This new press has as its remit the publication of "morbid, decadent and baroque fiction in limited editions".
The first book is to be by Reggie Oliver and is a mixture of tales from his first two hard to obtain volumes together with some previously unpublished material including a play featuring, among others, M.R. James. I am told that their follow up title will also be of interest. The website is 'here'.
Peter Bell
'Strange Epiphanies'
Swan River Press, has just announced that it is accepting pre-orders for its forthcoming (March 2012) collection of stories by Peter Bell 'Strange Epiphanies', in an edition of just 200 copies.
The contents are: 'Resurrection', 'M. E. F.', 'The Light of the World,' 'An American Writer's Cottage', 'Inheritance', 'A Midsummer Ramble in the Carpathians', 'Nostalgia' and 'Death and Melancholy'.
This has been keenly anticipted for some time and will be a handsome book judging from Swan Rivers previous volumes. Given the quality of Peters writing it may well be o.o.p. on publication.
Another of Peters tales, 'The Rites Of Pentecost' appears in the Side Reals Press anthology 'Delicate Toxins'.
The Hieroglyphic Press
"We do not want the dregs of the 21st century, the 21st century is Nothing’s Empire. We want the High and the Holy, the Sacred, the Rare."
It is always a pleasure to promote interesting projects and this new press is certainly that.
Run jointly by author Mark Samuals and a man well versed in the byways of European literature Daniel Corrick, it aims to produce a biannual journal Sacrum Regnum, "an experimental journal, a sort of contemporary Symbolist review" and publish hitherto untranslated books by authors such as Guido Gozzano, Alexandra Macedonski and Stefan Grabinski
I must confess that the first two names mean nothing to me, but with Grabinski and others on the list of "authors we hold in high esteem" (including Ernst Jünger, Stefan George, Charles Baudelaire, Bruno Schulz, Leon Bloy, Gustav Meyrink, and Gabriele d’Annunzio) they nail their colours to the mast.
Their schedule of releases is set to begin in Spring 2012.
