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R. B. Russell is an English publisher, editor, author, illustrator, songwriter, and film maker.
R. B. Russell is an English publisher, editor, author, illustrator, songwriter, and film maker.
Biography
Russell runs the award-winningTartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.
with Rosalie Parker
Rosalie Parker is an author, scriptwriter and editor who runs the Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell.
Parker jointly won the World Fantasy Award "Special Award: Non-Professional" for publishing in 2002, 2004 and 2012.
The Horror Writers Associat ...
, and for many years compiled the ''Guide to First Edition Prices''. As an author he has had four collections of short stories, three novellas and three novels published. His story "Loup-garou" was chosen for Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award (Horror Writers Association).
Career
Datlow began her career ...
’s ''The Best Horror of the Year''. "In Hiding" was nominated for the 2010 World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...
, and "The Beautiful Room" for the 2011 British Fantasy Award
The British Fantasy Awards (BFA) are awarded annually by the British Fantasy Society (BFS), first in 1976. Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards (see August Derleth Award). First awarded in 1972 (to ''The Knight of ...
. Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda (born 1948) is a book critic for the ''Washington Post''. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
Career
Having studied at Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree in 1970, Dirda took an M.A. in 1974 a ...
has described Russell as "...among the leading practitioners of classic supernatural fiction".
His novella, ''Bloody Baudelaire'', has been filmed by 3:1 Cinema with the new title ''Backgammon
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Pe ...
'' and was released 2016.
He contributes artwork to Tartarus Press titles, and a selection of his art was on display at the Link Gallery, Dean Clough
Dean Clough in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, is a group of large factory buildings built in the 1840s–60s for Crossley's Carpets, becoming one of the world's largest carpet factories (half a mile long with of floorspace) ...
, Halifax, 2010/11.
Russell is also a songwriter, having previously composed songs released by The Bollweevils. His first solo CD, ''Ghosts'', was released by Klanggalerie in February 2012. The accompanying video presentation was premiered in Vienna in March 2012, and was subsequently shown at Dean Clough Galleries October 2012. Dean Clough Galleries presented ''The Romance of Shortwave Radio Numbers Stations'' as a video installation in 2018.
Russell was the co-creator of C.W. Blubberhouse with 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 ...
.
Writing
Guide to First Edition Prices *Eight editions, Tartarus Press, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 & 2010. Short stories *''Putting the Pieces in Place'', Ex Occidente Press (Bucharest, Romania), 2009. *''Literary Remains'',PS Publishing
PS Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Hornsea, UK.
Background
PS Publishing was founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther.Swan River Press (Dublin, Ireland), 2014.
*''The Stones are Singing'', PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2016.
Novels
*''She Sleeps'', PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2017.
*''Waiting for the End of the World'', PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2020.
*''Heaven's Hill'', Zagava (Germany), 2021.
Collected Edition
*''Ghosts'', Swan River Press (Dublin, Ireland), 2012. (Contains ''Putting the Pieces in Place'' and ''Bloody Baudelaire''. Available with ''Ghosts'' CD in a limited edition.)
Non-fiction
*''Occult Territory: An Arthur Machen Gazetteer'',
Film maker's webpage for A Mild Case of Bibliomania
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May 2012. *"An Interview with R. B. Russell", by Jason Rolfe
Tuesday, 7 February 2012. *"An Interview with Ray Russell", by
R. B. Russell
R.B. Russell interviewed (with Rosalie Parker) by Rick Kleffel at the Agony Column Podcast
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Tartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.
(Yorkshire), 2019.
*''Past Lives of Old Books and Other Essays'', Tartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.
(Yorkshire), 2020.
*''Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Bibliography'', Tartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.
(Yorkshire), 2020.
*''Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography'', Tartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.
(Yorkshire), 2022.
*''Fifty Forgotten Books'', And Other Stories
And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
(Sheffield), 2022.
Translation
*''Le Grand Meaulnes
''Le Grand Meaulnes'' () is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I. The novel, published in 1913, a year before the author's death, is somewhat autobiographical – especially the name of t ...
'' by Alain-Fournier, Tartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.
(Horam, Sussex), 1999.
Music
*''Ghosts'', Klanggalerie (Austria), 2012. *''Bloody Baudelaire: A Soundtrack'', Klanggalerie (Austria), 2014. *''The Romance of Shortwave Radio Numbers Stations'', Persepolis, 2016. *''Copsford'', (self released) 2020. Reissued Bladud Flies! 2021 Reissued Warm Noise 2022 *''Phantom Cities'' by The Sodality of the Shadows, Persepolis, 2020. *''Heaven's Hill'', 7" single, Zagava, 2012.Film/video
*''Backgammon'', 2016 (co-scriptwriter) *''Coverdale: A Year in the Life'', 2016 (co-director/producer) *''Robert Aickman: Author of Strange Tales'', 2015 (co-director/producer) *''Current 93: Live at Halifax Minster'', 2014 (co-director/producer) *''Collecting Vinyl Records: A Personal History'', 2012 (director/producer) *''A Mild Case of Bibliomania'', 2011 (director/producer)/ref>
Further reading
*"An Interview with R. B. Russell", by John KennyMay 2012. *"An Interview with R. B. Russell", by Jason Rolfe
Tuesday, 7 February 2012. *"An Interview with Ray Russell", by
Everett Bleiler
Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an American editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he co-edited the first "year's best" s ...
, ''Fantasy Commentator'', Winter 2001–2002, pps.97-100.
*"Uncollected Characters of the Book World: 5", by Victoria Hyde-Greene, ''Antiquarian Book Monthly'', May 1999, pps8-9.
References
External links
R. B. Russell
R.B. Russell interviewed (with Rosalie Parker) by Rick Kleffel at the Agony Column Podcast
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