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fiction in translation was a huge part of Farnsworth Wright's vision for the new genre of weird fiction being created in the pages of WEIRD TALES! read about it, the history of weird fic in translation, and some examples all in this book!

a really fun book that I think captures an underappreciated facet of the history of weird fiction!

Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...

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On this day in 1922, the first issue of the pioneering horror magazine Weird Tales was published. Its second editor, Farnsworth Wright, would turn the publication into a powerhouse for translated literature, which is documented in our collection Night Fears (@geoliminal.bsky.social)

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We have copies of The Parson in Jubilee by Jean Paul, trans. @unpaginated.bsky.social (the person writing this post) up for sale at Paradise HQ. Grab a copy! paradiseeditions.net/products/the...

"One climbs all stairs—even clandestine ones—faster than the snail staircase of merit." My translation of The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix by Jean Paul is available now through Empyrean Editions: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

goddamn but if @paradiseeditions.bsky.social hasn't knocked it out of the park again

Help recirculate that $100!

Out Now: Some Essays by Heinrich von Kleist (trans. @unpaginated.bsky.social) Published in rapid succession during the last year of Kleist's life, these brief but challenging essays present the finest distillation of his philosophical thought: paradiseeditions.net/products/som...

Baby's first LLM-generated submission. (We are not taking submissions at the moment.)

Layouts in progress for a new pamphlet of Kleist translations. I'm having a lot of fun with colored type, and it felt appropriate to have fancy OpenType script for "On the Marionette Theater":

honestly, buy a hundred copies and hand em out to the trick-or-treaters

Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...

For spooky season, we're offering 25% off of Night Fears, our anthology of weird fiction in translation, edited by
@geoliminal.bsky.social: paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...

Thanks so much!

Good book, great introductory essay on the use of translations in classic WEIRD TALES.

Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...

For spooky season, we're offering 25% off of Night Fears, our anthology of weird fiction in translation, edited by
@geoliminal.bsky.social: paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...

Why Publish a Bad Translation? Because it's better than having no translation at all

For the Almanac, I wrote about Lafcadio Hearn and the value of publishing a “bad” translation: open.substack.com/pub/paradise...

How can you read a haiku? On the difficulties of typesetting small poetic forms from other languages

For the Almanac, I wrote about charming cicada folklore from Japan and the difficulties of typesetting haiku: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/how-can-yo...

I'm doing preliminary layout work at the moment, so no need to rush!

Reprint in progress: Shadowings by Lafcadio Hearn, an excellent collection from 1900, featuring studies of Japanese legends and linguistics as well as more personal, Gothic and Symbolist-inspired narratives. An odd duck in Hearn's catalog but all the stronger for it. @addisonzeller.bsky.social

Got a lil bagatelle at beloved @hexliterary.bsky.social

Strange Tales from the Ancient Capital: Biloquism, or a Spurious Footnote to Early American Literature (1793) From an ongoing series of historical weird fiction

For the Almanac, I continue a series of weird fiction short stories set in and around historical Philadelphia (1682-1976): paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/strange-ta...

Reprint in progress, a massive historical gothic adventure novel by Charles Maturin, set during the Albigensian Crusade, complete with werewolves (!) and some great epigraphs. "A gentle knight came pricking o'er the plain."

From a cluttered desk: there are just a few handmade copies of Phoretics by @israelbonilla.bsky.social left in stock. paradiseeditions.net/products/pho...

Lovely post today from @paradiseeditions.bsky.social
Phoretics, by @israelbonilla.bsky.social
Beautiful production by @unpaginated.bsky.social Exquisite layout and typesetting. Hand-sewn.

“My heart aches so much too, but I like it—”
Jean Paul, ‘The Parson in Jubilee’, tr. Spencer

"To act as a physical cause is to act with complete attention to our rhythms," from Phoretics by @israelbonilla.bsky.social

Phoretics: After Hazlitt — Israel A. Bonilla 1. Life surpasses all attempts at capture, and so we fool ourselves by reducing it to a few moments of great intensity. Not without consequence: our viewpoint shifts in radical succession, and we r…

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits

— the third ANONYMOU[S] text: 'An Excerpt from the Journals of Albrecht Plums'

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— an extract from @israelbonilla.bsky.social 's PHORETICS, out with @paradiseeditions.bsky.social

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