. It is a great venue, in an amazing city (with some good bookshops!)
***

7th January 2013: Mario Guslandi has positively reviewed Intrusions by Robert Aickman at The Short Review.
***

3rd January 2013: Happy New Year!

Please note that Dark World is now closed for submissions. Many thanks to all those who offered stories. Publication is still planned for February.

We have blogged! Many thanks to Douglas Campbell for letting us publish his review of Dreads and Drolls by Arthur Machen. Michael Dirda writes in praise of small presses (including Tartarus) at The American Scholar. Rick Kleffel discusses Robert Aickman's Intrusions in his Agony Column, stating that the stories "offer readers perfect perspectives into the minds of men and women in such a manner as to make it clear that we really never, ever, can truly understand one another. And Intrusions is also discussed by Mark Andresen at The Pan Review. In other Robert Aickman news . . . 2014 will be the centenary of the birth of Robert Aickman, and he will be celebrated at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention in Washington DC. A very fine review of The White Hands by Mark Samuels can be found at the Brazilian Airmandade website. An approximate translation into English can be found here.

***

14th December 2012: The House of Oracles by Thomas Owen has been published. All pre-orders have now been mailed. We can't guarantee delivery before Christmas, but we've done our best...!
***

26th November 2012: We have blogged again: Rosalie Parker recommends four Tartarus Press books for long winter nights here.
***

14th November, 2012: Our next book will be The House of Oracles by Thomas Owen. Owen was a Belgian Symbolist (real name Gerald Bertot, 1910-2002), and master of the fleeting, fantastic, erotic short story, translated for us by Iain White (King in the Golden Mask by Marcel Schwob).
You can read our blog post, "Why should you read . . . Thomas Owen" here.
***

13th November: A good review of Frankenstein's Prescription by Tim Lees has just been posted here. It is described as "Moody, fast-paced and told with verve, Frankenstein's Prescription has the feeling of vintage Michael Moorcock in a black, Gothic vein."

The latest in our series of interviews with book collectors is now available to watch on youtube. It features John Hirschhorn-Smith, preoprietor of the Sidereal Press who have published, among other authors, Hanns Heinz Ewers.
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5th November: Our next publication will be Intrusions by Robert Aickman, on the 12th November.

In other news, we are very pleased to have received a World Fantasy Award in Toronto last night!
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2nd November, 2012: We are pleased to report that we've received copies of Wormwood 19 from the printers, and are able to send them out in advance of the 12th November date we previously promised.
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5th November: Our next publication will be Intrusions by Robert Aickman, on the 12th November.

In other news, we are very pleased to have received a World Fantasy Award in Toronto last night!
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2nd November, 2012: We are pleased to report that we've received copies of Wormwood 19 from the printers, and are able to send them out in advance of the 12th November date we previously promised.
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24th October 2012: Wormwood 19 is due to be published on the 12th November. The new issue contains:

"Standing in the Shadows of ‘Lud’: A Selective Discussion of Interesting Fantastical Novels of the Immediate Aftermath of the First World War"by Henry Wessells
"He Wrote of Dark Forces: The Weird World of Dennis Wheatley"by Roger Dobson
"Bram Stoker and Another Dracula"by Brian J. Showers
"The Man in the Yellow Mask"by Lucien Verval
"The Autobiographical Nature of Fr. Rolfe’s The Weird of the Wanderer" by Jason Rolfe
"The Woman in the Gentleman’s Club" by Mark Andresen
"Under Review" by Reggie Oliver

"Late Reviews" by Douglas A. Anderson

"Camera Obscura" by Mark Valentine

Dark Entries by Robert Aickman is now out of print. As with Sub Rosa, we hope to reprint it in 2013.

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15th October, 2012: Another very good review has been received for Five Degrees of Latitude by Michael Reynier, here at The Stars at Noonday.
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27th September 2012: Peter Tennant at Black Static (the print magazine) has given great reviews to Five Degrees of Latitude by Michael Reynier and Black Horse by Jason A. Wyckoff.


Discussing the five novellas that make up Five Degrees of Latitude, Tennant writes that 'Le Loup-Garou' has "a pitch perfect delivery". In 'No. 3 Hobbes Lane' "the air of ambiguity [is] carefully maintained, and 'The Rumour Mill' is "carefully detailed", while 'Sika Tarn' "is a disturbing exercise in rustic terror". The last novella, 'The Visions of Lazaro' "brings to mind the creations of Borges, with its cleverness and artifice".


In his review of Black Horse Tennant is equally positive, writing (amongst other nice things), that 'The Highwall Horror' is a "story full of oblique angles and shifting perspectives, as the protagonist's worldview becomes unravelled." The title story, 'Black Horse' is described as "another highlight ... A strange offbeat tale, with hints of the wild hunt ... but with a quality that is uniquely Wyckoff’s own. And 'A Willow Cat in Meadowlark' is a "story melding prosaic and magical to the betterment of both."


Tenant concludes that "These are excellent volumes, and it’s encouraging to reflect that there are new talents of this calibre waiting to be discovered by readers. Kudos to Tartarus for bringing them both out of the shadows and demonstrating once again that the genre we love isn’t suffering from any lack of gifted writers."

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2nd September 2012: Congratulations to Reggie Oliver, whose short story collection, Mrs Midnight, has won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award for the most outstanding work of fiction in the Gothic/supernatural genre published last year.
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14th August 2012: We have blogged...
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13th August 2012: The World Fantasy Award nominations have been announced and we are delighted that Tartarus has received a nomination in the non-professional special award category, alongside Mark Valentine's Wormwood. Reggie Oliver's Mrs Midnight is also nominated in the Best Collection category.
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13th August 2012: The World Fantasy Award nominations have been announced and we are delighted that Tartarus has received a nomination in the non-professional special award category, alongside Mark Valentine's Wormwood. Reggie Oliver's Mrs Midnight is also nominated in the Best Collection category.

In other news, Black Horse has received a great mention in a blog by C.F. Muller.

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7th August: Wiliam Simmons has positively reviewed two recent Tartarus Press books for Hellnotes . He says of Frankenstein's Prescription by Tim Lees: "The writing style is sharp and descriptive ... The period is realistically described ... Grim and beautifully written."
And of Robert Aickman's Tales of Love and Death he writes: " Dreadful possibilities beautifully written, this Tartarus Press reprint is as attractively constructed as its horrors are elegantly told."
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2nd August 2012: Another great review for Black Horse by Jason A. Wyckoff, this time from the British Fantasy Society: "This is an astonishing debut book by a superb writer, whose stories remind us how rewarding and bewitching good fiction can be."
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30th July 2012: Black Horse by Jason A. Wyckoff receives a positive review from Robert Morrish at Twilight Ridge. It concludes: "Black Horse is a surprising and impossible-to-overlook debut, perhaps even a dark horse contender for best collection of the year."

And Black Horse has also received a great review from Rick Kleffel at the Agony Column: "It's the sort of collection that you'll read slowly, deliberately, drawing out the pleasure on your porch in the long afternoons and haunted evenings."

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16th July: Please note that the paperback edition of the Tartarus Press Guide to First Edition Prices is no longer available direct from us. It can still be obtained, however, from Antiques Information Sevices.

2nd July: Our next book will be a paperback of Reggie Oliver's first short story collection, The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories.
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2nd July: A fine notice for The King in the Golden Mask from Rick Kleffel's Agony Column: "Reading it is the literary equivalent of visiting a museum in the hours after it closes. Shadows move; the curtains whisper your name and you are not sure if you are awake or dreaming."

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29th July: We have today uploaded to Youtube an adaptation of Arthur Machen's "The White People":


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29th July: We have today uploaded to Youtube an adaptation of Arthur Machen's "The White People":

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31st May: Rosalie Parker has been interviewed by John Kenny at the Swan River Press website. Although her collection, The Old Knowledge, is now out of print as a physical book from Swan River, the ebook is available here.

In other Tartarean News, Michael Dirda has written about the Tartarus book collecting videos in The Washington Post. He very generously writes: "Russell, Valentine and Oliver are all superb writers, among the leading practitioners of classic supernatural fiction. Check out not just the books they own, but the books they’ve written."

*** 24th May 2012: A new interview with Tartarus Press.

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17th May 2012: Publishers Weekly have reviewed Black Horse by Jason A Wyckoff and say: "these tales are the work of a writer skilled at navigating the twists and turns of his unconventional horror themes."
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17th May 2012: The next in our series of reprints by Robert Aickman is his collection Tales of Love and Death. It will be published 28th May, and contains a new Introduction by Michael Dirda who says:
"Along with Walter de la Mare, Elizabeth Bowen and a few others, Robert Aickman belongs to the Chekhov school of the weird tale. Such writers recognise that stories don’t require pat endings. They don’t need to close with the snap of an O. Henry trapdoor, or the ironic twist of a Maupassant. A short story can actually convey a more haunting depiction of the human predicament by avoiding any kind of artificial conclusiveness. Life is messy, not neat; most problems are never clearly resolved, but only lived with; people act unreasonably for no apparent reason."
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14th May 2012: Ray Russell of Tartarus Press has been interviewed here by John Kenny with reference to his recent collection, Ghosts. He also discusses the Tartarus Press and its authors.
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3rd May: The White Hands and Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels has been reprinted and is available once again. Click to read the story Vrolyck.
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23rd April: Wormwood 18 is published next week, and contains articles on H.P. Lovecraft, William Sharp, Frances Oliver, Robert Aickman, Randolph Stow and F. Marion Crawford.
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19th April 2012: Read the first four chapters of Frankenstein's Prescription, the great novel by Tim Lees, as a pdf here.
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18th April 2012: Today's pdf is a taster of the first four chapters from 'Le Loup-Garou" by Michael Reynier, from his collection Five Degrees of Latitude. It can be downloaded here.
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17th April 2012: Todays free pdf story is "Dibblespin", a taster for Angela Slatter's Sourdough and Other Stories, which is currently available as a paperback (£14.95). Publishers Weekly said of this collection, "Slatter displays a rare gift for evocative and poetic prose." The book was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and Aurealis Awards. The story is available here.
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16th April 2012: We thought it might be a good idea to make available pdffile samples of the work of some Tartarus authors you may not yet have read.

We’re starting with our growing list of contemporary writers. First up is that masterful magician of the macabre, Reggie Oliver, whose collection with us, Mrs Midnight, has proved such a popular and critical success. Mrs Midnight is now available in a paperback edition (priced £14.95). The title story of the collection is a tour de force of mounting horror with a music hall theme. It is available here, and we hope you will enjoy it.

Future PDFs will be announced as they become available and will include samples of the writing of Mark Samuels, Mark Valentine, Angela Slatter, Quentin S. Crisp, Tim Lees, Rhys Hughes, Michael Reynier and Jason P. Wyckoff. We also hope to provide samples of some of our classic authors, and our journal Wormwood.
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5th April 2012: The next Tartarus Press publication will be The King in the Golden Mask by the French symbolist author Marcel Schwob. Published on 19th March 2012, it contains 51 very decadent stories.
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19th March 2012: We are pleased to announce that as part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arthur Machen, we will be collaborating with the Hieroglyphic Press to produce a tribute anthology dedicated to the great artist and mystic. Sorcery and Sanctity: A Homage to Arthur Machen, will be launched as part of the Machen events at the 2013 World Fantasy Convention in Brighton.
To this end, submissions are sought, and guidelines can be found here.
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18th March 2012: A good review just in for Five Degrees of Latitude by Michael Reynier, from Robert Morrish at Twilight Ridge: "Five Degrees of Latitude, the debut collection from Michael Reynier is, in many ways, a thing of beauty — from the simple but elegantly designed physical book produced by Tartarus Press to the five intricate and highy-polished tales contained within, there is much to admire here."
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13th March: A new paperback edition of Sourdough by Angela Slatter is now available. The book was nominated for the World Fantasy Award
and the Aurealis Award, 2011, and we are very pleased to be able to make it available again.
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28th February 2012: A video trailer for Black Horse is now available here.
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21st February: Our next publication will be Black Horse and Other Stories by Jason A. Wyckoff. This is a collection of contemporary short stories by a first-time author with an original, authentic and insightful new voice. Read "The Highwall Horror" from The Black Horse as a pdf here.
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20th Feb: Here is a review that we managed not to post before, of Frankenstein's Prescription by Tim Lees, at Twilight Ridge.
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8th February 2012: R.B. Russell is interviewed by Jason Rolfe on his BIbliomancy Blog about Tartarus, book collecting etc.
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24th January 2012:

R.B. Russell's Ghosts book and CD package is now sold out. However, the CD can be purchased individually using the Paypal button below, and a copy will be sent from the UK via R.B. Russell at the Tartarus Press. Each copy is £12, post free worldwide, and will be sent out early February. ***

19th January 2012:

Morbid Tales by Quentin S. Crisp is now available as an ebook from the Morbid Tales page, or via Amazon.
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16th January:

We are pleased to announce the paperback reprint of Quentin S. Crisp's acclaimed 2004 short story collection, Morbid Tales.

We are sorry to report that Sourdough by Angela Slatter has sold out. R.B. Russell's book/CD Ghosts is now available to order from the Swan River Press.

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9th January 2012: Happy New Year!

Our first news of the year is the paperback reprint of Mrs Midnight by Reggie Oliver.
The first 200 copies are signed and numbered by the author.
An ebook version is also available direct from us (and very soon via Amazon for Kindle).

An Interview with Reggie Oliver is available here. A video trailer for Mrs Midnight has been created by Anna Taborska.


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30th December 2011:
We've returned, and all recent orders have been wrapped up and will be posted tomorrow morning.
While we've been away, there have been a few of items of interest elsewhere on the internet:

Mrs Midnight by Reggie Oliver is the Book of the Year 2011 at The Endless Bookshelf

We Are for the Dark has been reviewed by Mario Guslandi at Specusphere

Rick Kleffel's Agony column review of Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman

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21st December 2011:
A Merry Christmas to everyone! We will be taking a short break from wrapping up books, but normal service will resume early in the New Year. Many thanks for your support in what has been an especially busy year.
Our programme for 2012 includes a collection of decadent stories by Marcel Schwob, a paperback (and ebook) reprint of Reggie Oliver's Mrs Midnight, further reprints of Robert Aickman, and a couple of new, exciting, contemporary authors.
In the meantime, for those wanting some alternative literary entertainment, there is always our Interview with a Book Collector and A Mild Case of Bibliomania films. At least one other book-themed film is planned for next year.
2012 will also see the release of Ray Russell's album of new music, Ghosts.
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15th December: The Unsettled Dust, a Radio Four programme about Robert Aickman's strange stories was aired today, and is available to be listened to again via the iplayer.
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6th December 2011:
Worming the Harpy by Rhys Hughes is now available as an ebook, direct from Tartarus, or through Amazon for Kindle (US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain)
Forthcoming, a BBC Radio Four appreciation of Robert Aickman: The Unsettled Dust.
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2nd December 2011:
A nice mention of Tartarus is made by Alan Moore in a new interview with Honest Publishing.

For the convenience of those with e-readers, a list of our ebooks is now available here.

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26th November, 2011: We have posted a short film on Youtube that should be of interest to those familiar with Tartarus Press, Mark Valentine, and some of the authors we have published over the years. The link is here.

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23rd November 2011: Two good reviews of Tartarus Press titles have been posted by the British Fantasy Society. Frankenstein's Prescription by Tim Lees is reviewed here, and Mrs Midnight by Reggie Oliver here.

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18th November, 2011: Wormwood # 17 has been delivered, orders have been packed up, and copies will be posted tomorrow morning. We've just noticed an annoying mistake: "Some Notes on Aickman's Plays" by Douglas A. Anderson has somehow been missed from the cover and contents page. This is a short but fascinating article, and our apologies to Doug.
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17th November: Robert Aickman is discussed in the Invisible Ink column in The Independent, with a mention of "some very collectable, elegant hardbacks from Tartarus Press"
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15th November 2011: Wormwood # 17 is published next week and contains articles on H.P. Lovecraft, Gabriele d’Annunzio's poetry, Reginald Hodder, Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados, Donald Armour’s Swept & Garnished, and an Overview of American Decadence, as well as 'Under Review', ' Late Reviews' and ' Camera Obscura'.
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14th November: We've written an account of the alt.Ghost Story Festival on our blog, which includes a link to a video of Reggie Oliver reading "Ritual" by Arthur Machen.
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9th November: A fine review of Clarimonde by Gautier can be found at The Pan Review:
"Read this for the prose style alone, which, for anyone who has read his one anthologised story ‘Loving Lady Death’ (‘La Morte Amoureuse’) - re-translated as the title tale here - will already have experienced his stunning, sensual evocation of place and time. This continues in the other eleven tales."

An appreciation of Reggie Oliver's new collection: 'Mrs Midnight and other stories is one of the best books I have read this year.' - Henry Wessells, The Endless Bookshelf.
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7th November: The White Hands by Mark Samuels is now available as an ebook, either direct from us, or through Amazon.
Please note that Mrs Midnight by Reggie Oliver, will be "launched" at the Aldburgh Bookshop on the 26th November, and signed copies will be available on the night.

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5th November: Comedian Stewart Lee discusses Arthur Machen's The Green Round on BBC's The Review Show, and shows off his Tartarus Press edition. Use the iplayer and you'll find it at 44:19.
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2nd November 2011: Michael Reynier's Five Degrees of Latitude is now available as an ebook. It can be bought from us direct via the Five Degrees of Latitude page, or through Amazon via the links on that page.
Mrs Midnight by Reggie Oliver has received a starred review at Publishers Weekly. "Readers who like their horrors subtle but unsettling will find this volume much to their liking. "Copies should still be available at Cold Tonnage Books and Fantastic Literature. A reprint an an ebook version will be along in due course.

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31st October: A well-written essay on the incomparable Arthur Machen, for Halloween, by Michael Dirda at the Barnes and Noble Review.
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6th October: Michael Reynier, author of Five Degrees of Latitude, has been interviewed by Rick Kleffel at the Agony Column. The interview is offered on the website as a downloadable podcast.
You can hear the complete, 1-hour 22-minute interview by following this link.
The interview is also available divided into two parts.
You can hear part one (43 minutes) by following this link.
You can hear part two (39 minutes) by following this link.
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24th October, 2011: Win a signed copy of the 2011 World Fantasy Award nominated Sourdough and Other Stories!
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19th October 2011: We are delighted to announce that the next book published by Tartarus Press will be We Are for the Dark by Robert Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard. It will be launched at the Alt.Halifax Ghost Story Festival, at which will be shown rare tv adaptations of Howard's "Three Miles Up" (from We Are for the Dark) and Aickman's "The Hospice". As a part of the research for the We Are for the Dark reprint, Ray Russell interviewed Elizabeth Jane Howard, and a part of that interview is available on the Tartarus Press blog.
Another strand of the festival will be a discussion of the work of Arthur Machen, which will include a reading of Machen's story "Ritual" by Reggie Oliver, a panel discussing his work chaired by Mark Valentine, and a presentation of the recent film of "The Happy Children".
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14th October 2011: We have just received copies of Clarimonde and Other Stories by Theophile Gautier. We'll be wrapping these up and putting them in the post next week. In the meantime, you can read "The Opium Pipe" by Gautier on our blog.

5th October 2011: Our next book will be Clarimonde and Other Stories by Theophile Gautier. We believe that this will be the definitive Gautier collection, using Lafcadio Hearn's classic translations, with newly-commissioned translations for the remaining supernatural tales which have not been previously collected.
We are sorry to report that Mrs Midnight by Reggie Oliver is now out of print, despite only being offically published a few days ago! Copies should still be available from some of the dealers listed here.
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3rd October, 2011:
We would like to recommend you check out an ebay auction with some rare and interesting items, some from Tartarus Press. They are all being sold to aid a literary colleague in financial hardship.
A fine review of Sourdough can be read at The Compulsive Reader: "These stories are stupendously good". Angela Slatter is also interviewed.
Booking details for the Halifax alt.ghost story festival are now available. Tobook a ticket call 01422 255 266 or visit www.deanclough.com
A Mild Case of Bibliomania is a short film by R.B. Russell that goes some way to explaining the genesis of Tartarus Press.
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26th September: A good review of Five Degrees of Latitude has just been posted by Publishers Weekly: "Readers who like weird tales with a vintage feel will find this volume an auspicious debut."
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19th September 2011: An ebook edition of The Collected Connoisseur is now available.
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18th September 2011: Updated news of the Halifax alt.ghost story festival can be found here:
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12th September: Sourdough is "an absolute treasure" according to Paul Charles Smith at Empty Your Heart Of Its Mortal Dream
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10th September 2011: Our Guide to First Edition Prices is now available as an ebook.
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7th September 2011: A new review of Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman can be found at The Short Review:
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1st September: A fine review of Sourdough can be found at Jildysauce. The reviewer says: "These stories are stupendously good and offer many distinct pleasures: a strange yet superbly realised world, compelling characters and, above all, beautiful prose that has the power to move."
Additionally, Angela Slatter is interviewed here.
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26th August 2011: We have great pleasure in announcing that we will publish Mrs Midnight and Other Stories by Reggie Oliver on 30th September 2011. The book will be launched at Fantasycon in Brighton.

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26th August 2011: The Halifax Ghost Story Festival will return this year, in an alt.ghost story guise. It will be held on Saturday 12th November at Dean Clough, Halifax, and will start about 2pm. (There will be a break for food between about 5pm-7pm, then the evening events begin.) There may well be a Sunday session, although it will be a couple of weeks before this can be confirmed.

Tartarus Press will play a large part in the proceedings. We will be exploring the boundaries where the ghostly and the supernatural meet the psychological and the mystical. We aim to turn the spotlight on Arthur Machen in particular; plus Elizabeth Jane Howard and Robert Aickman, and we will be showing film(s) relating to their work. We can confirm that we will be showing the new film of "The Happy Children" by Machen, the TV adaptation of Howard's "Three Miles Up", and we are negotiating to show "The Hospice" by Aickman.

We will have a number of guests including Mark Valentine and Reggie Oliver who will help furnish us with a highly informed, urbane take on the supernatural fiction genre.

We hope that there will also be theatre and readings courtesy of Lawrence Gordon Clark, and Jeremy Dyson will be back...

Additionally, we also hope to launch the publication of a new edition of We Are for the Dark by Robert Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard.

More details will be posted as they are confirmed....

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12th August 2011: A fine review just in for Michael Reynier's Five Degrees of Latitude at The Agony Column, and a rather more mixed one for Robert Aickman's Cold Hand in Mine at The Pan Review.

Additionally, we have blogged again!

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20th July 2011: We have written another blog entry, this time on art and design.

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16th July 2011: More non-Tartarus Press news: Ray Russell's Novella, Bloody Baudelaire, has been optioned for a film by 3:1 Cinema in the USA, with filming set to start later this year.

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15th July, 2011: Other News: Anyone eligible to vote in the forthcoming British Fantasy Society Awards is welcome to Tartarus Press proprietor, Ray Russell's, shortlisted story, "The Beautiful Room", made available hereas a pdf courtesy of the publisher, Nightjar Press. Non-voters are welcome to read it as well. And everyone is welcome to buy a copy (£3) from Nightjar by emailing: nicholasroyle@mac.com

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11th July 2011: The next book published by Tartarus Press will be Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman, with an Introduction by Phil Baker.

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9th July 2011: We have written another blog entry about the changing nature of publishing. It includes the news that the following are now available as ebooks:

Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen

The Sound of His Horn by Sarban

Ringstones and other Curious Tales by Sarban

The Doll Maker and other Tales of the Uncanny by Sarban

Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier

The Old Knowledge by Rosalie Parker

All of the above are available direct from this website. Alternatively, you can purchase them direct from Amazon.

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1st July: A great review of Sourdough at Rick Kleffel's Agony Column, and a nice endorsement of Tartarus.

Also, we have blogged again!

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24th June 2011: We have just received finished copies of Five Degrees of Latitude by Michael Reynier. We will be packing these up over the next few days and will post them out at the beginning of next week.

Other news:

We have been blogging again, this time on the subject of collaborations with other presses.

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20th June 2011: As a part of our commitment to Sarban’s writings, and our aim to make his work as widely available as possible, we are publishing the following as ebooks:

The Sound of His Horn by Sarban

(for kindle at amazon.com) (for kindle at amazon.co.uk) (other electronic formats direct from Tartarus)

Ringstones by Sarban

(for kindle at amazon.com) (for kindle at amazon.co.uk) (other electronic formats direct from Tartarus)

The Doll Maker by Sarban

(for kindle at amazon.com) (for kindle at amazon.co.uk) (other electronic formats direct from Tartarus)

We already have Ringstones and The Doll Maker available as hardback volumes, and in due course will also be putting back into print The Sound of His Horn and The Sacrifice and Other Stories.

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17th June 2011: We have "blogged" again. This time discussing the invaluable contribution of Mark Valentine to Tartarus Press.

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13th June 2011: Our next title will be Five Degrees of Latitude by Michael Reynier. This new collection of short stories has been described as "Sarban meets Blackwood meets late Machen," by Jim Rockhill, and we would like to agree with his recommendation! We are very pleased to be able to add Michael Reynier to our Contemporary Fiction series. Publication 1st July 2011.

Two fine reviews received:

Publishers Weekly describe Mark Valentine's biography of Sarban, Time, A Falconer, as "insightful".

And Publishers Weekly say of Frankenstein's Prescription by Tim Lees that the novel is "...a philosophically insightful and literary tale of terror."

Please not that we have now sold out of all copies of Father Raven by A.E. Coppard.

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12th June 2011: In this month's issue of Locus, Stefan Dziemianowicz says of Time, A Falconer by Mark Valentine : "A sensitive and sympathetic portrait … [Valentine] weaves his analyses of Sarban’s fiction seamlessly into the broader tapestry spun from the known biographical facts. The result is a thoroughly engrossing account of the writer’s intellectual growth and interests in the course of his lifetime."

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10th June 2011: We have a new post on our blog, inspired by the fact that we are down to our last few copies of Father Raven and Other Tales by A.E. Coppard.

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7th June 2011: Tartarus Press has a blog: http://tartaruspress.blogspot.com/

The judge's report for the Aurealis Awards said of Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter:

"Sourdough is probably the most exquisitely produced and packaged collection of the year. The artifact produced is a credit to Tartarus Press and the quality of the inter-linked fairy-tale-esque stories is a credit to Slatter’s prowess as a short story writer."

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6th June 2011: A good review of Time, A Falconer by Mark Valentine can be found here.

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Please note that Three Miles Up by Eizabeth Jane Howard is now out of print.

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5th June 2011: Tartarus receives a mention at the conclusion to Christopher Fowler's Independent on Sunday article on Arthur Machen. Of all the authors to compare Machen to, Dan Brown is the last one we'd have hoped for...

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11th May 2011: An interesting review of The Collected Connoisseur can be found here.

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3rd May: Congratulations to Angela Slatter and Eric Stener Carlson for their Nightmare Awards for Sourdough and The St Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires. Tartarus Press also receives an award.

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2nd May 2011: Powers of Darkness receives the perfect review.

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27th April: We have very few copies remaining of Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard...

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20th April: Wormwood 16 is at the printers and will be published on 16th May. Among other items, it contains articles on two forgotten fantasy novels of 1911 (Algernon Blackwood’s The Centaur and J.D. Beresford’s The Hampdenshire Wonder), Charles Allston Collins, Carl Jacobi, H.T.W. Bousfield, Vincent O’Sullivan and William Walker Hamilton.

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19th April 2011: The new issue of Black Static includes an ecstatic review of Frankenstein's Prescription by Tim Lees: "...it is, quite frankly, a brilliant novel, one which takes the old stereotype and fills it with vibrant new life. The story is gripping, with each and every element of the plot fitting into place perfectly..." Many thanks to the reviewer, Peter Tennant, for the kind words at the conclusion to his review: "It’s only February, and I may already have read the best horror novel of 2011. As with the Angela Slatter collection that I reviewed last issue, huge kudos to Tartarus for putting work of this exceptional quality into the public domain."

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14th April 2011: A fine review by Mario Guslandi for our first two Robert Aickman volumes is published at Rick Kleffel's Agony Column. The editor's commentary can also be found here.

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13th April 2011: Congratulations to John Shire on the publication of Bookends: A Partial History of the Brighton Book Trade. Amongst material which will be fascinating to those who have known and loved the bookshops of Brighton, there is an account of the genesis of the Tartarus Press!

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12th April: Please note that Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas and Various Temptations by William Sansom are now out of print.

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11th April: We are pleased to announce the publication of Powers of Darkness by Robert Aickman.

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31st March 2011: Congratulations to Angela Slatter, whose story, "Lavender and Lychgates", from Sourdough and Other Stories, has been selected for the latest Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.

Well done to Johnny Mains whose auction of genre fiction material has raised just over £1,000 for the Red Cross Japan Disaster appeal!

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22nd March 2011: We are delighted to learn that Sourdough by Angela Slatter has been shortlisted for the Aurelias Award for best collection, and "Sister Sister" for best short story.

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21st March: Our next publication will be a reprint of Sarban's Ringstones and Other Curious Tales.

A good, full page review of Time, A Falconer by Mark Valentine has been published in The Literary Review this month. Robert Irwin concludes: "It is somewhat unsettling to imagine this quiet man sorting out visa applications or attending dull formal receptions and all the while brooding on the taloned cat-women."

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13th March 2011: A new review has been posted of Dark Entries at The Pan Review.

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10th March 2011: We have very few copies remaining of Various Temptations by William Sansom. The Sense of the Past by Henry James is now out of print.

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16th February 2011: In the new issue of Black StaticPeter Tennant devotes six pages to Angela Slatter comment, interview and review. Of Sourdough he writes: "With their larger than life characters and the beautiful, evocative writing, the intricate plotting that continually reinvents itself and twists back on what has gone before, these are wonderful stories from a writer who appeals to both the emotions and the intellect. Sourdough and Other Stories was
one of the best books I read in 2010, and it’s work from a writer whose career is just beginning."

Peter additionally writes: "Tartarus have done Slatter proud with a truly sumptuous volume. Sourdough is a beautiful book, one that gets its collector’s edition status and price tag on merit and not simply by virtue of being signed by whomever or number whatever of a limited edition"

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11th February 2011:Frankenstein's Prescription has arrived! Our apologies for the delay, but we will be posting these on Monday.

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10th February: We are pleased to report that copies of Worming the Harpy by Rhys Hughes and Dark Entries by Robert Aickman have been delivered to us. Copies will be posted to customers over the next few days.
***4th February: We now have now sold out of all remaining Discovery of Heretics slipcased sets.
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25th January: We're a little late in noting this rave review for Sourdough at She Never Slept: "I would recommend this book to anyone who likes dark fiction, fairytales, strange tales, elegant horror, or anyone who likes stories with strong women protagonists and good characterization."

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20th January 2011: We are very pleased to announce the reprinting of the first, classic collection of short stories by Rhys Hughes, Worming the Harpy. This highly sought-after collection from 1995 will be available as a paperback, augmented by the additional story "The Forest Chapel Bell" which was originally included in Tales from Tartarus (1995). This new edition also contains an "Afterword" by the late E.F. Bleiler.

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17th January 2011: Dark Entries by Robert Aickman will be published March 2011 in an edition of 350 copies, uniform with the previous Sub Rosa. We have created a video trailer for the book using footage from the HTV West production of "The Hospice": Many thanks to Colin Fenwick for unearthing the "Hospice" footage.

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13th January 2011: Sub Rosa by Robert Aickman has been reviewed by Brian Showers in the new issue of Rue Morgue magazine: "[Aickman's] writing is sophisticated, confounding and unnerving in equal measure; extreme and diverse reactions to his work are to be expected, but it is for these same reasons that he still attracts so many admirers."

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