"Eddie" M. Angerhuber Bibliography: Short Stories

>>Bibliography: Novels, novellas, short story collections and chapbooks

Note: This section presents a list of stories by Angerhuber with their original and subsequent appearances. In his entry on “Eddie” M. Angerhuber in Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia, Marco Frenschkowski states that the writer “has published about one hundred tales of weird and supernatural fiction”. Out of those one hundred pieces, many of which were published in obscure fanzines and magazines, I have managed to identify ninety (titles of two stories still need to be identified). In many cases the first publications were identified based on reviews, which are still available online, plus those that were published in Solar-X. Please note that the story collections do not provide the source of the original publications (except for Die darbenden Schatten), it was therefore a challenge to track down some of the original appearances.[1]

"Eddie" M. Angerhuber Bibliography: Novels, novellas, short story collections and chapbooks

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Note: Angerhuber’s book-length publications include one short novel, five short story collections and three chapbooks. Two of these chapbooks, Visionen von Eden – und andere Geschichten vom Tag danach and Karaits Kuss und andere Vampirgeschichten, were self-published. This section also includes two novellas: “Das Netz” and “Die darbenden Schatten”.

Short Novel:

Das Verborgene

Friedland: Klaus Bielefeld Verlag, 2000

[Softcover of 108 pages, cover design Rainer Schorm]

"Eddie" M. Angerhuber Bibliography

Following my short essay "Eddie M. Angerhuber's Strange Visions", which appeared in Cloistered by Ravelled Bones & Ruined Walls, here is an attempt at compiling the complete online bibliography of the works by this great author published in German and English. Please note that this is not an official bibliography - more of a work from an enthusiast and book collector willing to share this bibliographic information gathered while searching for Eddie's/Monika's often hard-to-find publications. Considering how obscure Angerhuber is becoming, I was compelled to prepare a bibliography of her works and share it on Confusio Linguarum so that to make it easier for others to track her works down.

Grabiński reprint in Italy

For a couple of weeks I've been stuggling to find time for new posts. In the meantime, some great news from Andrea Bonazzi:

"Il villaggio nero, the first Italian collection by Stefan Grabiński, will be reprinted in the #13 issue of Urania Horror, Cerimonie nere, a wide-circulation volume distributed in newsstands in July 2017.

The book will contain the novel La città vampira (La Ville Vampire) by Paul Féval, the original collection Il villaggio nero by Stefan Grabiński, and the novel La cerimonia (The Croning) by Laird Barron. Also La cerimonia is a reprint of my own translation published a couple of years ago.

Urania is the best-selling science fiction magazine in Italy, published since 1952 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. This will be probably the last issue in its horror series.

Cover art by Franco Brambillad.

A Kindle version will be available on Amazon in the first week of July."

Brian Stableford's translations for Snuggly Books

I just noticed that Snuggly Books has an impressive list of translations of Decadent literature from French and Italian. Some of the names that appear in the catalogue are dear to Confusio Linguarum. So far the following have been released in a translation by Brian M. Stableford:

The Soul-Drinker: And Other Decadent Fantasies by  Jean Lorrain
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker by Jean Lorrain
The Tarantulas' Parlor: And Other Unkind Tales by Léon Bloy
The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales by Victor Joly

Blurb for the Book

Here is the official blurb for the recently published book by D. F. Lewis and myself:

"Life is an abandoned Amusement, a pleasure of ruins. Few are the solitary souls with a penchant for the sublime who spend their existence being irresistibly attracted to crumbling buildings and abandoned places. This book is an ode to this particular attraction – the feeling of Ruinenlust. Part fiction collection, part ensemble of essays, the volume presents a collaboration of two minds preoccupied with the themes of ruination. The eight fictions by D. F. Lewis, collected here for the first time, feature characters thrust into depopulated, often devastated landscapes as we follow their encounters with an enigma. The fictional pieces are accompanied by a literary equivalent of the Kaiserpanorama experience wherein the reader is presented with ten short essays by Sławomir Wielhorski centering on some of the most attractive vistas of ruins and decay in weird fiction from the early Gothics to the modern masterpieces of the genre."

Hardcover, Limited to 118 numbered copies, 102 pages

Published March 2017 by Mount Abraxas/Ex Occidente Press
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Some Further Vistas of Ruin and Decay...

The Belgian School of the Strange - A Few Notes About Polish Translations

Some material for Polish readers this time. The following is an important note about Polish translations of works forming part of the Belgian School of the Strange (for an introduction to the topic, please see my thread at Thomas Ligotti Online). The following quotes come from an article by Ryszard Siwek - the Polish connoisseur of école belge de l’étrange - entitled "O obecności nieobecnego albo o nieobecności obecnego, czyli o literaturze belgijskich frankofonów w Polsce – próba bilansu" (published in PRACE KOMISJI NEOFILOLOGICZNEJ PAU TOM IX):

"Kolejny autor, Franz Hellens, należy do ważnych postaci w literaturze Belgów. Znany jest przede wszystkim jako czołowy przedstawiciel belgijskiej szkoły niezwykłości (école belge de l’étrange). W jej ramach mieści się realizm fantastyczny. Hellens był jego inicjatorem, teoretykiem i praktykiem. Ale ten nurt w jego pisarstwie zilustrowany został jedynie krótkim utworem w antologii opowiadań belgijskich Znad Skaldy i Mozy z 1983 r. Wcześniej jednak czytelnikowi polskiemu zaproponowano dwa inne oblicza pisarza. Jedno zupełnie marginalne, jako pisarza katolickiego. Poezje Hellensa znalazły się w zbiorze Smak winnic twoich: wybór liryki religijnej Zachodu z 1956 r., a trzy lata później ukazała się jego powieść Nędzarka w tłumaczeniu Danieli Kolendo. Drugie, nieprawdziwe, oblicze dotyczy Hellensa jako poety doby symbolizmu, a to za sprawą antologii Symboliści francuscy."

Cloistered by Ravelled Bones & Ruined Walls - At The Printers

Below are some pictures of the previously announced upcoming book from Mount Abraxas by D. F. Lewis and myself. Quite an honour to be published in such a fine company by a publisher who values gorgeous book design.

Please note that these pictures are NOT showing the final product.

Cloistered by Ravelled Bones & Ruined Walls by D. F. Lewis and Sławomir Wielhorski

I am very proud to announce the following forthcoming publication from Mount Abraxas by D. F. Lewis and myself:

Cloistered by Ravelled Bones & Ruined Walls

This volume will include eight fictions by D. F. Lewis published in a section entitled Beyond the Balcony followed by my series of articles on the pleasure of ruins and weird literature under the collective title Vistas of Ruin and Decay: A Ruinenlust Journey Through Weird Fiction. The ensemble of Ruinenlust articles will appear in this volume in a revised and expanded form with proper footnotes and a bibliography.

A Visit to the Matenadaran

The Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (the Matenadaran), built in 1957 and designed by Mark Grigoryan

Below you will find a small collection of photos from my visit to the Matenadaran - The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts located in Yerevan, Armenia. Matenadaran, which serves both as research institute and a museum is among the richest depositories of medieval manuscripts and books in Armenia. The word "matenadaran" in ancient Armenian means ‘‘manuscript store’’ or ‘‘library’.

The collection of manuscripts on display is in Armenian and various other languages. Armenian is an independent branch of the Indo-European languages. It is known for its distinctive phonological developments within that family.

Some of these colourful manuscripts made a huge impresion upon me. I am sharing these photos on Confusio Linguarum where they belong (apologies for their BlackBerry quality).

You can read more about this facinating place here:

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Matenadaran

Ruinenlust: Coda

Here ends my series of compilations devoted to weird fiction in relation to the theme of Ruinenlust, starting from the early Gothic to the modern masters of the genre. I hope you enjoyed it.

A few additional links:

Ruinenlust literary works posted in reaction to this series of articles:
Brownfields by TLO member Druidic
The Ruined Grave by TLO member Raul Urraca

Other places where this topic is being discussed:
Thomas Ligotti Online thread dedicated to this series
Pessimus (PL) thread dedicated to this series

Many thanks to everyone who decided to share their own insights on this captivating subject!

January Update

A small change of plans.

The bad news is I will need to suspend my activity on CL for two months, which means that whatever topics I announced in the past will need to wait until I am back to blogging.

The good news is I will be posting all of the remaining compilations in the Ruinenlust series this week, starting from today.

That's it!

Ruinenlust: An Introduction #1

Now published in:

Cloistered by Ravelled Bones & Ruined Walls by D. F. Lewis and Sławomir Wielhorski

Un Cadeau de Noël for Confusio Linguarum

This year's Christmas presents are spot on Confusio Linguarum gifts!

I also have something special for Confusio Linguarum. As mentioned in my previous post, next up on CL is the theme of Ruinenlust -  the feeling of being irresistibly drawn to crumbling buildings and abandoned places. My worries about the lack of materials for the blog are no longer valid, as I have decided to divide the next article into nine parts, which I will be posting on a weekly basis from now on. In the article (being more of a compilation of quotes, photography, videos related to the subject in question) I'll make a small introduction to Ruinenlust and trace its influence on some works of weird fiction, starting from the early Gothics up to modern masterpieces of the genre.

December Update

I am still working on the "Eddie" M. Angerhuber bibliography, which already runs for over thirty pages. This bibliography will be comparable in length to the Thomas Ligotti bibliography we have prepared together with Mateusz Kopacz for the Polish edition of Teatro Grottesco, however due to the sheer obscurity of source material, it will take me at least two months before I manage to finish my work.

Based on the amount of posts until now, I estimate that in order to save time to prepare some quality material I will need to shift gears and make Confusio Linguarum "operational" every third week. I think the triweekly mode will serve as a good compromise between my passions and professional aspirations, both of which can be time-consuming.

Before I am ready with the bibliography I will post a comprehensive discussion of a particular sensation infrequently evoked by some works of literature and yet quite recognizable in numerous stories and novels of weird fiction: a feeling of being drawn to crumbling buildings and abandoned places. There is a little known German compound word for this feeling you most probably never heard of. More about it in my next post.

Álvaro de Campos' Tavira

"A few more notes on this subject… I see before me, in the colorless but real space of dreams, the faces and gestures of Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos. I gave them their ages and fashioned their lives. (…) Álvaro de Campos was born in Tavira, on October 15, 1890… Campos, as you know, is a naval engineer (he studied in Glasgow) but is currently living in Lisbon and not working. (…) Álvaro de Campos is tall (5 ft. 9 in., an inch taller than me), slim and a bit prone to stoop. All are clean-shaven; (…) Álvaro de Campos, after a normal high school education, was sent to Scotland to study engineering, first mechanical and then naval. During some holidays he made a voyage to the Orient, which gave rise to his poem “Opiary.” An uncle who was a priest from the Beira region taught him Latin. 
How to I write in the names of these three? (…) Campos, when I feel a sudden impulse to write and don’t know what."

--From a letter by Fernando Pessoa writing to Adolfo Casais Monteiro, 13 January 1935 (in The Book of Disquiet, Penguin Classics, 2002, p. 474.)

(photos with text best viewed in full-screen - left-click the picture and press F11)

After over 80 years since this letter was written, Tavira, a town located on the south coast of Portugal, in the region of Algarve, is still haunted by the imagination of Álvaro de Campos - one of the heteronyms used by Fernando Pessoa, reported by Pessoa to have been born in the town in 1890.

Language and Cognition

Linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis or Whorfianism, is a concept-paradigm in linguistics and cognitive science that holds that the structure of a language affects its speakers' cognition or world view.

It will take time before another director tops the use of linguistic relativity concepts of Denis Villeneuve’s new film Arrival. Weird fiction, visionary literature and horror cinema also have their examples where language, (mis-)communication and cognition play an important role. There is also a recurring theme of language contagion. To all of these, I will be devoting a series of entries on Confusio Linguarum in the future.

EDIT: I hereby expand the scope of this blog to visionary cinema.

Some articles of reference on the film:

New ‘Arrival’ trailer Asks, How Do You Decipher an Alien Language

How Arrival Turned Linguistics Into One of the Most Gripping Dramas of the Year

Georg Trakl - the harbinger of a hushed apocalypse

A collection of poems and prose poems by Georg Trakl in Polish, translated by Krzysztof Lipiński

    

There is no better time than autumn to lose oneself in the poems of the great Austrian poet Georg Trakl whose works are curiously evocative and haunting. Trakl excelled in depicting scenes of serene imagery full of contrasting colours. His blank verse, rich in adjectives, has this enchanting power of suggesting a world beyond our own. It works like a dark, ineffable charm whispered into the reader's ear. Through descriptions that at first seem ambiguous and defying logic and through his magically suggestive lyricism he has managed to grasp the fleeting impressions of a secret quietude just moments before the impending doom.

What follows is my visual tribute to Trakl and the autumnal imagery from his poems followed by a photographic journey to the garrison hospital in Cracow where Trakl committed suicide by cocaine overdose. On the wall surrounding the hospital one can find a commemorative plaque with a quote from his poem “Song of a Captured Blackbird” dedicated to Ludwig von Ficker, who was the last person to visit him before his death:

House of Leaves and The Vanishing Life and Films of Emmanuel Escobada

Source: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/

“My father was a filmmaker. In the 50s, live television. Later avant-garde. Eventually he got into documentaries. (...) My father will be remembered for a lot of things but by some, TZD--as some of my friends called him--will be forever known for his passionate consideration of the art of cinema." 

Mark Z.Danielewski interviewed by Sophie Cottrell for www.randomhouse.com

"My intention had been to present this piece of writing as a gift to mY father."
Mark Z.Danielewski interviewed by Kasey Carpenter

One of my favourite pieces of fiction from Nemonymous magazine, edited by D. F. Lewis, whom I had the pleasure to interview for Confusio Linguarum last month, is "The Vanishing Life and Films of Emmanuel Escobada", which appeared in the second issue. This phenomenal story centers on a forgotten Brazilian film-maker who mysteriously disappeared while making a film entitled "Nos Olvidamos?" and whose works started falling into complete oblivion, as if they never existed in the first place. The piece is written in the form of a non-fiction article and treats Escobada as a real person. Earlier this week its author confirmed that he would like to remain anonymous forever.