Ex Occidente Press - Future Titles

	The Sons of Ishmael George Berguño An exceptional and most exquisite debut collection which will appeal to all friends of Leo Perutz, Gustav Meyrink, Ernst Jünger, Joseph Roth, Alexander Lernet-Holenia and the other great forgotten masters of the world we have lost. All of the characters in George Berguño’s first collection of short stories are spiritual sons and daughters of Ishmael. They are strangers and outcasts; beguiled and despised by a world that had once been their home. The stories vary greatly in their settings. From pre-Viking Norway to nineteenth century Chile; from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hitler’s Germany; from a timeless town in the New World to contemporary Britain – these stories are remarkable for their unpredictable use of the strange and their subtle exploration of the supernatural. The overall effect of the stories is a vision of the world where chance plays havoc with history; where the living are fatefully intertwined with the dead, and where human desires clash with forces unknown. More...
	The 'Star' Ushak Louis Marvick Was Ellis Carstairs imagining things, or had the exsanguinated body of Professor Cuthbert somehow nourished the blood-red field of the carpet on which it was found? Fragments of manuscript and an obscure bill of sale suggested that the 'Star' Ushak might be woven with strands from an ancient carpet on which Timúr the Lame had dispatched whole hecatombs—unless Anthony Styles, Carstairs’ ingenious associate, was right, and the whole thing was just a blind. It was Styles, after all, whose opinion the Yard chiefly valued; and when he discovered the presence of an hallucinogenic dye in the carpet’s wool, he seemed to have struck on the cause of the madness that had possessed its former owners and that was beginning to creep on Carstairs himself. More...
	The City of the Strange Fear and Other Tales of Harry Dickson Jean Ray A collection that brings together for the first time some of the best supernatural stories and novellas of Harry Dickson, "The King of Detectives". Translated by Arthur Enescu & António Monteiro. The City of the Strange Fear & Other Tales of Harry Dickson is a hardcover book of 386 pages with dust-jacket, endpapers and a full-colour frontispiece. Edition limited to only 100 numbered copies. $50 inc. p&p to Europe and USA, $55 to the rest of the world. Due to the limitation of this edition, we are not able to offer more than two copies per customer. More details to follow. Contents: Introduction, The Resurrection of the Gorgon, The Iron Temple, The House of the Hallucinations, The Illustrious Sons of the Zodiac, In the Clutches of the Black Idol, Barcelona Night, The Invisible Savant, The Gang of the Spider, The Seven-Pointed Star, The Dreadful Night of the Zoo, The Devil's Avengers, The Mystery of the Green Carpet, The Black Octopus, The Hidden Kingdom, Death Factories, The Fantastic Conspiracy, The True Secret of the Palmer Hotel, The Red Studio, The City of the Strange Fear, Notes. More...
	Virtue in Danger Reggie Oliver It is July 1963. At its headquarters, a former luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, crisis is facing the Moral Regeneration Movement, a powerful modern, quasi-religious cult. Its founder and leader, Arnold Breitman is dying. Questions are already being asked about who is to succeed him. There are a number of likely candidates. They include a former tennis champion, a Swiss industrialist, a trade unionist and a doctor. But each of them hides a guilty secret. Into this troubled situation comes a world-weary professional actor, Ivor Smith who, quite by accident, finds himself at the very epicentre of the crisis, playing an unexpectedly influential role. The cast of characters also includes an exiled Balkan King, his ambitious queen, his twin daughters, a gay policeman, an assassin, a gossip columnist, a Lutheran Pastor with an obsession about goats and a host of others. Terrible secrets are revealed, uncontrollable passions are unleashed. The pace is furious. Comedy is rarely absent, but underneath runs a serious subtext. Questions about the nature of morality and the motivations of those who set themselves up as moral leaders are asked. All these elements are bound together into a terrific climax on a mountain top, followed by a joyous ending that might be described as "fairy tale" if it were not laced with mordant wit. More...
	Other Forthcoming Titles February 2010 - February 2011 The Impossible Inferno, Rhys Hughes The Last Balcony, D.F. Lewis I Burn Down Moscow - An Illustrated Edition, Paul Morand Allurements of Cabochon, John Gale Sacred Flowers: The Odd Tales of Nigromontanus, Ernst Jünger The Rakes of the Old Courtyard, Matheiu Caragiale The Burning Calendar of Jerusalem Unicornus, Father Mihail Avramescu The Lighted Burrow - Sanatorium Journal, Max Blecher Disagreeable Tales, Léon Bloy