The 2012 World Fantasy Awards have been announced; details here. Many congratulations to all the winners and runners-up.
Tartarus Press received the Special Award Non-Professional category. Tartarus's Ray Russell says: "We are absolutely delighted that Tartarus Press won the 'Special Award
Non-Professional' at the World Fantasy Convention last weekend. Of course, the
award doesn't just go to us, but is shared by Mark Valentine and Reginald Oliver
(who both had their own individual nominations for awards), along with Michael
Reynier, Tim Lees and Rhys Hughes, all of whom were published by Tartarus is
2011. And, posthumously, we should add Sarban, Gautier and Aickman to the list.
Many thanks to Michael Dirda for collecting the award for us, and to everyone
who has supported Tartarus for over twenty years."
Ray adds: "The latest of our Robert Aickman reprints is due to be published next week,
Intrusions.
In his Introduction Reggie Oliver writes that Robert Aickman ‘was one of the
most original and interesting short story writers of the late twentieth century... I wonder if the adjective 'inconclusive', so often applied to Aickman,
is quite the mot juste. His stories all have a beginning, a middle and an
end. They conclude, but the conclusion is not absolute: puzzles remain. How like
life! Aickman is both a realist and a surrealist: or, to put it another way, his
surrealism is real."
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