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- News
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- 30th August
2010: A great review at She
Never Slept!
for
The Saint Perpetuus
Club of Buenos Aires by Eric Stener Carlson. Please note - we
have only a very few copies left.
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- 28th August
2010: Tartarus Press will be attending Fantasycon, run by the British Fantasy
Society, 17–19 September, 2010, at the Britannia Hotel,
Nottingham. Apart from having a table of Tartarus Press
books for sale, Rosalie
Parker will
be launching her new collection The Old
Knowledge and
will be attending the signing for the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
#21.
Additionally, Ray
Russell will
be signing copies of his new chapbook at the launch of
"The
Beautiful Room", and will be a part of the signing for
Never
Again.
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- 27th August:
Richard Dalby contributes an in-depth article on Psychic
Detectives in the Book and Magazine Collector this month, starting with
Stoker's Van Helsing and ending with Valentine and
Howard's "Connoisseur"
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- 24th August
2010: Tartarus Press has received a nomination in the
World
Fantasy Awards. Ray
Russell has
also received a nomination for his short story, "In
Waiting", from Putting the Pieces
in Place.
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- 24th August
2010: The first review of Sourdough by Angela Slatter is online "This
book is a fantastic achievement on every level."
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- 16th August
2010: A recommendation for Cold to the
Touch by Simon Strantzas: "Cold to the Touch is a delightfully chilling gallery of the
ghoulish, the nightmarish, and the weird. With this
follow-up to the excellent Beneath the Surface, Strantzas continues to impress."
- Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence and Occultation.
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- 13th August
2010: The Eighth Edition of the Tartarus Press
Guide to First Edition
Prices will
be published (officially) on the 1st October 2010.
Pre-publication copies will be available direct from
Tartarus Press on September 10th. Pre-orders are now
being taken.
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- 11th August
2010: Rosalie
Parker's
The Old
Knowledge
will now be published by The
Swan River Press in September. It is available for
pre-order now.
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- 27th July: Looking at other people's
bookshelves is always fun - part two!
- After novelist John de Falbe was pictured
in The Sunday Times a couple of years
ago standing against bookshelves with a number of
Tartarus Press titles, a recent article on the writer
Alan Moore in the New York Times has a photo of him in his
study with the distinctive spines of Tartarus Press books
in the background.
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- 7th July 2010: Our next book will be
Sourdough and
other stories by Angela Slatter. This wonderful
collection of short stories includes two which were
previously published to great acclaim in Rosalie
Parker's Strange
Tales series. Sourdough will be published as one of
our larger format books but with a full-colour
frontispiece and highly-decorated boards. It will be
published 12th August 2010.
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- 15th June 2010: We are saddened to report
that Everett Bleiler has apparently passed away. This
news was posted to the FictionMags list, attributed to
his son, Richard. Our deepest sympathies to his family
and friends. Fans of supernatural fiction, researchers
and small presses are all deeply indebted to his
scholarship.
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- 8th June: A fine review of
The Saint Perpetuus
Club of Buenos Aires in Black Static
17: "At bottom, it’s a deal with the Devil
story, and as always in these it’s the Devil who has the
last laugh, but made special by the distinctive tone and
the wealth of ideas planted in the text.
Recommended."
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- 6th June 2010. We are sorry to have to
report that we have sold out of copies of "N" by Arthur Machen.
However, some of the specialist book dealers listed on
the Ordering
Information page should still have copies
available for sale. This follows the very successful
reading of "N" by Stewart Lee at the Stoke Newington
Literary Festival this weekend. Additionally, some copies
are still available from the Stoke Newington
Bookshop.
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- Other news:
"Cold to the Touch", the title story from the Tartarus
collection by Simon Strantzas will feature
in the Mammoth
Book of Best New Horror 21, along with "Party Talk" by John Gaskin
from Strange Tales
III.
Additionally, Tartarus Editor Rosalie
Parker's "In
The Garden" (from The Fifth Black Book of
Horror) will also
be included in the volume.
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- And on the other
side of the Atlantic, Ellen Datlow's next The Best Horror of the Year
will include Nina
Allen's "The Lammas Worm" from Strange Tales
III.
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- 1st June 2010:
"N" by Arthur Machen
is now unavailable direct from Tartarus, but can be
obtained from the dealers found here. After the
Stoke
Newington Literary Festival we hope to have a last few
for sale. We can confirm that all orders received before
this weekend have been posted/shipped.
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- Remember You're a
One-Ball by Quentin S. Crisp (one of our
favourite contemporary authors) has just been published
by the Chomu
Press.
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- 31st May 2010: A
very fine review of The Saint Perpetuus
Club of Buenos Aires at Bibliobuffet: "...before I had even read a
page, I wanted to love the story as much as I loved the
paper it had been printed on and the binding it had been
sewn into. ... And I did love it, but I loved it in a
strange, unsettling, way. Carlson has created a story
that is neither occult, nor science fiction nor theology
even though elements of all are included."
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- 25th May: Orders
for Dear Dead
Women are
being wrapped up today and will in the post tomorrow
morning!
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- 11th May 2010:
This year is the 75th anniversary of
"N" by Arthur Machen.
To celebrate this the comedian Stewart Lee will be
discussing Machen's short story at the Stoke
Newington Literary Festival in June. In conjunction
with the Literary Festival and the Friends
of Arthur Machen, Tartarus Press is
publishing a short run paperback of "N" with
illustrations by Stephen
J. Clark.
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- 9th May 2010:
Our next book will be the little-known collection of
decadent short stories Dear Dead
Women by the
American writer Edna W. Underwood. A gifted linguist,
Underwood was read widely in European literature and lost
her first teaching job because of her propensity to read
decadent, yellow-bound books. We have extracted the weird
tales from her one wonderfully entitled collection
A Book of Dear
Dead Women and
have added to them the excellent long horror story 'An
Orchid of Asia', reprinted here for the first time since
its appearance in Asia
magazine in 1920.
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- 1st May 2010: A
great review of The Saint Perpetuus
Club of Buenos Aires in the Financial
Times by Christopher Fowler today:
"The multi-layered narrative is full of
surprises, and the conclusion provides a modest grace
note that beautifully befits the tale."
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- 24th April: The
new Supernatural
Tales 17
contains a great review of Strange Tales
III. It also
publishes "The Dress" by the enigmatic Elizabeth Brown
and cover artwork by the very talented Stephen Clark
(both contributors to "Strange Tales").
- "ST III is an
anthology for any connoisseur of the the weird, the
uncanny and the fascinating. Like all Tartarus volumes,
it is produced to a very high standard."
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- 17th April 2010:
The Royal Mail has announced that the closure of UK
airspace, and airspace in parts of Europe, (thanks to the
volcanic ash from Iceland), is affecting the
transportation of mail by air. This isn't just on the
post we are sending abroad, but is affecting some UK
domestic mail which travels by air. Hopefully the
situation won't last much longer...
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- 16th April 2010:
Wormwood #
14 is at the
printers. The new issue contains:
- The Ruins of
Reality: Thomas Ligotti and the uses of disenchantment
by
Joel Lane
- E.R. Eddison:
Transmutation
by Jon Preece
- “Soft,
Delicious Things”: Decadence in R. Murray
Gilchrist
by Laurence Bush
- Why
was Richard Marsh
by Calum James
- Robert
Walser: Strange Supplicant, Idiot Savant, Master of the
Microgram
by Adam Daly
- The Exploits
of Lucius Leffing: Investigating Joseph P. Brennan’s
Supernatural Sleuth by
Mike Barrett
- The Decadent World-View
by Brian Stableford
- Late Reviews by Douglas A.
Anderson
- Camera Obscura
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- other
news:
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- Author Lisa
Tuttle has written of Cold to the
Touch: "In
his stories, Simon Strantzas skilfully marries ordinary
social anxieties with the inexplicable weirdness that may
lie in the darkness beyond. The 'strange story' may be
one of the most difficult to define – and write well --
in the whole horror/dark fantasy field, but with Cold to
the Touch Simon Strantzas displays a gift for evoking
disturbing atmospheres and creating odd, frightening
encounters with the uncanny that puts him right into the
arena with Robert Aickman, Joel Lane, and Ramsey
Campbell. An impressive collection."
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- 15th April:
Peter Whitehead of Waterstones bookshops recently
conducted an interview with Ray
Russell about
Tartarus Press for their in-store website. With their
permission we are pleased to be able to make it available
here.
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- 10th April 2010:
The Tartarus Press is interviewed by the Speculative
Fiction Junkie.
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- 9th April:
Cold to the
Touch has
been reviewed in Black Static. The reviewer has a few grumbles, but still
says "[O]ne of the best volumes of weird fiction to
surface in recent years, and essential reading for all .
. ."
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- 2nd April 2010:
We are saddened to learn of the death of Jocelyn
Leighton, daughter of John Wall (Sarban). Without her
enthusiasm and friendship we would not have been able to
publish Sarban's work and discover the previously
unpublished stories. Our deepest sympathies go out to her
friends and family.
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- 1st April:
Non-Tartarus news: Rosalie
Parker's
story "The Picture" has won the reader poll for
Supernatural
Tales 15.
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- 31st March 2010:
The above photo (by Peter Coleborn) shows the Stoker
award winners in Brighton. We were delighted that
Tartarus Press was given the "Excellence in Speciality
Press Publishing" award.
- It was a great
convention, and many thanks are due to the organisers for
making it such a successful event. It was great to see so
many old friends, and also to meet people we have only
ever known through letters and emails over the
years.
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- 28th February
2010: At the World Horror Convention in Brighton in April
we will not only have copies of The
Collected Connoisseur for sale, but Nightmare-Touch by Lafcadio Hearn. With Paul
Murray we have put together an essential collection of
Hearn's stories which range from New Orleans to Japan,
taking in the French West Indies and China. Paul Murray's
Introduction gives an excellent analysis of Hearn's
fascinating life.
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- 24th February:
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of
The
Collected Connoisseur by Mark Valentine and John Howard. This
paperback collects all the adventures from previous
Tartarus volumes In Violet Veils and Masques and
Citadels, along with four further tales published
elsewhere. You can read a story from the collection,
The Descent of the
Fire, as a free pdf.
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- 18th February
2010: Another good review for Strange Tales
III, this
time from Tales
from the Black Abyss. "... the quality throughout is so high that I
would recommend this to any fans of weird tales or dark
fiction."
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- 15th February
2010: Good reviews at Publishers
Weekly:
- The St
Perpetuus Club of Buenos Airues ("Unpredictable and steeped in allusions to
classic and contemporary works, this spry exercise in
magic realism can be enjoyed as a parable on how our
reading transforms our perception of the
world.")
- Cold to the
Touch
("Readers who
prefer subtlety to shocks and suggestion over
explicitness in horror fiction will find much to
enjoy").
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- 7th February:
The Eighth Issue of the Guide to First Edition
Prices will be
published this autumn. It will be much enlarged and
expanded as well as thoroughly revised, but we will be
leaving out the illustrations in an attempt to make such
a large book affordable.
- Please note that we
still have copies of the last, colour, illustrated deluxe
2008/9 edition available, now at the discounted price of
£20.
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- 5th February:
Cold to the
Touch by
Simon Strantzas has received another great review, this
time in Dead
Reckonings 6,
edited by S.T. Joshi: "...Strantzas succeeds in imbuing
his strange tales with the sense of intellectual
fear..."
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- 1st February
2010: An audio version of "Fading Light" by Simon
Strantzas (from Cold to the
Touch) is
available at pseudopod.
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- 29th January
2010: A good review for Strange Tales
III by Mario
Guslandi at Bookgeeks: "another excellent collection of
stories apt to delight not only the afficionados of
horror and dark fantasy, but any lover of good
fiction."
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- 28th January
2010: The new collection of short stories by Tartarus
Press proprietor Ray
Russell,
Literary
Remains, is
now available for pre-order from PS Publishing as a
trade
hardcover, or
a signed,
traycased hardcover. The provisional publication date is
May.
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- 24th January
2010: Another great review for Cold to the
Touch, this
time at Tales
from the Black Abyss: "Dark but with frequent glimpses of light
and beauty creating a dazzling mix of heady highs and
tragic lows. . . . A work of great quality."
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- 21st January,
2010: We are honoured that the Horror
Writer's Association Speciality Press Award for 2009 is to be
presented to Tartarus Press during the Bram Stoker Awards
Banquet at the World Horror Convention.
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- 19th January
2010: A positive review of Strange Tales
III can be
found at The
Speculative Fiction Junkie.
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- 18th January
2010: The latest issue of Rue
Morgue
magazine contains an interview with Ray
Russell about
Tartarus Press, conducted by Brian Showers.
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- 17th January
2010: We will be attending the World
Horror Convention in Brighton on the 25th-28th March 2010.
Tartarus Press will have a couple of tables showcasing
all of our books.
- Ray
Russell will
also be attending the launch and book signing of
Black Book of
Horror # 6. The
latest volume in Charles Black's series contains
Ray
Russell's
story "An Unconventional Exorcism". He will also be
appearing on the "We Are Not Worthy" panel on Thursday
night, discussing literary influences. More World Horror
Convention news to follow...
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- 12th January
2010: All of the entries from the Tartarus
Press Guide to First Edition Prices
2008/9 are
now all available online at the Hyraxia
website, for
a modest subscription. That's the values of 42,500
collectable books all in one place.
- The research for
the next edition continues apace... The Eighth Edition
should be published later this year and already has full
bibliographies for 710 authors, which is 124 more authors
than the last edition. It continues to grow...
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- Happy New
Year!
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- 31st December
2009: A fine first review of Strange Tales Volume
III from
Joy
Silence.
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- 21st December:
Mario Guslandi at Rick Kleffel's Agony
Column has
written a positive review of The Saint Perpetuus
Club of Buenos Aires: "...a captivating novel written in a
sparkling style, precise yet imaginative."
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- 18th December:
The Speculative Fiction Junkie has just announced his
Top
Five Reads of 2009. First is Cold to the
Touch by
Simon Strantzas. There are some positive comments for
Tartarus Press in general towards the end of the article,
and Ray
Russell's Bloody
Baudelaire is also included in the top five.
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- 15th December,
2009: Strange Tales
III is in the
post! Many thanks for your patience.
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- 14th December,
2009: Cold to the
Touch by
Simon Strantzas is described by Flux magazine as "An
impressive collection of stories that subtly
unsettles."
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- 3rd December:
Our apologies, but there is yet another delay with the
publication of Strange Tales Volume
III. Our new
printers have experienced problems and can't deliver
books now until the 14th December. We will be posting
orders out in the following days, ensuring that all
international post is sent by Priority Airmail. We have
seen running sheets, though, and the paper and printing
looks very good indeed!
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- 1st December:
Another great review for Cold to the
Touch by
Simon Strantzas, this time at Grim
Rictus Reviews: "This exceptional collection is highly
recommended."
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- 17th November
2009: The Independent's Forgotten Author (Number
42) on Sunday
was William Fryer Harvey. The newspaper concludes that
with the publication of The Double
Eye by
Tartarus Press "...it's now possible to plug another gap
in the century's roll-call of top short-fiction
writers".
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- 16th November
2009: A hearty recommendation for The Saint
Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires at Grim
Rictus Reviews: "This work should appeal to fans of good
writing and the occult. The prose is top-notch and great
care has been taken in providing the reader with an
intellectual, multi-layered story."
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- 10th November:
Two blogs worth checking out:
- The
Speculative Fiction Junkie gives Cold to the
Touch by
Simon Strantzas a perfect ten out of ten
- and
- The
Lord Bassington-Bassington Chronicles has some nice words to Tartarus
Press as he discusses the joy of holding an
old-fashioned, well-made, hardbound book in your
hands.
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- 5th November: A
change of printers means that Strange Tales Volume
III will have
the slightly revised publication date of 7th December
2009.
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- 22nd October
2009:
Mario Guslandi has just reviewed The Double
Eye by William Fryer Harvey at
Bookgeeks: "Harvey is
indeed a master of the uncanny and the supernatural who
is able to deal with a variety of eerie subjects and to
produce solid, compelling fiction, the kind of fiction
which, fortunately, will never go out of
fashion."
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- A
testimonial from the author Steve Rasnic Tem for
Cold to the
Touch:
"Simon Strantzas is an important
new writer of weird fiction, a position solidified by the
release of his new collection, Cold to the Touch, from Tartarus Press. What I admired most
about this collection, besides the fine writing, is how
these stories defy a simply summarization. This fiction
goes far beyond the simple scares of most horror. A
mystery defying the usual explication of plot lies at the
heart of each one, giving us much to chew on long after
the story has ended. Cold to the Touch is a great reading experience."
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- 14th October
2009: All pre-orders for The St Perpetuus
Club of Buenos Aires and Wormwood
13 have now
been posted.
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- A new and
positive review of Cold to the
Touch by
David Longhorn in Supernatural Tales 16 concludes: "Overall, the thirteen
stories in this collection offer the reader strange
rewards. There are no easy explanations, which is realism
of a sort. There are no simple payoffs or cheap twists.
There are shadows everywhere, and few signposts that can
be trusted. But there are moments of humour and humanity
amid the darkness and decay."
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- 11th October
2009: Another great review: "Cold to the Touch is a formidable gift to the field of weird
literature." - The Grim Blogger, Grim
Reviews
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- 3rd October
2009: Our next book will be the stunning first novel by
Eric Stener Carlson, The St Perpetuus
Club of Buenos Aires. A contemporary Gothic novel and a
bibliomystery, it is also an occult thriller, and will be
published on the 25th October.
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- 29th September:
All of the orders for Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving were posted today and
should be with customers both home and abroad very
soon.
- It was a lovely
surprise to read a great article in The Guardian today on Arthur Machen which describes
Tartarus books as "a secret library, a catalogue of weird
fiction from its roots in Victorian Britain through to
the modern day."
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- 25th September:
Ian McMillan has written an entertaining article about
Tartarus in The
Dalesman magazine
this month. He discusses a number of Yorkshire writers
Tartarus has published (inc Oliver Onions and W.F.
Harvey) and also mentions our publication of contemporary
writers.
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- 23rd September:
A great review for Cold to the
Touch at
She
Never Slept:
"One thing is certain, Mr. Strantzas ripped out a bit of
his soul and threw it onto the page with a violent
beauty. Such stories could come from no other place. This
collection is evocative, endearing, strange and
horrifying all at once. . . All of the stories in this
collection are delightfully dark and wonderfully weird."
Sarah Gerhardt is also very complimentary about Tartarus
in general.
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- 22nd September:
We are pleased to confirm that our third speaker at our
forthcoming Wormwood
Afternoon in
Coverdale will be Paul M. Chapman who will talk on "The
Decadent Dr Doyle".
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- 21st September:
It was good to meet a number of customers at Fantasycon
this weekend. We can confirm that we will be taking
Tartarus books along to the World
Horror Convention in March.
-
- Simon Strantzas
gets a great review for Cold to the
Touch in
FearZone from Michael Kelly:
"Say hello to a
new and important voice in the canon of weird
fiction."
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- 7th September:
Our next book will be The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving.
This
volume is the first to assemble all of Washington
Irving's short stories in the supernatural genre, and the
impressive array of work on offer makes Irving a worthy
pioneer of the American weird tradition.
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- 6th September
2009: We are pleased to announce that David Stuart Davies
will be giving a talk on "The Early History of Detective
Fiction" as a part of the program for our forthcoming
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