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Forum: General Discussion 08-19-2022
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

"A Revelation" was based on an actual incident, which is often the way with the strangest stories!
Forum: Other Authors 08-19-2022
Replies: 19
Views: 5,772
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Oliver Onions

Your point, Bendk, and that of ThisCreeping Evil, is valid. I have a few invaluable Wordsworth editions myself. If only they had acknowledged the original editors who did all the work unearthing the...
Forum: General Discussion 08-18-2022
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

As you suggest, Aickman read widely, and acknowledged the influence of Mann directly. On one of the stories he also suggested the influence of Hesse.
Forum: Other Authors 08-18-2022
Replies: 19
Views: 5,772
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Oliver Onions

I really like this edition of Onions. Has a ton of stories and like you said, it won't break your wallet.[/quote]


I have it, but yeah, it's tragic what happened to Wordsworth. Had dozens of...
Forum: General Discussion 08-11-2022
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

I am very grateful to Carl Rollyson at the New York Sun for his review of my Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography. I liked his comment: "R.B. Russell is quite aware that a biography of Aickman can...
Forum: Reggie Oliver 08-11-2022
Replies: 307
Views: 179,303
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Reggie Oliver

The first paperback edition of The Masques of Satan was traditionally printed, but it is now available as a print-on-demand paperback through Amazon. I'm not sure which edition you will have....
Forum: Other News 12-10-2020
Replies: 36
Views: 28,004
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Kate Hardy

What strikes me about Londonia is the idea of a dystopia in which people make the best of their environment, and even find contentment--pulling down so much of the modern infrastructure actually...
Forum: Other News 12-10-2020
Replies: 36
Views: 28,004
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: R B Russell

I am really pleased that the book found a sympathetic reader in you, Zaharoff. Although I must admit to a certain amount of nostalgia for bygone bookshops, and certain dealers who made books...
Forum: Other News 07-27-2019
Replies: 36
Views: 28,004
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Forrest Reid

Sadly, the book is now out of print and unavailable.
Forum: Items Available 07-10-2019
Replies: 2
Views: 3,447
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: A few ebay items, including Machen, Aickman and Lovecraft

The word "here" is a link in the original post. (There might not be much contrast between this and the rest of the text, depending on your screen.)


if not try:...
Forum: Items Available 07-10-2019
Replies: 2
Views: 3,447
Posted By tartarusrussell
A few ebay items, including Machen, Aickman and Lovecraft

I have a few ebay items listed here (https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/tartarusrussell/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_ipg&_from=We&fbclid=IwAR0G5LED7a6gQlR2vGy5eEXi_QJiMFOQIn4tbIEYISAxPtmqm0s3Rkji1RA), including...
Forum: General Discussion 06-23-2018
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

There's nothing wrong with a well-reasoned rant!

I suppose that one of the delights of mainstream literature (I refuse to use the term "literary fiction", which implies that "genre" isn't...
Forum: General Discussion 06-23-2018
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

I am sure that snobbery often plays a part, but there is a point to sub-categories of literature. "Strange" or "Aickmanesque" fiction does mean something different to straightforward "horror". I've...
Forum: General Discussion 06-23-2018
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

That is a very good question! I only met Elizabeth Jane Howard once, and I wish I'd asked her. But for some years, the only friends of his who could have been asked knew him AFTER World War Two.
...
Forum: General Discussion 06-23-2018
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

Ignoring Knygathin's obvious prejudices and bollocky thinking, and getting back to Aickman:

As ever, Aickman's opinions are odd/interesting: According to him the First World War was a very good...
Forum: General Discussion 06-21-2018
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

Editing Aickman's letters would be a big task, I imagine, and would require the generous cooperation of quite a few personal archives. I'd love the chance to read his letters to Kirby McCauley, but...
Forum: General Discussion 06-21-2018
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

Fair enough!

I though Aickman's comments most amusing, not least because, to an outsider, those lobbying for change on the railways would not look disimilar to those campaigning on behalf of the...
Forum: General Discussion 06-21-2018
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

Aickman was well aware of Henry James, obviously, and discussed him in letters, but I can't find a specific reference to the ghost stories.

Frustratingly, Aickman wrote to Donald Sidney-Fryer: ‘I...
Forum: Film 06-20-2018
Replies: 1,078
Views: 581,770
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Movie Recommendations

Me too, but not for good reasons. I liked the build up, but actually laughed out loud when the mother ascended into the treehouse. This was just before the dead dog turned up having only appeared in...
Forum: General Discussion 06-20-2018
Replies: 649
Views: 344,662
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Robert Aickman

Tartarus Press only has the rights for the hardcover reprints of original Aickman collections (albeit that they have been augmented.) I believe that Faber have ALL paperback rights, although they...
Forum: Other News 06-11-2018
Replies: 36
Views: 28,004
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Tartarus Press

Tartarus Press has been asked to vacate the premises we’ve used for storage for some years, and we have to reduce our archive, which means selling a few books from our private collection, along with...
Forum: Reggie Oliver 05-30-2018
Replies: 307
Views: 179,303
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Reggie Oliver

Admirers of Reggie Oliver's fiction might like to know that Tartarus Press has just published Holidays from Hell (http://tartaruspress.com/oliver-holidays-from-hell.html) as a signed paperback,...
Forum: General Discussion 04-26-2018
Replies: 16
Views: 13,863
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Book Soundtracks

When reading I often turn to Stars of the Lid (awful name): stars of the lid full album - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stars+of+the+lid+full+album)


When I started...
Forum: Happy Birthday 04-26-2018
Replies: 15
Views: 6,180
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Happy Birthday qcrisp

A belated Happy Birthday, Quentin!
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Forum: Mark Samuels 04-26-2018
Replies: 53
Views: 35,537
Posted By tartarusrussell
Re: Samuels, "Written in Darkness" available

Far from being written out of the digital record, Mark's new volume, The Prozess Manifestations, is mentioned in the Washington Post...
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