Twisted Spoon Press

29/06/2026

Visions & Apparitions by Ladislav Klíma is now out and on the way to the UK next week. It is a collection of Klíma's mostly ghost stories. As a whole, they reflect his lifelong preoccupation with the nature of “reality” as a product of one's mind and a matrix of madness, hallucination, and dream permeated with all-too-real phantoms and ghouls, which, akin to Poe, have sprung from the unconscious or emerged through the power of imagination and desire, materializing as more than mere figment.

Thanks to Alexander Booth for the artwork.

More info here:
https://www.twistedspoon.com/visions-apparitions.html

08/04/2026

Ria Dhull at Heavy Feather Review: "Serner’s Dada roots peek through the darkness of The Tigress; there is something of the absurd within its chaos. Using his characters as a vehicle, Serner carefully breaks down the rules and systems of language, and in this decay and inversion, he creates a madness that spreads like a virus."

Some years after Walter Serner helped bring Dadaism to Zurich, he broke away from the movement. The Tigress, perhaps Serner’s most famous work, emerged in the period after Serner’s detachment from …

09/03/2026

The Modern Novel on Emil Hakl's Of Kids & Parents, tr. by Marek Tomin: "Neither title nor the premise of this book might seem particularly interesting but don’t let either put you off as this is a very fascinating book."

Home » Czech Republic » Emil Hakl » O rodičích a dětech (Of Kids and Parents)) Emil Hakl: O rodičích a dětech (Of Kids and Parents) Neither title nor the premise of this book might seem particularly interesting but don’t let either put you off as this is a very fascinating book. It simply...

07/01/2026

M.A. Orthofer reviews Gerhard Rühm's THE FOLDED CLOCK (tr. Alexander Booth):
"The variety in the folded clock is almost astonishingly great. If all conceived somehow around numbers, Rühm does much more than simply offer a few variations on a few themes – of either subject matter or approach. [...] It all makes for an interesting and rich collection that goes beyond being mere exercises in playing with numbers."

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of the folded clock by Gerhard Rühm.

21/12/2025

"Of course, despite The Tigress’s erotic, nihilist reputation—one that eventually led the N***s to ban and burn it—Serner’s novel has quite a few philosophical elements to offer the book’s audience."

Reviewed by Nicole Yurcaba