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latarnia presents
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a fantasist of horror and the
supernatural who believed in the reality of the fictions he wrote
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Stefan Grabinski |
A GRABINSKI CONSTRUCT: |
1887 ~ 1936 |
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Critical Praise for THE DARK DOMAIN, the first English-translated collection of Stefan Grabinski's stories. Translated by Miroslaw Lipinski. "Again and again, these stories attain a crescendo of sustained hysteria, while, for their invocation of primordial powers, their penetrating psychological insights, and their brooding, misanthropic pessimism, one might liken the ensuing effect to sitting in the company of Madame Blavatsky, escorted by Arthur Machen and Guy de Maupassant, and chaperoned by Arthur Schopenhauer, screaming at the top of their lungs on a runaway roller coaster." -- Asylum "Moody, atmospheric tales ... whose sensibility to the psychological effects of horror was well in advance of the author's time." -- Science Fiction Chronicle "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 skillfully chilling denouements." -- The Observer "A highly accomplished writer whose work certainly deserves to be firmly established within the canon of supernatural fiction greats." -- Necrofile "The Dark Domain is a collection of psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost in hostile terrain, but the East European 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
Critical Praise for THE MOTION DEMON, the English translation of Stefan Grabinski's most impacting and successful book in Poland. Translated by Miroslaw Lipinski. "Grabinski's stories are passionate, intense, and hallucinatorily vivid--even at times overwrought. They are all genuine stories, to grip devotees of narrative and character, as well as of philosophising.... The Motion Demon is an outstanding book.... -- China Mieville, All Hallows 41 "In a previous column I quoted Jean Cocteau to the effect that the English-speaking world had a gift for the tale of the weird and macabre. The Polish writer Stefan Grabinski (1887– 1936) is eloquent proof that this gift is not uniquely Anglo-Saxon. His champion and translator Miroslaw Lipinski has followed up the earlier The Dark Domain with this first of a series that will reprint all of Grabinski’s collections as well as a number of uncollected tales. Grabinski writes in a deceptively simple style that takes the unusual occurrences he describes as matter-of-fact, but this very nonchalance serves to make the overall impression quite memorable." -- Weird Tales
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if you want to e-mail me (mirek): eurosin@aol.com
This site, based on a previous Grabinski site
on AOL, was created on June 3, 2003
