Broodcomb Press

[Zaharoff]

"House publisher for the peninsula"
Broodcomb Press
Small press that seems to specialize in strange and experimental fiction.
Already there have been reviews for two of their books, so this may be of interest to Ligotti members.
Thanks to Side Real for alerting us.
https://www.ligotti.net/showpost.php...4&postcount=16

[Zaharoff]

Bikker, Edita - The Night Of Turns

At the beginning, Edita leaves the settlements, civilization, and attaches herself to a caravan. The Caravan Of The Burnt Woman, as we later discover.
As the wagons roll into the empty wilds, Edita meets the assorted members, and she tries to grasp the peculiarities and mysteries of the group. Not so much personal histories, but the activities, the guarded beliefs, as well as the oppressive strangeness that seems to hem in around them.
This is a brilliantly executed journey into superstition and routine. In many ways, what it means to be alive. The story is dripping with images.
“… From a distance the rain-worn wagon looked like a shrunken skull in a museum, eyelids, lips and nostrils stitched together, the ears sewn in the fatal clasp of a Venus fly trap…”
The caravan, and there are seventeen caravans on the path, is less doomed than the Donner Party, the company merrier, less ill-fated than Faulkner’s Bundren family.
From time to time, caravans meet. The Caravan Of The Fool, Of The Green Goose. And then the jovial, yet deadly, Night Of Turns commences.
Throughout, revelations and awareness unfold.
The novel has been tagged with the trendy “folk horror” moniker. It is less horror, more folk.

In the background is the ominous beekeeper. I once had a hive of bees myself. Brood refers to developing bees – eggs, larvae, pupae. The comb is the hexagonal wax cells, where stored are eggs, pollen, honey. It is the living area. Broodcomb strikes one as a flourishing colony.

[bendk]

That sounds really good. There are a number of books from their catalog that look intriguing. I ordered R. Ostermeier, A Trick of the Shadow, on the recommendation of Side Real Press the day they posted on January 4th. I have not received the book yet. Difficult to find out the status of the order.

[Gnosticangel]

Just received this publisher's "Wild Marjoram Tea" by Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs, which has been favorably compared to Machen's "The White People" and Hope Mirlees' "Lud in the Mist."* Will be reading it this weekend and will post a review after.

[Masonwire]

Quote Originally Posted by bendk

That sounds really good. There are a number of books from their catalog that look intriguing. I ordered R. Ostermeier, A Trick of the Shadow, on the recommendation of Side Real Press the day they posted on January 4th. I have not received the book yet. Difficult to find out the status of the order.

My order of A Trick of the Shadow arrived rather quickly. I've read the first four stories and found them quite impressive. The story "The Intruder" is particularly disturbing on so many levels. Highly recommended.

[Lichen]

Very intriguing new(ish) press. Did I understand correctly that this is a one writer / different pen names kind of thing?

As mentioned on their website, A Trick of the Shadow is being printed for the second time, hence the slight delay.

[bendk]

Quote Originally Posted by Masonwire

Quote Originally Posted by bendk That sounds really good. There are a number of books from their catalog that look intriguing. I ordered R. Ostermeier, A Trick of the Shadow, on the recommendation of Side Real Press the day they posted on January 4th. I have not received the book yet. Difficult to find out the status of the order. My order of A Trick of the Shadow arrived rather quickly. I've read the first four stories and found them quite impressive. The story "The Intruder" is particularly disturbing on so many levels. Highly recommended.

I received my copy today. The delay wasn't Broodcomb's fault. Our mail was delayed because of weather conditions.

[Nemonymous]

Just go with THE TRICK OF THE SHADOW by R. Ostermeier !

Important stuff.

My review so far: A Trick of the Shadow by R. Ostermeier | The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews

[Nemonymous]

Just attempted to finish an impossible review of an impossibly disturbing collection of fiction…
A Trick of the Shadow by R. Ostermeier

[Acutely decayed]

its brilliant, but it reminds me of bates Motel, you are just left thinking of the setting.. believe me.. i am... preferred marjoram Tea