{"title":"Books \u0026 Chapbooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Chapbooks\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"oupire","title":"OUPIRE","description":"\u003cp\u003eOupire: A treatment, by excision, of Sheridan Le Fanu's \u003cem\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/em\u003e (1871-72).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCloth-bound edition of 72 copies, printed on 150gsm Munken Lynx paper with foil-blocked cover. 80 pages, 158 x 248mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSheridan Le Fanu’s Gothic novella \u003cem\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/em\u003e, finds an innocent young woman, living with her father in a remote Styrian castle, preyed upon by the smitten, guileful female vampire who gives the story its name. The tale's telling is remarkable in that the story itself seems to have an omniscient presence, knowing more than the characters themselves about their deeper motivations and the portent of certain events. It was this characteristic that led to my treatment of the tale,in which two strands of text, in black and red, denote the twin narratives of the book that merge and twine throughout its pages. The black text takes that of the preyed-upon narrator, Laura, and – for a few pages near the end – General Spielsdorf, who relates his own experience of an earlier incarnation of the vampire Carmilla, and the red that of the book. The text layout accords with its original four-part appearance and pagination in the literary magazine The Dark Blue, in which the story was first published between 1871-72 and on which this new treatment is based. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1872, Le Fanu revised \u003cem\u003eCarmilla\u003c\/em\u003e for publication in his short story collection, \u003cem\u003eIn A Glass Darkly\u003c\/em\u003e, where it was given a new prologue, ostensibly presenting it as a case from the papers of the physician and occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius, who plays no part in the story as told in the pages of \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Blue\u003c\/em\u003e. However, as by the same technique of textual extraction the preface revealed such an apposite description (“the mysterious subject of our dual existence”), I have also used it as a preface here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title, \u003cem\u003eOupire\u003c\/em\u003e, comes from the proto-Slavic word for vampire; Le Fanu uses the two terms interchangeably in the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images bookending the text are taken from a glass lantern slide of an unnamed ruin, while the picture of a forest track on the endpapers originated in a small, scuffed positif \u003cem\u003estéréoscopique sur film\u003c\/em\u003e of indeterminate date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"fallowpages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52299230052680,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/6366\/7272\/files\/covercopy.jpg?v=1767975923"},{"product_id":"the-thing-is","title":"the thing is...","description":"\u003cp\u003eA letterpress printed chapbook of a poem sequence I wrote in 2012, 'the thing is...'. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e28 page letterpress printed booklet, 158 x 140mm, printed on Ingres paper in an edition of 24 copies\u2028.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore often than not, what follows the words 'the thing is...' is anything but, which was the starting point for these twelve poems which take the phrase as their preface. The poems, written whilst living in Colva, were born of a deep engagement with the Radnorshire landscape. Their deliberately emphatic openings are shaded and contradicted, their initial resolve dissipated. Then all twelve poems are recombined in a dreamlike counterpart, providing new landscapes that are equally as rich and often as plausible. The booklet can be read from both directions with the poem sequences meeting in the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"fallowpages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52299304206664,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/6366\/7272\/files\/IMG_7876copy.jpg?v=1767977859"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/6366\/7272\/collections\/Hulls_for_detail.jpg?v=1767976384","url":"https:\/\/fallowpages.myshopify.com\/collections\/postcards.oembed","provider":"fallowpages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}