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Nov 02, 2013 04:04AM
I haven't come across them before....
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I have bought all five of their titles. The hardback books are all gorgeous, with beautiful artwork found on the covers and therein.Most of the titles are collections of short stories and/or novellas. One in a full novel, and another is a triptych of 3 novellas, concerning the Punch character from Punch and Judy.
I would recommend all 5 to anyone who enjoys the more literary approach to the weird, fantastic, strange, surreal, etc.
Randolph wrote: "Benjamin wrote: "I have bought all five of their titles. The hardback books are all gorgeous, with beautiful artwork found on the covers and therein.Most of the titles are collections of short st..."
Its a very expensive habit for me. Fortunately for me, a have few vices other than book collecting. I collect Egaeus Press along with Ex Occidente, Tartarus, and other small presses putting out the more literary weird tale.
Molly Tanzer's Rumbullion just was released by Egaeus and arrived on my door step earlier this week. Quite lovely...
I just began collecting Egaeus myself, and have managed to get 4 of their 5 books. I seems to me that the going rate for the small press horror books appears to be between fifty and seventy five bucks (except for Ex Occidente - slightly pricier yet works of publishing art) For the most part they are beautiful books and a pleasure to hold. I like to think of them as a type of backlash against those E-readers.
Which one are you missing Karl... the Reggie Oliver?
Benjamin wrote: "Which one are you missing Karl... the Reggie Oliver?"Hi Benjamin, I am missing the George Berguno "The Tainted Earth"
Oh... you really want to get that one. It is really outstanding. His first novella is collected in TAINTED EARTH.
Benjamin wrote: "Oh... you really want to get that one. It is really outstanding. His first novella is collected in TAINTED EARTH."Thank You for the info. I will look to pick it up.
Benjamin wrote: "Oh... you really want to get that one. It is really outstanding. His first novella is collected in TAINTED EARTH."I ordered the book, I look forward to it arriving in a few days.
Benjamin wrote: "Have you read any Berguno before?"No, I have never come across the gentleman that I recall.
Regrettably, his two other collections are out of print, through Ex Occidente. Both are outstanding.I hope you enjoy the Tainted Earth.
Benjamin wrote: "Regrettably, his two other collections are out of print, through Ex Occidente. Both are outstanding.I hope you enjoy the Tainted Earth."
Thank you for the recommendation. You appear to have you fingers on the pulse of the publishers I have grown to enjoy. There is nothing like a beautifully produced book.
I think we are collecting many of the same books... I hope I haven't pipped you on an e-bay bid. ; )
Berguno is one of my favorite authors. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on his work.
Benjamin wrote: "I think we are collecting many of the same books... I hope I haven't pipped you on an e-bay bid. ; )
Berguno is one of my favorite authors. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on his work."
I tend not to purchase too much on E-Bay, there are a couple of dealers I usually frequent. I tried ordering directly from Ex Occidente sadly the books never arrived, so I have been dependent on secondary sources.
I will let you know what I think when I get and read the Berguno.
Just announced The imminent publication ofTHE FANTASMAGORICAL IMPERATVE & OTHER FABRICATIONS
a collection of eight short stories and two novellas by acclaimed writer of curious and grotesque tales
D. P. WATT
Hi every one, I just got this for Egaeus :Good people
I'm aware that some of you are having trouble with paying by Paypal through the Egaeus Press website.
I believe it's Paypal's fault (though I'm open to suggestions), but I'm working to put things right. We'll let you know the outcome.
You're welcome in the meantime to send the £30 via Paypal to my account egaeuspress@gmail.com.
Thank you all.
All the best
Mark
Just announced:The next Egaeus Press publication will be
WRITTEN IN DARKNESS
the long awaited new collection of weird tales by Mark Samuels.
The book will contain nine uncollected stories,
five of which are previously unpublished,
along with an introduction by Reggie Oliver and calligraphy by Geoff Cox.
275 copies are presently being printed with a view to publication on Friday 7th November 2014.
There will also be a limited number of exclusive signed postcards.
Second printing for SOLILOQUY FOR PANThis mammoth 350 page compendium of new and previously unpublished fiction, essays and poetry along with lesser known archive material, in praise, in awe, in fear of the great god is now available to pre-order in a second printing (the first - published on 21st of June 2015 - sold out in just two weeks).
The official publication date for this printing - featuring a different cover image and endpapers - is 23rd September 2015 (the equinox), and purchased copies will be despatched shortly thereafter.
This mammoth 350 page compendium of new and previously unpublished fiction, essays and poetry along with lesser known archive material, in praise, in awe, in fear of the great god is now available to pre-order in a second printing (the first - published on 21st of June 2015 - sold out in just two weeks).
The official publication date for this printing - featuring a different cover image and endpapers - is 23rd September 2015 (the equinox), and purchased copies will be despatched shortly thereafter.
http://www.egaeuspress.com/Soliloquy_...
Buried Shadows by John Howard Now available for pre-order.
A volume of ten previously uncollected stories and novellas by John Howard, one of the most highly regarded names in modern weird and fantastical fiction.
Through the tales here presented, we find ourselves transported between Berlin and Birmingham, Lisbon and Budapest, through towns and cityscapes of treacherous architectures and unquiet histories; through a world which vehemently refuses to lie still...
http://www.egaeuspress.com/Buried_Sha...
Egaeus will publish a new collection of most excellent Paul StJohn Mackintosh's weird fiction."...the closing days of October will see the publication of Paul StJohn Mackintosh's The Echo of The Sea & other Strange War Stories, as part of Egaeus Press's Keynote Editions. The book will comprise of four masterfully wrought, previously unpublished novellas and short stories in which ghosts, Nordic folklore and ancient rituals encroach upon the practical matters of WWII."
Following up on Neutrino's post, The Echo of The Sea & Other Strange War Stories is now available for pre-order:http://www.egaeuspress.com/Echo_of_Th...
Egaeus Press announces that The Greenwood Faun by Nina Antonia is available to pre-order.The Greenwood Faun
"A strange and curious novel, steeped in the lingering incense and paganism of the fin-de-siècle."
- Phil Baker
"Nina Antonia's The Greenwood Faun is a haunted, haunting work. Summoning up Lucian Taylor, the hallucinated hero of Arthur Machen's The Hill of Dreams, Nina channels the curious, captivating story of what happened to Lucian's literary masterpiece after his death, and how it both saves and destroys those who come across it after it is posthumously published. Shot through with decadence, poetry, opium, and incense, with the ghost of Lionel Johnson as psychopomp and the Great God Pan heavy in the fields, this is a beautifully written proem: witty, crepuscular, enchanting, surprising."
- David Tibet
"Decadent in style and, more importantly, in spirit, The Greenwood Faun captures the lush sentiment as well as the mordant irony of the fin-de-siècle, and contrives a delicate balance between them. I loved it."
- Brian Stableford
Scheduled for publication on December the 5th, 2017 - Faunalia of the ancient Roman calendar - the book has 192 pages; is a lithographically printed, sewn hardback with colour endpapers. It is limited to just 420 copies.
ISBN 978-0-993527876.
It can be ordered now for £32.00, inclusive of postage worldwide.
Recent email from Egaeus Press:Good people.
We're extremely pleased to announce the table of contents (and the provisional running order) for the forthcoming Egaeus Press BOOK OF THE SEA. (The book will be split into 4 sections.)
I: Ligan
Other's Tears by David Yates
Waiting by Rosalie Parker
The Figurehead of the Cailleach by Stephen J. Clark
In The Hold, It Waits by Tom Johnstone
The Sorrows of Satan's Book by Karim Ghahwagi
II: Flotsam
The Storm Brood by Colin Fisher
By Severn's Flood by Jane Jakeman
Breakwater Lodge by Michael R. Colangelo
Dancing Boy by Colin Insole
Below Decks by Jonathan Eeds
The Final Flight of Fidelia by Albert Power
III: Jetsam
Withernsea by Martin Jones
Sailing to Trebizond by Sandra Rennie
The Woman from Malta by George Berguño
From Whence We Came by Jonathan Wood
Some Pages from the Journal of James Morris, Founder, Sable Island Humane Establishment, 1801 by Tim Foley
IV: Derelict
Cut Through with Skeins of Shallow Light by Joseph Dawson
[As yet untitled story] by Charles Schneider
The Lighthouse by Richard Sheppard
The Night They Came by D.F. Lewis
The Woman Who Walked in to the Sea by Steven Pirie
Publication is likely to be May, 2018, though more details will be made available in the weeks to come.
Welcome aboard.
Recent email from Egaeus Press:Good people, news of forthcoming attractions:
Firstly, and in answer to that question hovering on so many lips: A Book of the Sea will be available to pre-order in the first few days of June. A further announcement will follow when pre-ordering becomes available, so please keep looking to the horizon... This book will be limited to 400 copies, and will contain previously unseen works by Jane Jakeman, Rosalie Parker, Tom Johnstone, Colin Insole, Jonathan Eeds, Stephen J. Clark, Karim Ghahwagi, Michael Colangelo, Colin Fisher, George Berguño, Albert Power, Martin Jones, David Yates, S.A. Rennie, D.F. Lewis, Steven Pirie, Jonathan Wood, Tim Foley, Joseph Dawson, Charles Schneider and Richard Sheppard.
This publication will be followed, in a matter of a month or so with the forth in our occasional series of Egaeus Press Keynote Editions, showcasing some of the best in contemporary weird writers, in this case the iridescent John Gale, and a collection of very rare and previously unpublished tales and proems entitled Saraband of Sable. More news of that soon.
Further, those willing to be patient, will, in the months to follow be treated to The Egaeus Press Book of Flowers, and a new collected edition of the stories of Charles Wilkinson... but wait... not just yet...
Thank you all for your attention.
Recent announcement from Egaeus Press:Charles Wilkinson's new collection SPLENDID IN ASH is now available to order...
Seventeen previously uncollected stories (plus an introduction by John Howard) which manage, with seeming effortlessness, to take ordinary things into extraordinarily strange places.
This book is likely to join Charles's previous (long out of print) Egaeus Press collection, A TWIST IN THE EYE (2016), as a much sought after and highly regarded example of weird fiction at its most disquieting.
Limited to just 300 copies.
Recent email from Egaeus Press:Good people,
Another year turns towards its end, and there's much to look forward to in 2019...
THE BOOK OF FLOWERING will see publication in the second half of January: Featuring new tales of strangeness, beauty and impermanence by Mark Valentine, V. H. Leslie, Charles Schneider, Thomas Strømsholt, Timothy J. Jarvis, Mat Joiner, Ron Weighell, Tiffani Angus, John Gale, Reggie Oliver, Sheryl Humphrey, D. P. Watt, Colin Insole, Alison Littlewood, Damian Murphy, Jonathan Wood, Rebecca Kuder and N. A. Jackson. More details will be disclosed in the weeks to come.
This book will be followed by a collection of rare or unpublished novellas by the uniquely talented John Howard, entitled THE VOICE OF THE AIR; and then, a marvellously eclectic compendium of morbid, irreverent and fantastical writings by various authors, entitled A MISCELLANY OF DEATH AND FOLLY. There are more publications in the works, but I'm afraid you'll just have to wait a little longer for that.
An enormous thank you to everyone who has purchased from and supported Egaeus Press in the last 12 months: Very much appreciated. And should our paths not cross again in the next few weeks, a Merry Yuletide and a happy new year to you all.
Regards
Mark
Yes... this is quite welcomed news. Always looking forward to new releases from Egaeus.
Recent email from Egaeus Press:Good people.
The next Egaeus Press publication will be another in our series of Keynote editions, namely CHILDREN OF THE CRIMSON SUN by Karim Ghahwagi, featuring two long pieces of beautiful, baroque phantasy. Publication is likely to be late April or early May, and further updates will follow in due course.
This will be followed by OF ONE PURE WILL, a wonderful collection of restlessly dreamish dark tales by Farah Rose Smith. Definitely not to be missed.
Our next anthology, A MISCELLANY OF DEATH AND FOLLY, about which we can disclose little but promise much, is taking shape for publication later in the year.
Unfortunately, the publication of the previously mentioned John Howard novella collection, THE VOICE OF THE AIR, has had to be delayed until late 2019 (possibly the beginning of 2020). It'll be worth the wait.
Thank you all very much.
Recent email from Egaeus Press:Good people...
Now available for pre-order: CHILDREN OF THE CRIMSON SUN by Karim Ghahwagi. One of our series of pocket sized Keynote editions.
A diptych of dark, richly wrought, strange tales, exploring faith, identity, and those mysterious currents which inhabit the spaces in between them. At once psychological tales of mounting spiritual horror, and investigations into the dark fantastic.
The title novella, Children of the Crimson Sun, concerns a young medic of the Hospitaller Knights of Malta, charged with investigating an unsettling case in a local fishing village, where spiritual forces both contemporary and ancient saturate the sprawling archipelago’s villages, churches, monasteries, megalithic temples, and deep subterranean caverns.
In the second piece, A Haunting in Miniature, a village in the Moravian region of the Czech Republic is unsettled by a series of ghostly visitations. The supernatural intrusions give rise to suspicions that the region’s history has resurfaced in strange and foreboding circumstances.
See HERE http://www.egaeuspress.com/Children_o...
for more details and to order. Official publication will be on 27th April 2019, with all pre-ordered copies being despatched on or by that date.
The book is a lithographically printed, 192 page pocket sized sewn hardback (105mm x 165mm); limited to just 220 copies. ISBN 978-1-916465725.
Yeah... this looks really interesting... much like most everything Egaeus is putting out there.
Recent email from Egaeus Press:Good people
CHILDREN OF THE CRIMSON SUN by Karim Ghahwagi is officially published today. All pre-orders have now been despatched. Thank you all.
The book features two novella length pieces of dark phantasy, compelling, mysterious, richly woven and utterly original.
It is limited to just 220 copies, and is currently still available to purchase. See HERE for more details.
A short video by Karim, which features an extract from Children of the Crimson Sun follows:
https://vimeo.com/330625210
Egaeus Press published my favorite horror/weird novel of the 21st Century:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Randolph wrote: "I bought one."And.... What's it like?
Randolph wrote: "I’ll let you know when it arrives" ;-)
I'm looking forward to the Karim Ghahwagi. Quite enjoyed his story in The Book of the Sea. Also looking forward to his novella that will be put out by Ex Occidente.I have a few Egaeus Press. Murder Ballads, Book of the Sea, Book of Flowering, Greenwood Faun, Buried Shadows, A Twist in the Eye, Splendid in Ash, Saraband of Sable. like others of said, they are works of art.
so far I've read A Twist in the Eye (excellent) and A Book of the Sea (very mixed feelings).
Yeah... I’m looking forward to this new Ghahwagi. Should be another really good one from Egaeus.
Ronald wrote: "Egaeus Press published my favorite horror/weird novel of the 21st Century:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."
Ronald, In Delirium's Circle makes my top three horror novels, for sure. Then again, I have The Feathered Bough via Zagava sitting on my shelf waiting to be read, too . . .
Forrest wrote: "Ronald wrote: "Egaeus Press published my favorite horror/weird novel of the 21st Century:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."
Ronald, In Delirium's..."
Oh you are in for a treat! Feathered bough was one of my favorite novels from last year.
I have never read a story by here... but the book as an object looks gorgeous... per usual Egaeus standards.
Recent notification from Egaeus Press:Good people.
We're pleased to announce that our next publication will be THE VOICE OF THE AIR by JOHN HOWARD. Yes, at last! The book will comprise of three novellas, following architect and academic Cristian Luca through the tumult of the mid-C20th in the fictional Romanian town of Steaua de Munte.
As well as collecting the extremely rare "The Lustre of Time" and "The Fatal Vision", The Voice of The Air will also feature a new and previously unpublished novella in the Cristian Luca series, "The Process of Fire".
Publication will take place in the second half of March, and more information will be made available in the weeks to come.
The following months will also see the publication of CROOKED HOUSES, an anthology of tales of cursed and haunted houses, plus a rather dubious BOOK OF POISONS, and a couple of Keynote editions that no one should want to miss... But all in good time.
Stay close. You'll see.
The Voice of the Air by John Howard now available for purchase:http://www.egaeuspress.com/The_Voice_...
Recent notification from Egaeus Press:Crooked Houses
Now available for pre-order.
Alas! Is there a theme in supernatural fiction more prone to cliché and cozy familiarity than the haunted house story?
With this mammoth new anthology, Egaeus Press aims to reclaim that supremely primal tradition, not only from glossy movies, cartoons and television-era ghost hunters, but also from the Victorians, and the great, academic spook story authors of the 20th Century who, by their nature, sought to calibrate, anthro- pomorphise and provide justification for acts by forces which might hitherto have been considered beyond the scope of human comprehension.
Crooked Houses takes its cue from this earlier age. Though many of the stories presented are set in the modern world, the forces which pervade are primeval, unquantifiable; the stuff of folk-tales, family curses and collective nightmares.
These houses have very deep roots. These houses have teeth.
The book comprises 17 previously unpublished stories. The full table of contents is as follows:
YOUR HOUSE, ANY HOUSE. THAT HOUSE. — Rebecca Kuder
THE SULLIED PANE — Richard Gavin
THE SHEPHERD’S HOUSE — Colin Insole
THE WEST WINDOW — Helen Grant
THE PSYCHOMANTEUM — Steve Duffy
THE CRUMBLIES — Reggie Oliver
THE DEVIL WILL BE AT THE DOOR — David Surface
THE HOUSE OF THE MERE — John Gale
FAIREST OF THEM ALL — Albert Power
MIASMATA — Lynda E. Rucker
THE READERS OF THE SANDS — Mark Valentine
DOLL’S HOUSE — Carly Holmes
AT LOTHESLEY, MONTGOMERYSHIRE, 1910 — James Doig
IN CROMER ROAD — Rebecca Lloyd
HOUSE OF SAND — Katherine Haynes
MYTHOLOGY — Jane Jakeman
THE PINER HOUSE — Timothy Granville
Edited by Mark Beech
The book is a lithographically printed, 352 page hardback with colour endpapers; limited to just 325 copies.
ISBN 978-1-916465770.
It can be purchased now for £40.00, inclusive of postage worldwide.
Thanks for letting us know! It looks like another beautiful book from Egaeus Press with a stellar headline. I just preordered my copy.
Thank you, Ronald! I am preordering as well.
