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This is an exquisitely produced volume, well made, beautiful to hold and look at, it exudes quality. In terms of the contents, lush prose and decadent subject matter are the order of the day. Everything in here was good, but I enjoyed some more than others. 'In Our Deep Vaulted Cell' by Derek John was rather fine, and Angel Head by Harold Billings was also excellent, as well as being extremely weird and creepy. The always reliable Colin Insole provided my favourite tale - Salammbo and the Zaimph...
I purchased the late Avalon Brantley’s copy from the estate book sale, which makes this book so special for me.
I found this anthology to be nothing less than astounding. The prose herein are of such quality and exquisiteness that they would not suffer if they were printed a cheap toilet paper. Fortunately, Ex Occidente has done quite the opposite. The book itself is stunning. The size, the materials used and the presentation all amplify the underlying intent. A lush sense of deviance and the forbidden uncovered seem to somehow seep out of the book’s pages when closed.Naturally, I enjoyed some stories mor...
Angel Head by Harold Billings“Grow old along with me.”A fascinating and creepy tale of a graveyard – tombs now beset with floods – then another of this book’s ‘rock structured’ walls of a church, wherein our protagonist — while investigating, MR James-like, the history of the sculptress of the Angel Head on one of the tombs outside — is trapped by a seemingly mad curator. But that gives you no clue or premonition of what happens and how it happens. There is, for example, a spy-hole like that in
I have finally tracked down a copy of this exquisite book - what a joy it is. Beautifully produced and filled with strange and haunting tales, it really gets to the heart of Huysmans's curious visions. It was good to see writers such as D.P. Watt attending to the poetic aspects of Huysmans's early work (e.g. 'A Dish of Spices'), and I also loved the elusive Peter Holman's homage to the naturalistic sleaze of books such as 'Marthe' and 'The Vatard Sisters'. A body like camembert in a warm room. Y...
