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News   7th February: The Eighth Issue of the Guide to First Edition Prices will be published this autumn. It will be much enlarged and expanded as well as thoroughly revised, but we will be leaving out the illustrations in an attempt to make such a large book affordable. Please note that we still have copies of the last, colour, illustrated deluxe 2008/9 edition available, now at the discounted price of £20.   ***   5th February: Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas has received another great review, this time in Dead Reckonings 6, edited by S.T. Joshi: "...Strantzas succeeds in imbuing his strange tales with the sense of intellectual fear..."   ***   1st February 2010: An audio version of "Fading Light" by Simon Strantzas (from Cold to the Touch) is available at pseudopod.   ***     29th January 2010: A good review for Strange Tales III by Mario Guslandi at Bookgeeks: "another excellent collection of stories apt to delight not only the afficionados of horror and dark fantasy, but any lover of good fiction."   ***   28th January 2010: The new collection of short stories by Tartarus Press proprietor Ray Russell, Literary Remains, is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing as a trade hardcover, or a signed, traycased hardcover. The provisional publication date is May.   ***   24th January 2010: Another great review for Cold to the Touch, this time at Tales from the Black Abyss: "Dark but with frequent glimpses of light and beauty creating a dazzling mix of heady highs and tragic lows. . . . A work of great quality."   ***   21st January, 2010: We are honoured that the Horror Writer's Association Speciality Press Award for 2009 is to be presented to Tartarus Press during the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet at the World Horror Convention.   ***   19th January 2010: A positive review of Strange Tales III can be found at The Speculative Fiction Junkie.   ***   18th January 2010: The latest issue of Rue Morgue magazine contains an interview with R.B. Russell about Tartarus Press, conducted by Brian Showers.   ***   17th January 2010: We will be attending the World Horror Convention in Brighton on the 25th-28th March 2010. Tartarus Press will have a couple of tables showcasing all of our books. R.B. Russell will also be attending the launch and book signing of Black Book of Horror # 6. The latest volume in Charles Black's series contains Russell's story "An Unconventional Exorcism". He will also be appearing on the "We Are Not Worthy" panel on Thursday night, discussing literary influences. More World Horror Convention news to follow...   ***   12th January 2010: All of the entries from the Tartarus Press Guide to First Edition Prices 2008/9 are now all available online at the Hyraxia website, for a modest subscription. That's the values of 42,500 collectable books all in one place. The research for the next edition continues apace... The Eighth Edition should be published later this year and already has full bibliographies for 710 authors, which is 124 more authors than the last edition. It continues to grow...   ***   Happy New Year!   ***   31st December 2009: A fine first review of Strange Tales Volume III from Joy Silence.   ***   21st December: Mario Guslandi at Rick Kleffel's Agony Column has written a positive review of The Saint Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires: "...a captivating novel written in a sparkling style, precise yet imaginative."   ***   18th December: The Speculative Fiction Junkie has just announced his Top Five Reads of 2009. First is Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas. There are some positive comments for Tartarus Press in general towards the end of the article, and R.B. Russell's  Bloody Baudelaire is also included in the top five.   ***   15th December, 2009: Strange Tales III is in the post! Many thanks for your patience.   ***   14th December, 2009: Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas is described by Flux magazine as "An impressive collection of stories that subtly unsettles."   ***   3rd December: Our apologies, but there is yet another delay with the publication of Strange Tales Volume III. Our new printers have experienced problems and can't deliver books now until the 14th December. We will be posting orders out in the following days, ensuring that all international post is sent by Priority Airmail. We have seen running sheets, though, and the paper and printing looks very good indeed!   1st December: Another great review for Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas, this time at Grim Rictus Reviews: "This exceptional collection is highly recommended."   ***   17th November 2009: The Independent's Forgotten Author (Number 42) on Sunday was William Fryer Harvey. The newspaper concludes that with the publication of The Double Eye by Tartarus Press "...it's now possible to plug another gap in the century's roll-call of top short-fiction writers".   16th November 2009: A hearty recommendation for The Saint Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires at Grim Rictus Reviews: "This work should appeal to fans of good writing and the occult. The prose is top-notch and great care has been taken in providing the reader with an intellectual, multi-layered story."   ***   10th November: Two blogs worth checking out: The Speculative Fiction Junkie gives Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas a perfect ten out of ten and The Lord Bassington-Bassington Chronicles has some nice words to Tartarus Press as he discusses the joy of holding an old-fashioned, well-made, hardbound book in your hands.   ***   5th November: A change of printers means that Strange Tales Volume III will have the slightly revised publication date of 7th December 2009.   ***   22nd October 2009: Mario Guslandi has just reviewed The Double Eye by William Fryer Harvey at Bookgeeks: "Harvey is indeed a master of the uncanny and the supernatural who is able to deal with a variety of eerie subjects and to produce solid, compelling fiction, the kind of fiction which, fortunately, will never go out of fashion."     A testimonial from the author Steve Rasnic Tem for Cold to the Touch: "Simon Strantzas is an important new writer of weird fiction, a position solidified by the release of his new collection, Cold to the Touch, from Tartarus Press. What I admired most about this collection, besides the fine writing, is how these stories defy a simply summarization. This fiction goes far beyond the simple scares of most horror. A mystery defying the usual explication of plot lies at the heart of each one, giving us much to chew on long after the story has ended. Cold to the Touch is a great reading experience."   ***   14th October 2009: All pre-orders for The St Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires and Wormwood 13 have now been posted.   A new and positive review of Cold to the Touch by David Longhorn in Supernatural Tales 16 concludes: "Overall, the thirteen stories in this collection offer the reader strange rewards. There are no easy explanations, which is realism of a sort. There are no simple payoffs or cheap twists. There are shadows everywhere, and few signposts that can be trusted. But there are moments of humour and humanity amid the darkness and decay."   ***   11th October 2009: Another great review: "Cold to the Touch is a formidable gift to the field of weird literature." - The Grim Blogger, Grim Reviews   ***   3rd October 2009: Our next book will be the stunning first novel by Eric Stener Carlson, The St Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires. A contemporary Gothic novel and a bibliomystery, it is also an occult thriller, and will be published on the 25th October.   ***   29th September: All of the orders for Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving were posted today and should be with customers both home and abroad very soon. It was a lovely surprise to read a great article in The Guardian today on Arthur Machen which describes Tartarus books as "a secret library, a catalogue of weird fiction from its roots in Victorian Britain through to the modern day."   ***   25th September: Ian McMillan has written an entertaining article about Tartarus in The Dalesman magazine this month. He discusses a number of Yorkshire writers Tartarus has published (inc Oliver Onions and W.F. Harvey) and also mentions our publication of contemporary writers.   ***   23rd September: A great review for Cold to the Touch at She Never Slept: "One thing is certain, Mr. Strantzas ripped out a bit of his soul and threw it onto the page with a violent beauty. Such stories could come from no other place. This collection is evocative, endearing, strange and horrifying all at once. . . All of the stories in this collection are delightfully dark and wonderfully weird." Sarah Gerhardt is also very complimentary about Tartarus in general.   ***   22nd September: We are pleased to confirm that our third speaker at our forthcoming Wormwood Afternoon in Coverdale will be Paul M. Chapman who will talk on "The Decadent Dr Doyle".   ***     21st September: It was good to meet a number of customers at Fantasycon this weekend. We can confirm that we will be taking Tartarus books along to the World Horror Convention in March.   Simon Strantzas gets a great review for Cold to the Touch in FearZone from Michael Kelly: "Say hello to a new and important voice in the canon of weird fiction."   ***     7th September: Our next book will be The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving. This volume is the first to assemble all of Washington Irving's short stories in the supernatural genre, and the impressive array of work on offer makes Irving a worthy pioneer of the American weird tradition.   ***     6th September 2009: We are pleased to announce that David Stuart Davies will be giving a talk on "The Early History of Detective Fiction" as a part of the program for our forthcoming Wormwood Afternoon in Coverdale.   ***     3rd September 2009: Simon Strantzas gets a great review for Cold to the Touch from Mario Guslandi at The Short Review. "An excellent writer who likes to deal with the weirdest and more mysterious aspects of human condition, who likes to disturb and upset and manages to do that very effectively by emphasizing the dark shades lurking behind the light of everyday reality."   ***     2nd September 2009: We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Wormwood Afternoon in Coverdale.   ***      25th August 2009: We are pleased to be able to announce the line-up for Strange Tales III, which is due to be published in November:   'Sanctuary Run' - Daniel Mills 'The Lammas Worm' - Nina Allan 'Morpheus House' - Mark Valentine 'A Woman of the Party' - Elizabeth Brown 'Countess Otho' - Reggie Oliver 'The Good, Light People' - Gary McMahon 'Melting' - A.J. McIntosh 'It's White and It Follows Me' - Tina Rath 'Yet No Greater Love of Promise' - Joel Knight 'Divan Method' - Eric Stener Carlson 'Party Talk' - John Gaskin 'The Other Box' - Gerard Houarner 'The Great Blind God Passed Through Us' - Adam Golaski 'Her Father's Daughter' - Simon Strantzas 'Sister, Sister' - Angela Slatter 'A Taste of Casu Marzu' - David Rix 'The Solipsist' - Philbampus   Cover artwork by Stephen J Clark of The Singing Garden   The story order is to be finalised, but we can confirm that the book will be a sewn hardback of approximately 323 pages. Details of how to order will be available in due course.   ***     19th August: Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas has been the subject of a Weirdmonger "real-time" review by Des Lewis. Simon's story "Poor Stephanie" from Cold to the Touch has recently been reviewed as a part of it's previous appearance in Supernatural Tales 14.   Mario Guslandi has also reviewed The Buckross Ring at the SF Site.   ***     2nd August 2009: Paul Kane has reviewed The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H.G. Wells at The Compulsive Reader. He concludes "...an extremely worthwhile collection and, like all Tartarus Press books, it is produced to an extremely high standard indeed."    ***     23rd July 2009: We have received from the printers and have wrapped up the advance orders for Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas. They will be posted tomorrow morning.   20th July 2009: We have for sale on Ebay Volume 1 (only) of Robert Aickman's The Collected Strange Stories. This copy is from the second edition. and includes all of his stories from We Are For The Dark, Dark Entries, Powers of Darkness and Sub Rosa. It lacks it's significant other - volume 2. Sale ends 22nd July. All proceeds to Amnesty International.    ***   12th July 2009: Congratulations to Mark Samuels. His story "The White Hands", from The White Hands and Other Weird Tales has been selected by Steve Jones for his The Very Best of Best New Horror.   We now have a Facebook page, if anybody else out there wishes to connect....   ***   8th July, 2009: John Gaskin's collection of short stories, The Long-Retreating Day, has received a very positive review at Highlander's Book Reviews. Although officially out of print, we do have a couple of file copies available at the original cover price (p&p free) to anybody who is interested. Please email Tartarus Press   ***     6th July 2008: Rosalie Parker's short story collection, The Old Knowledge, is now available for pre-order at the Ex Occidente Press website.   ***     3rd July, 2009: We are pleased to be able to say that all copies of The Double Eye by William Fryer Harvey have now been posted out to customers. They should start landing on doormats next week.   Non-Tartarus news: Our editor, Rosalie Parker, has just had her short story 'The Picture' published in Supernatural Tales 15, edited by David Longhorn.   ***      22nd June: Mark Valentine and Douglas Anderson have set up Wormwoodiana and cordially invite you to join them for the discussion of supernatural, decadent and strange literature with even more of an emphasis on the obscure, the over-looked and the under-appreciated.   ***     17th June 2009: Read "Pinholes in Black Muslin" from the forthcoming Cold to the Touch by Simon Strantzas here. (It is an adobe acrobat file.)   Later this year we will be publishing more contemporary fiction, and are pleased to announce as forthcoming The Saint Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires, a new novel by Eric Stener Carlson.   Paul Kane has reviewed Strangers and Pilgrims at The Compulsive Reader. He finishes up "I envy readers who are coming to Walter de la Mare’s writing for the first time."   ***     7th June 2009: We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Cold to the Touch, a collection of 13 disquieting short stories by Simon Strantzas. To be published at the end of July, ordering details will follow shortly.   Tartarus Editor Rosalie Parker has a new series of webpages devoted to her own writing, available here.   Over the last year we have been able to slowly reduce the price of our books in US dollars due to the weakness of the British Pound. Please note that due to recent changes in the exchange rate the advisory dollar price of our books has had to price by approximately $5. With free airmail postage anywhere overseas we hope that our customers will still see this as good value for money!   ***     22nd May 2009: Just a reminder that Rosalie Parker at the Tartarus Press is still accepting submissions for Strange Tales III, which will be published in time for Christmas 2009. If you would like to send us stories but are unaware of our requirements you might like to check out the Preface to the last anthology, and perhaps acquaint yourself with Strange Tales and  Strange Tales II. We would like previously unpublished stories of between 3,000 and 9,000 words. Payment will be £10 per one thousand words. Electronic submissions should be sent to rosalieparker@btinternet.com and we would prefer stories as a Word or rtf attachment. Mail submissions can be sent to us at the address at the top left of this page, but please remember that if we are to mail a reply we will need a stamped, self-addressed envelope or return postage. Deadline 1st August 2009.   Please note that we are now out of print of Wormwood # 2.   ***   18th May 2009: Our next classic collection of supernatural fiction will be The Double Eye by William Fryer Harvey. This will contain all of the supernatural fiction previously published in Midnight House, The Beast With Five Fingers, Moods and Tenses and The Arm of Mrs Egan. It will be Introduced by Richard Dalby. Publication is scheduled for 29th June.   Please note that we are now out of print of A Damask of the Dead.   ***     14th May 2009: We have to report that we are down to our last few copies of A Damask of the Dead and Wormwood # 2.   ***     11th May: An item of non-Tartarus news - R.B. Russell's novella Bloody Baudelaire now has a publication date of 1st June. Please go to the Ex Occidente website if interested in purchasing a copy. The first few pages are available as a pdf.   Tartarus Press was mentioned on Stuart Maconie's The Freak Zone yesterday evening on BBC Radio Six. The show is available online for the next seven days here. Ray Russell's song with Lidwine, "It Is There", was played, and then Stuart Maconie discussed the fact that Ray is the proprietor of Tartarus. He mentioned not only Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman in relation to Tartarus, but also Quentin S. Crisp. The song is played 18 minutes and 20 seconds into the show, and the mention of Tartarus starts at 22 minutes 30 seconds.   ***     2nd May, 2009: Discover the darker side of the Dales with poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan in the Yorkshire Post.   ***     17th April 2009: We are sorry to report that we have now sold out of The Long Retreating Day by John Gaskin.   ***     16th April 2009: We are down to our last few copies of The Long Retreating Day by John Gaskin. We always have mixed feelings when our books sell out: it's good to know they have found loving homes, but frustrated that we will no longer be able to fulfil orders. The last few copies will be sent out on a first come, first served basis.   ***     11th April: All copies of Wormwood 12 and The Buckross Ring by L.A.G. Strong have now been posted - our apologies for the delay. A new review of Strange Tales Volume One has just been posted at Highlander's Book Reviews. The website is also running a competition to win a copy and you can find full details Here. The closing date is 17th April 2009.    ***   3rd April 2009: Our edition of The Man Who Could Work Miracles has just been repackaged with a groovy "steampunk" jacket by Barnes and Noble in the United States. It is retitled A Dream of Armageddon.   ***   2nd April: We can report that individual copies of Wormwood 12 have now been posted out to customers, although The Buckross Ring by L.A.G. Strong has been delayed by a week (our apologies.)    ***   23rd March 2009: M.P. Shiel's "truly extraordinary" The Purple Cloud was discussed by Christopher Fowler in the Independent on Sunday yesterday. Shiel was considered in their "Forgotten Authors" series and Christopher Fowler says "The Purple Cloud is now available in a beautiful edition from the specialist publishers Tartarus Press." Unfortunately our edition is officially out of print. However, I know that Andy Richards does have copies available at the original cover price.    ***   22nd March 2009: Tartarus proprietor Ray Russell has a new series of webpages devoted to his own writing, available here.   ***     13th March 2009: We are pleased to announce that our next book will be The Buckross Ring and Other Stories of the Strange and Supernatural by L.A.G. Strong. The author is little-known, but amongst work which was highly acclaimed in his day Strong wrote a number of fine stories of the strange and supernatural. It will be published on 2nd April.   ***   Also imminent is Wormwood # 12, which contains, among the regular columns, articles on Harlan Ellison, Wilkie Collins, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Lucas White and Peter Vansittart.    ***   5th March: We have just sent a new book to the printers. As soon as we get a date for delivery we will be announcing details.   The White Hands by Mark Samuels has just been reviewed very favourably at Highlander's Book Reviews. They also have a competition to win a copy of the first Strange Tales volume which can be found here.   And non-Tartarus news, the first published review of Ray Russell's Ex Occidente book, Putting the Pieces in Place, can be found here.   ***     22nd January 2009: To celebrate the centenary of the death of F. Marion Crawford, we are pleased to be able to reprint Uncanny Tales, one of the classic collections of ghost and horror stories. Dorothy Scarborough, one of their earliest critics and connoisseurs observed: 'Few writers have equalled F. Marion Crawford in the modern ghost story. His tales have a curdling intensity, a racking horror that set them far above the ordinary supernatural fiction.'   ***   For the Machen enthusiast, especially members of FoAM , we can recommend Stewart Lee's rejected article on Arthur Machen.   ***   20th January 2009: We have decided that in future we will be publishing work by contemporary authors as trade hardbacks under a new banner of "Tartarus Contemporary Fiction". The first of these titles will be published later this year. Rather than just short story collections we are also looking for contemporary novels. Under this new arrangement we hope to be publishing a few more contemporary writers than we have done in the past, but please be assured that our classic supernatural fiction will continue to be published as traditional limited editions. Please click here for submission guidelines.   ***   11th January 2009. Happy New Year! Just a note to let you know that we have created a few pages for Putting the Pieces in Place by R.B. Russell   ***   20th December 2008: There's a useful overview of the Small Presses by Michael Dirda in the Washington Post tomorrow (!) which mentions the Tartarus Press along with Ash-Tree, PS etc.   ***      19th December 2008: The latest issue of Gorezone here in the UK has positive reviews of Strange Tales II , The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Nathaniel Hawthorne and An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce. Of Strange Tales II the reviewer, Andrew McQuade writers "Editor Rosalie Parker has a keen eye for profound tales of terror."    ***      18th December: Ex Occidente Press tell us that Putting the Pieces in Place by Tartarus Press Proprietor Ray Russell will now be published on 15th January. Copies are not only available from the previously mentioned sources ( Ex Occidente, Cold Tonnage Books and Realms of Fantasy) but now Mark V. Ziesing, Booksellers, POB 76, Shingletown CA 96088-0076. email Mark Ziesing.)     ***      8th December 2008: Rosalie Parker at the Tartarus Press is now accepting submissions for Strange Tales III, which will be published in time for Christmas 2009. If you would like to send us stories but are unaware of our requirements you might like to check out the Preface to the last anthology, and perhaps acquaint yourself with Strange Tales and  Strange Tales II. We would like previously unpublished stories of between 3,000 and 9,000 words. Payment will be £10 per one thousand words. Electronic submissions should be sent to rosalieparker@btinternet.com and we would prefer stories as a Word or rtf attachment. Mail submissions can be sent to us at the address at the top left of this page, but please remember that if we are to mail a reply we will need a stamped, self-addressed envelope or return postage. Deadline 1st August 2009.   ***   7th December 2008: To celebrate its 20th Anniversary, The World Horror Convention will be held n the historic British seaside town of Brighton over the weekend of March 25-28, 2010. This is the first time that the event will have been held off the North American continent. The theme will be "Brighton Shock! - A Celebration of the European Horror Tradition from Victorian Times to the Present Day". We will be attending and hope to see many other fans of horror supernatural and strange fiction there.   ***   28th November 2008: Our next book will be Tales of Terror by Guy de Maupassant, 32 great stories by a classic author of supernatural fiction. It is selected, translated and Introduced by Arnold Kellett, with a Foreword by Ramsey Campbell. Publication will be on 11th December, 2008.   ***   28th November 2008: Iain Macmillan gave us a nice plug on Radio 3's The Verb this evening in his introduction to an interesting discussion of The New Uncanny published by the Comma Press. It is only fair to reciprocate the publicity so click here to listen to AS Byatt and Alison MacLeod discuss the book (scroll to 1:18:30 in).    ***   27th November 2008: Our dollar prices have been slashed! because of the changes in the exchange rate our books are now much cheaper for US customers. We have decreased the dollar prices of our books by $10 on average. Unfortunately cheques will still have to incur a surcharge of $5 per cheque, but payments by visa, mastercard, paypal etc are free.   ***     21st November 2008: We would like to draw your attention to a new collection of stories by Tartarus Press proprietor Ray Russell, Putting the Pieces in Place, which is about to be published by the Ex Occidente Press in Bucharest.   The publisher says: "The five long stories that make up R.B. Russell’s stunning debut collection, Putting the Pieces in Place, demonstrate a subtle mastery of the macabre. Enigmatic and enticing, they combine a pleasing respect for the great tradition of supernatural fiction with a chilling contemporary European resonance."   Copies are available direct from the publisher for $35 through Paypal (exoccidente@gmail.com).   In the UK copies will be available for £25 inc. p&p through Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6JQ. Phone +44 (0) 1276 475388. Cold Tonnage Books website. email Cold Tonnage   In the US copies will be available through Realms of Fantasy Books, 617 W. Grand Avenue, #250, Chickasha, OK. 73018, USA. Realms of Fantasy website . email Realms of Fantasy    ***     21st November 2008: We are sorry to report that we have now sold out of copies of The Golem by Gustav Meyrink.   ***     24th October 2008: We are now posting out copies of our two new titles, The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Wormwood # 11.   ***   22nd October 2008: We would like to recommend a new collection of stories by Mark Valentine and John Howard, The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales, which is about to be published by the Ex Occidente Press in Bucharest.   ***     11th October 2008: We are deeply saddened to learn that Janet Machen passed away yesterday at Salisbury hospital. Janet was a very good friend and will be greatly missed. (Without her there would have been no Tartarus Press.) Our thoughts go out to her family. Obituaries will be appearing in the journals of the Friends of Arthur Machen and the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society.   ***     4th October 2008: Our next book will be The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Richard Dalby. It will be published on the 23rd October. We haven't received a delivery date from the printers yet, but Wormwood # 11 is also due later this month.   ***     23rd September: We regret to announce that we have now sold out of the paperback edition of Heathcliff's Tale by Emma Tennant. Copies of the hardback are still available. Returning from the British Fantasy Convention in Nottingham I'm sorry to say that Wormwood didn't win the non-fiction award, but congratulations to Peter Tennant who did for the Whispers of Wickedness website. Many thanks to the organisers of an enjoyable convention.   ***     8th September 2008: We realise that some of these articles are a rather historic, and some of the books are now out of print, but full Times and Times Literary Supplement reviews of a number of Tartarus titles are available to be read online. Click on these links to read reviews of The House of the Hidden Light by Arthur Machen and A.E. Waite reviewed by Jon Barnes, Heathcliff's Tale by Emma Tennant reviewed by Lucasta Miller, The Collected Strange Tales of Robert Aickman reviewed by Phil Baker, and Le Grand Meaulnes and Miracles by Alain Fournier reviewed by Adrian Tahourdin. Also available in The Guardian newspaper's archives are full reviews of Tartarus titles. Again, click on these links to read reviews of Ritual and Other Stories by Arthur Machen reviewed by Richard Stanley, The Guide to First Edition Prices reviewed by Robert McCrum, The Collected Strange Tales of Robert Aickman, and Denton Welch: Writer and Artist by James Methuen-Campbell reviewed by Phil Baker. (Just a note to mention that Alan Bennett's splendid Introduction to our Denton Welch biography is reprinted in his recent collection of essays, Untold Stories.)   ***     26th August 2008: Many thanks to Elizabeth Brown who has allowed us to upload a pdf of her story Llanfihangel from Strange Tales II. You will need Adobe Acrobat to be able to view the story. We have also made available the Preface to the anthology.   ***     7th August: We are pleased to learn that Tartarus Press has been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award in the Non-Professional category. And Mark Valentine has been shortlisted in the British Fantasy Society Awards, for Wormwood.   Best New Horror, edited by the indefatigable Stephen Jones is about to be published and contains two stories from Strange Tales II, "The Other Village" by Simon Strantzas and 'Calico Black, Calico Blue' by Joel Knight.   ***     3rd August 2008: Looking at other people's bookshelves is always fun. In the Culture section of The Sunday Times today author John de Falbe is pictured in front of his bookcase and he has Saki's Sredni Vashtar, de la Mare's Strangers and Pilgrims, Meyrink's The Golem and Shiel's The Purple Cloud on his shelves, all in Tartarus editions. Obviously a man of taste... Thanks to Reggie for spotting this.    ***     30th July 2008: We are pleased to announce that "What Water Reveals" by Adam Golaski from Strange Tales II will be reprinted in Horror: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition, edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz.   We are sorry to announce that due to a hold-up at the printers there will be an unavoidable delay of about a week in sending out copies of the new Ambrose Bierce title.    ***     21st July 2008: We are pleased to learn that Strange Tales II has been shortlisted for an International Horror Guild Award in the anthology category.    ***     1st July 2008: We are pleased to announce that our next publication will be An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce. Perhaps best known as a journalist and the author of the sardonic The Devil's Dictionary, Bierce ranks alongside Poe as one of the fathers of American supernatural fiction. This new collection contains all of his supernatural fiction, and is introduced by S.T. Joshi.    ***     19 June 2008: Non-Tartarus publications: Wordsworth Editions have just published The Werewolf Pack, edited by Mark Valentine, which contains a new short story by Tartarus proprietor Ray Russell ('Loup-Garou'). This original paperback collection offers "some of the greatest, rarest and most unusual werewolf stories ever written..." They shall also be publishing, in the very near future, The Black Veil, again edited by Mark Valentine, containing "sixteen chilling cases of ... supernatural sleuths". This original anthology contains another original short story by Ray Russell ('Like Clockwork') and another by Tartarus Editor Rosalie Parker ('Spirit Solutions'). Both books are published n paperback it is the bargain price of £2.99, and are available from Wordsworth, Amazon etc.   ***     30th May 2008: Another review in the Times Literary Supplement, and many thanks again to Paul Hatcher for tracking down a copy for us. The new edition of our Guide to First Edition Prices is discussed in a long article which makes some valid points about trends in book collecting. We've culled from it the quote "curiously fascinating."   ***     click here to go to older news