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- News
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- 3rd July, 2009:
We are pleased to be able to say say that all copies of
The Double
Eye by William Fryer Harvey have now been
posted out to customers. They should start landing on
dormats next week.
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- Non-Tartarus
news: Our editor, Rosalie Parker, has just had her short
story 'The Picture' published in Supernatural
Tales 15,
edited by David Longhorn. Her collection, The
Old Knowledge, is being prepared now by Ex Occidente
Press and should be available next month.
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- 22nd June: Mark Valentine and Douglas
Anderson have set up Wormwoodiana and cordially
invite you to join them for the discussion of
supernatural, decadent and strange literature with even
more of an emphasis on the obscure, the over-looked and
the under-appreciated.
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- 17th June 2009: Read "Pinholes in Black Muslin" from the
forthcoming Cold to the
Touch by
Simon Strantzas here. (It is an adobe acrobat
file.)
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- Later this year
we will be publishing more contemporary fiction, and are
pleased to annouce as forthcoming The Saint
Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires, a new novel by Eric Stener
Carlson.
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- Paul Kane has reviewed Strangers and
Pilgrims at The
Compulsive Reader. He finishes up "I envy
readers who are coming to Walter de la Mare’s writing for
the first time."
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- 7th June 2009: We are delighted to
announce the forthcoming publication of Cold to the
Touch, a collection of 13 disquieting short
stories by Simon Strantzas. To be published at the end of
July, ordering details will follow shortly.
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- Tartarus Editor Rosalie Parker has a new
series of webpages devoted to her own writing, available
here.
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- Over the last year we have been able to
slowly reduce the price of our books in US dollars due to
the weakness of the British Pound. Please note that due
to recent changes in the exchange rate the advisory
dollar price of our books has had to price by
approximately $5. With free airmail postage anywhere
overseas we hope that our customers will still see this
as good value for money!
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- 22nd May 2009: Just a reminder that
Rosalie Parker at the Tartarus Press is still accepting
submissions for Strange Tales III, which will be
published in time for Christmas 2009. If you would like
to send us stories but are unaware of our requirements
you might like to check out the Preface to the last
anthology, and perhaps acquaint yourself with
Strange
Tales and Strange Tales
II. We would like previously unpublished
stories of between 3,000 and 9,000 words. Payment will be
£10 per one thousand words.
- Electronic submissions should be sent to
rosalieparker@btinternet.com and we would
prefer stories as a Word or rtf attachment. Mail
submissions can be sent to us at the address at the top
left of this page, but please remember that if we are to
mail a reply we will need a stamped, self-addressed
envelope or return postage. Deadline 1st August
2009.
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- Please note that we are now out of print
of Wormwood #
2.
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- 18th May 2009: Our next classic
collection of supernatural fiction will be
The Double
Eye by William Fryer Harvey. This will
contain all of the supernatural fiction previously
published in Midnight House, The Beast With Five
Fingers, Moods and Tenses and
The Arm of Mrs Egan. It will be
Introduced by Richard Dalby. Publication is scheduled for
29th June.
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- Please note that we are now out of print
of A Damask of the
Dead.
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- 14th May 2009: We have to report that we
are down to our last few copies of A Damask of the
Dead and Wormwood #
2.
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- 11th May: An item of non-Tartarus news -
R.B. Russell's novella Bloody
Baudelaire now has a publication date of 1st June.
Please go to the Ex
Occidente website if interested in purchasing
a copy. The first few pages are available as a
pdf.
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- Tartarus Press was mentioned on Stuart Maconie's
The Freak
Zone
yesterday evening on BBC Radio Six. The show is available
online for the next seven days here. Ray Russell's song with Lidwine,
"It Is There", was played, and then Stuart Maconie
discussed the fact that Ray is the proprietor of
Tartarus. He mentioned not only Arthur Machen and Robert
Aickman in relation to Tartarus, but also Quentin S.
Crisp. The song is played 18 minutes and 20 seconds into
the show, and the mention of Tartarus starts at 22
minutes 30 seconds.
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- 2nd May, 2009: Discover
the darker side of the Dales with poet and
broadcaster Ian McMillan in the Yorkshire
Post.
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- 17th April 2009: We are sorry to report
that we have now sold out of The
Long Retreating Day by John Gaskin.
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- 16th April 2009: We are down to our last
few copies of The Long Retreating
Day by John Gaskin. We always have mixed
feelings when our books sell out: it's good to know they
have found loving homes, but frustrated that we will no
longer be able to fulfil orders. The last few copies will
be sent out on a first come, first served basis.
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- 11th April: All copies of Wormwood
12 and The
Buckross Ring by L.A.G. Strong have now been
posted - our apologies for the delay.
- A new review of Strange
Tales Volume One has just been posted at
Highlander's
Book Reviews. The website is also running a
competition to win a copy and you can find full details
Here. The closing date
is 17th April 2009.
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- 3rd April 2009: Our edition of
The Man Who Could
Work Miracles has just been repackaged with a groovy
"steampunk" jacket by Barnes and Noble in the United
States. It is retitled A Dream of
Armageddon.
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- 2nd April: We can report that individual
copies of Wormwood
12 have now been posted out to customers,
although The Buckross Ring by
L.A.G. Strong has been delayed by a week (our
apologies.)
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- 23rd March 2009: M.P. Shiel's "truly
extraordinary" The Purple Cloud was discussed by
Christopher Fowler in the Independent
in Sunday yesterday. Shiel was considered in their
"Forgotten Authors" series and Christopher Fowler says
"The Purple Cloud is now available
in a beautiful edition from the specialist publishers
Tartarus Press." Unfortunately our edition is officially
out of print. However, I know that Andy
Richards does have copies available at the
original cover price.
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- 22nd March 2009: Tartarus proprietor Ray
Russell has a new series of webpages devoted to his own
writing, available here.
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- 13th March 2009: We are pleased to
announce that our next book will be The Buckross Ring
and Other Stories of the Strange and Supernatural by
L.A.G. Strong. The author is little-known, but amongst
work which was highly acclaimed in his day Strong wrote a
number of fine stories of the strange and supernatural.
It will be published on 2nd April.
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- Also imminent is Wormwood #
12, which contains, among the regular
columns, articles on Harlan Ellison, Wilkie Collins,
William Hope Hodgson, Edward Lucas White and Peter
Vansittart.
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- 5th March: We have just sent a new book
to the printers. As soon as we get a date for delivery we
will be announcing details.
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- The White Hands by Mark Samuels
has just been reviewed very favourably at Highlander's
Book Reviews. They also have a competition to win a
copy of the first Strange
Tales volume which can be found here.
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- And non-Tartarus news, the first
published review of Ray Russell's Ex Occidente book,
Putting the Pieces in
Place, can be found here.
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- 22nd January 2009: To celebrate the
centenary of the death of F. Marion Crawford, we are
pleased to be able to reprint Uncanny
Tales, one of the classic collections of ghost
and horror stories. Dorothy Scarborough, one of their
earliest critics and connoisseurs observed: 'Few writers
have equalled F. Marion Crawford in the modern ghost
story. His tales have a curdling intensity, a racking
horror that set them far above the ordinary supernatural
fiction.'
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- For the Machen enthusiast, especially
members of FoAM , we can recommend Stewart
Lee's rejected
article on Arthur Machen.
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- 20th January 2009: We have decided that
in future we will be publishing work by contemporary
authors as trade hardbacks under a new banner of
"Tartarus Contemporary Fiction". The first of these
titles will be published later this year. Rather than
just short story collections we are also looking for
contemporary novels.
- Under this new arrangement we hope to be
publishing a few more contemporary writers than we have
done in the past, but please be assured that our classic
supernatural fiction will continue to be published as
traditional limited editions.
- Please click here for submission
guidelines.
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- 11th January 2009. Happy New Year!
- Just a note to let you know that we have
created a few pages for Putting the Pieces
in Place by R.B. Russell
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- 20th December 2008: There's a useful
overview of the Small Presses by Michael Dirda in the
Washington Post tomorrow (!)
which mentions the Tartarus Press along with Ash-Tree, PS
etc.
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- 19th December 2008: The latest issue of
Gorezone here in the UK has positive
reviews of Strange Tales
II , The Snow-Image
and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Nathaniel
Hawthorne and An Occurrence At Owl
Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose
Bierce. Of Strange Tales II the reviewer,
Andrew McQuade writers "Editor Rosalie Parker has a keen
eye for profound tales of terror."
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- 18th December: Ex Occidente Press tell us
that Putting the Pieces
in Place by Tartarus Press Proprietor Ray Russell
will now be publishe don 15th January. Copies are not
only available from the previously mentioned sources (
Ex
Occidente, Cold
Tonnage Books and Realms
of Fantasy) but now Mark V.
Ziesing, Booksellers, POB 76, Shingletown CA
96088-0076. email
Mark Ziesing.)
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- 8th December 2008: Rosalie Parker at the
Tartarus Press is now accepting submissions for
Strange Tales III, which will be
published in time for Christmas 2009. If you would like
to send us stories but are unaware of our requirements
you might like to check out the Preface to the last
anthology, and perhaps acquaint yourself with
Strange
Tales and Strange Tales
II. We would like previously unpublished
stories of between 3,000 and 9,000 words. Payment will be
£10 per one thousand words.
- Electronic submissions should be sent to
rosalieparker@btinternet.com and we would
prefer stories as a Word or rtf attachment. Mail
submissions can be sent to us at the address at the top
left of this page, but please remember that if we are to
mail a reply we will need a stamped, self-addressed
envelope or return postage. Deadline 1st August
2009.
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- 7th December 2008: To celebrate its 20th
Anniversary, The World Horror
Convention will be held n the historic British
seaside town of Brighton over the weekend of March 25-28,
2010. This is the first time that the event will have
been held off the North American continent. The theme
will be "Brighton Shock! - A Celebration of the European
Horror Tradition from Victorian Times to the Present
Day". We will be attending and hope to see many other
fans of horror supernatural and strange fiction
there.
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- 28th November 2008: Our next book will be
Tales of Terror
by Guy de Maupassant, 32 great stories by a
classic author of supernatural fiction. It is selected,
translated and Introduced by Arnold Kellett, with a
Foreword by Ramsey Campbell. Publication will be on 11th
December, 2008.
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- 28th November 2008: Iain Macmillan gave
us a nice plug on Radio 3's The Verb this evening in
his introduction to an interesting discussion of
The New Uncanny published by the
Comma Press. It is only fair to reciprocate the publicity
so click here to listen to AS Byatt and
Alison MacLeod discuss the book (scroll to 1:18:30
in).
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- 27th November 2008: Our dollar prices
have been slashed! because of the changes in the exchange
rate our books are now much cheaper for US customers. We
have decreased the dollar prices of our books by $10 on
average. Unfortunately cheques will still have to incur a
surcharge of $5 per cheque, but payments by visa,
mastercard, paypal etc are free.
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- 21st November 2008: We would like to draw
your attention to a new collection of stories by Tartarus
Press proprietor Ray Russell, Putting
the Pieces in Place, which is about to be
published by the Ex Occidente Press in Bucharest.
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- The publisher says: "The five long
stories that make up R.B. Russell’s stunning debut
collection, Putting the Pieces in
Place, demonstrate a subtle mastery of the
macabre. Enigmatic and enticing, they combine a pleasing
respect for the great tradition of supernatural fiction
with a chilling contemporary European resonance."
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- Copies are available direct from the
publisher for $35 through Paypal
(exoccidente@gmail.com).
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- In the UK copies will be available for
£25 inc. p&p through Cold Tonnage Books, 22
Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6JQ. Phone +44 (0)
1276 475388. Cold
Tonnage Books website. email
Cold Tonnage
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- In the US copies will be available
through Realms of Fantasy Books, 617 W. Grand Avenue,
#250, Chickasha, OK. 73018, USA. Realms
of Fantasy website . email
Realms of Fantasy
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- 21st November 2008: We are sorry to
report that we have now sold out of copies of
The Golem by Gustav Meyrink.
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- 24th October 2008: We are now posting out
copies of our two new titles, The
Snow-Image and Other Stories of the
Supernatural by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
Wormwood #
11.
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- 22nd October 2008: We would like to
recommend a new collection of stories by Mark Valentine
and John Howard, The Rite of Trebizond
and Other Tales, which is about to be
published by the Ex Occidente Press in Bucharest.
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- 11th October 2008: We are deeply saddened
to learn that Janet Machen passed away yesterday at
Salisbury hospital. Janet was a very good friend and will
be greatly missed. (Without her there would have been no
Tartarus Press.) Our thoughts go out to her family.
Obituaries will be appearing in the journals of the
Friends of Arthur Machen and the Sylvia Townsend Warner
Society.
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- 4th October 2008: Our next book will be
The Snow-Image
and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, edited by Richard Dalby. It will be published
on the 23rd October. We haven't received a delivery date
from the printers yet, but Wormwood #
11 is also due later this month.
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- 23rd September: We regret to announce
that we have now sold out of the paperback edition of
Heathcliff's
Tale by Emma Tennant. Copies of the
hardback are still
available.
- Returning from the British Fantasy
Convention in Nottingham I'm sorry to say that
Wormwood didn't win the
non-fiction award, but congratulations to Peter Tennant
who did for the Whispers
of Wickedness website. Many thanks to the organisers
of an enjoyable convention.
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- 8th September 2008: We realise that some
of these articles are a rather historic, and some of the
books are now out of print, but full Times and Times Literary
Supplement reviews of a number of Tartarus titles
are available to be read online. Click on these links to
read reviews of The
House of the Hidden Light by Arthur Machen and A.E.
Waite reviewed by Jon Barnes, Heathcliff's
Tale by Emma Tennant reviewed by Lucasta
Miller, The
Collected Strange Tales of Robert
Aickman reviewed by Phil Baker, and
Le
Grand Meaulnes and Miracles by Alain Fournier reviewed
by Adrian Tahourdin.
- Also available in The Guardian
newspaper's archives are full reviews of
Tartarus titles. Again, click on these links to read
reviews of Ritual
and Other Stories by Arthur Machen reviewed
by Richard Stanley, The
Guide to First Edition Prices reviewed by
Robert McCrum, The
Collected Strange Tales of Robert
Aickman, and Denton
Welch: Writer and Artist by James Methuen-Campbell
reviewed by Phil Baker. (Just a note to mention that Alan
Bennett's splendid Introduction to our Denton Welch
biography is reprinted in his recent collection of
essays, Untold Stories.)
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- 26th August 2008: Many thanks to
Elizabeth Brown who has allowed us to upload a pdf of her
story Llanfihangel from
Strange Tales
II. You will need Adobe Acrobat to be able
to view the story. We have also made available the
Preface to the
anthology.
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- 7th August: We are pleased to learn that
Tartarus Press has been shortlisted for a World
Fantasy Award in the Non-Professional category. And
Mark Valentine has been shortlisted in the
British
Fantasy Society Awards, for Wormwood.
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- Best
New Horror, edited by the indefatigable Stephen
Jones is about to be published and contains two stories
from Strange Tales
II, "The Other Village" by Simon Strantzas
and 'Calico Black, Calico Blue' by Joel Knight.
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- 3rd August 2008: Looking at other
people's bookshelves is always fun. In the Culture
section of The Sunday Times today author John
de Falbe is pictured in front of his bookcase and he has
Saki's Sredni
Vashtar, de la Mare's Strangers and
Pilgrims, Meyrink's The
Golem and Shiel's The
Purple Cloud on his shelves, all in Tartarus editions.
Obviously a man of taste... Thanks to Reggie for spotting
this.
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- 30th July 2008: We are pleased to
announce that "What Water Reveals" by Adam Golaski from
Strange Tales
II will be reprinted in Horror:
The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition, edited by Stefan
Dziemianowicz.
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- We are sorry to announce that due to a
hold-up at the printers there will be an unavoidable
delay of about a week in sending out copies of the new
Ambrose Bierce title.
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- 21st July 2008: We are pleased to learn
that Strange Tales
II has been shortlisted for an
International
Horror Guild Award in the anthology
category.
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- 1st July 2008: We are pleased to announce
that our next publication will be An Occurrence At Owl
Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose
Bierce. Perhaps best known as a journalist and the author
of the sardonic The Devil's Dictionary, Bierce ranks
alongside Poe as one of the fathers of American
supernatural fiction. This new collection contains all of
his supernatural fiction, and is introduced by S.T.
Joshi.
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- 19 June 2008: Non-Tartarus publications:
Wordsworth Editions have just published
The
Werewolf Pack, edited by Mark Valentine,
which contains a new short story by Tartarus proprietor
Ray Russell ('Loup-Garou'). This original paperback
collection offers "some of the greatest, rarest and most
unusual werewolf stories ever written..." They shall also
be publishing, in the very near future,
The
Black Veil, again edited by Mark Valentine,
containing "sixteen chilling cases of ... supernatural
sleuths". This original anthology contains another
original short story by Ray Russell ('Like Clockwork')
and another by Tartarus Editor Rosalie Parker ('Spirit
Solutions'). Both books are published n paperback it is
the bargain price of £2.99, and are available from
Wordsworth, Amazon etc.
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- 30th May 2008: Another review in the
Times Literary Supplement, and many thanks
again to Paul Hatcher for tracking down a copy for us.
The new edition of our Guide
to First Edition Prices is discussed in a long
article which makes some valid points about trends in
book collecting. We've culled from it the quote
"curiously fascinating."
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