Dejan Ognjanović: Spectral Lights: Six Masters of the English Ghost Story
-> Sheridan Le Fanu | Vernon Lee | Henry James | M. R. James | Algernon Blackwood | Robert Aickman
Chiroptera Press via Psilowave (UK)
Pre Order – Ships approx. late August 2025. Please Note: If ordered with any other items all items will ship together when stock arrives.
Dejan Ognjanović ist ein sehr eigenständiger, eigenwilliger Denker und zudem ein wandelndes Lexikon, was Horror, Folklore, Film und auch die Historie und Politik des Balkans angeht. Und extrem sympathisch, ausführliches Interview hier (engl).
Die Innenillustrationen von Aleksandra Dević finde ich auch sensationell, schade, dass sie nicht auch das Coverbild gezeichnet hat.
Dieser Band ist der Auftakt einer Reihe von Sekundärliteratur zu (klassischem) Horror und Weird.
* 6″x 9″
* 270 pages
* Smyth-sewn binding
* Introduction by Ramsey Campbell
* Cover art by Ivica Stevanović
* Interior art by Aleksandra Dević
* Offset printed on acid-free archival paper
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Softcover edition of 300 copies worldwide: 53,84 € + postage & taxes
* French style cover flaps
Hardcover edition of 125 copies worldwide (10 for Europe): € 88,98 + postage & taxes. [Update: Ausverkauft]
* Cloth bound (no dust jacket as issued) with metallic silver stamping
* Head and tail bands with ribbon marker
Chiroptera Press are dedicated to giving strange and macabre fiction the attention, detail and production value that it rightly deserves. Their next offering is no exception. Psilowave are proud to be able to announce pre orders are now live for Spectral Lights By Dejan Ognjanović. A scholarly study of the English Ghost story with a foreword by none other than the absolute master of unease Ramsey Campbell, and with stunning artwork by Aleksandra Dević, this is truly for connoisseurs of the weird tale.
“Dejan Ognjanović has far more eloquence and perceptiveness to offer. I’m off to reread some of the fiction in the light of his exegeses. He has achieved the best function of criticism – to make us look again at what we may have thought we knew.” –Ramsey Campbell
Spectral Lights is a study of the major works of the ghost story’s most skilled practitioners. We analyze how Sheridan Le Fanu originated the classical ghost story and matured into one of its supreme authors. We reveal the unsung mastery of Vernon Lee and explain why her art-themed ghost stories are the pinnacles of this subgenre. We dive deep into Henry James’s quintessential ghost novella “The Turn of the Screw”, uncovering the essential issues of the form reflected in it. We display how M. R. James as an undisputed master of subtly evoked chills, but also a worthy theoretician of these stories’ content and craft. We demonstrate how Algernon Blackwood enriched the ghost story with his intellectual and mystical speculations, opening it up for undreamt potentials. And finally, we delve deep into the mysteries of Robert Aickman’s stories, it unveils how the rich national tradition and profound personal originality were joined to produce his uniquely puzzling stories.
With a new Foreword by Ramsey Campbell and laced with moody interior illustrations by Aleksandra Devic and the spooky covers by Ivica Stevanovic, this is a book which has a wealth of insights to offer both to novices and to seasoned connoisseurs.
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