Introducing the romanti-cynical world of Rhys Hughes
“Because I have experimented with so many different genres, styles and moods, not one of my individual books to date really provides a full overview of what I actually do. Link Arms With Toads! is different because it’s a fully representative sampler of my entire body of work and has been designed as a showcase [...]
The winning entry of the Machen competition
In March we announced a competition for a specially signed copy of The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels, inviting readers to decode the message written in an alien language on the book’s cover.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, the language has proved to be too strange and alien to yield up its [...]
Notice concerning Amazon EU
This is a notice to address the concerns of some readers who have written to us about the long estimated delivery times for new releases on Amazon UK – the same problem, in fact, affects Amazon EU across the board. We have been looking into this matter. It seems we are not the only publisher [...]
Dying to Read – Feltham, here we come!
And now for something completely different! In keeping with the Chômu mission to bring you works that are of the highest quality and (maybe not just) a little unusual, we are very pleased to present a murder mystery that is also something of a literary conundrum. Dying to Read, by John Elliott, is a crime [...]
Revenants and Polycrates – prize draw winners
The prize draw copy of Revenants, by Daniel Mills, has now been sent to the winner of the draw, Todd Treichel, who reports that he is thrilled with his luck, and very happy with the book. He has also kindly offered a message to readers of the website, that, “Chomu needs to be explored [...]
Discover the subterranean frontier of The Great Lover
Today we are proud to announce the release of a book that we know has been much anticipated – the sixth novel from International Horror Guild Award winner Michael Cisco, The Great Lover. A many-spired citadel of a novel, The Great Lover has its foundations in an underground of untamed vision, but its architecture is [...]
Reminder – last day of the Polycrates prize draw
This is just to remind people that today is the last day on which they can enter the prize draw for the special copy of The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children. Details of the prize draw may be found here. Please remember that you must be on our mailing list in [...]
The Dadaoism anthology – deadline passed and selection begins
The end of March has come and with it the deadline has passed for the Dadaoism anthology, and we will no longer be receiving submissions for it. We start now on the next stage on the anthologising process – sifting through and selecting the submitted material.
We have had quite an overwhelming response so far, with [...]
The Polycrates history tour starts here
From the author of Metrophilias and Unpleasant Tales, Brendan Connell, comes another consignment of finely-tuned unpredictability. We are most pleased to announce the official release of The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children. Metrophilias took us to 36 cities across the world in a psychogeographical examination of sexual mania. The Life of [...]
The Return of the Man Who Collected Machen
If the world has defied recent predictions by not ending today, we can immediately add to the good news by saying that this date also marks the official release for The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales by the acclaimed master of modern weird fiction, Mark Samuels.
Previously published as a limited edition, with [...]
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