Description:
Treatises on Dust is not a collection of ghost stories in the traditional sense. These stories are haunted, not by ghosts, but by places where "the membrane is thin".
Brief description: Timothy J. Jarvis is a writer and scholar with an interest in the antic, the weird, the strange. His first novel, The Wanderer, was published by Perfect Edge Books in 2014. His short fiction has appeared in The Flower Book, The Shadow Booth Volume 1, The Scarlet Soul, Murder Ballads, and Uncertainties I, among other places. He also writes criticism and reviews, and is co-editor of Faunus, the journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen.
Review Quotes:
"There is plenty to entertain lovers of weird fiction." - Supernatural Tales
"[Jarvis's] is one of the keenest, most provocative minds I've known and the publication of this volume is cause for celebration!" - John Darnielle
"Jarvis manages a remarkable tightrope act of acknowledging his debt to the Weird tradition while re-energising the mode through the sheer force of his distinctive Vision." - Los Angeles Review
"The stories in the book bristle with mysterious found books and messages, spontaneous atavistic rituals, and characters teetering at the edge of sanity; they challenge the line between dream and reality, and between symbol and actuality, becoming something like the talismanic art of Austin Osman Spare" - Francis Young