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- News
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- 20th April 2008: A nice plug from Stuart
Maconie on The Freak Zone (Radio Six) this evening
for Tartarus. The reason we were mentioned was that he
played a track by Ring, "Into It", from Arcadia, one of
the first Persepolis
Records releaes. If you would like to listen to
the song go to Stuart
Maconie's Radio 6 webpage and use the "listen again"
feature during the next week. We are about 10 minutes
into the prgramme, although the whole show can always be
recommended.
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- Many thanks to Paul Hatcher for tracking
down the piece in the Times Literary
Supplement we had heard about. In the NB column on
the back page (28/3/08) J.C. writes about Edith Wharton's
dialogue and mentions our The
Triumph of Night. He also mentions a letter
we sent discussing grants and subsidies to small presses
(in which we pointed out that we don't receive any, and
for which we received a back-handed compliment.)
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- 16th April 2008: To promote contemporary
authors, we are also offering seven titles by
contemporary writers for only £99. They can be
ordered either here or through
ebay.
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- 14th April 2008: Wormwood has reached its
10th issue! The latest contains articles on Robert
Aickman and Fritz Leiber, along with a few more obscure
authors (as one would expect!)
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- Also, why not try the aural equivalent of
Wormwood, Persepolis
Records? This new venture by Ray Russell and
Mark Valentine has just released its first two cds.
Sample both releases at the Persepolis myspace site
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- 8th April 2008: We are pleased to
announce that our next publication will be
The Sand-Man and
Other Night Pieces by E.T.A. Hoffmann. The
author was Germany's greatest author of fantastic and
supernaturalist fiction and his highly readable,
entertaining and eerie stories are thick with references
to ghosts, madness and hypnotic influence.
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- 30th March 2008 - We have now sold out of
copies of Echoes and Shadows by
Jon Manchip White. Copies should be available
for a limited time from the dealers listed on the
ordering
page.
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- 23rd March 2008. We have now added a
facility on the website so that you can order books by
simply clicking a button on the page and adding the book
to a "cart". This is done through paypal, although you do
not need to have a paypal account to pay (they accept all
major credit cards). We believe that all the correct code
is in place, but if there are any glitches please let us
know!
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- 20th March 2008: We are just about to
sell out of our last few copies of Echoes and Shadows by
Jon Manchip White. If you would like a copy
please let us know before they go.... You can read Jon's
story Angharad from the
collection by clicking the link.
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- And just a reminder, you can also read on
this site Vrolyck from The White Hands and
Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels, A Languid
Elagabalus Of The Tombs by Rhys Hughes from his
collection Stories from a Lost
Anthology, The Descent of the
Fire by Mark Valentine and John Howard from
the World Fantasy Award winning Strange
Tales and The
Tattooist from Morbid
Tales by Quentin S. Crisp. Many thanks once
again to the authors for making these stories available.
You will need Adobe Acrobat to be able to view
them.
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- 9th March 2008: We are pleased to
announce that our next publication will be
Sredni
Vashtar by Saki. Subtitled "Sardonic Tales",
this collection brings together all of the sharpest,
darkest, weird and macabre tales of the author of such
classic tales as "Laura", "The Opne Window" and, of
course, "Sredni Vashtar."
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- 14th February 2008: In yesterday's
Guardian Stuart Maconie (presenter
of The Freak Zone on Radio Six - our
favourite radio show!) wrote that he is reading
Strangers and
Pilgrims by Walter de la Mare: "A beautiful
edition of supernatural English fiction, subtle and
disquieting rather than out and out frightening."
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- 10th February 2008: We have now sold out
of The Ghost Stories of
Oliver Onions. Copies should be available for a
limited time from the dealers listed on the
ordering
page.
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- 2nd February 2008: Just to confirm that
all copies ordered of our new title, The Triumph of
Night by Edith Wharton., were posted last week
and should be arriving with customers any time now. look
out for news of our next title coming soon...
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- 14th January 2008: Our next publication
will be The Triumph of
Night by Edith Wharton. Throughout her career
this Pulitzer Prize winning author wrote ghost stories,
and is a central figure within the genre in the twentieth
century. Publication 28th January 2008.
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- 14th January, 2008: A good, illustrated
review received today of Beresford
Egan in Studies in
Illustration, the journal of the Imaginative Book
Illustration Society: "With its informative text
and reproduction of all the major published illustrations
it deserves a place on the shelves of anyone with a
specific interest in the illustrators of the art-deco
period, or the lesser known but jhighly individual
artists whose imagination and style provided such variety
and richness to twentieth century illustration."
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- 10th January 2008: Happy New Year! And we
start off the new year with a very positive review for
Strange Tales
II by Mario Guslandi at The
Agony Column, with a nice preface here. Also a brief
mention by the esteemed Ellen Datlow in her
Live
Journal.
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- 2nd December 2007: We are pleased to be
able to report that all copies of Strange Tales
II will be in the post on Monday morning.
Uk customers should receive their copies towards the end
of the week, and those overseas should arrive by the
begining of next week. Our apologies for the delay, and
thank you for your patience!
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- 20th November: Our apologies, but we will
have to move back the publication dates of both
Wormwood and Strange Tales
Volume II for at least a week. The books have been
delivered, but the artwork for the covers and jackets of
both books are not as we designed them, and we are
arranging for them to be reprinted. A firm date will be
announced when we have one from the printers.
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- 21st October, 2007: We have great
pleasure in announcing the line-up for Strange Tales,
Volume II! To be published on 16th November 2007,
It will contain:
- 'Calico Black, Calico Blue' by Joel
Knight
- 'The Fairy Killer' by Quentin S.
Crisp
- 'She Lights the Little Candle' by
Katherine Haynes
- 'Mister Poppy' by Stephen Holman
- 'Carden in Capaea' by Mark
Valentine
- 'What Water Reveals' by Adam
Golaski
- 'Pastor Arrhenius and The Maiden Brita'
by Dale Nelson
- 'The Other Village' by Simon
Strantzas
- 'What the Eye Remembers' by Anne-Sylvie
Salzman
- 'The Magpies' by David Rix
- 'The Concise Picaresque Adventures of the
Wanderlust Bridge' by Rhys Hughes
- 'Sourdough' by Angela Slatter
- 'The Hiding Place' by Barbara
Roden
- 'Mea Tulpa' by Roger Dunkley
- 'Llanfihangel' by Elizabeth Brown
- 'Dinckley Green' by Christopher
Harman
- 'Sejanus' Daughter' by Hilbourne Carlone
(Don Tumasonis)
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- 19th October 2007: A great review in the
newly revamped Bookdealer today (reprinted in
Sheppard's Newsletter) for the
Guide to First
Edition Prices: "…a browser’s delight, as illuminating
as it’s absorbing…" and "no collector will be fooled by
the £25 tag. It’s priceless." We've had a great deal
of positive feedback about the new issue.
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- 10th October, 2007: We are pleased to be
able to announce the forthcoming publication of
Wormwood #
9 on the 16th November. The new issue
contains articles on Phyllis Paul, David Lindsay and
The Saragossa Manuscript, among other
subjects.
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- 7th October, 2007: There is a postal
strike here in the UK (good old Royal Mail!) which will
be holding up parcels for a few days (and for a few days
after the strike, we are told.) Many orders for the new
Price Guide went out before the strike
action started, but may well be caught up in it. We are
still delivering parcels to our local sorting office, but
for a few days they are staying there. Our
apologies!
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- 17th September, 2007: We are now taking
orders for the 2008/9 edition of our best-selling
Guide to First
Edition Prices. This is the seventh edition of the
Guide, which grows in size and detail with each issue,
and now suggests
values for 42,500 sought-after books by 684 authors and
artists. Titles published after 1920 are assigned values
with and without dust-jackets, almost doubling the total
number of suggested values to over 70,000! It is now a
larger format paperback of 564 + x pages.
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- 1st September, 2007: Dreads and
Drolls by Arthur Machen will be
published on 20th September 2007. This will be the first
"complete" edition, with over twice as many essays as the
first edition, all from The London
Graphic.
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- 25th August, 2007: Our next title will be
Dreads and Drolls by Arthur Machen.
It is with the printers now, and as soon as we can
confirm the publication date we will create a webpage and
send out the new catalogue. Our next edition of the
Guide to First Edition
Prices is similarly completed and at the
printers, although it will be published a little later in
the year.
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- In the meantime, we have three odd lots
on ebay that may be of interest, comprising 8
books by (mainly) contemporary writers,
6
out of print books, and 3
unbound books which may interest anyone with binding
skills.
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- 16th July 2007: Thanks to Ian
McMillan in The
Times this weekend for recommending
Strangers and
Pilgrims as a book to "cherish": "This is a
fantastic (in every sense) book of tales."
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- If it appears to have gone a little quiet
here for the past few months I can report that it is in
part because of the time taken to finish the research for
the next edition of the Guide
to First Edition Prices. More details will
follow.
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- 6th June: We have finished uploading all
of our webpages to the new server. Please do let us know
if any of the links are not working properly, or if
pictures are missing. Unfortunately the old frozen pages
are still up and google, yahoo and other website are
still directing people to those.
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- 31st May 2007: Our next publication will
be Strangers and
Pilgrims by Walter de la Mare.We believe that it
can be considered the definitive collection of de la
Mare's supernatural and psychological short stories. it
is due to be published on the 11th June.
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- Our sincere apologies to those who have
been trying unsuccessfully to access our webpages in the
last month or so. We have had to change our webhosting
and will be uploading the pages to a new server over the
next few weeks. Please be patient with us!
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- 13th April 2007: There is a new review
online for The
White Hands at The Compulsive Reader which he concludes
by writing: "The White Hands and Other Weird
Tales is a highly impressive, extremely
well-written book that will appeal to all with an
interest in contemporary horror or “weird” fiction. This
is one to place on the bookshelf in the company of Robert
Aickman, Elizabeth Hand and Thomas Ligotti."
- The White Hands continues to garner
reviews and receive positive attention (and sales of the
paperback reprint) since it was first published over four
years ago.....
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- 28th March 2007: We are pleased to
announce the publication on the 23rd April of
The Justice of
the Night, poems by Glen Cavaliero. Cavaliero will
be know to afficionadoes of "spook stories" for his
The Supernatural
and English Fiction (Oxford University Press, 1995), and those
with long memories will remember that ten years ago we
published a previous collection of his poetry
Steeple on a Hill.
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- 27th March 2007: We are pleased to be
able to announce the forthcoming publication of
Wormwood #
8 on the 23rd April. The new issue
contains articles on a tragic Japanese poetess, Egyptian
anti-Nazi surrealists, a mad Uruguyan-born French
adolescent savage and a Knighted bow-tied English
anarchist, among other subjects.
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- 18th March: Machenians should tune in to
BBC7 later today! Between 18:30-19:00: The White People:
The nature of good and evil and the origins of sin are
explored in this intriguing tale. [Rptd Mon
12.30am].
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- 18th March: The splendid Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror
Studies has just reviewed a number of Tartarus
Press titles. They can be found by clicking
here.
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- 12th March: We have now sold out of
The Attempted
Rescue by Robert Aickman. Copies should be
available for a limited time from the dealers listed on
the ordering
page.
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- 7th March: We have now sold out of
A Walberswick
Goodnight Story by Louis de
Bernières. Copies should be available for a
limited time from the dealers listed on the
ordering
page.
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- 6th March: We have now sold out of
Black Spirits and
White by Ralph Adams Cram. Copies should be
available for a limited time from the dealers listed on
the ordering
page.
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- 5th March: Copies of the following titles
are now in very short supply and will soon be out of
print: The Attempted
Rescue by Robert Aickman, A Walberswick
Goodnight Story by Louis de
Bernières and Black
Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram.
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- 19th February: A pdf index to John
Gawsworth's Life of
Arthur Machen prepared by Sara Inkster is available
here. If you right-click with
your mouse on the titles of the stories and choose "Save
target as" you can decide where to download the story
onto your computer. You will need Adobe Acrobat to be
able to view the index.
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- 13th February 2007: Just a reminder that
we are seeking submissions for an anthology of previously
unpublished stories in the fields of horror, fantasy or
the supernatural. Provisionally entitled More Tales from
Tartarus, it will be published for Christmas
2007. Details can be found by clicking here.
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- 13th February 2007: Our latest title to
sell out is The Suicide Club
by Robert Louis Stevenson. Copies should be available
for a limited time from the dealers listed on the
ordering
page.
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- 17th January 2007: Our next publication
will be a reprint of The
Secret of the Sangraal and Other Writings by Arthur Machen.
This collection of his non-fiction ranges from
reminiscences of his early years in London, though
folklore and customs, to the legend of the Holy Grail. It
collects together all of the essays from
Dog and Duck (1924),
Notes and Queries (1926),
Tom O'Bedlam and His
Song (1930), Bridles and
Spurs (1951) and A Note on
Poetry (1949) as well as a number of other
fugitive pieces. It also includes the 'Bibliographical
Notes' from Henry Danielson's Arthur Machen: A
Bibliography (1923). It will be a sewn hardback book
of 375+vi pages with silk ribbon marker, head and
tailbands, and d/w. Publication 19th February
2007.
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- 10th January 2007... later the same day
... : We have now sold out of The Collected
Strange Stories of Robert Aickman. No doubt copies
will be available for a limited time from the dealers
listed on the ordering
page.
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- 10th January 2007: Happy New Year! We are
just about to sell out of our last few copies of
The Collected
Strange Stories of Robert Aickman. If you've been
putting off indulging, then this is your last
chance....
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- 21st November: Our next book, to be
published on 1st December, will be The Man Who Could
Work Miracles: The Supernatural Tales of H.G.
Wells.
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- 26th October: We now have back in print
Arthur Machen's classic novel, The Hill
of Dreams. Next year will be the centenary of its
first publication and our edition contains all three of
the original illustrations intended for the book by
acclaimed fantasy artist Sidney Sime. It also contains
introductions by Mark Valentine, Lord Dunsany, and Machen
himself.
- This second Tartarus printing is our
usual high quality hardback with sewn signatures, printed
lithographically on 135gsm acid free paper, bound in
burgundy cloth with boards blocked in gilt with an
additional illustration by Sidney Sime. As usual, the
book has head and tail bands, a silk ribbon marker,
coloured endpapers, and an unlaminated cream
dustjacket.
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- 25th October 2006: We have now received
and posted out copies of A
Walberswick Goodnight Story by Louis de
Bernières and Wormwood #
7.
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- 11th October 2006: We are pleased to be
able to announce the publication of A Walberswick
Goodnight Story by Louis de
Bernières on the 20th October, and Wormwood #
7 on the 30th October. One of the
highlights of the new issue of Wormwood is a hitherto
unpublished fragment by Sarban.
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- We have tidied up our news page by
putting Old
News on a separate page.
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- 13th August 2006: The Independent on
Sunday's "Building a Library" column today is
written by R.B. Russell. In recommending where to invest
a hypothetical windfall he suggests spending your money
on the tried and tested classics. However, he also
recommends keeping a little back to invest is a couple of
sleepers - Thomas Ligotti and Quentin S. Crisp.
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- 6th August 2006: I'm delighted to be able
to say that the Friends
of Arthur Machen have been shortlisted for a
World Fantasy Award in the Non-Professional category. The
nomination specificially mentions the society's
publications Faunus, Machenalia, and
The Life of
Arthur Machen.
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- 19th July 2006: The paperback edition of
The White
Hands by Mark Samuels has received a great
review in Weird Tales, and Father
Raven at the Infinityplus.co.uk website.
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- 14th July: Anyone in London wishing to
browse Tartarus titles in print have been able to do so
for some time at Waterstones' Piccadilly Branch, at
The Fantasy Centre on the Holloway
Road and Atlantis Books on Museum Street. For those
further north, however, there is now a great display of
our books at the Leyburn Bookshop in Leyburn, North
Yorkshire.
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- 14th June 2006: We are seeking
submissions for an anthology of previously unpublished
stories in the fields of horror, fantasy or the
supernatural. Provisionally entitled More Tales from
Tartarus, it will be published for Christmas
2007. Details can be found by clicking here.
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31st May 2006: Our next publication will
be The Sense of the
Past: The Ghostly Stories of Henry
James. It has just gone to the printers and
will be ready for publication on June 23rd.
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- 19th May 2006: One of the top dealers in
U.S. modern first editions is Between
the Covers Rare Books, whose website is always
worth visiting. An added attraction is their new facility
for watching a book revolve! See our Guide to First
Edition Prices from every conceivable angle by clicking
here.
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- 8th May: Newly published: The Pale Ape and
Other Pulses by M.P. Shiel, and issue 6 of
Wormwood.
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- 31st March 2006: The new issue of the
Rare Book Review contains an
article by R.B. Russell on collecting modern first
editions. The magazine have entitled the feature
"Collecting Made Easy", which is a rather hopeful title,
but on the front cover more reasonably call it "A
Beginner's Guide to Collecting" (the sub-heading is "Make
Money from Rare Books" which is even more optimistic!).
The same issue prints a bibliography and guide to the
prices of Samuel Becket's books, excerpted from the
Guide to First
Edition Prices, and among their reviews is a positive
notice for Where Nothing
Sleeps by Denton Welch.
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- 25th March 2006: We have just taken
delivery of Father Raven and
Other Tales by A.E. Coppard, and the Bath press have
done another fine job in printing and binding it for us.
We are packing up copies for those who have ordered in
advance and they should be going out next week. A
contents list has been added to the Father
Raven page.
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- 25th February 2006: The new edition of
Machenalia, the newsletter of the
Friends
of Arthur Machen has alerted us to a couple
of Tartarean newspaper items that we missed last
year.
- The first was an article in
The Independent (29/10/05) entitled "Cheer
Up, It's Winter", by Suzi Feay in which she says "Stories
of the macabre exert their pull from Hallowe'en onwards,
such as the stories of Arthur Machen, republished by
Tartarus Press in handsome editions, made for reading by
a flickering fire."
- The second was a review of
The Life of
Arthur Machen by John Gawsworth which we
designed and published for the Friends of Arthur Machen
last year. In the Fortean Times in December, Mark
Pilkington noted that it is a "sumptuous, heavily
illustrated edition" and took the chance to point out
that Machen's "short stories still resonate with a
profound sense of the magical and numinous. And, unlike
those of many of his contemporaries the tales retain
their ability to unsettle, even disturb. It's this
timelessness that makes Machen's stories last so
well."
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- 22nd February 2006: The Feb/March issue
of the Rare Book Review contains a review
of the new edition of our Guide
to First Edition Prices. They conclude a positive
review by saying: "Whether you're buying, selling or just
curious, an entertaining and informative 'must have' for
your reference library."
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- 17th February: John Gaskin's
The Long Retreating
Day has already received two reviews. The
first, by William Simmons, will be in the forthcoming
issue of Hellnotes and says that the stories
are "Economically written and deeply felt
nightmares of atmospheric subtlety and stark spiritual
horror. . . reaffirming the importance of structure and
lyricism in a genre too often represented by slap-dash
sensationalism." And Mario Guslandi in his
Agony
Column states that "if you like solid, elegant
fiction apt to make the act of reading almost a physical
pleasure, then this is a book you shouldn't miss for any
reason. . . . this volume is a literary gem that
everybody should be entitled to enjoy."
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- 16th February: We have created a few
pages dedicated to Denton Welch which we hope will be of
interest, and these can be accessed through our
links page, or direct
by clicking here. Additionally,
our son, Tim (10), has himself created a few pages which
can be found at www.mailed-fist.com
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- 3rd February 2006: We have updated our
webpages devoted to the current Guide
to First Edition Prices and now show some
sample
pages. The 2006/7 edition is printed in colour
throughout and each entry contains at least one
illustration. As you may imagine, a number of Tartarus
Press authors are included in the Guide, including Arthur Machen,
Robert Aickman, Sarban, Hugh Walpole, M.P. Shiel etc.
There are also many other authors who wrote in the
supernatural/decadent/strange genres including
H.P.Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, M.R. James and lord
Dunsany, to name just a few. For a full list of authors
included click here.
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- 1st February 2006: We have just acquired
from a Brighton bookseller a few signed copies of our 2001
publication, Günter Weber's Confession
by Louis de Bernières. This has
been out of print for some time and we are pleased to be
able to offer these copies at the original (unsigned)
price of £32.50/$60. The 18 page booklet was
hand-set in Perpetua type and printed and bound by hand
by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press, and has a special
full-colour lithographic frontispiece. These few copies
were a part of the unsigned 250 copies (from a 350 run)
but were subsequently signed by the author at a recent
literary festival.
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- 30th January 2006: I have updated the
page of secondhand books for sale, removing all of those
that have been sold from the catalogue, and adding a few
more. You can go direct to the page by clicking here. - Ray Russell
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- 17th January 2006: We have just received
copies of The Long Retreating
Day by John Gaskin and in the next couple of
days we will be posting copies out to those who have
ordered in advance.
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- 8th January 2006: This morning a printed catalogue of second
hand books, mainly but not exclusively by Arthur Machen
should be dropping on to the doormats of our regular
customers. This sale has been occasioned by my purchase
of a couple of lots at a recent Sotheby's auction. I have
taken the opportunity to pass some of those books on, and
to dispose of a few duplicates and other items that I
have recently acquired. For those who have not received a
copy of the catalogue, a copy can be found by clicking
here. I hope that there is something
to interest most collectors. - Ray Russell
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- 23rd December: Our first book of 2006
will be The Long Retreating
Day by John Gaskin. John's previous collection
of ghostly tales, Twilight and Borderlands was very
well-received and we are confident that this second
volume of stories will be equally as
highly-acclaimed.
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- 12th December, 2005 - The Independent
yesterday put Where
Nothing Sleeps by Denton Welch at the top of their list
of must-have books for Christmas! (ABC section, p.47)
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- 6th December, 2005 - Many thanks to Rhys
Hughes who has allowed us to upload a pdf of his
wonderful A Languid
Elagabalus Of The Tombs from his collection
Stories from a Lost
Anthology.
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- 5th December, 2005 - We have now made
available for free download, pdfs of four stories by
contemporary authors from in-print Tartarus collections.
The Descent of the
Fire by Mark Valentine and John Howard from
the World Fantasy Award winning Strange
Tales, The
Tattooist from Morbid
Tales by Quentin S. Crisp, Angharad from Echoes and
Shadows by Jon Manchip White, and
Vrolyck from The White Hands and
Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels. Many thanks to the
authors for making these stories available. If you
right-click with your mouse on the titles of the stories
and choose "Save target as" you can decide where to
download the story onto your computer. You will need
Adobe Acrobat to be able to view the stories.
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- 27th November 2005 - The publication of
Where Nothing
Sleeps by Denton Welch prompts a
page-and-a-half article by Ian Irvine in the
Independent on Sunday today. He points
out that James Methuen-Campbell's Denton Welch:
Writer and Artist (Tartarus, 2002) did much to establish
Welch's reputation as an artist, and that until the new
publication of Where Nothing Sleeps Welch's shorter
work has been difficult to obtain. The article is
wonderfully headlined "Dreams of cheap lipsick and
Turkish Delight."
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- 23rd November 2005 - Issue no. 5 of
Wormwood has been
delivered to us today and copies will be put in the post
over the next couple of days.
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