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Nepenthe Press
@nepenthepress.bsky.social
Fine Press Publisher of Horror, Weird Fiction & Gothic Literature
Illustrated, Limited & deluxe editions.
Based in North Yorkshire, UK
www.nepenthepress.co.uk
Wow 🤩 We are delighted to have been awarded the Alderbrink Award for Best Horror for Cold Hand in Mine! So amazing to be recognised alongside other incredible presses like Suntup and Folio Society !
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Alright, here’s part 1 of 3 of the books FIL brought with him:
My latest @nepenthepress.bsky.social additions: Poe & The Fall of the House of Usher

#booksky #horrorbooks
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Full Details of our fine press edition of The Fisherman by John Langan will be available on the website from tomorrow!
October 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This beauty has arrived and we still have some copies of the limited edition remaining! With a new introduction by Jeremy Dyson, illustrated with 8 colour plates by Eli John, signed and numbered.
September 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Wonderful blurb from Edward Parnell (Author of the celebrated Ghostland) on Ben Tweddell’s new novella ‘The Domain of the Pale Queen’

Low numbers of the limited edition still remain! If you like folk horror or the haunting academia of Monty James, this one is for you.

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September 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
More on our forthcoming fine press edition of The Fisherman by John Langan! www.nepenthepress.co.uk/the-fisherman
September 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This preorder event will be the fine press version of BATTLE ROYALE. @johnlangan.bsky.social's THE FISHERMAN from @nepenthepress.bsky.social. And check the deets on the lettered edition - sounds like you're buying a magical item and/or cursed media! Oct 23!!
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THE FISHERMAN | Nepenthe Press
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September 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Only a few days to go before public pre-orders open on Thursday 24th at 4pm UK for The Domain of the Pale Queen, the new novella by Benjamin Tweddell. If Folk Horror is your thing or you love the work of M R James and Arthur Machen, have a closer look 👀
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July 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Book Reveal!! The Domain of the Pale Queen by Benjamin Tweddell will be available to pre-order from next week. If you like the work of M R James and Arthur Machen you are going to love this.
July 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It was great to talk all things The Fisherman yesterday with John Langan. Incredible to get some back story and inspiration from John for so many elements within the novel. Eager to start work!
July 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Heads up, horror fiction fans! @nepenthepress.bsky.social just announced a fine press edition of @johnlangan.bsky.social's contemporary classic of cosmic horror, THE FISHERMAN! Preorders won't be up until later this year but it's a good time to follow both Nepenthe Press and John Langan!
June 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
New title announcement! We are very excited to be publishing Benjamin Tweddell’s new novella ‘The Domain of the Pale Queen.’ For all you fans of M R James and his circle, Arthur Machen and Blackwood’s nature stories we think you would love Tweddell’s work
June 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Some more beautiful remarques by @elijohn in deluxe copies of POE heading out today. Everyone is loving The Ravens !
June 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Artwork Reveal for Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman. Illustrations by @elijohn.bsky.social for the stories The Same Dog, Pages from a Young Girls Journal, The Hospice and Niemandswasser
We still have copies remaining!!
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May 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We are incredibly excited to be working on a fine press edition of Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler later this year. It will be illustrated by the one and only Dave McKean!! Subscribe to our newsletter for more info and updates
April 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The original artwork for POE by @elijohn.bsky.social is now available via our website
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April 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I’ve preordered mine and you might want to as well:
opens for public preorders tomorrow! #booksky
Only a couple of weeks until our second anthology will be available to pre-order. ‘All of Them Witches’ collects 14 stories, 12 of which are new and will be published here for the first time. Full TOC can be veiwed here
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April 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
NEVERMORE
April 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Witches are Coming
April 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Only a couple of weeks until our second anthology will be available to pre-order. ‘All of Them Witches’ collects 14 stories, 12 of which are new and will be published here for the first time. Full TOC can be veiwed here
www.nepenthepress.co.uk/blog
March 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our three complimentary POE bookmarks, I wonder which one you will get inside your copy?
March 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT!
Pan’s Garden, Weird Tales from Nature by Algernon Blackwood. We are so very excited to be publishing this incredible selection of stories by one of the foremost masters of the Weird Tale. Not only that but it will be illustrated by the one and only @santiagocaruso.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We are currently open to submissions. Simple guidelines below.
February 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Just to let you know that Nepenthe Press are currently open to submissions. Horror and Weird fiction, we particularly like short story collections but are also open to novellas and novels. No poetry or graphic novels please. Visit our website for more info and guidelines.
February 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We are delighted to announce the publication of ‘The Cottage’ a short story by the brilliant Ewan Morrison award winning author of ‘Nina X’ and ‘How to Survive Everything.’ The Cottage will feature in our forthcoming anthology ‘All of them Witches.’
February 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM