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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
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
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
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
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
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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
Mobile site is on the blink. For those who may be interested here are the simple guidelines
February 20, 2025 at 9:43 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
Our Fine Press Edition of
The Music of Erich Zann by H P Lovecraft goes up for public pre-order today at 4pm UK time!
In two variants, Blue and Green variants. Letterpress printed and hand bound with original Linocuts by the wonderful Vladimir Zimakov
February 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Our fine press edition of H P Lovecraft’s ‘Music of Erich Zann’ is available for public pre-order from tomorrow at 4pm UK time. Beautifully Illustrated by Vladimir Zimakov and designed by Elijah John.
February 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We are delighted to announce that our forthcoming anthology
All of Them Witches contains a new short story called ‘The Curse Cabinet’ by the Shirley Jackson and August Derleth award winning author Alison Littlewood.
January 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The lettered edition of Unquiet Slumbers has arrived, it’s a beautiful thing. Huge thanks to Roger Grech for his incredible work on this. It’s a joy to see this come into being after a year of hard work
January 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM