Monday, May 27, 2013

Le Visage Vert issue no. 21

My apologies for the late notice, but I do want to spread the news that issue number 21 of Le Visage Vert came out late last year. As always, it's a beautiful production. Writers represented range from the older John Bedoit (1829-1870), Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), Marcel Schwob (1867-1905), Richard Marsh (1857-1915), and Bodo Wildberg (1862-1942), to the contemporary Nicholas Royle (b. 1963). The Hearn story is from Kwaidan. The Schwob story is from The King in the Golden Mask.  Richard Marsh's tale, "The Mask", includes illustrations from its appearance in The Gentleman's Magazine, December 1892 (the story was later collected in Marvels and Mysteries). Nicholas Royle's story, "The Lure", is translated from it's appearance in The End of the Line: An Anthology of Underground Horror (2010), edited by Jonathan Oliver. Michel Meurger contributes a long essay "Le Secret du masque", setting up the major theme for the issue. To order, visit this website and scroll down to find the issues of Le Visage Vert. Recommended. 
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  1. Colby BradshawAugust 8, 2024 at 7:06 AM

    Glad to see a Hearn story in there, his " Some Chinese Ghosts" is also a fantastic collection, and almost everything he wrote reeked of the supernatural or at least paid homage to it. Even his letters are incredibly readable and charged with anthropological reflections on the Japanese and more often than not Creole culture, all of which tend to veer toward the macabre. Forgive my long-windedness, it is not often that I see Hearn recognized for what he is. The other authors are unfamiliar to me, but I'll soon remedy that. Many thanks for the post.

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