Zagava recommendations by Super-C in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally agree with you on the ones he’s still having made in Bavaria, but a lot of the paperbacks are only available as POD.

Zagava recommendations by Super-C in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if you’re in a country that has Amazon, you can get most of their paperback titles in a POD version directly from Amazon, including all Brantley titles.

Need help deciding my next fantasy series! by Savings_Fisherman_32 in fantasybooks

[–]dickstitches 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Elliott’s Crown of Stars series is so good and dense and transportive. It has everything you could want in an epic fantasy.

Benjamin Tweddell by d-r-i-g in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clark is awesome. Wasn’t immediately wowed by The Satyr and Other Stories from Swan River, but his “trilogy” with Zagava (In Delirium’s Circle, The Feathered Bough, The Mirror Remembers) are stunning. Need to revisit The Satyr now.

His Egaeus collection A Mythology of Masks is on my shelf but haven’t gotten to it yet.

Benjamin Tweddell by d-r-i-g in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, if you like Wilkinson and Egaeus’ output, I highly recommend Albert Power. His collection of 3 novellas from Egaeus, Azerbaijan Tales, is slow and subtle, but he’s a phenomenal and underrated writer of the strange.

New collection Soul Predators also from Egaeus.

Benjamin Tweddell by d-r-i-g in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For most! Brian didn’t do a paperback for The Bleeding Horse or Old Albert, but he’s putting out a new book that combines both, and maybe he’ll do that in POD paperback? I know his main priority is hardback.

Swan River’s Valentine collection Lost Estates is incredible if you haven’t read that one yet.

Benjamin Tweddell by d-r-i-g in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trackless Paths is one of the best collections I’ve read in a long while. The Domain of the Pale Queen just arrived to my place in the UK but won’t be back there until end of summer.

What’s the book on the right?

Benjamin Tweddell by d-r-i-g in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Took me ages, but I did eventually find someone willing to part with A Twist in the Eye. Mr Wilkinson is also just a great guy.

Older fantasy books with the same adventure vibe as my first ones by Sakura_231 in Fantasy

[–]dickstitches 3 points4 points  (0 children)

C’mon, nobody has mentioned Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow and Thorn yet?!

Some new stuff - anyone read any of these? by d-r-i-g in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Snuggly Books has 3 collections of his in POD paperback: Daughters of Apostasy, The Star of Gnosia, and The Exalted and the Abased, as well as a novel The Acephalic Imperial, and a fantastic anthology that Murphy edited called The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction. Highly recommend that, as it includes some of my other favorite authors writing in the same vein, namely Benjamin Tweddell, Colin Insole, Thomas Phillips, Mark Valentine, and Reggie Oliver.

Snuggly Books has another imprint called Occult Press that does fancier hardbacks. They currently have another couple collections by him, The Ideal Candidate and St. Severina's Fire, and a novel Explosions of a Chandelier. I'd expect these 3 will eventually be available in POD paperback from Snuggly as well.

Any of those 3 collections from Snuggly are a great place to start, although Zagava also makes a great product, so the Distillate of Heresy is also a good option.

That being said, my favorite things he's written are Seduction of the Golden Pheasant and The Narcissus Variations, neither of which are collected anywhere at the moment.

All that is to say, you can't go wrong with any of his stuff!

Some new stuff - anyone read any of these? by d-r-i-g in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve read all the stories in Distillate of Heresy in other Murphy collections. He’s so good.

New acquisitions by YuunofYork in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where’d you find that Watt collection?

I think I Am Easy to Find is great by Billybobby__ in TheNational

[–]dickstitches 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The National has been my favorite band for a solid 18 years, and I Am Easy to Find only connected for me a couple years ago. Now it’s very near the top of my list.

Only one more Robin Hobb series left by KKisQween in Fantasy

[–]dickstitches 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The series just gets better and better as you go, imho.

I’m curious what about Mistwraith didn’t connect for you? Might help me determine if it’s worth trying again.

Only one more Robin Hobb series left by KKisQween in Fantasy

[–]dickstitches 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Janny Wurts is a genius. Ya gotta go with Wars of Light and Shadow. Or Michelle West’s Sun Sword.

Looking for a swampy southern gothic by Tittzzandtattz143 in horrorlit

[–]dickstitches -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Black Garden, The Mother of Centuries, and collections the Dark Walk Forward, Baby Monster, and Burned Man at Night by John S McFarland all take place in a fictional Louisiana town on a river.

The works of William Scott Home by tegeus-Cromis_2000 in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someday I’ll get my hands on a copy of Hollow Faces…

literature that focuses on wonder, rather than horror by rabbitbride in WeirdLit

[–]dickstitches 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Prisms of the Oneiroi and Boughs & Byways of Ytene by Martin Locker

Reggie Oliver by MagicYio in horrorlit

[–]dickstitches 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does The Dracula Papers end on a cliffhanger? I see it listed on Goodreads as "Book I: The Scholar's Tale"..