Tartarus Press

Bibliography

2026

2026:

241: THE SANCTUARY AND OTHER STRANGE TALES, by R.B. Russell.  21st May 2026. 326 pages. £45.00. 350 copies. Sewn signatures, printed lithographically on 120gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Antony Rowe, ribbon marker and head and tailbands. ISBN 978-1-912586-72-1. Illustration by R.B. Russell.

Contains: ‘The Sanctuary’, ‘The House on Windmill Lane’, ‘The Brightly Lit Room’, ‘The Travelling Oasis’, ‘A House of Treasures’, ‘The Shepherd’, ‘On Wings of Ghost Linen’, ‘The Sweetshop Man’, ‘The Company You Keep’, ‘Baphomet’, ‘Benjamin and Sarpy, and Jeffryes’, ‘Tuesday’s Child’, ‘InfoDataAnalysis’, ‘Angelhood’, ‘A Cold Gun’, ‘Beetle Mother’, ‘Saint Hill’, ‘Incandescence’, ‘Whistle’, ‘A Distorted Idea of Love’, ‘Frame Inverted’, ‘The Spaces in Between’, ‘Decision’, ‘Flourishing Both in Sunshine and Shade’, ‘They Called Her Sorrow’, ‘The Process’, ‘The Coverham Statuette’, ‘The Song of the Fire’.

240: TEA & GARGOYLES, by Mark Valentine. 16th April 2026. 300 pages£45.00. 350 copies. Sewn signatures, printed lithographically on 120gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Antony Rowe, ribbon marker and head and tailbands. ISBN 978-1-912586-74-5. Photographs by Joanna Valentine.

Contains: ‘On the Edge of the Uncanny’, ‘The Witchery of Gladys Mitchell’, ‘The Rise of the Metaphysical Thriller’, ‘The Predictable and the Unpredictable in Robert Aickman’s Strange Stories’, ‘Poets, Lovers and Loners: The Wind Blows Over by Walter de la Mare’, ‘ “That Other Reality”: Some Early Stories of Elizabeth Bowen’, ‘The Imaginary Bookshelf’, ‘Dreaming Over Book Titles with Lord Dunsany’, ‘A Book in Old Scarlet: Bodkin and Eden’s A Guide to Caper’, ‘The Golden Bestiary: Some Seventeenth-Century Book-seller’s Signs’, ‘Radio Ghosts’, ‘A Forgotten Edwardian Nonsense Poet: Norman Boothroyd’, ‘Dreams at Dusk: Light and Twilight by Edward Thomas’, ‘The Shadow of Enoch Soames’, ‘ “The Terrific-Strange”: Some Student Poets of 1965’, ‘An Archimandrite to Tea’, ‘Bishop’s Move: Victor L Whitechurch’s The Bishop Out of Residence’, ‘Gingerbread for the Fisher King’, ‘Some Old Books on Travelling Fairs; with an Allingham Aside’, ‘The Twelve Stations: Blind John Brown, Forgotten Victorian Prophet and Geomancer’, ‘ “Steeped in Antiquity and Fantasy”: Some Esoteric 1970s Music’, ‘The Sideways Lands’, ‘A Drift in Eden’, ‘Sixpence for the Weathercock’, ‘The Sun and the Moon and the Ring-Tailed Lemur’, ‘The Bookshop Detectives’, ‘The Luck of the Shelves’, ‘Tea and Gargoyles’, ‘Acknowledgements’.

239: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, by Oscar Wilde. 14th February 2026. 247+xv. £45.00. 300 copies. Sewn signatures, printed lithographically on 120gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Antony Rowe, ribbon marker and head and tailbands. ISBN 978-1-912586-73-8. Illustration and Introduction by R.B. Russell.

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