Mid-year News (Yes, I'm on Substack, et cetera)
It's about time I posted some news. Not all of it is mine, but let me start by suggesting that readers scroll down the page at the Occult Press website to the titles listed as "Forthcoming". At the top of the list you will find, next to my name, the title, Out There. Out There was first published in 2016, in a very limited edition of 107. I won't give a synopsis here. Suffice it to say that the novella is influenced by Japanese folklore and literature and involves two friends, one of whom wishes to travel to Mars, hiking in the Japanese mountains.
The second item of news is that I have now (as of last month) started writing at Substack. If you are interested, you may find my Substack account here:
https://quentinscrisp.substack.com/
Thirdly, I would also like to draw attention to the existence of an anthology from British Library Publishing with the title, Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird . This volume contains a tale from Mark Samuels. For some reason there is no table of contents for the book anywhere obvious online. (This kind of negligence and incompetence grows apace in recent years and I suspect it is symptomatic of the age: an age in which we emulate machines and submit hastily to the idea of our own obsolescence.) Nonetheless, I have very good reason to believe that the Mark Samuels story included therein is 'Cesare Thodol: Some Lines Written on a Wall'. (This tale first appeared, I believe, in the Strange Attractor journal and later in Mark's collection Glyphotech.) Together with 'The White Hands', included in the Folio Society's Weird Tales anthology (a selection by Michael Dirda), that makes two of Mark's tales that have been anthologised posthumously so far, both in prestigious venues. I hope this bodes well for his future readership. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, in life or death, and I hope those who appreciate Mark's work will do their best to make sure it is remembered and passed on.
Well, that's all the news, but I'll end with a couple of reminders. First, a reminder that I have a Patreon account, which you may find here:
https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=2730...
And also, the permanent link to the interview I did with Nina Power and Doug Lain back in January of this year for Sublation is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8oUb...
I will update with more news as and when.
The second item of news is that I have now (as of last month) started writing at Substack. If you are interested, you may find my Substack account here:
https://quentinscrisp.substack.com/
Thirdly, I would also like to draw attention to the existence of an anthology from British Library Publishing with the title, Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird . This volume contains a tale from Mark Samuels. For some reason there is no table of contents for the book anywhere obvious online. (This kind of negligence and incompetence grows apace in recent years and I suspect it is symptomatic of the age: an age in which we emulate machines and submit hastily to the idea of our own obsolescence.) Nonetheless, I have very good reason to believe that the Mark Samuels story included therein is 'Cesare Thodol: Some Lines Written on a Wall'. (This tale first appeared, I believe, in the Strange Attractor journal and later in Mark's collection Glyphotech.) Together with 'The White Hands', included in the Folio Society's Weird Tales anthology (a selection by Michael Dirda), that makes two of Mark's tales that have been anthologised posthumously so far, both in prestigious venues. I hope this bodes well for his future readership. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, in life or death, and I hope those who appreciate Mark's work will do their best to make sure it is remembered and passed on.
Well, that's all the news, but I'll end with a couple of reminders. First, a reminder that I have a Patreon account, which you may find here:
https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=2730...
And also, the permanent link to the interview I did with Nina Power and Doug Lain back in January of this year for Sublation is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8oUb...
I will update with more news as and when.
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Aaron wrote: "Dear Mr CrispI do apologize for the lack of a contents page accessible online.
The story in question is indeed Cesare Thodol (though I did consider others).
AW"
Thank you for confirming. I appreciate it. I hope you will excuse my tremor of apoplexy brought on by internet-and-bureaucracy fatigue.
I also hope you will be interested to learn that Mark Samuels gave me a copy of Eleanor Scott's Randall's Round, for which I believe you were editor, not long before he died, as well as the BL Blackwood selection, Roarings from Further Out. He would have been very gratified, I'm sure, to know that he was included in a BL anthology.
I do apologize for the lack of a contents page accessible online.
The story in question is indeed Cesare Thodol (though I did consider others).
AW