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THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN by Thomas Ligotti limited edition hardcover.
This new edition of Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant vignettes is a cause for celebration. Not only has the text been substantially revised by Thomas Ligotti, but artist Harry O. Morris has created eleven new artworks for the book. The text is gorgeously set and designed. Each copy is signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
The book also has a new introduction by Ligotti. It comes bound in printed cloth with a back panel velvet cloth, two ribbon markers, and is housed in a handsome slipcase.
The edition is limited to 500 copies for sale.
- Limited to 500 copies, each signed by Thomas Ligotti and Harry O. Morris.
- New introduction by Thomas Ligotti.
- Substantially revised texts.
- New artwork, all printed in full color.
- Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.
- Two-color cloth slipcase.
MRS MIDNIGHT AND OTHER STORIES by Reggie Oliver (Limited Edition Hardcover) 
A TV reality show host helps to restore an East End music hall and uncovers the dreadful secret of Mrs Midnight and her Animal Comedians. . . . A historian travels to Switzerland to ghost the autobiography of an exiled Balkan king and encounters a sinister cult. . . . The Master of an Oxford college tries to introduce a dubious piece of modern sculpture into his college chapel with dire consequences. . . . A strange meeting takes place on a playing field between an officer on leave from the trenches and his former headmaster. . . .
The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver’s fifth collection of ‘strange’ stories are as varied and unusual as ever, though, as in previous volumes, the theatre forms the milieu of a number of his tales. But the theatres are not just English ones, in the provinces and the West End: one is on the Black Sea; another in post-colonial Kenya. Themes are equally varied, but underlying all is a deep sense of the spiritual under-currents just below the surface of everyday existence, and the precariousness of ‘normality’.
‘…by miles, the best living exponent of the spooky yarn,’ Barry Humphries.
Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.
Mrs Midnight and Other Stories contains:
- “Mrs Midnight”
- “Countess Otho”
- “Meeting with Mike”
- “The Dancer in the Dark”
- “Mr Pigsny”
- “The Brighton Redemption”
- “You Have Nothing to Fear”
- “The Philosophy of the Damned”
- “The Mortlake Manuscript”
- “The Look”
- “The Giacometti Crucifixion”
- “A Piece of Elsewhere”
- “Minos or Rhadamanthus”
Mrs Midnight and Other Stories is a sewn hardback of 381 pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 400 copies.
Newly announced from Tartarus Press CLARIMONDE AND OTHER STORIES by Theophile Gautier (Limited Edition Hardcover)
If you appreciate supernatural French Decadence, then you need look no further than Clarimonde and Other Stories by Théophile Gautier. A pioneer of the genre, Gautier (1811-1872) garnered his initial enthusiasm for supernatural literature from the stories of E.TA. Hoffman, adding an erotic effusiveness all his own. Gautier’s trail-blazing manifesto for Romanticism was taken up by numerous other writers, most notably by Charles Baudelaire, who in 1857 dedicated Les Fleurs du mal to him.
The twelve stories in this volume repre-sent the best of Gautier’s fantastic tales and deal with a wide range of supernatural phenomena, including identity exchange (in ‘Avatar’), vampirism, time travel, the evil eye, and the decadence of ancient Egypt (in ‘One of Cleopatra’s Nights’). Most of the translations are by the Irish-American writer Lafcadio Hearn, and retain the ardent extravagance of Gautier’s original French style.
As Brian Stableford says in his new Introduction, ‘Gautier remains . . . a key writer in the evolution of fantastic fiction from its Gothic roots to its psychological sophistication, whose importance in the middle part of the nineteenth century . . . deserves to be ranked second [only to Poe].’
Clarimonde and Other Stories contains:
- ‘Introduction’ by Brian Stableford,
- ‘Onuphrius’
- ‘Two Actors for One Part’
- ‘Omphale’, ‘Clarimonde’
- ‘One of Cleopatra’s Nights’
- ‘The Opium Pipe’
- ‘The Duplicated Knight’
- ,‘The Mummy’s Foot’
- ‘King Candaules’
- ‘Arria Marcella’
- ‘Jettatura’
- ‘Avatar’, and various addenda.
Clarimonde and Other Stories is a sewn hardback of 366+xiii pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 300 copies.
Publication 21st October 2011
Slob was a momentous book in the field, Rex Miller’s story of the quarter-ton serial killer “Chaingang,” and it inspired a couple sequels. 
