“In This Glass House” locates a tense, aesthetic space between Shirley Jackson and Don DeLillo in its examination of fascism and the interiority through which malignant forces exert domination. Olivia Sutton becomes embroiled in the compromised leadership of a problematic man, and thus in a world of barely concealed diabolism. Though modernity is forever encroaching upon the fortress of her upward mobility, she is haunted, and hunted, by one whose form is legion.“In This Glass House” interrogates the lived life among shadows, phantasms that would inhabit and command a self in the throes of its flourishing unholiness.

In This Glass House

Phillips, Thomas

Literature & Fiction

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The Bellboy

Lloyd, Rebecca

Genre Fiction

The Uncertainty Of All Earthly Things: Stories

Valentine, Mark

The White Hands and Other Weird Tales

Mark Samuels

Nick was awarded the grand prix of the prestigious “Triennial of Self-taught Visionary Art” at Belgrade in February of this year. This book is effectively the first career-spanning retrospective publication many fans of his have been asking for. We believe that Blinko's art perfectly gels with the Zagava aesthetic and it has been a joy and a privilege to work on this particular publication, we believe that Zagava reader's who might not be aware of Nick's sleeve art for his own band Rudimentary Peni or his one-off art for Coil, the Lovecraft volume he has illustrated or the two previous volumes David Tibet has published under his Coptic Cat imprint, will find much to enjoy in this book. Each of Nick's creations is like a weird novella in itself, you can at least spend as much time exploring the endlessly detailed work as you would spend on reading and decoding an Aickman strange story. We are conceptualising an very limited and outrageous special portfolio edition, details tbc. We are certain you will love this book and Nick's art.

Nick Blinko

Blinko, Nick

Arts & Photography

The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Weighell, Ron

The light is very much alone in this inaugural collection that locates maleficence of various shades firmly in the dark. Witchery seeks justice. A school is home to diabolism. Heat worship is cultural death and a political gathering is unfailingly nefarious. The devil, in all his vile and glorious modernity, arrives. Light is finally the beacon signalling only dread.

The Light Is Alone

Nigel Humphreys is best known as a poet that seeks out and finds the soul’s consciousness, complexities and imperfections – the universal vibration of what is out there and the resonance of the creative mind; out of the darkness and into the light, the very love of this world … and the next. The next world; that which we will all inhabit in time and out of time, in our mind and out of it.And yet there is another Nigel Humphreys, the ‘ghost’ writer, now revealed in this key collection of original ghost stories ‘Beyond Dead’, utterly possessed, inhabiting the same deep landscape, but ‘in and out of it’, ‘back and forth’, foot-stepping into our heads; a true literary Medium, attuning himself and us, tuning in, channelling, asking the begging questions that he already appears to know the answers to, ‘is there anybody there? And if so, ‘what are we to do and how are we to act and what will be the human cost or indeed that of the spirits?’The poet has become his own ‘ghost’, touching the imperceptible, conjuring out of the dim-lit shimmering backdrop, a very fine and original collection of ghost stories, that allow us to wander, candle in hand, with him and experience with great clarity and confidence, this ‘other realm’, that is ‘our realm’; ghosts as people, people as ghosts, spirits of time and spirits of place, benign, mischievous and utterly malign, letting the traditional ghost story itself, in its grey eminence and delightful dotage, become utterly re-haunted, re-possessed as old houses and people are, re-energised and ‘of spirit’ in and about itself. It is all ‘his own’ work, but not of ‘his own’. He has had the help from within the veil and beyond it, conjuring forth an emotional Spirit world that has to be acknowledged.(Adapted from Spirits of Time and Place: The Ghost Stories of Nigel Humphreys by Jonathan Wood)

Beyond Dead: And Other Ghost Stories

Humphreys, Nigel

In the early days of the 21st century, an ‘Unknown Executive’ is killed by a passing car near Park Circus, the architectural office quarter of Glasgow. From his briefcase spill a series of mysterious and outlandish story fragments which blow across surrounding districts over subsequent days, each found and read by a diverse range of local characters. A far future Britain overtaken by rising sea levels, a near-future Scotland in which a nuclear accident has displaced the lowland populations to new experimental settlements in the north, an America in which NASA has begun a mining colony on a distant planet to the detriment of its hapless alien inhabitants. Each of these narratives do little to help the police establish the dead man ‘s identity, but point instead to a higher reality, a series of metaphorical futures that throw light on the enduring enigmas of human life and love: the struggle for freedom against the forces of tyranny and decay, the adverse effects of social-exclusion at the personal and societal level, and the transformative power of art.

Barking Circus

Thompson, Douglas

Peter Bell has been a frequent visitor to the Scottish Hebrides for many years now. His book transcends mere travel writing and is filled with philosophical musings and keen observations.“The defining spirit of the Hebrides [is] light, in it multifarious guises: apocalyptic dawns and sunsets; bright colours in the crystal clear air; the shades of all the seasons—thus, even on a treeless isle, the russet gold of autumn is visible in the myriad blades of grass, as kaleidoscopic as the patchwork embroidery of spring flowers along the machair. Until I came to the isles, I never realised there were so many hues of grey: in the ever-shifting cloudscapes, on the seals’ shining pelts, and along the surface of the silver sea. Light’s spell is there in the fleeting emerald flash of the sun’s diurnal death, and in the shimmering tapestry of frosty nights, Aurora Borealis, when the Merry Dancers are abroad in the heavens. Diverse muses have infused my thoughts—melancholy, uncanny, sacred, wild, ancient—yet suffusing my vision ever flows the miracle of light.”

The Light Inaccessible

Travel

Bell, Peter

Travel Writing

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