Tuesday 17 April 2012

Tartarus Press stories . . . # 2





Todays free PDF story is "Dibblespin", a taster for Angela Slatter's Sourdough and Other Stories, which is currently available as a paperback (£14.95). Publishers Weekly said of this collection, "Slatter displays a rare gift for evocative and poetic prose." The book was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and Aurealis Awards. The story is available here.

Monday 16 April 2012

Tartarus Press stories . . .


We thought it might be a good idea to make available PDF file samples of the work of some Tartarus authors you may not yet have read.

We’re starting with our growing list of contemporary writers. First up is that masterful magician of the macabre, Reggie Oliver, whose collection with us, Mrs Midnight, has proved such a popular and critical success. Mrs Midnight is now available in a paperback edition (priced £14.95), or as an ebook (£3.50). The title story of the collection is a tour de force of mounting horror with a music hall theme. It is available here, and we hope you will enjoy it.

Future PDFs will be announced as they become available and will include samples of the writing of Mark Samuels, Mark Valentine, Angela Slatter, Quentin S. Crisp, Tim Lees, Rhys Hughes, Michael Reynier and Jason P. Wyckoff. We also hope to provide samples of some of our classic authors, and our journal Wormwood.


Rosalie Parker
Ray Russell



Correspondence between Robert Aickman and Edith Tyler, March 1937 to August 1940

One of the great loves of Robert Aickman’s life was Edith Tyler, whom he called ‘Eve’ in The Attempted Rescue , presumably to hide her ident...