{"id":5381,"date":"2018-11-12T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:55:31","slug":"trains-terror-grabinski-returns-niveau-triumphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/trains-terror-grabinski-returns-niveau-triumphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains of Terror – Grabinski Returns, Niveau Triumphs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, dear listener, we rush around like headless sausages to cover two bits of news \u2013 a forthcoming tribute anthology themed on the work of Stefan Grabinski<\/strong><\/span>, and an enthusiastic review of Thana Niveau<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s recent collection of horror stories, Octoberland<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The lurchers, and even poor old John Linwood Grant<\/strong>\u2019s own work, will have to wait for another day. To proceed…<\/p>\n

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GRABBED BY GRABINSKI<\/h1>\n

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Stefan Grabinski<\/strong> (1887-1936) was a Polish writer who produced some most striking tales of weird and supernatural fiction during the early Twentieth century. In latter days he\u2019s been compared to Poe and Lovecraft, but to be honest, he\u2019s in a class of his own \u2013 his story \u2018The Wandering Train\u2019 still disturbs us. China Mieville<\/strong> said of him, a while back:<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes (he) is known as “the Polish Poe”, but this is misleading. Where Poe’s horror is agonised, a kind of extended shriek, Grabinski’s is cerebral, investigative. His protagonists are tortured and aghast, but not because they suffer at the caprice of Lovecraftian blind idiot gods: Grabinski’s universe is strange and its principles are perhaps not those we expect, but they are principles – rules – and it is in their exploration that the mystery lies. This is horror as rigour.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian (2003)<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the problems has always been getting decent translations \u2013 the nuances of weird and surreal fiction don\u2019t always translate well, because so much meaning can be in the precise words, their sound and \u2018feel\u2019, which the writers use. But that situation is ameliorated by the 2012 edition of the Mirosla Lipinski<\/strong> translation, which is a good introduction to Grabinski\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

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Some of it\u2019s dark stuff, so be warned. He has a thing for trains and the weaving of the weird and the (his) modern world which fascinates, giving many of the stories a quite different feel from some of his Western contemporaries. If this were not enough to endear his work to us, we might note one of Mieville\u2019s other comments in the same article:<\/p>\n

\u201cGrabinski has several stylistic tics, and the only one that sometimes grates is his prediliction for ending paragraphs with ellipses…\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, gosh, do we love our ellipses here at greydogtales<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

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IN STEFAN\u2019S HOUSE<\/h1>\n
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So why do we mention this Grabinski fellow at the moment? Because Dunham Manor Press is putting together a tribute anthology. We\u2019re keen to see this one come out so we can have a good flick through. Dunham have a very modest campaign going to raise enough money to give the contributors a penny or two, and we think it\u2019s worth a look. It also has cover art by Paul (Mutartis) Boswell<\/strong>, an illustrator who has begun to make a name for himself on a number of excellent weird fiction projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cJordan Krall here from DUNHAMS MANOR PRESS. I want to publish this excellent collection of stories that are inspired by Stefan Grabi\u0144ski. Money raised will go to the authors and artists involved including Brian Evenson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Damian Murphy, Christian Wiessner, Michael Faun, C.M. Muller, Ron Wier, Michael R. Colangelo, Trevor Kroger, Liam Garriock, William Tea, and more.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yes, I know that Grabinski wasn’t ALL about trains… but personally, that’s what really attracted me to his work. My father (who is now on hospice care) worked for NJ Transit for over 40 years and so anything railroad related really hits home for me.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe plan is to start this shipping in January 2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The campaign details can be found here:<\/p>\n

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OCTOBERLAND CONQUERS NOVEMBER<\/h1>\n

Thana Niveau<\/strong> is neither Polish (as far as we know) nor was she around to ride Grabinski\u2019s trains. A contemporary, self-described \u2018horror freak, SF geek, sister of dragons and occasional werewolf\u2019, she had a novel, The House of Frozen Screams<\/em>, released in October 2018 by Horrific Tales.<\/p>\n

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Thana now has a collection of her short fiction available from PS Publishing. The latter is described thus:<\/p>\n

\u201cThana Niveau’s stories feature people on the edge – the edge of death, the edge of sanity, the edge of reality. In this diverse collection, two sisters leave a trail of bodies behind them as they go on the run, desperate to outrun the dark secrets of their past. A film fan is haunted by the actress whose brutal horror films he can’t stop watching. A child hears a ghostly voice through the radio reciting only numbers. And a young woman revisits the place she and her brother loved above all else\u2014Octoberland\u2014the strange amusement park that tore their world apart. Horror wears many faces here, from creeping dread to apocalyptic devastation, and no one escapes its dark touch.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what one of our roving reviewers, Paul St John Mackintosh<\/strong>, has to say about this new collection…<\/p>\n

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A Review of Octoberland<\/em> by Thana Niveau<\/h2>\n

by Paul St John Mackintosh<\/h2>\n

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(PS Publishing, 358 pages)<\/p>\n

First lines matter a lot in short stories. That\u2019s a well-worn truth that many modern writers seem to forget. If you can\u2019t hook the reader from the off, you might as well give up. If La Rochefoucauld can accomplish more in a single epigram than you can in an entire story, then you have a genuine problem. You can\u2019t rely on your cultural kudos, artistic or intellectual aspirations, or reputation to keep eyes moving down the page: you have to snag them.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, in Octoberland <\/u><\/i><\/span><\/a>Thana Niveau crafts, dresses, barbs and baits her hooks so alluringly that the reader will be caught gasping and twitching until the tail end of the tale. \u201cWe buried the first body in the woods behind a bar called the \u2018Nite Owl\u2019.\u201d (‘Going to the Sun Mountain’) \u201cIt was just after the funeral that the cities began to call to me.\u201d (\u2018The Language of the City\u2019) \u201cSENSATIONAL! The WONDER of the Century! A DREAM of Figure Perfection!\u201d (\u2018Tentacular Spectacular\u2019) \u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to go in there!\u201d (\u2018Little Devils\u2019) \u201cMurderer!\u201d (\u2018Wasps\u2019) If those first lines don\u2019t keep you reading, wanting to know what\u2019s behind them and what happens next, I\u2019d be very surprised.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just about semantic openness, and statements that demand an explication. It\u2019s also about vividness, colour, tone, topic, suggestion. A collection with story titles like \u2018The Call of the Dreaming Moon\u2019, \u2018No History of Violence\u2019, \u2018Death Walks en Pointe\u2019 and \u2018The Calling of Night\u2019s Ocean\u2019 is already off to a good start in that regard. The 25 stories in Thana Niveau\u2019s collection are brief, condensed, strikingly imagined, vivid, relentless. The physical quality of the volume is up to PS Publishing\u2019s usual excellent standard, and the cover art by Daniele Serra is a draw all in itself.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear: this is not New Weird, strange tales, dark fantasy, or occult detection. Most of the content is sheer, unapologetic horror. It\u2019s not fey, teasing divagations from social and perceptual norms. It\u2019s not gentle, almost imperceptible pickings at the fabric of consensus reality. It\u2019s not slight intimations of unease born of absences and ambiguities. It\u2019s full-on, full-blooded assaults on your acute stress response, executed with all the gusto of slasher fiction, but none of its cheap sensationalism. You want literally chilling juxtaposition of social media with ancient tradition? You got it. (\u2018The Face\u2019) You want Mesoamerican apocalypse? You got it. (\u2018Xibalba\u2019) You want snuff movie fans meeting their hideous consummation? You got it. (\u2018Guinea Pig Girl.\u2019) You want harsh, acid social retribution? You got it. (\u2018No History of Violence\u2019) Here and there there\u2019s a hiss of steampunk, a flicker of faerie, but hardly anything to lift the dire, ferocious mood. The nearest this volume gets to a refusal to depict and craft its horrors is the things that aren\u2019t there, in the tale of the same name, and their absences and void spaces are as frightful as most stories\u2019 demons.<\/p>\n

Do any of the stories under-deliver on their promise? At times that\u2019s bound to occur, especially in such a voluminous and diverse collection, but it doesn\u2019t happen often. Even when the narratives have to boil down the wonderful suggestiveness of their openings to concrete resolutions, Thana Niveau\u2019s excellent prose is usually on hand to save the day, and finish the job with an appropriately resonant resolution. More than a few do the exact opposite, and end in a completely unexpected, disorienting denouement.<\/p>\n

Out of all the horror books I\u2019ve read this year, this is probably the one I\u2019ll be returning to most often in future, thinking \u201cHow can I do something like that?\u201d and just \u201cWow.\u201d A striking showcase of some marvellous work in the genre, and a superb demonstration that horror, in its purest, strictest sense, is more imaginative, diverse, cruelly elegant and finely crafted than it\u2019s ever been.<\/p>\n

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Octoberland<\/em> also appears to be available from Amazon as an ebook in the UK, but only as a hardback in the US. Try the links and see what options you get:<\/p>\n

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US http:\/\/a.co\/d\/44emc6p<\/a><\/p>\n

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