We will be at the Oddities & Curiosities Expo this weekend at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto! Booth #62 come visit and talk about weird and spooky things!!!
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We will be at the Oddities & Curiosities Expo this weekend at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto! Booth #62 come visit and talk about weird and spooky things!!!
We have a new permanent physical home @alcartandodditiesparlour in Pickering as of 06/06 at 6pm!
From the macabre to the bizarre it's a carnival of the uncanny full of works by artists and creators each adding their own peculiar wonders to this eccentric collective. Hope to see you there!
"Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!" - Dracula, Bram Stoker
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As is our mandate, the above picks tend towards the unsettling. It’s understandable if horror and post-apocalypse is too visceral in our present moment, but it’s worth engaging with books outside your comfort zone as there is often a transformative power in doing so.
Reactionary racist pushback against representation in the arts is especially heightened at the moment, but it should be noted that obviously this is an ongoing phenomenon and not new or isolated.
This month is Black History Month and an especially important moment to recognize and showcase Black authors – those currently producing fiction as well as the creators of genre-defining works.
I’m all for undirected escapism through books, but it’s also important to maintain intention in what we seek out to read.
Unsurprisingly, during trying times I find reading to be helpful: both through absorbing information at a slower pace and temporarily transporting me to another reality.
It’s often very difficult these days to read anything but the news as we find ourselves living through this drawn-out dystopian nightmare.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993) is the classic and influential near-future novel of climate change-induced societal collapse, bleak but tentatively hopeful.
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (2014) is a sci-fi epic set in Nigeria that blends alien visitation with folklore and mythology, an example of the genre that Okorafor herself coined and theorized: Africanfuturism.
The Good House by Tananarive Due (2003) takes the trappings of Southern Gothic to a haunted house in Washington, exploring intergenerationality through supernatural curses and gifts.
S.A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland (2020) is an introspective noir following a “retired” getaway driver in rural Virginia (Cosby’s home state).
We have these titles and many others in our catalogue. Visit www.exmortisbooks.com
Leonora Carrington's surrealist novel The Hearing Trumpet, featuring a protagonist institutionalized by her family. Carrington herself was detained in an asylum and shortly afterwards escaped from an attempt by her parents to commit her to another institution.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic The Yellow Wallpaper, written in defiance of and as a rebuttal to the deprivation and confinement of a "rest cure" prescribed (by men) for (women's) depression which stipulated that she should refrain from writing.
Titles by women who were subjected to confinement and imprisonment: The Unforeseen, an Irish Gothic novel concerning premonitions by (historian, journalist, and political activist) Dorothy Macardle. She wrote her first supernatural fiction while imprisoned for her support for Irish independence.
Find us at the Ghostwood Holiday Market on Saturday, November 23rd at the Parkdale Hall in Toronto! Come pick up some beautiful books for the holidays!
We are living in a terrifying time right now - there is a lot happening all at once and if you find yourself at a loss on what to say or how to react, we can definitely relate. This is a safe space and you are welcomed.
Let's be weird together.
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One week away! Come visit us at Fear Mall in Bowmanville, ON.
Until midnight on May 1st please enjoy 50% off selected collections. However you celebrate, enjoy the warm glow of the fire on your face while you dance around the bonfire until dawn. We wish you a fantastic Walpurgis Night, Happy Beltane, and May Day!
Head over to the store www.exmortisbooks.com for a vast variety of new haunts!
Plenty of King, Rice, and Koontz to be added!
As this cold January comes to a close we look forward to February with many new haunts incoming, and are especially looking forward to attending the Winter Witch Market on Feb 24th at Society Clubhouse in Toronto.
In the meantime, check the titles we listed most recently.
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Our first market of the year! Ghostwood Market on January 13th at Parkdale Hall between 11 AM - 5PM. Come drop by the table to say hi and pick up a ghastly read!
This year has been extra special and it's because of you. Thank you to all the customers who bought books, provided support, shares and love you gave. It has made my season extra bright. Morbidly yours, Ex Mortis Rare & Preloved Books
Save on shipping and get those last minute gifts! Enjoy a wonderful in person shopping experience!
Hope to see you there!
The latest new haunts have been summoned and are waiting for you! Still time to ship a gift to that book-obsessed person in your life, or as a special treat for yourself to get cozy with by the hearth, tree or book nook. Check www.exmortisbooks.com for the new haunts!
Oh hey! The veil must be thinning as we will be making an appearance at the Krampus Market! Any fiends in the Guelph, ON area come drop by my table! Grab those great ghastly reads in time to read by the hearth, tree or by moonlight.
The skull tree is lit. Now I just need a ghost story. What are you reading tonight?
There is much anticipated news coming your way along with a stack of new haunts!! Keep checking back for updates! In the meantime, check out our collections for ghastly gifts!