Treatises on Dust

By: Timothy J. Jarvis

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Paperback | 8 November 2024

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248 Pages

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"From the small bones of the middle ear can be fashioned a key."

"For a while now," Timothy J. Jarvis tells us in the first tale here, "I've been collecting texts that hint at strange tales." He goes on to explain that these "Treatises on Dust" are not ghost stories in the traditional sense. Indeed none of the pieces in the collection could be said to be in the vein of traditional supernatural fiction. They are haunted, not by ghosts, but by an obscure volume of French decadent poetry, a seventeenth-century murder ballad, a bone antenna, and by places where "the membrane is thin".

They cleave closer to what the literary hermit of Arthur Machen's Hieroglyphics called "ecstasy". Though perhaps an ecstasy found less in the "withdrawal from the common life and the common consciousness", than one grubbed up from the murk of that very consciousness.

Industry Reviews

"There is plenty to entertain lovers of weird fiction." - Supernatural Tales

"[Jarvis's] is one of the keenest, most provocative minds I've known and the publication of this volume is cause for celebration!" - John Darnielle

"Jarvis manages a remarkable tightrope act of acknowledging his debt to the Weird tradition while re-energising the mode through the sheer force of his distinctive Vision." - Los Angeles Review

"The stories in the book bristle with mysterious found books and messages, spontaneous atavistic rituals, and characters teetering at the edge of sanity; they challenge the line between dream and reality, and between symbol and actuality, becoming something like the talismanic art of Austin Osman Spare" - Francis Young

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