Side Real Press

2010-04-01T02:15:00.000-07:00

A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We are currently preparing an anthology around Hanns Ewers.
Please click here for further information.

2010-03-07T09:47:00.000-08:00

OUR LATEST TITLE

'Hanns Heinz Ewers'
'Alraune'
A new, fully restored, uncensored translation by
Joe E. Bandel

    350 numbered copies (with free extras)

    Cost for the U.K. is £30.00 incl. postage.

    Cost elsewhere is £35.00 which includes airmail postage and packing.

Side Real Press are pleased to announce that its next book, its second in its ongoing Ewers series, is now available.

'Alraune' (first published in 1911) was Ewers' best selling novel, and is a (sort of) melding of the Frankenstein theme & Mandrake legend, injected with Ewers recurring interests in abherrent sexuality, perversity and violence, both physical and moral.

This entirely new translation supercedes the previous edition from the John Day Company (1929), by including passages previously excised (by U.S. censors?) from the Ewers' original German text, as well as a myriad other minor amendments and corrections, which combine to make this new version a far more graphic and intense reading experience.

It also retains the wonderful Mahlon Blaine endpapers, chapter headings, initial letters and illustrations from the John Day edition, which are generally regarded as some of his best work.

'Alraune' Frontispiece and title page.
(Click on the image for a larger version.)

There are also three new essays illuminating aspects of this volume.

Contents:

An extra presentation 1929 frontispiece drawing by Mahlon Blaine
'The Root of Evil; Hanns Heinz Ewers and 'Alraune'' by Mark Samuels
'Alraunes' Allure' by Tyler Davis
'Translating 'Alraune'' by Joe E. Bandel
'Galeotto' - a previously untranslated poem by Hanns Ewers - Translated by Joe E. Bandel
'Alraune' fully restored version translated by Joe E. Bandel
Illustrations - from the original 1911 German edition - by Ilna Wunderwald Ewers

The book is printed in black with red titles and initial letters throughout.

The cover is printed in three colours directly onto the book cloth and is uniform in design with Side Real Press' previous volume 'Nachtmahr'.

In addition, individuals who order directly from the Press will receive a tipped in bookplate designed for Hanns Ewers' own library embossed with the Side Real logo.
This extra will NOT be available elsewhere but here!

Joe Bandel has also made his translation of 'Alraune' available as an e-copy via his own website. He can be reached here, which is also the portal to buy his own volume of Ewers translations.

2008-04-03T09:20:00.001-07:00

ALSO AVAILABLE

Hanns Heinz Ewers

'Nachtmahr - Strange Tales'
(2009)

ISBN: 798-0-9542953-4-9
350 numbered copies (with free extras only available via this website)
Cost for the U.K. is £30.00 incl. postage.
Cost elsewhere is £35.00 which includes airmail postage and packing - this is a heavy book at 349pp.

    Hanns Ewers (1871-1943) wrote some of the strangest tales of the period, including three (vaguely) autobiographical novels and several volumes of short stories many of which refer to his major themes of obsession, transformation, depavity and blood. This was in addition to his extensive travels worldwide, his activities as a propagandist/spy during WWI, screenwriter, poet, playwright, prodigious drug (ab)user and associations with members of Nazi elite. Hitler himself supposedly asked him to write the official biography of Horst Wessel which he did, but was subsequently declared an unperson by the Nazis (he was nationalistic rather than anti-semitic) his books banned and burnt. He died in Berlin of tuberculosis largely forgotten.

    His novels and a few of his stories were translated and published in the 1920s but barring a volume by the Runa Raven press (published 2000) he is largely still unknown to the English speaking world not least because these volumes now command high prices on the second-hand market.

    We are very pleased to announce that, in conjunction with the H.H.E. estate, a new volume of stories, including some newly translated works is now available, together with Ewers essay/paean to Edgar Allan Poe (first published in English in 1917).

Contents:

Introduction by J. N. Hirschhorn-Smith
‘Carnival In Cadiz’*
‘The Dead Jew’*
‘John Hamilton Llewellyn's End’
‘Gentlemen of the Bar’*
‘The Tophar Bride’*
‘The Typhoid Mary’*
‘The Spider’
‘Fairyland’
’From The Diary Of An Orange Tree’
‘The Death of Baron Jesus Maria von Friedel’*
‘Mamoloi'
Edgar Allan Poe

*=newly translated.

The book is printed in black with red titles and initial letters throughout.
The cover is printed in three colours directly onto the book cloth.

In addition to this, individuals who order directly from the Press will receive an additional tipped in photo of Ewers embossed with the Side Real logo.

This will NOT be available anywhere but here!

'Nachtmahr' title page with extra photo plus stamp.
(Click on the image for a larger version.)

PHANTOMS AT THE PHIL

Since 2004, Phantoms at the Phil has become a now-traditional opportunity to hear new ghost stories read by their authors in the atmospheric surroundings of Newcastle's extraordinary private library, the Literary and Philosophical Society. Although guests have on occasion been invited to participate, the classic line-up is Chaz Brenchley, Sean O'Brien and Gail-Nina Anderson.

From 2004-2007 three volumes were issued by Side Real Press, in Conjunction with Northern Gothic. The first two ‘Proceedings’ have the added bonus of CD recordings from the events. The third volume of ‘Proceedings’ marked the end of the book series, though the live readings continue.

Phantoms at the Phil - The Second Proceedings

(2006)

ISBN: 0-9542953-2-3
300 numbered copies w. double CD recording.

Cost worldwide is £18.00 incl surface postage- please add £3.50 for airmail

The stories are:

It Follows Therefore by Sean O'Brien
The Chapel of St Thomas by Gail-Nina Anderson
The Deadly Space Between by Chaz Brenchley
The Midwife's Assistant by Ann Cleeves
Seeing Things by Simon Morden
The Dead Reckoning by Carol McGuigan

Phantoms at the Phil - The Third Proceedings

(2007)

ISBN: 0-9542953-3-1
300 numbered copies. (No CD recording)
Cost worldwide is £15.00 incl surface postage- please add £3.50 for airmail

The stories are:

The Cricket Match at Green Lock by Sean O'Brien
The Parasol by Gail-Nina Anderson
Summer's Lease by Chaz Brenchley
In the Silence Room by Sean O'Brien
A Garland with Gloves by Gail-Nina Anderson
The House of Mechanical Pain by Chaz Brenchley

2008-04-03T09:02:00.000-07:00

FORTHCOMING

We can announce that our next book will almost certainly be Hanns Heinz Ewers' 'The Sorcerers Apprentice'. Joe E. Bandel informs us that Ewers volume was not badly mangled in its original translation, but there are various small ommisions and errors, which he is painstakingly correcting to make this edition the definitive one. It will also, of course, contain extra material. More details to follow.

More importantly he is working towards a new edition of Hanns Ewers 'Vampir'. There are thought to be approximately 100 PAGES MISSING from the only previous translation due to censorship by person(s) unknown. As you might imagine this restoration is some time away. Side Real Press is proud and privilaged to be working in conjunction with this talented and dedicated translator to present this very strange novel in a full, and thus definitive, edition.

We are now accepting submissions for our anthology around Ewers life and work, please click here for further details regarding this.

There are also some other (non Ewers) projects in progress.
There are also some other (non Ewers) projects in progress.

There are also some other (non Ewers) projects in progress.

2008-04-03T09:01:00.000-07:00

DELETED PUBLICATIONS

Collected Ghost Stories by
Mrs Molesworth
(2002)

ISBN: 0-9542953-0-7.

300 numbered copies.

Contents:

Introduction (by by J.N. Smith), Lady Farquhars Old Lady, Witnessed By Two. Unexplained, The Rippling Train, The Shadow In The Moonlight, The Man With The Cough, At The Dip In The Road, Not Exactly A Ghost Story, Old Gervais, A Strange Messenger and A Ghost Of The Pampas by Bevil Molesworth.

Phantoms at the Phil

(2005)

ISBN: 0954295315

300 numbered copies w. CD recording.

Contents:

The Custodian by Sean O'Brien,

The Dust Jacket by Gail-Nina Anderson,

Another Chart of the Silences by Chaz Brenchley

2008-04-03T07:07:00.000-07:00

A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Side Real Press are pleased to announce that they are currently taking submissions for an, as yet untitled, volume intended as a tribute to the life, work and themes of Hanns Heinz Ewers.

Ewers (1888-1943) was one of the major German writers of his day writing novels, poems, plays and screenplays for early cinema, His works are steeped in blood, deviance and occultism.

His real life was no less interesting; a bi-sexual, an incessant traveller, a German spy during WW1, drug (ab)user and friend of figures such as diverse Aleister Crowley, Magnus Hirshfeld, Karl Wegener and Adolf Hitler.

John Hirschhorn-Smiths’ introduction to Ewers life and work is online here and Side Reals’ translator Joe E. Bandel has posted his introduction and a sample from Ewers best known tale 'The Spider' here . Ewers tale 'The Box of Counters' can be found here , and William Wallaces translation of Ewers tale 'Fairyland' can be found here.

For those wishing to submit works for possible inclusion, the criteria are as follows. Works should relate in some way to Ewers, be written in English and should be previously unpublished. Stories (no poetry please) can be any length. The deadline for submissions is October 31st 2010.

A payment of 1 penny per word up to 10,000 words (and capped at £100) will be made, plus two free copies of the finished book, which will be a high quality h/b in a limited edition of 350 copies and is scheduled for release in December 2010.

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ORDERING INFORMATION

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CONTACT

SIDE REAL PRESS, 34 Normanton Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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