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Limited edition hardcover

ISBN-13: 978-1960241047
LIST PRICE: $49 U.S.
PAGES: TBD
Published 2023

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Trade paper

ISBN-13: 978-1960241054
LIST PRICE: $17.99 U.S.
PAGES: TBD
Published 2023
Contents include:

Introduction by Brian Evenson
A Night's Lodging
At Sarah's House
Burning Ground
Parable of the Tunnel Mole
Before a Long Journey
Blind Man's Buff
Orchard of the Dead
Ksenia
On the Trail
Mud Hut in a Clear Field
Red Magda
The Loft
Countess Maspera's Secret
Szatera's Engrams

Orchard of the Dead & Other Macabre Tales
Stefan Grabinski
Translated by Anthony Sciscione
Introduction by Brian Evenson

Limited Edition Hardcover:
1st printing limited to 300 copies
​Estimated shipping date in late 2023
Smyth-sewn, clothbound with dust jacket and bookmark ribbon, printed on heavyweight paper
Preorder price $39, list price $49.
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Book Description

Stefan Grabinski has a legendary status in the field of weird fiction and has been referred to as "the Polish Poe" or "the Polish Lovecraft". Yet aside from a very expensive and now out-of-print limited edition from Centipede Press, very little of his work has been available to English readers. This new collection of all-new translations by Anthony Sciscione includes several stories that have never appeared in any English version before as well as classic tales that have previously been inaccessible to most readers.

In "At Sarah's House," a man watches his friend wasting away before his eyes under the spell of a beautiful but deadly woman. In "Burning Ground," a man decides to build a home on a site where every previous dwelling has burned to the ground, defying local superstition with strange and disastrous consequences. The title story, "Orchard of the Dead," tells of the otherworldly happenings at a children's graveyard full of trees laden with luscious fruit. And in the highlight of the collection, "Szatera's Engrams," a train stationmaster becomes obsessed with lingering echoes of a deadly tragedy and grows convinced that he knows a terrible means of bringing his beloved back from the other side.

Containing fourteen tales that feature Grabinski's favorite themes of passion and death, this edition will be welcomed both as the perfect introduction to his work and as a necessary volume in the collection of any of his longtime admirers. This edition features a new introduction by a modern-day master of the weird, Brian Evenson.


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