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London after the breakdown ...For Jess and Jay, a former clothes
designer and her partner, life has become a matter of scavenging
round trying to keep going in a world of hunters and hunted. A
world where the city streets have become a battleground with
threats from both sides - where the 'survivors' of this disaster
have reset themselves several levels downward on the scale of
humanity, while the victims have become something else entirely.
Based loosely on the paintings of surrealist artist Paul Delvaux,
this novella dissects the trope of the zombie plague with the help
of clothes design - clothes design inspired by insect camouflage. A
portrait of a city filled with naked wanderers, dead railway lines,
mouldering bones and almost beautiful silence.
These beautiful and heartfelt stories range widely in their themes,
stretching from horror and almost classic ghost stories to lyrical
flights of fantasy, gritty and painful realism and dark twisted
imaginings - from subtle slipstream writing with only the faintest
sense of the otherworldly to haunting and vivid space fiction and
even light-hearted homages to the colourful and gleeful world of
the pulps. Always unexpected, these stories remain completely bound
together by their own universal aesthetic and a style filled with
sadness and gentleness. And filled also by a sense of wonder, both
at the places where Zelenyj's imagination can take you and at the
familiar world that these stories frame so touchingly. This massive
collection of 40 stories will remain as a companion for a long time
to come.
Eibonvale Press came into being in the winter of 2005 in a tiny
Slovenian mountain town at the hands of David Rix, who sat down one
day and decided "Today I am going to make a book." The fact that he
knew a lot about books but nothing at all about the book world
somehow failed to make that dream flicker away like most dreams and
the slow crescendo of Eibonvale Press continued from there and is
still continuing. That quiet and lonely winter in the Slovenian
mountains still doesn't seem so far away as the press continues its
search for the bizarre, the unclassifiable and the strange in new
writing, in the process working with some of the best writers in
the UK and elsewhere. Now, this new book provides a chance to look
back a bit and define Eibonvale Press as an entity. Blind Swimmer
collects together 11 stories, most never before published, by all
the writers who have made up or will soon make up the Eibonvale
Press family. The result is a book that is as varied as the press
itself. Creativity in Isolation was the theme we set, and the
results are as varied as the writers themselves. Different takes on
what creativity is, what isolation is and whom we are talking to as
we tell our tales in the wilderness. The stories stretch from
classically tinged horror to urban strangeness to experimental
fiction and surrealism. From short stories to full length novellas.
From the wilderness of Britain and Sweden to the equal wilderness
of the American urban landscape. Blind Swimmer is a unique and
spectacular journey through the flip-side of contemporary writing.
The book has a forward by Joel Lane and an introductory essay by
David Rix.
Welsh writer Rhys Hughes regards this as his favourite book, and
with good reason. It is one of the funniest and most intelligent
books from the lighter side of macabre writing I have ever seen. It
clamours with a cast of pirates, floppy-wristed welsh bards,
explorers and inventors, imps, squonks, moving public houses, M R
Jamesian revenants, M R Jamesian punctuation, blueberry pies,
trousers, noses, clocks, carrots . . . I cant list them all here,
there isn't room. Like all the best books, this quirky and surreal
collection is hard to classify, but it lies in that region where
the macabre and eerie worlds of classic horror and fantasy become a
basis for something else - for a dark and original sense of humour
filled with unexpected cross-references, homages, satires and black
comedy. What makes this collection remarkable is not just the
delightfully murky and skewed tales themselves, but the complex and
ingenious way they all lock together and interrelate. I was going
to say 'tessellate' but if this is a tessellation then it is filled
with impossible-sided polygons, non-Euclidean three-dimensional
geometry, unexpurgated curves and cracks from which
blueberry-scented steam emerges with a screaming hiss. But what is
without doubt is that 'The Smell of Telescopes' is a magnificent
book and a cornerstone of the rather oddly shaped corner of
literature that it occupies. Since the first edition went out of
print, the unavailability of this book has been a great crime of
literature. And Eibonvale Press is, as always, dedicated to the
righting of the world's more substantial wrongs.
Who is Feather? The wandering girl - the running girl. Fragmentary,
oblique, a damaged product of innocence lost, on the run from a
deprived childhood and eccentric domineering father. Passing from
remote beaches and salt marshes covered with samphire and grey sky
to more human wildernesses in London and Ljubljana - always on the
move and always making encounters. Always touching people with her
own magic. Always unable to engage emotionally with all the lives
she passes through - hurt, maybe, but always just moving on. In
these nine stories and novellas, David Rix weaves an enigmatic web
of fictions at the shifting intersections of Slipstream, Horror and
Science Fiction. Feather lurks at the edges of some of these tales
and erupts from the centre of others, but her presence and
personality haunt them all, like an eerie melody played on an
underwater violin. Perhaps Feather is a symbol of something
fundamentally human, an avatar for the collision of our common
humanity with the insanely alien environment of the modern world.
But ultimately, Feather is also the muse of David Rix himself, and
in sharing her with him, you will come to savour the very act of
questioning, and discover that strange world where mystery and
innocence meet what we see as normal.
London after the breakdown ...For Jess and Jay, a former clothes
designer and her partner, life has become a matter of scavenging
round trying to keep going in a world of hunters and hunted. A
world where the city streets have become a battleground with
threats from both sides - where the 'survivors' of this disaster
have reset themselves several levels downward on the scale of
humanity, while the victims have become something else entirely.
Based loosely on the paintings of surrealist artist Paul Delvaux,
this novella dissects the trope of the zombie plague with the help
of clothes design - clothes design inspired by insect camouflage. A
portrait of a city filled with naked wanderers, dead railway lines,
mouldering bones and almost beautiful silence.
"If every tale told in a tavern is a tall story, then what happens
when the entire universe becomes a tavern? It means that every
story ever told is tall and therefore untrue, and this includes the
true tales. They are all lies. But a lie is a concept only possible
because it can be contrasted with truth: without its opposite
concept it makes no sense at all. This implies one of two unlikely
things, (a) the universe is not really a tavern, (b) there are
other universes beyond this one where true stories exist. If you
ever learn which is the correct answer to this riddle please let me
know." 60 linked stories, 60 illustrations, 18 years in the making
- this is probably Rhys Hughes' most important book to date.
Trains occupy a special place in the human psyche. The twin threads
of the rails forge ahead from place to place, the ultimate symbol
of travel and connection and all the hopes, fantasies, fears,
reasons, romance and excitement that come with that. The links
between points, the bridges and tunnels, are always so much more
profound than borders or walls. And yet you travel these links
through a world that is isolated from normal life and unique to
itself. The railways are so mundane and taken for granted, passing
through the backs of your cities and towns, yet they are worlds
that cannot be visited, cannot be known. Worlds that can only be
glimpsed from blurred windows or from the far end of the platform.
Hidden places. Private places. Places where the ordinary and the
secret meet. This was the mood in which Rustblind and Silverbright
came into being - a book of railway stories that aimed to look far
beyond what you might expect from classic horror or sci-fi. Like
any good journey, the scenery of this book is ever-changing. You
will ride the rails of language and imagination through many and
varied places - some almost unendurably disturbing, some bleak and
miserable, some surreal and strange, some touching and moving, some
absurd and comical, some exquisitely beautiful. This is a
collection that ranges widely from the almost-familiar double-track
line of slipstream fiction to the grungy metro of sci-fi and the
dark and sparsely served branch line of pure horror, while the
squawking locomotives of absurdism jostle with still stranger
trains that ride to - other places.
Trains occupy a special place in the human psyche. The twin threads
of the rails forge ahead from place to place, the ultimate symbol
of travel and connection and all the hopes, fantasies, fears,
reasons, romance and excitement that come with that. The links
between points, the bridges and tunnels, are always so much more
profound than borders or walls. And yet you travel these links
through a world that is isolated from normal life and unique to
itself. The railways are so mundane and taken for granted, passing
through the backs of your cities and towns, yet they are worlds
that cannot be visited, cannot be known. Worlds that can only be
glimpsed from blurred windows or from the far end of the platform.
Hidden places. Private places. Places where the ordinary and the
secret meet. This was the mood in which Rustblind and Silverbright
came into being - a book of railway stories that aimed to look far
beyond what you might expect from classic horror or sci-fi. Like
any good journey, the scenery of this book is ever-changing. You
will ride the rails of language and imagination through many and
varied places - some almost unendurably disturbing, some bleak and
miserable, some surreal and strange, some touching and moving, some
absurd and comical, some exquisitely beautiful. This is a
collection that ranges widely from the almost-familiar double-track
line of slipstream fiction to the grungy metro of sci-fi and the
dark and sparsely served branch line of pure horror, while the
squawking locomotives of absurdism jostle with still stranger
trains that ride to - other places.
"If every tale told in a tavern is a tall story, then what happens
when the entire universe becomes a tavern? It means that every
story ever told is tall and therefore untrue, and this includes the
true tales. They are all lies. But a lie is a concept only possible
because it can be contrasted with truth: without its opposite
concept it makes no sense at all. This implies one of two unlikely
things, (a) the universe is not really a tavern, (b) there are
other universes beyond this one where true stories exist. If you
ever learn which is the correct answer to this riddle please let me
know." 60 linked stories, 60 illustrations, 18 years in the making
- this is probably Rhys Hughes' most important book to date.
Eibonvale Press came into being in the winter of 2005 in a tiny
Slovenian mountain town at the hands of David Rix, who sat down one
day and decided "Today I am going to make a book." The fact that he
knew a lot about books but nothing at all about the book world
somehow failed to make that dream flicker away like most dreams and
the slow crescendo of Eibonvale Press continued from there and is
still continuing. That quiet and lonely winter in the Slovenian
mountains still doesn't seem so far away as the press continues its
search for the bizarre, the unclassifiable and the strange in new
writing, in the process working with some of the best writers in
the UK and elsewhere. Now, this new book provides a chance to look
back a bit and define Eibonvale Press as an entity. Blind Swimmer
collects together 11 stories, most never before published, by all
the writers who have made up or will soon make up the Eibonvale
Press family. The result is a book that is as varied as the press
itself. Creativity in Isolation was the theme we set, and the
results are as varied as the writers themselves. Different takes on
what creativity is, what isolation is and whom we are talking to as
we tell our tales in the wilderness. The stories stretch from
classically tinged horror to urban strangeness to experimental
fiction and surrealism. From short stories to full length novellas.
From the wilderness of Britain and Sweden to the equal wilderness
of the American urban landscape. Blind Swimmer is a unique and
spectacular journey through the flip-side of contemporary writing.
The book has a forward by Joel Lane and an introductory essay by
David Rix.
Who is Feather? The wandering girl - the running girl. Fragmentary,
oblique, a damaged product of innocence lost, on the run from a
deprived childhood and eccentric domineering father. Passing from
remote beaches and salt marshes covered with samphire and grey sky
to more human wildernesses in London and Ljubljana - always on the
move and always making encounters. Always touching people with her
own magic. Always unable to engage emotionally with all the lives
she passes through - hurt, maybe, but always just moving on. In
these nine stories and novellas, David Rix weaves an enigmatic web
of fictions at the shifting intersections of Slipstream, Horror and
Science Fiction. Feather lurks at the edges of some of these tales
and erupts from the centre of others, but her presence and
personality haunt them all, like an eerie melody played on an
underwater violin. Perhaps Feather is a symbol of something
fundamentally human, an avatar for the collision of our common
humanity with the insanely alien environment of the modern world.
But ultimately, Feather is also the muse of David Rix himself, and
in sharing her with him, you will come to savour the very act of
questioning, and discover that strange world where mystery and
innocence meet what we see as normal.
These beautiful and heartfelt stories range widely in their themes,
stretching from horror and almost classic ghost stories to lyrical
flights of fantasy, gritty and painful realism and dark twisted
imaginings - from subtle slipstream writing with only the faintest
sense of the otherworldly to haunting and vivid space fiction and
even light-hearted homages to the colourful and gleeful world of
the pulps. Always unexpected, these stories remain completely bound
together by their own universal aesthetic and a style filled with
sadness and gentleness. And filled also by a sense of wonder, both
at the places where Zelenyj's imagination can take you and at the
familiar world that these stories frame so touchingly. This massive
collection of 40 stories will remain as a companion for a long time
to come.
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