Tartarus Press

Tartarus Press We are a small, British independent press founded in 1990. We specialise in collectable hardback lim

Tartarus is a small, British independent press founded in 1990. We specialise in collectable hardback limited editions of literary supernatural/strange/horror fiction, and we also publish paperbacks and ebooks.We have been the recipient of four World Fantasy Awards, and in 2010 received a "Stoker" from the Horror Writers Association.

https://swanriverpress.ie/2025/12/an-interview-with-e-f-bleiler/ An interesting interview with E.F. Bleiler, by Brian Sh...
22/12/2025

https://swanriverpress.ie/2025/12/an-interview-with-e-f-bleiler/ An interesting interview with E.F. Bleiler, by Brian Showers. Without Bleiler's research, I doubt that so many small presses, including Tartarus Press, would have been able to unearth so many interesting authors from the past.

Conducted by Brian J. Showers (August 2005) This interview was originally published in All Hallows 42 (October 2006), edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden. I would be willing to bet that every student of fantastic fiction has at some point in his or her career read a book with the name E. F. Blei...

Michael Dirda has very kindly mentioned a number of Tartarus Press titles in his Christmas book recommendations in the W...
10/12/2025

Michael Dirda has very kindly mentioned a number of Tartarus Press titles in his Christmas book recommendations in the Washington Post: https://archive.ph/MgVjV

We are pleased to announce the publication on the 1st December of a new edition of Mark Valentine's short story collecti...
27/11/2025

We are pleased to announce the publication on the 1st December of a new edition of Mark Valentine's short story collection, The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things. Originally published by Zagava in 2018, and long out of print, this new edition includes all of the short stories in the original volume, and adds nine briefer stories or vignettes written around the same time:
http://tartaruspress.com/valentine-uncertainty.html
‘To the Eternal One’, ‘Stained Medium’, ‘The Key to Jerusalem’, ‘Bellman’s Map’, ‘Listening to Stonehenge’, ‘Hark to the Rooks’, ‘Goat Songs’, ‘Mr Bel’s Shop’, ‘Zabulo’, ‘The Secret Characters’, ‘In Cypress Shades’, ‘The Mask of the Dead Mammilius’, ‘Yes, I Knew the Venusian Commodore’, ‘Qx’, ‘The Scarlet Door’, ‘The Clerks of the Invisible’, ‘Vain Shadows Flee’, ‘The Man Who Made the Yellow God’, ‘The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things’, ‘Moss Queen’, ‘As Blank As the Days Yet To Be’, ‘Acknowledgements’

We have had a few emails asking where Sophia J. Unsworth has suddenly appeared from. (Her book The Silent House and Othe...
11/11/2025

We have had a few emails asking where Sophia J. Unsworth has suddenly appeared from. (Her book The Silent House and Other Strange Stories" was published just over a month ago.) Well, here she is in her previous life as a concert pianist. She takes the stage at 8:42

FIMUCITÉ 4 (2010 edition). Film music composer Diego Navarro conducts Alex North´s Spartacus live in concert in FIMUCITÉ (Tenerife International Film Music F...

Wyrd Britain on Mark Valentine's "The Thunderstorm Collectors".
05/11/2025

Wyrd Britain on Mark Valentine's "The Thunderstorm Collectors".

Wyrd Britain reviews 'The Thunderstorm Collectors' by Mark Valentine, published by Tartarus Press
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Ray will be in Washington tomorrow evening to talk with the very talented Claire Louise Amias about Edith Nesbit, immedi...
05/11/2025

Ray will be in Washington tomorrow evening to talk with the very talented Claire Louise Amias about Edith Nesbit, immediately following Claire's show.

A fine review of "The Silent House" by Sophia J Unsworth:
03/11/2025

A fine review of "The Silent House" by Sophia J Unsworth:

Book Review: The Silent House and Other Strange Stories by Sophia J. Unsworth from publisher Tartarus Press. Released on September 14th, 2025

01/11/2025
On 31st October this year we will be publishing Some Strange Disturbances: Selected Ghostly Tales by Joseph Sheridan Le ...
21/10/2025

On 31st October this year we will be publishing Some Strange Disturbances: Selected Ghostly Tales by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. This great selection of stories has been put together for us by Jim Rockhill, who supplies an erudite Introduction. http://tartaruspress.com/le-fanu-some-strange-disturbances.html,

Some Strange Disturbances is a sewn hardback of 514 pages, printed lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and

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