Tag: Dagon Press

The diabolical conferences of Arthur Christopher Benson

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Dagon Press recently published in Italian - with the title "The closed window" (translation by Bernardo Cicchetti) - the supernatural tales of Arthur Christopher Benson, along with Montague Rhodes James one of the most significant "ghost-writers" English of the early twentieth century, as well as comparable in suggestions and themes to writers roughly contemporary to him and equally "esoteric" such as Arthur Machen, HP Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood.

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Out now! "Zothique n.7: Robert E. Howard special"

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We report the release of the number 7 of "ZOTHIQUE", Magazine of Fantastic Culture and Weird published by Dagon Press, entirely dedicated to the American writer Robert Ervin Howard, one of the fathers of the "Heroic Fantasy" genre, known above all for being the creator of the famous character of Conan the Barbarian.

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Out now! "Zothique n.6: Gustav Meyrink special"

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He's out the new album of ZOTHIQUE, magazine of fiction and fantastic culture published by Dagon Press, entirely dedicated to the Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink, author of some of the most important esoteric novels of the early twentieth century such as "The Golem", "The green face" and "The angel of the western window". Among the contributions in this issue there is also one of our full-bodied essays dedicated to β€œThe Doctrine of Awakening: the essays of G. Meyrink”.

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Out now! "Cheetah, the Cheetah Girl" by Christopher Blayre

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It just came out in bookstores, thanks to Dagon Press, The Cheetah Girl by Christopher Blayre (aka Edward Heron-Allen), "cursed" novel hitherto unpublished in Italy, written in the 20s and remained virtually unknown until the end of the XNUMXth century due to its burning themes, between extreme eroticism and eugenics. It contains seven appendices, including our afterword Β«Fatal and feral females in fantasy and horror literatureΒ».

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β€œOmbra”, the chivalrous arabesque of the poet who anticipated the fantasy-quest and… Jung

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The short story "Shadow" by the poet Sarah Dana Loring, originally contained in the "Arabesques" published in 1872 under the name of her husband Richard S. Greenough, is emblematic of the author's foresight in anticipating certain literary strands such as Sword & Sorcery and even some conceptions of the philosophy of the deep Jungian. Now available in Italian thanks to Dagon Press.

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