CUNLIFFE by H.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. LOST BAGGAGE by Bernard Capes (Overlooked weird tales)ĭR. SWEPT AND GARNISHED by Donald Armour (A 1938 novella of possession and exorcism) SPELL-BOUND by Mary Ann Bird (Ghost stories of a forgotten Victorian) Thelmar (An episode of Edwardian insanity, illustrated by Mahlon Blaine). MOMENTS OF ENCHANTMENT AND DISENCHANTMENT by Gerald Bullett (Selected supernatural tales) We will be making an effort to preserve visually the period flavor and eccentricities of each of our projects rather than tucking them into a bed of Procrustean design, and we hope our books will come to be valued for their containers as well as their contents.
One of the things that continues to draw us to this genre and this period is the visual charm of the books: the decorative bindings, the lurid dust jackets, the atmospheric illustrations, the odd details of book design and production. We will take it as part of our mission to leave the well-marked trails of the genre and plunge into the forest to fetch back treasures from both ends of this spectrum of familiarity, at the same time maintaining the highest possible standards of literary excellence. We are confident that much remains for the publisher and reader who are not afraid to reach out for the exotic and the obscure, as well as that which has been overlooked because it strikes some as not exotic or obscure enough. Print runs and prices of our books will be commensurate with the offerings of other small presses specializing in this genre. is a small-press publisher dedicated to bringing back into print the work of both familiar and unfamiliar authors of weird and supernatural fiction from the period of, roughly, 1850-1950. On Thomas Loring & Co.: Thomas Loring & Co. This edition contains three supernatural tales by Dawson that were not in the rare Doxey edition of 1897, as well as a good deal of supplementary material by others, including a long introductory essay that provides biographical, historical and critical background for these remarkable ghost stories.
It's a beautiful book and looks virtually identical to the extremely rare 1897 original.ĭetails from the publisher: The book was printed in an edition of 500 copies by the Stinehour Press in Vermont, one of the most prestigious fine presses in the country, and was given a traditional smythe-sewn binding at Acme Bookbinding in Boston, the oldest bindery in America (operating since 1821). I picked up their first publication, AN ITINERANT HOUSE, by Emma Frances Dawson, which collects all of her supernatural fiction. "Publishers of 19th and early 20th century literature with an emphasis on the fantastic, the speculative, the unusual, the occult and the eldritch." Yet another new publisher of supernatural fiction.
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