Equus Press

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[Dalkey Archive Press @Dalkey_Archive]

Dalkey Archive Press Essentials have a new look! Starting in Fall 2026, all Essentials will feature new, author-centric covers and new introductions by some of the most exciting writers working today!

Thanks to @strandbookstore for helping us to bring this news to the world!

[𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊 @incastellated]

Here is the cover of Douglas Luman's new book, WORLDPICTURE, a book reflecting on the antifascist resistance of the Crystal Chain Letters of Bruno Taut, et al.

Out asap!

[Erratum @press_erratum]

MELANIE INDEX by Eric Blix | *out now*
https://t.co/MMWSU4lgQz

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

Lungfish, by @LouisArmxnd, published earlier this year, is a multi-layered work of docufiction, weaving myth, memory & true crime into a sprawling narrative of Australia & its shadows. A late-80s phantasmagoria set in a rural Australian town, trailing a pack of whacked-out kids & a battered VH Valiant Ranger as it tears through heat, dust, riverbeds, & bad history. Lungfish holds Australia open, exposing storytelling itself as a contested terrain shaped by erasure & violence, all the while refusing to forget.

“Dense, playful writing that boldly & unapologetically experiments with form & tone. Louis Armand’s Lungfish is a stream of conscience machine gun fever dream that feels strangely familiar, but also like no place I’ve ever been.”—Glendyn Ivin

“Necromodernist travel writing from another dimension. Armand returns to his Antipodean roots in an unsettling and raucous effort which takes pot shots at settler-colonial sacred cows.”—Wayne Bradshaw

For more information & ordering details please visit https://t.co/GU4rNGNtrQ
DM us for review copies.

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

Happy 10th birthday to @LouisArmxnd's THE COMBINATIONS! Join us for a small celebration tonight, 7 pm, at L'Objet Trouvé (Šternberkova 11, Holešovice)!
Staged readings, accordeon, double-bass, & clarinet improv, chess puzzles, and much more!

[Louis Armand @LouisArmxnd]

THE COMBINATIONS came out 10 yrs ago. Here's the 1st & 4th editions + the typescript. PDF via my site. ;)

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

Ansgar ALLEN, JONATHAN MARTIN (Equus, 2025)

Ansgar Allen resurrects the incendiary life of the 19th-century outsider who, in 1829, set fire to York Minster. Martin’s life — at once prophetic, deranged, and tragically emblematic of his age — becomes the ground for Allen’s boldest experiment in historical fiction to date. Blending archival fragments, self-published pamphlets, trial records, and fictionalised reconstructions, Ansgar Allen asks: was Martin a prophet or a lunatic, an arsonist or a visionary?

“A powerful meditation on authorial voice, writing as prophecy, and the boundaries between sanity and inspiration, Jonathan Martin continues Allen’s exploration of institutional education and deviance from social order. It is a work of fiction that refuses to perpetuate the illusion of coherence, confronting the reader instead with the broken totality of a life lived on the edge of destruction.”
—David Vichnar, Erratum Press Review

For more info and ordering details visit https://t.co/nrjVXL0AY4

[Louis Armand @LouisArmxnd]

It's 16 years since we put out this nearly 1000-page monster! Get THE RETURN OF KRAL MAJALES pdf via @Litteraria or below...

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

Come in, we are OPEN!
Here (Kampus Hybernska) till 7 pm all day, at this year’s BookFest!
Be a friend, come for a warm chat and friendly coffee…
Get a book, make (y)our day!

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

404_ERROR, by R.G. Vasicek & Zak Ferguson (Equus, 2022), merges comedic disjunction, horror, and meta-commentary with the architecture of error. The novel treats the 404 error not just as a digital glitch but as a metaphoric self, a presence that haunts every access point, every reflection, every system breakdown. According to a reviewer, it “shifts between comedy and horror, commentary and meta-commentary, wetware and meatspace,” pushing the sense of the instability underlying our presumed “realities.” The book is also advertised as machine-made, a “pocket machine that requires no batteries,” signalling its ambition to become both content and medium.
https://t.co/Rk842xyekM

[c22 @c22press]

...or welcome to Prague by the incomparable Nathan Anderson is the latest full length book from C22! Another masterpiece from a master of their form, you'll want to check it out right away!

https://t.co/b3P3aD5BK0

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

‘Imagine somewhere a great and splendid hall where everything is done to produce joy and merriment – but the entrance to this hall is a nasty, muddy, horrible stairway, and it is impossible to pass without getting disgustingly soiled and admission is paid by prostituting oneself, and when day dawns the merriment is over and all ends with one’s being kicked out again. But the whole night through everything is done to keep up and inflame the merriment and pleasure.’

The editorial work is nearing completion on PAINTING EYES ON CHAOS, Phil O'Neil's final text he completed just before his untimely demise last autumn.

Off to the typesetter presently, available for pre-order review copy already.
Envisaged publication: late April.
Here's a back cover sneak preview, more info to follow.

[c22 @c22press]

Check out ...or welcome to Prague by Nathan Anderson right away! A thrilling new full length book from a master of weird and wonderful writing—you won't be disappointed!

https://t.co/b3P3aD5BK0

[Tobias Ryan @TobiasvRyan]

"How do you replicate a feeling in a way that doesn’t seek to make it relatable? How do you enact it instead?"

spoke to Mathilde Montpetit from The Auflauf about GLANTZ ( @EquusPress ), and some big news regarding @MinorLits 's 2026 plans ...

linked below

[Ansgar Allen @AnsgarAllen]

a peek inside JONATHAN MARTIN @EquusPress a novel about a man of the same name who set fire to York Minster in 1829 and was committed to Bedlam that same year

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

Another recent title just made available via Barnes & Noble is Michael Rowland's THE UNNAMEABLE OBJECT (2025), "an epic experiment in collective memory and literary excess which assembles fragments of memoir, fiction, satire, and hallucination into a polyphonic chronicle of Prague’s literary underground."
DM us for free e-book review copies.
https://t.co/4Gca440BiI

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

"A work of fiction that refuses to perpetuate the illusion of coherence, confronting the reader instead with the broken totality of a life lived on the edge of destruction.”

@AnsgarAllen's JONATHAN MARTIN, as well as all the other recent Equus titles (GLANTZ, THE UNNAMEABLE OBJECT, LUNGFISH), now available also via Barnes & Noble.

DM us for free review e-copies.
https://t.co/LYQlcuCqdc

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

Does anyone have a theory, reference, or educated hunch as to the origin of the title of @LouisArmxnd's A TOMB IN H-SECTION (2025)?
Medical ward? Prison block?
Holocaust archive shorthand?
Geological stratum?
Or is it simply the most aggressively bureaucratic way of naming a grave?
Genuinely curious whether this is a traceable reference, a private code, or one of those titles that looks like it comes from somewhere very specific and probably doesn’t — except atmospherically, psychologically, metaphysically.
Speculation, citations, wild guesses welcome.
Bonus points (free PDF of a 2025 Equus title) for wrong answers delivered with confidence.
https://t.co/epdFMBIgl6

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

The first copies of the still warm-off-the-press Lungfish have already arrived in Prague bookstores, spotted here at the Franz Kafka Bookstore and the Shakespeare & Sons, nestled in-between some Carl Jung, Einstein in Prague, and Patti Smith...