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- Wormwood
- Writings about fantasy, supernatural and
decadent literature.
- Edited by Mark Valentine
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Number Eleven
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- Issue Number One
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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 2-5 are is £7.99/$14 post paid.
Issues 6, 7, 8 and 9 are £8.99/$15.
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- 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 number 3 (Autumn/Winter 2004), but we are
still seeking contributions for future issues. 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 We do not publish contemporary fiction.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
- ...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"
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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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