![]() PS Publishing remains stalwart and awesome, but as with Subterranean, their focus is broader than weird fiction. Subterranean Press, even though they don’t specialize in weird fiction to the exclusion of all else, continues to impress. ![]() Ex Occidente also produces great books, although we don’t get to see most of them, so it’s sometimes hard to judge. In offering these recommendations, we have to note that two publishers of weird fiction in particular offer consistent high-quality, high-value, beautiful books time and time again: Centipede Press and Tartarus Press. ![]() This is by no means a definitive list of the best books – a lot of our international fiction reading, for example, was research that fed directly into our own projects – but instead new and recent releases or reprints that strike us as sumptuous and/or unusual gifts to give this holiday season. Those two criteria – weirdo-saturated and good-lookin’ – guided our selections below, which are mostly from the last couple of years. (Also check out our amazing new Cheeky Frawg website for ODD?–the “Bloat Toad” story running this week is from ODD?–and other weirdnesses.) Why? Well, they’re not just full of weird, uncanny, strange fictions, they’re also all three beautifully designed books. ![]() Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities and massive 1,200-page The Weird from this year and The New Weird from 2008. Above you’ll find our own books that we would shamelessly recommend as gifts for the weirdie in your life: The Thackery T. ![]()
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