Friday, August 22, 2003

Not only good poetry has reverted to the "subter-
ground", so has a lot of the most interesting
horror & scifi, that corporate publishers simply
can't be bothered with. Even writers who may
have managed a "breakout" book or two, often
end up publishing subsequent works in hard
to find & expensive limited-editions. (Case in
point: Thomas Ligotti.) On the other hand,
it also means that such presses sometimes
reissue great works from the past that have
dropped out of sight. I am glad to see Robert
Aickman's stories
being reprinted lately, like
Samuel R Delany's novels... (I thought to write
this entry after trying to find out if Tibet 93 was
still doing his Durtro Press/ Ghost Story Press
stuff. Can't tell from the website. Buy something
there! Where else are you going to find Count Stenbock??)

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