Weird Gothic novel. 300 copies printed.''Rebecca LLoyd's superb Gothic novel explores friendship, obsession and the uncanny in teeming mid-Victorian London. At its heart is a tale of human relationships threatened by an unknowable force. From the very first, the child Cephalina brought conflict into an otherwise, if eccentric, household at number 12 Judd Street. Robert's fascination with her was instant, but he could never decide if this eleven-year-old was innocent and lonely, or clever and manipulative. It worried him. His encounters with her were both enchanting and unnerving. All the whil... View More...
Collection of supernatural short stories by contemporary writer. LIMITED EDITION: 220 copies printed in total, of which this is one of 180 trade hardcover copies. View More...
276 pages: translated from the Italian by J. Weintraub. Collects nine stories with an introduction by the translator. The author has also written novelisations of the Dario Argento films 'Profondo Rosso' and 'Suspiria'. View More...
During H. P. Lovecraft's residence in New York City, his social and literary life centered upon a group of friends collectively known as the Kalem Club, so named for the initials of the surnames of original members--K, L, or M. Gatherings or meetings were frequently held in members? homes, and particularly in Manhattan?s Chelsea district, for it was there that Lovecraft?s friend George Kirk lived, and where, in the building HPL utilized as the setting of 'Cool Air' Kirk operated his Chelsea Book Shop. From August 1924 until March 1927, George Kirk wrote almost daily to his fiancee in Clevela... View More...
All three hardcover volumes published, each limited to 750 copies. Lovecraft?s stories are printed in chronological order by date of writing. In the thirty years since S. T. Joshi prepared revised editions of H. P. Lovecraft?s stories for Arkham House, Joshi has continued to do research on the textual accuracy of Lovecraft?s stories, and this comprehensive new three volume edition is the result. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story?manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first boo... View More...
Volume 1. 440 pages. Discovering the amateur press in 1914, Lovecraft immediately flooded the many small papers of his friends and colleagues with contributions discussing the nature, purpose, and future of amateur journalism. He also edited his own magazine, The Conservative (1915-23), filling it with additional essays. In these articles Lovecraft discusses the conflict between the United and the National Amateur Press Associations; the halcyon days of the amateur movement (1885-95); and the needs and betterment of the amateur cause. We read of Lovecraft's bitter feuds with his fellow amate... View More...
Volume 1. 440 pages. Discovering the amateur press in 1914, Lovecraft immediately flooded the many small papers of his friends and colleagues with contributions discussing the nature, purpose, and future of amateur journalism. He also edited his own magazine, The Conservative (1915-23), filling it with additional essays. In these articles Lovecraft discusses the conflict between the United and the National Amateur Press Associations; the halcyon days of the amateur movement (1885-95); and the needs and betterment of the amateur cause. We read of Lovecraft's bitter feuds with his fellow amate... View More...
Volume 2. Lovecraft's writings in the realm of literary criticism are unfailingly acute and cover a surprisingly wide range. Besides his authoritative early essay on the Literature of Rome (1918), other works condemn free verse and simple spelling, and devote attention to neglected poets. Discovering weird fiction as his chosen field, he produced such scintillating essays as Lord Dunsany and His Work (1922) and Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927), along with essays on Frank Belknap Long and Clark Ashton Smith. Late in life Lovecraft codified his grasp of weird literature by writing such ... View More...
Volume 4. Far from being a recluse, H. P. Lovecraft traveled widely -- ranging as far north as Quebec, as far south as Florida and Louisiana, and as far west as Ohio. He wrote interestingly and at length about these expeditions. Collected here are all his formal travelogues, including ''Vermont - A First Impression'' (1927), ''Observations on Several Parts of America'' (1928), ''Travels in the Provinces of America'' (1929), and ''An Account of a Visit to Charleston'' (1930). Also included is ''A Description of the Town of Quebeck, in New France, Lately Added to His Britannick Majesty's Domini... View More...
Hardcover issue. In this fifth and final volume of Lovecraft?s Collected Essays will be found a rich vein of Lovecraft?s philosophical writings. A lifelong student of metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and other branches of philosophy, Lovecraft early declared himself a forthright materialist and atheist, and defended his views in numerous controversies with colleagues. Such essays as Idealism and Materialism: A Reflection, and the In Defence of Dagon essays outline the essentials of Lovecraft?s philosophical thought, including such issues as free will, the improbability of theism, and cosmic ... View More...
244 pages: edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. Long-awaited collection of (mostly) poetry and prose from the author (1887-1976) who counted among his friends H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith, George Stirling and Hart Crane. View More...
First published in 1926: new introduction by R. B. russell. This volume contains sixty studies, mostly from real life, each of which, by its capacity for inspiring terror or causing amused wonder, qualifies as the 'Dread' or 'Droll' of Arthur Machen's general heading. 'To be able so to tell the bare truth that it seems a magnificent lie' is the qualification which has attracted Machen to the most outstanding of his narrations. When Dreads and Drolls was first published in 1926 it contained twenty-nine articles reprinted from London's The Graphic. This new edition more than doubles that numb... View More...
First published in 1907. This first Tartarus Press printing contains for the first time all three of the Sidney Sime illustrations (specially tipped-in for this edition) originally intended (but not used) for the book's first publication (1907), plus the two known introductions written for later editions by the author, plus a new six-page introduction by Mark Valentine. LIMITED EDITION: 350 numbered hardcover copies printed. This is no 205. View More...
First published in 1906. 428 pages: collects six of the author's stories, with a six-page introduction. The first Tartarus Press printing was in 2014.''omnibus edition of some of Arthur Machen?s best-known, controversial, and curious fiction. It contains ?The Great God Pan?, his notorious 1890s tale of science and sex, and its accompanying story ?The Inmost Light?. These appeared first in John Lane?s sensational Keynotes series, as did the portmanteau novel The Three Impostors, containing ?The Novel of the White Powder?- another story of science gone bad - and the classic folk-horror tale ?... View More...
Reprints for the first time the full text, including chapters five and six. (the original edition of 1922, and subsequent editions, all have only four chapters): new three page preface by Godfrey Brangham. View More...
First published in 1922. Third Tartarus Press printing, after editions in 1998 and 2015. Reprints the full text, including chapters five and six. (the original edition of 1922, and subsequent editions prior to the 1998 Tartarus printing), all have only four chapters), plus two Appendices (The Hidden Mystery, and The Martyr): introduction by Machen. View More...
348 pages. First published in hardcover in 2016 by Tartarus Press and The Friends Of Arthur Machen: that edition was available only to members of the Arthur Machen Society, and not generally available for sale (there is no price on the dustjacket). Now reprinted as a trade paperback. View More...
Short supernatural novel. LIMITED EDITION: from a total printing of 190 copies (of which 35 were specially bound and slipcased and five copies reserved for the authors/publisher), this is one of 150 unsigned copies. HOWEVER THIS COPY IS SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. View More...
First published as an Avon paperback original in 1946, but reprinted here for the first time as it was originally published as an eight-part serial in Argosy in 1920, restoring close to 10,000 words of text the author cut from the original: edited and with a 14-page introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz. Full colour Virgil Finlay cover art.''THE METAL MONSTER, a Lost-Race tale set in the Himalayas, comes as close to orthodox sf as Merritt would reach in its description of a collective alien being, a pit-dwelling Shapeshifter comprised of millions of metal parts, a creature whose terrifyingly i... View More...
336 pages: the 8th volume of stories by Reggie Oliver published by Tartarus Press. LIMITED EDITION: 450 numbered copies signed by the author. View More...
310 pages: eight page introduction by Robert Shearman, four page afterword from the author. First published in hardcover by Tartarus Press a year earlier.LIMITED EDITION: 200 numbered copies signed by the author. View More...
Paperback reprint of all 16 stories (and introduction by Glen Cavaliero) contained in the original 2005 Haunted River hardcover, but with new artwork by the author included. View More...
Collects twenty-one stories with an introduction by Rosalie Parker and a short introduction (''Credo'', first published in 1935) by the author. 350 copies printed. A second Tartarus printing followed in 2003, followed by a 2022 two volume set in slipcase, with included one extra 50-page 'folk horror' story ''Gambier'' not present in this 2000 edition. View More...
First published in one volume in 2000 by Tartarus Press, compiled and with an introduction by Rosalie Parker, this new Tartarus edition is split into two volumes (slipcased), and includes one extra 50-page 'folk horror' story ''Gambier'', not present in the 2000 edition. View More...
First volume in the series: original anthology of contemporary weird fiction: 290 pages. : 300 copies printed. This is the first printing (a second printing followed a year later). Laid in is a handwritten letter from publisher Ray Russell on headed notepaper. View More...
Rare Victorian ghost stories edited and introduced by Richard Dalby: Richard Dalby's Mistresses of the Macabre Volume Two. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered copies printed. This is no 249. View More...
Weird novella expanded from a short story published in the January, 1938 issue of WEIRD TALES: dustjacket art and interior illustrations by Virgil Finlay. View More...
Collects nine of the author's ghost/supernatural Denniston stories with an introduction by the author. LIMITED EDITION: 200 numbered hardcover copies printed. This is no 7. View More...
268 pages: five long supernatural stories ''about landscape, people, and the mysteries in between''. 300 hardcover copies printed.''in ?Le Loup Garou? Professor Florant Hortholary investigates a series of disappearances and vicious animal mutilations in a remote French mountain village. In ?Sika Tarn?, two walkers hear otherworldly sounds at an isolated lake. A Victorian academic discovers the research records of his maverick predecessor and learns of a startling set of experiments in ?The Rumour Mill?. In ?No. 3 Hobbes? Lane?, set in rural England of the industrial revolution, a traveller ... View More...
Short supernatural novel with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell and full colour cover art by Paul Lowe. LIMITED EDITION: from a total printing of just 250 hardbound copies, this is one of 210 trade copies, View More...
262 pages: 25 page introduction by Johnny Mains. Clarence Aaron Robbins (1888-1949), often credited as C.A. Robbins, but better known as Tod Robbins, was an American author of horror and mystery fiction. His posthumous and popular reputation is based on the short story SPURS (1923), which Tod Browning used as the basis for Freaks (1932), a controversial film that suffered from censorship and bans, but which developed a cult following. Robbins? novel THE UNHOLY THREE (1917) was also adapted for the screen, first in a silent version directed by Tod Browning (1925) and later in a sound version d... View More...
Poetry, with an introduction by the author: 48 pages. From a total printing of 650 copies, this is one of 300 hardcover copies (the rest were paperbound), of which 276 copies were included with the limited/slipcased edition of his novel GRAINNE, leaving 24 copies left over for the author's own use. This is no 251. View More...
SF/Fantasy novel. Winner of the 1988 BSFA award for best novel. LIMITED EDITION. 250 numbered copies signed by the author: slipcased together with a second hardbound volume A HERON CAUGHT IN WEEDS, a collection of poems by the author. Both items are no 217. GRAINNE is additionally inscribed by the author on the title page.''the theme of the primitive heroine comes sharply into focus in GRAINNE (1987), which draws upon the Celtic legend of the Goddess and explores her power in the modern age through the form of a mysterious young girl. These novels form the author's main corpus of fantast... View More...
Story cycle with eight of the ten stories first collected here. LIMITED EDITION: 200 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author, together with a separate stapled booklet KAETI'S APOCALPYSE (also numbered), which prints an eleventh Kaeti story by Roberts, and was only available with this limited edition. Both items are no 178. BOTH ITEMS ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. View More...
Slim sixteen-page booklet - an essay on the 'Primitive Woman'. LIMITED EDITION: 526 (unnumbered) copies printed (of which 500 were paperback booklets) of which this is one of 26 lettered hardcover copies. This is letter ''R''. . View More...
Collection of ghost stories and weird fiction: introduction by Robert Holdstock. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author and Robert Holdstock and slipcased. This signed/limited edition has an additional short story ''The Event,'' not found in the trade edition. View More...
Collects fifteen weird/horror stories with an introduction by Michael Marshall Smith and Afterword by Kim Newman: 320 pages. THIS COPY SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS (the first two on the title page and Kim Newman at the end of his Afterword at the back of the book).''would you think a zombie story could break your heart? Neither did I until I came across ''Undiscovered Countries.'' If the dead come back to life, the reunions are not going to be the tender embraces survivors might wish for. If they come back all at once, it's going to be the kind of thing the authorities are going to step in to ... View More...
Collects fifteen horror stories with an introduction by Michael Marshall Smith and afterword by Kim Newman: 320 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND MICHAEL MARSHAL SMITH..''would you think a zombie story could break your heart? Neither did I until I came across ''Undiscovered Countries.'' If the dead come back to life, the reunions are not going to be the tender embraces survivors might wish for. If they come back all at once, it's going to be the kind of thing the authorities are going to step in to prevent. So, how do you deal with the death of a loved one in this new police-state? Maybe you'... View More...
24-page promotional booklet published to celebrate the first ten years of publishing. Includes articles on Robert Aickman and Edward Heron-Allen (Christopher Blayre), plua new short story ''The Nephoseum'' by Mark Valentine. Copies were given away by the publisher to regular subscribers and friends of the press. None were offered for sale. Together with their 2004 ''Books In Print'' Catalogue. View More...
Collection of five long supernatural stories from Ray Russell, co-founder and co-publisher of Tartarus Press. The second book from the small-press publisher in Romania, specialising in supernatural, decadent, horror and fantasy fiction. THIS COPY HAS AN OPEN INSCRIPTION ON THE TITLE PAGE/''A collection of love stories masquerading as supernatural tales. Forget the pose, forget the pain/Love will remain always the same to me/There's nothing I wouldn't do/I'd tear out my heart for you. Ray Russell''. View More...
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