FERELITH at 120

The other day I was discussing with a friend some modernist aspects of ghost stories, and I thought of Ferelith, by Lord Kilmarnock, in which a woman has a ghostly lover, and the affair produces a child who lives in between the worlds of the earthly and unearthly--an interesting and seemingly modern take on the ghostly. It was published in February 1903, so is now 120 years old. It has been admired by Andre Gide, Geoffrey Grigson, and Julian Green—not names one usually associates with weird literature.

I reprinted it a few years ago with an introduction by Mark Valentine, and I quote his opening paragraph here:

Ferelith is a lost classic of supernatural fiction, up until now known only to a few enthusiasts. In its time, the early Edwardian period, it received little attention in Britain: but later it was enthusiastically acclaimed in French literary circles, praised by André Gide and Julian Green. The book is a strange mixture: it was written in a fairly staid, measured style, yet its subject matter was daring and unusual. It was, said The Times in the obituary of its author, “a weird and rather gruesome ghost story;” and one literary guide compared it to Wuthering Heights in its power to evoke evil.

Mark’s essay is reprinted in his volume A Wild Tumultory Library. The Nodens Books reprint of Ferelth is available from the usual sources.  

 

Some New Publications

I've just posted about three new releases from my Nodens Books imprint (for full descriptions see here).  Two of them are of particular interest to readers of Wormwood and Wormwoodiana.

The first is an expanded collection of my own Late Reviews, from Wormwood and other sources, plus newly written ones.

Late Reviews, by Douglas A. Anderson
Hardcover edition ($35.00), sold only directly via Lulu, at this link.
Trade paperback edition ($25.00) sold via Amazon (and European affiliates) ISBN 9781987512564. Amazon.com at this link. Amazon.co.uk at this link.
Trade paperback edition ($25.00) sold via Lulu, at this link.
Kindle edition, sold via Amazon and affiliates.


And the other is the first reprint in 115 years of Ferelith by Lord Kilmarnock, with a new introduction by Mark Valentine.

Ferelith, by Lord Kilmarnock. Introduction by Mark Valentine.
Trade paperback edition ($16.00) sold via Amazon (and European affiliates) ISBN 9781987736700. Amazon.com at this link. Amazon.co.uk at this link.
Trade paperback edition ($16.00) sold via Lulu, at this link.
Kindle edition, sold via Amazon and affiliates

More new titles are currently wending their way through publication channels.