Mark Beech Editor (23 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In stock.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wormwood Number 4. Contains an editorial by Valentine, Joyce Carol Oates by Bell, Alfred Kubin by Beech, Margaret Irwin by Unerman, Bruno Schultz & Tadeusz Kantor by Watt, M.P. Shiel's Prince Zaleski by Hervey, The Decadent World-View by Stableford, Late Reviews by Anderson and Camera Obscura by Valentine. The covers have a little light edge wear only and the pages are clean and unmarked.…

Shaftesbury: Egaeus Press:, 2025. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued, 227 pp. This beautiful edition limited to 400 copies. Includes all new stories from Reggie Oliver, Tyler Keevil, Steve Duffy, Mark Valentine, Florence Sunnen, Timothy J. Jarvis, Carly Holmes, Lynda E. Rucker, John Llewellyn Probertand David Yates. "Nobody ever chose to take up residence at THE ROOMING HOUSE, that domicile of unfathomable architecture and nebulous intent; to hope to find content between its warped door-frames and moldering wallpapers, or comfort in the sounds of its muffled creaks and strange nocturnal music. Yet it was never short of tenants. Some would simply never leave. This book presents ten unsettling stories by ten of our finest weird fiction writers, defining, in their mosaic fashion, a sort of map of a hitherto uncharted region of dark influence and malevolent forces, centred in and around this singular building." First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued.…

Shaftesbury: Egaeus Press:, 2024. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued, 271 pp. This edition limited to 420 copies. "INFERNAL MYSTERIES Or A Compendium of Gothic Reveries & Dolorous Tales. Featuring a gloriously grotesque and moon-soaked selection of new writings whose intent it is to capture and expand upon the darkness and sheer strangeness of first-wave Gothic literature. Never mind the cosy conventions into which the Gothic has settled over the past couple of centuries; INFERNAL MYSTERIES presents an altogether rawer and more primal take on the genre, very much rooted in the works of Poe, Shelley, Walpole, and 'Monk' Lewis." Contributors include Richard Gavin, Reggie Oliver, Rhys Hughes, Jonathan Wood and others. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued.…

Hardback. Condition: New. No dustjacket. First Limited. A first UK Limited edition hardback (350 copies only) edited by Mark Beech. Published without a dust jacket. UNREAD. SYNOPSIS: "Fifteen previously unpublished short stories, set against the ticks and whirs of unfathomable devices, synchronised, in apparent mockery of the true cycles of nature and human desire. Herein are dark tales of clocks and music boxes, penny arcades and automata, tales in which the lines between the intricacies of the organic and the inorganic become very often blurred. With each piece written especially for this project, the book brings together a rare collection of work by some of the finest authors of strange fiction around today. THE STORIES ARE: *The Pößalu Clock by David Yates; *The Ingrained Incident by Charles Wilkinson; *The Clockwork Man by Alison Littlewood; *The Mnemosyne by Chris Kelso; *Evenfall by John Gale; *The Arcades by R. Ostermeier; *Iamb by Rose Biggin; *The Silver Buckle Clocks of Coombe Viney by Colin Insole; *Soul of Things by George Berguño; *Sympathique by Tim Major; *Seven Clocks and a Music Box by Mark Valentine; *A Bright But Haunted Age by Mat Joiner; *Another Nature by D. P. Watt; *The Watchdog of Time by Charles Schneider; *The Final Healer by Maria Barnes." Packed weight 780gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH. …

Hardback. Condition: New. No dustjacket. First Limited. A first UK Limited edition hardback (350 copies only) edited by Mark Beech. Published without a dust jacket. UNREAD. SYNOPSIS: "Fifteen previously unpublished short stories, set against the ticks and whirs of unfathomable devices, synchronised, in apparent mockery of the true cycles of nature and human desire. Herein are dark tales of clocks and music boxes, penny arcades and automata, tales in which the lines between the intricacies of the organic and the inorganic become very often blurred. With each piece written especially for this project, the book brings together a rare collection of work by some of the finest authors of strange fiction around today. THE STORIES ARE: *The Pößalu Clock by David Yates; *The Ingrained Incident by Charles Wilkinson; *The Clockwork Man by Alison Littlewood; *The Mnemosyne by Chris Kelso; *Evenfall by John Gale; *The Arcades by R. Ostermeier; *Iamb by Rose Biggin; *The Silver Buckle Clocks of Coombe Viney by Colin Insole; *Soul of Things by George Berguño; *Sympathique by Tim Major; *Seven Clocks and a Music Box by Mark Valentine; *A Bright But Haunted Age by Mat Joiner; *Another Nature by D. P. Watt; *The Watchdog of Time by Charles Schneider; *The Final Healer by Maria Barnes." Packed weight 780gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK limited edition hardback (limited to 420 copies only). Published without a dust jacket. Unread. SYNOPSIS: "Featuring a gloriously grotesque and moon-soaked selection of new writings whose intent it is to capture and expand upon the darkness and sheer strangeness of first-wave Gothic literature. Never mind the cosy conventions into which the Gothic has settled over the past couple of centuries; INFERNAL MYSTERIES presents an altogether rawer and more primal take on the genre, very much rooted in the works of Poe, Shelley, Walpole, and "Monk" Lewis. The stories are: *Olivia by Albert Power; *Tabula Rasa by Richard Gavin; *Scourge by Sara Wilson; *The Bearded Nun, or The Saracen's Redemption by Tom Johnstone; *A Trifling Tale by Jon Horn; *Lorelei by J. Rosina Harlow; *Shadow, Ghost or Hellequin by Nina Antonia; *The Cardinal's Ring by Reggie Oliver; *Casa Magni by Lisa Moore-Smith; *To Vathek by Dmitri Akers; *Thirteen Castles South by Rhys Hughes; *Spolia by Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs; *The Rescue by Jonathan Eeds; *The Sailor's Bride by Isobel Granby; *The Grotto at Crennocken by Jonathan Wood; *Mrs Poole Will Speak Wrongly, However I Do It by Kate Meyer-Currey; *Cellmates by Craig S. Shoemake; *The Haunting of the Red Death by Aaron Padle." Packed weight 760gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2009 Whitechapel Gallery paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: THE REVIVAL OF BEAUTY Dave Hickey Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty Kathleen Marie Higgins Whatever Happened to Beauty? A Response to Danto Elaine Scarry On Beauty and Being Just Wendy Steiner Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art Suzanne Perling Hudson Beauty and the Status of Contemporary Criticism Saul Ostrow The Eternal Problem of Beauty's Return Arthur C. Danto The Aesthetics of Brillo Boxes Alexander Alberro Beauty Knows No Pain Diarmuid Costello, Arthur C. Danto, Anna Dezeuze, Martin Donougho, Thierry de Duve, James Elkins, David Raskin, Dominic Willsdon, Richard Woodfield The Art Seminar CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS Theodor Adorno On the Concept of the Beautiful Jacques Derrida The Sans of the Pure Cut Griselda Pollock Woman as Sign: Psychoanalytic Readings Jay Bernstein Beauty and the Labour of Mourning Fredric Jameson Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity Thierry de Duve Kant after Duchamp Jason Gaiger Incidental and Integral Beauty: Duchamp, Danto and the Intractable Avant-Garde T.J. Clark Vulgarity Caroline A. Jones The Discourse of the Studio Meets the Technological Sublime John Roberts Replicants and Cartesians Mark Cousins The Ugly Mark Hutchinson Nausea: Encounters with Ugliness Simon O'Sullivan Art and the Political: Minor Literature, War Machines and the Production of Subjectivity POSITIONS Rosalind Krauss The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Robert Morris's Paradoxes Robert Smithson An Aesthetics of Disappointment Andy Warhol On Beauty Rasheed Araeen Cultural Imperialism: Observations on Cultural Situation in the Third World Gerhard Richter Notes Paul Wood Truth and Beauty: The Ruined Abstraction of Gerhard Richter Leon Golub and Nancy Spero Interview with Adrian Searle Agnes Martin Interview with Irving Sandler Alex Katz Interview with David Sylvester John Currin Interview with Robert Rosenblum Wendy Steiner On Marlene Dumas Art & Language On Painting Rudolf Sagmeister Endangered Beauty: On Gary Hume Christoph Grunenberg Attraction-Repulsion Machines: The Art of Jake and Dinos Chapman Vito Acconci Interview with Bryant Rousseau Leo Fitzmaurice Beauty (a list of possibilities).…

dj. First Edition. Shaftesbury: Egaeus Press:, 2018. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, Fine sans dust jacket as issued, 320 pp. This edition limited to 400 copies. "A collection of strange or uncategorizable pieces from some of the finest authors in the field, for which the sea provides the great mystery; stories and poems which explore its pull on the human heart, its alienness, its treachery, its unfathomable vastness; and more than anything, what it makes humans do, be, become." Original stories from Rosalie Parker, Stephen J. Clark, Karim Ghahwagi, Colin Insole, Jonathan Eeds, Albert Power, Charles Schneider, Jonathan Wood, D.F. Lewis, George Berguno and others. Extremely impressive. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, Fine sans dust jacket as issued.…

Sheffield: Egaeus Press:, 2022. First edition, hardcover, LIMITED, New sans dust jacket as issued, 285 pp. This edition limited to 460 copies. "Ornithologiæ is Egaeus Press's long-awaited collection of strange, dark and hallucinatory stories and poems on the theme of birds. Herein, and alongside the more or less familiar, feathered avian varieties, you will find creatures of pure myth, impossibilities; birds reimagined, reconstructed; birds as symbols and metaphors for all that is both irreconcilably fascinating and alien to humanity. The book comprises a total of 27 stories and poems, including, amongst other gems, a previously unpublished story by the late and sadly missed Ron Weighell." Contributors include Charles Wilkinson, Albert Power, Richard Gavin, Douglas Thompson, Rebecca Lloyd, Damian Murphy, Karim Ghahwagi and others. First edition, hardcover, LIMITED, New sans dust jacket as issued.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 109 pages. 9.26x6.10x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 471 pages. 12.00x8.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 10.98x8.27x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Shaftesbury: Egaeus Press:, 2020. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued, 351 pp. Original stories from the likes of Rebecca Kuder, Richard Gavin, Colin Insole, Helen Grant, Steve Duffy, Reggie Oliver, John Gale, Albert Power, Lynda Rucker, Mark Valentine and many others. Exceptional. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued. …

Shaftesbury: Egaeus Press:, 2015. Hardcover, Second printing (of the 10th anniversary edition), Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued, 350 pp. The 2025 printing. Sports different cover. The works within: just as good. Hardcover, Second printing (of the 10th anniversary edition), Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued.…

Hardcover. fine hardcover copy, no dustwrapper as issued 1st edition. Bitter Distillations is a collection of disquieting, disorientating and otherwise uncategorizable tales for which poison provides the inspiration.

Shaftesbury: Egaeus Press:, 2016. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, Near Fine sans dust jacket as issued, 286 pp. This edition limited to 400 copies. With a very slight spine skew and with a very modest bump to tip of front board. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, Near Fine sans dust jacket as issued.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK limited edition hardback (limited to 460 copies). Published without a dust jacket. Beautiful front boards. Unread.Edited by Mark Beech. SYNOPSIS: "Egaeus Press'slong-awaited collection of strange, dark and hallucinatory stories and poems on the theme ofbirds. Herein, and alongside the more or less familiar, feathered avian varieties, you will find creatures of pure myth, impossibilities; birds reimagined, reconstructed; birds as symbols and metaphors for all that is both irreconcilably fascinating and alien to humanity. The book comprises a total of 27 stories and poems, including, amongst other gems, a previously unpublished story by the late and sadly missedRon Weighell. The stories are:*Oystercatcher-Martin Ruf;*Aberration & Essence-Charles Wilkinson;*Ravenbaby-Die Booth;*Chattering Pies-Henry Everett;*The Spirit Plate-Sara Rich;*Being A True Account of The Death & Burial of Poor Cock Robin-William Curnow;*My Love Will Shine from Depths Unknown-John Llewellyn Probert;*The Sin-Eaters-Suzanne J. Willis;*Pretty Bird-Florence Sunnen;*Chanticleer & The Peacock-Rose Biggin;*Huitzilopochtli-Lorraine Schein;*Oileán na nÉan-Albert Power;*The Jingwei Bird Filling Up The Eastern Sea-Ngo Binh Anh Khoa;*The Hunger-Romy Wenzel;*Leather Cormorant-Richard Gavin;*Doctor Cuckoo-Douglas Thompson;*The Dread Machinery-Martin Jones;*The Owl is Called Mother-Rebecca Lloyd;*My Avian Daughter Devours Meteors-Alicia Hilton;*The Embassy at Fontainebleau-Damian Murphy;*Eyes Like Small Black Stones-David Surface;*Soul Catcher-Ron Jon;*The Songbird of Medina-Karim Ghahwagi;*Flight -David Yates;*Calling-Ruhul Amin;*Spirits of the Dead-Ron Weighell." Packed weight 730gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK limited edition hardback (limited to 460 copies). Published without a dust jacket. Beautiful front boards. Unread.Edited by Mark Beech. SYNOPSIS: "Egaeus Press'slong-awaited collection of strange, dark and hallucinatory stories and poems on the theme ofbirds. Herein, and alongside the more or less familiar, feathered avian varieties, you will find creatures of pure myth, impossibilities; birds reimagined, reconstructed; birds as symbols and metaphors for all that is both irreconcilably fascinating and alien to humanity. The book comprises a total of 27 stories and poems, including, amongst other gems, a previously unpublished story by the late and sadly missedRon Weighell. The stories are:*Oystercatcher-Martin Ruf;*Aberration & Essence-Charles Wilkinson;*Ravenbaby-Die Booth;*Chattering Pies-Henry Everett;*The Spirit Plate-Sara Rich;*Being A True Account of The Death & Burial of Poor Cock Robin-William Curnow;*My Love Will Shine from Depths Unknown-John Llewellyn Probert;*The Sin-Eaters-Suzanne J. Willis;*Pretty Bird-Florence Sunnen;*Chanticleer & The Peacock-Rose Biggin;*Huitzilopochtli-Lorraine Schein;*Oileán na nÉan-Albert Power;*The Jingwei Bird Filling Up The Eastern Sea-Ngo Binh Anh Khoa;*The Hunger-Romy Wenzel;*Leather Cormorant-Richard Gavin;*Doctor Cuckoo-Douglas Thompson;*The Dread Machinery-Martin Jones;*The Owl is Called Mother-Rebecca Lloyd;*My Avian Daughter Devours Meteors-Alicia Hilton;*The Embassy at Fontainebleau-Damian Murphy;*Eyes Like Small Black Stones-David Surface;*Soul Catcher-Ron Jon;*The Songbird of Medina-Karim Ghahwagi;*Flight -David Yates;*Calling-Ruhul Amin;*Spirits of the Dead-Ron Weighell." Packed weight 730gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Collection of modern ghost stories, inspired by ancient & primordial urges. First printing, one of 325 copies. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Minor rubbing to corners, text-block slightly dished, hint of spine slant. Text clean, no names or marks; 17 stories, 351 pages + colophon, illustrations from vintage sources. Size: Octavo. Franz Schwimbeck & Herbert Railton (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Weird tales related to ships, sailing, and the sea, set in or near the arctic regions. First printing, one of 400 copies. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Minor rubbing & bumps to corners. Text clean, no names or marks; 13 tales, [214] pages, illustrations from vintage sources. Size: Octavo.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Tales of haunted woods & forest spirits. First printing, one of 330 copies. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Minor rubbing to corners. Text clean, no names or marks; 12 stories, [286] pages, illustrations from vintage sources. Size: Octavo. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Weird tales & a few poems related to ships, sailing, and the sea. First printing, one of 400 copies. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Minor rubbing to corners, hint of spine lean. Text clean, no names or marks; 320 pages, illustrations from vintage sources. Size: Octavo. …