Ash-Tree Press ebook releases

[cw67q]

Hello everyone,

ATP have recently embarked upon a program of reissuing selected titles form their OOP catalogue in ebook format. I'm not the best informed on ebook technology but from discusions on the All Hallows newsgroup it is apparent that the books are available for a range of e-readers.

Authors featured thus far include Frederick Cowles, HR Wakefield and the AF Kidd/Rick Kennett Carnacki volume, with AM Burrage soon to follow. The books should be available via amazon and possible elsewhere. A quick amazon search under using Ash-Tree as publisher currently turns up the Cowles and Carnacki, but I had to search under Wakefield to turn up his volume. My impression is that the list of available titles might be updated regularly for the next while.

- Chris

[dem bones]

thanks Chris, and for those interested, it might be an idea to bookmark this page if you've not done so already.

Ash Tree Press: e-books

[cw67q]

hmm, my earlier reply seems to have gone AWOL. Thanks Dem for providing the link to ATP's page, which I didn't think to search for (doh!) .

On a further note, the second Wakefield volume "Old Man's Beard" has neen added to the list of available ebooks.

- chris

[cw67q]

Randalls Round is next up, later this week - chris

[cw67q]

Shiela Hodgson's Fellow travellers is also being released in this format. This is a great collection of modern Jamesian tales (all? some?) adapted from the author's own radio plays. I recommend this for a read.
- Chris

ps should I leave off with further updates here? it looks like ATP might be releasing a slew of these ebooks for at least the next while and I don't want this thread to become an annoyance

[dem bones]

please continue, Chris. it's far from an annoyance and i'm glad someone is keeping us up to date. if we didn't already have twenty too many sections, i'd be tempted to start another for all the James Gang related stuff. or maybe i could revamp Ghosts & Scholars/ Haunted Library corner for the purpose. what do you think?

incidentally, i'm almost certain Sheila Hodgson's four contributions to G & S began life as radio plays, not sure about the others. Has anyone heard the Come, Follow! broadcast, or any of the others?

[cw67q]

Hello everyone,

There have been a number of other ATP titles released as ebooks since I last posted including some that I think are still in print: Henderson's Rope Trick & Cardin's Divination's of the Deep (both of which I highly recommend, particularly Cardin's book, although personally I'd just order the lovely pb edition rather than the ebook).

However, I particularly wanted to draw attention to the release of Reggie Oliver's collection Masques of Satan as I know that Reggie is a favourite here. This one should be added to ATP's list in short order.

And whilst on the subject of the wonderful Mr Oliver, I'll remind people that the recent tartarus Press collection Mrs Midnight is also to be released in ebook and pb editions in early 2012. Meanwhile all these other goodies are available as Tartarus Press ebooks:

www.tartaruspress.com/tartarusebooks.htm

- chris

[David A. Riley]

Dec 16, 2011 9:45:35 GMT cw67q said:

Hello everyone,

There have been a number of other ATP titles released as ebooks since I last posted including some that I think are still in print: Henderson's Rope Trick & Cardin's Divination's of the Deep (both of which I highly recommend, particularly Cardin's book, although personally I'd just order the lovely pb edition rather than the ebook).

However, I particularly wanted to draw attention to the release of Reggie Oliver's collection Masques of Satan as I know that Reggie is a favourite here. This one should be added to ATP's list in short order.

And whilst on the subject of the wonderful Mr Oliver, I'll remind people that the recent tartarus Press collection Mrs Midnight is also to be released in ebook and pb editions in early 2012. Meanwhile all these other goodies are available as Tartarus Press ebooks:

www.tartaruspress.com/tartarusebooks.htm

- chris

That's great news, even though I already have both collection in their original print versions. The more people who can get hold of them, the better. They're the best collections I've read in years by anyone.

[cw67q]

All of Reggie's collections are superb, I think he is by some distance the best writer of ghost stories of recent years. But I think his first two collections from Hauntedriver are his best.

Hopefully someday a genuine mass market pb of Reggie's work will be brought out.

- Chris

[Craig Herbertson]

I haven't read much by Reggie but nothing I have read has disappointed

[cw67q]

Hello everyone,

Resticted web access over the last few months have caused me to to fall behind in discussions here and in keeping track of ATP ebook releases. Doubtless I've missed many fine ebooks, but I wanted to call people's attention to:

Nightmare jack by John Metcalfe, released a few weeks back, apologies if it has already come up for discussion.

&
Invisible Eye by the 19th century French duo Erckmann-Chatrian, just released in the last day or so.

Both are great collections, easily amongst ATPs finest IMHO. Metcalfe has some amazing stories and the Erckmann-Chatrian is absolutely entertaining. I can't think of another website or forum that would be a more natural home for Invisible eye.


Cheers - Chris

[dem bones]

Always good to hear from you, chris. as luck would have it, Lord P. has already listed The Invisible Eye contents HERE, and i agree, their horror melodramas are a treasure. Hugh Lamb revived a number of their stories for his Victorian anthologies and personally, i think they work even better in mixed author selections.

Assuming the contents of the ebook replicate everything in Dalby's hardcover, then i'm surprised at just how few i've not met before - he never struck me as being an anthology favourite, but the reverse seems true. we really should have a thread for him!

[ripper]

I recently made my first purchase of an Ash-Tree ebook, namely A.M. Burrage's Someone in the Room and I was very pleased with it. I have been trying to get hold of more of Burrage's stories, and also those of Wakefield, so it's nice to have them available in ebook editions.

Dem, a while ago you were asking about Sheila Hodgson's radio plays. The only one I have heard is The Boat Hook. They are of fairly recent vintage, so I would suppose that the rest exist in the archives somewhere, but I have not heard them being repeated on Radio 7/4 Extra, or at least if they have been then I have missed them :-D.