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'grotesquerie' Release Day

 

grotesquerie is now officially unleashed! The collection features sixteen Horror stories, some of which are seeing print for the first time. 
grotesquerie is available in both trade paperback and  e-book editions. It can be ordered from your favourite online book retailers around the world, or directly from its publisher, Undertow Publications. 
I want to thank Michael Kelly and everyone at Undertow for their energy, taste, and professionalism. Thanks also to artist Mike Davis for permitting us to use his incredible art for the cover. For anyone who has pre-ordered the book, spoken of it on social media or to friends, you too have my gratitude. 
May grotesquerie beguile your mind, chill your bones, and enthuse your soul!

'grotesquerie' Reviewed on YouTube

 A great review of grotesquerie has been uploaded to YouTube, courtesy of Well Read Beard. My thanks to him for taking the time to read my book and share his insights in this video. (Being regarded as "a new level of imagination" and being likened to the work of Ray Bradbury and Jeffrey Ford is very flattering indeed.)

grotesquerie will be available September 1st at booksellers worldwide. Copies can also be ordered via Undertow Publications here. 

Interview on Hermitix Podcast

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Hermitix podcast, in which we discussed Sacred Horror, Bataille, Theion Publishing, The Benighted Path , and more...






The episode is also available on all your favourite podcast platforms.


Copies of The Benighted Path may be ordered here.

'grotesquerie' Table of Contents

Just one month until the book is released...

Here is the Table of Contents of 'grotesquerie':

1. Banishments
2. Fragile Masks
3. Neithernor
4. Deep Eden
5. The Patter of Tiny Feet
6. The Rasping Absence
7. Scold’s Bridle (A Cruelty)
8. Crawlspace Oracle
9. After the Final
10. The Sullied Pane
11. Cast Lots
12. Notes on the Aztec Death Whistle
13. Headsman’s Trust: A Murder Ballad
14. Chain of Empathy
15. Three Knocks on a Buried Door
16. Ten of Swords: Ruin

Copies are available at all online book retailers, or can be ordered directly from the publisher here.

John Langan on 'grotesquerie'

John Langan, one of the finest writers in our field, had the following to say about grotesquerie:

" grotesquerie contains the latest records of Richard Gavin's continuing explorations of the intersection between the mundane and the numinous, the earthly and the spectral, the pastoral and the horrific.  Drawing on and in dialogue with such writers of the visionary weird as Aickman, Ligotti, and Machen, Gavin's fictions extend the tradition into bold new territory.  Original, idiosyncratic, Richard Gavin is like no one else." --- John Langan, author of The Fisherman and Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
I am incredibly flattered by and grateful for John's words.

grotesquerie will be available September 1st in both paperback and e-book editions.

Trade paperbacks can be pre-ordered here, or through your favourite online book retailer.

e-book editions are available for pre-order here.

Priya Sharma on 'grotesquerie'

The wonderful Priya Sharma, author of the Shirley Jackson Award-winning collection All the Fabulous Beasts, had this to say about grotesquerie:

“In grotesquerie, Richard Gavin summons ancient gods and vengeful ghosts. He nods knowingly to the horror/weird fiction greats, but forges a singularly unique vision.” - Priya Sharma, author of Ormeshadow

Copies of grotesquerie can be ordered here.
Release date is September 1st.

Laird Barron on 'grotesquerie'

The incredibly talented Laird Barron was kind enough to read the galleys of grotesquerie and has offered Undertow Publications the following blurb:

"Richard Gavin is an important figure in the contemporary horror/weird fiction field. Influenced by masters such as Blackwood and Ligotti, Gavin is cerebral, yet empathetic. He re-configures classical tropes to suit his own unique perspective. grotesquerie is a major event."
                                                                                       --- Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase

I'm very flattered by Laird praise.

grotesquerie is available for pre-order now and will be widely available in September.

Undertow publications: https://undertowpublications.com/shop/grotesquerie

Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/grotesquerie-Richard-Gavin/dp/1988964229/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=grotesquerie+richard+gavin&qid=1591746635&sr=8-1

Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/grotesquerie-Richard-Gavin/dp/1988964229/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=grotesquerie+richard+gavin&qid=1591746670&sr=8-1

'grotesquerie' Available for Pre-Order

Undertow Publications has officially opened its pre-orders for grotesquerie.

The trade paperback edition of this collection will ship late-summer.

Pre-orders can be placed here.

More information, including the Table of Contents, will be announced here in the near future.

Review of THE BENIGHTED PATH

Robert Podgurski, author of The Sacred Alignments and Sigils: Angelic Magick, Renaissance Thought, and Modern Methods of Sigilization , has written a very thoughtful review of my book of esotericism, The Benighted Path: Primeval Gnosis & the Monstrous Soul (Theion Publishing, 2015).

A sample of the review:

"A purely linear or diachronic reading ofBP does the study and oneself a great disservice. Gavin’s work is highly discursive and winds about with subconsciously articulated convolutions in and upon itself constantly pushing the reader’s sense of contiguity to its limits. The work is purposefully suggestive and allusive." 

I am grateful to Mr. Podgurski for taking the time to not only read this particular work of mine but also to share his insights as to its ethos. The full review may be viewed here.

Copies of The Benighted Path (of which only a few remain) may be ordered here.

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