Tartarus Press
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Tartarus Press is a small, international award-winning, independent publishing house with two distinct specialities.
The first is their reference book, a Guide to First Edition Prices, which is now in its fifth edition and has become the book dealers’ and collectors’ bible in the United Kingdom and beyond. Edited by the proprietor of Tartarus Press, Ray Russell, the present edition gives the values of over 35,000 sought after books. It is printed in full colour and has distribution through Vine House.
The second speciality of the Tartarus Press is their publication of classic works of curious and macabre fiction. They aim for the highest production values with their collectable, limited edition hardbacks bound in sewn sections and printed lithographically on acid-free paper. Most titles have original dust-jacket artwork and many have decorated, embossed boards. Tartarus publishes classic supernatural fiction by Arthur Machen, M.P. Shiel, Hugh Walpole, Gustav Meyrink, Oliver Onions, and more modern authors such as Sarban, Robert Aickman and David Lindsay, alongside contemporary writers including Quentin S. Crisp, Mark Valentine, Mark Samuels and Rhys Hughes. Tartarus won World Fantasy Awards for their publishing in 2002 and 2004, and Strange Tales, their anthology of new short fiction, won the 2004 World Fantasy Award for the best anthology of the year. Wormwood, a twice-yearly journal, is devoted to discussion of fantastic, supernatural and decadent literature.
