After a decade of incremental progress, you’ve got helped make this my full-time employment: in September, 2021 my household was unexpectedly capable of afford to have me securely resign my day job (one which I beloved, and to which I’m nonetheless deeply and humbly grateful, I ought to add), to earn a living from home and watch my daughter, Charlotte.
Two years later, I nonetheless cannot consider that what started as a interest has given us the flexibility to have the form of versatile household life that we at all times needed. However let me be very clear: it’s due to your help that we are able to do that, and for that, my household and I are joyfully indebted to you.
Most of my day nonetheless revolves round caring for Charlotte, cooking, working errands, and retaining the La Maison Kellermeyer shipshape and in Bristol style, however as my daughter will get older, I anticipate with the ability to return to my earlier stage of productiveness (a few of it’s possible you’ll bear in mind the halcyon days once I would launch 3 or 4 titles every year – due to having nothing higher to do throughout my faculty’s summer time and Christmas holidays).
Because the official finale to our decennial celebrations, I’m completely satisfied to announce a new launch (our first since M. R. James) to tide us over till Lovecraft is prepared.
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The design is way cleaner, and according to our present branding
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The introduction has nearly doubled in dimension with new literary and historic commentary
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Every story’s introduction and literary evaluation has been freshly edited and expanded
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An annotated bibliography has been added to the appendix, together with:
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4 wonderful historical past books on the Victorian period
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4 of the perfect Victorian ghost story anthologies
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5 book-length literary commentaries on Victorian literature, Gothic fiction, and ghost tales
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22 beneficial single-author anthologies for the perfect authors of Victorian supernatural fiction
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Most notably, although, it consists of ten new ghost tales:
Lastly, please settle for my deepest, warmest thanks. In case you are studying this submit, then – even when you’ve by no means bought one in every of my books – you might be an energetic participant in my mission to maintain this style alive within the collective consciousness and are serving to me and my household reside our goals.
For that and for a lot extra, my household and I really thanks.
Merry Christmas and a really Blissful New Yr to you all.
Your Most Obliged & Obedient Servant, &c.
