Swan River Press

24/10/2024

We've just announced the newest installment of our UNCERTAINTIES series. Volume 7 is edited by Carly Holmes.

If you like the sort of thing we publish, and would like to support an independent press, you can pre-order a the link below.

This title is estimated to ship in early November. Publication and shipping updates. “It came out of the dark, and into the dark it has gone again.” – E. F. Benson “Ghost stories,” as Elizabeth Bowen observed, “are not easy to write—least easy now, for they involve more than they did.....

30/09/2024

The Green Book 24 is now available for pre-order. Should be shipping in mid-October.

This title is estimated to ship in late October. Publication and shipping updates. In Issue 23 of The Green Book we featured a sketch of Charles Maturin (1782-1824) penned by James Clarence Mangan, originally published in March 1849. Although we now celebrate Maturin as the author of Melmoth the Wan...

25/09/2024

Very pleased to announce that Timothy Jarvis's debut collection, TREATISES ON DUST, as been longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024.

The longlist has been announced for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024 as the competition enters its 18th year.

30/08/2024

Announcing Swan River Press's newest title:

ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES by Helen Grant

“In its dim depths living things scurried and fluttered, but human voices were very rarely heard.” – The West Window

Cover by John Coulthart
Available for pre-order.

https://swanriverpress.ie/srp.../atmospheric-disturbances/

18/04/2024

Now taking pre-orders for LOST ESTATES, a new collection by Mark Valentine. Looking to ship in late May.

“I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the way books.” – S. T. Coleridge (1796) The twelve stories in Lost Estates offer antiquarian mysteries, book-collecting adventures, and otherworldly encounters. Mark Valentine’s amiable scholars and...

11/12/2023

https://swanriverpress.ie/2023/12/our-haunted-year-2023/

Greetings, everyone. Thank you for joining me here at the end of another solar cycle, taking time out of your day to read this meditation on what we did here at Swan River Press these past twelve months. I confess, for much of it, my attention has been on settling myself in Æon House and […]

02/12/2023

If you're looking to order a Swan River Press book to give as a gift this holiday season--and, really, why wouldn't you?--the final advised shipping date for USA and Rest of World is Wednesday, 6 December. More details here:

It’s that time of year again when you might be looking for gifts to give for the forthcoming holiday season. We’ve published some great books this year, so do be sure to have a look! Now It’s Dark by Lynda E. Rucker Agents of Oblivion by Iain Sinclair Uncertainties 6 edited by Brian J. Showers...

31/10/2023

https://swanriverpress.ie/2023/10/celebrating-20-years/

Today is the 20th anniversary of Swan River Press. I started the press in 2003 almost as an afterthought. The first few publications were palm-sized, hand-sewn chapbooks, written by myself and illustrated by Duane Spurlock, Jeff Roche, and Meggan Kehrli (who still designs our hardbacks). The idea wa...

15/06/2023

Another forthcoming release you can now pre-order . . .

Estimated shipping mid July 2023. “From the small bones of the middle ear can be fashioned a key.” “For a while now,” Timothy J. Jarvis tells us in the first tale here, “I’ve been collecting texts that hint at strange tales.” He goes on to explain that these “Treatises on Dust” are...

02/06/2023

Excavating Oblivion: In Conversation with Iain Sinclair:

In Conversation with Iain Sinclair Matthew Stocker: I honestly didn’t know how to open this interview, then yesterday I was in a restaurant with my children and wife and I spotted beside many bits of Joyce paraphernalia a quote; “I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city su...

02/06/2023

In today's Washington Post:

Sinclair’s “Agents of Oblivion,” beautifully produced by Swan River Press, showcases one of the supreme prose stylists of our time. Set in bohemian London’s demimonde, four perambulating narratives blend autobiography, fiction and essay as they circle around the works and afterlives of Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, J.G. Ballard and Lovecraft. Comics legend Alan Moore also puts in an appearance.
(Swan River )

Nobody can do more with a sentence’s cadence, diction and imagery than Sinclair. “Seated figures in the steaming cafe, intent as Cézanne’s card players, contemplate cheese sandwiches, their dogs restless on the floor.” “Questing book collectors can never, despite the best of bad intentions, go hunting together, when it comes to the kill.” “There was something cruel about the siting of the hospital at the crest of the hill. The halt and the lame were scattered across the nursery slopes, clutching at gateposts, clawing at hedges, crawling toward shelters where buses did not pause.”

New releases in the genre mastered by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Aickman and others include ‘Dream Fox,’ by Rosalie Parker

25/05/2023

https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/uncertainties-6/

Estimated shipping late June 2023. “I am writing only for my shadow . . . I must make myself known to him.” – Sadegh Hedayat “Ghost stories,” as Elizabeth Bowen observed, “are not easy to write—least easy now, for they involve more than they did.” But these eleven writers take up the...

14/04/2023

https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/agents-of-oblivion/

Estimated Shipping: End of May 2023. “How long have things been coming apart in this way?” – The Lure of Silence “Generally speaking the dead do not return,” pronounced Antonin Artaud. But the dead are permitted to visit those who welcome them. Their spectral, machine-made voices echo in d...

05/04/2023

https://swanriverpress.ie/2023/04/the-green-book-21/

“Editor’s Note” Let us begin this issue with B. M. Croker (1849-1920), whose writings our readers might already be familiar with from the Swan River Press edition of “Number Ninety” and Other Ghost Stories (2019; Sarob, 2000), edited by Richard Dalby. Although born in Co. Roscommon, Croker...

26/02/2023

The new collection by Lynda E Rucker, NOW IT'S DARK, is now available. All pre-orders are in the post!

https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/

28/12/2022

https://swanriverpress.ie/2022/12/our-haunted-year-2022/

From an outside perspective, Swan River Press has probably looked very quiet this year, reduced to a trickle. Though we didn’t publish as much within these last twelve months as I had planned, the year was still a significant one behind the scenes, hopefully positioning us for a more (outwardly) e...

14/10/2022

I mentioned in our September newsletter that Swan River Press would be moving in October. That hectic week is now upon us! I will remain in Dublin, but will be moving to ÆON HOUSE, a small, Edwardian cottage in a secluded and less frequented quarter of the inner city. The house is situated between a maternity hospital and a local funeral parlour....

I mentioned in our September newsletter that Swan River Press would be moving in October. That hectic week is now upon us!I will remain in Dublin, but will be moving to ÆON HOUSE, a small, Edwardia…

29/09/2022

THE GREEN BOOK 20 is due to be delivered today from the printer; I'm taking pre-orders now and hope to get everything in the post next week. This will be the last publication we post from this address before moving to Æon House in October.

With this issue, we offer another ten profiles of Irish writers of gothic, supernatural, and fantastic fiction. The two most notable writers this issue—and therefore lengthiest entries—are, of course, Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) and Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Along with names like Charles Maturi...