Mark Valentine

Ghetu, Dan T. (editor): Cinnabar's Gnosis: A Hommage to Gustav Meyrink +++ limited to 350 copies only +++ Bucharest, Ex Occidente Press, 2009. ; 1. Ed. ISBN: 9789737764263
Sewn hardcover, gilt title on spine and gilt decor on front board. (Text in English) Limited to 350 copies only, full-color frontispiece, showing G. Meyrink in 1919, by Carl Alexander Wittek. Illustrated by John Coulthart. Fine, unread book from a smoke-free environment. "It is called the Cinnabar Book because that red is the colour of the garments of those who have reached the highest stage of perfection and stayed behind on earth for the salvation of mankind. Just as we cannot comprehend the meaning of a book if we just hold it in our hand or turn the pages without reading, so we will not profit from the course of our destiny if we do not grasp its meaning. Events follow each other like the pages of a book that are turned by Death; all we know is that they appear and disappear, and that with the last one the book ends. We do not even know that it keeps being opened, again and again, until we finally learn to read. And as long as we cannot read, life is for us a worthless game in which joy and sorrow mingle." (Gustav Meyrink) "Cinnabar's Gnosis is the first Ex Occidente Press anthology in a series of homages dedicated to European lost masters and exquisite fantasts. All the stories and novelettes in Cinnabar's Gnosis are exclusive works, written especially for this anthology." (Ex Occidente Press). Contents: "Portrait in an Unfaded Photograph" by John Howard,"The Weimar Spider" by Colin Insole,"Pulvis Lunaris, or, The Coagulation of Wood" by D.P. Watt,"The Red Rose and the Cross of Gold" by R.B. Russell,"The Black Metaphysical" by Reggie Oliver, "Meyrink's Gambit" by George Berguo, "On Consideration of the Muses" by Eric Stener Carlson, "The Age of Decayed Futurity" by Mark Samuels, "Poctek Romnu: A Flutter of Lorn Love" by Albert Power, "Feet of Clay, Head of Fire" by Richard Gavin,"The Antediluvian Uncle" by Rhys Hughes, "Her Magnetic Field" by Adam Golaski, "The Autumn Keeper" by Mark Valentine, "Modern Cities Exist Only to be Destroyed" by Michael Cisco, "The House of Sleep" by Stephen J. Clark, "The Multiples of Sorrow" by Steve Rasnic Tem, "The Cabinet of Prague" by Mark Beech, "White Souls that March in the Astral Light" by Jonathan Wood, "The Cylinder of Shunyakasha" by Adam S. Cantwell, "The Chymical Wedding of Des Esseintes" by Brendan Connell, "The World Entire" by Ron Weighell, "The Light Invisible, The Light Inaccessible" by Peter Belland and "Tzimtzum" by Quentin S. Crisp. Shipped bubble-wrapped in sturdy card-box. SKU k6a , ISBN: 9737764269

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Valentine, Mark: The Nightfarers +++ limited edition of 300 copies only +++ Bucharest, Ex Occidente Press, 2009. ; 1. Ed. ISBN: 9789737764225
"The Nightfarers" is a sewn hardcover book of 191 pages with deluxe endpapers and a full-page frontispiece by John Coulthart. (Text in English) This edition strictly limited to 300 copies. "To find the light of lights, you must first know the darkness of night, said the 17th century German mystic Angelus Silesius. It is a truth found by all the characters in Mark Valentines new full collection of stories since Masques & Citadels. Carden, the quester after lost languages, finds there are some things that cannot be named. The narrator in "The Seer of Trieste" finds the old city harbours an image that has pervaded the most advanced literature of our time, while the strange and tragic secrets of another liminal city are explored in "The Seven Treasures of Bucharest". The voyages of "The White Sea Company" seem to sail beyond any mortal shore, while the smouldering sunrise in "The Dawn at Tzern" brings different illuminations to a priest, a postmaster, a prophet and a soldier. In "Their Dark & Starry Mirrors", a blind Moorish poet receives messages from the Master of Night. In "Undergrowth" a searcher after rare works finds it is possible to get truly lost in books, and in "White Pages" we learn that even blank books have their secrets. And which author should have won "The 1909 Proserpine Prize" for dark literature Blackwood, Shiel, Hodgson, Stoker, Marjorie Bowen or another ? As well as these tales, two more curious pieces appear: "The English Leopard" eavesdrops on a conversation about a great lost heraldic beast, while "The Left Temple" provides six startling experiments in evoking the rites of dusk. The author of The Connoisseur stories and editor of Wormwood offers a book of wonder, where neither light nor shadow are ever all they seem. Two years in the making!" (Ex Occidente Press) Contents: "The 1909 Proserpine Prize", "Carden in Capaea", "White Pages", "The Inner Sentinel", "The Dawn at Tzern", "The White Sea Company", "Undergrowth", "The Seer of Trieste", "Their Dark and Starry Mirrors", "The Bookshop in Nov? Svet", "The English Leopard: An Heraldic Dialogue", "The Box of Idols", "The Axholme Toll", "The Seven Treasures of Bucharest" and "About the Stories". Shipped bubble-wrapped in sturdy card-box. SKU k6a , ISBN: 9737764226

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Mark Valentine: Werewolf Pack, WORDSWORTH EDITIONS, Juni 2008 ISBN: 1840220872
Features werewolf stories. This work follows the traces of the werewolf in literature, and its links to "Dracula", "Jekyll & Hyde", and "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

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VALENTINE, MARK: Black Veil and Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths, WORDSWORTH EDITIONS, Juni 2008 ISBN: 1840220880
Includes encounters from the casebooks of the Victorian haunted house investigators John Bell and Flaxman Low, from Carnacki, the Edwardian battler against the abyss, and horror master Arthur Machen's Mr Dyson, a man-about-town and meddler in strange things.

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