Pieces for Puppets and Other Cadavers is a diverse collection of six short stories: Visit the sinister East European theatre of 'Dr Dapertutto's Saturnalia' & stay for the performance! Book in for the night at 'Room 89' and ponder your reflection in the mirror! Take up a new 'Hobby' - one guaranteed to make you a small set of friends! For further information, consult the enigmatic ravings of the possessed balladeer 'Emile Bilonche'! This second edition also includes the novella 'Bookworms'.

Pieces for Puppets and Other Cadavers

Literature & Fiction

Watt, D.P.

Genre Fiction

InkerMen Press

The stunning new collection of weird fiction from visionary writer D.P. Watt. The foolish wisdom of forlorn puppets. A diabolical chorus in many voices. Shadowy shapes emerging from the strange blueness. Dreamers of other truths. The delicate craft of filial love. You - and some other you. Creatures in the hedgerows. Cold rime creeping across darkened windows. The numinous night pool. A hive of pain. These and other nightmares await. "DP Watt has real talent. It touches on and reflects the world we know, but as in a glass darkly." - Reggie Oliver

Almost Insentient, Almost Divine

Undertow Publications

The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications is D.P. Watt’s wonder cabinet of obsessive, carefully written supernatural stories told by a breed of bachelor narrators who are a cross between M.R. James’s buttoned-down antiquarians and H.P. Lovecraft’s high-strung, slightly hysterical misfits—with a dash of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Bruno Schulz thrown in. The collective fate of these characters is to bend matter or be bent by it into strange new dimensional realities. - Victoria Nelson, author of 'The Secret Life of Puppets'

The Phantasmagorical Imperative: and Other Fabrications

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

An Emporium of Automata

"There has existed all through the Ages an extraordinary idea that puppets are inanimate creatures controlled by human beings; but after spending some years behind the scenes in manipulating the strings of marionettes I am well assured that the position is quite the reverse, and that a puppet-showman is entirely at the mercy of his figures." - Walter Wilkinson, "The Peep Show" 1933. I can think of no better quotation that sets the stage for this magnificent collection of timeless and haunting tales by British weirdsmith Daniel Watt. This new edition of the author's collection, "An Emporium of Automata", delivers a thesis of the theatrically strange. In these stories the frightening hints penned above by a literate Punch and Judy man long ago are cunningly proven and made starkly manifest. This fine new edition places in the hands of all seekers after the beautiful and weird a grand collection which, for so long, has been privy to the locked bookcases of collectors and connoisseurs of the macabre and fantastique. Story after uncanny story unfolds before the reader; a maze of carnival mirrors that we fear we might never escape from. Here are missing tales from some lost, darkly romantic Germanic madman's attic. The rotting, wooden fissures that manifest fill in a gaping and pockmarked wooden maw somewhere between E.T.A. Hoffmann, Nabokov and Ligotti. To name these vaguely reminiscent stylists is far too simple. Daniel Watt dips first and foremost into his own, personal experience. Through his sepia colored lens we are allowed to gape inside the old trunks of puppet men who have sold their souls in the rain, so that they might write such stories as these. The reader senses the authenticity of these cryptic pains, ritualistic longings, gorgeous and slow destructions. A literary answer to the modern neon sewer, these pages embrace the worship of decay, the altars of the desolate and all things archaic or fundamentally grotesque. The violently attractive, dangerously jagged islands of the mind which Mr. Watt guides us to are his own half-charted territories. I must also note that the book is structured in a manner, and so dense, that one is really getting three books of first-rate outré literature for the price of one. Puppets rejoice! Read herein these baroque fables in which the drifting souls, toys and ticking things of men revert to fulfil far more ancient impulses. You have nothing to lose but the strings of your mind. Just as Walter Wilkinson was finally convinced that "a puppet-showman is entirely at the mercy of his figures." so too, the reader of An Emporium of Automata will find themselves utterly at the mercy of dark conductor, D.P. Watt, who wields his rusty-scalpel words with the precision and mad gusto of a wildly leering, yet jaded, carnival showman.

Contemporary

Eibonvale Press

'This new edition of An Emporium of Automata delivers a thesis of the theatrically strange placing in the hands of all seekers after the beautiful and weird a grand collection which, for so long, has been privy to the locked bookcases of collectors and connoisseurs of the macabre and fantastique. Story after uncanny story unfolds before the reader; a maze of carnival mirrors that we fear we might never escape from. Here are missing tales from some lost, darkly romantic Germanic madman's attic. The rotting, wooden fissures that manifest fill in a gaping and pockmarked wooden maw somewhere between E.T.A. Hoffmann, Nabokov and Ligotti. To name these vaguely reminiscent stylists is far too simple. Watt dips first and foremost into his own, personal experience. A literary answer to the modern neon sewer, these pages embrace the worship of decay, the altars of the desolate and all things archaic or fundamentally grotesque. The violently attractive, dangerously jagged islands of the mind which Mr. Watt guides us to are his own half-charted territories. I must also note that the book is structured in a manner, and so dense, that one is really getting three books of first-rate outré literature for the price of one. Puppets rejoice! Read herein these baroque fables in which the drifting souls, toys and ticking things of men revert to fulfill far more ancient impulses. You have nothing to lose but the strings of your mind.' -Charles Schneider, author of The Mauve Embellishments

Since some friends of Zagava missed single titles of our chapbook series, Zagava now offers all 11 Infra-Noir chapbooks published in 2020 as an inexpensive paperback! If you want all of the brilliant stories in one affordable place, this is the book for you.D.P. Watt: CraftMark Valentine The Clerks of the InvisibleJonathan Wood: The Idyll Is OverKarim Ghahwagi: Codex of LightMark Samuels: PosterityRebecca Lloyd: Ancestor WaterMark Valentine: Stained MediumTimothy J. Jarvis: The Purblind BardsReggie Oliver: The Wet WomanR.B. Russell: A House of TreasuresRosalie Parker: Home Comforts

Infra-Noir 2020

Wood. Jonathan

SAMUELS, mARK

Valentine, Mark

Parker, Rosalie

Ghahwagi, Karim

Jarvis, Timothy J.

Oliver, Reggie

Russel, R.B.

Lloyd, Rebecca

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