Tartarus Press

 ( British Speculative Fiction Publishers ) 

Tartarus Press is an independent small press in Coverdale in North Yorkshire, England. "Discover the darker side of the Dales", Yorkshire Post, 1 May 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2014.

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Background Tartarus Press is run by R. B. Russell and Rosalie Parker. It publishes classic and contemporary works of supernatural and strange fiction. Tartarus classic authors include David Lindsay, Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions and Edna W. Underwood, and more modern authors include Sarban and Robert Aickman. Contemporary writers include Andrew Michael Hurley, Nike Sulway, Rhys Hughes, Mark Valentine, Angela Slatter, Reggie Oliver, Mark Samuels and Joel Lane. A twice-yearly journal, Wormwood, was devoted to discussion of fantastic, supernatural and decadent literature but has now ceased publication.

Tartarus won the World Fantasy Award "Special Award: Non-Professional" for their publishing in 2002, World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2002 2004, World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2004 2012, World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2012 and 2015; World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2015 and Strange Tales, their anthology of new short fiction, won the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology of the year. The Horror Writers Association gave Tartarus Press the "Excellence in Speciality Press Publishing" award for 2009. Stoker Awards Recipients: 2009

Notable books published by Tartarus Press include The Bitterwood Bible by Angela Slatter which won the World Fantasy Award for best Collection, and The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley which won the Costa award, First Novel. Costa First Novel Award winner 2015 In 2025 Tartarus Press published, in association with the Bronte Society, the first edition of A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Brontë, with an Introduction by Patti Smith.

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See also

• Supernatural fiction
• Book collecting

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Further reading

• Michael Dirda, " Ghost Stories", Washington Post, October 31, 2004, p. BW15.
• Ben Stanley, Speculative Fiction Junkie Interview

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External links

• Tartarus Press

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