NEW RELEASES
THE DEATH KNIGHT (1926) & THE MURDERED BROTHER (1919) by Albert Ehrenstein
"Sirburla thought he knew it, when on the days when he was commanded by the statutes to curse the Gods, he wailed that time and space might be base qualities that we could only just grasp in relation to those other creatures to whom we were insignificant animals. Beings whose other, far more wonderful virtues, could only be guessed at by us, like light by the blind, due to the extreme deficiencies of our senses, or would someday come upon us only as we died. On the other hand, it was conceivable and possible that the monstrous Gods has long ago perished, but, preoccupied with their own deaths, had forgotten to put a stop to human life, so that we now must continue senselessly into eternity, gazing up in reverence to them. The stars, thus, were merely their monstrous vertebrae and bones—you yourself live on such a one—illuminated by another being's remnant, the sun, which incidentally and unintentionally does this, but as to what its real purpose and longings were, it is impossible to fathom." ("Sarpedon") |
VERY STRANGE FAIRY TALES (1916) by Kornel Makuszynski
"Suddenly there was a terrible roar, as if from under the ground. A huge man rose from some gap or ditch: he had long, shaggy, donkey ears, eyes as round as an owl, and a terrible mouth from ear to ear, in which at least a hundred sharp fangs flashed. Not clothed at all, as thick as a bear, he stretched out his long arms, which ended in seven webbed fingers. “Jesus Maria!” Janek shouted, seeing those terrible hands reaching for his throat. The monster was about to grab him when suddenly it let out a dull roar..." ("Brave Janek And His Dog") |
THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS (1925) by Alberto Savinio
"As long as habit does not intervene, bringing together and reconciling the most diverse things, objects show us not only the soft and smooth surfaces of use, but the mysterious anatomies that intimately shape them. However, as always happens to the effects of such palliatives, the 'unfortunately too easy' explanation fails in any way to remove the suspicion of obscure danger, which now more than ever, like the breath of a beast in the dark, I felt imminent and threatening." |
CURRENT RELEASES
"There are still, in this century of enlightenment and incredulity, mysterious forces, occult powers, survivals of energy, active malignancies of secret wills, unknown psychic radiations, unstudied forces—as they say, spirits of the dead or of the living who act, injure, and even kill in the shadows." ("The Vampires")
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"Strewn with hair and with glutinous bodies, some with carapaces and antennae, some as long as eels, others short and with bulging eyes like crabs, here with suction cups, like octopuses, those from beyond were black and heavy with wings... It was all a dull labor of monstrous life, a nightmare realm with a grotesque, Lilliputian fauna seething with mystery." ("A Strange Walk")
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"The figure of the black cat grew gigantic. And then suddenly the image appeared of a pale man dressed in black with glowing, feverish eyes, on whose pale forehead a sparkling inverted cross shone... 'What do you wish from me?' came mildly and kindly from his lips... Eva blinked fearfully at him. Was it the Devil? But he had no horns or cloven hoof, he has nothing terrifying about him, just a look kinder than most people’s and a charming smile around his pale thin mouth."
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