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Zagava
Zagava, initially established as ''Antiquariat Bücherwelten'' in 2002, is a German imprint from Düsseldorf that publishes genre-defying literature with an emphasis on weird fiction, strange tales and novels, supernatural and horror literature in limited editions. Although based in Germany all of ''Zagava''′s books are in the English language. Most of Zagava's books are issued in standard limited and numbered hardbound versions and frequently in additional special lettered subeditions with special bindings or additional extras. The books are as much about their contents as about the art of fine book-production. Jonas Ploeger is the proprietor of this press. Collections The press has published several story collections and novels as first editions by contemporary writers as Reggie Oliver, Mark Valentine and Quentin S. Crisp. Four collections of essays and stories have been published so far. "Transactions by the Flesh" (2013) is homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans with texts by Jonat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggie Oliver (writer)
Reggie Oliver (born 1952 in London) is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. Life and career Reggie Oliver was educated at Eton (Newcastle Scholar, 1970, Oppidan Scholar) and University College, Oxford (BA Hons 1975), and has been a professional playwright, actor, and theatre director since 1975. He has worked in radio, television, films, and theatre, both in the West End and outside London. He was a founding member of the late Sir Anthony Quayle's Compass Theatre, and both played the part of Traverse and understudied Sir Anthony in the tour and West End run of ''The Clandestine Marriage'' in 1984. His plays include ''Imaginary Lines'' (which was first produced and directed by Alan Ayckbourn at Scarborough in 1985 and has since been translated into several languages), ''Absolution'' (King's Head, 1983), ''Back Payments'' (King's Head, 1985), ''Taking Liberties'' (Wolsey, Ipswich, 1996), ''Put Some Clothes On, Clarisse!'' (Duchess Theatre, London, 1989 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Howard (author)
John Howard is an English author, born in London in 1961. His fiction has appeared in anthologies, magazines, and the collections ''The Silver Voices'', ''Written by Daylight'', ''Cities and Thrones and Powers'', and ''Buried Shadows''. The majority of Howard's stories have central and eastern European settings; many are set in the fictional Romanian town of Steaua de Munte. ''The Defeat of Grief'' is a novella set in Steaua de Munte and the real Black Sea resort of Balcic; the novellas "The Fatal Vision" (in ''Cities and Thrones and Powers'') and ''The Lustre of Time'' form part of an ongoing series with Steaua de Munte architect and academic Cristian Luca as protagonist. ''Numbered as Sand or the Stars'' attempts a 'secret history' of Hungary between the World Wars. John Howard has published three collections jointly written with Mark Valentine. ''Secret Europe'' comprises 25 short stories set in a variety of real and fictional European locations. Ten of the stories are by Howa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Thacker
Eugene Thacker is an American philosopher, poet, and author. He is Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. His writing is often associated with the philosophy of nihilism and pessimism. Thacker's books include ''In the Dust of This Planet'' (part of his Horror of Philosophy trilogy) and ''Infinite Resignation''. Early life and education Thacker was born and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University. Works Nihilism, pessimism, and speculative realism Thacker's work has been associated with philosophical nihilism and pessimism, as well as to contemporary philosophies of speculative realism and collapsology. His short book ''Cosmic Pessimism'' defines pessimism as "the philosophical form of disenchantment." As Thacker states: "Pessimism is the night-side of thought, a melodrama of the futility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Connell
Brendan Connell (born 1970) is an American author and translator. Though his work often falls into the horror and fantasy genres, it has also often been called unclassifiable and avant-garde. His style has been compared to that of J.K. Huysmans and Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar .... Some of his shorter fiction, such as that contained in his collection ''Metrophilias'', has been referred to as prose poetry. Influences he has cited include Balzac and Ponson du Terrail. He has also written many lyrics for the Serbian band Kodagain. Bibliography Novels *''The Translation of Father Torturo'', Prime Books, 2005 *''The Architect'', PS Publishing, 2012 *''Miss Homicide Plays the Flute'', Eibonvale Press, 2013 *''The Cutest Girl in Class'', Snuggly Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Reed (writer)
Jeremy Reed (born 1951) is a Jersey-born poet, novelist, biographer and literary critic. Career Reed has published over 50 works in 25 years. He has written more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels, and volumes of literary and music criticism. He has also published translations of Montale, Cocteau, Nasrallah, Adonis, Bogary and Hölderlin. His own work has been translated abroad in more than a dozen languages. He has received awards from Somerset Maugham, Eric Gregory, Ingram Merrill, Royal Literary Fund and the Arts Council. He has also won the Poetry Society's European Translation Prize. Reed began publishing poems in magazines and small publications in the 1970s. His influences include Rimbaud, Artaud, Jean Genet, J. G. Ballard, David Bowie and Iain Sinclair. Reed has a long history of publication with both Creation Books, Enitharmon Press, Shearsman Books and Peter Owen, however his ''Selected Poems'' is published by Penguin Books. His recent art criticism ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Valentine
Mark Valentine is an English short story author, editor and essayist on book-collecting. Short stories Valentine's short stories have been published in a number of collections and in anthologies. ''The Collected Connoisseur'' (Tartarus Press, 2010) is about the mystical encounters of an aesthete whose real name is never revealed, some written jointly with John Howard. ‘The Descent of the Fire’, a story in this series by Valentine & Howard, was included in the 2004 World Fantasy Award winning anthology ''Strange Tales'' edited by Rosalie Parker. ''Herald of the Hidden'' (Tartarus Press, 2013) collects stories about Ralph Tyler, a Northamptonshire folklorist. Other short story collections include ''Selected Stories'' (2012) and ''Seventeen Stories'' (2013). His story ‘Vain Shadows Flee’ was chosen for ''Best British Short Stories 2016'' edited by Nicholas Royle (Salt Publishing). ''Secret Europe'' (2012) and ''Inner Europe'' (2018) are shared collections with John Howard o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wallfisch
Paul Wallfisch (born September 18, 1962) is an American musician who specializes in German multimedia theater productions. He works extensively in Western Europe and makes his home in Harlem, New York, United States. Early childhood Paul Wallfisch was born in Basel, Switzerland, to classically trained musicians Lory Wallfisch and Ernst Wallfisch. His parents performed as a duo, with his mother on piano and harpsichord and his father on viola, violin and viola da gamba. The family moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, in early 1964. Musical career Paul Wallfisch recorded eight albums with his band Botanica. He has also contributed to dozens of other albums and toured with artists including Firewater, Love and Rockets, Congo Norvell, Angela McCluskey, Syl Sylvain, Stiv Bators, Anne Pigalle, Johnny Hallyday and others across the globe, primarily in Europe and Asia. He has also worked with Little Annie, and produced her album, ''Genderful'' (2010). Wallfisch has played in man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrest Aguirre
Forrest Aguirre (born July 29, 1969) is an American fantasy and Horror fiction, horror author, and winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for his editing work on ''Leviathan 3'', for which he was also a Philip K. Dick Award nominee. He recently edited the anthology '' Text:UR – The New Book of Masks''. His own fiction has been published in a number of genre periodicals and in the collection ''Fugue XXIX'', and his first novel ''Swans Over the Moon'' is coming soon from Wheatland Press. He often writes about Africa, and is deeply interested in the continent. References External links Forrest Aguirre bio from Raw Dog Screaming Press Living people American short story writers 1969 births American male novelists American male short story writers {{US-novelist-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen J
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. In English, Stephen is most commonly pronounced as ' (). The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie. The spelling as Stephen can also be pronounced which is from the Greek original version, Stephanos. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan ; related names that have found some c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Orchideengarten
''Der Orchideengarten'' ('The Orchids-garden'; subtitled ''Phantastische Blätter'' or 'Fantastic Pages') was a German magazine that was published for 51 issues from January 1919 until November 1921.Halbert W. Hall, ''Science/fiction collections: fantasy, supernatural & weird tales''. Routledge, 1983, p. 89. History and profile Founded four years before the American magazine ''Weird Tales'' was initiated in March 1923, ''Der Orchideengarten'' is considered to be the first fantasy magazine. Also described as largely 'supernatural horror', it was edited by World War I correspondent and freelance writer Karl Hans Strobl more on Strobl and Alfons von Czibulka, published by Dreiländerverlag. It had 24 pages per issue printed on rough book paper. The magazine included a wide selection of new and reprinted stories by both German-language and foreign writers. The main source of the translated material ''Der Orchideengarteen'' published was French literature; ''Der Orchideengarten'' publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
