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	New Booklet — Four Romances by Mr. Bram Stoker: Here collected for the first time since their original publication in periodicals, these four romances display a side of Bram Stoker's writing somewhat less familiar to modern readers. Even so, these tales are not quite devoid of the elements we have come to expect from the master of horror, mystery, cruelty and black humour. Spanning Stoker's literary career, this volume reprints "Greater Love" (1914), "Our New House" (1886), "A Yellow Duster" (1899) and "The Way of Peace" (1909). Rounding out the collection is an introduction by Stoker biographer Paul Murray and a never before printed essay, "Rules for Domestic Happiness", by Charlotte M. B. Stoker — Bram's mother, who is often credited with instilling in the young author an early sense of fatalism and the macabre. More...
	New Article in Rue Morgue #97: 'The House That Machen Built. Publisher Spotlight: Tartarus Press'. England’s Tartarus Press is dedicated to releasing nothing but the best for connoisseurs of genre fiction past and present. Fin de siècle mystic and cult horror writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947) defined fine literature as “ecstasy,” going on to further describe it as “wonder, awe, mystery, sense of the unknown, [or] desire for the unknown.” Enthusiasts of the strange tale know this feeling well. We experience it every time we discover a book filled with the sort of magnificent terrors that caused us to fall in love with the genre in the first place. More...
	In the spirit of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod", Brian J. Showers' The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories infests his own Dublin neighbourhood with an authentic population of ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. Showers has filled each story with fascinating regional history, local atmosphere, and architectural details that are clearly visible today. While this gives the stories a factual flavour, the supernatural elements are entirely fictional. The result is a realistic and shadow-filled portrait of a modern neighbourhood, written in the traditional style of the classic literary ghost story. More... Winner of the 2008 Children of the Night Award. Read Nightmare Revue's interview with Brian J. Showers.
	Newsletter: October 2009. A new booklet will soon be released published by The Swan River Press in conjunction with the Bram Stoker Society. Thirty Years A-Going: A History of the Bram Stoker Society by Albert Power. "It was on a raw January evening in 1980, at a public meeting held in the darkling pile of Trinity College Dublin's graduates memorial building, with its ample expanse of grey frontage, high windows and maw-like entrance led up to by a flight of stone steps, that the sturdy first steps to set up the Bram Stoker Society were taken. The date was January 10th and the event had been organised by the college Philosophical Society, of which Bram Stoker had been President in the session for 1869-1870." More...
	Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin is a new guidebook from Nonsuch Publishing Ireland that reconstructs the lives of Charles Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker as walking tours with the help of maps, photographs and excerpts from their works. Ideal for tourists who have come to explore Ireland's 1200 year old capital, native Dubliners who want to learn more about their city's spectral past, and those who just want a mind's eye tour of haunted Dublin. Written by Brian J. Showers, Illustrated by Duane Spurlock, Foreword by Pat Liddy and Cover Art by Meggan Kehrli. More...