We are proud of each of our releases and are gratified to know that our titles are now enlivening bookshelves and enriching readers’ lives around the world. Therefore, first of all, please allow us to introduce a small selection of links here relating to those titles and/or their authors:

Reggie Oliver was featured in Suvudu’s Take Five series, telling us five fascinating things about The Dracula Papers. Signed copies of The Dracula Papers, Book I: The Scholar’s Tale are available from the Aldeburgh Bookshop.

Chômu authors Michael Cisco and Brendan Connell were interviewed together by Jeff VanderMeer for the Amazon blog Omnivoracious.

Gestalt Mash features a characteristically lively interview with Justin Isis, author of I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like, and the review blog of stalwart Theaker’s Quarterly features a review of Revenants by Daniel Mills.

Musings on the cover of The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales, by Mark Samuels, are to be found at Grim Reviews, and Quentin S. Crisp talks about “Remember You’re a One-Ball!” and other things, at Matt Cardin’s Teeming Brain.

In other news, we now have winners for the Dying to Read and The Great Lover prize draws, and can announce that inscribed copies of the books will be sent to Jérôme-Luc Paulin and Steve Poupard respectively. The winner of the prize draw for Link Arms with Toads! by Rhys Hughes will be announced soon. Please look out for prize draws with our future releases.

Speaking of which, those following developments on the site will have noticed that after Nemonymous Night, we have also scheduled releases for two very different (to each other and to just about anything else we’ve encountered) novels, Jeanette, by Joe Simpson Walker (July release), and The Orphan Palace, by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (October release). The former is in the transgressive tradition of Pauline Réage, with a gritty British sixties setting. This will also be the longest work we have so far published. The latter comes from one of the rising stars of the weird, for whom, we believe, the stars are now right; a novel of madness, written in poetry, or perhaps a novel of poetry, written in madness.

Those awaiting news of the Dadaoism anthology should also rest assured that gears are invisibly turning, and we are working hard on making this something special. However, it should be noted that, due to the high number of submissions, it is taking us some time to sift out the very best. We are excited, however, to have already found a considerable quantity of gold in our prospecting. We will release more information on the contents, scheduling and so on for the anthology when it is available. At present, we are still carefully sifting.

Other things to look forward to include mini-interviews with our authors. Interviews with Brendan Connell and John Elliott have already been conducted, and will be sent out in the near future to everyone on our e-mail list. Please note, you must subscribe in order to receive the interviews and other planned exclusive content. Please also subscribe or keep watching this site for news on further releases and developments.

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The prize copy is signed and inscribed, and comes with six photographs of the American Northeast, where the novel is set, as well as unpublished poems and lyrics from the author.

Additionally, we can now announce the winner of the Polycrates prize draw as Claus Laufenburg, who will soon be receiving the inscribed and exotically modified copy of The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children, by Brendan Connell.

Glimpse of the strange vistas inside the 'Special Commemorative Edition' of Polycrates.

Subscribers to our mailing list can also look forward to a short, exclusive interview with the book’s author, Brendan Connell, soon.

In related news, the deadline for the competition for a signed copy of The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales has now passed, but so far no one has cracked the code on the book’s front cover, so we have decided to extend the deadline until the 13th of April. Even if no one manages to crack the code, we will ask the author to judge which entry is most interesting and appropriate, so please feel free to have a guess.

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 Polycrates offers us another grand tour, this time through the living ruins of human history, and the guiding passions in the lives of exceptional people, both famous and obscure. These eleven tales form a collection of irrepressible depravity worth celebrating in song. To get yourself a ticket for the maniacal history tour, pick up a copy of the book here.

Here is what others have to say of the work of Brendan Connell:

With the yellow flag of Neo-Decadence lofted high, Connell exhumes the corpse of Mother Image and heaves it rank and rotting onto the tidy flowerbed of realist fiction.

- Justin Isis

Every generation throws up a few genuine Masters of the Weird. There simply is no hyperbole in the statement that Brendan Connell is a member of this elite group right now, perhaps the most accomplished of them all.

- Rhys Hughes

Prize Draw for unique commemorative copy of The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children

We would also like to announce a prize draw for a signed and uniquely inscribed commemorative copy of The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children. To be entered for this draw, please sign up to our mailing list and send an e-mail with the subject heading ‘Polycrates’ to info at chomupress dot com. If you are already on our mailing list, naturally there is no need to sign up again – simply send an e-mail with the ‘Polycrates’ subject heading to the address mentioned. Only one entry allowed per person. Deadline for draw, the 6th of April.