A house with a front door

For about a year the catalogue lived entirely on other people's shelves. If you wanted to see everything Carrier Press had published you went to Amazon and searched a name, which is a strange way to visit a publishing house.

That changed this month. carrierpress.com is now the front door. Every title, all seventy eight of them, on one page, grouped the way they were actually written: the series together, the standalones together, the restored classics on their own shelf.

Five new classics

The classics line grew by five this month, four of them extending the weird fiction shelf that began with The King in Yellow.

• Carcosa, which collects Bierce and Chambers together for the first time in one

annotated edition. Bierce invented the name. Chambers took it somewhere stranger. Lovecraft read both and built on top of them.

• The Mystery of Choice, more Chambers, in his Breton register rather than his

New York one.

• The Great God Pan, with The Inmost Light and The White People.
• The Willows, with Ancient Sorceries and The Wendigo.

Alongside them, a fifth: The Science of Getting Rich, bound as a three in one with Acres of Diamonds and The Way to Wealth.

These are not scans. Every one is newly set, newly proofed against the source text, with an original introduction, headnotes and a glossary. That is the whole point of the line. A public domain text is free. A readable edition of it is not the same thing.

What is next

Book two of the true crime line is a little past the halfway mark. The next classic in the queue is M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, which is in review now.

If you have read something and it stayed with you, the single most useful thing you can do is leave a review. It is worth more than any advertising I could buy.