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The Dark Domain

Stefan Grabinski

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'...reading The Dark Domain by Stephan Grabinski is such a revelatory experience. Because here is a writer for whom supernatural horror is manifest precisely in modernity - in electricity, fire-stations, trains: the uncanny as the bad conscience of today. Sometimes Grabinski 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 what we expect, but they are principles - rules- and it is in their exploration that the mystery lies. This is horror as rigour.'
China Mieville in The Guardian

Book Details

  • Publisher: Dedalus
  • Publish Date: Jul 31st, 2013
  • Pages: 153
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 4.90in - 0.60in - 0.35lb
  • EAN: 9781909232044
  • Categories: • Horror - General• Literary• Fantasy - Collections & Anthologies

About the Author

Lipinski, Mroslaw: - Miroslaw Lipinski is a Polish-American translator based in New York City. His passionate advocacy for the writing of Stefan Grabinski has done much to create a readership for Grabinski in the English-speaking world. He has translated a collection of Grabinski stories for Dedalus, The Dark Domain.
Grabinski, Stefan: - Stephan Grabinski (1887-1936) Polish short story writer and novelist. Studied at Lvov University before becoming a teacher. He published seven volumes of short stories, three plays and three novels all within the fantasy genre.
Dedalus has published a volume of his short stories under the title of The Dark Domain and a further two stories in The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy.

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I make video essays and audiobooks. https://t.co/Zy5O2plP3D

Finished reading The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabinski. Grabinski is often considered the Polish equivalent of Poe, although his stories are closer to the modern weird tale than to gothic stories. Also, check out that mustache! https://t.co/GgFAjGwfIG

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Latest read, The Motion Demon (1919) by Stefan Grabinski from The Dark Domain; a Herculean hero, compelled to ride, endlessly, train after train, finally has an encounter with a Mephistophelian conductor. From Poland's 'Poe'. 344 of #400FantasyStories https://t.co/7Mfx78LMKh

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Praise for this book

'Grabinski's commitment to a marriage of the newly announced unconscious with the supernatural gives his extravagances some conviction. These short stories offer the pleasure of myths we can crack and skilfully chilling denouements.'
David Buckley in The Observer
'Psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost in hostile terrain, but the melancholy lifts to provide wonderful odd scenes, like the watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks and the phantom train that always turns up unannounced, surprising the station staff'
Time Out
'Stories that brilliantly convey his love of supernatural horror. It is not the horror of haunted houses or castles, but that found in everyday modernity around him. In this dark selection, lonely souls travel on trains, coming face to face with sinister conductors and wanton women.'
The Herald

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: The Eldritch Archives
The Eldritch Archives
@ConnorK_Au
2 years

I make video essays and audiobooks. https://t.co/Zy5O2plP3D

Finished reading The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabinski. Grabinski is often considered the Polish equivalent of Poe, although his stories are closer to the modern weird tale than to gothic stories. Also, check out that mustache! https://t.co/GgFAjGwfIG

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Mentioner image for: Patch Zircher
Patch Zircher
@PatrickZircher
1 year

Creating new Solomon Kane adventures for Heroic Signature and Titan Comics! @PatrickZircher@mastodon.social @patrickzircher.bsky.social

Latest read, The Motion Demon (1919) by Stefan Grabinski from The Dark Domain; a Herculean hero, compelled to ride, endlessly, train after train, finally has an encounter with a Mephistophelian conductor. From Poland's 'Poe'. 344 of #400FantasyStories https://t.co/7Mfx78LMKh

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