MOLLY
TANZER's long-awaited third novel, Creatures
of Will and Temper
(HMH/JJA
Books), described as a feminist take on 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray,'
'with sword-fighting and demons,' is available for pre-order for
mid-December release.
R.B.
RUSSELL's first novel She
Sleeps (PS
Publishing) is 'a murder mystery with a hint of the supernatural.'
From
Undertow Publications comes CONRAD WILLIAMS' latest collection, I
Will Surround You,
described as exploring 'the tangled skein and woven bones of the
human condition.' Also shipping are their latest Shadows
& Tall Trees and
Year's Best Weird
Fiction
anthologies, edited by HELEN MARSHALL and MICHAEL KELLY.
From
Egaeus Press comes the third mini-book in their stylish Keynote
Edition Series:
The Echo Of The Sea & Other Strange War Stories by
PAUL ST JOHN MACKINTOSH, 'featuring four masterfully wrought short
stories / novellas...in which ghosts, Nordic folklore and ancient
rituals encroach upon the very practical matters of WWII.'
BRIAN
SHOWERS continues his honourable literary excavations with Old
Hoggen and Other Adventures by BRAM STOKER
(Swan River Press). As well as mystery and black humour, we are also
promised 'the creeping intrusion of the supernatural.'
Speaking
of the Irish supernatural, Tramp Press are reissuing DOROTHY
MACARDLE’s The Unforeseen;
first published in 1946, it
is the
follow-up to The Uninvited,.
Zagava
Books latest is quite a bundle, featuring MARK SAMUELS' sixth
collection, The Prozess Manifestations,
THOMAS PHILLIPS' In This Glass House,
('a tense, aesthetic space between Shirley Jackson and Don DeLillo'),
The Sketchbook of Stanislav Szukalski,
and a facsimilie of the debut issue of the first fantasy magazine,
Der Orchideengarten.
(The Orchid Garden,
with parallel English text).
Newly
reissued by Wakefield Press comes OSCAR SCHMITZ's Hashish,
charmingly described as
'a
collection of decadent, interwoven tales of Satanism, eroticism,
sadism, cannibalism, necrophilia and death,' first published in
Germany in 1902.
From
their website: 'Wick Press acquired the rights to publish a
two-volume anthology of rare ghost stories originally published in
1700s' and 1800s' periodicals. Volume I of The
Greatest Ghost Stories Ever Told
will arrive in time for the Ghost Story for Christmas tradition
practiced by master of the antiquated ghost story himself, M. R.
JAMES.'
Finally,
belated mention must be made – for the seventieth anniversary of
his death - of The Ghost In The Corner &
Other Stories by LORD DUNSANY (Hippocampus
Press); the result of editors S.T. JOSHI and MARTIN ANDERSSON
unearthing previously unpublished and uncollected works held by the
Dunsany Estate. (The non-sword and sorcery tales being of personal
interest).
Slight correction: Dunsany died in 1957, so it was the _sixtieth_ anniversary of his death on October 25, 2017.
ReplyDeleteMartin A (yes, I'm one of the editors of the book :) )