Tartarus press leyburn (301 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Large trade softcover, F in wraps, an unread copy. The story of the haunting of Henry Newby, a hapless young lawyer despatched to Haworth Parsonage shortly after the death of Emily Brontë to retrieve a novel by Ellis Bell for his uncle, publisher of Wuthering Heights.…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2023. Trade paperback, New, 309 pp. This trade paperback comes in two edition: one with a dust jacket and one without. This is the one without a jacket. . "Literary Hauntings identifies and describes the real-life locations that have inspired the best fictional ghost stories of Britain and Ireland. Notable examples are the Suffolk beach where M.R. James set his terrifying ' 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' ', and the ruins of the Scottish mansion featured in Margaret Oliphant's classic 'The Open Door'. This comprehensive gazetteer, consisting of 267 entries by experts and exponents in the genre, identifies the building in Dublin that inspired Joseph Le Fanu's story 'The House by the Churchyard', and the canals where Elizabeth Jane Howard's eerie 'Three Miles Up' is set. Both classic and contemporary ghost stories are included. Literary Hauntings is designed to help readers track down landscapes, monuments, cities, towns and villages that have haunted writers of ghost stories for at least the last two hundred years. The gazetteer is also a celebration of the insight and craft that goes into writing a really good ghost story, a genre that is still sometimes overlooked today.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2018. Trade paperback, New, 218 pp. A collection. "Herald of the Hidden collects ten adventures of the occult detective Ralph Tyler, inspired by William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Algernon Blackwood's John Silence, and Arthur Machen's Mr Dyson of The Three Impostors.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2020. Trade paperback, New, 170 pp. "These nine tales represent the sum total of American writer Edna Underwood's foray into the decadent and supernatural. Best known for her historical novels and her translations, Underwood was born in Maine in 1873. A gifted linguist, she read widely in European literature, and lost her first teaching job because of her propensity to read decadent, yellow-bound books. Few are aware of Edna Underwood's solitary collection of short fiction, A Book of Dear Dead Women (1911), and even fewer of the excellent long horror story 'An Orchid of Asia', reprinted here for the first time since its appearance in Asia magazine in 1920.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2022. Trade paperback, New, 203 pp. "In 1920 a young man, Walter Murray, spent a year in a derelict cottage, Copsford, working in lonely countryside among the wild animals and birds, with only a dog, Floss, for companionship. From the beginning, Murray has to fight not only the rats that infest his inhospitable house, and the elements outside, but also a loneliness that he finds soul-shatteringly oppressive. But Murray comes to delight in his simple life, despite its deprivations. Above all, he appreciates the wildlife he experiences in meadow and woodland, the animals and insects, birds and butterflies. And he comes to a deeper understanding of plants and trees, the sun, wind, rain, frost and snow. Copsford is an under-appreciated classic of the English countryside, delighting not only in flora and fauna, but in scent, colour, sound and movement. In beautiful and sensitive prose Murray expresses a vivid depth of feeling for nature that makes Copsford a tour de force of nature mysticism. This new edition also contains Murray's essay, 'Voices of Trees'.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2017. Trade paperback, New, 99 pp. "The House of the Hidden Light (1904) has long been regarded by occultists as a great magical text, albeit one that has so far defied satisfactory explanation. The authors, Arthur Machen and A.E. Waite, were aficionados of turn of the century Bohemian London: both were members of the Order of the Golden Dawn; Machen had gained a certain reputation as a writer of outré supernaturalist fiction, whilst Waite was a talented scholar of magic. Such has been the reputation of The House of the Hidden Light that many investigators, including Aleister Crowley, have sought the key to the book, though none have unlocked its secrets. This Tartarus edition of The House of the Hidden Light is published with an explanatory introduction and fully annotated text. At last, renowned Waite scholar R.A. Gilbert provides us with the key to The House of the Hidden Light, hitherto concealed in the everyday lives of the two authors themselves. In his authoritative Introduction, Gilbert reveals the book to be a coded record of Machen and Waite's nocturnal adventures around London. It may not be the great magical text that some had hoped for, but R.A. Gilbert's meticulous research serves to illuminate an important period in the lives of two influential literary figures.". …

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2014. Trade paperback, New, 198 pp. "The twelve 'Tales of Twilight and Borderlands' that make up The Master of the House are in the classic tradition of English ghost stories and tales of the unknown. They are recounted with a powerful sense of place: winter on an unfrequented moor, Oxford railway station in the 1950s, high summer near a legendary Roman camp, a Victorian suburb in London, a college VIII rowing home on a December evening, a railway journey delayed by frost and snow into endless night. The narratives are touched with sardonic humour and a feeling for things past and to come that make the unexpected a sometimes terrible reality.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2020. Trade paperback, New, 242 pp. Now a quality paperback. "In an East Prussian manor house, a Bohemian library, a Bulgarian railway station; in a Venetian citadel, a Breton harbour, a city in the Caucasus, characters encounter not only the vicissitudes of history but also the subtle influences of the uncanny. As they face war, revolution and upheaval, or the quieter encroachments of decay, these haunted figures must find their way both in a changed world and in mysterious overlapping otherworlds. Inner Europe collects thirteen stories, eleven of them newly written for this book. This shared volume follows the two authors' well-received Secret Europe and takes the reader once again on strange journeys to forgotten or little-known places and peculiar historical byways.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, Fine. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2011. Trade paperback, Fine, 195 pp.

Condizione: Trade paperback, SIGNED, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2024. Trade paperback, SIGNED, New, 232 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. We like Ray Russell, both the man and the writer. "When a body falls on to the roof of Tanya Sewell's house in the middle of the night, the world's media arrives, demanding answers. Tanya recognises the woman as her old friend, the literary researcher Catherine Richards, but where did she come from and how did she end up on Tanya's roof? The reporters move on, but Tanya is unable to, not least because she has inherited Catherine's house, which is full of more books than Tanya could imagine any one person owning. But there is another remarkable development, and Tanya finds herself caught up in a confusion of space and time, books and authors, fact and fiction, all of which seem to be the result of the mysterious Sixtystone, an artefact referred to in the fourteenth century by a third-century geographer, Solinus, and in the fiction of the nineteenth-century author Arthur Machen.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 1024. Trade paperback, New, 241 pp. Cover artwork by: Reggie Oliver Reggie just might be my favorite living writer. "Ten strange stories from a modern master story-teller, Reggie Oliver's impressive tales range from an archaeological dig on an island in the Mediterranean, to seventeenth century Milan. With a wide range of eminently authentic characters, Oliver insinuates strangeness into the lives of his unwary protagonists and the results vary from a profound chill to outright horror.". Reggie Oliver (illustratore).…

Condizione: YTrade paperback, SIGNED, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2022. YTrade paperback, SIGNED, New, 301 pp. "It is 1989 and Lawrence Moore has left University and is working in a record shop. He has written a series of lyrics that have come to the attention of Richie Young, a faded pop star attempting to make a come-back. The lyrics are inspired by dark and unexplained events from six years before, when Lawrence had been at school: a disappearance, a suicide and a hit-and-run. When the record is released Lawrence is accused of exploiting these tragedies and is attacked by the newspapers as well as by friends and family. The past returns to haunt Lawrence Moore, but the attendant publicity also brings developments. A murder mystery with the slightest hint of the supernatural.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2024. Trade paperback, New, 361 pp. Now a quality paperback."The Quest for Corvo is not simply an account of the life and works of that peculiar British author Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo. It is a ground-breaking biography that describes the search for an understanding of its subject, offering aspects of Rolfe's life and character as they are revealed to his biographer. It presents a fascinating portrait of Corvo-artist, rejected candidate for priesthood and author of autobiographical fiction, a man of misdirected genius, frustrated ambition, arrogance and paranoia. The Quest for Corvo is a vivid portrait of the characters associated with Rolfe, the majority of whom found themselves enemies of the man they often attempted to help. And The Quest for Corvo offers an insight into the biographer's fascination for his subject.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2028. Trade paperback, New, 276 pp. Now a trade paperback. "In this new collection of eleven stories, Stephen Volk explores the wide span of possibilities of the ghost story in its various manifestations-from hauntings set in the quotidian modern world, to ones that hark back to traditional, but no less chilling, tales of the past.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2023. Trade paperback, New, 243 pp. Now a quality paperback. "A stranger returns a silver coin; a dream museum releases its dreams; a dying Futurist knows more than he can tell; the author of Dr Saprophyte has plans for his last volume; a park-keeper makes his books from autumn leaves; an Alexandrian jasper gem holds clues to serpentine secrets; in Prague a street artist meets fortune-tellers in a tower above the city. All these possibilities and more are to be found in Mark Valentine's sought-after collection, The Peacock Escritoire. This new Tartarus Press edition offers three previously uncollected stories: 'Wine of the Serpent', 'So, About Hats' and 'That Nothing Human Scorn'. The long story 'The Return to Trebizond', about the lost heir of a Caucasian principality and the last echoes of the Byzantine Empire, is also included.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2022. Trade paperback, New, 399 pp. "Londonia is a magnificently immersive page-turner. Set in 2072, it seems at first to be a dystopia in which the internet and other modern technologies have collapsed. An elite have sealed themselves up in Central London, while everyone else has to get on as best they can, making-do, bartering, and cooperating with their neighbours. Moving between the two societies is Hoxton, a "Finder" of desirable objects, her own past a mystery to be solved, with the help of new friends. Can hope and friendship survive in this strange new world? . . .".…

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. 2nd Revised edition. Revised. 231 p. Audience: General/trade. Clean, tight unmarked copy. This edition adds "The Forest Chapel Bell" first published in Tales from Tartarus, 1995.

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2025. Trade paperback, New, 314 pp. "Mark Valentine's Borderlands and Otherworlds explores supernatural fiction of the 1920s, occult thrillers of the '30s, and the English Fantastic in the '40s and '50s. He discusses notable names in the field, such as Arthur Machen, Dion Fortune and E.F. Benson, and also lesser-known figures such as J.M.A. Mills, Humphrey Gilkes and Charles Whitton. He offers the reader an understanding of these writers in their wider literary context, drawing out links and resonances between them. Valentine celebrates the byways of book collecting, such as old monographs found in obscure boxes, noticing unusual details and unexpected stories. Other essays celebrate landscape, legend and lore. The author writes engagingly, with a lightly-worn knowledge, a companionable tone, great enthusiasm and an undercurrent of good humour.".…

Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2016. First printing, Trade paperback, New, 227 pp. Cover artwork by: Reggie Oliver "Many of the tales in the collection draw on the author's theatrical background, and in such stories as 'Mmm-Delicious', 'Puss-Cat', 'Blind Man's Box', 'Grab a Granny Night', 'Mr Poo-Poo', 'The Road from Damascus', and the stunning novella 'Shades of the Prison House' he takes us backstage into a world of easy friendship and a surface glamour which conceals something much more dark and desperate. Oliver's talent for pastiche shines in 'The Silver Cord', which won the Arthur Machen Short Story Competition, while 'The Children of Monte Rosa' turns a friendly invitation to a holiday villa into something deeply disturbing." First printing, Trade paperback, New. Reggie Oliver (illustratore). …

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2025. Trade paperback, New, 310 pp. "The author is principally remembered for her children's books, but there was a dark side to her imagination, and in this volume we have collected twenty-three short stories in which she explored the macabre and sometimes downright horrific. From the newly collected Gothic 'A Strange Experience' (1884) and the classic 'Man-Size in Marble' (1887), through to 'The Detective' (1920) written almost four decades later, Nesbit turned time and time again to the supernatural.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, , New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2014. Trade paperback, , New, 387 pp.

Faux Leather Covers. Condizione: Good. First Edition. x + 564 pages, illustrated, appendices. Fading to spine and part of front cover.

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2012. Trade paperback, New, 333 pp. "Variety and originality of setting, strength of characterization, stylistic elegance and narrative power are qualities for which Reggie Oliver has become well-known in his five volumes of 'strange stories'. All are present in this groundbreaking debut volume, first published in 2003. It was a nominee for best collection of 2003 in the International Horror Guild Awards. A doomed relationship in a seaside town that persists after death. . . . A convent in which there is always the unacknowledged presence of an extra nun. . . . A balding actor who acquires a mysterious wig after his rival goes missing. . . . A brilliant inventor who becomes trapped inside his own sinister computer game. . . . A sixteenth-century cardinal who is tormented by dreams of the sect he has persecuted.".…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2017. Trade paperback, New, 398 pp. "In the 1930s Arthur Machen was approaching the end of a long literary career when the poet John Gawsworth cast himself as Machen's Boswell. Gawsworth industriously recorded details of his mentor's life and work, composing a major biography that contained a wealth of previously unknown detail. However, it remained unpublished until 2005, when it was made available to the Friends of Arthur Machen as a limited edition hardback. This new paperback reprint is designed to reach a wider audience. Gawsworth vividly charts the story of 'the flower-tunicked priest of nightmare', from Machen's idyllic childhood amid the beauties of Monmouthshire, through the lonely, poverty-stricken years in London that later inspired those lyrical masterpieces The Hill of Dreams and Far Off Things. Machen's joyous days as a 'strolling player' are contrasted with his troubled time as the star reporter on the London Evening News, as he watched in astonishment as his minor tale 'The Bowmen' blossomed into the enduring wartime legend of the Angels of Mons. Then, in the 1920s, Machen was transformed into a cult figure in the United States and acclaimed as an artistic genius by authors such as Vincent Starrett, James Branch Cabell and Ben Hecht. Gawsworth himself fell on hard times later in life, and in his Introduction Barry Humphries, who knew him in the 1960s, reflects on the ageing poet's decline into alcoholism and penury, when all he had to sustain him were his memories of past glories.".…

Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2024. First edition, Hardcover, Limited edition, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, 250 pp. Sadly, we've a copy with bumped upper tips that impact both the boards and the jacket. First edition, Hardcover, Limited edition, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Laminated wrappers, 8vo, ix, 406 pp. Wrappers creased and lamination beginning to peel on rear panel, a little used, minor marks, Good.

Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2019. First printing, Trade paperback, SIGNED, New, 296 pp. Cover artwork by: Reggie Oliver "This edition limited to 200 copies signed by the author. This is Reggie Oliver's seventh collection of stories for Tartarus in a series which has won great critical acclaim. The volume contains thirteen stories, and includes some of the finest examples of his work: uncanny, troubling, witty and full of memorably fascinating characters. The settings are as varied as ever. In the title story a young composer writes a score for an ageing choreographer and becomes unwittingly involved in the older man's morbid obsession with a catastrophically injured ballerina. Elsewhere Oliver takes us into the worlds of British provincial theatre in the 1850s, London in the 1880s, Rome in the 1960s, Greece in the 1970s, Spain in the 1800s, as well as contemporary Britain in all its diversity. Oliver's capacity to evoke these different atmospheres both vividly and economically is notable. This collection also contains at least two stories which could be decribed as tours de force in that, besides being engrossing in themselves, they demonstrate Oliver's extraordinary virtuosity as a writer. 'Tawny' is a haunting and horrific tale told entirely in dialogue, while in 'The Game of Bear' Oliver offers the completion to an unfinished story by M.R. James, written in a faultless imitation of James's style and idiom." First printing, Trade paperback, SIGNED, New. Reggie Oliver (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. 348 pages with reproductions of the letters. A fine and bright copy. Appears as new and unread. Book.

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 202. Trade paperback, New, 212 pp. The sturdy trade paperback edition. "Time of Passing, the fifth volume of John Gaskin's acclaimed 'Tales of Twilight and Borderlands', contains nine entirely new stories, along with four which first appeared in a previous collection and an anthology. Infused with an almost uncanny understanding of things past and to come, and enlivened by touches of sardonic humour, John Gaskin's stories are firmly in the tradition of the classic English ghost story and tales of the unknown.".…

Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2023. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket, 214 pp. This edition limited to 300 copies. "'It's an extraordinary sensation to be finally on the wing when everything else is falling apart. It's like I've been abducted by extraterrestrials and beamed away from this doomed world.' So begins My Life As An Alien, Seraj Assi's brilliant debut novel. Described by one reader as 'Kafka as Everyman', it is the interior travelogue of a nameless refugee as he escapes, with very mixed feelings, from his war-torn Middle Eastern homeland and heads to a new life in the 'Land of the Free'. The book explores how it feels to be seen as an alien and suspected of being a terrorist by nearly every Westerner you encounter. How being considered fully human is only an aspiration for many people in the world. How unlikely it is that the meek will inherit the Earth. But our hero is no prophet or saint, and as we learn more of the life he has left behind, it becomes clear that he is, perhaps, only too human after all. This is an original and compelling book that offers a very different perspective on the world we thought we knew." First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket.…