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ve any book recommendations for our readers je i recently greatly enjoyed pereira maintains by antonio tabucchi i d encourage everyone to read witold gombrowicz cosmos pornografia ferdydurke thomas bernhard whose mordant wit and scathing denunciations i love his technique is brilliantly shown off in the loser the lime works and extinction robert walser greatly admired by kafka is worth exploring 2 comments out out are the lights out all written by chomu press admin on may 10 2017 0 comments categories uncategorized following on from the news of the marked to die anthology last year we are very pleased to make another mark samuels related announcement written in darkness the fifth collection of short fiction by mark samuels and the twenty eighth title from chômu press is officially released today originally available as a limited edition hardback from egaeus press it is now generally available as a chômu paperback with lush new cover artwork from christopher conn askew and book design by david rix samuels s fourth collection the man who collected machen and other weird tales released in paperback by chômu in 2011 has proven exceptionally popular with our readers and we are sure that the current collection will be enjoyed just as widely and deeply with a further refinement of the author s concise elegant style and a broadening of his themes and subject matter the nine apocalyptic tales included in written in darkness are testament to samuels s secure and growing place in the consciousness of the connoisseur as an authentic practitioner of weird fiction from the back cover europe decays but the bloody baron s spirit will not rest a lone yachtsman is becalmed at sea and confronts madness or something greater than madness a condemned office building is besieged by the forces of transcendent decay in the city of exiles an unguessable secret awaits for all this and more book your one way ticket to the heart of the labyrinth here or if you would first like a sample of the contents you can listen to quentin s crisp reading the final story in eternity two lines intersect by arrangement with the author at soundcloud here for further information the author talks informally to quentin s crisp about the collection about weird fiction psychogeography thomas ligotti and many other things in the following youtube vlog interview other stimulating news of chômu press and miscellaneous matters although chômu s release schedule has slowed down recently news abounds in relation to our authors and the surrounding small press world in january for the first time one of our titles was mentioned in the new york times in interview roxane gay was asked what s your favorite book no one else has heard of and replied i am a magical teenage princess by luke geddes of course our readers can claim to have been ahead of the pack here we hope that many more will follow their excellent lead on bbc radio 2 in february talking to jonathan ross about his hidden treasures marc almond recited a poem by the chômu published poet beloved of björk and j g ballard jeremy reed marc almond of course collaborated with jeremy reed for his against nature project putting the seminal decadent novel by j k huysmans to music the lyrics for that project written by reed are included in the fantastic miscellany nothing but a star the first of a three part interview in which artist and musician rachel margetts talks to chômu author quentin s crisp about the relevance of the dao de jing to the 21st century has recently been uploaded to youtube the interview was conducted by skype and the image and ambient background audio are provided by rachel margetts the cutest girl in class by quentin s crisp justin isis and brendan connell now in paperback the as the name suggests friendly press snuggly books have been very busy of late last month they released in paperback the three author collaborative novel the cutest girl in class by quentin s crisp justin isis and brendan connell reviewed by publishers weekly here other recent releases include an ossuary of the north lagoon by frederick rolfe a k a baron corvo and a collection of seasonal tanka october by quentin s crisp to keep up to date with all chômu and related news and if you are not already signed up please do subscribe here to our e mail list share your thoughts marked to die written by chomu press admin on november 10 2016 0 comments categories uncategorized as the whistles and gunpowder smell of fireworks die away and we start to approach with premature anticipation or dread the festive season and as the dark winter evenings that seem to call up atavistic memories of roaming wolf packs draw in we break a long chômu silence to bring you news of mark samuels snuggly books and other matters first we present an interview with chômu author justin isis regarding the curious and re mark able marked to die an anthology of fiction in tribute to the illustrious mark samuels whose collection the man who collected machen and other weird tales we published in 2011 the anthology edited by justin isis was released earlier this year from snuggly books and is available from the publisher s website and elsewhere interview with justin isis regarding the mark samuels tribute anthology chômu press what formed the initial impetus for the marked to die anthology justin isis a vague desire to write mark samuels real person fiction or fanfiction resulting from a vague feeling that other people would eventually end up doing this and i wanted to take the initiative and get there first from there it was mostly a desire to rope other writers into this scheme and see what they d come up with the tribute anthology format is a pretty inherently boring and conservative one from my perspective and i wanted to see what interesting things i could do to somehow subvert or reinvent it while still fulfilling the basic obligation of honoring the subject material mark s own writing is a model of stylistic focus and consistency which made it weirdly ideal for this kind of thing there were enough clear jumping on points and his own approach had been influential enough that i felt confident the writers i solicited would have a lot to work with i think we succeeded in stretching the format pretty far at times through multiple layers of metafiction random author insertions and the contributions of some writers who d barely even read mark s work balancing it all of course with stories from some of his oldest and closest friends who understand his style influences and thematic concerns on a deep level chômu press what would you say are the non obvious aspects of that stylistic consistency that have ultimately fed into the anthology the non obvious jumping on points if you like justin isis mark s writing is often compared to that of thomas ligotti who s an admitted influence but when looked at closely they don t actually have that much in common ligotti s stories are much more consistently unreal and vague about the details of place for example whereas mark always seems to be coming to grips with london as it decays the idea of some kind of psychogeography or deep engagement with setting deep topography was one i hoped the contributors would seize on and a fair number of them did thana niveau s language of the city and david rix s monumental slag glass lachrimae which is rooted firmly in the england of rising housing prices and persistent low level despair that kind of attention to setting gave the book a grounding it otherwise wouldn t have had even as it ranges pretty far over the globe with stories set in russia japan south america etc it still seems to keep one leg of the compass fixed in london you could also pick up on the religious underpinnings of some of mark s stories which of course have been the subject of some controversy a few of the contributors chose to play them straight while others engaged with them in fairly unexpected ways there s a pretty clear metaphysical thread running through the book chômu press the anthology of course is called marked to die do you think there s a morbid or perhaps simply unhelpful prejudice against living writers this anthology is an attempt to celebrate a writer in his lifetime but writers are often more celebrated in such a way and in other ways after their death is this the inevitable result of the time investment necessary for reading books so that it takes a while for the reading public to sift the good from the bad or do you think it s something else justin isis since the book has come out i ve seen at least five or six comments along the lines of is mark samuels dead no well he probably should be if he has a tribute anthology there s definitely a sense in which writers are only seen as real as accepted once they re in the ground but the intention of this book was never to be any kind of monument in the tombstone sense neither do i think it comes close to capturing everything about mark s writing i m fully expecting him to keep changing and evolving and if his recent work such as the upcoming novel a pilgrim stranger is anything to go by the public impression of his writing might be completely different in another ten or twenty years i mean i did say that i expected there would be further tributes further instances of him being used as a character etc marked to die gets things rolling but it s really just the beginning more generally i don t think much time at all is needed to evaluate quality it s just that the cult of death is excessively prevalent look at how much revenue is being extracted from kafka lovecraft and others who died poor and unknown i d rather focus on the living further intriguing news the samuels related news does not end however with the release of the marked to die tribute anthology this year or even with the enigmatic a pilgrim stranger mentioned in the interview above for the next book to be released by chômu press will be the mark samuels collection written in darkness previously released as a limited edition hardback by egaeus press the author himself has become the latest of many to publish his works directly and fans of mark samuels can now find his glyphotech and other macabre processes back in print and available for purchase at amazon soon to be followed by his short novel the face of twilight before we go we would like to urge all readers who have enjoyed chômu press publications to take a closer look at snuggly books who are publishing some of the same authors as chômu see for instance the attractive reissue of quentin s crisp s long out of print collection rule dementia or the forthcoming publication of brendan connell s masterly fictional life of a paraguayan actor and star of cinecittà clark and other interesting contemporary authors most deserving of the reader s attention for the adventurous connoisseur snuggly books are also unearthing and disseminating sometimes in new or first translation notable works of decadent symbolist and otherwise curious or exotic literature such as the tarantulas parlor and other unkind tales by léon bloy and the soul drinker and other decadent fantasies by jean lorrain share your thoughts starting pistol for the arms race written by chomu press admin on december 14 2015 0 comments categories news 2015 is drawing to a close it s been a while since our last release brendan connell s the galaxy club and even longer since 2011 s debut from justin isis i wonder what human flesh tastes like but now we are ready to present the follow up collection from justin isis welcome to the arms race officially released on the 16th of december and we believe the wait has been more than worth it where i wonder what human flesh tastes like gave us an off kilter twenty first century update of decadence set in japan welcome to the arms race ranges across the globe and through time taking readings for a map of human and post human destiny with before and after snapshots at whose centre is the singularity it s science fiction jim but not as we know it take your position at the starting line by picking up a copy here those of you who are interested in buying books as christmas gifts please see details below kristine ong muslim describes the new release as follows in welcome to the arms race justin isis as usual dazzles with his rendition of shattered reality where deeply damaged characters kick up their heels as they revel in their self inflicted agonies there s just no letting up from depravity involving a squid to the relentless mirroring of our deep seated anxieties in the heart of a man from cosmic horror in the willow to the tortuous psychedelia in m funk vs tha futuregions of inverse funkativity another terrific collection of stories from chômu press there is a brief recent interview with justin isis talking about his new collection at the compulsive reader website here justin isis will also be the interviewee for our next chômu press e mail interview so if you are not already signed up please 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