R.B.
Russell's Ghosts book and CD package is now
sold out. However, the CD can be purchased individually using the Paypal
button below, and a copy will be sent from the UK via R.B. Russell at the
Tartarus Press. Each copy is £12, post free worldwide, and will be sent
out early February.
***
19th January
2012:
Morbid Tales by Quentin S. Crisp is
now available as an ebook from the Morbid Tales page, or via
Amazon.
***
16th January:
We are pleased to announce the paperback
reprint of Quentin S. Crisp's acclaimed 2004 short story collection,
Morbid
Tales.
We are sorry to report that Sourdough by Angela Slatter has
sold out.
We Are for the Dark has been reviewed by Mario
Guslandi at Specusphere
Rick Kleffel's Agony column review of Cold Hand in Mine by Robert
Aickman
***
21st December
2011:
A Merry Christmas to everyone! We will
be taking a short break from wrapping up books, but normal service will
resume early in the New Year. Many thanks for your support in what has
been an especially busy year.
Our programme for 2012 includes a
collection of decadent stories by Marcel Schwob, a paperback (and ebook)
reprint of Reggie Oliver's Mrs
Midnight, further reprints of Robert Aickman, and a couple of
new, exciting, contemporary authors.
2012 will also see the release of Ray Russell's
album of new music, Ghosts.
***
15th December: The Unsettled Dust, a Radio Four programme
about Robert Aickman's strange stories was aired today, and is available
to be listened to again via theiplayer.
Forthcoming, a BBC Radio Four appreciation of
Robert Aickman: The Unsettled Dust.
***
2nd December
2011:
A nice mention of Tartarus is made by Alan Moore in
a new interview with Honest
Publishing.
For the convenience of those with e-readers, a list
of our ebooks is now available here.
***
26th November, 2011: We have posted a
short film on Youtube that should be of interest to those familiar with
Tartarus Press, Mark Valentine, and some of the authors we have
published over the years. The link is here.
***
23rd November 2011: Two good reviews of
Tartarus Press titles have been posted by the British Fantasy Society.
Frankenstein's
Prescription by Tim Lees is reviewed here, and Mrs Midnight by Reggie
Oliver here.
***
18th November, 2011: Wormwood # 17 has been
delivered, orders have been packed up, and copies will be posted
tomorrow morning. We've just noticed an annoying mistake: "Some Notes
on Aickman's Plays" by Douglas A. Anderson has somehow been missed
from the cover and contents page. This is a short but fascinating
article, and our apologies to Doug.
***
17th November: Robert Aickman is discussed in the Invisible Ink column in The Independent, with a mention of
"some very collectable, elegant hardbacks from Tartarus Press" ***
15th November 2011: Wormwood # 17 is
published next week and contains articles on H.P. Lovecraft,Gabriele d’Annunzio's poetry, Reginald Hodder,
Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados, Donald Armour’s Swept & Garnished, and an Overview of
American Decadence, as well as 'Under Review', ' Late Reviews' and ' Camera Obscura'.
***
14th November: We've written an account of the
alt.Ghost Story Festival on our blog, which includes a link to a
video of Reggie Oliver reading "Ritual" by Arthur
Machen.
"Read this for the prose style alone, which, for
anyone who has read his one anthologised story ‘Loving Lady Death’
(‘La Morte Amoureuse’) - re-translated as the title tale here -
will already have experienced his stunning, sensual evocation of place
and time. This continues in the other eleven tales."
An
appreciation of Reggie Oliver's new collection: 'Mrs Midnight and other stories is one of the
best books I have read this year.' - Henry Wessells, The Endless
Bookshelf.
***
7th November: The White Hands by Mark
Samuels is now available as an ebook, either direct from us, or
through Amazon.
Please note that Mrs Midnight by Reggie Oliver, will be
"launched" at the Aldburgh
Bookshop on the 26th November, and signed copies will be
available on the night.
***
5th November: Comedian Stewart Lee discusses
Arthur Machen's The Green Round
on BBC's The Review Show,
and shows off his Tartarus Press edition. Use the iplayer and you'll find it at
44:19.
***
2nd November 2011: Michael Reynier's Five Degrees
of Latitude is now available as an ebook. It can be
bought from us direct via the Five
Degrees of Latitude page, or through Amazon via the links on
that page.
31st October: A well-written essay on the
incomparable Arthur Machen, for Halloween, by Michael Dirda at the
Barnes and Noble
Review.
***
6th October: Michael Reynier, author of Five Degrees of Latitude, has
been interviewed by Rick Kleffel at the Agony Column. The interview is offered on the
website as a downloadable podcast.
19th October 2011: We are delighted to announce
that the next book published by Tartarus Press will be We Are
for the Dark by Robert Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard.
It will be launched at the Alt.Halifax Ghost Story Festival, at
which will be shown rare tv adaptations of Howard's "Three Miles Up"
(from We Are for the Dark) and
Aickman's "The Hospice". As a part of the research for the We Are for the Dark reprint, Ray Russell
interviewed Elizabeth Jane Howard, and a part of that interview is
available on the Tartarus Press blog.
Another strand of the festival will be a
discussion of the work of Arthur Machen, which will include a reading
of Machen's story "Ritual" by Reggie Oliver, a panel discussing his
work chaired by Mark Valentine, and a presentation of the recent film
of "The Happy Children".
***
14th October 2011: We have just received copies
of Clarimonde and
Other Stories by Theophile Gautier. We'll be wrapping
these up and putting them in the post next week. In the meantime, you
can read "The Opium Pipe" by Gautier on our blog.
5th October 2011: Our next book will be Clarimonde and Other Stories by
Theophile Gautier. We believe that this will be the
definitive Gautier collection, using Lafcadio Hearn's classic
translations, with newly-commissioned translations for the remaining
supernatural tales which have not been previously
collected.
We are sorry to
report that Mrs Midnight by
Reggie Oliver is now out of print, despite only being
offically published a few days ago! Copies should still be
available from some of the dealers listed here.
***
3rd October, 2011:
We would like to recommend you check out an
ebay auction with some rare and
interesting items, some from Tartarus Press. They are all being sold to aid
a literary colleague in financial hardship.
Booking details for the Halifax alt.ghost story
festival are now available. Tobook a ticket
call 01422 255 266 or visit www.deanclough.com
A Mild Case of
Bibliomaniais
a short film by R.B. Russell that
goes some way to explaining the genesis of Tartarus
Press.
***
26th September: A good review ofFive Degrees of Latitude has just
been posted by Publishers Weekly: "Readers who like
weird tales with a vintage feel will find this volume an auspicious
debut."
1st September: A fine review of Sourdough can be found at
Jildysauce. The reviewer says:
"These stories are stupendously good and offer many distinct
pleasures: a strange yet superbly realised world, compelling
characters and, above all, beautiful prose that has the power to
move."
26th August 2011: We have great pleasure in
announcing that we will publish Mrs Midnight and Other Stories by
Reggie Oliver on 30th September 2011. The book will be
launched at Fantasycon in Brighton.
***
26th August 2011: The Halifax Ghost Story
Festival will return this year, in an alt.ghost story guise. It will be held
on Saturday 12th November at Dean Clough, Halifax, and will start
about 2pm. (There will be a break for food between about 5pm-7pm, then
the evening events begin.) There may well be a Sunday session,
although it will be a couple of weeks before this can be
confirmed.
Tartarus Press will play a large part
in the proceedings. We will be exploring the boundaries where the
ghostly and the supernatural meet the psychological and the mystical.
We aim to turn the spotlight on Arthur Machen in particular; plus
Elizabeth Jane Howard and Robert Aickman, and we will be showing
film(s) relating to their work. We can confirm that we will be showing
the new film of "The Happy Children" by Machen, the TV adaptation of
Howard's "Three Miles Up", and we are negotiating to show "The
Hospice" by Aickman.
We will have a number of guests including Mark
Valentine and Reggie Oliver who will help furnish us with a highly
informed, urbane take on the supernatural fiction genre.
We hope that there will also be theatre and
readings courtesy of Lawrence Gordon Clark, and Jeremy Dyson will be
back...
Additionally, we also hope to launch the
publication of a new edition of We Are for the Dark by Robert
Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard.
More details will be posted as they are
confirmed....
20th July 2011: We have written another blog
entry, this time on art and design.
***
16th July 2011: More non-Tartarus Press news: Ray
Russell's Novella, Bloody Baudelaire, has been optioned
for a film by 3:1 Cinema in the USA, with filming set to start later
this year.
***
15th July, 2011: Other News: Anyone eligible to vote in the
forthcoming British Fantasy Society Awards is welcome to Tartarus
Press proprietor, Ray Russell's, shortlisted story, "The Beautiful
Room", made available hereas a pdf courtesy of the
publisher, Nightjar Press. Non-voters are welcome to read it as well.
And everyone is welcome to buy a copy (£3) from Nightjar by emailing:
nicholasroyle@mac.com
***
11th July 2011: The next book published by
Tartarus Press will be Cold Hand in Mine
by Robert Aickman, with an Introduction by Phil
Baker.
***
9th July 2011: We have written another blog
entry about the changing nature of publishing. It
includes the news that the following are now available as
ebooks:
24th June 2011: We have just received finished
copies of Five Degrees
of Latitude by Michael Reynier. We will be packing these
up over the next few days and will post them out at the beginning of
next week.
Other news:
We have been blogging again, this time on the
subject of collaborations with other presses.
***
20th June 2011: As a part of our commitment to
Sarban’s writings, and our aim to make his work as widely available as
possible, we are publishing the following as ebooks:
We already have Ringstones and The Doll Maker available as hardback
volumes, and in due course will also be putting back into print
The Sound of His Horn and
The Sacrifice and Other
Stories.
***
17th June 2011: We have "blogged" again. This time discussing
the invaluable contribution of Mark Valentine to Tartarus
Press.
***
13th June 2011: Our next title will be Five Degrees of Latitude by
Michael Reynier. This new collection of short stories has been
described as "Sarban meets Blackwood meets late Machen," by Jim
Rockhill, and we would like to agree with his recommendation! We are
very pleased to be able to add Michael Reynier to our Contemporary
Fiction series. Publication 1st July 2011.
Please not that we have now sold out of all
copies of Father Raven by A.E.
Coppard.
***
12th June 2011: In this month's issue of
Locus, Stefan Dziemianowicz says of
Time, A
Falconer by Mark Valentine : "A sensitive and sympathetic
portrait … [Valentine] weaves his analyses of Sarban’s fiction
seamlessly into the broader tapestry spun from the known biographical
facts. The result is a thoroughly engrossing account of the writer’s
intellectual
growth and interests in the course of his lifetime."
***
10th June 2011: We have a new post on our blog, inspired by the fact that we
are down to our last few copies of Father Raven and Other Tales
by A.E. Coppard.
The judge's report for the Aurealis
Awards said of Sourdough and Other
Stories by Angela Slatter:
"Sourdough is probably the most exquisitely
produced and packaged collection of the year. The artifact produced is
a credit to Tartarus Press and the quality of the inter-linked
fairy-tale-esque stories is a credit to Slatter’s prowess as a short
story writer."
***
6th June 2011: A good review of Time, A
Falconer by Mark Valentine can be found here.
***
Please note that Three Miles Up by Eizabeth Jane Howard
is now out of print.
***
5th June 2011: Tartarus receives a mention at the
conclusion to Christopher Fowler's Independent on Sunday article
on Arthur Machen. Of all the authors to compare Machen to, Dan Brown
is the last one we'd have hoped for...
3rd May: Congratulations to Angela Slatter and
Eric Stener Carlson for their Nightmare Awards for Sourdough and The St Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires.
Tartarus Press also receives an award.
27th April: We have very few copies remaining of
Three Miles Up by Elizabeth
Jane Howard...
***
20th April: Wormwood 16 is at the
printers and will be published on 16th May. Among other items, it
contains articles on two forgotten fantasy novels of 1911
(Algernon Blackwood’s The Centaur and
J.D. Beresford’s The Hampdenshire
Wonder), Charles Allston Collins, Carl Jacobi, H.T.W.
Bousfield, Vincent O’Sullivan and William Walker
Hamilton.
***
19th April 2011: The new issue of Black Static includes an
ecstatic review of Frankenstein's Prescription by Tim
Lees: "...it is, quite frankly, a brilliant novel, one which takes the
old stereotype and fills it with vibrant new life. The story is
gripping, with each and every element of the plot fitting into place
perfectly..." Many thanks to the reviewer, Peter Tennant, for the kind
words at the conclusion to his review: "It’s only February, and I may
already have read the best horror novel of 2011. As with the Angela
Slatter collection that I reviewed last issue, huge kudos to Tartarus
for putting work of this exceptional quality into the public
domain."
***
14th April 2011: A fine review by Mario Guslandi
for our first two Robert Aickman volumes is published at Rick Kleffel's Agony
Column. The editor's commentary can also be found here.
***
13th April 2011: Congratulations to John Shire on
the publication of Bookends: A Partial
History of the Brighton Book Trade. Amongst material
which will be fascinating to those who have known and loved the
bookshops of Brighton, there is an account of the genesis of the
Tartarus Press!
***
12th April: Please note that Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas
and Various Temptations by
William Sansom are now out of print.
31st March 2011: Congratulations to Angela Slatter,
whose story, "Lavender and Lychgates", from Sourdough and Other
Stories, has been selected for the latest Mammoth Book of Best New
Horror.
Well done to Johnny Mains whose auction of genre
fiction material has raised just over £1,000 for the Red
Cross Japan Disaster appeal!
***
22nd March 2011: We are delighted to learn that
Sourdough by Angela Slatter
has been shortlisted for the Aurelias Award for best collection, and
"Sister Sister" for best short story.
A good, full page review of Time, A
Falconer by
Mark Valentine has been published in The Literary Review this month.
Robert Irwin concludes: "It is somewhat unsettling to imagine this
quiet man sorting out visa applications or attending dull formal
receptions and all the while brooding on the taloned
cat-women."
10th March 2011: We have very few copies
remaining of Various
Temptations by William Sansom. The Sense of the Past by Henry James is
now out of print.
***
16th February 2011: In the new issue of Black
StaticPeter Tennant devotes six pages to Angela Slatter
comment, interview and review. Of Sourdough he writes: "With their
larger than life characters and the beautiful, evocative writing, the
intricate plotting that continually reinvents itself and twists back
on what has gone before, these are wonderful stories from a writer who
appeals to both the emotions and the intellect. Sourdough and Other Stories was one of the best books I read in 2010, and it’s
work from a writer whose career is just beginning."
Peter additionally writes: "Tartarus have done
Slatter proud with a truly sumptuous volume. Sourdough is a beautiful book, one that gets
its collector’s edition status and price tag on merit and not simply
by virtue of being signed by whomever or number whatever of a limited
edition"
***
11th February 2011:Frankenstein's
Prescription has arrived! Our apologies for the delay, but we
will be posting these on Monday.
***
10th February: We are pleased to report that
copies of Worming the
Harpy by Rhys Hughes and Dark
Entries
by Robert Aickman have been delivered to us. Copies will be posted to
customers over the next few days.
***
4th February: We now have now sold out of all
remaining Discovery of Heretics slipcased sets.
***
25th January: We're a little late in noting
this rave review for SourdoughatShe Never Slept: "I would recommend this book to
anyone who likes dark fiction, fairytales, strange tales, elegant
horror, or anyone who likes stories with strong women protagonists and
good characterization."
***
20th January 2011: We are very pleased to
announce the reprinting of the first, classic collection of short
stories by Rhys Hughes, Worming the
Harpy.
This highly sought-after collection from 1995 will be available as a
paperback, augmented by the additional story "The Forest Chapel Bell"
which was originally included in Tales from
Tartarus
(1995). This new edition also contains an "Afterword" by the late E.F.
Bleiler.
***
17th January 2011: Dark
Entries
by Robert Aickman will be published March 2011 in an edition of 350
copies, uniform with the previous Sub
Rosa. We
have created a video trailer for the book using footage from the HTV
West production of "The Hospice": Many thanks to Colin Fenwick for unearthing the
"Hospice" footage.
***
13th January 2011: Sub Rosa by Robert Aickman has been
reviewed by Brian Showers in the new issue of Rue
Morgue
magazine: "[Aickman's] writing is sophisticated, confounding and
unnerving in equal measure; extreme and diverse reactions to his work
are to be expected, but it is for these same reasons that he still
attracts so many admirers."
