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Cities of the Weft: An Alternate Preface to 'Ma...
Alex Pheby's ongoing Cities of the Weft trilogy is a vast and absorbing gothic fantasy series in the vein of Gormenghast, with two books currently available: Mordew and its sequel,...
Cities of the Weft: An Alternate Preface to 'Ma...
Alex Pheby's ongoing Cities of the Weft trilogy is a vast and absorbing gothic fantasy series in the vein of Gormenghast, with two books currently available: Mordew and its sequel,...

Jessie Jones on Jeremy Cooper
As well as being one of the shop's best customers, Jessie Jones is our go-to emergency bookseller and a committed reader of strange and challenging fiction. Below she discusses her...
Jessie Jones on Jeremy Cooper
As well as being one of the shop's best customers, Jessie Jones is our go-to emergency bookseller and a committed reader of strange and challenging fiction. Below she discusses her...

How's The Pain? The work of Pascal Garnier
The French noir novellas of Pascal Garnier, written between 1999 and 2010 and available in English translation, are a high-water mark for the genre.
How's The Pain? The work of Pascal Garnier
The French noir novellas of Pascal Garnier, written between 1999 and 2010 and available in English translation, are a high-water mark for the genre.

In praise of being in a room with people and ta...
Earlier this year Dead Ink hosted a conversation between academic researcher Priya Sharma and author Preti Taneja. Preti's book Aftermath is written from the wreckage of grief, doubt and political fury...
In praise of being in a room with people and ta...
Earlier this year Dead Ink hosted a conversation between academic researcher Priya Sharma and author Preti Taneja. Preti's book Aftermath is written from the wreckage of grief, doubt and political fury...

An interview with Simon Hanselmann & Josh Petti...
Here at Dead Ink we're huge fans Simon Hanselmann and his Megahex series - a collection of comic strips charting the adventures of Megg (a drug-addled witch), Mogg (her feline...
An interview with Simon Hanselmann & Josh Petti...
Here at Dead Ink we're huge fans Simon Hanselmann and his Megahex series - a collection of comic strips charting the adventures of Megg (a drug-addled witch), Mogg (her feline...

An interview with Emily Carroll
Our Book of the Month this September is Emily Carroll's A Guest In The House, a gripping, slow-burning and macabre graphic novel, brimming with the tensions of domestic, psychological and supernatural horrors. We...
An interview with Emily Carroll
Our Book of the Month this September is Emily Carroll's A Guest In The House, a gripping, slow-burning and macabre graphic novel, brimming with the tensions of domestic, psychological and supernatural horrors. We...