A short novel of the tragically brief pre-history of steam engines and coffee in renaissance Venice. "A fine, funny trans-historical adventure, so well-furnished and well-wrought it seems more true than the more boring truth. Read it with a double espresso." — John Crowley

Arabian Wine

Literature & Fiction

Gregory Feeley

Genre Fiction

Temporary Culture

<i>When They Came</i> is a collection of 23 dark fantasy stories by Don Webb. The contents include magical realist tales of life in Texas, altered states of consciousness, the effects of imaginary drugs, forbidden knowledge, and the perilous attraction of books. Several stories pay homage to H. P. Lovecraft.

When They Came

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Don Webb

Mystery

<p>Critical monograph examining the writings of Virginia fantasistJames Branch Cabell (1879-1958), author of Jurgen.</p>

What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century

Michael Swanwick

Hope Mirrlees is easily the most mysterious of the great twentieth-century fantasists. She wrote one important work of modern fantasy, Lud-in-the-Mist, and then abruptly fell into silence. Her single professionally published poem was only the fifth work put out by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, and is considered by critics to be a significant and possibly even important modernist work. But, despite her long and enduring friendship with T S. Eliot, she never followed it up. She was a fringe member of the twentieth century's single most prestigious literary sorority, the Bloomsbury group, and yet by 1970 she was almost completely forgotten. There are no biographies of her, few pictures, and personal information is dauntingly difficult to find. The mists of time have closed around her. Still, traces remain. With patience, it is possible to gather together these widely-scattered references to Mirrlees, and so assemble a rough sketch of her life and achievements. Let this slim book serve as a beginning. Two hundred thirty copies printed: five copies, lettered A-E, for presentation, twenty-five copies, numbered 1-25, specially bound, signed by the authors and with an original illustration signed by Charles Vess, and two hundred copies in paper covers.

Hope-In-The-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees

The Man with the Knives

Ellen Kushner

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