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The Silent Garden: A New Journal of Esoteric Fabulism

From Michael Kelly, Undertow Books (http://www.undertowbooks.com/)

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Silent Garden Collective, I will be publishing the inaugural volume of The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism.

The Silent Garden is a peer-reviewed journal, edited and curated by the Silent Garden Collective, a professional group of editors, writers, and scholars interested in exploring those liminal borderlands where darkness bends.

The Collective’s aim is to provide an annual journal of exceptional writing and art focussed on horror and the numinous, the fabulist, the uncanny, the weird, the gnostic, the avant-garde, the esoteric, and the dark interstices of the known and unknown world.

The Silent Garden Collective is an organic and changing group of editors. Each volume (assuming the first sells well enough) will be edited and curated by a different group. Thus, given the number of people potentially involved, they thought it prudent to form a Collective.

The book is currently in production, and should be available in August. Pricing and ordering information should be available soon. The amazing Table of Contents is listed below. If you want to be notified when it’s available, just drop me an e-mail and I will add you to the mailing list.

Thanks for the interest, folks. I think this is going to be a very special and unique project!

Specs

Deluxe square (8.5” X 8.5”) Hardcover, with interior color illustrations, printed on 70LB paper. Published by Undertow Books.

The inaugural volume of this very cool journal will feature the following:

Art

• Transcending the Grotesquerie: The Surreal Landscapes of David Whitlam

Essays

• “Translating The Ritual,” by J.T. Glover
• “The Raw Food Movement: Comparing Transformative Diets in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2015) and Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016),” by V.H. Leslie
• “Unstitching the Patriarchy: A review of Camilla Grudova’s The Doll’s Alphabet,” by Rudrapriya Rathore
• “Cinema of the Body: The Politics of Performativity in Lars Von Trier’s Dogville and Yorgos Lanthimo’s Dogtooth,” by Angelos Koutsourakis

Poetry

• “Lincoln Hill,” by Daniel Mills
• “Deposition of Darkness,” by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim)
• “Contortionist,” by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim)

Fiction

• “Waystations of the High Night,” by Marcel Brion (Translated by Edward Gauvin)
• “Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees,” by Georgina Bruce
• “La Tierra Blanca,” by Maurizio Cometto (Translated by Rachel S. Cordasco)
• “Embolus of Cinnabar,” by Patricia Cram
• “Palisade,” by Brian Evenson
• “Under the Casket, A Beach!” by Nick Mamatas
• “The Other Tiger,” by Helen Marshall
• “Coruvorn” by Reggie Oliver
• “Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes” by D.P. Watt
• “The Palace of Force and Fire,” by Ron Weighell
• “Nox Una,” by Marian Womack

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