ReScript Books


ReScript Books is a new imprint, dedicated to bringing back into print works of English literature that have been unavailable, or are ill served by current editions.

The imprint launched in January 2011 with two titles: Dracula's Precursors, a collection of three early vampire tales, including the neglected classic "The Mysterious Stranger"; and The Ivory Gate, which includes later poems and fragments by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

Future ReScript Books titles will include works by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, J Sheridan LeFanu, Richard Jefferies and many others. Gothic and Romantic works will form an important strand, but we will generally be publishing poetry, fiction and drama from the Renaissance to the early 20th century.

The books are well designed and edited trade paperbacks, many with useful introductions and notes.

Please contact us with any queries.


DRACULA'S PRECURSORS: The Mysterious Stranger & other stories

£ 9.00 

An evocative setting in the Carpathian Mountains; an enigmatic aristocrat living alone in a vast ruin who seems to have dominion over wolves; a vampire who retreats to a coffin in a ruined crypt during the daytime and can only be vanquished by staking; a beautiful young woman in peril.... No, this isn’t Dracula, but a story written some 70 years before Bram Stoker appropriated these elements for his classic novel.

“The Mysterious Stranger” was published anonymously in German in 1823 and translated into English soon after, during a time of enthusiasm for all things Gothic and Romantic.

Long out of print, it is presented here along with two other less familiar early vampire tales: “The Last Lords of Gardonal” (1867) by William Gilbert, the father of the famous D’Oyly Carte librettist, and Mary Cholmondeley's 1890 chiller, “Let Loose”.

David Annwn’s informative introduction sets the context.

ReScript Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-874400-49-3, 120pp, UK price £9.00
 

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES: The Ivory Gate: Later Poems & Fragments

£ 9.00 

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was an English poet and dramatist whose early play The Brides’ Tragedy was highly praised. He studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Würzburg, where his involvement in radical politics led to his deportation. He spent the rest of his life in Switzerland and Germany, continuing to write but showing only occasional and fleeting interest in publication. His celebrated drama Death’s Jest-Book and his Collected Poems were published posthumously.

This volume, edited and with an introduction by Alan Halsey, makes available separately for the first time the surviving text and fragments of Beddoes' unfinished work The Ivory Gate, together with a collection of his later poetry.

ReScript Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-874400-50-9, 108pp, UK price £9.00
 
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