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- Wormwood
- Writings about fantasy,
supernatural and decadent literature.
- Edited by Mark Valentine
Nominated for a World Fantasy
Award, 2012
- Issue
Twenty
- Issue Nineteen
- Issue Eighteen
- Issue Seventeen
- Issue Sixteen
- Issue Fifteen
- Issue Fourteen
- Issue Thirteen
- Issue Twelve
- Issue Eleven
- Issue Ten
- Issue Nine
- Issue Eight
- Issue Seven
- Issue Six
- Issue Five
- Issue Four
- Issue Three
- Issue Two (out of
print)
- Issue One (out of
print)
- Ordering details
- Editorial details
- Reviews
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- Wormwood is a regular
paperback journal devoted to discussion of authors, books and themes in
the fields of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent in literature. It
contains essays, articles, short appreciations, new research and
perspectives from new and established writers about acknowledged major
authors, lesser-studied writers, and those who are unjustly
neglected. Wormwood also features the columns
‘Camera Obscura’, surveying recently published but overlooked books,
‘Late Reviews’, reappraising titles from the past, and Brian
Stableford's 'Decadent World-View'.
- Wormwood is published as a
paperback journal. Issues 3-5 are is £7.99/$14 post paid. Issues 6-13
are £8.99/$15.
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- Ordering details
- Wormwood is published
twice a year and a standing order for the journal may be placed with the
publisher. The cost is currently £8.99/$15 per issue. Readers with a
standing order will always receive advance notification of each
forthcoming issue (and may decline to receive any particular issue if
the contents do not appeal). Changes in price, publication regularity
etc will also be passed on to readers before copies are sent. You are
welcome to leave visa/mastercard details with us for payment, or the
journal can be sent with an invoice. Please make cheques (pounds
sterling and dollars) payable to Tartarus Press. Address: Coverley
House, Carlton, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 4AY. United Kingdom.
Telephone/Fax: +44 (0) 1969 640399. email Tartarus
Press
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- Editorial
- We already have interesting material lined up for
future issues, but we are still seeking contributions. We are especially
interested in contributions about European authors whose work may be
less well known to anglophone readers. Articles should normally be
between 2,000-5,000 words and authors are advised to discuss possible
subjects or themes with the Editor before submitting their work. We do
not publish contemporary fiction. Payment will be in the form of
complimentary copies of the journal. On all editotial matters please
write to Mark Valentine with your proposals: Stable Cottage, Priest Bank
Road, Kildwick, Keighley, BD20 9BH. U.K. Or email Mark
Valentine.
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- Reviews
- [Wormwood] opens the door to
more lost and neglected writers than you can shake a library card at...
- Ian McMillan, Yorkshire Post
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- ...this is certainly where
Wormwood’s talents lie -
in close readings of obscure texts, informed by detailed knowledge of
the authors and their work. By printing the texts themselves alongside
masterly interpretations, the reader is invited to do likewise, thereby
encouraging new scholarship and iconoclasm. - Dara Downey, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror
Studies
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- "Tartarus Press has just
launched a journal, Wormwood, dedicated to
fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature". Number One includes an
in-depth look at Meyrink, an interview with Muriel Spark and an essay on
"The Decadent World View" by Brian Stableford. Among the writers it
resurrects is Edgar Magnus Birnstingl, author of a privately printed
posthumous volume of stories which "date from the last two years of his
life" (he died in 1915 aged 16). Oh dear, this is going to give me even
more of a lust for lost books than I already have." - Suzi Feay,
Independent on Sunday
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- "Wormwood 1 is classy, refined
and polished, both in content and presentation, and it doesn't seem like
a first issue in any way." Rosemary Pardoe, Ghosts and Scholars
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- "Wormwood is an excellent
magazine and one much needed in Britain where we should be vying with
the Americans by presenting more fantasy-related discussion and
analysis. This could potentially grow into something even better than
the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. If you believe that the best
academic work occurs on the cutting edge then take out a subscription to
Wormwood and make your contribution." - The Alien Online
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- "I read Wormwood over the
holidays, while sipping a glass of imported absinthe, and found this
journal to be a wonderful holiday gift. I don't usually find literary
journals worth my time, cover to cover, but Wormwood, like the herb that
flavoured my drink, is both bitter and sweet, flavoured with the heady
brew of the decadence of yesteryear . . . my interest has been piqued,
Wormwood has given me much to think about." - Ron
Lewis, All Hallows
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- "The essays in this first
edition bode well for Wormwood's future . . . in all cases I felt a
definite urge to leap out of bed (where else would I read about
decadence?) and go and get the books under discussion." - David Longhorn,
Supernatural Tales
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- "Wormwood is an excellent
magazine" - Jeff Gardiner, Prism (British Fantasy Society)
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- 'Wormwood is . . . about the
best 'small lit mag' since Connolly's Horizon or Lehmann's New Writing.' - Gabriel Duffy
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