Numbered copy from Limited Edition of 300.

Elegies and Requiems is the first major collection by this hugely talented writer and contains eighteen stories, nine of which are unique to this volume. Insole's work explores the mysterious world where a confluence of objects and circumstance awake atavisms which draw the protagonists of his tales into mysteries infinitely greater than themselves.

In 'The Golden Birds of Mariston', an artefact weaves its magic over the population of a once mighty but now moribund city, while in 'Ancestral Rooms' a doll given to a child begins a process of familiar transformation for its giver.

The make-believe world of childish imagination becomes something else in 'Blackthorn Cottage', whilst in 'The Bellman' the intrusions are infinitely more malignant.

Lovers of authors such as Bruno Schulz, Georges Rodenbach, Arthur Machen and Mark Valentine will find much to admire in Insole's delicately wrought symbolist prose style, whilst lovers of the supernatural will admire the imagination and imagery of a writer who is regarded by many as one of the most interesting authors to emerge in recent years.

This copy is numbered #199 out of 300.

Author: Colin Insole
Publisher: Side Real Press, 2013
Number of pages: 436
Format: Hard Cover
Size: 6" x 9" (160mm x 225mm)
Condition: NM - Near Mint