Swan River Press

B Catling - Munky - BRAND NEW PB ( Illustrated by Dave McKean) - Swan River Press - 2020

A PAPERBACK edition, Swan River Press, Dublin, 2021, of Munky by Brian Catling, cover art by Dave McKean . the hardcover edition was issued in 2020.    Peopled with richly drawn...

Bram Stoker - Old Hoggen & Other Adventures - Swan River Press - PB - BRAND NEW

A paperback Swan River Press edition, BRAND NEW.  At the time of his death in 1912, Bram Stoker was preparing for publication three volumes of stories. The first, Dracula’s Guest, saw...

Clotilde Graves - A Vanished Hand - HB ( Swan River Press) - BRAND NEW

“Only the dead are faithful to Love—because they are dead.” Clotilde Graves was known for challenging convention. In her early years, she was known as the dramatist “Clo...

Clotilde Graves - A Vanished Hand - PB ( Swan River Press) - BRAND NEW

“Only the dead are faithful to Love—because they are dead.” Clotilde Graves was known for challenging convention. In her early years, she was known as the dramatist “Clo...

Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921)

  “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall...

Dorothy Macardle - Earth-Bound and Other Supernatural Tales - PB - BRAND NEW

Originally published in 1924, the nine tales that comprise Earth-Bound were written by Dorothy Macardle while she was held a political prisoner in Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol and Mountjoy...

Fritz Leiber - The Pale Brown Thing - PB - BRAND NEW

Serialised in 1977, The Pale Brown Thing is a shorter version of Fritz Leiber’s World Fantasy Award-winning novel of the supernatural, Our Lady of Darkness. Leiber maintained...

Helen Grant - Atmospheric Disturbances - HB - BRAND NEW

In its dim depths living things scurried and fluttered, but human voices were very rarely heard.” – The West Window A glimpse of a grotesque illustration combined with the onset of fever...

Henry C. Mercer - November Night Tales - PB - Swan River Press - BRAND NEW

“History fades into prehistoric darkness . . . “ Each story in November Night Tales is a differently colored gem whose many facets reflect the lively mind of the author. Henry...

J Sheridan Le Fanu - Green Tea - HB Limited Edition BRAND NEW -( Swan River Press) SIGNED Limited edition ( With Audio CD)

"The delight of hell is to do evil to man, and to hasten his eternal ruin." – SwedenborgPublished alongside “Carmilla” in the landmark collection In a Glass Darkly (1872),...

Joyce Carol Oates - The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences - HB SIGNED ( Swan River Press) - BRAND NEW

“To be fated, to be accursed—isn’t that also to be special?” A group of resourceful young girls punish the men of a small town for unspeakable lusts by luring them to a...

Katharine Tynan - The Death Spancel and Others - PB - BRAND NEW ( Swan River Press)

“Come to me, a lonely ghost, / Out of the night and rain.” Katharine Tynan is not a name immediately associated with the supernatural. However, like many other writers of the early...

L.T Meade - Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures - PB - BRAND NEW ( Swan River Press)

I was in the dark and alone, yet not alone.” Despite her wide contributions to genre literature, Cork author L. T. Meade is now remembered, if at all, for her girls’ school stories...

Lafcadio Hearn - Insect Literature - PB - BRAND NEW

“The insect-world is altogether a world of goblins and fairies.” As Lafcadio Hearn observes in his essay “Insects in Greek Poetry”, “the capacity to enjoy the music of...

Lynda E. Rucker - Now It's Dark - HB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION(Swan River Press)

“Have I not always loved terrible things?” – “The Seventh Wave” A student’s research into an obscure pulp writer takes on increasingly sinister tones; three...

Maria Giakaniki & Brian J Showers ( Editors) - Bending to Earth : Strange Stories by Irish Women - PB BRAND NEW - Gothic & Horror Short Stories

Swan River Press books are beautiful.  This is the 2019 issued Bending To Earth, edited introduced and selcetd by Maria Giakaniki and Brian J Showers, small format hardcover in illustrated...

Mark Valentine - Lost Estates - PB - BRAND NEW

“I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the way books.” – S. T. Coleridge (1796) The twelve stories in Lost...

Mervyn Wall - A Flutter of Wings - Swan River Press Edition - PB - BRAND NEW

"Strange," he said to himself. "I had an idea that Pat's Tommy was dead." — "Cloonaturk"First collected in 1974, the stories in A Flutter of Wings span Mervyn Wall's entire...

Mervyn Wall - Leaves for the Burning - HB - BRAND NEW ( Swan River Press)

Lucian Brewse Burke, a middle-aged public servant, works in a shabby county council sub-office in the bleak Irish midlands, mired in Kafkaesque bureaucracy and petty skirmishes with locals. Upon the...

Robert Lloyd Parry ( Editor) - Ghosts of the Chit-Chat - PB - BRAND NEW - 2020 - M.R James ( Swan River Press)

“Such things may have attached to them heaven knows what spooks and spirits.” – The IkonOn the evening of Saturday, 28 October 1893, Cambridge University’s Chit-Chat Club...

Robert Lloyd Parry - Friends and Spectres - PB - BRAND NEW

Friends and Spectres is an exploration of the world of M. R. James through his colleagues’ stories and biographies. The majority of pieces here were originally published under pseudonyms,...

Showers, Brian ( Editor) - The Green Book - Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature PB - 1ssue 13 - Bealtaine 2019

The Green Book 13Edited by Brian J. ShowersPrintings: Spring 2019 (250)Cover image: Paul Nash's Dark WeepingBinding: PaperbackLength: 108 pagesISSN: 2009-6089Contents"Editor's...

Showers, Brian ( Editor) - The Green Book - Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature PB - 1ssue 14 - Samhain 2019

The Green Book 14Edited by Brian J. ShowersPrintings: Autumn 2019 (250)Cover image: Stephen J. Clark's SaturnineBinding: PaperbackLength: 108 pagesISSN: 2009-6089Contents"Editor's...

Showers, Brian ( Editor) - The Green Book -Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature PB - 1ssue 16 - Samhain 2020

The Green Book 16Edited by Brian J. ShowersPrintings: Autumn 2020 (250)Cover image: The Harlot's House (Plate 4) by Althea Gyles (1904)Binding: PaperbackLength: 108 pagesISSN:...

Timothy J. Jarvis - Treatises on Dust - HB SIGNED (Swan River Press ) - BRAND NEW

From the small bones of the middle ear can be fashioned a key.” “For a while now,” Timothy J. Jarvis tells us in the first tale here, “I’ve been collecting texts that...

Wall, Mervyn - A Flutter of Wings - Swan River Press Edition - HB - BRAND NEW

"Strange," he said to himself. "I had an idea that Pat's Tommy was dead." — "Cloonaturk"First collected in 1974, the stories in A Flutter of Wings span Mervyn Wall's entire...

William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland - PB - Swan River Press - BRAND NEW

  I am an old man. I live here in this ancient house, surrounded by huge, unkempt gardens."An exiled recluse, an ancient abode in the remote west of Ireland, nightly attacks by malevolent...