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Blind Swimmer - An Eibonvale Press Anthology (Paperback)
Eibonvale Press came into being in the winter of 2005 in a tiny Slovenian mountain town at the hands of David Rix, who sat down one day and decided "Today I am going to make a book." The fact that he knew a lot about books but nothing at all about the book world somehow failed to make that dream flicker away like most dreams and the slow crescendo of Eibonvale Press continued from there and is still continuing. That quiet and lonely winter in the Slovenian mountains still doesn't seem so far away as the press continues its search for the bizarre, the unclassifiable and the strange in new writing, in the process working with some of the best writers in the UK and elsewhere. Now, this new book...
Scar City
'One of the best British post-war writers of horror and the weird.' – Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual Joel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UK's foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects of human nature. With a tight focus on the post-industrial Black Country and his home city of Birmingham, he created a distinct form of British urban weird fiction. Scar City is one of the final collections put together before his death in 2013 – with his home city of Birmingham as their nucleus, these are intense, haunting and often painful stories from a master of the short form. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS ROYLE
Tallest Stories
"If every tale told in a tavern is a tall story, then what happens when the entire universe becomes a tavern? It means that every story ever told is tall and therefore untrue, and this includes the true tales. They are all lies. But a lie is a concept only possible because it can be contrasted with truth: without its opposite concept it makes no sense at all. This implies one of two unlikely things, (a) the universe is not really a tavern, (b) there are other universes beyond this one where true stories exist. If you ever learn which is the correct answer to this riddle please let me know." 60 linked stories, 60 illustrations, 18 years in the making - this is probably Rhys Hughes' most important book to date.
The Smell of Telescopes
Welsh writer Rhys Hughes regards this as his favorite book, and with good reason. It clamors with a cast of pirates, floppy-wristed Welsh bards, explorers and inventors, imps, squonks, moving public houses, and more, in this quirky and surreal collection of classic horror and fantasy.
The Planet Suite - New Expanded Edition
13 Lines on "The Planet Suite" "The Planet Suite" is a tour de force of memory, mythology and astronomy. "The Planet Suite" is "A work of genius" - Rhys Hughes. "The Planet Suite" is "the course for the future" - Brian Aldiss. "The Planet Suite" takes the reader on a whistle stop tour across the planets and bodies of the solar system. "The Planet Suite" is a concept and collection of myths, ideas and speculation. "The Planet Suite" is the definitive Slipstream novel. "The Planet Suite" is "highly recommended" - Tony Lee. "The Planet Suite" was the first published novel for British Fantasy Award winner Allen Ashley. "The Planet Suite" has long been out of print and only available for inflated sums online. "The Planet Suite" is a fractal novel consisting of short segments for each major planet. "The Planet Suite" is a unique artefact. "The Planet Suite" is an essential addition to your bookshelf. "The Planet Suite" is now available in this expanded, improved, authorised edition.
Dabbling with Diabelli
Originally published in paperback with an extremely limited release, this book collects thirty of D F Lewis's favourite short stories, all demonstrating his unique style at the intersection of genre, literature and outsider art.
Gaseous Clay and Other Ambivalent Tales
The ultimate digestion of insecurity in a very strange hotel A hard-hitting fairground fever-dream The new king of the maggots and bloody piano keys A foul-mouthed talking mockingbird in American suburbia A bizarre crime caper at what may just be the end of the world And a chilling supernatural brush with a very badly made clay owl John Travis's writing blurs between genres, rooted in many but coming with his own unique style. His stories are weird, subtle, grotesque, emotional, intelligent, human and surreal, existing in an area somewhere between horror and outsider art. Reading them, one gets the feeling that they are connected to both British horror writing and to more experimental and unusual threads as you explore the quiet backwarters of life in the UK and elsewhere, blended with wild psychological mayhem and terrifying supernatural happenings. This volume collects 16 stories, several never before published. Each is distinctive and individual, and together they form a spectacular example of British Slipstream writing.
Once and Future Cities
Allen Ashley's tales of Urban Fantasy are intensely surreal, savagely satirical, subtly subversive and despairingly funny. Possessed of a unique vision and a distinctive prose style, Allen Ashley exposes the absurdities of modern British society like no other writer. Every waking moment is a struggle for continued sanity and survival as we muddle thoughtlessly through this surrealist joke called civilisation. The challenges - factual, fictitious, mythical, eminently plausible - just keep on coming. Ashley demonstrates that, if you have the nose for it, apocalypse can be smelled everywhere - in the latest media circus; in the latest dubious laws or government measures; in celebrity culture or the surveillance state; in the mindsets and prejudices of the population and in the tiniest actions we all perform.
A Blast of Hunters
London in the near future. A familiar city where the faces of the passers-by are painted with pain and where thoughts are dark and restless. For one of the city's lost residents, waiting for oblivion on the railway tracks late one night, nothing should ever have mattered again. Instead, a chance encounter plunges him into the chasms of the city--to a place where prophecies of doom are muttered and where the urban hunters prowl, as the spectres of the Measuring Men walk the streets, rulers in hand. A story of outsiders and subversion.
Humanagerie
Inspired by notions of the animalistic, Humanagerie is a vivid exploration of the nebulous intersection of human and beast. From cities to wilderness, buildings to burrows, and coastlines to fish-tanks, these thirty-two poems and thirteen short stories explore emergence and existence, survival and self-mythology, and the liminal hinterland between humanity and animality.
