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[aniketosomina]

The latest volume of Mark Valentine’s wonderful essays on obscure authors and lost books, housed, as always, in the exquisite binding of Tartarus Press. As if I didn’t have enough books on my shelves to read, and a wish-list longer than a literary boa constrictor; I am drowning in books, but what a way to go. #sphinxesandobelisks #markvalentine #tartaruspress #lostbooks #reconditeliterature #thelost #theobscure #theuncanny #weirdfiction #essays #books #somanybooks #bookstagram #bibliophilia #jeanrollin #shiverofthevampires https://www.instagram.com/p/COvMS76nPby/?igshid=hh5vefipnzmr

[normals]

Oh dear Reader, surely you know how fond of you we are. In a time hurtling toward complete Amazon & govt takeover - soon an Amazon bot, with key to your homecube, will arrive each morning with new prepaid entertainment chip to insert into your bio port & a nutrient hose that gushes into your energy trough, while the gov media entrances the populace with fear deluge of Others & Their Foreign Desire To Mess What's Yours, you, Dear Book & Record store lover, still use your legs or wheelchair to leave your home to experience air in the shrinking outdoors & see humans, birds, trees, Marvin moaning "Mr. Shriner", cement in all their glory. To taste the world is rebellion at this point. & since we know you're special, we want to bring you special things. & for us writing doesn't get much better or enchanting than that of #RobertAickman He called his tales "strange stories" & indeed they are. Picture Paul Bowles if he hadn't found kif in Morocco & instead lived in a dark cottage at the end of a lonely lane where tuff lads pummel him with gravel. When local art genius crone Laure Drogoul read him she remarked "there's a thin line between enchantment & madness." Although pop star Neil Gaiman is now blurbing pb reprints, early editions are rare & $$$$. To keep Aickman chilling the readers, #TartarusPress in the U.K. Has been printing beautiful sewn-binding limited edition hardbacks. Not cheap, but worth every penny & they sell directly to bookshops at a great reduction so we can bring them to you cheaper than destroyer of workforce Amazon. We Are For The Dark, his 1st, written with Elizabeth Jane Howard, & Tales of Love & Death. Brilliant, eerie & pleasure to hold, $40 each.

[aniketosomina]

There have been a few fair-to-middling to downright depressing days recently, but with the arrival of this morning’s post, today is already a better one. #rbrussell #pastlivesofoldbooks #tartaruspress #essays #weirdliterature #decadent #findesiecle #machen #aickman #alainfournier #rolfe #stenbock #dentonwelch #bibliophilia #books #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CAfU4evHfLB/?igshid=1j70pf547zp3e

[aniketosomina]

“The great flower glowed sadly with a greyish lustre tinged with violet. But when he reached its side and touched it, it burst into a primrose-yellow phosphorescence. The perfume called like a voice. He pressed La Revenante lovingly against his cheek. He felt the cold tentacles, the satin pendants, a soft-skinned, fragrant face, in which shone two round, magnetic eyes, whose expressionlessness held a terrible power. The perfume poured madness into his brain. Caressing words rose to his lips: “Exquisite waxen grotesque! Beautiful terror swaying beside me in the night! Where were you born? Under what moon of time?” - Edna Worthley Underwood, An Orchid of Asia Luxuriating in Edna Underwood’s synaesthetic prose with this superb collection of until-now largely forgotten weird tales, including the novella An Orchid of Asia, in which a sickly young botanist finds his obsession with rare orchids - not least the “death orchid” of Venezuela - brings him a second life more fantastical and horrific than he could possibly have imagined. #ednaunderwood #deardeadwomen #weirdtales #anorchidofasia #tartaruspress #shortstories #strangeflora #botany #orchids #orchidhunters #tropics #gothic #cosmic #decadentliterature #books #bookstagram #bibliophilia https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7vQK1njxR/?igshid=1hkyqe9m0cwpg

[aniketosomina]

“Do you lie for long hours in reverie, re-creating, living again your past happiness, or does that seem an almost unbearable pastime? Do you get yourself between the pages of a book, and read there of old houses, rains, ferns growing between the grotto rocks, of dark pools and stagnant tanks, of statues at the end of long avenues of cedars, whose brooding arms spread out in layers like dark fungi?” Works for me, especially if the book is this beautiful, two-volume set from Tartarus Press, and the writer is Denton Welch. Dear Denton. #dentonwelch #wherenothingsleeps #shortstories #writer #artist #poet #collector #outsider #autofiction #gayliterature #strangefiction #kent #shanghai #decadence #impermanence #interiorworlds #gothic #war #darkpastoral #fatalism #beauty #tartaruspress #books #bookstagram #bibliophilia #winterevenings https://www.instagram.com/p/B76oY7nHrC3/?igshid=vyyjl5b8ug2k

[aniketosomina]

Surprise gift from other half. Gosh! Another stunning volume from Tartarus. #libraryofthelost #rogerdobson #markvalentine #tartaruspress #caermenbooks #arthurmachen #mpshiel #jocelynbrooke #denniswheatley #johngawsworth #bibliophilia #bookporn