The Swan River Press


	*New Publication-September 2010*
Europe €20.00 International €20.00	The Old Knowledge and Other Stange Tales by Rosalie Parker Printings: September 2010 (200) Style: Dust jackted hardback Length: ix + 114 pages ISBN: 978-0-9566587-0-8 Available for Pre-order "Make the reader think the evil, make him think it for himself . . . " -Henry James This first collection of tales by Rosalie Parker contains eight stories that explore the uncanny in the modern world. As Glen Cavaliero observes in his introduction, "like all good stories of the preternatural, these in The Old Knowledge have a subversive effect." In them, "the world of logical, predictable reality is seen to be at risk from rejected modes of knowledge which can thwart the materialist and victimise those innocents who stumble into another order of reality." In "The Rain", Geraldine heads to the North for a holiday she hopes will provide a welcome break from her busy city life, only to suffer a complicated and enigmatic distortion of her usual world-view. The narrator of "In the Garden" strays into new pastures while explaining her theory of gardening. In "Chanctonbury Ring", the well-meaning protagonist, helping a lady in distress, gets rather more than he bargained for. The temporary schoolteacher in "The Supply-Teacher" elicits altruism from her class, whilst, in "The Old Knowledge", a group of archaeologists called in to excavate a prehistoric round barrow have to negotiate local interventions. In "The Cook's Story" a Gothic country house provides the setting for a modern tale of mystery. Do not expect blood-and-guts, wraiths or revenants: these stories hold a different kind of terror. "Their unostentatious magic is of an insidious kind; and like the protagonist of the title story, is liable to exert itself in disconcerting ways." Contents Introduction by Glen Cavaliero The Rain Spirit Solutions In the Garden Chanctonbury Ring The Supply Teacher The Old Knowledge The Cook's Story The Picture Acknowledgements Rosalie Parker was born and grew up on a farm in Buckinghamshire, but has lived subsequently in Stockholm, Oxford, Dorset, Somerset, Sheffield and Sussex. She took degrees in English Literature and History, and Archaeology, working first as an archaeologist before returning to her first love of books. Rosalie is co-proprietor and editor of the independent publishing house, Tartarus Press, and lives in the Yorkshire Dales with her partner, the writer and publisher Ray Russell, their son and two cats. Visit her website at: www.tartaruspress.com/rmp1.htm
	*Hardbacks*
Europe €20.00 International €20.00	The Old Knowledge and Other Stange Tales by Rosalie Parker Printings: September 2010 (200) Style: Dust jackted hardback Length: ix + 114 pages ISBN: 978-0-9566587-0-8 Available for Pre-order "Make the reader think the evil, make him think it for himself . . . " -Henry James This first collection of tales by Rosalie Parker contains eight stories that explore the uncanny in the modern world. As Glen Cavaliero observes in his introduction, "like all good stories of the preternatural, these in The Old Knowledge have a subversive effect." In them, "the world of logical, predictable reality is seen to be at risk from rejected modes of knowledge which can thwart the materialist and victimise those innocents who stumble into another order of reality." In "The Rain", Geraldine heads to the North for a holiday she hopes will provide a welcome break from her busy city life, only to suffer a complicated and enigmatic distortion of her usual world-view. The narrator of "In the Garden" strays into new pastures while explaining her theory of gardening. In "Chanctonbury Ring", the well-meaning protagonist, helping a lady in distress, gets rather more than he bargained for. The temporary schoolteacher in "The Supply-Teacher" elicits altruism from her class, whilst, in "The Old Knowledge", a group of archaeologists called in to excavate a prehistoric round barrow have to negotiate local interventions. In "The Cook's Story" a Gothic country house provides the setting for a modern tale of mystery. Do not expect blood-and-guts, wraiths or revenants: these stories hold a different kind of terror. "Their unostentatious magic is of an insidious kind; and like the protagonist of the title story, is liable to exert itself in disconcerting ways." Contents Introduction by Glen Cavaliero The Rain Spirit Solutions In the Garden Chanctonbury Ring The Supply Teacher The Old Knowledge The Cook's Story The Picture Acknowledgements Rosalie Parker was born and grew up on a farm in Buckinghamshire, but has lived subsequently in Stockholm, Oxford, Dorset, Somerset, Sheffield and Sussex. She took degrees in English Literature and History, and Archaeology, working first as an archaeologist before returning to her first love of books. Rosalie is co-proprietor and editor of the independent publishing house, Tartarus Press, and lives in the Yorkshire Dales with her partner, the writer and publisher Ray Russell, their son and two cats. Visit her website at: www.tartaruspress.com/rmp1.htm
	*The Bram Stoker Series*
Europe €1.50 International €1.50	Thirty Years A-Going: A History of the Bram Stoker Society by Albert Power Bram Stoker Series #0 Printings: October 2009 (135) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 20 pages "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 1869-1870." Albert Power was present at the January 1980 inaugural meeting of the Bram Stoker Society in Trinity College as a rapt undergraduate. Now, at the dawn of an exciting new chapter in the society's history, he paints a personal picture of its uneven, sometimes unsettled growth - from the heady days of the early 1980s when a plaque was installed on premises lived in by Bram Stoker on Dublin's Kildare Street; through the short fraught association with Trinity College's Philosophical Society; the thirteen years of the journal; the Bram Stoker Club; fraternal links with the Clontarf-centred annual Bram Stoker Summer School; to the death of the society's founder and chairman, Leslie Shepard, in August 2004. The narrative concludes with a putative pencil sketch for the future.
Subscription #1-3 Europe €25.00 Subscription #1-3 International €25.00	Four Romances by Mr. Bram Stoker Introduced by Paul Murray Bram Stoker Series #1 Printings: January 2010 (125) Style: A5, hand-sewn pamphlet Length: 40 pages "While the stories that make up this collection are not among Stoker's best, they do cast an interesting light on the psyche of their creator. His lifelong concerns, anxieties, obsessions and ambiguities would cohere into the masterpiece that is Dracula in the 1890s but his other work, including these stories, shine a revealing light into the mind of its creator, a mind more profound, if also more troubled, than has generally been realised." 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. Note: The Bram Stoker Series is available by subscription only. For €25.00, subscribers will receive each of the three titles shortly after their respective publication dates. The price is inclusive of packaging and postage. Individual titles may be made available at a later date at a higher cost per title.
Subscription #1-3 Europe €25.00 Subscription #1-3 International €25.00	Bram Stoker's Other Gothics--Contemporary Reviews Introduced by Carol A. Senf Bram Stoker Series #2 Printings: April 2010 (125) Style: A5, hand-sewn pamphlet Length:36 pages "Just as I would recommend any of Stoker's works, these reviews serve as a reminder that Stoker's literary legacy is substantially more than just Dracula, still his best-known work. These reviews, most of them now in print for the first time in over a century, provide fresh insights into Bram Stoker as an author who dabbled in the popular genres available to writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and who made the Gothic genre his own, not only in Dracula, but in other works that today are not as well known as they deserve to be." Collected here are a selection of reviews of Stoker's works that are generally classified under the broad heading of Gothic: Under the Sunset (1882), The Snake's Pass (1890), The Mystery of the Sea (1902), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), The Lady of the Shroud (1909), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Assembled from the list provided by Richard Dalby and William Hughes in their Bram Stoker: A Bibliography (Essex: Desert Island Books, 2004), these reviews appeared in many of the leading publications of their day, including The Spectator, Punch, The Academy, and The Athenaeum as well as in more specialised journals such as The Dial, The Bookman, The Reader Magazine. Note: The Bram Stoker Series is available by subscription only. For €25.00, subscribers will receive each of the three titles shortly after their respective publication dates. The price is inclusive of packaging and postage. Individual titles may be made available at a later date at a higher cost per title.
Subscription #1-3 Europe €25.00 Subscription #1-3 International €25.00	Extracts from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving by Bram Stoker Selected and Introduced by Elizabeth Miller Bram Stoker Series #3 Printings: November 2010 (125) Style: A5, hand-sewn pamphlet Length: 28 pages "Henry Irving had died in 1905. Born John Brodribb in a Somerset village in 1838, he was the son of a travelling salesman. He would become one of the best known figures in London, and the first actor be be honoured with a knighthood. He acquired the Lyceum Theatre in 1878 and quickly hired Bram Stoker (then living in his native Dublin) to join him as Acting Manager. Stoker was immediately swept into a whirlwind of activity on which he thrived: seasons in London, provincial tours, and eight North American tours. Biographers concur that Henry Irving was the single greatest influence on Stoker's life." Bram Stoker's tribute to his late, former employer in Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906) proved to be one of his most successful books during Stoker's lifetime. While Dracula has since surpassed Personal Reminiscences in popularity, the latter title contains many fascinating accounts central to the author’s life. Selected and introduced by Elizabeth Miller, this booklet features the most interesting portions of Stoker's semi-autobiographical account. Extracts focus on Stoker's early meetings with Irving, anecdotes from his years managing the Lyceum Theatre in London, and his association with many of the famous people of his day including Whitman, Gladstone, Tennyson, Browning, Vambéry and Liszt. The volume also includes excerpts from five contemporary reviews. Note: The Bram Stoker Series is available by subscription only. For €25.00, subscribers will receive each of the three titles shortly after their respective publication dates. The price is inclusive of packaging and postage. Individual titles may be made available at a later date at a higher cost per title.

	*The Sheridan Le Fanu Series*
Europe €7.00 International €9.00	My Aunt Margaret's Adventure A Long Lost Tale of Mystery and Suspense, Attributed by M.R. James to Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Sheridan Le Fanu Series #1 Cover by Allison Elrod Printings: July 2009 (200) Style: A5, hand-sewn pamphlet Length: 36 pages "My Aunt Margaret's Adventure" is reminiscent of the great terror tales of mounting alarm such as Wilkie Collins's "A Terribly Strange Bed"; the hotel scene, to a lesser extent, in Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"; James Whale's The Old Dark House; and the more recent film The Last Great Wilderness (2002) directed by David Mackenzie. In fact, with their often arch and sardonic senses of humour, the latter two examples are most appropriate comparisons. Comfort and safety are fleeting in stories like these. Familiar and generally hospitable surroundings quickly take turns into strange worlds of indefinable menace. Terror mounts. A candle going out may be discomforting, but an accident befalling your only light source is downright sinister. Like Aunt Margaret, the reader is cursed with an active mind courtesy of the author's vivid prose rich in regional flavour and Gothic detail. It's only a matter of time — we can just feel it in our bones! — before the other shoe drops. "My Aunt Margaret’s Adventure" first appeared in the March 1864 issue of the Dublin University Magazine, which was then under the editorship of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The DUM was a regular venue for Le Fanu’s work. The February issue contained the final instalments of his novel Wylder's Hand, while the April issue saw the publication of "Wicked Captain Walshawe of Wauling"--"My Aunt Margaret’s Adventure" appeared in the interceding issue. Believed by M.R. James and S.M. Ellis to be the work of Le Fanu, "My Aunt Margaret’s Adventure" shares many motifs, themes, and effects found in the Irish author’s work. This new edition will feature commentary on the story and its authorship by two leading Le Fanu scholars, Jim Rockhill (introduction and annotations) and Gary W. Crawford (afterword).
	*Haunted History Series*
Europe €5.00 International €8.00	On the Banks of the River Jordan by John Reppion, cover by Meggan Kehrli Haunted History Series #7 Printings: March 2010 (150) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 20 pages Postscript Orders for this booklet are filled by the author. Signed on request. "Dear Brian, My name is John Reppion. You may remember that we corresponded briefly last year on the subject of my article "Where Goes the Blackberry Man". I am currently at something of a loose end whilst my wife, and day-to-day writing partner, is off visiting her sister for a few days prior to Christmas. It is at times such as these that I would normally take the opportunity to work on some of my more esoteric researches. Going through my notes, I came across a mass of material concerning Princes Park - the Victorian park adjacent to where I live - which I gathered whilst researching my book 800 Years of Haunted Liverpool. There are many intriguing and esoteric titbits associated with this locale . . . but I'm finding it hard to get the various pieces of information into a logical order. I'm sure there is an obvious angle, a path winding through these disparate elements that would draw the whole thing together . . . I wonder if I might ask you the favour of offering your opinion on material I have amassed thus far. If you are willing, I would like to "talk" through the disjointed data via email and hopefully make sense of it all in the act of doing so. Very best, John"
	The Seer of Trieste: A Lecture by Mark Valentine, cover by Meggan Kehrli Haunted History Series #6 Printings: December 2008 (150) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 12 pages "The old Austro-Hungarian imperial seaport of Trieste has been home to several literary figures: Anglo-Irish novelist Charles Lever, Victorian explorer, translator and erotologist Sir Richard Burton, James Joyce, who started his masterpiece Ulysses there, the fine bookseller-poet Umberto Saba, and Italo Svevo, the chain-smoking man of business who caught its curious atmosphere so well in his novels. A place apart, at first mercantile and prosperous, but with a history associated with loss, melancholy and the liminal, it also has a strange undercurrent of the shabby-bohemian and semi-magical. An acquaintance with a genteel seer and almanac-maker in the city led me to an unexpected revelation about the prevailing spirit of the place and its influence upon those who wrote there. In quest of this, I encountered scrying youths, a masked ball, a reclusive artist perfecting a new form, and at last a monstrous brooding presence. Here is the full text of a lecture to the Aeolian Club of Lincoln which may merit a place amongst the more astonishing of the accounts it has heard. -Mark Valentine"
Japan €5.00 International €8.00	The Nanri Papers by Edward Crandall, illustrations by Meggan Kehrli Haunted History Series #5 Printings: August 2008 (150) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 24 pages Postscript Orders for this booklet are filled by the author. Signed on request. "Dear Mr. Otani, I am contacting you on behalf of Mr. Masanobu Nanri of Onimaru, Saga City. Mr. Nanri recently showed me some papers and personal effects belonging to his parents (both deceased). These papers have to do with events he describes as 'likely paranormal in nature' that have occurred over the years at Akamatsu Primary School, also in Saga City. For your reference, I have included transcripts of the original documents he showed me as well as an explanation of the circumstances under which he showed them to me. Mr. Nanri is concerned, as you will see from the following text, that there is the chance of physical danger not only to the students, teachers and staff of the school, but also to the general public. You will see from the printout of a website Mr. Nanri recently viewed that the school has been listed as a 'paranormal hot spot' on the Internet. He is therefore interested in the site being investigated by reputable professionals and experts in the field so that any danger may be averted. -Sincerely, Edward Crandall"
Europe €5.00 International €8.00	Brutal Spirits: Some Notes on Strange Occurrences in a Car Park in Gateshead by Gary McMahon, illustrations by Meggan Kehrli Haunted History Series #4 Printings: February 2008 (150) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 18 pages Postscript Orders for this booklet are filled by the author. Signed on request. "My friend and sometime mentor, Charles Edward Urban, died in March 2007. He was seventy years old. Unfortunately, Charles took his own life before I had the chance to ever meet him in the flesh, and our long-distance relationship remained sadly unresolved. I had been fortunate enough to conduct an informal correspondence with him (a loose friendship that took the form of letters and emails) in the few years before his untimely death, which was begun when I sent him a fan letter because a story of his ("The Red Yawn") affected me profoundly enough to cause me to re-examine my entire life. Charles named me in his will as sole executor of his estate. Going through his belongings, ostensibly in search of unpublished material for a proposed posthumous collection of his short fiction , I came across the following papers in the locked bottom drawer of a battered Victorian bureau. Whether they constitute notes for an unfinished tale, the ramblings of a suicidal and deeply unsettled mind, or accounts of genuine strange occurrences in the north east of England, I will leave you to decide. -Gary McMahon, editor"
Europe €5.00 International €8.00	The Red House at Münstereifel by Helen Grant, illustrations by William Bond Haunted History Series #3 Printings: July 2007 (150) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 28 pages Postscript Orders for this booklet are filled by the author. Signed on request. "Early in 2007, whilst researching an article about Steinfeld Abbey, I came across the collection of documents (originally in German) which comprise this booklet, in a forgotten folder bearing the name of Löher, a name closely connected with that infamous period in European history when witch-hunting was at its height. For reasons which will soon become clear upon perusal of the documents, I have chosen to publish them outside Germany. It is imperative that the facts relating to the history of the Red House in Münstereifel--in so far as they can be established--are put before those persons best equipped to take the appropriate action. The author of the original documents perished in a horrific incident which appears not unconnected with their compilation. Whether his fears and suspicions were justified is for you, the reader, to judge. -H. Grant, editor"
	Blind Man's Box: Some documents relating to the history of the Grand Pavilion Theatre, Seabourne by Reggie Oliver, illustrations by Meggan Kehrli Haunted History Series #2 Printings: June 2007 (150) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 20 pages Postscript "On the thirteenth of July this year, Dr. George Vilier, died suddenly at the age of fifty five. He was lecturer in Theatre Studies at Bath University, and a colleague and friend of mine, so I suppose it should have been no surprise to discover that he had made me his literary executor. Among his papers I found the almost complete MS of his long-awaited work, The Gothic Experience in Victorian Drama, which I hope will soon see publication. I also found a folder which contained the following documents and notes. I am sure that Vilier was intending to use them to form a single connected narrative, and I debated whether I should do the same. In the end I decided that I would serve his memory better if I arranged these papers in a moderately coherent order, secured the relevant copyright permissions and published them as they stood. I have added a short note at the end, but readers must decide for themselves whether what follows provides any clue to the mystery of his sudden and tragic death. -Reggie Oliver, editor"
	On the Apparitions at Gray's Court by Peter Bell, illustrations by Meggan Kehrli Haunted History Series #1 Printings: Dec. 2006 (150) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 16 pages Postscript For details on ordering a copy of On the Apparitions at Gray's Court, contact Peter Bell at: emily.bronte@tiscali.co.uk "This intriguing pamphlet, handsomely produced by Swan River Press, is the first in a promised series of fake histories of real buildings. Peter Bell's fascinating On the Apparitions at Gray's Court leaves you eager for more. Taking the form of a reprinted academic paper, complete with footnotes, bibliographic references and the kind of entertainingly pernickety detail beloved of the local history enthusiast, we're very much in M. R. James territory, physically as well as stylistically--a medieval building in the cathedral precinct at York, which has played host at different times to clergy, academics and something altogether less reassuring. "By the end I was googling away to try and sort the truth from the fiction. It's a great idea and Dr. Bell pulls it off with ease and elegance. If anyone out there has a second hand copy of the author's Poltergeist over the Wolds: a Study of Paranormal Phenomena in the East Riding of Yorkshire, I'd be very interested in putting in an offer." -Robert Lloyd Parry, All Hallows #42
	*Chapbooks*
Quis Separabit €5.00 All Six Chapbook €25.00	Quis Separabit by Brian J. Showers, illustrations by Jeffrey C. Roche Printings: December 2007 (300) Style: A7, hand-sewn soft cover chapbook with ribbon bookmark Length: 48 pages Postscript "Shortly after crossing La Touche Bridge and proceeding south along Rathmines Road, you will notice a nondescript and ultimately dead end lane stretching to the west. This is tiny Blackberry Lane, as evidenced by a sign bolted to the adjacent terrace, and in days past it was literally neither here nor there. This east-west lane was once a narrow and much lengthier bohreen beat through the dense foliage between the Earl of Meath's lands to the south and the old Farm of St. Sepulchre to the north. It should arouse no curiosity that neither estate claimed this stretch of ground, as for countless generations it was primarily utilised by the dead. Until 1850, the lane served as a corpse road--a path used not only by funeral processions, but also, according to belief, by souls of the deceased."
70 Merrion Square €10.00 All Six Chapbook €25.00	No. 70 Merrion Square, Parts One & Two by Brian J. Showers, illustrations by Duane Spurlock Printings: Oct. 2006 (300) / Dec. 2006 (300) Style: A7, hand-sewn soft cover chapbook with ribbon bookmark Length: 48 pages x 2 Postscript "Anyone familiar with Brian J. Showers' supernatural stories, presented in the delightful miniature chapbooks of Swan River Press, so tastefully illustrated by Duane Spurlock and Meggan Kehrli, will not be disappointed by his latest publication: No. 70 Merrion Square. Aficionados will recognise the address of the Dublin house where the great Sheridan Le Fanu wrote some of his finest tales and spent the last lonely decades of his life. Showers has cleverly engaged with the motif of Le Fanu by writing a story in which the protagonist, a horror author seeking renewed inspiration, settles in the house and encounters troubling experiences. "Inter-textual references, to classic and contemporary supernatural writers, constantly inform the narrative, making it great fun for the connoisseur; and it is threaded with a vein of wry humour, tastefully and effectively juxtaposed against the horror, never an easy task. Throughout, the narrative displays the author's lucid prose style and easy pace, a hallmark of all his previous work: in a phrase, Showers is a damned good story-teller, as well as a master of atmosphere and a shrewdly informed practitioner of the ghostly tale. Working closely within established genre conventions--haunted house, ghostly possession, numinous dreams, the angry dead, the inspiration and alienation of the artist, and the borderland between insanity and the supernatural-- Showers has written a superb tribute to Victorian Gothic set within 21st Century Dublin. Few modern writers can be as versed in the supernatural heritage of that atmospheric city, with its strange mix of glitzy economic miracle and elegantly sombre past." More... -Peter Bell, ghost story writer

Tigh an Bhreithimh €5.00 All Six Chapbook €25.00	Tigh an Bhreithimh by Brian J. Showers, illustrations by Duane Spurlock Printings: Oct. 2005 (300), March 2007 (150) Style: A7, hand-sewn soft cover chapbook with ribbon bookmark Length: 48 pages Postscript A struggling writer travels to a remote cottage in western Ireland for the solitude and inspiration he needs to finish writing his first novel. But when the forgotten secrets of the desolate landscape want to be remembered, he learns a lesson in fear, one more terrifying than any tale he could ever write. In the tradition of M.R. James and J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian J. Showers's Tigh an Bhreithimh is a tale that is sure to please fans of the traditional ghost story. "I really enjoyed Tigh an Bhreithimh, which is a nicely written ghost story set in a small town in Ireland. The atmosphere--puzzle and horror--is very well handled, and the folkways are interesting. The story is conveyed in a small, attractive chapbook with good line illustrations by Duane Spurlock." -E.F. Bleiler, editor
Snow Came Softly €5.00 All Six Chapbook €25.00	The Snow Came Softly Down by Brian J. Showers, illustrations by Duane Spurlock and poetry courtesy of William Wordsworth Printings: Dec. 2004 (200), Sept. 2005 (100), Feb. 2007 (150) Style: A7, hand-sewn soft cover chapbook with ribbon bookmark Length: 48 pages Postscript "Small but perfectly formed, The Snow Came Softly Down by Brian J. Showers is a delightfully-produced little chapbook with its own ribbon marker and simple but effective line drawings by Duane Spurlock, containing 'A Tale Concerning Ghosts'. You would expect from this, and from the old-fashioned typeface, that it is set in a more innocent era, and so it proves. M.R. James would probably disapprove of the decidedly benign spooks, but the tale cannot be faulted for atmosphere--especially the protagonist's scary walk through the freezing woods on Christmas Eve. If I call the tone of the story 'Dickensian' it is meant as a compliment, evoking as it does those semi-mythical White Yuletides depicted on a certain type of Christmas card... but with added creepiness. Wordsworth’s poem 'Lucy Gray', possibly an inspiration to the tale and certainly complementing it, rounds off this charming book." -Chico Kidd, All Hallows #42
The Old Tailor €5.00 All Six Chapbook €25.00	The Old Tailor and the Gaunt Man by Brian J. Showers, illustrations by Meggan Kehrli Printings: Oct. 2003 (150), March 2005 (100), June 2006 (150) Style: A7, hand-sewn soft cover chapbook with ribbon bookmark Length: 48 pages Postscript "Here is a small treat from The Swan River Press in Dublin, Ireland: an old-fashioned ghost story in a hand-sewn binding with soft covers and its own ribbon marker. Brian J. Showers, an expatriate American writer living in Dublin, reveals an expert hand at deploying the shadows and portents, ironic disclosures, and gradual accumulation of detail, which still make the masters of supernatural fiction so chillingly entertaining to this day. His tale of a lonely old tailor eking out a miserable existence who discovers 'there is still enough faith for dark things to walk the night' is a delightful folkloric ghost story in a gently facetious and slightly antique tone reminiscent of Charles Dickens and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The text is complemented by Meggan Kehrli's arabesque cover design, six full-page illustrations, and an equal number of spot illustrations, all of which add to the work’s eerie charm. This is perfect fare for solitary reading on blustery autumn evenings or a group gathered round the holiday fireplace in expectation of a Winter’s Tale." -Jim Rockhill, All Hallows #40 'The Old Tailor & the Gaunt Man' was re-printed in Ash-Tree Press's 2004 collection, Acquainted With The Night.
	*Booklets*
	Ghostly Rathmines: A Visitor's Guide Cover by Duane Spurlock Printings: March 2008 (125) Style: A5, staple-bound pamphlet Length: 32 pages Sold Out Ghostly Rathmines: A Visitor's Guide is a companion booklet limited to 125 numbered copies containing artefacts, images, and photographs from locations in the stories in The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories. The booklet was given away free with the first 125 copies of The Bleeding Horse sold through this website. Click here for details.