New Arrivals

The Sand-Man and other Night Pieces by E T A Hoffmann. (Tartarus Press) 2008, limited edition of 500 copies, 530+pp. .E.T.A. Hoffmann was Germany's greatest author of fantastic and supernaturalist fiction, a composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He was himself the subject of Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and his work inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (1892) and Delibes's ballet Coppélia (1870).

Hoffmann's fiction, exploring the darker side of the human spirit, influenced Poe, Dickens, Baudelaire and Kafka. His highly readable, entertaining and eerie stories are thick with references to ghosts, madness and hypnotic influence. Supernatural and sinister characters appear in the lives of his heroes and heroines, exposing the tragic and grotesque.

The Sand-Man and Other Night Pieces is the definitive collection of Hoffmann's stories of the supernatural, including classic translations by J.T. Bealby, A. Ewing and Thomas Carlyle, and adding important, more recent translations by Everett Bleiler and Helen Grant. It is edited and introduced by Jim Rockhill
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Black Static 4 edited by Andy Cox. Contents: Cleaning the Western Kittiwake by Tyler Keevil. Atwater by Cody Goodfellow, Zombie by Conrad Williams, Salt by Nicholas Royle, Ye Shall Eat in Haste by Steve Nagy, This Much I Remember by Barry Fishler and the usual regulars: White Noise (news compiled by Peter Tennant), Electric Darkness by Stephen Volk and Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD reviews and
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Wormwood 10 edited by Mark valentine. (Tartarus Press) Contents:

The Void Behind the Face of Order:
Robert Aickman, Anthologist of the Ghost Story by Peter Bell
No Secret Place: The Haunted Cities of Fritz Leiber by Joel Lane
Sand in the Machine: The Radio Play Träume (Dreams) by Günter Eich by John Howard
Kenneth Grant: True Tales, Ancient Grimoires and Magical Fiction by Dave Evans
Elementals and Others: The Fiction of Michael McDowell by Mike Barrett
The Decadent World-View by Brian Stableford
Late Reviews by Douglas A. Anderson
Camera Obscura
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Sredni Vashtar - Sardonic Tales by Saki (Tartarus Press) This collection brings together all of the sharpest, darkest, weird and macabre tales of Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (who adopted the pen-name, 'Saki'). Among the best of these are the stories of the unlikely god Sredni Vashtar, a beautiful young werewolf, the dying and unmourned Laura, and the laughter of the youthful and merciless Pan. Saki brings to the supernatural tale a studied nonchalance and a terse remorselessness in the telling. 'Wittily sombre and elegantly grim' was one well-turned contemporary evocation of his work. All the trappings of the Gothic, and the later antiquarian, ghost or horror story, have been quite banished from his work. There is no laboured building-up of portent, no labyrinthine twisting of devious history, no elaborate word-painting to conjure up atmosphere. Instead, Saki achieves a fastidious precision and economy. In his mastery of the sardonic and his ironic, adroit deployment of the supernatural, he has few equals. . To order click on the image above.

Interzone 215 edited by Andy Cox (TTA Press) Cover Art: from new cover artist Darren Winter, for Jamie Barras’ ‘The Endling’.

Fiction:The Endling Jamie Barras revisits the world of his 2006 story The Beekeeper (IZ 206) illustrated by Darren Winter

Dragonfly Summer by Patrick Samphire illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe

Crystal Nights by Greg Egan illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe
Gollancz, who will publish Greg’s new novel, ‘Incandescence’, in May, have recently reissued four of Greg’s novels and two story collections. Greg is interviewed in a future issue (216) and there will be a special offer on ‘Incandescence’.

Holding Pattern by Joy Marchand illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe

Street Hero by Will McIntosh illustrated by Chris Nurse another visit to the foreboding future seen in 'Soft Apocalypse'; his 2005 British Science Fiction Association award shortlisted story.

The Imitation Game by Rudy Rucker

Features: Revelations and Possibilities, Andrew Hedgecock interviews Mike Carey

Film reviews by Nick Lowe; DVD reviews by Tony Lee; David Langford’s ‘Ansible Link’ and our book reviewers pick their choice of last year’s novels. To order click on the image above.

Basil Copper - A Life in Books. edited by Stephen Jones. Concluding three years' extensive research, multiple award-winning editor and writer Stephen Jones was given unprecedented and unrestricted access to the books and papers of renowned British macabre and crime writer Basil Copper.

The result is Basil Copper: A Life in Books, a unique and in-depth study of the author and his works. Not only does this volume contain the most comprehensive Working Bibliography ever compiled of Basil Copper's productive output – including Macabre and Supernatural Novels and Collections, the 'Solar Pons' series, the 'Mike Faraday' series, Short Fiction and Novellas, Media Adaptations, Unpublished Works and much more, enhanced with commentary by the author himself – but it also features several rare and obscure articles covering everything from Arkham House creator August Derleth to a brief history of Count Dracula.

There are also a number of short stories, most of them original to this volume, ranging from his very first published work back in 1938 to a brand-new 'Mike Faraday' detective adventure, along with a complete television script based on M.R. James' classic horror story 'Count Magnus'.

With an in-depth look at the author's life and career by acclaimed ghost story editor Richard Dalby, and Basil Copper's inspirational Guest of Honour speech from the 1977 British Fantasy Convention, Basil Copper: A Life in Books is illustrated with numerous cover reproductions, artwork and unique personal photographs.
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