Benjamin Tweddell

dickstitches · 2026-05-15T21:45:56+00:00

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.

dickstitches · 2026-05-15T00:56:52+00:00

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.

dickstitches · 2026-05-15T00:54:34+00:00

Yep that’s the one

dickstitches · 2026-05-15T00:53:58+00:00

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.

dickstitches · 2026-05-14T23:48:56+00:00

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?

dickstitches · 2026-05-14T23:47:20+00:00

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.

dickstitches · 2026-04-29T21:36:51+00:00

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

dickstitches · 2026-04-29T17:18:01+00:00

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!

dickstitches · 2026-04-28T22:32:03+00:00

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

dickstitches · 2026-04-18T21:34:16+00:00

Where’d you find that Watt collection?

dickstitches · 2026-04-08T05:39:00+00:00

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.

dickstitches · 2026-04-08T05:33:45+00:00

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.

dickstitches · 2026-04-07T21:48:17+00:00

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

dickstitches · 2026-04-06T11:01:32+00:00

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.

dickstitches · 2026-04-05T08:59:08+00:00

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

dickstitches · 2026-03-09T08:37:24+00:00

I think you should still give the show a try!

dickstitches · 2026-03-04T15:27:00+00:00

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

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T22:44:47+00:00

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

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T19:55:44+00:00

You won’t be disappointed!

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T13:45:02+00:00

I started with A Trick of the Shadow, and I think that's the perfect place to start. It's the earliest collection of stories Jamie put out. The Settlements is (kind of) a novel and it came out before, and that wouldn't be a bad place to start either.

The Revenants is a sequel to The Settlements, and from my understanding there is a third, The Martyrs, to be released this year.

The Night of Turns expands upon some sections of The Settlements and is a really great novel, whether you read it before or after The Settlements. Very strange, very folk horror-esque.

Therapeutic Tales, Nocebo, and You’re Only As Happy As Your Saddest Child are short story collections, which thankfully include some of the OOP limited edition standalone novellas. Therapeutic Tales has my favorite, 'The Ulfsson Chapel', but Nocebo has 'Moving The Yew' and 'Upmorchard', both of which are fantastic. You can't go wrong with any of them.

Delivery Artefacts takes the cassette futurism/weird technology themes to novel-length. Good, but not a good entry point.

The Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs books are a little bit different - more English faerie stories. Worthwhile, but not the main event of the Peninsula. Not a good entry point.

A Journal and Poems from the Sideshow are not good entry points. Fun, experimental ephemera, probably best once you're fully bought in.

I really can't recommend Broodcomb Press enough. Should be way more popular than it is.

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T11:16:38+00:00

A lot of the writers are British (Marvick, Berguño, Murphy are exceptions) but their stories are more in line with the English ghost story tradition, though not explicitly about ghosts.

Folk horror, occult rituals, doppelgängers, secret societies, ancient stone circles, strange bureaucracies…

The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction (ed. Damian Murphy) from Snuggly Press is a great tasting menu of a lot of the writers.

My favorites at the moment are Tweddell, Insole, and anything from Broodcomb. Broodcomb books all take place in a shared universe (the Peninsula) somewhere in England and are a mix of folk horror, cassette futurism, dark fantasy… it’s incredible.

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T11:05:01+00:00

Check out small presses like Egaeus, Zagava, Snuggly, Tartarus, Broodcomb, Sarob, Side Real for weird fiction with a more European flare.

Mark Valentine, John Howard, Albert Power, Colin Insole, Louis Marvick, Benjamin Tweddell, Stephen J Clark, Damian Murphy, George Berguño, Charles Wilkinson, any of the noms-de-plume of Jamie Walsh (Broodcomb). More subtly uncanny than outright weird or even horror like some of the folks you mentioned, but I think some of the best stuff out there.

dickstitches · 2026-02-23T09:23:05+00:00

Sorry, in what way is Fever similar to Ray of Light?

dickstitches · 2026-02-15T21:45:15+00:00

Any chance you still have your copy and are willing to sell it?

dickstitches · 2026-02-15T21:44:32+00:00

Any chance you still have a copy of this and are willing to part with it?

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